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Universal Pictures Debut Network
The Universal Pictures Debut Network, or simply the Debut Network, was a syndicated movie package that MCA Television sold to independent stations. The service reached agreements with ten stations in larger American markets such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago by late 1984. The Debut Network was a precursor of sorts to the Action Pack, which was also a syndicated package created by Universal Television. Background MCA TV (also known as MCA Television Enterprises) was founded in 1951, several years before parent MCA's purchase of American Decca (in 1959) and Universal Pictures (in 1962). For more than four decades, it was one of the most active syndicators of television programming. During the 1980s, it distributed both off-network reruns of shows like ''Kate & Allie'' and ''Gimme a Break!'', as well as original syndication product like the animated action series ''Bionic Six'' (co-produced with TMS Entertainment), ''The Morton Downey Jr. Show'' (taped at then-MCA own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 In American Television
The year 1985 involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events of that year. Events Programs Debuting this year Resuming this year Ending this year Entering syndication Changing networks Made-for-TV movies and miniseries Television stations Station launches Network affiliation changes Station closures Births Deaths See also * 1985 in the United States * List of American films of 1985 A list of American films released in 1985. ''Out of Africa'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The highest-grossing film of 1985 was ''Back to the Future''. __TOC__ A B C-G H-M N-S T-Z See also * 1985 in American television ... References External linksList of 1985 American television seriesat IMDb {{DEFAULTSORT:1985 In American Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TMS Entertainment
, formerly known as the , also known as or , is a Japanese animation studio established on October 22, 1946. TMS is one of the oldest and most famous anime studios in Japan, best known for numerous anime franchises such as ''Lupin the Third'', ''Lilpri'', ''The Gutsy Frog'', ''The Rose of Versailles'', ''Anpanman'', ''Case Closed, Detective Conan'', ''Monster Rancher (TV series), Monster Rancher'', ''Magic Knight Rayearth'', ''Hamtaro'', ''Sonic X'', ''D.Gray-man'', ''Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple'', ''Fruits Basket'' (since 2019), ''Obake no Q-Taro'' (until 1972), ''Bakugan Battle Brawlers'' and feature-length films ''Golgo 13: The Professional'', ''Akira (1988 film), Akira'' and ''Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland'', alongside animation works for Western animation such as ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series), Inspector Gadget'', ''The Real Ghostbusters'', ''Rainbow Brite (1984 TV series), Rainbow Brite'', ''DuckTales'', ''The New Adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Disney Afternoon
The Disney Afternoon (later known internally as the Disney-Kellogg Alliance when unbranded), sometimes abbreviated as TDA, was a created-for-syndication two-hour programming block of animated television series. It was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and distributed through its syndication affiliate Buena Vista Television. Each show from the block has aired reruns on Disney Channel and Toon Disney. Disney Channel reaired four shows (''Darkwing Duck'', '' TaleSpin'', ''DuckTales'', and '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'') on "Block Party," a two-hour block that aired on weekdays in the late afternoon/early evening."Block Party: Four Disney Animated Series." ''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 13, no. 5, October/November 1995: p. 36. The Disney Afternoon's block had four half-hour segments, each of which contained an animated series. As each season ended, the lineup would shift - the remaining three would move up a time slot and a new show would be added to the end. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exosquad
''Exosquad'' is an animated television series created by Universal Animation Studios, Universal Cartoon Studios for MCA TV's Universal Family Network broadcast syndication, syndicated programming block. The show is set in the beginning of the 22nd century and covers the space warfare in fiction, interplanetary war between humanity and Neosapiens, a fictional race artificially created as workers/Slavery, slaves for the Terran (demonym), Terrans. The narrative generally follows Able Squad, an elite Terran unit of powered exoskeleton, exoframe pilots, on their missions all over the Solar System, although other storylines are also abundant. The series ran for two complete seasons in syndication from 1993 to 1994, and was cancelled after one third-season episode had been produced. Reruns later aired on USA Network. Plot The series is set in the years 2119–2121 AD,Dates on the tombstone of Nara Burns' parents. decades after humanity ("Terrans") has expanded beyond Earth, terrafo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BHC Communications
BHC Communications, Inc. was the holding company for the broadcast property of Chris-Craft Industries. BHC stands for "broadcasting holding company". History The firm was originally incorporated in 1977 as BHC, Incorporated by Chris-Craft Industries to hold its two existing incorporated independent television stations, KCOP Television (KCOP in Los Angeles) and Oregon Television (KPTV in Portland, Oregon), within BHC's Chris-Craft Television subsidiary. That same year, Chris-Craft purchased a share of 20th Century Fox. In 1981, the 20th Century Fox share, then at 20 percent, was traded for 19% of United Television. United owned three other television stations: independent KMSP-TV in Minneapolis, ABC affiliate KTVX in Salt Lake City, and NBC-affiliated KMOL-TV (now WOAI-TV) in San Antonio. Warner Communications, Inc. purchased a 42.5 percent share in BHC for $200 million in convertible preferred stock. With the Time, Inc./Warner Communications, Inc. merger into Time-Warner, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Domestic Television
Paramount Domestic Television (PDT) was the television distribution arm of American television production company Paramount Television, once the TV arm of Paramount Pictures. It was formed in 1982 originally as Paramount Domestic Television and Video Programming, the successor to Paramount Television Domestic Distribution, Paramount Television Sales, and Desilu Sales. History Initially, it distributed the back library of Paramount Television and the post-1960 shows by Desilu, and several first-run syndicated shows. Originally, the company (like other sister companies sharing the Paramount name) was owned by Gulf+Western, which was reincorporated as Paramount Communications in 1989. In 1987, it entered into an agreement with Tribune Entertainment Company whereby Paramount would distribute '' Geraldo'', with Tribune producing. In 1989, both Tribune and Paramount worked again on ''The Joan Rivers Show'', Paramount distributing the program and Tribune producing the series. Also tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rear Window
''Rear Window'' is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. ''Rear Window'' is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest films ever made. It received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked number 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and number 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition, and in 1997 was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot Recuperating from a broken leg, professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment in Greenwich Village, Manhat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Made For Television Film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats. In certain cases, such films may also be referred to and shown as a miniseries, which typically indicates a film that has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Origins and history Precursors of "television movies" include ''Talk Faster, Mister'', which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, and the 1957 ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', based on the poem by Robert Browning, and starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. That film was made in Technicolor, a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Three Television Networks
In the United States, there are three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks — CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), NBC (National Broadcasting Company), and ABC (American Broadcasting Company) — that due to their longevity and ratings success are referred to as the "Big Three." They dominated American television until the 1990s and are still considered major U.S. broadcast companies. Backgrounds The National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System were both founded as radio networks in the 1920s, with NBC eventually encompassing two national radio networks, the prestige Red Network and the lower-profile Blue Network. They gradually began experimental television stations in the 1930s, with commercial broadcasts being allowed by the Federal Communications Commission on July 1, 1941. In 1943, the U.S. government determined that NBC's two-network setup was anticompetitive and forced it to spin off one of the networks; NBC chose to sell th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourth Television Network
In American television terminology, a fourth network is a reference to a fourth commercial broadcast (over-the-air) television network, as opposed to the Big Three television networks that dominated U.S. television from the 1950s to the 1980s: ABC, CBS and NBC. When the U.S. television industry was in its infancy in the 1940s, there were four major full-time television networks that operated across the country: ABC, CBS, NBC and the DuMont Television Network. Never able to find solid financial ground, DuMont ceased broadcasting in August 1956. Many companies later began to operate television networks which aspired to compete against the Big Three. However, between the 1950s and the 1980s, none of these start-ups endured and some never even launched. After decades of these failed "fourth networks", many television industry insiders believed that creating a viable fourth network was impossible. Television critics also grew jaded, with one critic placing this comparison in the str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Block Programming
Block programming is the broadcast programming, arrangement of programs on radio or television so that those of a particular genre, theme, or target audience are united. Overview Block programming involves scheduling a series of related shows which are likely to attract and hold a given audience for a long period of time. Notable examples of overt block programming were NBC's Thursday evening "Must See TV" lineup, which included two hours of sitcoms and one hour of ''ER (TV series), ER'', and Channel 4's "T4 (Channel 4), T4" program which often ran sitcoms back-to-back for an hour or more. Reruns on cable television are often assembled into similar blocks to fill several hours of generally little-watched daytime periods. A particularly long program block, especially one that does not air on a regular schedule, is known as a marathon (television), marathon. Block programming in radio also refers to programming content that appeals to various demographics in time blocks, usually cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictionary (1989 Game Show)
''Pictionary'' is an American children’s game show based on the picture-drawing board game of the same name. The first of three game shows based on the board game (preceding a 1997 version and a 2022 current version both for adults), this edition ran for sixty-five episodes between June 12 and September 8, 1989. ''Pictionary'' was a joint production of Barry & Enright Productions and QMI Television, and was distributed by MCA Television. Gameplay Two teams of three competed against each other, drawing pictures on a telestrator. Round one One player at a time drew a picture for his/her teammates to guess. Once the picture was guessed or 20 seconds had elapsed, the next player in line began to draw. Each team had 60 seconds to guess as many pictures as possible, and the high scorers received 10 points. If the round ended in a tie, both teams scored. Round two One player drew pictures for 60 seconds, attempting to get his/her teammates to guess up to seven words that were clue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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