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Wheel Series
A wheel series, wheel show, wheel format or umbrella series is a television series in which two or more regular programs are rotated in the same time slot. Sometimes the wheel series is given its own umbrella title and promoted as a single unit instead of promoting its separate components. The most successful example of a wheel series on American television was the '' NBC Mystery Movie'', which debuted in 1971 on NBC and ran for seven seasons. Three of the shows in the rotation, ''Columbo'', '' McCloud'', and ''McMillan & Wife'', were among the most successful shows on American television in the 1970s. History The concept debuted in 1955 with ABC's ''Warner Bros. Presents''. ''Warner Bros. Presents'' was a one-hour show rotating three series based on the movies '' King's Row'', ''Casablanca'', and ''Cheyenne'', with the last 10 minutes set aside for the segment, ''Behind The Cameras at Warner Brothers''. Warner Bros. was inspired by the ''Disneyland'' anthology series to do the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Mystery Movie
''The NBC Mystery Movie'' is an American television anthology series produced by Universal Pictures, that NBC broadcast from 1971 to 1977. Devoted to a rotating series of mystery episodes, it was sometimes split into two subsets broadcast on different nights of the week: ''The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie'' and ''The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie''. ''The NBC Mystery Movie'' was a "wheel series", or "umbrella program", that rotated several programs within the same period throughout each of its seasons. In its first, 1971–72, it rotated three detective dramas that were broadcast on Wednesday nights from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones (7:30–9:00 p.m. Central and Mountain time). Background The origin of the "wheel" format was a joint programming and creative production agreement between the NBC Television Network and Universal Studios Television and Motion Pictures in 1966, in accord with which NBC ordered a multi-year series of dramatic antho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
90 Bristol Court
''90 Bristol Court'' is the umbrella title of an NBC series consisting of three sitcoms set in a Southern California apartment complex located at the title address. The 90-minute block aired Monday nights from October 5, 1964, through January 5, 1965, and consisted of '' Karen'' (7:30-8:00pm), '' Harris Against the World'' (8:00-8:30pm), and '' Tom, Dick, and Mary'' (8:30-9:00pm). Background While they were promoted as a single programming block under the title ''90 Bristol Court'', the three components — ''Karen'', ''Harris Against the World'', and ''Tom, Dick and Mary'' — were individual series with separate casts, writing, and production staffs, with the core production companies, Kayro-Vue and Universal Television (which also produced ''The Munsters'' for CBS that season), being the only common component. ttps://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/90BristolCourt_TomDickMary.htm Classic Television Archive 90 Bristol Court: Tom, Dick and Mary (1964–65) Accessed 6 November 2021/ref> The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kojak
''Kojak'' is an American Action film, action Crime film, crime Drama (film and television), drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theophilus "Theo" Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular ''Cannon (TV series), Cannon'' series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978. In 1999, ''TV Guide'' ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. Production The show was created by Abby Mann, an Academy Award–winning film writer best known for his work on drama anthologies such as ''Robert Montgomery Presents'' and ''Playhouse 90''. Universal Television approached him to do a story based on the 1963 Career Girls Murders, Wylie-Hoffert murders, the brutal rape and murder of two young professional women in Manhattan. Owing to poor and corrupt police work and the prevailing casual attitude toward suspects' civil rights, the crimes in the Wylie-Hoffert case were pinned on a youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Templar
The Saint is the nickname of the fictional character Simon Templar, featured in a List of works by Leslie Charteris, series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris's participation were published in 1997. The character has also been portrayed in the franchise The Saint (franchise), ''The Saint'', which includes motion pictures, radio dramas, comic strips, comic books, and three television series. Overview Simon Templar Simon Templar is a Robin Hood-like figure known as the Saint—from his initials, per ''The Saint Meets the Tiger'', and the reader is told that he was given the nickname at the age of nineteen. In addition, per ''Knight Templar (The Saint), Knight Templar'' : Templar has aliases, often using the initials S.T. such as "Sebastian Tombs" or "Sugarman Treacle". Blessed with boyish humour, he makes hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies
''The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies'' (known as ''The New CBS Friday Night Movies'' in its first season) was a weekly 90-minute motion picture made expressly for television. The series aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. During its first two seasons, the program was similar to ABC's '' Movie of the Week'', which presented a brand-new full-length feature film in a regular weekly time slot with no connecting theme or arc among the films. In the fall of 1972, the series moved from Friday nights to Tuesdays, with its Friday night slot given back to traditional previously released theatrical films under ''The CBS Friday Night Movies'' banner (''The New CBS Friday Night Movies'' replaced ''The CBS Friday Night Movies'' during its first season). During the 1973-1974 television season, CBS revised the series into ''The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies''. In the revision CBS adopted both the ABC and NBC approaches. They developed two rotating series, similar to ''The NBC Mystery Movie'' (both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Men (TV Series)
''The Men'' was an umbrella title for three crime/adventure dramas aired in the United States by ABC as part of its 1972-73 lineup. ''The Men'' comprised '' Assignment Vienna'', '' Jigsaw'', and '' The Delphi Bureau''. The common element in each of those hour-long series was that its hero was a rugged individualist, working essentially alone with little or no supervision on matters of vital significance. The series' stars, respectively, were Robert Conrad, James Wainwright, and Laurence Luckinbill. The program originally aired on Thursday nights, with each element appearing in a regular rotation, every third week. But when ''The Men'' was moved to Saturday nights, in January 1973, the elements began to be aired with several episodes of the same one appearing in consecutive weeks. Unlike the similar ''NBC Mystery Movie'' wheel, the elements of ''The Men'' all came from different TV studios—''Assignment Vienna'', ''Jigsaw'', and ''The Delphi Bureau'' were respectively p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hec Ramsey
''Hec Ramsey'' is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974, starring Richard Boone. The series was created by Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited in association with Universal's television productions. The series was first broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the '' NBC Mystery Movie'', a wheel series format. Cast Main *Richard Boone as Deputy Chief Hec Ramsey * Rick Lenz as Chief Oliver Stamp *Harry Morgan as Doc Amos Coogan Recurring *Perry Lopez as Sergeant Juan Mendoza *Dennis Rucker as Constable Arne Tornquist *Bill Vint as Constable Davey Watson Premise Richard Boone portrayed Hector "Hec" Ramsey, a former gunfighter turned lawman, with a keen interest in the emerging field of forensics. Hec replaced his "gunfighter" rig with a cut-down Colt revolver - "Faster draw, good at short range. Use a rifle for long" that echoed modern detectives' guns - but his most important tools included fingerprinting equipment and magnifying ... [...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] |
The NBC Mystery Movie
''The NBC Mystery Movie'' is an American television anthology series produced by Universal Pictures, that NBC broadcast from 1971 to 1977. Devoted to a rotating series of mystery fiction, mystery episodes, it was sometimes split into two subsets broadcast on different nights of the week: ''The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie'' and ''The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie''. ''The NBC Mystery Movie'' was a "wheel series", or "umbrella program", that rotated several programs within the same period throughout each of its seasons. In its first, 1971–72, it rotated three detective dramas that were broadcast on Wednesday nights from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. in the Eastern Time Zone, Eastern and Pacific Time Zone, Pacific time zones (7:30–9:00 p.m. Central Time Zone, Central and Mountain Time Zone, Mountain time). Background The origin of the "wheel" format was a joint programming and creative production agreement between the NBC Television Network and Universal Pictures, Universal Studios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four In One (TV Series)
''Four in One'' is the umbrella title for a wheel series broadcast in the United States on the NBC television network as part of its 1970-71 schedule in the Wednesday 10 PM Eastern time slot. ''Four in One'' consisted of six episodes of each of four dramatic series: '' McCloud'', ''San Francisco International Airport'', ''Night Gallery'' and '' The Psychiatrist''. All six episodes of each program were run in order; then all were rerun interspersed with each other with a different series being shown each week. After the season, ''McCloud'' had proven sufficiently popular to be included as an element in a new wheel-format series, ''NBC Mystery Movie'', while ''Night Gallery'' was picked up as a stand-alone series. The other two elements, ''San Francisco International Airport'' and ''The Psychiatrist'', were cancelled. Episodes References *Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows ''The'' is a grammatical article in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bold Ones
''The Bold Ones'' is the umbrella title for several television series. It was produced by Universal Television and broadcast on NBC from 1969 to 1973. It was a wheel series, wheel format series, an NBC programming approach also used by that network in series such as ''The Name of the Game (TV series), The Name of the Game'' and the ''NBC Mystery Movie''. Segments During the four years of the series there were four segments, three of which rotated the first two seasons; in the third the two survivors, ''The New Doctors'' and ''The Lawyers'' alternated, then ''The New Doctors'' in year four was the sole, remaining occupant under ''The Bold Ones'' umbrella. Just as in its wheel predecessor, ''The Name of the Game'', a season consisted of 24 originals with 8 shows filmed for each segment. However, in the debut season the police work forming the setting of ''The Protectors'' resulted in its order being reduced by two because of the new politically induced mandate by the networks to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
