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Abby Ewing
Abby Fairgate (formerly Cunningham, Ewing and Sumner) is a fictional character from the CBS prime time soap opera '' Knots Landing'', a long-running serial about middle class life on the fictional cul-de-sac known as Seaview Circle in Los Angeles, California. She was played by actress Donna Mills between 1980 and 1989. Abby was created by producer David Jacobs as one of ''Knots Landing'' earliest characters. She debuted in the first episode of the second season. Mills remained a principal actor in the series until she left in its tenth season. She returned for the two-part series finale in 1993, and made her last appearance in 1997 when she appeared in the reunion miniseries '' Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac''. Prior to being cast on ''Knots Landing'', Mills was predominantly known for playing " damsel in distress" roles, which is why the producers didn't initially consider her. Abby's storylines focused on business dealings, affairs and family troubles. Introduced as ...
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Donna Mills
Donna Mills (born Donna Jean Miller on December 11, 1940) is an American actress. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on ''The Secret Storm'', and in the same year appeared on Broadway in the Woody Allen comedy '' Don't Drink the Water''. She made her film debut the following year in '' The Incident''. She then starred for three years in the soap opera '' Love is a Many Splendored Thing'' (1967–70), before starring as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the 1971 cult film ''Play Misty for Me''. Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera ''Knots Landing'' in 1980 and was a regular on the show until 1989. For this role, she won the ''Soap Opera Digest'' Award for Outstanding Villainess three times, in 1986, 1988, and 1989. She has since starred in several TV movies, including ''False Arrest'' (1991), ''In My Daughter's Name'' (1992), ''Dangerous Intentions'' (1995), ''The Stepford Husbands'' (199 ...
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List Of Knots Landing Episodes
''Knots Landing'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. The show centered on the personal and professional lives of the residents of Seaview Circle, a cul-de-sac in the suburb of Knots Landing, California. Over the 14 seasons, 344 episodes aired, which were followed by a two-part mini-series in 1997 and a non-fiction reunion special in 2005.Episode guide
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Series overview


Episodes


Season 1 (1979–80)


Season 2 (1980–81)


Season 3 (1981–82)


Season 4 (1982–83)


Season 5 (1983–84)


Season 6 (1984–85)


Season 7 (1985–86)


Season 8 (1986–87)


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Barbara Miller-Gidaly
Barbara Miller-Gidaly, sometimes credited with her maiden name, Barbara Miller, is an American music supervisor and director. She was married to attorney and theatrical producer Walter Gidaly, until his death from a heart attack at age 75, on February 17, 2003. Credits *''Guiding Light'' (1992) *''Texas'' (1981) Awards and nominations Daytime Emmy Awards: *Won, 1991, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "Guiding Light" (shared with A.J. Gundell, Rob Mounsey, John Henry Kreitler, Richard Hazard, Barry De Vorzon, Theodore Irwin, and Jamie Lawrence) *Won, 1992, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for: "The Guiding Light" (shared with A.J. Gundell, Barry De Vorzon, Richard Hazard, John Henry Kreitler, Theodore Irwin, Michael Licari, and Wes Boatman) *Won, 1994, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "The Guiding Light" (shared with A.J. Gundell, John Henry Kreitler, W ...
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Don Murray (actor)
Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (born July 31, 1929) is an American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film '' Bus Stop'' (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include ''A Hatful of Rain'' (1957), '' Shake Hands with the Devil'' (1959, with James Cagney), ''One Foot in Hell'' (1960, with Alan Ladd), '' The Hoodlum Priest'' (1961), ''Advise & Consent'' (1962, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton), ''Baby the Rain Must Fall'' (1965, with Steve McQueen), ''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'' (1972), ''Deadly Hero'' (1975), and ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986, with Kathleen Turner). Murray starred in television series such as '' The Outcasts'' (1968–1969), '' Knots Landing'' (1979–1981), and ''Twin Peaks'' (2017). Early life and career Murray was born in 1929, the second of three children, to Dennis Aloisius Murray, a Broadway dance director and stage manager, and Ethel Murr ...
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The Daily News (Kentucky)
The ''Daily News'' is a daily-except-Saturday newspaper based in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is published Sunday mornings and Monday through Friday evenings. History The current newspaper can trace its roots to the ''Bowling Green Democrat'' founded in 1854. A rival paper, ''The Daily Times'', was founded by John B. Gaines in 1882 and the newspapers eventually merged into the predecessor to the ''Park City Daily News''; now named the Daily News. The newspaper was still owned by members of the Gaines family until its sale in 2022. When the paper was called the ''Park City Daily News'', the name was chosen due to a nickname for Bowling Green taken from an 1892 speech by Henry Watterson. Watterson, there to commemorate Fountain Square Park as the city's first park, opined that Bowling Green might come to be known as the "beautiful park city." Local businesses widely adopted the nickname until the town of Glasgow Junction, about 20 miles north, changed its name to Park City, Kentucky ...
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Toledo Blade
''The Blade'', also known as the ''Toledo Blade'', is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications. The newspaper was first published on December 19, 1835. Overview The first issue of what was then the ''Toledo Blade'' was printed on December 19, 1835. It has been published daily since 1848 and is the oldest continuously run business in Toledo. David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Under this name, he wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery, to the Civil War, to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought the ''Toledo Blade''. The paper dropped "Toledo" from its masthead in 1960. In 2004 ''The Blade'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths". The story brought to light the stor ...
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Archetype
The concept of an archetype (; ) appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis. An archetype can be any of the following: # a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, "first" form, or a main model that other statements, patterns of behavior, and objects copy, emulate, or "merge" into. Informal synonyms frequently used for this definition include "standard example", "basic example", and the longer-form "archetypal example"; mathematical archetypes often appear as "canonical examples". # the Platonic concept of ''pure form'', believed to embody the fundamental characteristics of a thing. # a collectively-inherited unconscious idea, a pattern of thought, image, etc., that is universally present, in individual psyches, as in Jungian psychology # a constantly-recurring symbol or motif in literature, painting, or mythology. This definition refers to the recurrence of characters or ideas sharing similar traits throughout various, seemingly unrel ...
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Donna Mills 1975
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Revenge (TV Series)
''Revenge'' is an American Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Mike Kelley (writer), Mike Kelley and starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp, which debuted on September 21, 2011, on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. The plot is inspired by Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel ''The Count of Monte Cristo''. During its first season, it aired on Wednesdays at 10:00 pm (Eastern Time Zone, Eastern), and later aired on Sundays at 9:00 pm for seasons two through four. The series was picked up for a full season by the ABC television network after garnering a 3.3 Nielsen rating in the 18–49 age advertising demographic for its pilot episode, and regularly winning its time slot against every other television network (CBS, Fox, The CW, and NBC) in the 18–34 demo. Madeleine Stowe was nominated for the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV Drama, while the series was nominated for Favorite New TV Drama at the 38th People's Choice Awards, 2012 ...
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ...
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Mike Kelley (writer)
Michael Kelley (born 1967, Chicago, Illinois) is an American Screenwriting, television writer and Television producer, producer and creator of television series ''What/If'', ''Revenge (TV series), Revenge'' and ''Swingtown''. Early life Kelley was born in Chicago, growing up and attending school at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, Winnetka, Illinois until 1985. A classmate of his was musician Liz Phair, who he would later bring to the television scoring business. Career Kelley has written and produced on shows including ''The O.C.'' and ''Providence (American TV series), Providence''. He co-wrote episodes of ''Providence'' with Jennifer M. Johnson. He is creator of the TV series ''Swingtown'', and has also written episodes for the show, which began airing on CBS in 2008. Kelley created and wrote American Broadcasting Company, ABC's ''Revenge (TV series), Revenge'', a contemporary re-imagining of Alexandre Dumas' ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' from a female perspective. ...
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Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ...
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