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Mark Snow
Mark Snow (born Martin Fulterman; August 26, 1946) is an American composer for film and television. Among his most famous compositions is the theme music for science fiction television series '' The X-Files''. ''The X Files'' instrumental was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where the series aired on BBC Two and BBC One, in early-1996, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Snow also wrote the music for another Chris Carter series, '' Millennium'', and the background music scores for both shows, a total of 12 seasons. Snow composed scores for other notable television, including '' Hart to Hart'', '' Starsky & Hutch'' (season 3), and ''Smallville''. Early life and education Snow grew up in Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ..., New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became the Juilliard School, named after its principal benefactor Augustus D. Juilliard. It is widely considered one of the world's most prestigious conservatories. The school is composed of three primary academic divisions: dance, drama, and music, of which the last is the largest and oldest. Juilliard offers degrees for Undergraduate education, undergraduate and Graduate Studies, graduate students and Liberal arts education, liberal arts courses, non-degree diploma programs for professional studies, professional artists, and musical training for secondary school, pre-college students. Juilliard has a single campus at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, comprising numerous studio rooms, performance halls, a library with special collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegas (1978 TV Series)
''Vegas'' (stylized as ''Vega$'') is an American crime drama television series starring Robert Urich that aired on ABC from September 20, 1978, to June 3, 1981, with the pilot episode airing April 25, 1978. ''Vegas'' was produced by Aaron Spelling and was created by Michael Mann. The series (with the exception of special episodes filmed in Hawaii and San Francisco) was filmed in its entirety on location in Las Vegas, Nevada. Urich stars as private detective Dan Tanna, who drives to his detective assignments around the streets of Las Vegas in a flashy red 1957 Ford Thunderbird convertible. (The 1957 red T-Bird replaced a 1967 yellow Chevrolet Corvette that was Tanna's car in the pilot episode, a car which ended up being destroyed by fire.) Working for a wide variety of Las Vegas clients, the detective work included locating missing persons, helping solve various Las Vegas hotel and casino crimes, solving casino chip and money scams, and working to make Las Vegas a safer place for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (1976 TV Series)
''Family'' is an American television drama series aired on ABC from March 9, 1976, to June 25, 1980. It was conceived as a six-episode limited series, but initial high ratings led to the production of 86 weekly episodes. Creative control of the show was split among executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols. Overview ''Family'' depicted a contemporary traditional family with realistic, believable characters. The show starred Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, an upper-middle-class couple living at 1230 Holland Street in Pasadena, California, with their three children: Nancy (portrayed by Elayne Heilveil in the original miniseries, then by Meredith Baxter), Willie ( Gary Frank), and Letitia, nicknamed "Buddy" ( Kristy McNichol). Their fourth child, Timmy (Michael Schackelford), died five years before the first season, at age 10, in a boating accident. ''Family'' raised the profiles of all its main actors. In particular, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Whistle Blows (TV Series)
''When the Whistle Blows'' is an American comedy television series that aired for 10 hour-long episodes on ABC from March 14 to July 20, 1980. The series was produced by Universal Television and starred Dolph Sweet, Doug Barr, Susan Buckner, Philip Brown and Tim Rossovich. It was filmed single-camera style and without a laugh track. Summary The series revolves around a group of construction workers – four males (Norm, Buzz, Randy and Hunk) and one female (Lucy) – for the "Tri-State Construction Company" in Los Angeles and their search for fun both on and off the job. After hours, the gang's favorite hangout is a saloon called "Darlene's", run by Darlene Ridgeway. Cast * Dolph Sweet as Norm Jenkins * Doug Barr as Buzz Dillard * Susan Buckner as Lucy Davis * Philip Brown as Randy Hartford * Tim Rossovich as Martin "Hunk" Kincaid * Sue Ane Langdon Sue Ane Langdon (born Sue Ane Lookhoff on March 8, 1936)Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis (2002). Film Fatales: Women in Espionage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothers And Sisters (1979 TV Series)
''Brothers and Sisters'' is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from January to April 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the 1978 motion picture '' National Lampoon's Animal House''. It was the second of three frat-house comedy series to air in early 1979 (the others were ABC's '' Delta House'' and CBS' '' Co-Ed Fever''). Synopsis ''Brothers and Sisters'' takes place on the campus of Larry Krandall College, with William Windom starring as President Larry Crandall. Chris Lemmon (Milos "Checko" Sabolcik), Jon Cutler (Larry Zipper), and Randy Brooks (Ronald Holmes III) play three students who live in the basement of Pi Nu fraternity, nicknamed "Le Dump". Rather than attend class, the three cellar-dwellers create havoc with the more strait-laced members of the fraternity, and interact with the Gamma Iota sorority sisters who live nearby. On January 21, NBC debuted ''Brothers and Sisters'' as a follow-up to their telecast of Super Bowl XIII, three days aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Step Beyond
''The Next Step Beyond'' is a 1978 revival of the 1950s–1960s American television series ''One Step Beyond'', hosted by original host John Newland. Like ''One Step Beyond'', the series purported to tell true stories of the supernatural. Unlike the original, this series had a short run of one season of 25 episodes, 14 of which were remakes. Background Inspired by the syndication success of the original series as well as ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Star Trek'' and especially '' Space: 1999'', John Newland and Collier Young who participated in the original series, and Alan J. Factor decided to produce a new version of ''One Step Beyond'' to be titled ''The Next Step Beyond'', for syndication. Original series creator Merwin Gerard came back as story editor. Newland returned as series host, sporting white hair and large eyeglasses, otherwise looking the same. Worldvision Enterprises Worldvision Enterprises, Inc. was an American television program and home video distributor es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatbush (TV Series)
Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, East Flatbush to the east, Midwood to the south, and Kensington and Parkville to the west. The modern neighborhood includes or borders several institutions of note, including Brooklyn College. The area was home to the Canarsee people before contact with Europeans; many of the tribe's paths would become important roads through the region. Flatbush was originally chartered as the Dutch Nieuw Nederland colony town of Midwout, also called Vlachte Bos. It was one of the six original European towns on Long Island. The town remained primarily Dutch and rural in character until the latter half of the 19th century, when increasing rail and road connectivity to other parts of New York made it an attractive suburb to Brooklyn and New York City. The town was consolidated into the City of Greater New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The San Pedro Beach Bums
''The San Pedro Beach Bums'' is a 1977 American sitcom that aired on ABC. It is about five carefree, young men living together on a houseboat in San Pedro, California. The pilot, titled ''The San Pedro Bums'', originally aired on May 13, 1977.McNeil, Alex, ''Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming From 1948 to the Present'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 899.Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime-Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present, Sixth Edition'', New York: Ballantine Books, 1995, , p. 721. The main series aired from September 19 to December 19, 1977. Cast * Christopher Murney as Buddy Binder * Stuart Pankin as Anthony "Stuf" Danelli * John Mark Robinson as Ed "Dancer" McClory * Darryl McCullough as Moose Maslosky * Jeff Druce as Boychick (pilot only) * Chris DeRose as Boychick (weekly series) * Louise Hoven as Louise * Susan Mullen as Suzi Camelli * Lisa Reeves as Margie * Kristoff St. John as Ralphie * Nancy Morgan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visions (1976 TV Series)
''Visions'' is a 90-minute American television weekly anthology series that aired from 1976 to 1978. It was produced by KCET in Los Angeles and televised nationally on PBS. It concentrated on the works of mostly new and some prominent writers, including Cormac McCarthy (''The Gardener's Son''), Marsha Norman, Jean Shepherd, Luis Valdez, and Robert M. Young (director), Robert M. Young. Each episode was written by a different writer and starred a different cast. Among its stars were Tyne Daly, Charles Durning, Brad Dourif, Morgan Freeman, Carol Kane, Judd Hirsch and Richard Jenkins. Its directors included Maya Angelou, Richard Pearce (director), Richard Pearce, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Paul Bogart, and Gordon Davidson (director), Gordon Davidson. Episodes included ''The War Widow'' and ''El Corrido''. It won one primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for three others. Episodes Episode list and credits adapted from ''The Arts on Television, 1976–1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemini Man (TV Series)
''Gemini Man'' is an American Action-adventure fiction, action-adventure Drama (genre), drama series that aired on NBC in 1976. The third television series based on H. G. Wells' 1897 science-fiction novel ''The Invisible Man'', ''Gemini Man'' was created to replace the previous season's The Invisible Man (1975 TV series), ''The Invisible Man'' using simpler and less expensive special effects. Plot The series starred Ben Murphy as laid-back, denim-clad, motorcycle-riding secret agent Sam Casey, who while diving to retrieve a fallen Soviet Union, Soviet spy satellite, was exposed to radiation in an underwater explosion, which rendered him invisible. The agency for which he worked, a high-tech government think tank called Intersect (International Security Techniques), found a way to return him to visibility and control his new power by the use of a special wristwatch referred to as a "DNA stabilizer", which was invented by scientist Abby Lawrence (Katherine Crawford). Pressing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rookies
''The Rookies'' is an American police procedural series created by Rita Lakin that originally aired on ABC from September 11, 1972, to March 30, 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD). History The success of Joseph Wambaugh's book '' The New Centurions'', as well as NBC's ratings success with '' Adam-12'', had sparked interest at the time in a more realistic depiction and storytelling of the typical uniformed police officer. Although various incidents during the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in California, had sparked controversy and negative feelings toward police officers in general, ''The Rookies'' tried to better humanize the character of a police officer and show the struggles that new, younger men and women (who were often Vietnam-era military veterans or college graduates) faced in their lives as law enforcement persons sworn to serve and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
