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Pleasure Cove
''Pleasure Cove'' is a 1979 television film directed by Bruce Bilson and starring singer Tom Jones in his acting debut alongside Constance Forslund, Melody Anderson, Jerry Lacy, David Hasselhoff and Tanya Roberts. The film was intended to be a pilot for a potential television series to cash in on the popularity of series like ''Fantasy Island'' and ''Love Boat'' but was not picked up. It aired on NBC on January 3, 1979. Plot The movie follows the lives of staff and guests in a holiday island resort named Pleasure Cove. Raymond Gordon is the leading protagonist ( Tom Jones) playing a suave conman hiding in disguise at the resort run by manager Kim Parker ( Constance Forslund) with whom he falls in love. Cast * Tom Jones as Raymond Gordon * Constance Forslund as Kim Parker *Melody Anderson as Julie *Jerry Lacy as Chip Garvery *Joan Hackett as Martha Harrison *Harry Guardino as Bert Harrison * Shelly Fabares as Helen *David Hasselhoff as Scott *Tanya Roberts as Sally * Barbara Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Shaw
Lou Shaw (c. 1925 – February 11, 2015) was an American producer and screenwriter. He was known for co-creating the medical drama ''Quincy, M.E.'' with Glen A. Larson. Biography Shaw worked as a writer and producer on multiple television programs from the late 1950s into the mid-1980s. He won an Edgar Award, shared with Tony Lawrence, for the ''Quincy, M.E.'' episode "The Thighbone Is Connected To The Knee Bone". Shaw wrote the play ''Worse Than Murder'' about the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He had a daughter affected with Down syndrome, wrote a novel featuring a man with Down syndrome titled ''Honor Thy Son'' in 1994, and often included people with disabilities in storylines and casting. Shaw was married for a time to Peggy O'Shea, a screenwriter for soap operas, with whom he had a son, Chris, born circa 1953. Television credits *'' 12 O'Clock High'' *''Barnaby Jones'' *''Beyond Westworld'' *''Columbo'' *''The Donna Reed Show'' *''The Fall Guy'' *''Half Nelson'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. A successful pilot may be used as the series premiere, the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot. On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or special. A "backdoor pilot" is an episode of an existing series that heavily features supporting characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Television Films
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American Television Films
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The Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a proven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Masak
Ronald Alan Masak (July 1, 1936 – October 20, 2022) was an American actor. He began working as a stage performer, and mostly was involved in theater until transitioning to film and television becoming a familiar character actor. From 1988 to 1996, Masak played the recurring role Sheriff Mort Metzger in the CBS mystery series ''Murder, She Wrote'' starring Angela Lansbury, who predeceased him by only 9 days. Masak's early television appears includes roles on ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Get Smart'', ''The Monkees'', ''I Dream of Jeannie'', ''Bewitched'', and ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. From 1970 to 1973 he appeared in the ABC anthology comedy series ''Love, American Style''. He then starred in another ABC series, ''Love Thy Neighbor'' (1973). He then earned roles in the NBC crime series '' Police Story'' (1975-1978), and in the ABC sitcom ''Webster'' (1983-1989). From 1988 to 1996, Masak portrayed the recurring role of Sheriff Mort Metzger of Cabot Cove in ''Murder, She Wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelly Fabares
Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (; born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her television roles as Mary Stone on the sitcom ''The Donna Reed Show'' (1958–1963) and as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom ''Coach'' (1989–97), the latter of which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. In 1962, her recording of "Johnny Angel" reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. Biography Early life Fabares was born in Santa Monica, California on January 19, 1944. She is the niece of actress Nanette Fabray (née Fabares). She graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1961. Her father was James Alan Fabares, who was born in Algiers, New Orleans on 2 August 1909, and died in Los Angeles on 10 December 1977, and her mother was Elsa R. Eyler, who died from Alzheimer's disease in 1992. She has an older sister Nanette ("Smokey").(Source: Ancestry.com) Early TV appearances Fabares's acting debut was at the age of 3. At the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Guardino
Harry Guardino (December 23, 1925 – July 17, 1995) was an American actor whose career spanned from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. Biography Guardino was born to an Italian family on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He joined a Police Athletic League dramatic group while attending high school.Harry Guardino Dies. ''''. Retrieved July 24, 2021. After graduation, Guardino joined the Navy, serving in . After the war, he became a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Hackett
Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. She starred in the 1967 western ''Will Penny''. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1981 film '' Only When I Laugh''. She also starred as Christine Mannon in the 1978 PBS miniseries version of ''Mourning Becomes Electra''. Early life She was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the daughter of John and Mary (née Esposito) Hackett, and grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, where she became a model and dropped out during her final year of high school. She had a sister, Theresa, and a brother, John. Her mother was from Naples, Italy, and her father had Irish ancestry, and they raised her Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools. Acting career Hackett debuted in 1959 with the role of Gail Prentiss in the television series, ''Young Doctor Malone''. In 1961, she wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Boat
''The Love Boat'' is an American romantic comedy/drama television series that aired on ABC from 1977 to 1986; in addition, four three-hour specials aired in 1986, 1987, and 1990. The series was set on the luxury passenger cruise ship MS ''Pacific Princess'', and revolved around the ship's captain Merrill Stubing (played by Gavin MacLeod) and a handful of his crew, with passengers played by guest actors for each episode, having romantic and humorous adventures. The ship's regular ports of call were Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and Mazatlán. The series was part of ABC's popular Saturday-night lineup of the time, which also included ''Fantasy Island'' until 1984. The original 1976 made-for-TV movie on which the show was based (also titled ''The Love Boat'' was itself based on the nonfiction book ''The Love Boats'' by Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director for a passenger cruise-ship line. Saunders was also partly inspired by the German cruise ship MV ''Aurora''. The TV mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Island
''Fantasy Island'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by Gene Levitt. It aired on ABC from 1977 to 1984. The series starred Ricardo Montalbán as the mysterious Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant, Tattoo. Guests were granted so-called "fantasies" on the island for a price. A one-season revival of the series aired 14 years later in 1998 while a horror-themed prequel film was released on February 14, 2020. That same year, it was announced that a reboot of the series was being produced at Fox; it premiered on August 10, 2021. Background Before it became a television series, ''Fantasy Island'' was introduced to viewers in 1977 and 1978 through two made-for-television films. Airing from 1978 to 1984, the original series starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke, the enigmatic overseer of a mysterious island somewhere near Devil's Island, French Guiana in the Atlantic Ocean, where people from all walks of life could come and live out their fant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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