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Spelling-Goldberg Productions
Spelling-Goldberg Productions was an American television production company established on May 1, 1972 by Aaron Spelling and Screen Gems' top TV executive Leonard Goldberg. They produced series during the 1970s including ''Family'', ''Starsky & Hutch'', '' T. J. Hooker'', '' S.W.A.T.'', ''Charlie's Angels'', ''Fantasy Island'', and ''Hart to Hart''. Spelling's other companies, Aaron Spelling Productions (later known as Spelling Entertainment and Spelling Television) and Thomas-Spelling Productions, co-existed at the same time period and produced other well-known shows. A majority of the series produced by Spelling-Goldberg originally aired on ABC and are currently owned by Sony Pictures Television. History In 1973, Spelling-Goldberg struck a deal with Metromedia Producers Corporation to distribute the post-1973 output for off-net syndication, including TV movies and the new '' Chopper One''. It was involved in a lawsuit with Worldvision Enterprises (previously ABC Films), the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production company, production and broadcast syndication, distribution studio. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios complex in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Entertainment's unit Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment and a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation. It is the fourth iteration of what had originated as Columbia Pictures' television studio, Screen Gems#Television subsidiary (1948–1974), Screen Gems. History Sony Pictures Television's history goes back to 1947, when Ralph Cohn, whose father Jack and uncle Harry Cohn, Harry co-founded Columbia Pictures, founded Pioneer Telefilms. It was bought by Columbia and renamed Screen Gems#Television subsidiary (1948–1974), Screen Gems in November 1948, reincorporated as Columbia Pictures Television on May 6, 1974, and merged with sister studio TriStar Television (formed in 1986 and relaunched in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home For The Holidays (1972 Film)
''Home for the Holidays'' is a 1972 American made-for-television slasher film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter, and Walter Brennan which premiered on ABC on November 28, 1972. The plot focuses on a wealthy father on his deathbed who invites his four daughters home for Christmas and tells them he suspects his second wife of poisoning him. Shortly after, the girls learn that their stepmother was accused of killing her first husband, and they begin to fall prey to a killer dressed in a yellow rain slicker. Plot A wealthy invalid, Benjamin Morgan, believes his second wife, Elizabeth, is trying to poison him. Alex, his daughter, believes him. Thus, she summons her three sisters—Freddie, Jo, and Chris—to the Morgan farmhouse for Christmas. When they arrive, Mr. Morgan calls them to his room and urges them to kill Elizabeth before she kills them. Later, as Elizabeth prepares dinne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bounty Man
''The Bounty Man'' is a 1972 American made-for-television Western film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Clint Walker, Richard Basehart, John Ericson and Margot Kidder. Plot A bounty hunter and his old rival both chase after a killer. Cast * Clint Walker as Kincaid * Richard Basehart as Angus Keough * John Ericson as Billy Riddle * Margot Kidder as Mae * Gene Evans as Tom Brady * Arthur Hunnicutt as Sheriff * Rex Holman as Driskill * Wayne Sutherlin as Tully * Paul Harper as Hargus * Dennis Cross as Rufus * Vince St. Cyr as Santana * Glenn R. Wilder as Gault * Hal Needham as Pike * Rita Conde as Hargus' Woman * Robert Swan as 1st Bartender * Duke Cigrang as 2nd Bartender See also * List of American films of 1972 This is a list of American films released in 1972. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1972, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by '' The Numbers'', are as follows: January–March April–June is ... R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
''Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole'' is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jud Taylor and starring Susan Hayward, Darren McGavin, Michael Constantine, Michele Nichols, Dane Clark, Beverly Garland and Jeanette Nolan. Plot A widowed doctor (Susan Hayward) joins a colleague's (Darren McGavin) Chicago slum clinic and befriends a dying girl. Cast * Susan Hayward as Dr Maggie Cole * Darren McGavin as Dr Lou Grazzo * Michael Constantine as Dr Sweeney * Michele Nichols as Lisa Downey * Dane Clark as Hank Cooper * Beverly Garland as Myrna Anderson * Jeanette Nolan as Mrs Downey * Maidie Norman as Fergy—Nurse Ferguson * Richard Anderson as Dr Ben Cole * Frank Puglia as Mr. Alissandro * Harry Basch as Isadore Glass * Leigh Adams as Night Nurse #1 * Jan Peters as Ivan Dvorsky * Robert Cleaves as Brig * Richard Carlyle as Mr. Anderson * Mina Martinez as Night Nurse #2 * Peter Hobbs as Pathologist * Guy Remsen as Policeman * Jerrie Woolen as Day Nurse #2 * Bob Bennett as W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Place To Run (film)
''No Place to Run'' is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Herschel Bernardi, Stefanie Powers and Larry Hagman. Plot An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away. Cast * Herschel Bernardi as Hyam Malsh * Stefanie Powers as Bonnie Howard * Larry Hagman as Jay Fox * Neville Brand as Remis * Tom Bosley as Dr Sam Golinski * Scott Jacoby as Doug * Kay Medford as Landlady * Robert Donner as Car salesman * Wesley Lau as Bill Ryan * Woodrow Parfrey as Motel manager * Will J. White as Highway Patrolman * Curt Conway as Old man #1 * Peter Brocco as Old man #2 * Larry Watson as Cabbie * Frank White as Construction worker * Wesley E. Barry II as Young helper See also * List of American films of 1972 This is a list of American films released in 1972. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1972, by domestic box office gross rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daughters Of Joshua Cabe
''The Daughters of Joshua Cabe'' is a 1972 American made-for-television Western film directed by Philip Leacock. The story is about Joshua Cabe, an aging homesteader in the Old West who needs children to help him establish his claim on his property. With his real daughters unavailable, he recruits three young women with minor criminal backgrounds to pose as his daughters. The film was originally written for Walter Brennan. Buddy Ebsen wound up playing the role of Joshua Cabe instead. The show drew "solid ratings". It was the fifth most watched show that week. There were two sequels in the next few years, with mostly different casts from the original and from each other. Plot Due to a homesteading law, fur trapper Joshua Cabe schemes to keep his land by hiring Mae, a hooker, Charity, a pickpocket and Ada, a thief to pose as his family. Cast * Buddy Ebsen as Joshua Cabe * Karen Valentine as Charity * Lesley Anne Warren as Mae (as Lesley Warren) * Sandra Dee as Ada * Don Stroud a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Movie Of The Week
The ''ABC Movie of the Week'' is an American weekly television anthology series featuring Television film, made-for-TV movies that aired on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC network in various permutations from 1969 in television, 1969 to 1975 in television, 1975. History In the 1960s, Film studio, movie studios viewed television as a second-rate medium but also as a threat to their theatrical revenue, so they charged high fees for the privilege to broadcast their films. The networks experimented with having films made specifically for TV to lower expenses. NBC created the first weekly umbrella for such films with their ''World Premiere Movie'' in 1966, running in a two-hour time slot. Until the late 1960s, ABC ran a distant third behind rivals CBS and NBC, leading to jokes about it coming in fourth among the three networks or about its acronym meaning "Almost Broadcasting Company". Desperation and a looser corporate structure allowed ABC to consider plans that the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Television
20th Television, Inc. (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, Inc., 20th Century-Fox Television and 20th Century Fox Television) is the television studio arm of 20th Century Studios, owned by Disney Television Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Productions from this company are distributed on/in home video, home media formats by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment through the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner. 20th Television was part of the majority of 21st Century Fox's assets acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, acquired by Disney in 2019. The company's current name was adopted in 2020 when Disney dropped the "Fox" word from the names of the acquired 21st Century Fox assets to avoid brand confusion with Fox Corporation. 20th Television has since become American Broadcasting Company, ABC's flagship television production arm with the closure of ABC Signature on October 1, 2024. Divisions 20th Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cozi TV
Cozi TV (stylized on-air as COZI TV) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal. The network airs classic television series from the 1950s to the 2000s. The network originated as a local news and lifestyle programming format that was launched between 2009 and 2011; it was seen on digital subchannels operated by nine owned-and-operated stations television stations of the NBC television network in the United States under the brand NBC Nonstop. The sitcoms and drama series now appearing on Cozi are primarily from the NBCUniversal Television Distribution program library. Cozi is available via AT&T U-verse, DirecTV, Dish Network, and streaming services YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream. History NBC Nonstop After NBCUniversal shut down NBC Weather Plus in December 2008 (shortly after the company, along with Blackstone Group and Bain Capital, purchased The Weather Channel), the company's flags ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viacom (1952–2006)
Viacom, an abbreviation of Video and Audio Communications, may refer to: * Viacom (1952–2005), a former American media conglomerate * Viacom (2005–2019), a former company spun off from the original Viacom * Viacom18, a joint venture between Paramount Global and TV18 in India until 2024 ** Viacom18 Studios, the film subsidiary of Viacom18 See also * CBS (other) * Paramount (other) * Paramount Global Paramount Global (Trade name, d/b/a Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and Headquarters, headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, ..., an American media conglomerate known as ViacomCBS until 2022 {{Disambiguation Paramount Global ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rookies
''The Rookies'' is an American police procedural series created by Rita Lakin that originally aired on ABC from September 11, 1972, to March 30, 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD). History The success of Joseph Wambaugh's book '' The New Centurions'', as well as NBC's ratings success with '' Adam-12'', had sparked interest at the time in a more realistic depiction and storytelling of the typical uniformed police officer. Although various incidents during the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in California, had sparked controversy and negative feelings toward police officers in general, ''The Rookies'' tried to better humanize the character of a police officer and show the struggles that new, younger men and women (who were often Vietnam-era military veterans or college graduates) faced in their lives as law enforcement persons sworn to serve and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
