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The Chevy Mystery Show
''The Chevy Mystery Show'', aka ''Sunday Mystery Hour'', is an American television anthology series. It was produced by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Dinah Shore's production company Sewanee. The program was broadcast on NBC from May 1960 to September 1960 as a summer replacement for ''The Dinah Shore Chevy Show'' with Walter Slezak as host, except for the last three episodes, which had Vincent Price as host. The episodes with Slezak as host were re-run with the title ''Sunday Mystery Hour'' from July 1961 to September 1961 (sustained by various "participating" advertisers). There were a total of 18 episodes. Featured actors included Robert Culp, Dane Clark, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Carlson, Janet Blair, and James Whitmore. A 1960 episode, "Enough Rope", was the first appearance of the fictional character Columbo ''Columbo'' is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo (character), Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Daniels
Marc Daniels (January 27, 1912 – April 23, 1989), born Danny Marcus, was an American television director. He directed on programs such as ''I Love Lucy'', ''I Married Joan'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Star Trek'', ''Mission: Impossible'', ''Hogan's Heroes'', ''Alice'', and more. Life and career Daniels was a graduate of the University of Michigan. Following his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, which continued until 1946, Daniels was hired by CBS to direct its inaugural dramatic anthology program, '' Ford Theater'', where he mastered the art of live television direction. He was hired to direct the first 38 episodes of ''I Love Lucy'', an early filmed series. Daniels recommended Vivian Vance for the role of Ethel Mertz. Daniels, along with his wife, Emily Daniels, and cinematographer Karl Freund, has been credited with introducing the three-camera technique of filming as opposed to the conventional one-camera. In a 1977 interview, Daniels noted that he left ''I Love Lucy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alcoa Hour
''The Alcoa Hour'' is an American anthology television series sponsored by the Alcoa Corporation that aired live on NBC from October 16, 1955, to September 22, 1957. Overview ''The Alcoa Hour'' is a one-hour live anthology series that primarily presented dramas but occasionally presented a musical or a comedy. The series alternated weeks in the same time slot with the ''Goodyear Television Playhouse'' until both series ended in 1957. Notable episodes The series's premiere episode, ''The Black Wings'', marked the American TV debut of Ann Todd. The show garnered press in February 1956 for actor Lloyd Bridges's emotional performance in an episode titled " Tragedy in a Temporary Town", directed by Sidney Lumet. During the performance, Bridges inadvertently slipped in some profanity while ad-libbing. Although the slip of the lip generated hundreds of complaints, the episode won a Robert E. Sherwood Television Award, with Bridges's slip defended by many, including some member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. A successful pilot may be used as the series premiere, the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot (although an increasing number of such series have their first episodes titled "Pilot"). On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.") This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of ''malice'',This is "malice" in a technical legal sense, not the more usual English sense denoting an emotional state. See malice (law). such as in the case of voluntary manslaughter brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. ''Involuntary'' manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Most societies conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Link
William Theodore Link (December 15, 1933 – December 27, 2020) was an American film and television screenwriter and producer who often worked in collaboration with Richard Levinson. Biography Early life Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Link was the son of Elsie (née Roerecke) and William Theodore Link, a textile broker. His mother had German Huguenot heritage. Link discovered late in life that his father's parents were Jewish. Link's niece, Amy, examined a suitcase William Theodore had left to his son, which they had kept in their attic. She opened it in 2011 and it turned out to contain genealogical research and evidence done by William Theodore during World War II. Amy had discovered that Link's paternal grandparents were Jewish. Link earned a degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business prior to serving in the United States Army from 1956 to 1958. Levinson partnership William Link and Richard Levinson met on their first day of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Levinson
Richard Leighton Levinson (August 7, 1934 – March 12, 1987) was an American screenwriter and producer who often worked in collaboration with William Link. Life and career Levinson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics in 1956. He served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958 and married actress Rosanna Huffman in 1969. Levinson was of Jewish heritage. William Link and Richard Levinson began a 41-year friendship in 1946, on their first day of junior high school. Both were avid Ellery Queen fans from boyhood and enjoyed mental puzzles and challenges, a characteristic that would spill over into their work. Beginning with radio scripts, the team wrote plays and then prime-time TV scripts. In 1965, they wrote three episodes of '' Honey West'' including the final episode. They went on to co-create and sometimes produce the detective television series ''Columbo'', ''Mannix'', ''El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Larson (producer)
Charles Larson (23 October 1922 – 21 September 2006) was a writer and producer of television programs. He was born in Portland, Oregon, USA. Beginning his Cinema of the United States, Hollywood career as a Courier, messenger for MGM, Larson ultimately became a screenwriter for short films and later for television. His TV writing credits during the 1950s include ''Studio One (American TV series), Studio One'', ''The Lone Ranger (TV series), The Lone Ranger'' and ''Climax!''. During the 1960s, he wrote episodes for ''The Virginian (TV series), The Virginian'' and ''Rawhide (TV series), Rawhide''. In 1964, he became an associate producer on ''Twelve O'Clock High (TV series), Twelve O'Clock High'' for which he also wrote five episodes. He then became a producer for ''The F.B.I. (TV series), The F.B.I.'', for which he earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1969. He also wrote and directed several episodes of that series. Larson also produced and wrote for the TV shows ''The Interns (telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Kandel
Stephen David Kandel (April 30, 1927 – October 21, 2023) was an American television writer. Life and career Stephen Kandel was born on April 30, 1927. In his youth, he grew up in Pennsylvania, and earned the "Excellence in Table Tennis" award at the age of 10. Following his graduation from high school at only 16 years old, he began college before being drafted and serving in the United States Army during World War II in Germany. During his time in the military he was stabbed in the chest, but went on to recover fully. Post-WWII, Kandel went on to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1950. Kandel wrote episodes for many popular series, from ''Sea Hunt'' in the 1950s through ''MacGyver'' in the 1980s, with stops in between at '' Star Trek: The Original Series'', ''Mannix'', ''Wonder Woman'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Cannon'', ''Barnaby Jones'', ''Banacek'', and others. He was credited with writing the pilot episodes of ''Daktari'', ''Broken Promises'', and ''Chamber of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mann Rubin
Mann Rubin (December 11, 1927 – October 12, 2013) was an American film and television screenwriter, whose credits included '' The Best of Everything'' in 1959, '' Brainstorm'' in 1965, ''Warning Shot'' in 1967, '' The First Deadly Sin'' in 1980, and '' The Human Shield'' in 1991. He also taught screenwriting within the cinema and TV department at the University of Southern California for more than ten years. Early life Rubin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the United States Army from 1945 until 1947 before completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at New York University in 1952. Career He initially worked as a science fiction writer for DC Comics. His writing credits at DC Comics included ''Mystery in Space'' and ''Strange Adventures''. Rubin later published stories in ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine''. He would later pen the screenplay for an episode of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''. Rubin penned scripts for dozens of television series between the 1950s and 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( ; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the Social norm, social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the United States Senate (for California). A grandson of U.S. Senator Thomas Gore, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the History of the United States, history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic Foreign policy of the United States, foreign policy reduced the country to a American imperialism, decadent empire. His political and cultural essays w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Armstrong
Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905 – July 18, 1969) was an American writer. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenplays. She also worked for ''The New York Times'' advertising department, as a fashion reporter for '' Breath of the Avenue'' (a buyer's guide), and in an accounting firm. Additionally, she worked for the New Yorker magazine, publishing only three poems for them. Personal life Born as Charlotte Armstrong on May 2, 1905 in Vulcan, Michigan. She was the daughter of mining engineer Frank Hall Armstrong and Clara Pascoe Armstrong. She graduated from Vulcan High School in Vulcan, Michigan in June 1921 just after she turned 16 years old. She attended the junior college program at Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois, for one year (1921–1922), during which time she served as editor of the student publication, ''Ferry Tales''. She attended the University of Wisconsin for two years and rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Spies
Adrian Spies (April 17, 1920 – October 2, 1998) was an American screenwriter, active from the 1940s through to the 1980s. He won an Edgar Award for an episode of ''Studio One in Hollywood'' and was nominated for an Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ... for an episode of '' Dr. Kildare''. Spies died during heart surgery in 1998. Filmography Films Television References External links * 1920 births 1998 deaths American television writers American male television writers 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-century American male writers {{US-tv-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
