Television Programs of America, Inc (TPA) was a New York-based US television production company in the 1950s. TPA had a

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subsidiary, Normandie Productions. This television production and distribution company was best known for '' Fury, King of the Wild Stallions'' (1955-1960). The company was created in 1952 as a partnership between Chicago lawyer (movie financing) Milton Gordon and film producers Edward Small and Leon Fromkess. The company often worked in association with the British production and distribution company ITC and its sister ITV company Associated TeleVision. TPA also worked with

Jack Wrather John Devereaux Wrather Jr. (May 24, 1918 – November 12, 1984), was an entrepreneur and petroleum businessman who became a television producer and later diversified by investing in broadcast stations and resort properties. He is best known for p ...

's companies Wrather-Alvarez Broadcasting, later Jack Wrather Productions, which held the rights to '' Lassie'' and ''

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''. In September 1958, Independent Television Corporation (a joint venture of

and the British Incorporated Television Company (ITC) purchased TPA for $11,350,000. Wrather later (1960?) sold his shares of Independent Television Corporation to ITC.

Programs

TPA and Normandie productions included:IMDb entry for TPA
accessed 9 May 2006 * '' Fury'' (A black stallion and his boy owner) * ''

The Adventures of Tugboat Annie ''The Adventures of Tugboat Annie'' is a 1957 Canadian-filmed comedy television series starring Minerva Urecal as Annie Brennan, the widowed captain of the tugboat "Narcissus," and Walter Sande as Horatio J. Bullwinkle, the captain of the "Salaman ...

'' with the UK's

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* ''

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans ''The Last of the Mohicans'', later retitled ''Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'' is a 1957 historical drama television series made for syndication by ITC Entertainment and Normandie Productions. It ran for one season of 39 half-hour monochro ...

'' with ITC * '' Cannonball'' with ITC * ''

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'' with ITC * '' Ramar of the Jungle'' * '' The Count of Monte Cristo'' with ITC * '' New York Confidential'' with ITC * '' Special Agent 7''

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Jack Wrather purchase of TPA
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