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Changing Times (Falcon Crest)
The following is the list of episodes from the American prime time television soap opera ''Falcon Crest'', which aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. Total of 227 episodes. Series overview Episodes Original pilot Season 1 (1981–82) Season 2 (1982–83) Season 3 (1983–84) Season 4 (1984–85) Season 5 (1985–86) When this new season began, ''Falcon Crest'' had started with the regular practice a recap to remind the viewers of the previous episode's recollections, before a short sneak preview of the new episode, prior to the main title. Midway throughout the season, Jane Wyman had been absent for only 2 episodes, due to her abdominal surgery. Season 6 (1986–87) This was Robert Foxworth's final year, during which he also directed some episodes. Midway throughout the season, Michael Reagan, Jane Wyman's real-life son, had a recurring role as the concierge in a hotel. Season 7 (1987–88) Due to the largest number of rotating gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Time
Prime time, or peak time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season's nightly programming. The term ''prime-time'' is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example (in the United States), from 8:00p.m. to 11:00p.m. ( Eastern and Pacific Time) or 7:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. ( Central and Mountain Time). In India and some Middle Eastern countries, prime time consists of programmes that are aired on television between 8:00p.m. and 10:00p.m. local time. Asia Bangladesh In Bangladesh, the 19:00-to-22:00 time slot is known as prime time. Several national broadcasters, like Maasranga Television, Gazi TV, Channel 9, and Channel i, broadcast their prime-time shows from 20:00 to 23:00 after their primetime news at 19:00. During Islamic holidays, most of the television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasting & Cable
''Broadcasting & Cable'' (''B&C'', or ''Broadcasting+Cable'') was a telecommunications industry monthly trade magazine and, later, news website published by Future US. Founded in 1931 as ''Broadcasting'', subsequent mergers, acquisitions and industry evolution saw a series of name changes, including ''Broadcasting and Broadcast Advertising'', and ''Broadcasting-Telecasting'', before adopting its current name in 1993. ''B&C'', which was published biweekly until January 1941, and weekly thereafter, covers the business of television in the U.S.—programming, advertising, regulation, technology, finance, and news. In addition to the newsweekly, ''B&C'' operates a comprehensive website which offered a forum for industry debate and criticism. On August 6, 2024, Future announced that the magazine would cease publication after its September 2024 issue, and switch to a digital-only format as part of sister website ''Next TV''. However, ''Next TV'' as a whole ceased publishing new co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Alicia
Ana Alicia Ortiz Torres (born December 12, 1956) is a Mexican-American retired actress who performed in theatre and on television. After getting her television start by spending a year on the daytime soap-opera ''Ryan's Hope'', she gained international recognition for her role as scheming vineyard heiress Melissa Agretti on the long-running primetime soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' which she portrayed for seven seasons from 1982 until 1988. She has also performed in few single episode guest-starring roles on various televisions shows or in television movies most years from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s. Early life Ana Alicia Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City to Alicia Torres and Carlos Celestino Ortiz, who ran businesses in Acapulco, Mexico. She was the third of four children. Her family moved to El Paso, Texas, when she was six years old after her father's death, and she lived with her mother, three siblings, grandmother, and uncle in a house that her father had purchased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Pintoff
Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931 in Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for ''The Critic'' (1963), a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks. Background Born in Watertown, Connecticut, but raised in New York City, Pintoff originally began as a jazz trumpeter who taught painting and design at Michigan State University. However, he had always shown an interest in the animation of film and began writing in 1956. Career His career took off in 1957, when he wrote the script for ''Flebus'', followed by 1959 as a producer and director for the animated short film, ''The Violinist''. Narrated by Carl Reiner, the film earned Pintoff an Oscar nomination and illustrated a promising young career in directing film ahead of him. In 1964, he won an Oscar for his direction of the 1963 film, ''The Critic'', which was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lana Turner
Julia Jean "Lana" Turner ( ; February 8, 1921June 29, 1995) was an American actress. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid American actresses, and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM's biggest stars, with her films earning approximately one billion dollars in 2024 currency for the studio during her 18-year contract with them. Turner is frequently cited as a popular culture icon due to her glamour (presentation), glamorous persona, and a screen legend of the classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood. She was nominated for Lana Turner performances and awards, numerous awards. Born to working-class parents in Idaho, Turner spent her childhood there before her family relocated to California. In 1936, at the age of 15, she was discovered by a talent scout, while shopping at the Top Hat Soda shop, malt shop in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Hite
Mary Kathleen Hite (June 17, 1917 – February 18, 1989) was an American writer for radio and television, including writing for the popular Western series ''Gunsmoke''. Hite was the first female staff writer for CBS. Early life and education Kathleen was born in Wichita, Kansas, the youngest of three children of Estelle (née Worrell) and Frank Hite."United States Census, 1920", Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas; Kathleen Hite cited in census entry for Frank L Hite Family; digital copy of original enumeration page; U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Retrieved via FamilySearch database, January 20, 2022. Her father was a cattleman, as was her older brother Russell, who later operated the family's ranch in New Mexico. All of her grandparents had moved to Kansas during the days of the American frontier, and she noted that all were "great storytellers" about their lives, which she absorbed as a child. After attending high school in Hutchinson, Kansas, Hite a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Lamas
Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos (January 9, 1915 – October 8, 1982) was an Argentine-American actor and director of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. He is the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas. Biography Argentina Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this country, his movies included ''En el último piso'' (1942), ''Frontera Sur'' (1943), ''Villa rica del Espíritu Santo'' (1945), and ''Stella'' (1946). Lamas was also seen in ''The Poor People's Christmas'' (1947), ''The Tango Returns to Paris'' (1948), and ''The Story of a Bad Woman'' (1948). He had the lead in ''La rubia Mireya'' (1949) alongside Mecha Ortiz, and a key role in ''De padre desconocido'' (1949), ''Vidalita'' (1949) and ''The Story of the Tango'' (1950). He also appeared in ''Corrientes, calle de ensueños'' (1949), and ''La otra y yo'' (1950). He was reportedly the third biggest star in the country. His first American film was ''The Avengers (1950 film), The Avengers'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethel Leslie
Jane Bethel Leslie (August 3, 1929 – November 28, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. In a career spanning half a century, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurel Award in 1964, a Tony Award in 1986, and a CableACE Award in 1988. Early years Jane Bethel Leslie was born in New York, New York. Her parents were a lawyer, Warren Leslie, and Jane Leslie, a newspaperwoman. Bethel was a student at Brearley School in New York City. She had a brother, writer Warren Leslie. While a 13-year-old student at Brearley School, Leslie was discovered by George Abbott, who cast her in the play ''Snafu'' in 1944. In a 1965 newspaper article, Leslie described herself as "a 'quick study' — able to learn my lines rather fast." Career Stage Over the next four decades, she appeared in a number of Broadway productions, including '' Goodbye, My Fancy'' (1948), ''The Time of the Cuckoo'' (1952), '' Inherit the Wind'' (1955), ''Catch Me If You Can'' (1965), and ''Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Day
Gerry Day (January 27, 1922 – February 13, 2013) was an American screenwriter. She was also a newspaper reporter for the ''Hollywood Citizen News'' in the mid-1940s. Early life Gerald Lallande Day was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ruthy and Lenox Day. She was given her name not because her parents had wanted a boy but due to their Southern family name traditions. Her father was the organist for the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. She watched Howard Hughes film the Miniature effect, miniature dogfights for the 1930 film ''Hell's Angels (film), Hell's Angels'' in a lot behind her childhood home. Lana Turner was her escort and gave her a campus tour when Day first enrolled at Hollywood High School. Orson Welles once hypnotized her in his magic act at the Hollywood Canteen. Career Day later attended and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA in 1944. She became a newspaper reporter for the ''Hollywood Citizen News'', filin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Hayden
Jeffrey Hayden (October 15, 1926 – December 24, 2016) was an American television director and producer. He was married to actress Eva Marie Saint from 1951 until his death in 2016. Television career Hayden was born in New York City. His career as a director began in the late 1950s, when he directed the only feature film to his credit, '' The Vintage'' (1957), starring Pier Angeli and Mel Ferrer. He then turned to television, beginning with episodes of ''Leave It to Beaver'' and ''77 Sunset Strip''. Hayden directed episodes of dozens of TV series from the 1960s into the 1990s, including such popular programs as ''The Andy Griffith Show'', '' Burke's Law'', ''Batman'', '' Knight Rider'', '' Magnum, P.I.'', and '' In the Heat of the Night''. Personal life and death On October 28, 1951, Hayden married screen actress Eva Marie Saint. The couple had two children, Darrell and Laurette, and four grandchildren. Shortly before their 50th anniversary, on October 13, 2001, the couple ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding factor in canceling or renewing television shows by television networks. As of August 2024, it is the primary part of Nielsen Holdings. NMR began as a division of ACNielsen, a marketing research firm founded in 1923. In 1996, NMR was split off into an independent company, and in 1999, was purchased by the Dutch conglomerate VNU. In 2001, VNU also purchased ACNielsen, thereby bringing both companies under the same corporate umbrella for years. NMR is also a sister company to Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures Internet and digital media audiences. VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007. NMR was separated again from Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
