Four Star Television, also called Four Star International, was an American

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production company. Founded in 1952 as Four Star Productions by prominent

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actors

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, and

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, it was inspired by

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and

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founding Desilu Productions a year earlier. McCrea left soon after its founding to continue in films, television and radio, and was replaced by Ida Lupino as the fourth star—although Lupino did not own stock in the company. Four Star produced several popular programs in the early days of television, including '' Four Star Playhouse'' (its first series), '' Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre'', '' Stagecoach West'', '' The June Allyson Show'' (also known as ''The DuPont Show Starring June Allyson''), '' The Dick Powell Show'', '' Burke's Law'', '' The Rogues'' and ''

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''. Despite its stars sharing equal billing, Powell played the biggest role in the company's early success and growth. Powell became President of Four Star within a few years of its formation and, in 1955, Four Star Films, Inc. was formed as an affiliate which produced such hit shows as ''

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''; '' Trackdown''; '' Wanted: Dead or Alive''; '' Richard Diamond, Private Detective'' and '' The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor''. There were also failed series, like

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's '' Hey, Jeannie!'' In late 1958, Four Star Productions and Four Star Films were merged into a new holding company called Four Star Television, and began publicly trading on the

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on January 12, 1959. After Powell's death in 1963, Four Star was led by Thomas McDermott, followed by

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. It was then purchased and developed for global film and television markets by David Charnay, and subsequently was sold to Ron Perelman; Perelman sold it to

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in 1996.

History

Dick Powell

Dick Powell, a Hollywood veteran of twenty years in 1952, longed to produce and direct. While he did have some opportunities to do so, such as

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' '' The Conqueror'' (1956) with

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, Powell saw greater opportunities offered by the then-infant medium of

''Four Star Playhouse''

Powell came up with an idea for an anthology series, with a rotation of established stars every week, four stars in all. The stars would own the studio and the program, as

and

had done successfully with the

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studio. Powell had intended for the program to feature himself,

and

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; however, Russell and McCrea backed out, and

came on board as the "third star". The fourth star would be a guest star at first. CBS liked the idea, and ''Four Star Playhouse'' made its debut in the fall of 1952. While it ran on alternate weeks during its first season (the program it alternated with was the television version of ''

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''), it was successful enough to be renewed and become a weekly program beginning with the second season and until the end of its run in 1956. Actress/director Ida Lupino was brought on board as the ''pro forma'' fourth star, though unlike Powell, Boyer, and Niven, she owned no stock in the company.

Westerns

Following the cancellation of ''Four Star Playhouse'', two new programs came on CBS: a comedy called '' Hey, Jeannie!'' which starred

, and a western anthology show ''

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'', more formally named ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater''. Carson's show ran for just a season, but ''Zane Grey Theater'' ran for four. It hosted the pilot episodes for '' Trackdown'' starring Robert Culp (which in turn hosted a pilot for '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'' with

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), '' The Westerner'' with

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, '' Black Saddle'' with Peter Breck and Russell Johnson and ''

'', starring Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and Paul Fix.

''Richard Diamond, Private Detective''

In 1957 it debuted the first of its many police/detective shows, '' Richard Diamond, Private Detective''. The "Diamond" series was originally created for radio by

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, and the character played by Powell, but Edwards, with Powell's approval, recast the character with the then-unknown

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-lookalike David Janssen. Mr. Powell portrayed Richard Diamond in the pilot film. Other crime series produced by Four Star included '' Target: The Corruptors!'' with Stephen McNally and Robert Harland, '' The Detectives'' starring Robert Taylor, Adam West, Tige Andrews, Mark Goddard, Russell Thorson and Lee Farr and '' Burke's Law'' starring Gene Barry, Gary Conway, Russell Thorson and Leon Lontoc and '' Honey West'' starring

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and John Ericson.

''The Rogues''

Another program, '' The Rogues'', starred Boyer and Niven with Gig Young on NBC TV. This was (after ''Four Star Playhouse'') the closest the studio's owners would come to appearing on the same program. The idea was for the three actors to alternate as the lead each week playing moral con-man cousins out to fleece reprehensible villains, often with one or two of the others turning up to play a small part in the caper (real ensemble episodes were rare). The schedule of who pulled leading man duty was largely determined by the actors' movie commitments, thereby giving Niven, Boyer, and Young additional work between film roles. In any event, Young wound up helming most of the episodes since he usually had more spare time than Niven or Boyer, but even he had to be replaced by

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as another cousin for two episodes when Young was too busy. The series only lasted through the 1964–65 season.

A powerhouse Hollywood launching pad

The studio was successful in the late 1950s as a result of the success of its programs. Four Star also helped bring some prominent names in television and movies to public attention including David Janssen,

, Robert Culp,

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, Linda Evans,

, Lee Majors, The Smothers Brothers,

, Ida Lupino, Richard Long, Peter Breck and

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. The studio was well known as being sympathetic to creative staff. Powell often battled with network executives on behalf of writers, directors, and actors.

Dick Powell's death, Aaron Spelling's Exit

On January 2, 1963, a day after his last appearance on his program '' The Dick Powell Show'' aired,

died of

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. The stomach cancer was likely a result of having directed

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's '' The Conqueror,'' amidst dust clouds of atomic test radiation in Utah. Out of a cast and crew of 220 people, 91 contracted various forms of organ

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s by 1981, including stars

and Agnes Moorehead. An ad executive named Thomas McDermott was brought in to run the studio for Niven, Boyer, and Powell's family. But without Powell's vision, the studio went into a period of decline. Within two years after Powell's death, Four Star had decreased to only five programs on the air. After another two years, all but one; ''

'' was gone.

began his career at Four Star Television as a staff writer and after a number of hits began producing television shows for Four Star. Spelling left the studio in 1966 to form his own production company with Danny Thomas, Thomas Spelling Productions. For a brief time, Four Star Television owned

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, but sold the label to Warner Bros. Records in 1966, shortly after pop group

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released their first records for the label. Early copies of the album '' And Then... Along Comes the Association'' show the Four Star disclaimer blacked out at the bottom of the label.

David Charnay's acquisition

From 1967 to 1989, David Charnay was the leader of a buyout group that owned a controlling interest in Four Star Television and subsequently renamed the television company: Four Star International. For more than two decades, he served as president,

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and chairman of the board of Four Star. He directed the company, employing his only son, John Charnay as Director of Public Relations, as well as employing many of Hollywood's leading producers, stars, and executives of the late 20th and early 21st century, including Deke Heyward, Morey Amsterdam, Dick Colbert, Tony Thomopoulos, and collaborating with

and George Spota for continued film and television projects, as well as many Hollywood stars and starlets before many producers advanced to create their own companies. Four Star amassed a sizable inventory of programs for syndication, then th
world's largest syndication company
Charnay led a turnaround in Four Star that involved both

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and horizontal integration, which developed the company into a global powerhouse syndicator of its large collection of shows that included: ''

'', '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'', '' The Rogues'', ''

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'' and ''

''. While it did get a hit of sorts in producing a show called '' Thrill Seekers'', (which was a sort of proto-

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program, and the first

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in the

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), the studio's primary niche was in its successful syndication to global film and television audiences. In 1985, Four Star renewed its ties with Charnay himself. That year, on July 16, 1985, Kidpix had inked an agreement with Four Star Television to handle worldwide distribution on all six Kidpix features, with the first three already set up for home video by

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, and the other three already set up for home video by

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. During his tenure, in 1987, they made a pact with Color Systems Technology to do a colorized version of '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'', which was originally set up in black and white, which led to a lawsuit from Compact Video and Four Star against the colorizing company who developed the color version of the show.

Final acquisitions: Robert Seidenglanz, Ronald Perelman and Rupert Murdoch

David Charnay sold Four Star to Robert Seidenglanz's Compact Video Systems in 1989 which was then owned by Ronald Perelman. After Compact Video shut down, its remaining assets, including Four Star, were folded into majority shareholder

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's MacAndrews and Forbes Incorporated. In 1989, Perelman acquired New World Entertainment and Four Star became a division of New World. After Four Star International became part of New World, Four Star operated as in-name-only. In 1993, Four Star acquired 50% of Genesis Entertainment. As part of the acquisition, Genesis acquired television distribution rights of Four Star's 160 feature films and television series. Four Star International is now owned by

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, with most of its library of programs controlled by

as a result of the buyout between

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and Ron Perelman in 1996.

Subsequent program ownership

With the subsequent sale of New World to 20th Century Fox (now owned by

) in 1997, the Four Star catalogue is now owned by Disney Platform Distribution, with a few exceptions: * ''

'', which is now owned by its original co-production company Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions, and whose TV distribution rights are handled by the Peter Rodgers Organization * '' Trackdown'', which was co-produced with CBS, is now owned and distributed by

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. * '' Wanted Dead or Alive'', which was also co-produced with CBS, now has its worldwide distribution rights handled by

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. U S. Video distribution rights were handled by New Line Home Video (season 1), BCI Eclipse (season 2) and Mill Creek Entertainment (current reissues). * The syndicated game show '' PDQ'', which was co-produced with Heatter-Quigley Productions and distributed by Four Star, is now owned and distributed by

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, through its ownership of the Heatter-Quigley library (MGM inherited Heatter-Quigley, following MGM's purchase of

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, whose predecessor Filmways had bought Heatter-Quigley in the late-1960s)

Programs

*'' Four Star Playhouse'' (1952–56) hosts

, Ida Lupino,

*'' Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre'' (1956–61) *'' Hey, Jeannie!'' (1956–57) starring

*''

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'' (1957–58) starring Ida Lupino &

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*'' Richard Diamond, Private Detective'' (1957–60) starring David Janssen *'' Trackdown'' (1957–59) starring Robert Culp (all rights and library owned by

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) *'' Black Saddle'' (1958–59) starring Peter Breck *'' Wanted Dead or Alive'' (1958–61) starring

(all rights owned by

with Mill Creek Entertainment owning video rights sub licensed from

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) *''

'' (1958–63) starring

(all Library and trademark rights owned by Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions, Inc.) *'' The David Niven Show'' (summer 1959) *'' The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor'' (1959–62) *''

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'' (1959–61) *''

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'' (1959–60) produced by

, starring Don Durant *'' Wichita Town'' (1959–60) produced by

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, starring

and Jody McCrea *'' Law of the Plainsman'' (1959–60) starring Michael Ansara *'' The Westerner'' (1960) produced by

, starring

*''

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'' (1960–61) starring

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*''

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'' (1960–61) starring

*''

The Law and Mr. Jones ''The Law and Mr. Jones'' is an American legal drama series starring James Whitmore. The series aired on ABC in two nonconsecutive seasons from October 7, 1960 to June 2, 1961, and again from April 19 to July 12, 1962. The program was created and ...

'' (1960–62) starring

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*'' Stagecoach West'' (1960–61) starring Wayne Rogers *''

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'' (1960–61) *''

Peter Loves Mary ''Peter Loves Mary'' is an American situation comedy starring Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy which centers around a show-business couple and their family who move from New York City to the suburbs. Original episodes aired from 12 October 1960 u ...

'' (1960–61) starring Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy *'' Mrs. G. Goes to College'' (1961–62) starring Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke, renamed ''The Gertrude Berg Show'' at mid-season *'' Target: The Corruptors!'' (1961–62) starring Stephen McNally and Robert Harland *'' The Dick Powell Show'' (1961–63) *'' Saints and Sinners'' (1962–63) starring Nick Adams & John Larkin *'' The Lloyd Bridges Show'' (1962–63) *''

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'' (1962–63) starring Scott Lane &

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*''

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'' (1962–63) starring Dean Jones *'' Burke's Law'' (1963–65) / a.k.a. ''Amos Burke, Secret Agent'' (1965–66) Gene Barry *'' Honey West'' (1965–66) starring

& John Ericson *'' The Rogues'' (1964–65)

, Gig Young *'' Hollywood A Go-Go'' (1964–65) *''

'' (1965–69) starring

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*'' The Smothers Brothers Show'' (1965–66) *'' PDQ'' (1966–69) host

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, produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions *'' Malibu U'' (1967), hosted by Rick Nelson *'' Here Come the Stars'' (1968) host George Jessel *'' Can You Top This?'' (1970), host Wink Martindale *''

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'' (1971) hosted and produced by Jack Barry *''

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'' (1971–72) starring Harry Guardino, produced by Almada Productions, Inc. *'' Thrill Seekers'' (1973–74) host

*'' Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection'' (1985) *'' Matchmaker'' (1987–88) *'' Liar's Club'' (1988–89) host Eric Boardman

References

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