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List Of The Odd Couple (1970 TV Series) Episodes
''The Odd Couple'' is a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to March 7, 1975 on ABC. It starred Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison and Tony Randall as Felix Unger. The following is a list of episodes. Series overview All five seasons of this show have been released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment/ CBS DVD. at TVShowsOnDVD.com
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The Odd Couple (1970 TV Series)
''The Odd Couple'' (titled onscreen ''Neil Simon's The Odd Couple'') is an American sitcom television series broadcast from September 24, 1970 to March 7, 1975 on ABC. The show, which stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, was the first of several sitcoms developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television. The series is based on the 1965 play ''The Odd Couple'' written by Neil Simon, which was also adapted into the 1968 film ''The Odd Couple''. The story examines two divorced men, Oscar and Felix, who share a Manhattan apartment and whose opposite personalities inevitably lead to conflict and laughter. In 1997, the episodes "Password" and "The Fat Farm" were ranked No. 5 and No. 58, respectively, on ''TV Guide''s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. The show received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. History The success of the 1968 film version of the stage play of ''The Odd Couple'', which starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Ghostley
Alice Margaret Ghostley (August 14, 1923 – September 21, 2007) was a Tony Award-winning American actress and singer on stage, film and television. She was best known for her roles as bumbling witch Esmeralda (1969–70; 1972) on '' Bewitched'', as Cousin Alice (1970–71) on ''Mayberry R.F.D.'', and as Bernice Clifton (1986–93) on ''Designing Women'', for which she received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1992. She was a regular on ''Nichols'' (1971–72) and ''The Julie Andrews Hour'' (1972–73). Early life Ghostley was born in Eve, Missouri, in 1923 to Edna Muriel (née Rooney) and Harry Francis Ghostley, who worked as a telegraph operator. She grew up in Henryetta, Oklahoma. She attended the University of Oklahoma, but dropped out to pursue a career in theater. Career Stage Ghostley first came to Broadway in Leonard Sillman's ''New Faces of 1952'' and in the film version released in 1954. She appeared in the 1960 revue ''A Thurb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Gerritsen
Lisa Gerritsen (born Lisa Orszag, December 21, 1957) is an American former child actress. She is most famous for her role as Bess, the independent-minded daughter of Phyllis Lindstrom on the 1970s television series ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and its spin-off ''Phyllis.'' Early life Lisa Gerritsen was born Lisa Orszag in Los Angeles and is the granddaughter of child actor and screenwriter True Eames Boardman, and the great-granddaughter of silent film actors True Boardman and Virginia True Boardman. Her acting career began when she was eight years old. Encouraged by her mother and grandfather, she landed her first professional role in an episode of ''The Doris Day Show'' in 1968. Career After ''The Doris Day Show'', Gerritsen had guest-star or cameo appearances in several television shows including '' The Odd Couple,'' '' Bonanza'', ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father'', '' The Virginian'' and ''Family Affair''. She was also cast in several episodes of '' Gunsmoke'', one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Shyer
Charles Richard Shyer (born October 11, 1941) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Shyer's films are predominantly comedies, often with a romantic-comedy overtone. His films include '' Private Benjamin'' (1980), ''Irreconcilable Differences'' (1984), ''Baby Boom'' (1987), ''Father of the Bride'' (1991), and ''Father of the Bride Part II'' (1995), '' The Parent Trap'' (1998), ''The Affair of the Necklace'' (''L'Affaire du Collier'') (2001), ''Alfie'' (2004), and ''Ieri, Oggi Domani (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)'' (2012). Early life Shyer was born in Los Angeles, the son of Lois (née Jones) Delaney and Melville Shyer, a production executive and film director. Shyer grew up in the film industry where his father worked with D.W. Griffith and was one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America. After attending UCLA, he was accepted into the DGA's apprenticeship program, which led to work as an assistant director. However, Shyer's focus was soon diverted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Constantine
Michael Constantine (born Gus Efstratiou (Ευστρατίου); May 22, 1927 – August 31, 2021) was an American actor. He is most widely recognized for his portrayal of Kostas "Gus" Portokalos, the Windex bottle-toting Greek father of Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), in the film ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' (2002). Earlier, he earned acclaim for his television work, especially as the long-suffering high school principal, Seymour Kaufman, on ABC's comedy-drama, ''Room 222,'' for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1970; he was again recognized by the Emmy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe Awards, the following year. After the conclusion of ''Room 222'', Constantine portrayed night court magistrate Matthew J. Sirota on the 1976 sitcom ''Sirota's Court'', receiving his second Golden Globe nomination. Constantine reprised his role as Gus Portokalos in ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2'' (2016). Early life Constantine was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Rafkin
Alan Rafkin (born Alfred Irwin Rafkin; July 23, 1928 – August 6, 2001) was an American television director, director, television producer, producer, and actor for television. Biography Rafkin was born in New York City to Til and Victor Rafin. He attended Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey and Syracuse University in New York. Alan Rafkin was one of the most prolific sitcom directors of all time, helming such series as ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''It's Garry Shandling's Show,'' ''Murphy Brown'', ''Get Smart'', ''Coach (TV series), Coach'', ''The Tim Conway Show (1970 TV series), The Tim Conway Show'', ''Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers'', and ''Viva Valdez''. According to his autobiography ''Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow'' (its title is taken from a direction on ''Captain Kangaroo''), Rafkin directed episodes of over 80 different sitcom series. He won an Emmy Award, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dub Taylor
Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994),Dub Taylor, 87, Actor in Westerns, The New York Times, October 5, 1994, Section B, Page 12 was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He is the father of actor and painter Buck Taylor. Early life Taylor was born February 26, 1907, in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of five children of Minnie and Walter C. Taylor, Sr."The Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920" enumeration date January 15, 1920, Augusta City, Richmond County, Georgia. Digital copy of original census page, |
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] |
Cynthia Lynn
Cynthia Lynn (born Zinta Valda Ziemelis; April 2, 1937 – March 10, 2014) was a Latvian-American actress. Early life Lynn was born in Riga, Latvia, as Zinta Valda Ziemelis. At age eight, she and her mother, Alisa, fled the country prior to the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 during World War II, eventually arriving in the United States in 1950. Career Lynn portrayed "Fräulein Helga", Colonel Klink's original secretary in '' Hogan's Heroes'' during the first season (1965–1966). The role was played by Sigrid Valdis as "Hilda" in the next five seasons. Lynn returned to the series in the 1968 and 1971 episodes "Will the Blue Baron Strike Again" and "Easy Come, Easy Go", respectively. Her last acting role was in 1975 in an episode of ''Harry O''. She also appeared in such television series as ''Gidget Grows Up'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''The Odd Couple'', ''Love American Style'', and ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. Lynn wrote an autobiography, ''Escape to Freedom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Idelson
Bill Idelson (August 21, 1919 – December 31, 2007) was an actor, writer, director and producer widely known for his teenage role as Rush Gook on the radio comedy ''Vic and Sade'' and his recurring television role as Herman Glimscher on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' in the 1960s. Background Idelson was born in Forest Park, Illinois, his parents were Russian immigrants. He joined the U.S. Navy in World War II and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals as a night fighter pilot. He later married actress Seemah Wilder with whom he had three sons, Paul, Howie and Jonathan as well as a daughter, TV writer and actress Ellen Idelson, who died in 2003. Idelson died in 2007 from complications due to a hip injury. On his death, writer-director Norman Corwin told the ''Los Angeles Times'' Idelson was "a luminary, he stood out among the radio comedians." Creator of ''The'' ''Dick Van Dyke Show'' Carl Reiner, said Idelson was "a very subtle actor. He made no big moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Christmas Carol
''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ''A Christmas Carol'' recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote ''A Christmas Carol'' during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, and newer customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella, and was inspired following a visit to the Field Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Friedman (producer)
Ronald I. Friedman (born August 1, 1932) is an American television and film producer and writer most known for his work on such animated television shows as ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1985 TV series), G.I. Joe'', ''The Transformers (TV series), The Transformers'' and the ''The Marvel Action Hour, Marvel Action Hour''. He has also written for shows including ''Iron Man (TV series), Iron Man'' and ''Fantastic Four (1994 TV series), Fantastic Four'' as well as the animated film ''The Transformers: The Movie''. Early life and education Friedman attended Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture. Career Friedman has written over 700 hours of episodes for many TV series, such as ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''The Good Guys (1968 TV series), The Good Guys'', ''Bewitched'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''All in the Family'', ''The Odd Couple (1970 TV series), The Odd Couple'', ''Happy Days'' and ''That's My Mama''. In animation, Friedman create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
