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Tandem Productions
Tandem Productions, Inc. (a.k.a. Tandem Enterprises, Inc.) was a film and television production company that was founded in 1958 by television director Bud Yorkin and television writer/producer Norman Lear. History Tandem Productions In the early years, Yorkin and Lear initially established Tandem specifically for television production. The name was chosen because when launching their company, Yorkin and Lear were said to feel like two men riding uphill on a tandem bicycle. The company produced several variety and dramatic television specials such as the Fred Astaire specials, '' Henry Fonda and the Family'', '' An Evening with Carol Channing'' and ''The Scene '66'', to name a few. Tandem was also at hand for various unsold pilots throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including ''Henry T.'', ''Meet Me at Danny's'' and ''Barnaby'' (not to be confused with ''Barnaby Jones''). The company also financed the production of theatrical films, some of which were released by Warner Bros. Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American producer and screenwriter, who has produced, written, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear is known for many popular 1970s sitcoms, including the multi-award winning ''All in the Family'' as well as ''Maude (TV series), Maude'', ''Sanford and Son'', ''One Day at a Time (1975 TV series), One Day at a Time,'' ''The Jeffersons'', and ''Good Times''. Lear has continued to actively produce television, including the One Day at a Time (2017 TV series), 2017 remake of ''One Day at a Time'' and the Netflix revival of ''Good Times'' in 2022. Lear has received many awards, including five Emmy Awards, Emmys, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors. He is a member of the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Lear is also known for his political activism and funding of Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal and Progressivism in the United States, progressive causes and politicians. In 1980, he founded the advo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the Family'' had ended and ran for four more seasons through 1983. Based on the British sitcom ''Till Death Us Do Part'', ''All in the Family'' was produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. It starred Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner. The show revolves around the life of a working-class man and his family. The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for a US network television comedy, such as racism, antisemitism, infidelity, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, religion, miscarriages, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence. Through depicting these controversial issues, the series became arguably one of television's most influential comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria (American TV Series)
''Gloria'' is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of ''Archie Bunker's Place'' that aired Sundays at 8:30 p.m. (EST) on CBS from September 26, 1982, to April 10, 1983. The series stars Sally Struthers reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on ''All in the Family''. Synopsis The set-up of the show was that Gloria had been left with loose ends after her husband, Michael "Meathead" Stivic (who did not appear in the new series), left her for one of his students and moved to a nudist commune. Gloria, to be closer to her now-widowed father, decided to move with her young son, Joey (played by Christian Jacobs), and pick up the pieces of her life by returning to New York from California. However, Gloria, not wanting to raise Joey in the city, decides to take a job as an assistant to two veterinarians in the fictitious upstate town of Fox Ridge. The veterinarians were played by Burgess Meredith and Jo de Winter; the character played by M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford (TV Series)
''Sanford'' is an American sitcom television series and a sequel to the original 1972–1977 sitcom '' Sanford and Son''. It was broadcast on NBC from March 15, 1980 to July 10, 1981. Background In 1977, after six seasons of '' Sanford and Son'', Redd Foxx left the NBC show to star in a variety show for ABC. His new show, ''The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour'', was cancelled after just four months. Plot First season ''Sanford'' premiered in March 1980 as a midseason replacement. Demond Wilson refused to reprise his role as Fred's son, Lamont. His absence was explained by having Lamont away working on the Alaska pipeline. Fred's new business partner in the Los Angeles-based junkyard was Cal Pettie (Dennis Burkley), an overweight white Southerner, originally from Texas, with a generally optimistic attitude and jovial demeanor. Cal had worked with Lamont on the pipeline and Lamont sent him to visit his father. Cal moves into Lamont's old room. Rollo Lawson ( Nathaniel Taylor), a recurring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Bunker's Place
''Archie Bunker's Place'' is an American television sitcom produced as a continuation of ''All in the Family''. It aired on CBS from September 23, 1979, to April 4, 1983. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons. It performed so well during its first season that it displaced ''Mork & Mindy'' from its Sunday night time slot (a year earlier, during its first season, ''Mork & Mindy'' had been the No. 3 show on television). Background Although the Bunker home continued to be featured, the scenes were primarily set in the title's neighborhood tavern in Astoria, Queens, which Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) purchased in the series' eighth-season premiere of ''All in the Family''. During the first season as ''Archie Bunker's Place'', Bunker takes on a Jewish partner, Murray Klein (Martin Balsam), when co-owner Harry Snowden decides to sell his share of the business. Early in the first season, to increase business, Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diff'rent Strokes
''Diff'rent Strokes'' is an American television sitcom, which aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, respectively, two black boys from Harlem taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower, Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain), for whom their deceased mother previously worked, and his daughter, Kimberly (Dana Plato). During the first season and the first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred, as Mrs. Edna Garrett, the Drummonds' first housekeeper, who ultimately spun off into her own sitcom, '' The Facts of Life'', as a housemother at the fictional Eastland School. The second housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker, was played by Nedra Volz. The third housekeeper, Pearl Gallagher, was played by Mary Jo Catlett, first appearing as a recurring character, later becoming a main cast member. The series made stars of Coleman, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CPT) was launched on May 6, 1974, by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio. It is the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems (SG) and the third name of Pioneer Telefilms. For 26 years, the company was active from 1974 until New Year's Day 2001, when it was folded into Columbia TriStar Television (which is currently known as Sony Pictures Television), a merger between Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television. A separate entity of CPT continues to exist on paper as an intellectual property holder, and under the moniker CPT Holdings (the initials standing for Columbia Pictures Television) to hold the copyright for the TV show ''The Young and the Restless'', as well as old incarnations from the company's television library such as ''What's Happening!!'' History Screen Gems (1948–1974) Screen Gems was a television production company that was owned b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viacom Enterprises
Viacom Productions (formerly Viacom Enterprises) was a television production arm of Viacom International. The division was active from 1974 until 2004, when the company was folded into Paramount Network Television 10 years following Viacom's acquisition of Paramount Pictures, and led Perry Simon to move itself to Paramount for a production deal. History Viacom Enterprises was formed in 1971 as the successor of the pre-1968 CBS Films, later reincorporated as CBS Enterprises, Inc. in 1968. In 1973, it was spun-off because it was against the FCC regulations for a television network to distribute its programs under its own name. Subsequently, Viacom formed "Viacom Productions" to produce first-run television series airing on the major television networks. The first primetime television show to be produced by Viacom Productions for the ABC network was ''The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove''. The studio had development contracts with independent writers and producers. The studio made sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford And Son
''Sanford and Son'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977. It was based on the British sitcom ''Steptoe and Son'', which initially aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1974. Known for its edgy racial humor, running gags, and catchphrases, the series was adapted by Norman Lear and considered NBC's answer to CBS's ''All in the Family''. ''Sanford and Son'' has been hailed as the precursor to many other African-American sitcoms. It was a rating hit throughout its six-season run, finishing in the Nielsen top ten for five of those seasons. While the role of Fred G. Sanford was known for his bigotry and cantankerousness, the role of Lamont Sanford was that of Fred's long-suffering, conscientious, peacemaker son. At times, both characters involved themselves in schemes, usually as a means of earning cash quickly to pay off their various debts. Other colorful and unconventional chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Times
''Good Times'' is an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS, from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. ''Good Times'' is a spin-off of '' Maude,'' which itself is a spin-off of ''All in the Family'', making ''Good Times'' the first television spin-off from another spin-off. In September 2020, it was announced that the series would receive an animated sitcom revival produced with Norman Lear executive producing alongside Seth MacFarlane and Steph Curry for Netflix. Synopsis Florida and James (renamed from Henry) Evans and their three children live at 921 North Gilbert Avenue, apartment 17C, in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes, shown in the opening and closing credits. Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maude (TV Series)
''Maude'' is an American sitcom television series that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972, until April 22, 1978. ''Maude'' stars Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, New York with her fourth husband, household appliance store owner Walter Findlay (Bill Macy). Maude embraces the tenets of women's liberation, always votes for Democratic Party candidates, and advocates for civil rights and racial and gender equality. However, her overbearing and sometimes domineering personality often gets her into trouble when speaking about these issues. The show was the first spin-off of ''All in the Family'', on which Arthur had made two appearances as Maude, Edith Bunker's favorite cousin. Like ''All in the Family'', ''Maude'' was a sitcom with topical storylines created by producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. Unusual for an American sitcom, several episodes (such as "Maude's Night Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Those Were The Days (TV Pilot)
This is a listing of all of the episodes of the television sitcom ''All in the Family'', which originally aired on CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ... from 1971 to 1979. Series overview Episodes Pilot episodes Season 1 (1971) Season 2 (1971–72) Season 3 (1972–73) Season 4 (1973–74) Season 5 (1974–75) Season 6 (1975–76) Season 7 (1976–77) Season 8 (1977–78) Season 9 (1978–79) Single episode Emmy award notes See also * List of ''Archie Bunker's Place'' episodes References {{DEFAULTSORT:All in the Family episodes, List of *List Lists of American sitcom episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
