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Beakman
''Beakman's World'' is an American educational children's television program. The program is based on the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip '' You Can with Beakman and Jax'' created by Jok Church. The series premiered on Wednesday, September 16, 1992, on TLC, and on various other channels a few days later through syndication on 220 other channels. On September 18, 1993, it moved from national syndication to CBS's Saturday morning children's lineup. At the peak of its popularity, it was seen in nearly ninety countries around the world. The series was canceled in 1998. Reruns returned to national syndication in September 2006, after which it was transferred to local stations such as KICU. The program's host, Paul Zaloom, still performs as Beakman in live appearances around the globe. Summary The program starred Paul Zaloom as Beakman, an eccentric scientist who performed comical experiments and demonstrations in response to viewer mail to illustrate various scientif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beakman En México 07
''Beakman's World'' is an American educational children's television program. The program is based on the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip ''You Can with Beakman and Jax'' created by Jok Church. The series premiered on Wednesday, September 16, 1992, on TLC, and on various other channels a few days later through syndication on 220 other channels. On September 18, 1993, it moved from national syndication to CBS's Saturday morning children's lineup. At the peak of its popularity, it was seen in nearly ninety countries around the world. The series was canceled in 1998. Reruns returned to national syndication in September 2006, after which it was transferred to local stations such as KICU. The program's host, Paul Zaloom, still performs as Beakman in live appearances around the globe. Summary The program starred Paul Zaloom as Beakman, an eccentric scientist who performed comical experiments and demonstrations in response to viewer mail to illustrate various scientific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can With Beakman And Jax
''You Can with Beakman and Jax'', also known in its Spanish-language version as ''El Mundo de Beakman'' ("The World of Beakman"), is an American science and education syndicated comic strip by Jok Church, which ran from July 14, 1991 to July 17, 2016. The educational comic strip, and planned television series, were originally intended to be a part of the ''Star Wars'' franchise, with real world facts about science, and languages. The comic strip is a text-based comic, that answers readers' questions, with illustrations of the main characters, various objects, and, or the experiments being discussed. It is run as a single panel comic that appears in newspapers as a color, or black and white Sunday feature, in either a quarter-page strip, or half-tab format. The comic has reached a readership of fifty-two million readers in thirteen countries. About 80% of the letters it receives are from females. From its comic origins, its lead character Beakman would later star in his own live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jok Church
Jok Richard Church (November 28, 1949 – April 29, 2016) was an American cartoonist who created the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip '' You Can With Beakman and Jax,'' later adapted into the TV series '' Beakman's World''. The series premiered September 18, 1992, on The Learning Channel (TLC) cable network and in national syndication (225 stations, a freshman year record). On September 18, 1993, it moved from national syndication to CBS Saturday morning children's lineup. At the peak of its popularity, it was seen in nearly 90 countries around the world. He created his comic strip ''You Can with Beakman & Jax'' in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California—inspired by a stint answering kids' letters for Lucasfilm. It was the first ever syndicated newspaper comic drawn and distributed by computer, a Macintosh SE using Adobe Illustrator-88. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly; it gives directions for creating an experiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Zaloom
Paul Finley Zaloom (born December 14, 1951) is an American actor and puppeteer, best known for his role as the character Beakman on the television show ''Beakman's World''. Career Born in Garden City, Paul Zaloom was educated at The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, and began his entertainment career at Goddard College with artists in residence the Bread and Puppet Theater, a troupe specializing in self-invented, home-made theatre. One of their performance locales was Coney Island, where Zaloom is said to have given advice to the "unofficial Mayor of Coney Island", Dick Zigun, on how to bring in the crowds. In his solo work he utilizes found-object animation, in which he takes objects as varied as coffee pots and humidifiers and turns them into elements of political satire. His personal politics are liberal; he has referred to Elizabeth Dole and Margaret Thatcher as "right-wing nutjobs". He has also been a fierce critic of U.S. foreign poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013) was an American character actor, character actress of stage, television and film. Stapleton was best known for playing Edith Bunker, the perpetually optimistic and devoted wife of Archie Bunker, on the 1970s sitcom ''All in the Family'', a role that earned her three Emmy Awards, Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes for Best Actress in a comedy series. She also made occasional appearances on the ''All in the Family'' follow-up series ''Archie Bunker's Place'', but asked to be written out of the show during the first season due to becoming tired of the role. Early life Stapleton was born on January 19, 1923, in Manhattan, the daughter of Marie A. Stapleton, an opera singer, and Joseph E. Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. She had an elder brother, Jack. Her uncle was a Vaudeville, vaudevillian performer, and her brother was a stage actor who inspired her to pursue acting as well. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ritts
Mark Ritts (June 16, 1946 – December 7, 2009) was an American actor, puppeteer, television producer and director, and author. Ritts also produced and directed many independent videos and television spots as president of Mark Ritts Productions, Inc., for clients around the world. Biography Ritts was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in English literature. Being the son of noted puppeteers Paul and Mary Ritts, he pursued a sideline in puppetry, starring in PBS's ''The Real Adventures of Sherlock Jones and Proctor Watson'' and NBC's ''The Pink Panther Show'', among many others. In the 1980s he was the puppeteer for the Philadelphia-area produced '' Starstuff.'' Throughout the 1990s, Ritts was the voice and performer of Kino, the Emmy Award-winning puppet co-host of the PBS series '' Storytime'', as well as one of the show's writers. From 1992 to 1998, he participated on CBS's ''Beakman's World''. In it, Ritts starred as Lester, a disg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alanna Ubach
Alanna Ubach (born October 3, 1975) is an American actress, known for her roles as Serena McGuire in ''Legally Blonde'' (2001) & ''Legally Blonde 2'' (2003), Isabel Villalobos in '' Meet the Fockers'' (2004), Maria in '' Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit'' (1993), Noreen in ''The Brady Bunch Movie'' (1995), Jane in ''Clockwatchers'' (1997), Naomi in '' Waiting...'' (2005) & '' Still Waiting...'' (2009), Margarete in '' Being Us'' (2011), Jeanine Pirro in '' Bombshell'' (2019), and the voice of Mamá Imelda in '' Coco'' (2017), as well as Jo Hernandez-Frumpkis on ''Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce'', Suze Howard on ''Euphoria'', Tessa Flores on '' Guilty Party'', Carol Atkinson on ''The Flight Attendant'', and Susan Bennett on ''Ted''. She has provided voices for several characters in a number of animated television shows and movies, such as Liz Allan on ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'', the title character on '' El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera'', Lola Boa on '' Brandy & Mr. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Schneider
Eliza Jane Schneider is an American actress, voice actress, singer, playwright, dialect coach and dialectologist. She has appeared on television and as a voice over actress on video games and animations. She also performs various musical and stage shows. Early life and television work Schneider spent her formative years on a Chippewa reservation in Bemidji, Minnesota with her two older brothers in a mostly Jewish family. Her father was a math and drama teacher at the School of Arts High School in Rochester, New York, where she graduated as salutatorian. Her mother was an attorney for the reservation. She started playing violin, learning the Suzuki method, after seeing El Shenkar. When she was sixteen, she was in her first musical group, IT'S MY PARTY! From ages 7–20, she went to Jewish summer camp, becoming a counselor, and started performing on stage. By the time she was in the fourth grade she began writing and performing her own plays, because the teacher told her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures Television Distribution
Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CPT) was launched on May 6, 1974, by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio. It is the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems (SG) and the third name of Pioneer Telefilms. For 26 years, the company was active from 1974 until New Year's Day 2001, when it was folded into Columbia TriStar Television (which is currently known as Sony Pictures Television), a merger between Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television. A separate entity of CPT continues to exist on paper as an intellectual property holder, and under the moniker CPT Holdings (the initials standing for Columbia Pictures Television) to hold the copyright for the TV show ''The Young and the Restless'', as well as old incarnations from the company's television library such as ''What's Happening!!'' History Screen Gems (1948–1974) Screen Gems was a television production company that was owned by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senta Moses
Senta Michelle Moses (born August 8, 1973) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her co-starring role as Phoebe, the lab assistant in the children's series ''Beakman's World'', Winnifred Leeds in ''General Hospital'', Lizzie in ''Greek'' (2008-2009). Tracy McCallister in ''Home Alone'' (1990), & '' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'' (1992) Life and career Moses was born on August 8, 1973, in Elmhurst, Illinois. She is of Italian and Lebanese descent.Biography from Moses' official website, sentamoses.com (no longer active) She has been in show business since she was six months old appearing in a diaper commercial—which she refers to as "embarrassing". She has since appeared in more than 100 national commercials—including ones for Teleflora, Wendy's and Toyota. At age seven, she landed the role of Molly in the National Touring Company of ''Annie'', appearing in 487 performances. While pursuing her high school diploma at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, Moses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (; born May 18, 1950) is an American composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, whose " Whip It" was a top 20 single in the US in 1980, peaking at No. 14, and which has since maintained a cult following. Mothersbaugh is one of the main composers of Devo's music. In addition to his work with Devo, Mothersbaugh has made music for television series, films and video games via his production company, Mutato Muzika. He composed the music for the 13-year run of the animated series ''Rugrats'' and its three related theatrical films. As a solo musician, Mothersbaugh has released four studio albums: '' Muzik for Insomniaks'', ''Muzik for the Gallery'', ''Joyeux Mutato'' and ''The Most Powerful Healing Muzik in the Entire World''. In 2004, he received the Richard Kirk award at the BMI Film and TV Awards for his contributions to film and television music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ELP Communications
ELP Communications (formerly known as T.A.T. Communications Company, Embassy Television, Embassy Telecommunications, and Embassy Communications) was an American television production company that originally began in 1974. History Beginning ELP Communications was originally formed in 1974 as T.A.T. Communications Company when Norman Lear joined up with former talent agent Jerry Perenchio, a year before Bud Yorkin ended his partnership with Lear. "T.A.T." stood for the Yiddish phrase "Tuchus Affen Tisch", which meant "Putting one's ass on the line." The first sitcom to be produced by T.A.T. Communications was ''The Jeffersons'', which was spun off from the sitcom ''All in the Family'' in 1975. Acquisition of Avco Embassy and rename Television producer Norman Lear and his business partner Jerry Perenchio bought Avco Embassy Pictures Corporation in January 1982 and decided to drop the name "Avco" from the name to bring back the name Embassy Pictures and T.A.T. Communications Co. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
