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This is a list of episodes in the ABC television series ''Benson''. Series overview Broadcast history Episodes Season 1 (1979–80) Season 2 (1980–81) Season 3 (1981–82) Season 4 (1982–83) Season 5 (1983–84) Season 6 (1984–85) Season 7 (1985–86) References External links * * {{epguides, Benson, Benson Benson Benson may refer to: Animals *Benson (fish), largest common carp caught in Britain Places Geography Canada *Rural Municipality of Benson No. 35, Saskatchewan; rural municipality *Benson, Saskatchewan; hamlet United Kingdom * Benson, Oxfordshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Wylie
Margaret Gillespie Wyllie (February 15, 1917 – January 1, 2002) was an American actress who appeared primarily on television. Best known as Mrs. Kissel in ''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'' (1963-1964). Early years Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, she grew up in the Philippines, where her father worked as an engineer in sugar plantations on Negros Island near Bacolod. She attended the Brent School in Baguio for grammar school and high school then moved to New York City in the 1940s. Stage Wyllie acted with the Pasadena Playhouse, in ''Visit to a Small Planet'' (1958), ''Two on an Island'' (1940) and ''All the Comforts of Home'' (1941). She had previously appeared in ''Dear Brutus'' and ''Morning Glory'' there. Wyllie was in the original production of ''The Glass Menagerie''. On Broadway, she performed in Norman Ginsbury's historic play '' The First Gentleman''. Television Wyllie "appeared on nearly every popular TV series of the late 1950s and much of the 1960s." In 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeno Peluce
Miro Fiore "Meeno" Peluce (born February 26, 1970) is a Dutch-born American photographer and actor. Life and career Peluce was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Sondra Londy, a Jewish-American personal manager and caterer, and Floyd Peluce, a certified public accountant. He has one half-sister, actress Soleil Moon Frye, whose father was actor Virgil Frye. Peluce made guest appearances on television shows during the 1970s and early 1980s, including '' Starsky & Hutch'', ''Kojak'', ''Benson'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Diff'rent Strokes'', ''The Incredible Hulk'', ''Happy Days'', ''The A-Team'', ''Silver Spoons'', ''Manimal'', ''Remington Steele'', ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'', and on ''Punky Brewster'' with his half-sister (who played the titular character). Among his regular television roles were Tanner Boyle in ''The Bad News Bears'', Daniel Best in ''Best of the West'', and as history prodigy Jeffrey Jones in ''Voyagers!''. He appeared in the pilot episode of the ''M*A*S* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Barkan
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Markowitz
Mitch Markowitz is an American screenwriter best known for writing the film ''Good Morning, Vietnam''. He also wrote the movie ''Crazy People''. His television credits include ''M*A*S*H'', '' Van Dyke and Company'', ''Best of the West'', '' Report To Murphy'', '' What's Happening?'', '' Buffalo Bill'', ''Monk'', and ''Too Close For Comfort ''Too Close for Comfort'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from November 11, 1980, to May 5, 1983, and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984, to February 7, 1987. Its name was changed to ''The Ted Knight Show'' w ...'', among others. External links * Living people American male screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-screen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Brooks
Joel Brooks (born December 17, 1949) is an American actor, known for his roles in '' Stir Crazy'', ''My Sister Sam'', '' Six Feet Under'', ''The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green'' and ''Phil of the Future''. Brooks also had a recurring role as a psychologist in '' Ally McBeal''. Brooks was born in New York City, New York. Brooks had a successful career as a character actor in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976, he won $10,000 on ''Pyramid''; his celebrity partner was Lucie Arnaz. Twelve years later, in 1988, Arnaz and Brooks were both featured as the week's celebrities. Brooks appeared in an episode of ''M*A*S*H'' as a wounded Italian soldier who fell in love with Margaret and refused to be shipped back to his unit because of his undying love for her. He appeared as a movie director in ''The Dukes Of Hazzard'' seventh-season episode "The Dukes in Hollywood". He appeared in an episode in the second season of ''Night Court'' as a representative of a cat food and accessories c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ruprecht
David Martin Ruprecht (born October 14, 1948) is an American television actor and game show host, primarily known for his work as host of the Lifetime/PAX game show ''Supermarket Sweep''. Career Ruprecht has hosted the live stage show version of ''The Price Is Right'' at casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Mississippi and Connecticut. He has also hosted ''Family Feud Live''. He currently is one of the hosts of ''The Price Is Right Live'' Stage Show at Bally's Las Vegas. Ruprecht began acting in television commercials in the late 1970s. Ruprecht guest-starred on more than 50 television shows, like ''Three's Company'', on which his character married Joyce DeWitt in the series finale, HBO's ''True Blood'', and the 1981 TV-movie ''The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island'' as Thurston Howell IV, the son of Thurston Howell III. From 1990 to 1992, he played Dan Ryan on the NBC soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''. He co-starred in the Broadway and Showtime (TV network), Showtim ... [...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] |
Denise Nicholas
Denise Donna Nicholas (born July 12, 1944) is an American actress, author, and social activist. Nicholas is known primarily for her roles as high-school guidance counselor Liz McIntyre on the ABC comedy-drama series ''Room 222'' and Councilwoman Harriet DeLong on the NBC/CBS drama series '' In the Heat of the Night''. Prior to her acting career, Nicholas was involved in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. Biography Early life and education Nicholas was born in Detroit to Louise and Otto Nicholas. Nicholas spent her early years in Detroit. With the remarriage of her mother to Robert Burgen, she moved to Milan, Michigan, a small town south of Ann Arbor. At the age of 16, Nicholas appeared on the August 25, 1960, cover of ''Jet'' magazine as a future school teacher prospect at the National High School Institute at Northwestern University. She graduated from Milan High School in 1961. Nicholas is the middle child of three, with an older brother, Otto, and a younger sister, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roscoe Lee Browne
Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director. He resisted playing stereotypically black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series ''That Was the Week That Was'', and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film. He is perhaps best known for his role as Saunders in ''Soap'' (1979–1981). In 1976, Browne was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series for his work on ABC's ''Barney Miller''. In 1986, he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for his work on NBC's ''The Cosby Show''.Roscoe Lee Browne. Awards and Nominations Televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowab
John Bowab (born October 22, 1933) is an American director and producer of television and theatre. Career Bowab began his career in theatre, directing a number of stage productions, such as ''Mame (musical), Mame'' (1983), ''The Night of the Hunter (novel)#Screen and stage adaptations, The Night of the Hunter'' (2003), and most recently ''70, Girls, 70'' (2010). by Lee Melville, September 20, 2010 of ''LA Stage Times''.com In the late 1970s, he moved on to television, amassing a number of directing credits. Some of these include ''The Cosby Show'', ''Benson (TV series), Benson'', ''Bosom Buddies'', ''Gimme a Break!'', ''Small Wonder (TV series), Small Wonder'', ''It's a Living (1980 TV series), Making a Living'', ''Ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Mordente
Tony Mordente (born December 3, 1935) is an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and television director. Career Born in New York City, Mordente attended the High School of Performing Arts and made his professional dance debut at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. Soon after he joined the ballet company at Radio City Music Hall, where he was discovered by Michael Kidd, who cast him in the 1956 Broadway musical adaptation of the Al Capp comic strip ''Li'l Abner''. Mordente was then featured in the Broadway (1957) and West End productions and film version of ''West Side Story'', during which time he met his future wife Chita Rivera, who played Anita in the original Broadway cast. In the stage version Mordente played A-Rab, and in the film he played Action. "He wanted to play his original role in the movie and was very disappointed to be Action and I asked why they switched his role," Seth Rudetsky wrote in Playbill. "He said he never asked because sometimes yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
