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Together We Stand
''Together We Stand'', also known as ''Nothing Is Easy'', is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS network from 1986 to 1987. It was written by Stephen Sustarsic and directed by Andrew D. Weyman. ''Together We Stand'' is about a married couple, David (Elliott Gould) and Lori Randall (Dee Wallace), and their array of adopted children from all walks of life. According to producer Sherwood Schwartz, the plot for this show was originally written as a spin-off of ''The Brady Bunch'' called ''Kelly's Kids''. In the January 4, 1974, episode of ''The Brady Bunch'', also titled " Kelly's Kids" (season 5, episode 14), which served as a backdoor pilot, the Bradys' neighbors plan to adopt one child but end up adopting three boys of different ethnicities. Summary David Randall (Elliott Gould) and his wife Lori (Dee Wallace) had two kids, adopted daughter Amy (Katie O'Neill) and biological son Jack (Scott Grimes). After seeing how well the Randall family did with an adopted child and a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Situation Comedy
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. Critics disagree over the utility of the term "sitcom" in classifying shows that have come into existence since the turn of the century. Many contemporary American sitcoms use the single-camera setup and do not feature a laugh track, thus often resembling the dramedy shows of the 1980s and 1990s rather t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Brady Bunch Episodes
Image:Brady Bunch.jpg, 320px, alt=A 3 x 3 grid of squares with face shots of all nine starring characters of the television series: three blond girls in the left three squares, three brown-haired boys in the right three squares, and the middle three squares feature a blond motherly woman, a dark-haired woman, and a brown-haired man; all the faces are on blue backgrounds., ''The Brady Bunch'' Ending grid in season one. Click on each character for the actor's article. default desc bottom-left rect 0 0 106 79 Marcia Brady (Maureen McCormick) rect 0 80 106 159 Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) rect 0 160 106 239 Cindy Brady (Susan Olsen) rect 107 0 213 79 Carol Brady (Florence Henderson) rect 107 80 213 159 Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis) rect 107 160 213 239 Mike Brady (Robert Reed) rect 214 0 319 79 Greg Brady (Barry Williams) rect 214 80 319 159 Peter Brady (Christopher Knight) rect 214 160 319 239 Bobby Brady (Mike Lookinland) # See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap # for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Kenwith
Herbert Kenwith (July 14, 1917 – January 30, 2008) was an American television writer, director and producer. Born in New Jersey. He directed several dozen episodes of many American television series, working often with Norman Lear. They include ''9 to 5'' (1986), ''Gimme a Break!'' (1981), '' Private Benjamin'' (1981), ''Bosom Buddies'' (1980), ''Diff'rent Strokes'' (1978), ''Me and Maxx'' (1980), ''Good Times'' (1974), ''Sanford and Son'' (1972), ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (1970), ''Love, American Style'' (1969), and ''Star Trek'' (1969). He began his television career directing soap operas, including the first episode of ''The Young and the Restless''. Kenwith began his career appearing in Broadway shows, including “ I Remember Mama” (with Marlon Brando, in his Broadway debut), later becoming a theater director and producer. According to his obituary, he was "Broadway’s youngest producer", earning praise for “Me and Molly”. For six years, Kenwith also helmed doz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Warren (TV Producer)
Marc Warren is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for work on the series ''Full House'', ''Even Stevens'' and ''That's So Raven,'' all of which he worked on with fellow producer and writer Dennis Rinsler. Career Warren worked as school teacher in New York City. It was there he met Dennis Rinsler before moving to Los Angeles. Their experiences as teachers was the inspiration for the 1990s sitcom '' Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher'' starring Mitch Mullany, which they also produced, receiving co-creation credit with Richard Gurman. They both formed the production company "Warren & Rinsler Productions". They have been active since 1982, writing and producing for the television series ''Madame's Place'', ''Fast Times'', ''Full House'' (which they also executive produced and served as showrunners of for the series' final three seasons), ''The Parent 'Hood'' and served as creators of ''Cory in the House''. The two have been nominated for Daytime and Primetime E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Rinsler
Dennis Rinsler is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for work on the series ''Full House'', ''Even Stevens'' and ''That's So Raven''. All of which worked with fellow producer and writer Marc Warren. Career Rinsler was studying to be a teacher at New York State University in New Paltz when he met Marc Warren. Their 11 years of experiences as New York City teachers was the inspiration for the 1990s sitcom '' Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher'' starring Mitch Mullany, which they created and were executive producers of. They have been active since 1982, writing and producing for the television series ''Madame's Place'', ''Fast Times'', ''Full House'' (which they also executive produced and served as showrunners of for the series' final three seasons), ''The Parent 'Hood'' and served as creators of ''Cory in the House''. The two have been nominated for Daytime and Primetime Emmys for their work on the Disney Channel series ''Even Stevens'' and ''That's So Raven' ... [...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] |
Joan Darling
Joan Darling (née Kugell; born April 14, 1935, Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American actress, film and television director and a dramatic arts instructor. Biography Born Joan Kugell in Boston, Darling began her career with the New York improvisational theater troupe "Premise Players," and soon graduated to off-Broadway and Broadway productions. She gravitated to feature films making her debut in Theodore J. Flicker's '' The Troublemaker'' (1964) and later his ''The President's Analyst''. She went into television in the 1970s. She was a regular on the law series '' Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law'', playing office secretary to Arthur Hill, Lee Majors, and David Soul. Darling was the first woman nominated for an Emmy for directing. She was nominated four times, winning one. She was nominated two times for a Directors Guild of America award, winning one. She was nominated for an Emmy for her performance of Dorothy Parker in ''Woven in a Crazy Plaid''. Darling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Shea (director)
Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002. Life and career Born John Francis Shea, Jr., Shea's father was a traveling salesman and his mother a bookkeeper. He received a parochial high school education, later attaining a degree in History from Fordham University. Shea broke into the entertainment industry in 1951, initially as a stage manager for the TV series Philco Playhouse, and, following two years of service with the United States Air Force, serving from 1952 to 1954, during the Korean War, making instructional films in Los Angeles, and later becoming an associate director. Among the TV shows he contributed to during this period include ''The Jerry Lewis Show'' and '' The Bob Hope Specials'', where he later shared a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for in 1961. By the late 1950s, Shea had become instrumental in forming the Radio and Television Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lerner
David Lerner (November 23, 1951 – July 1, 1997) was an American outlaw poet who helped lead the influential poetry group the Babarians at Cafe Babar in San Francisco. Life Lerner was born in New York City and came from a family of Russian-Jewish renegades, growing up as a so-called " red-diaper baby". Lerner later moved to San Francisco and worked as a journalist, but left that career to live a bohemian life''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' by Alan Kaufman, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1999, pages 218-19. because journalism interfered with his poetry."About David Lerner" by Bruce Isaacson, ''Spirit Caller Magazine'', Vol 01 Issue 01, Dangerous Insect Media, July 15, 2013, page 57-9. In the mid-Eighties he became involved with poetry readings at Cafe Babar in San Francisco's Mission District, with the group of poets there being called the Babarians.''O Powerful Western Star: Poetry & Art in California'' by Jack Foley, Pantograph Press, 2000, page 211. Described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners '' Million Dollar Baby'' (2004) and ''Crash'' (2005), the latter of which he also directed. Haggis also co-wrote the war film ''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006) and the James Bond films '' Casino Royale'' (2006) and ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008). He is the creator of the television series '' Due South'' (1994–1999) and co-creator of ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' (1993–2001), among others. Haggis is a two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and seven-time Gemini Award winner. He also assisted in the making of "We Are the World 25 for Haiti". In November 2022, he was found liable in a civil trial which alleged he raped publicist Haleigh Breest and he was required to pay $10 million in damages. Early life Paul Edward Haggis was born in London, Ontario, the son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Zinberg
Michael Allan Zinberg (born March 22, 1944), is an American television director, producer and writer. Early life and education Zinberg was born in Bexar County, Texas to Dorothy Zinberg (née Rissien) and William Zinberg. Zinberg graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, TX. In 1977, received a B.S. in radio-television-film from Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Career Zinberg moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1968, with his first job as an usher at CBS Television City. He worked his way up to become a production assistant and then a writer, eventually working as an Associate Producer on the James Garner TV show '' Nichols.'' In 1972, Zinberg joined the MTM Productions television production company that was founded by Mary Tyler Moore's husband, Grant Tinker. While at MTM Productions he wrote, produced and directed ''The Bob Newhart Show'' for six seasons, as well as ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show,'' among other popular T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Miller (actor)
Mark Miller (born Claude Herbert Miller Jr.; November 20, 1924 – September 9, 2022) was an American stage and television actor and writer who starred in over 30 plays and made more than forty appearances in television programs and films since 1953. He is best known for his roles as Bill Hooten in ''Guestward, Ho!'', as Jim Nash in the ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' TV series and as Alvie in the movie he wrote and produced, '' Savannah Smiles''. Early life and career Miller was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1952. After graduation he was immediately cast in the revival of '' The Philadelphia Story'' in Newport, Rhode Island, at the Casino Playhouse and began a long-lasting career acting on stage and in television. He co-starred with Joanne Dru and J. Carrol Naish in the 1960–61 ABC sitcom ''Guestward, Ho!'', the story of a New York City family named "Hooten" who relocates to New Mexico to operate a dude ranch. Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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