Posts Tagged ‘Private Eye’
Sunday, May 17th, 2015
In the 1980s, NBC’s peacock rose like a phoenix after startling programming disasters, including Pink Lady and Jeff, Supertrain, and the departure of the original Not Ready for Prime Time cast of Saturday Night Live. Under programming guru Brandon Tartikoff and his lieutenants, Warren Littlefield and Jeff Sagansky, NBC achieved prominence, success, and distinction.
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Thursday, April 16th, 2015
Some television spinoffs do very well.
Frasier.
Laverne & Shirley.
The Jeffersons.
Others, not so much.
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Saturday, February 28th, 2015
In 1985, ABC debuted Our Family Honor. Ultimately short-lived, it lasted half of the 1985-86 television season. Our Family Honor presented the classic format of two families battling each other, with star-crossed lovers from each family complicating matters; like Dallas, a story line inspired by Romeo & Juliet pervaded Our Family Honor.
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass created animation legacies.
A Canadian studio, Rankin-Bass entered the American market in 1961 with versions of two classic stories in first-run syndication.
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Tags: 1939, 1940, 1940 film Pinocchio, 1961, American market, Animagic, Arthur Rankin, Astronaut, Astronauts, Disney, Dorothy, Dragnet, first-run syndication, Hal Erickson, Judge Judy, Jules Bass, L. Frank Baum, Lion, Oz, Pinocchio, Private Eye, Private Eye genre, Rankin-Bass, Return to Oz, Straw Man, Tales of the Wizard of Oz, Television Cartoon Shows, The Flintstones, The Great Train Robbery, The Iceman Cometh, The New Adventures of Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz, Tin Man
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In the 1980s, NBC’s peacock rose like a phoenix after startling programming disasters, including Pink Lady and Jeff, Supertrain, and the departure of the original Not Ready for Prime Time cast of Saturday Night Live. Under programming guru Brandon Tartikoff and his lieutenants, Warren Littlefield and Jeff Sagansky, NBC achieved prominence, success, and distinction.
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass created animation legacies.