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List Of Family Affair Episodes
A list of ''Family Affair'' (1966–1971) episodes: Series overview All five seasons have been released on DVD by MPI Home Video. at TVShowsOnDVD.com
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Family Affair
''Family Affair'' is an American sitcom starring Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966, to March 4, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do engineer and bachelor Bill Davis (Keith) as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis's traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French (Cabot), also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy (Kathy Garver) and the five-year-old twins, Jody (Johnny Whitaker) and Buffy (Anissa Jones). ''Family Affair'' ran for 138 episodes in five seasons. The show was created and produced by Edmund Hartmann and Don Fedderson, also known for ''My Three Sons'' and '' The Millionaire''. Storyline Indiana native William "Bill" Davis is a successful civil engineer who develops major projects all over the world. A wealthy bachelor, Bill lives in a large apartment in Manhattan's Upper Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaman Jacobs
Seaman Block Jacobs (February 25, 1912 – April 8, 2008) was an American screenwriter. He wrote episodes for several TV shows, such as ''The Addams Family'', ''The Lucy Show'', ''I Dream of Jeannie'', ''F-Troop'', ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Here's Lucy'' and ''Diff'rent Strokes''. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1978 for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special for ''The George Burns One-Man Show'' in 1977. He co-wrote for ''I Love Lucy'' and ''The Love Boat'' with Freddie Fox (screenwriter). On April 8, 2008, Jacobs died of cardiac arrest Cardiac arrest is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. It is a medical emergency that, without immediate medical intervention, will result in sudden cardiac death within minutes. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and possib ... at the age of 96. Selected filmography References External links * Comedy Writer Seaman Jacobs passes away at 96* American male screenwriters Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pirosh
Robert Pirosh (April 1, 1910 – December 25, 1989) was an American motion picture and television screenwriter and director. In 1951, he was nominated for another Academy Awards, Academy Award for the screenplay ''Go for Broke! (1951 film), Go for Broke!''. This was his directorial debut. He would go on to write the story for the highly regarded Steve McQueen World War II film ''Hell Is for Heroes (film), Hell Is for Heroes'', directed by Don Siegel, believed to be the basis for TV's ''Combat!'' (which he created). He also directed 1954's ''Valley of the Kings (film), Valley of the Kings'' and 1955's ''The Girl Rush''. Pirosh wrote the episode "The Man From Leadville" for the 1976 CBS Western (genre), western television series ''Sara (U.S. 1976 TV series), Sara''. Selected works *''The Winning Ticket'' (1935) – story *''A Night at the Opera (film), A Night at the Opera'' (1935) – writer (uncredited) *''A Day at the Races (film), A Day at the Races'' (1937) – writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wright (author)
William Connor Wright Jr. (October 22, 1930 – June 4, 2016) was an American author, editor and playwright. He is best known for his non fiction writing covering a wildly divergent list of subjects: from the April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria to genetics and behavior to true crime and grand opera. The great Harvard naturalist and author, E. O. Wilson, said of Wright's ''Born that Way, Genes, Behavior, Personality'': "It takes an independent writer and free spirit to tell the story straight, and thank God Wright has done it." In addition to ''Lillian Hellman, the Image and the Woman'', Wright's books include ''The Von Bulow Affair'', and two books with and about Luciano Pavarotti: ''Pavarotti, My Own Story'' and ''Pavarotti, My World''. Biography Wright was born in Philadelphia, the son of William Connor Wright Sr. and Josephine Hartshorne Wright. He graduated from the Germantown Friends School and earned his B.A. at Yale College. In the U.S. Army, he completed tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Styler
Burt Malcolm Styler (February 20, 1925 – June 13, 2011) was an American television and film screenwriter and producer. His film credits include Bob Hope comedy '' Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!'' and such popular TV series as ''The Life of Riley'', ''My Favorite Martian'', ''Mayberry R.F.D.'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''McHale's Navy'', ''Chico and The Man'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''The Carol Burnett Show'', and ''Too Close For Comfort''. He wrote the teleplay/scripts for four of the popular CBS-TV sitcom series ''All in the Family ''All in the Family'' is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. Afterwards, it was continued with the spin-off series '' Archie Bunker's Place'', which picked up where ''All in ...'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1972, for writing the episode "Edith's Problem". Styler died of heart failure on June 13, 2011, at the Providence Tarzana Medical Center. References Interview condu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Plumb
Eve Aline Plumb (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress, singer and painter. She is best known for portraying the middle daughter Jan Brady on the ABC sitcom ''The Brady Bunch''. A native of Southern California, Plumb began appearing in commercials at age seven, and also had guest roles on the televisions series ''Family Affair'', ''The Big Valley'' and '' The Virginian'' between 1966 and 1967. She was cast as Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch'' in 1969, and portrayed the role until the series' end in 1974. After, Plumb continued to work in television, portraying a teenage prostitute in the NBC television film '' Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway'' (1976), and as Elizabeth March in the 1978 miniseries ''Little Women''. Plumb continued to reprise her role as Jan Brady in numerous reunion series and films, including ''The Brady Brides'' (1981) and '' A Very Brady Christmas'' (1988). She made her feature film debut with a minor role in ''I'm Gonna Git You Sucka'' (1988), and lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Lakin
Rita Lakin (born January 24, 1930) is an American screenwriter, active from around 1962 to 1981. She has credits for 474 produced television scripts spanning 30 productions. She is also a novelist and author of "The Only Woman In The Room," a memoir of her life as one of the first female show runners and one of the first women in television (released October 2015, Applause publishing). In fiction, Lakin created the Gladdy Gold Mystery seven-book series (published by Bantam Books), including ''Getting Old Is Murder'', ''Getting Old Is The Best Revenge'', and ''Getting Old Can Kill You''. Lakin began writing regularly during the early 1960s for such television shows as '' The Doctors'', ''Dr. Kildare'' and '' Peyton Place''. In 1968, she began working as story editor and head writer of ''The Mod Squad''. In 1972, she created ''The Rookies''. In 1977, she served as executive producer of the CBS TV adaptation of the 1954 film ''Executive Suite''. She wrote numerous "Movies of the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Leslie
Phil L. Leslie (March 11, 1909 in St. Louis, Missouri – September 23, 1988) was an American comedy writer. His first career, since he was good at math, was keeping books for a local bank in St. Louis, but he began pursuing a career in writing. In 1938, he and his wife, Helen, took their four children (Ann, Jane, Sue and Phil Jr.), by train, to Hollywood, California in the hopes of making it big. His comedy writing skills were soon recognized and he began writing with Don Quinn on the ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' radio program as co-writer. After Don left the show to pursue other interests, Leslie became the main writer.* Phil Leslie Leslie also was a writer for '' The Charlotte Greenwood Show'' on radio. He graduated from radio to television and wrote episodes of ''The Addams Family'', ''The Lucy Show'', '' Here's Lucy'', '' Dennis the Menace'', ''Dobie Gillis'', ''Mr. Ed'', ''The Brady Bunch ''The Brady Bunch'' is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Winkler (writer)
Harry Winkler was an American sitcom writer who wrote for such shows as ''The George Gobel Show'', ''The Addams Family'', ''The Doris Day Show'', and others. He shared an Emmy award in 1955 for ''The George Gobel Show'' and was nominated the following year for the same show. In that same year, 1956, one of his television scripts was featured in ''The Prize Plays of Television and Radio 1956'', published by Random House. Winkler also wrote the groundbreaking series ''Julia'' starring Diahann Carroll, the first commercial television series to star an African-American female in the lead role of a single, professional woman with a family to support. He also wrote the original treatment "The Flagstones" for what ultimately became known as ''The Flintstones''. Additional credits include having been the ghost writer for the Blondie comic strip series for over 25 years, 1955 through 1980. He also wrote for a wide variety of other comedy series ranging from ''Petticoat Junction'', to ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Marx
Arthur Julius Marx (July 21, 1921April 14, 2011) was an American writer, the son of entertainer Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson. Marx spent his early years accompanying his father around vaudeville circuits in the United States and abroad. When he was 10, the family moved to Southern California, where the Marx Brothers continued their film careers. Tennis career Marx was a nationally ranked tennis player before he was 18. While he was attending the University of Southern California, he won the National Freshman Intercollegiate Tennis title at Montclair, New Jersey. At the Tri-State Tennis Tournament, the event that evolved into today's Cincinnati Masters, Marx reached the singles final in 1941 before falling to Bobby Riggs. To reach the final, Marx knocked off future International Tennis Hall of Fame member John Doeg in the round of 16, Frank Froehling Jr. in the quarterfinals, and Gardner Larned in the semifinals. Riggs had blown through his competition to rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Volunteer
Hospital volunteers, also known as candy stripers in the United States, work without regular pay in a variety of health care settings, usually under the direct supervision of nurses. The term candy striper is derived from the red-and-white striped pinafores that female volunteers traditionally wore, which are culturally reminiscent of candy canes. The term and its associated uniform are less frequently used in current clinical settings. Another hospital volunteer organization sponsored by the American Red Cross, was the "Blue Teens" who wore blue-and-white striped pinafores. The female adult volunteers of this organization were known as "Grey Ladies" and wore light grey uniforms. In the United States, volunteers' services are of considerable importance to individual patients as well as the health care system in general. Some people volunteer during high school or college (and more rarely at the middle school level), out of curiosity about health-care professions, an interes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Barton (director)
Charles Barton (May 25, 1902December 5, 1981) was an American film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Oscar for best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature ''Wagon Wheels'', starring Randolph Scott, in 1934. Barton worked in Hollywood B-movie units. From 1946, he was a principal director of the Abbott and Costello comedies, such as ''The Time of Their Lives'', ''Buck Privates Come Home,'' ''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,'' and ''Africa Screams''. He later directed Walt Disney films such as '' The Shaggy Dog'' and ''Toby Tyler''. His extensive work for television included every episode of ''Amos 'n' Andy'' in the 1950s, a total of 90 episodes of '' Dennis the Menace'' in the 1960s, and 106 episodes of ''Family Affair'' from 1967 to 1971. One obituary said he directed 580 television episodes, 70 feature films and dozens of commercials. Early Life and Career Through an entirely paternal line Barton was a direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
