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The Second Hundred Years (TV Series)
''The Second Hundred Years'' is an American sitcom by Screen Gems starring Monte Markham, Arthur O'Connell, and Frank Maxwell, which aired on the ABC television network for one season from September 6, 1967 to March 28, 1968 (repeats were shown through September 1968). Synopsis ''The Second Hundred Years'' was what was called a " high-concept" show—one which was based on circumstances which were extremely unlikely to occur in real life. The concept here was that one Lucius "Luke" Carpenter ( Monte Markham) had left for Alaska in 1900 as part of a gold rush, but soon after his arrival was buried in a glacial avalanche. His burial was evidently so complete and so rapid that he survived in a state of suspended animation for 67 years. He was then thawed out and soon brought to the home of his now-elderly son, Edwin ( Arthur O'Connell), a land developer in Woodland Oaks, California. In the pilot episode, a heavily bandaged Luke awakens in Edwin's house and thinks Edwin is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lees
Robert Lees (July 10, 1912 – June 13, 2004) was an American television and film screenwriter. Lees was best known for writing comedy, including several Abbott and Costello films. Life and career Born in San Francisco, California, Lees graduated from Lowell High School in 1929. He started in show business as a dancer before becoming a writer for MGM Studios, where he was paired with writer Frederic Rinaldo. Their first screenplay was for the 1936 short film, ''The Perfect Set-Up''. The short film was the first in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. The series, which was produced by MGM in the 1930s and 1940s, were based on real life crime cases. Lees and Rinaldo continued to work on comedy shorts including, ''A Night At The Movies'', starring Robert Benchley, and ''Penny Wisdom''. The duo also worked on the 1937 films, ''Decathlon Champions'' and ''Candid Cameramaniacs'' from the Pete Smith Specialty series. In 1939, Lees and Rinaldo were nominated for an Academy Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the population of the city proper at 32,515, and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 95,655 making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska after Anchorage. The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States, located by road ( by air) south of the Arctic Circle. Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system. History Native American presence Athabascan peoples have used the area for thousands of years, although there is no known permanent Alaska Native settlement at the site of Fairbanks. An archaeological site excavated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s American Sitcoms
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s American Comic Science Fiction Television Series
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company Original Programming
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Mayberry
Russell B. Mayberry (December 22, 1925 – July 27, 2012) was an American television director. Early life and career Mayberry was born on December 22, 1925, in Duluth, Minnesota. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, after serving as a Navy aviator during World War II. He was educated at Northwestern University. Throughout a career that started in 1947, Mayberry amassed a number of credits in television. His credits include ''The Monkees'', ''Bewitched'', ''I Dream of Jeannie'', ''That Girl'', ''The Brady Bunch'', ''The Partridge Family'', ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Alias Smith and Jones'', '' McCloud'', ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Kojak'', ''The Fall Guy'', '' Baa Baa Black Sheep'', ''Miami Vice'', ''Dallas'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' , '' In the Heat of the Night'', '' Matlock'', '' The Rebels'' and other series. Later career He directed '' Unidentified Flying Oddball'' (1979) starring Dennis Dugan for Walt Disney Productions. He also direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Guzmán
Claudio Guzmán (August 2, 1927 – July 12, 2008) was a Chilean-American television director, producer, art director, and production designer. Biography Guzmán was born in Rancagua, Chile in 1927. As a young man, Guzmán enrolled at the University of Chile to study architecture, following in the footsteps of his architect father. In 1947, Guzmán had been appointed set designer for the Chilean National Ballet, the youngest ever up to that date. Sources conflict as to when Guzmán immigrated to the United States, but by 1952 he had begun to establish himself as a set designer in Southern California. Guzmán had also enrolled at the University of Southern California in order to continue his architectural studies. His lack of fluency in English deterred him from continuing, choosing instead to work at an assembly line in Anaheim. Guzmán later quit that job in order to study design, eventually being hired by Paramount Studios, where he became an art director. It was there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Kahn
Bernard M. Kahn (April 26, 1930 – April 21, 2021) was an American screenwriter. Education He received bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from the University of Michigan. At the 1953 Maccabiah Games in Israel, in swimming he won a gold medal in the 100 m backstroke. Screenwriting career He wrote for the sitcoms '' The Second Hundred Years'', ''My Favorite Martian'', and '' Bewitched,'' among others. Kahn also co-wrote the 1971 Disney television movie '' The Barefoot Executive'' with Joseph McEveety, Lila Garrett and Stu Billett, and wrote the screenplay for the 1985 comedy film ''Basic Training.'' In 1972, his play ''Our Very Own Hole in the Ground'' was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village, Manhattan, directed by Henry Hewes.La MaMa Archives Digital Collections"Production: ''Our Very Own Hole in the Ground'' (1972)". Accessed May 9, 2018./ref> Kahn received the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lila Garrett
Lila Garrett (November 21, 1925 – February 1, 2020) was an American television screenwriter and radio host who wrote for the sitcoms ''The Second Hundred Years (TV series), The Second Hundred Years'' (co-wrote episodes 10 and 13 with Bernie Kahn), ''My Favorite Martian'', ''All in the Family'', and ''Bewitched''. She co-wrote with Bernie Kahn and Stu Billett the 1971 Walt Disney Pictures, Disney TV movie ''The Barefoot Executive''. An anti-war activist, Garrett's political engagement includes founding Americans Against War with Iraq, serving as a DNC delegate for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis 1988 presidential campaign, Michael Dukakis, presiding as President over the Southern California chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action and becoming a founding member of Progressive Democrats of America. She hosted KPFK's ''Connect the Dots'' on Pacifica Radio, interviewing left-leaning luminaries and often closing her show with "The arms industry has neither allies nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Dick
Douglas Harvey Dick (November 20, 1920 – December 19, 2015) was an American actor and occasional screenwriter. His most famous role came in the 1948 film ''Rope''. In 1971, Dick left the entertainment industry to work as a psychologist. Early years Dick was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and raised in Versailles, Kentucky. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gamble C. Dick, and he had a brother, Gamble C. Dick Jr. He attended the University of Arizona and the University of Kentucky. Before he began working in films, Dick appeared in several shows in New York and was a model for the Conover agency. One issue of '' Look'' magazine featured his picture on the cover. Military service Dick did patrol duty with the United States Coast Guard and served as an aviator in the United States Navy, receiving a medical discharge from the latter. Film Dick's film debut was in ''The Searching Wind'' (1946). Producer Hal B. Wallis met Dick in a Broadway agent's office as Dick was waiting for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jud Taylor
Judson Taylor (February 25, 1932August 6, 2008) was an American actor, television director, and television producer. Early years Born in New York City, Taylor graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Career Taylor is perhaps best known for his directorial work on 1960s television shows such as ''Star Trek'', '' Dr. Kildare'', and ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''. In the early 2000s, he directed several episodes of '' Law and Order: Special Victims Unit''. Taylor also directed more than 40 made-for-TV movies, including the award-winning ''Tail Gunner Joe'' and ''Foxfire'', and the final film appearances of both Susan Hayward in ''Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole'' (1972)) and David Janssen in '' City in Fear'' (1980)). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, before becoming an established director, Taylor worked as an actor. He had a recurring role on '' Dr. Kildare'' as "Dr. Gerson". He appeared in several episodes of '' The Fugitive'' and '' Twelve O'Clock High'' playing differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batman (TV Series)
''Batman'' is an American live action television series, based on the DC Comics character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson / Robin – two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City from a variety of archvillains. It is known for its camp style, upbeat theme music, and its intentionally humorous, simplistic morality (aimed at its largely teenage audience). This included championing the importance of using seat belts, doing homework, eating vegetables, and drinking milk. It was described by executive producer William Dozier as the only situation comedy on the air without a laugh track. The 120 episodes aired on the ABC network for three seasons from January 12, 1966, to March 14, 1968, twice weekly during the first two seasons, and weekly for the third. In 2016, television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked ''Batman'' as the 82nd greatest American television show of all time. A companion feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
