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Allan Gregg in Conversation with...

Allan Gregg in Conversation with... is a Canadian television series on TVOntario, hosted by Allan Gregg who interviews various authors, artists and leading thinkers.

ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement Division

Animal Precinct - Animal Planet's documentary reality television series that follows the agents, including agent Tina Salaks, of the ASPCA's Humane Law Enforcement Division in their investigations of animal cruelty.

Beyond Westworld

Beyond Westworld was a short-lived 1980 television series that carried on the stories of the two feature films, Westworld and Futureworld.

Bill L. Norton

He also has directed many television series, among them Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, John Doe, Hack, Las Vegas, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Lincoln Heights and Roswell.

Brian Bedford

Bedford appeared with James Garner in the 1966 film Grand Prix, and in 1967 he was a regular on the short-lived CBS television series Coronet Blue.

Cagnet

Cagnet is a "soulful pop and R&B" group that has become very successful in Japan due to their contributions to drama soundtracks like "Long Vacation" and "Love Generation".

California State Route 2

During this time, the closed freeway was used as a location for several films, including Coffy, Corvette Summer, The Gumball Rally, Death Race 2000, Hardcore, and several American television series including "Adam-12", "Emergency!" and "CHiPs".

Carter DeHaven

In the 1959-1960 season, Carter DeHaven appeared four times in various roles and Gloria DeHaven once, as Rosemary Blaker in the episode "Love Affair", on the CBS western television series, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant.

Četnické humoresky

Četnické humoresky (Policeman's Humoresques) is a Czech crime television series about a police station in the city of Brno.

Def by Temptation

The director James Bond III played the character Doc in the children's television series The Red Hand Gang.

Family Guy Online

Family Guy Online was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the animated television series Family Guy, developed in a partnership between Roadhouse Interactive and 20th Century Fox.

Farley Boats

The current Farley Boat Company and the FDR fishing story is recounted in a 2012 episode of the syndicated television series Texas Country Reporter.

Francine Pascal

Sweet Valley High was the backbone of the collection, and was made into a popular television series.

George Clayton Johnson

He is also known for his work in television, writing screenplays for such noted series as The Twilight Zone, such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", "A Game of Pool" and "A Penny for Your Thoughts", and Star Trek, the first aired episode of the series, "The Man Trap".

Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, which originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for the Get Smart! TV series).

High-speed camera

Television series such as MythBusters and Time Warp often use high-speed cameras to show their tests in slow motion.

Jeremy Slate

He became known as one of the more talented members of the 1960s beach boy set and costarred with Ron Ely in the 1960-1961 Ivan Tors series The Aquanauts, which was renamed Malibu Run half-way during its brief run on CBS.

Joanna Phillips-Lane

Joanna Phillips-Lane is a British actress who among other parts, played the character Roxy in Carla Lane's sitcom Bread.

Joe Farago

He has appeared in at least 25 movies and television series, and replaced Gene Rayburn as the host of the 1985 game show Break the Bank, having previously appeared as a celebrity guest three times during the show's first two weeks.

John Dods

Dods also was effects supervisor on 18 episodes of the syndicated television series Monsters, and worked as a set construction supervisor on the Back to the Future theme park ride at Universal Studios Florida.

Just a Song About Ping Pong

The song was featured in the 16th episode of season 4 of the television series CSI: NY.

Leueen MacGrath

Having settled in the United States following her marriage to Kaufman, MacGrath appeared in a number of American anthology television series popular in the 1950s, including The Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One, Lux Video Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, The Alcoa Hour, and Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is an American television series that aired in syndication from 1984 to 1995.

Lorenzo English

Lorenzo is depicted as a ghost and a "shadow man" in The Dead Files, an American paranormal television series, in Season 3, episode 11 titled, "Blood in the Bordello." The television program was filmed at The Jury Room, a local pub in Columbus, Ohio.

Mack Reynolds

Reynolds was the first author to write an original novel based upon the 1966-1969 NBC television series Star Trek.

Max Sterling

Maximillian Sterling, voiced by Cam Clarke (credited as "Jimmy Flinders" at the time), is one of the fictional characters in the Robotech anime television series.

Men of Annapolis

Men of Annapolis is a 41-episode half-hour syndicated drama television series in anthology format which aired from 1957–1958 and was hosted by the voice of Art Gilmore.

Michele Brourman

Michele Brourman is an American songwriter who is well known for writing the songs to most of the films in Land Before Time series (with Amanda McBroom), as well as the accompanying television series (with Ford Riley).

National Velvet

From 1960 to 1962, there was a half-hour B&W American television series, with Lori Martin, Ann Doran and James McCallion.

Night Tracks

Night Tracks is an American television series which ran from 1983 to 1992 on SuperStation WTBS (later known as TBS SuperStation) on late night weekends.

On Hannibal's Trail

On Hannibal's Trail is a history and travel BBC television series in which three Australian brothers - Danny, Ben and Sam Wood - set out cycling on the trail of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who marched from Spain to Rome at the head of an invading army accompanied by elephants.

Pat Hogan

In 1955, Hogan, at thirty-four, played the role of 20-year-old Crawford Goldsby, or the notorious outlaw Cherokee Bill, in the syndicated television series, Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.

Peter Andrew Jones

He has also produced images for film publicity, creating the movie posters for The Sword and The Sorceror and Alligator, contributed during the early 1980s to television shows including BBC comedy The Two Ronnies Show and the BBC's '80s sci-fi adaptation of The Tripods, and has produced cover illustrations for video game publishers such as US Gold, Psygnosis and Virgin Interactive.

Pierre Watkin

He played a couple of different characters in episodes of the television series, Adventures of Superman, in which John Hamilton had been cast as Perry White.

Sam Rolfe

Samuel Harris Rolfe (February 18, 1924 – July 10, 1993) was an American screenwriter best known for creating (with Herb Meadow) the well-remembered television series Have Gun Will Travel, first appearing on CBS, as well as his work on the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour, both on NBC.

Sancho Gracia

As well, Gracia has worked in Australia, performing as a regular cast member in the 1982 television series, Runaway Island and in the 1991 made-for-TV film, Pirates Island.

Schulmädchen

While the show's title translates to "school girls", and is a clear reference to Schulmädchen-Report, a series of soft core porn movies made in Germany in the 1970s, the show itself is a parody of imported American teen dramas such as the 1989 movie Heathers and television series Beverly Hills, 90210, which have long been popular in Germany.

Schuyler, Virginia

Schuyler was the birthplace and home of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He is best known for the CBS television series The Waltons, which was based on his experiences of growing up the eldest child of a large rural family in depression era America.

Sitara Aur Mehrunissa

Sitara Aur Mehrunissa (Urdu: ستارہ اور مہر النساء) is a 1992 Pakistani Urdu television series written by Anwar Maqsood.

Sordid Lives: The Series

Sordid Lives: The Series is an American television series created, written, and directed by Del Shores and acts as a prequel to 2000 film Sordid Lives, also by Shores, self-described as a "Black comedy about white trash".

Strange Luck

Strange Luck is an American television series that aired on FOX, created by Karl Schaefer and starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time.

Tarryall Creek

In 1955, Rory Calhoun, later of the CBS western television series, The Texan, and actress Julie Adams co-starred in the film The Looters, the story of a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains.

The Impossible Kid

The Impossible Kid was featured in 2010 on the Canadian television series This Movie Sucks! on season two, episode four, in a special double feature episode with Manos: The Hands of Fate, hosted by Ed the Sock and Liana K.

The Legend of Shelby the Swamp Man

The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man is an American reality television series that premiered on August 6, 2013 on History as a spin off to the series Ax Men.

The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon

The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon (originally named Swamp Critters) is an American children's television series created by Bobby Goldsboro.

The Tony Martin Show

The Tony Martin Show is a 15-minute weekly musical variety television series hosted by entertainer Tony Martin, which aired in NBC prime time from April 26, 1954, to February 27, 1956.

The Transporter

A television series premiered in 2012 on October 11 in Germany on RTL and on December 6 in France on M6.

The Walter Winchell File

The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror.

Winnebago Man

A sixty-minute version of Winnebago Man was aired in the UK on BBC Four on August 30, 2010 as part of the Storyville series of documentaries.


see also

Andy Cadiff

He has directed episodes of a number of notable television series including Home Improvement, Spin City, My Wife and Kids, Growing Pains, According to Jim, The War at Home, and Quintuplets.

Andy de la Tour

He has appeared in many films including Plenty, Notting Hill, the Roman Polanski version of Oliver Twist and "44" Chest". His work in television series included The Young Ones, Bottom, Kavanagh QC and The Brief. On stage he has appeared at the National Theatre in Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" and Alan Bennett's "People"

Andy Mangels

Mangels and Martin co-wrote a series of novels serving as the official continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise following the television series' cancellation.

Anjali Jay

She is best known for her role in the 2006 film Blind Dating as Lisa and as Djaq on the first two seasons of the 2006 television series Robin Hood.

Annette O'Toole

In October 2001, 18 years after portraying Lana Lang in a feature film (Superman III), she returned to the Superman mythos in the role of Martha Kent, Superman's adoptive mother, in the television series Smallville.

Barriers

Barriers is a British children's television series, created and written by William Corlett, and made by Tyne Tees Television for ITV between 1981 and 1982.

Big Red Letter Day

The leadoff track, "Sodajerk," was featured on the soundtrack for the short-lived television series My So-Called Life and in commercials for Nike and Pontiac.

Calling All the Monsters

"Calling All the Monsters" is the second single released from the soundtrack A.N.T. Farm (2011), for the television series of the same name on Disney Channel.

Catherine McGoohan

She has appeared in films and television series such as The Odd Couple II, Something's Gotta Give, The Girl Next Door, Elizabethtown, General Hospital, Gilmore Girls.

Charles Braverman

He has also directed episodes of several major television series, including Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and Northern Exposure as well as television films such as the Prince of Bel Air.

Crazy like a Fox

Still Crazy like a Fox, a 1987 American television movie that was a spinoff of the television series

Deerstalker

In the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock, which places Holmes and Watson (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) in contemporary London, the deerstalker cap is a recurring gag; here, Sherlock Holmes gains the iconic look by trying to hide his face from paparazzi by wearing the deerstalker, which he personally despises.

Donald R. Bensen

He also wrote a number of media related novels, including works based on the Gunsmoke television series, and novelizations of William Goldman's screenplays for the 1979 films Mr. Horn and Butch and Sundance: The Early Days.

Elvis has left the building

When singing the closing theme to the television series Frasier, Kelsey Grammer sometimes followed the last line with the statement "Frasier has left the building!"

Esther Regina

Her presence has stood out in numerous television series, as " Moon, Calenda's mystery ", close to Belén Rueda.

Ferndale, Washington

Daran Norris - actor, most notably for voice work and a recurring role on the television series Veronica Mars

Floating into the Night

Two singles were released from the album, "Falling" and "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart", which were also both featured in Lynch's television series, Twin Peaks.

Gong farmer

Despite being well-rewarded, the gong farmer's job was considered by historians on The Worst Jobs in History television series to be one of the worst of the Tudor period.

Granville Van Dusen

Granville Van Dusen (born March 16, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota) is an American stage, screen, and voice actor who portrayed Race Bannon in the 1986 television series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, Jonny's Golden Quest, Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects, and eight episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

Hot Like Wow

Got Your Number was featured in the thirteenth episode of the first season of the television series Gossip Girl, entitled "The Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate", originally aired in the US on 9 January 2008 via The CW and in the UK on 19 June 2008 via ITV2.

Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman

Two other Gidget films were made, as well as a 1965 television series starring Sally Field and several television movies.

L'Histoire d'une fée, c'est...

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie was the second in a trilogy of films based on the children's animated television series Rugrats, which features the adventures of a group of toddlers.

Leanza Cornett

She has also served as a host for several television shows, including Entertainment Tonight (1994–1995), New Attitudes (1998), and Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000), and made television guest appearances in television series such as Melrose Place, The Tick, and Fear Factor.

Left Right Left

Left Right Left is an Indian television series that aired on SAB TV at 9:30pm IST, from Monday to Thursday, it was directed and produced by Tony Singh and Deeya Singh.

Lower Swanwick

The area houses Bursledon Brickworks and Swanwick has become particularly popular with visitors, because the river and its landmarks are where many of the scenes for the former television series Howards' Way were filmed.

Lucy and Superman

Bandleader Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) and his young son Little Ricky (Richard Keith) watch the latest episode of the Adventures of Superman television series, which concludes with the narrator stating that Superman will be making personal appearances in the coming week at Macy's Department Store in New York City.

Marissa

Marissa Cooper, a fictional character from the television series The O.C.

Matt Nix

The television series follows agent Michael Westen (played by Jeffrey Donovan), who is abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts.

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

A silver version of this car features in the television series The Cape, driven by Summer Glau in the second episode.

Nuclear Emergency Support Team

NEST is mentioned in the motion pictures Broken Arrow, The Peacemaker, The Manhattan Project, Atomic Train and Vishwaroopam, as well as in the made-for-television film Special Bulletin and the television series 24.

Pamela Kosh

She has also made many minor and less notable appearances in television series such as Northern Exposure, Gilmore Girls, Friends, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, USA High, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frasier, Charmed, Matlock, Alias, Monk, ER and So Little Time.

Pat Crowley

Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as the guest leading lady in different episodes of most of the same television series.

Popular Theatre Troupe

Their first production was Star Trick, a satire lampooning the Star Trek television series focussing on the absurdity of local Queensland politics interspersed with ironically sung old popular songs.

River Cottage

From 1998 it was used by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as a setting for three television series: Escape to River Cottage, Return to River Cottage and River Cottage Forever, in which viewers follow Hugh's adventures as a downsized smallholder.

Roger Hargreaves

In 1981 the Little Miss series of books was launched, and in 1983 it also was made into a television series, narrated by Pauline Collins, and her husband John Alderton.

Sergio Carlo

He later went on to act in various television series, such as Paraíso in 2002 and the film Cuban Blood with Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.

Shaolin Kung Fu

The 1970s television series Kung Fu starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk on the run in the Wild West whose Zen (Ch'an) training is tested along his journey.

Somerset, Kentucky

In 2004, Somerset was featured on the television series City Confidential.

Squad 51

Squad 51 is a 1972 Dodge D-300 truck, one of 3 different rescue squad vehicles ("squads") that were used in the filming of the television series Emergency!

Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet

A performance by the Georgian National Ballet's dancers in which the female dancers, wearing long skirts, appeared to glide across the floor was an inspiration for writer Terry Nation in creating the Daleks for the television series Doctor Who.

Super Ranger Kids

Originally released in 1997, the film is a pastiche of the American television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the first Power Rangers series, and, by extension, the Japanese Super Sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, which formed the basis for Mighty Morphin.

The Shadow over Innsmouth

Innsmouth no Yakata was a 1995 3D first-person shooter video game for the Virtual Boy, released in Japan based on Chiaki J. Konaka's 1992 television series Insmus wo Oou Kage.

The Sweet Life

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, an American children's television series that airs on the Disney Channel

Tim Andrew

He also worked as an assistant director on a number of feature films and as supervising producer on the television series Home James, reality series Denise Richards: It's Complicated, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? and the Tyler Perry-directed films Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys, Why Did I Get Married Too? and For Colored Girls.

Veanne Cox

She has appeared in episodes of many television series, such as Boston Legal, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Seinfeld, and Judging Amy.

Wattles Mansion

The mansion was featured on the television series The O.C. and Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Reptile Boy"), in the movie Troop Beverly Hills, and the sanatarium scenes in the film Rain Man were shot there as well.

Way of the Warrior

"The Way of the Warrior", a feature-length episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

William Richert

Richert claimed Sorkin's screenplay was a thinly-veiled plagiarism of Richert's 1981 'The President Elopes', and that the television series The West Wing was derived from part of the same screenplay.

Zack Estrin

He has produced many episodes in the television series Prison Break, Point Pleasant, Tru Calling, Miracles and Charmed, as well as the 2000 film Stranger Than Fiction.