NBC/Warner/ 150+x60m-e / 22 September 1999 – 14 May 2006

Creator: Aaron Sorkin / Music: W.G. Saffy Walden, John Wells / Executive Producers: Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme

Drama series. A look inside the inner sanctum of the White House and the staff who work there, especially President Josiah Bartlett. Each episode followed Bartlet and his staff throughvarious political hot potato issues. One of the real stars of the show is the set designer who created the completely connected set of the White House which allows directors to film long continuous shots of staff going about their daily business. The series was initially supposed to be mainly about Sam Seaborn, Bartlet's deputy communications director, but such was the poppularity of Sheen's portrayal that he soon shifted centre stage. 
The series has been a popular and critical success, winnning 9 Emmys in its first season alone and the show is in the top ten of Emmy winners for most awards won. 

With:- MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlett / RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Zugler / ALLISON JANNEY as Press Secretary C.J. Gregg / BRAD WHITFORD as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman / ROB LOWE as Deputy Commissioner Sam Seaborn / MOIRA KELLY as Madelaine / JOHN SPENCER as Chief of Staff Leo McGarry 

Viacom / 22x30m-e / 1977

Sitcom. Misadventures of a married couple.

With:- OLIVER CLARK / BEVERLY ARCHER

WNEW / 1x30m-e / 1963 10 May

Writers: Peter Cook, John BIrd, Bud Trillin / Producers: Jean Vanden Heuvel, Clay Felker 

Comedy.One off special that took the Beyond the Fringe team to America to satarise American TV News reporting. The show was subtitled A Shrewd and Somewhat Rude Look at the News and the cast featured Peter Cook, John Bird, Patrick B. McCormick, Roger Bowen, MacIntyre Dixon and Bob Kaliban.

Universal/Roy Huggins / 6x120m-e / 1978

Writers: Millard Lampell, Hank Searls / Novel: Arthur Hailey / Director: Jerry London

Drama serial. Problems for the executives of a Detroit car factory.

With:- ROCK HUDSON / LEE REMICK / BLAIR BROWN / RALPH BELLAMY / TIM O'CONNOR / GERALD S. O'LOUGHLIN / TONY FRANCIOSA / JOHN BECK / JAMES CARROLL JORDAN

Paramount/Mel Brooks / 13x30m-e / 1974

Creator/Executive Producer: Mel Brooks 

Period sitcom. Misadventures of Robin Hood and his very merry men.

With:- DICK GAULTIER / MISTY ROWE / BERNIE KOPELL / DICK VAN PATTEN / RICHARD DIMITRI

CBS/Desilu / 111x30m-e / 1954-58 bw

Producer: N. Gayle Gitterman 

Action adventure series. Exploits of two chopper pilots, Chuck and PT, working for the Whirlybird service of Longwood Field in California.

With:- KEN TOBEY as Chuck Martin /  CRAIG HILL as Pete 'PT' Moore

Whispering Smith Co. / 25x30m-e /  1958 black and white

Western crime drama series. Stories of a private detective in the days of the Old West.

With:- AUDIE MURPHY / GUY MITCHELL 

Columbia / 39x30m-e /  1954  black and white

An anthology series of twist in the tale stories.

THE WHITE SHADOW

Drama series that focused on Ken Reeves. Reeves was a one time professional basketball player with the Chicago Bulls but injury had forced him out of the game. He then took up a job as basketball coach at Los Angeles school Carver High.
The school was an inner city one with plenty of problems not just among the kids, Reeves however, found a new sense of purpose in his new role.
The series mainly focused on Ken and the members of his basketball team and regulars included Ken's principal Jim Willis, Ken's sister Katie Donahue and her husband Bill and also vice principal Sybil Buchanan.
Over the run of the show players came and went but the team managed to win the 1980 LA City Basketball Championship. Jim Willis was playd by Jason Bernard in episode one.

With:- KEN HOWARD as Ken Reeves / ED BERNARD as Jim Willis / JOAN PRINGLE as Sybil Buchanan / THOMAS CARTER as James Hayward (1978-80) / KEVIN HOOKS as Morris Thorpe / ROBIN ROSE as Katie Donahue (1978-79) / JERRY FOGEL as Bill Donahue (1978-79) / ERIC KILPATRICK as Curtis Jackson (1978-80) / NATHAN COOK as Milton Reese / IRA AUGUSTAIN as Ricky Gomez (1978-80) / BYRON STEWART as Warren Coolidge 

WHOOPI

NBC / x30mins / 2003 (First Episode: 9 September 2003)

Sitcom. Stories of Mavis Rae -- a former pop star now running a small Manhattan hotel -- as "kind of like Archie Bunker 2003." That's because Mavis is blunt, brusque, very opinionated and prone to cracking jokes about the interracial romance between her stodgy lawyer brother (Wren T. Brown) with a sassy white woman (Elizabeth Regen), who tries to dress, act and talk like a "sister"; and the background of her Iranian-born handyman (Omid Djalili), who makes a big scene about the fact that he's "Persian, not Arab."

With:- WHOOPI GOLDBERG as Mavis Rae / WREN T. BROWN / ELIZABETH REGEN / OMID DJALILI  

CBC/Hunter-Cohan/Columbia/Embassy / 195x30m-e / 1x60m-e  / 1984-92 

Creators: Blake Hunter, Martin Cohan / Executive Producers: Martin Cohan, Blake Hunter, Danny Kallis, Phil Doran, Bud Wiser

Sitcom. Ex St Louis Cardinals baseball pro Tony Micelli (who is widowed and has a young daughter) gets a job as live in housekeeper to divorced advertising executive Angela Bower and her young son. The UK show The Upper Hand is an adaption of this show.

With:- TONY DANZA as Tony Micelli  / JUDITH LIGHT as Angela Bower /  KATHERINE HELMOND as Mona Robinson / ALYSSA MILANO as Samantha Micelli / DANNY PINTAURO as Jonathon Bower 

ABC/Celador / x30m-e / 1999-

ExP:Michael Davies 

Quiz. American version of the highly popular British General Knowledge quiz in which contestants stood to win a million dollars for answering fifteen questions. Hosted by Regis Philbin the show has already produced a couple of million dollar winners.

 Fox / 1x120m-e / 2000

Creator: Mike Darnell

The eccentric, to say the least, American show that saw Multi-millionaire Rick Rockwell watch a parade of fifty women before deciding which one he would marry, on air, at the end of the show. Rockwell chose the blonde Darva Conger. The marriage lasted a week before numerous allegations about Rockwell came out of the woodwork.

NBC / 39x30m-e / 1959  black and white

Western drama series. Stories of Marshal Mike Dunbar.

Mike Dunbar JOEL McCREA / JODY McCREA

MCA/Revue/Gemini / 28x60m-e /  1962  black and white

Drama series. Stories of a rodeo rider and his young brother (who wanted to follow in his footsteps).

With:- EARL HOLLIMAN / ANDREW PRINE

WIDOWS

ABC / 4x90m-e / 2002 

Thriller mini series based on the UK show of the same name in which the wives of four criminals plan their own crimes after their husbands are killed in a bungled 'job'. The girls were planning a art "heist".

With:- Brooke Shields / Rosie Perez / Mercedes Ruehl / N-Bushe Wright

Fox/Ixtlan/Greengrass / 1x90m-e 4x60m-e 1993

Creator: Bruce Wagner / Theme Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto / Executive Producer: Oliver Stone / Producer: Michael Rauch / Directors: Peter Hewitt, Keith Gordon, Kathryn Bigelow, Phil Joanou

SciFi drama serial. In 2007 a bizarre cult called The Fathers is planning to brainwash millions of TV viewers with its holographic TV show Church Windows. TV executive Harry Wyckoff discovers the truth and tries to prevent it.

With:- JAMES BELUSHI as Harry Wyckoff / DANA DELANY as Grace Wyckoff /  ROBERT LOGGIA as Senator Anton Kreutzer / DAVID WARNER as Eli Levitt / ANGIE DICKINSON as Josie Ito / BEBE NEUWIRTH as Tabba Schwartzkopf /  BRAD DOURIFF as Chickie Levitt  

CBS/Michael Garrison / 104x60m-e / 1965-69

Creator/Executive Producer: Michael Garrison / Music: Richard Markowitz 

Fantasy western adventure series. In the 1870's, two special government agents travel the west combatting evil meglomaniacs, of which there are numerous. The pair travelled in a special luxury train full of gizmo's and gadgets.

With:- ROBERT CONRAD as Major James T. West /  ROSS MARTIN as Artemus Gordon / MICHAEL DUNN as Dr Miguelito Loveless /  CHARLES AIDMAN as Jeremy Pike / CHARLES DAVIS as Tennyson 

NBC/Komut/ Sister / x30m-e / 1998- 

Creator/Executive Producer: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick / Music: Jonathan Wolff / Producer: Suzy Mamann Greenberg 

Sitcom. Will and Grace live together and seem made for each other the only problem is lawyer Will is gay. 

With:- ERIC McCORMACK as Will / DEBRA MESSING as Grace /  SEAN HAYES as Jack /  MEGAN MULLALLY as Karen  

FKB / 36x30m-e /  1961   black and white

Producer: Robert Drama

Drama series. Stories of a novelist returned to his home town. 

with:- ROBERT YOUNG / CONSTANCE MOORE

ABC / 1x240m-e / 7x120m-e / 1983 

Writer: Herman Wouk / Producer/Director: Dan Curtis 

Period drama series. Captain Victor 'Pug' Henry, a US Naval attache is in Europe during the early years of World War II.  See also the sequel War and Remembrance.

With:- ROBERT MITCHUM as Capt Victor 'Pug' Henry /  JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT as Byron Henry /  BEN MURPHY as Warren Henry /  POLLY BERGEN as Rhoda Henry / LISA EILBACHER as Madeline Henry / ALI McGRAW as Natalie Jastrow / TOPOL as Berel Jastrow /  PETER GRAVES as Palmer 'Fred' Kirby /  VICTORIA TENNANT as Pamela Tudsbury  

WINDY CITY JAMBOREE

Dumont / x60m-e / 1950 (First Episode Broadcast Sunday 19 March at 9.00pm) black and white

A country music/barn dance series that featured Danny O'neil and Gloria Van as the regulars.

Sharpe-Lewis / 39x60m-e /  1956   black and white

Action adventure series. Stories of a group of international reporters. The leads alternated each week.

With:- GEORGE BRENT / MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE / DANE CLARK

WITHOUT A TRACE

CBS / x60m-e / 2002

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jerry Bruckheimer, Ed Redlich, Jonathan Littman 

Drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to peel back the layers of the victims' lives and trace their whereabouts in an effort to discover whether they have been abducted, been murdered, committed suicide or simply run away. The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is. Senior agent Jack Malone heads the dedicated team that knows too well that every second counts when someone vanishes. His squad includes Samantha Spade , an agent who doesn't let her good looks get in the way of being tough; Vivian Johnson, a no-nonsense investigator; Danny Taylor, an intense and private agent; and Martin Fitzgerald, the newest member of the team, considered a lightweight by the squad because his only experience involves fighting white-collar crime.

With:- ANTHONY LAPAGLIA as Jack Malone / POPPY MONTGOMERY as Samantha Spade / MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE as Vivian Johnson / ENRIQUE MURCIANO as Danny Taylor / ERIC CLOSE as Martin Fitzgerald

CBS/MTM Enterprises / 90x30m-e / 1978-82

Creator/Executive Producer: Hugh Wilson / Producer: Blake Hunter, Bill Dial, Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei 

Sitcom. WKRP, an Ohio AM Radio station, is in the doldrums with it's bland music; New programme director Andy Travis arrives determined to inject a bit of life into the place. The series was briefly revived for syndication in 1991 to generally poor effect.

With:-GARY SANDY as Andy Travis / LONI ANDERSON as Jennifer Marlowe /  GORDON JUMP as Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson / RICHARD SANDERS as Les Nessman / TIM REID as Gordon 'Venus Flytrap' Sims /   FRANK BONNER as Herbert R. Tarlek Jr /  JAN SMITHERS as Bailey Quarters / HOWARD HESSEMAN as 'Dr Johnny Fever' Caravella /  CAROL BRUCE as Lillian 'Mama' Carlson /  ALLYN ANN McLERIE as Carmen Carlson /  EDIE McCLURG as Lucille Tarlek /   IAN WOLFE as Hirsch

WOLF LAKE

USA / CBS / 9x60m-e / 2001

Producers: Alex Gansa, Rick Kellard

Fantasy drama series. Seattle police officer visits a town in the Pacific Northwest looking for his missing fiancée and following a series of mysterious events discovers that all the residents of the town can morph themselves into werewolves.

With:- Lou Diamond Phillips as John Kanin / Sharon Lawrence as Vanessa Cates / Mia Kirshner

1x60m-e / 1969

Documentary. A special looking at all kinds of high speed cars from the Indianapolis 500 to James Bond's Aston Martin. Narrated by Lloyd  Bridges and with contributions from Sean Connery, James Drury, Bob Fuller and Fabian.

ABC/CBS/Warner / 1x120m-e/1x80m-e 13x60m-e 45x45m-e / 1976-79

Executive Producer: Douglas S. Cramer / Music:Charles Fox /Producer:Wilfred Lloyd Baumes 

Fantasy action adventure series. "In your satin tights, fighting for your rights - Your a wonder, Wonder Woman" - Part of the Theme Song. Wonder Woman (based on the 1940's comic strip created by Charles Moulton) actually took quite awhile to become a series.
In March 1974 Cathy Lee Crosby appeared (looking nothing like Wonder Woman as we know here) in a TV Movie, then the following year Lynda Carter starred in another TV Movie, this led to a short run series on ABC called The New Original Wonder Woman, this series retained the 1940's setting with Wonder Woman (aka Diana Prince) doing her best to defeat all manner of evils (mainly the Nazi's in the ABC series).
Wonder Woman came from an island of Amazonian women who (thanks to a substance called Feminum) had super human strength. When pilot Steve Trevor crashed on the island Wonder Woman fell in love with him and returned with him to the USA.
Diana transformed herself into Wonder Woman by simply spinning around (in somewhat of a blur it must be said).
In 1977 the show then moved to the CBS network and some major changes. The action had now moved to the present day although continuity had been maintained (Wonder Woman aged at a much slower rate than mere mortals) and she was working with Steve Trevor's son Steve Trevor Jnr.
The duo worked for the Inter Agency Defense Command (IADC for short). The agency also had a super computer called IRA. In the 1940's Diana Prince wore a pair of glasses (ala Clark Kent) to disguise her true identity whilst in modern times she didn't bother.

With:- LYNDA CARTER as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince /  LYLE WAGGONER as Major Steve Trevor(Jr) / RICHARD EASTHAM as General Blankenship /  BEATRICE COLEN as Corporal Etta Candy / NORMAN BURTON as Joe Atkinson / SAUNDRA SHARP as Eve  / TOM KRATOCHZIL as Voice of IRA(the computer) 

ABC/Black-Marlens Co/ New World TV /113x30m-e 1x60m-e / 1988-93

Creator: Neal Marlens, Carol Black / Executive Producers: Neal Marlens, Carol Black, Bob Brush, Michael Dinner, Sy Rosen 

Period sitcom. Kevin Arnold looks back on his teenage years growing up in late 1960's and early 1970's suburbia.

With:- FRED SAVAGE as Kevin Arnold / DANIEL STERN as Voice of Adult Kevin  / DAN LAURIA as Jack Arnold  / ALLEY MILLS as Norma Arnold / OLIVIA D'ABO as Karen Arnold  / JASON HERVEY as Wayne Arnold / DANICA McKELLAR as Gwendolyn 'Winnie' Cooper / JOSH SAVIANO as Paul Pfeiffer / ROBERT PICARDO as Coach Ed Cutlip 

WORLD OF GIANTS

Syndicated / 13x30m / 1959-1960 / b&w

Producers: William Alland, Otto Lang

Spy Mel Hunter is exposed to an exploding rocket and develops the ability to shrink to a height of six inches which proves useful to his spying activities. The series made use of the special large-scale props built for the classic 1957 movie, "The Incredible Shrinking Man".

With:- MARSHALL THOMPSON as Mel Hunter / ARTHUR FRANZ as Bill Winters / MARCIA HENDERSON as Miss Brown / JOHN GALLAUDET as Commissioner Hogg

2x100m-e / 1982

Writer: Robert L. Jospeh / Director: David Greene 

SciFi drama serial. When a Russian military unit invades Alaska it sparks off World War II.

with:- ROCK HUDSON / DAVID SOUL / BRIAN KEITH

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