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List Of Sister, Sister Episodes
'' Sister, Sister'' is an American sitcom that was created by Kim Bass, Gary Gilbert, Fred Shafferman that originally aired on ABC and later The WB The WB Television Network (for Warner Bros., or the "Frog Network", for its former mascot, Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. .... It premiered on April 1, 1994, and ended on May 23, 1999, with a total of 119 episodes over the course of 6 seasons. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1994) Season 2 (1994–95) Season 3 (1995–96) Season 4 (1996–97) Season 5 (1997–98) Season 6 (1998–99) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sister, Sister Lists of American sitcom episodes Lists of American teen comedy television series episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister, Sister (TV Series)
''Sister, Sister'' is an American television sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry as identical twin sisters separated at birth who are reunited as teenagers. It premiered on April 1, 1994 on ABC as part of its TGIF comedy lineup, and finished its run on The WB on May 23, 1999, airing 119 episodes over six seasons. The predominantly black cast consisted of the Mowry sisters with Jackée Harry and Tim Reid costarring as their respective adoptive parents, alongside Marques Houston as their annoying neighbor Roger. RonReaco Lee and Deon Richmond later joined the cast in the fifth season. The series was created by Kim Bass, Gary Gilbert, and Fred Shafferman, and produced by de Passe Entertainment and Paramount Network Television. As a result of ABC removing ''Sister, Sister'' from its TGIF lineup for its second season, ratings declined significantly and the network ultimately cancelled the series in April 1995. The series was then picked up by The WB as a replacement for ''Muscle'' o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Illes
Robert Illes (born May 17, 1948 in Downey, California) is an American award-winning screenwriter, television producer, playwright and author. Early life Robert Illes was born in Downey, California to immigrant parents. His father Peter Illes (1920–2002) who spent some 40 years in the printing and stationery business in Los Angeles, was a native of Hungary, emigrating to central California in 1931. Mother Pauline Corne (1924- ) is a native of Norwich, England. His parents met and married during World War II in Norwich, where Peter was serving in the U. S. 8th Air Force. They moved to the Southern California area after the war, eventually settling in Los Angeles. Robert has a brother and two sisters. Illes attended Los Angeles public schools, where he excelled in art and creative writing, graduating George Washington High School before entering the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, studying telecommunications and journalism. He worked briefly for the Daily Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Winter
Terence Patrick Winter (born October 2, 1960) is an American writer and producer of television and film. He is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series ''Boardwalk Empire'' (2010–14). Before creating ''Boardwalk Empire'', Winter was a writer and executive producer for the HBO television series ''The Sopranos'', from the show's second to sixth and final season (2000–2007). In 2013, he wrote the screenplay to Martin Scorsese's '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was also the co-creator, writer and executive producer of another HBO television drama series, ''Vinyl'' (2016), which ran for one season. He is the co-showrunner on the Paramount+ crime series ''Tulsa King'' with Taylor Sheridan. Early life and education Winter was born in New York City. He grew up in a working-class family in Marine Park, Brooklyn. He studied at the New York University, where he received a bache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Dick
Leonard Dick is a television writer and producer who writes for ''The Good Wife''. Leonard was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended high school at Upper Canada College, where he was elected head of Howard's House, and thus served on the Board of Stewards. He graduated from Harvard University with both a BA and MBA. He worked on the first two seasons of the ABC television series ''Lost'', garnering him a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award, as well as an Emmy for best Drama. Dick and the writing staff won the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second seasons of ''Lost''. They were nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2007 ceremony for their work on the second and third seasons. Other series he has written for include ''House'', The Mentalist, '' Fastlane'', ''Hack'', ''Family Law'', and the Fox sketch comedy ''Mad TV''. Television credits * ''Lost'' (2004) TV Series ** 1x17: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asaad Kelada
Asaad Kelada ( ar, أسعد قلادة; born May 11, 1940) is an American television director of many American television sitcoms. Early life Kelada was born in Cairo, Egypt and he studied drama under Youssef Chahine at the American University in Cairo. In 1961, he immigrated to the United States and studied directing at the Yale School of Drama. Career After directing stage plays and teaching drama in the 1960s and 1970s, he received his first opportunity directing television in 1976 with an episode of the sitcom ''Rhoda'', "Rhoda Questions Her Life and Flies to Paris". Since that time he has directed episodes of several well-known sitcoms including ''Benson'', ''WKRP in Cincinnati'', '' The Facts of Life'', ''Family Ties'', and '' Who's the Boss?'', for which he directed 117 episodes and also was a producer on 51 episodes. Kelada spoke with '' DGA Magazine'' and said that good casting is essential to the success of a comedy, because "you cannot make the actor be funny". He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Kasem
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio personality, who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably '' American Top 40''. He was the first actor to voice Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise (1969 to 1997 and 2002 to 2009) and as Dick Grayson/Robin in ''Super Friends'' (1973–1985). Kasem began hosting the original ''American Top 40'' on the weekend of July 4, 1970, and remained there until 1988. He would then spend nine years hosting another countdown titled ''Casey's Top 40'', beginning in January 1989 and ending in February 1998, before returning to revive ''American Top 40'' in 1998. Along the way, spin-offs of the original countdown were conceived for country music and adult contemporary audiences, and Kasem hosted two countdowns for the latter format beginning in 1992 and continuing until 2009. He also founded the ''American Video Awards'' in 1983 and continued to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwayne Hickman
Dwayne Bernard Hickman (May 18, 1934 – January 9, 2022) was an American actor and television executive, producer and director, who worked as an executive at CBS and had also briefly recorded as a vocalist. Hickman portrayed Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins' girl-crazy teenaged nephew, in the 1950s ''The Bob Cummings Show'' and the title character in the 1960s sitcom ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis''. He was the younger brother of actor Darryl Hickman, with whom he appeared on screen. After retirement, he devoted his time to painting personalized paintings. Early life Born in Los Angeles, on May 18, 1934, Hickman was the younger brother of child actor Darryl Hickman and the older brother of Deidre Hickman. His father, Milton, sold insurance and his mother, Katherine Louise (née Ostertag), was a housewife. His maternal grandfather, Louis Henry Ostertag, was a US Navy seaman on Commodore George Dewey's flagship, the cruiser USS ''Olympia'' (C-6), and present at the Battle of Manila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackée Harry
Jacqueline Yvonne Harry (born August 14, 1956) is an American actress, comedian, and television personality. She is known for her starring roles as Sandra Clark, the nemesis of Mary Jenkins (played by Marla Gibbs), on the NBC TV series '' 227'' (1985–1990), and as Lisa Landry on the ABC/The WB sitcom '' Sister, Sister'' (1994–1999). She is noted for being the first African-American to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also starred in the 1992 film ''Ladybugs'', opposite Rodney Dangerfield. Since March 2021, she has played Paulina Price on the NBC soap opera, '' Days of Our Lives''. Biography Early life and education Harry was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1956 to an Afro-Trinidadian mother and African American father and raised in Harlem, New York. She began studying acting at the High School of the Performing Arts in midtown Manhattan in New York City. Harry graduated from Long Island University with a Bachelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Berle
Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; ; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's ''Texaco Star Theatre'' (1948–1953), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during the first Golden Age of Television. He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in both radio and TV. Early life Milton Berle was born into a Jewish family in a five-story walkup at 68 W. 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. His given name was Mendel Berlinger, but he chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16. His father, Moses Berlinger (1872–1938), was a paint and varnish salesman. His mother, Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger (1877–1954), changed her name to Sandra Berle when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Shimokawa
Gary K. Shimokawa (born February 13, 1942) is an American director and producer. He is best known for directing the sitcoms ''Archie Bunker's Place'', ''Night Court'' and ''The Golden Girls''. He has directed and produced over 40 shows and movies. Biography Shimokawa was born in Los Angeles in 1942. He is of Japanese descent; he and his family were interned at Manzanar shortly after his birth following the attack on Pearl Harbor and signing of Executive Order 9066. Before venturing into Hollywood films and TV, Shimokawa taught on the junior high and high school level in Los Angeles, and wrote on the ''Gardena Valley News'', a local bi-weekly paper, as the Sports and Entertainment editor. In television, he has directed and produced shows for over 35 years (primarily half-hour multi-cam comedy shows for prime-time and cable) totaling over 600 episodes. He also co-wrote a comedy pilot for ''Nickelodeon'' cable TV network. Shimowaka holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ratzenberger
John Dezso Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947)About John from Ratzenberger's official website is an American actor, comedian and director. He is best known for playing the character on the comedy series '' Cheers'', for which he earned two nominations. He also played a role in the short-lived spin-off ''The Tortellis'' and in an episode of '' |
Jack Shea (director)
Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002. Life and career Born John Francis Shea, Jr., Shea's father was a traveling salesman and his mother a bookkeeper. He received a parochial high school education, later attaining a degree in History from Fordham University. Shea broke into the entertainment industry in 1951, initially as a stage manager for the TV series Philco Playhouse, and, following two years of service with the United States Air Force, serving from 1952 to 1954, during the Korean War, making instructional films in Los Angeles, and later becoming an associate director. Among the TV shows he contributed to during this period include ''The Jerry Lewis Show'' and '' The Bob Hope Specials'', where he later shared a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for in 1961. By the late 1950s, Shea had become instrumental in forming the Radio and Television Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
