Memorable TV

US TV T2 - TIME EXPRESS to THE TORTELLIS

TIME EXPRESS

4x60m-e / 1978

Executive Producer: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts

SciFi drama series. A mysterious train is able to take its passengers back in time.

Jason Winters.......................... VINCENT PRICE

Margaret Winters..................... CORAL BROWNE

Ticket Clerk.............................. WOODROW PALFREY

R.J. Walker.............................. JAMES REYNOLDS

Engineer Callahan.................... WILLIAM EDWARD PHIPPS

Warner/Gary Nardino / 1x90m-e 43x60m-e / 1993-94

Creators/Executive Producers: Harve Bennett, Jeffrey Hayes, Grant Rosenberg, Gary Nardino / Developed for TV:Harve Bennett 

SciFi action adventure series. Future cop Darien Lambert travels back in time in search of renegade criminals unable to return to his own time until all the fugitives are brought to justice.

Darien Lambert....................... DALE MIDKIFF

SELMA.................................. ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

Mordicai Sahmbi..................... PETER DONAT

ABC/TCF / 30x60m-e / 1966-67

Creator/Executive Producer: Irwin Allen / Music: Johnny Williams 

SciFi drama series. Two scientists invent a time machine, trying it out they are unable to get back to their own time - they 'bounce' from one historical turning point to the next.

Dr Tony Newman...................... JAMES DARREN

Dr Doug Phillips........................ ROBERT COLBERT

Dr Ann Macgregor.................... LEE MERIWEATHER

Dr Raymond Swain................... JOHN ZAREMBA

Lt gen Heywood Kirk................. WHIT BISSELL

ABC/CBS/Spelling- Goldberg/Columbia / 78x60m-e / 1982-87

Creator: Rick Husky / Executive Producers: Aaron Spelling, Leonard Goldberg 

Crime drama series. Veteran cop Sgt T.J. Hooker is assigned to help the Rookie cops of the LCPD.

Sgt T.J. Hooker........................ WILLIAM SHATNER

Officer Stacey Sheridan............ HEATHER LOCKLEAR

Officer Jim Corrigan.................. JAMES DARREN

Officer Vince Romano............... ADRIAN ZMED

Captain Sheridan...................... RICHARD HERD

TODAY IS OURS 

 ABC/Roy Huggins/Public Arts/Universal / 1x90m-e 22x60m-e / 1973-74

Creator: Edward Hume / Producer: Stephen J. Cannell  / Executive Producers: Roy Huggins, Jo Swerling Jr 

Crime drama series. Cases of undercover cop Dave Toma (based on the story of a real Dave Toma who appeared in every episode). After one season, lead Tony Musante pulled out, ABC carried on but renamed the show Baretta.

Det Dave Toma........................ TONY MUSANTE

Insp Spooner........................... SIMON OAKLAND

Patty Toma ............................ SUSAN STRASBERG

THE TOMMYKNOCKERS

2x90m / 1993

Writer: Lawrence D Cohen (from novel by Stephen King) / Director: John Power

A local writer uncovers a covert alien invasion in his home town when the townspeople’s behaviour begins to change.

With:- JIMMY SMITS as Jim Gardner / MARG HELGENBERGER as Bobbi Anderson / JOHN ASHTON as Butch Duggan / ALLYCE BEASLEY as Becka Paulson / ROBERT CARRADINE as Bryant Brown / JOANNA CASSIDY as Sherrif Ruth / ANNIE CORLEY as MArie Brown / CLIFF DE YOUNG as Joe Paulson / TRACI LORDS as Nancy Voss / EG MARSHALL as Ev Hillman

CBS/Loveton-Schubert/ 78x30m-e /  1953-55 black and white

Creator: Thorne Smith /Writers: George S. Oppenheimer, Philip Rapp / Producers: John W. Loveton, Bernard L Schubert

Ghostly sitcom. Following their death in an avalanche, free living George and Marion Kerby, as well as St Bernard dog Nell return as ghosts, the three then proceed to get involved in all manner of mischief usually dragging  mild mannered Cosmo Topper into the fray.

George Kerby........................... ROBERT STERLING

Marion Kerby............................ ANNE JEFFREYS

Cosmo Topper.......................... LEO G. CARROLL

Henrietta Topper....................... LEE PATRICK

Mr Schuyler............................. THURSTON HALL

Katie(53-54)............................. KATHLEEN FREEMAN

Maggie(54-55).......................... EDNA SKINNER

1x120m-e / 1979 9 Nov

Comedy. An attempt to revive the classic fifties series of the same name about mild mannered Cosmo Toppers involvement with ghosts George and Marion Kerby.

George Kerby.......................... ANDREW STEVENS

Marion Kerby........................... KATE JACKSON

Cosmo Topper......................... JACKS WARDEN

1x30m-e / 1973 19 Mar

Comedy. The first attempt to revive the classic ghost sitcom Topper. This was a failed pilot that set the situation in motion with Cosmo Topper being haunted by the Kerby's.

George Kerby........................... JOHN FINK

Marion Kerby............................ STEFANIE POWERS

Cosmo Topper.......................... RODDY McDOWELL

 MCA/Universal/ Don Fedderson / 48x30m-e / 1969-70

Producer: Edmund Hartmann

Sitcom. A college professor widower moves to Rome taking his family with him.

With:- JOHN FORSYTHE / KAY MEDFORD / WALTER BRENNAN / PEGGY MONDO / VITO SCOTTI

ABC/Ziv   91x30m-e /  1957-59 black and white

Producers: Andy White, Frank Pittman 

Western drama series. Cases of Sheriff Clay Hollister in Tombstone Arizona. Hollister regularly teamed up with newspaper editor Harris Claybourne.

Sheriff Clay Hollister................. PAT CONWAY

Harris Claybourne .................... RICHARD EASTHAM

Four Star/ Ewell/ Carroll/Martin / 26x30m-e / 1960

Sitcom. Exploits of a real estate agent with domestic trouble.

TOM EWELL as Tom Potter  / MARILYN ERSKINE /

MTV Networks / x30m-e / 1999

Producer: Bob Maurer  / Executive Producer: John Miller 

Comedy. Sketch and satire based show with up and coming comic Tom Green. Also with Phil Giroux, 

NBC / 1954-

Talk show. Long running nightly talk show that started in 1954 and hosted for nine years by Steve Allen, then Jack Parr before Johnny Carson made the show his own, currently hosted by Jay Leno.

Mary Tyler Moore / 44x30m-e / 1976-77

Creators: Tom Patchett, Jat Tarses    

Sitcom. Stories in the life of a widower judge.

With:- TONY RANDALL

ABC/Don-El Prod/Syndication/D.L. Taffner/ Metromedia / 151x30m-e / 1980-85

Creators: Brian Cooke, Arne Sultan, Earl Barrett / Executive Producers: Don Taffner, Arne Sultan,  Aaron Ruben 

Sitcom. Exploits of San Francisco cartoonist Henry Rush and his family. ABC cancelled the show after 63 episodes but the series carried on in Syndication for almost a hundred more episodes. In 1986 the series was retitled the Ted Knight show when Henry and his wife (minus kids) moved to Mill Valley after Henry bought into local newspaper (The Marin Bugler). 

Henry Rush............................. TED KNIGHT

Muriel Rush............................. NANCY DUSSAULT

Jackie Rush............................. DEBORAH VAN VALKENBURGH

Sara Rush................................ LYDIA CORNELL

Monroe Fiscus......................... J.M.J. BULLOCK

Iris Martin(82-83)...................... AUDREY MEADOWS

NBC / 13x30m-e / 1987

Sitcom. Spin off from Cheers. Carla's ex husband Nick tries to start a new life with new wife Loretta.

With:- DAN HEDAYA as Nick / JEAN KASEM as Loretta

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