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The Montefuscos
''The Montefuscos'' is an American sitcom that was cancelled after three episodes were broadcast in 1975. It aired on Thursday nights at 8:00–8:30 pm ( ET) on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), which chose to run a total of eight episodes (a ninth was pre-empted by Game 5 of the 1975 World Series) from September 4 to October 23, 1975 despite its earlier cancellation notice. Created by executive producers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, the comedy centered on three generations of an Italian-American family that lived in New Canaan, Connecticut and their weekly gatherings for Sunday dinner. It led off a Thursday primetime schedule that also featured new programs ''Fay'', ''Ellery Queen'' and ''Medical Story''. Cast * Joseph Sirola as Tony "Papa" Montefusco, patriarch of the family. * Naomi Stevens as Rose "Mama" Montefusco, Tony's wife. * Ron Carey as Frank Montefusco, the oldest son and a dentist. * Phoebe Dorin as Theresa Montefusco, Frank's wife. * John Aprea as Joseph "Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Persky
Bill Persky (born September 9, 1931) is an American television director, screenwriter, and producer. Biography Persky was born to a Jewish family, the son of an estate auctioneer. His father would travel between various resort towns where the wealthy lived to conduct estate auctions. He has one older sister, Bunny Persky Grossinger, and attended Ramble Elementary School in Hot Springs, Arkansas. During the summers, he worked as a lifeguard in the Borscht Belt in the Catskill Mountains. He attended Syracuse University, where he studied advertising, and after school went to work for an advertising agency in New York City. He then took a job at WNEW where he met Sam Denoff where they wrote jokes for the DJs out of fun which soon morphed into part of their job tasks. The writing team moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s, taking a job to write for ''The Steve Allen Show''. Persky and Denoff wrote some of the most popular episodes of ''The Dick Van Dyke Show''. They later wrote and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Time
Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season's nightly programming. The term ''prime time'' is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example (in the United States), from 8:00p.m. to 11:00p.m. (Eastern and Pacific Time) or 7:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. (Central and Mountain Time). In India and some Middle Eastern countries, prime time consists of the programmes that are aired on TV between 8:00p.m. and 10:00p.m. local time. Asia Bangladesh In Bangladesh, the 19:00-to-22:00 time slot is known as Prime Time. Several national broadcasters like Maasranga Television, Gazi TV, Channel 9, Channel i broadcast their prime-time shows from 20:00 to 23:00 after their Primetime news at 19:00. During Islamic Holidays Season, most of the TV Stations broadcast their esp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Product Testing
File:Consumer Reports - product testing - electric light longevity and brightness testing.tif, Testing electric light longevity and brightness testing File:Consumer Reports - product testing - television testing laboratory.tif, Television testing laboratory File:Consumer Reports - product testing - headphones in anechoic chamber.tif, Product testing headphones in an anechoic chamber Product testing, also called consumer testing or comparative testing, is a process of measuring the properties or performance of products. The theory is that since the advent of mass production, manufacturers produce branded products which they assert and advertise to be identical within some technical standard. Product testing seeks to ensure that consumers can understand what products will do for them and which products are the best value. Product testing is a strategy to increase consumer protection by checking the claims made during marketing strategies such as advertising, which by their nature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position. As of 2022, the Episcopal Church had 1,678,157 members, of whom the majority were in the United States. it was the nation's 14th largest denomination. Note: The number of members given here is the total number of baptized members in 2012 (cf. Baptized Members by Province and Diocese 2002–2013). Pew Research estimated that 1.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, or 3 million people, self-identify as mainline Episcopalians. The church has recorded a regular decline in membership and Sunday attendance since the 1960s, particularly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. The church was organized after the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cort
William Phelps Greer III (July 8, 1936 – September 23, 1993), credited as William Cort and Bill Cort, was an American actor. Cort appeared on several television shows. His most notable is ''Dusty's Trail'' from the early 1970s. He appeared on several other series including: ''Window on Main Street'', ''Combat!'', ''The F.B.I.'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''Family Ties'', ''Starsky & Hutch'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''The Ropers'', ''Lou Grant'', '' One Day at a Time'', ''The Practice'', ''Dynasty'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''Three's Company'', ''Hazel'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''The Bradys'', ''Empty Nest'', ''Dallas'', ''Three's a Crowd'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', and ''Growing Pains'', among many others. He appeared in '' Elvira: Mistress of the Dark'' and ''Heathers'' in 1988, and 1990's ''Ghost'', starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore Demi Gene Moore ( ; née Guynes; born November 11, 1962) is an American actress. After making her film debut in 1981, Moore appeared o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Dano
Linda Dano (born Linda Rae Wildermuth) is an American actress. She is well-known for her roles in daytime drama, in particular Rae Cummings on ''One Life to Live'' and Felicia Gallant on ''Another World (TV series), Another World''. Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award five times, winning once in 1993 for her work on ''Another World''. Dano also co-hosted the talk show ''Attitudes'' on Lifetime, and had a long-running clothing and home-furnishings line with QVC, first partnering with the home shopping channel in 1993 and ultimately working with them for over 20 years. Personal life Dano was born Linda Rae Wildermuth in Long Beach, California, to Evelyn (Delgado) and Ted Wildermuth. Dano was married to actor Frank Attardi for over 20 years until his death in 2004. She has two stepchildren, three stepgrandchildren, a niece, and a nephew. Career In the mid- to late 1970s, Dano appeared in such television police and detective dramas as Ironside (1967 TV series), ''Ironside'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal Viscuso
Sal Viscuso (born October 5, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. He is best known for the role of Father Timothy Flotsky in ''Soap'' (1977-1981). Acting career He is known for playing the character Father Timothy Flotsky on the television series ''Soap'', a Roman Catholic priest struggling with his vow of celibacy. He appeared in the movies ''Spaceballs'' and '' The Taking of Pelham One Two Three''. Viscuso appeared in four different roles on the sitcom ''Barney Miller''. He has appeared in '' Diagnosis: Murder'' alongside Dick Van Dyke. He also played several weeks of the game show ''Pyramid'' with Dick Clark from 1977 to 1981. Viscuso was one of two regular public address announcers in the series ''M*A*S*H''. The more commonly heard voice was that of actor Todd Susman. He played the recurring role of "Bobby Bigmouth" on the TV series, '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'' Education Viscuso is a graduate of Hiram W. Johnson High School in Sacrament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priesthood (Catholic Church)
The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms ''priest'' refers only to presbyters and pastors (parish priests). The church's doctrine also sometimes refers to all baptised (lay) members as the "common priesthood", which can be confused with the ministerial priesthood of the consecrated clergy. The church has different rules for priests in the Latin Church–the largest Catholic particular church–and in the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. Notably, priests in the Latin Church must take a vow of celibacy, whereas most Eastern Catholic Churches permit married men to be ordained. Deacons are male and usually belong to the diocesan clergy, but, unlike almost all Latin Church (Western Catholic) priests and all bishops from Eastern or Western Catholicism, they may marry as laymen before their ordination as cler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aprea
Jonathan "John" Aprea (born March 4, 1941) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as the young Sal Tessio in '' The Godfather: Part II'' (1974) and on television as Lucas Castigliano in '' Another World'' from 1989 to 1992. He played Lee in ''Tales from the Darkside'' Going Native (1988) series 4, episode 17. He also co-starred with Lee Horsley in ''Matt Houston'' during the 1980s, and appeared on the TV series ''Full House'' (1987–1995) and the spin-off series '' Fuller House'' (2016). He guest-starred on the HBO series ''The Sopranos'' (1999). Biography Aprea was born Jonathan Aprea in Englewood, New Jersey, on March 4, 1941.Coutros, Evonne"ENGLEWOOD NATIVE STRIKES OUT ON OWN" ''The Record (Bergen County)'', July 20, 1994. Accessed November 25, 2007. He has one daughter, Nicole Alexandra Aprea (born 1989). Filmography * 1968 ''Bullitt'' as Killer * 1970 '' The Grasshopper'' as The Ice Pack * 1970 '' The Dark Side of Tomorrow'' as Jim Jeffers * 1972 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dentist
A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry (the diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the mouth, oral cavity and other aspects of the craniofacial complex including the temporomandibular joint). The dentist's Dental auxiliary, supporting team aids in providing oral health services. The dental team includes dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental technicians, and sometimes dental therapists. History Middle Ages In China as well as France, the first people to perform dentistry were barbers. They have been categorized into 2 distinct groups: guild of barbers and lay barbers. The first group, the Guild of Barbers, was created to distinguish more educated and qualified dental surgeons from lay barbers. Guild barbers were trained to do complex surgeries. The second group, the lay barbers, were qualified to perform regular hygienic services such as shaving and tooth extraction as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Montefuscos Cast 1975
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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