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List Of Family Episodes ...
This is a list of episodes for the television series ''Family''. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1976) Season 2 (1976–77) Season 3 (1977–78) Season 4 (1978–79) Season 5 (1979–80) References * {{IMDb episodes, 0073992, Family Family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (1976 TV Series)
''Family'' is an American television drama series aired on ABC from March 9, 1976, to June 25, 1980. It was conceived as a six-episode limited series, but initial high ratings led to the production of 86 weekly episodes. Creative control of the show was split among executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols. Overview ''Family'' depicted a contemporary traditional family with realistic, believable characters. The show starred Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, an upper-middle-class couple living at 1230 Holland Street in Pasadena, California, with their three children: Nancy (portrayed by Elayne Heilveil in the original miniseries, then by Meredith Baxter), Willie ( Gary Frank), and Letitia, nicknamed "Buddy" ( Kristy McNichol). Their fourth child, Timmy (Michael Schackelford), died five years before the first season, at age 10, in a boating accident. ''Family'' raised the profiles of all its main actors. In particular, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jacobs (writer)
David Arnold Jacobs (August 12, 1939 – August 20, 2023) was an American television writer, producer, and director. He is most well known as the creator of the CBS primetime series ''Dallas'', ''Knots Landing'', and ''Paradise''. Life and career David Jacobs was born on August 12, 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland, the elder of two children (with a younger sister named Susan) to Melvin and Ruth Jacobs. His Jewish parents were of modest means, and Jacobs's father worked as a household appliance salesman. Jacobs was educated at Baltimore City College High School, and received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Soon after graduation, he moved to New York City, where he worked as an illustrator and researcher for ''Grolier's Encyclopedia''. He soon branched out as a freelance writer of nonfiction articles, the best known of which concerned the architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. He also wrote a children's book on the great artists of the Renaissance.. In 1975 he co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kramer (writer)
Richard Kramer (born April 21, 1952) is an American film and television writer and producer, playwright and novelist.""Thirtysomething" writer Richard Kramer: "Family isn't something you make"" salon.com, November 30, 2012. His film and television credits include '''', '''', '' |
Georg Stanford Brown
Georg Stanford Brown (born June 24, 1943) is an American actor and director, perhaps best known as one of the stars of the ABC police television series ''The Rookies'' from 1972 to 1976. On the show, Brown played the character of Officer Terry Webster. Early life and education Brown was born in Havana, Cuba to Jamaican immigrants. Brown was seven years old when his family moved from Havana to Harlem, New York. At age 15, he formed the singing group 'The Parthenons', which had a single TV appearance shortly before breaking up. Brown quit high school, after being invited to do so by a few frustrated teachers. He left New York to move to Los Angeles at 17. After a few years of not being sure what he wanted to do, he decided to go back to school. He passed the college entrance exam and was admitted to Los Angeles City College where he majored in Theater Arts to "take something easy". He ended up really enjoying it and returned to New York to attend the American Musical and Dramati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Huson
Paul Huson (born 19 September 1942) is a British writer and artist currently living in the United States. In addition to writing several books about occultism and witchcraft, he has worked extensively in the film and television industries. Early life Huson was born on 19 September 1942 in London, the son of the author Edward Richard Carl Huson and painter and motion picture costume designer Olga Lehmann. Huson attended North Bridge House School from 1949 through 1956 and Leighton Park School from 1956 through 1959, then entered the Slade School of Fine Art at the University of London as a Diploma student from 1959 through 1963, with a principal in painting under Andrew Forge and a subsidiary in theatrical design under Nicholas Georgiadis and Peter Snow. In 1963 he was awarded an Associated Rediffusion Scholarship to study film under Thorold Dickinson for a further post graduate year. Work in film and television After a walk-on role in René Clément's film starring Gerard Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Friedman
Kim Friedman (born November 14, 1949) is an American television director and producer. Friedman's TV career began by directing 70 episodes of the sitcom, ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'' for Norman Lear. She then moved on to directing the pilot for and episodes of ''Square Pegs'', followed by episodes of ''L.A. Law'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Dynasty'', ''A Different World'', ''Head of the Class'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''Babylon 5'', the ''Star Trek'' series, ''Deep Space Nine'', ''Voyager'', ''Lizzie McGuire'' and more. She also directed the ABC movie ''Before and After''. In 1988, Friedman was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award directing ''L.A. Law'' episode, "Handroll Express". Along with her TV career, Kim directed theatre: including at Joe Papp's The Public Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, and at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles. Friedman has also directed theater in London, as well as producing and directing the docu series ''The Real Normal'' and ''Here Comes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Leacock
Philip David Charles Leacock (8 October 1917 – 14 July 1990) was an English television and film director and producer. His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock. Career Born in London, England, Leacock spent his childhood in the Canary Islands. He began his career directing documentaries and later turned to fiction films. He was known for his films about children, particularly '' The Kidnappers'' (US: ''The Little Kidnappers'', 1953), which gained Honorary Juvenile Acting Oscars for two of its performers, and '' The Spanish Gardener'' (1956) starring Dirk Bogarde. He also directed '' High Tide at Noon'' (1958) and '' Innocent Sinners'' (1958) with Flora Robson. He began to work mainly in Hollywood, where he made '' The Rabbit Trap'' (1959) with Ernest Borgnine and '' Take a Giant Step'' (1959) about a black youth's encounter with racism, both under contract to Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions. He followed with '' Let No Man Write My Epitaph'' (1960) about an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sheldon
Leonard James Schleifer, also known as James Sheldon (November 12, 1920 – March 12, 2016), was an American television director. Sheldon directed for television programs including ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'', ''The Fugitive (1963 TV series), The Fugitive'', ''The Donna Reed Show'', ''The Millionaire (TV series), The Millionaire'', ''Death Valley Days'', ''Route 66 (TV series), Route 66'', ''The Love Boat'', ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''Gunsmoke#Television series (1955–1975) and TV movies, Gunsmoke'', ''Bridget Loves Bernie'', ''Room 222'', ''Harbor Command'', ''Love, American Style'', ''The Waltons'', ''The Virginian (TV series), The Virginian'', ''That Girl''. ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''My Three Sons'', ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Naked City (TV series), Naked City'' and ''Sledge Hammer!''. He died in March 2016 at his home in Manhattan, New York from complications of cancer, at the age of 95. In an interview w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randa Haines
Randa Jo Haines (born February 20, 1945, in Los Angeles) is an American film and television director and producer. Haines started her career as a script supervisor on several low-budget features in the 1970s, including '' Let's Scare Jessica to Death'' and '' The Groove Tube''. She is best known for directing the critically acclaimed feature film '' Children of a Lesser God'' (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as Best Actress, and which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including an Academy Award for Best Picture. Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. Haines received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for the film '' Children of a Lesser God'' (1986) and was nominated both for the DGA Award and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Kjellin
Alf Kjellin (; 28 February 1920 – 5 April 1988) was a Swedish film actor and director, who also appeared on some television shows. Biography Kjellin underwent two changes of names in his early days in Hollywood. The first studio for which he worked billed him as Christopher Kent, and the next studio changed his name to Christopher Kelleen. He made one film using each name. Producer Stanley Kramer wanted him to make another change for another film, but Kjellin insisted on using his real name from that point on. Kjellin was well established as a film actor when he occasionally took on roles in television shows. For example, in 1965 he prominently guest-starred as Stalag Luft ''Kommandant'' Colonel Max Richter in the two-part episode "P.O.W." (Episodes 30 and 31) of '' Twelve O'Clock High''. He directed over 130 TV episodes for such shows as ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Waltons'', ''Dynasty'' as well as the 1974 ''Columbo'' episodes ''Mind O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilma Wolitzer
Hilma Wolitzer (born 1930) is an American novelist. Career Wolitzer's first novel for adults, ''Ending (novel), Ending'', was published in 1974. In his review of the novel, lead ''New York Times'' critic Anatole Broyard wrote, “After finishing Wolitzer’s book, I felt as if I had been on the brink of the abyss, pulled back by a last‐minute reprieve. My first impulse was to rush out and live, to grasp at existence as every instant of it was climactic . . . Apocalyptic as sounds, ''Ending'' made me feel I never wanted to take anything for granted again. If you have ever smelled death, really recognized it, life is a miracle. You can understand Marie Antoinette's saying, to the executioner, on the platform of the guillotine, ‘one more moment of happiness!’” ''Ending'' was the loose basis for Bob Fosse's 1979 film ''All That Jazz (film), All That Jazz''. The recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts, NEA fellowships and an Award i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Werner
Peter H. Werner (January 17, 1947 – March 21, 2023) was an American film and television director. His 1976 film, '' In the Region of Ice'', won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Biography Werner was born to a Jewish family, in New York City, New York, one of three children born to Elizabeth (née Grumbach) and Henry Werner.New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths WERNER, ELIZABETH GRUMBACH" February 17, 2003 He had one sister, Patsy Werner Hanson, and one brother, . In 1977, Werner won the |
