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Debbie Barker
Debbie Barker is an American model, television/stage actress, and businesswoman. Her best-known work includes two unrelated appearances on the sitcom '' Mr. Belvedere'' and a supporting part in the television film '' The Stepford Children''. Beginning with a small, uncredited role on ''Ryan's Hope ''Ryan's Hope'' is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7, 1975, to January 13, 1989. It revolves around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American family in th ...'', Barker appeared on various television series between 1986 and 1994. These include '' Matlock'' (Season 4, Episode 84: The student), '' Alien Nation'', '' They Came from Outer Space'', '' Rags to Riches'', '' Down and Out in Beverly Hills'' and '' Night Court''. She co-starred in the 1988 direct-to-video movie ''Wolfpack'' and portrayed Jill St. John in the television film '' Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story''. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stepford Children
''The Stepford Children'' is a 1987 American made-for-television horror science fiction thriller film inspired by the Ira Levin novel '' The Stepford Wives''. It was directed by Alan J. Levi with a screenplay by Bill Bleich and starring Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Tammy Lauren, Randall Batinkoff and Pat Corley. It is the second in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film '' The Stepford Wives''. Plot Laura and Steven Harding ( Barbara Eden and Don Murray) move with their children to the town of Stepford, Connecticut where Steven had lived with his first wife who had died mysteriously. While Laura is occupied with passing the bar exam, Steven is disturbed by their children, athletic but unfocused David ( Randall Batinkoff) and free-spirited, music loving Mary ( Tammy Lauren). Steven joins the Men's Association, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out-of-control teens into robots as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan's Hope
''Ryan's Hope'' is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7, 1975, to January 13, 1989. It revolves around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American family in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Origins In late 1974, ABC Daytime approached Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, the head writers of CBS' ''Love of Life,'' about creating a new soap opera similar to ''General Hospital''. Labine and Mayer added a large Irish-American family — the Ryans — to what ABC was calling ''City Hospital''. Another of the show's working titles was ''A Rage to Love'', but that was soon changed.Schemering, Christopher, ''Soap Opera Encyclopedia'', 1987, Ballantine Books Patriarch Johnny Ryan ( Bernard Barrow) owned a bar, Ryan's, across from fictional Riverside Hospital in New York City. His wife, Maeve (Helen Gallagher), assisted him in his duties, as did their children: Frank, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matlock (TV Series)
''Matlock'' is an American mystery legal drama television series created by Dean Hargrove, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by Intermedia Entertainment Company (first season only), The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions (called Strathmore Productions in the first two seasons) and Viacom Productions, originally aired from March 3, 1986, to May 8, 1992, on NBC, and from November 5, 1992, to May 7, 1995, on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS' ''Perry Mason'' (both ''Matlock'' and the 1980s ''Perry Mason'' television films were created by Dean Hargrove), with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial from the jury. Since 1991, reruns of ''Matlock'' have been shown in syndication and on TBS, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alien Nation (1989 TV Series)
''Alien Nation'' is a science fiction police procedural television series in the ''Alien Nation'' franchise. Adapted from the 1988 ''Alien Nation'' movie, it stars Gary Graham as Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly working with "Newcomer" alien Sam "George" Francisco, played by Eric Pierpoint. Sikes also has an on again-off again flirtation with a female Newcomer, Cathy Frankel, played by Terri Treas. ''TV Guide'' included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon". Plot The series is set in the near future in the United States. In 1990, a flying saucer crashes in the Mojave Desert containing a race of extraterrestrials, the Tenctonese, escaping from slavery under a cruel Overseer race. They are humanoid but have certain anatomical differences and have been bred with greater physical strength and intelligence. These Newcomers, as they are called, are accepted as the latest immigrants to the US. The series explores iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Came From Outer Space
''They Came from Outer Space'' is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin. Synopsis The series stars Dean Cameron as Bo, and Stuart Fratkin as Abe, two teenage fraternal twin aliens from the planet Crouton. They thwart their parents' plans to send them to Cambridge University, in Great Britain, and instead they decide to travel throughout California in their 1959 classic red Chevrolet Corvette, in an effort to pick up women and to learn more about life on Earth. They are pursued by a pair of bumbling U.S. Air Force officers, Lt Col. Tom Barker, and Lt. Pat "Monkey" Wilson, who would like to capture the two for scientific study. Abe and Bo were constantly taking odd jobs to support themselves on their American road trip. Characters Abewosiak "Abe" ( Stuart Fratkin) was the more responsible, and serious, of the two brothers. Much is made about the fact that Abe is sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rags To Riches (TV Series)
''Rags to Riches'' is an American musical comedy drama that was broadcast on NBC for two seasons from March 9, 1987, to January 15, 1988. Set in the pre-British Invasion 1960s, the series tells the story of Nick Foley, a self-made millionaire who adopts six orphan girls. Each episode included musical scenes of hit songs from the era performed by the girls integrated into the plot (with the lyrics modified to provide commentary on the storyline). Plot Nick Foley (Joseph Bologna), the millionaire owner of Foley Foods, is a streetwise New Jersey-born businessman who realizes that his playboy lifestyle has been a liability for his business reputation. In the TV movie pilot that launched the series, Foley attempts to develop a family man image by bringing a group of six orphaned girls, who were featured in a newspaper story saying that they refused to be separated from each other, to live in the mansion in Bel Air where he lives with his butler, John Clapper (Douglas Seale). Foley doe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down And Out In Beverly Hills (TV Series)
''Down and Out in Beverly Hills'' is an American sitcom based on the 1986 Down and Out in Beverly Hills, movie of the same name. It aired from April 26 to September 12, 1987 on the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It has the distinction of being the first ever show to be cancelled by Fox; 5 of the 13 produced episodes did not air. , TV.com The cast included Hector Elizondo as Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss' character in the movie), Anita Morris as Barbara Whiteman (Bette Midler's character in the movie), Eileen Seeley as Jenny Whiteman (Tracy Nelson (actress), Tracy Nelson's character in the movie), April Ortiz as Carmen the Maid (Elizabeth Peña's character from the movie), and Tim Thomerson as Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte's char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Court
''Night Court'' is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan municipal court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson). The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on ''Barney Miller'' in the 1970s and early 1980s. Cast Main *The judge: **Harry Anderson, as Judge Harold "Harry" T. Stone, is a young, good-humored jurist and amateur magician whose parents were former patients of a mental health institution. He was the youngest judge on the bench at the time, being only 34 when he took the bench. He got his assignment because the outgoing mayor made a huge number of appointments on his last day, and Harry was the only person on the judges' list who answered the call (as it was a Sunday) and accepted the nomination. He loved old movies, was vocal in his disdain for modern music (especially Barry Mani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill St
Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian ( Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name *Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women *Jill Balcon (1925–2009), British actress * Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician and data scientist * Jill Becker, American psychological researcher * Jill Biden (born 1951), American educator and the First Lady of the United States * Jill E. Brown (born 1950), African American aviator * Jill Carroll (born 1977), American journalist * Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010), American actress * Jill Costello (1987–2010), American athlete and lung cancer activist * Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film director and writer * Jill Craybas (born 1974), American tennis player * Jill Dando (1961–1999), British television presenter * Jill Dickman, Republican member of the Nevada Assembly * Jill Dugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barbara Hutton Story
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Television Actresses
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