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Murder Can Hurt You!
''Murder Can Hurt You'' (stylized onscreen as ''Murder Can Hurt You!'') is a 1980 American made-for-television comedy film that parodies detective and police TV shows of the 1960s and 1970s, much as ''Murder by Death'' spoofed literary detectives. The film was directed by Roger Duchowny. Plot A mysterious "Man in White" is out to kill famous detectives in bizarre ways, and the heroes are obvious parodies of ''Kojak'', ''Baretta'', ''Starsky and Hutch'', '' Ironside'', '' Police Woman'', ''Columbo'', '' Mrs. Columbo'', and '' McCloud''. The movie starts with the Man In White killing Lambretta, after which Lt. Nojack calls a meeting of all the best detectives in the city. During this meeting the man in white threatens to kill them all, locks them in their meeting room, and sets a bomb to kill them all while he makes his escape. The Aaron Spelling Productions logo at the end pays homage to Mark VII Limited, using a hammer and stamp. Cast References External links * * Murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Friedman (producer)
Ronald I. Friedman (born August 1, 1932) is an American television and film producer and writer most known for his work on such animated television shows as ''G.I. Joe'', '' The Transformers'' and the '' Marvel Action Hour''. He has also written for shows including ''Iron Man'' and ''Fantastic Four'' as well as the animated film '' The Transformers: The Movie''. Early life and education Friedman attended Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture. Career Friedman has written over 700 hours of episodes for many TV series, such as ''The Andy Griffith Show'', '' The Good Guys'', '' Bewitched'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''All in the Family'', '' The Odd Couple'', ''Happy Days'' and ''That's My Mama''. In animation, Friedman created the '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' animated series and co-wrote G.I. Joe: The Movie as well. He developed the Generation 1 Transformers animated series, with him re-writing over 64 episodes. He co-wrote The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies, which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark VII Limited
Mark VII Limited (formerly Mark VII Productions, pronounced "Mark 7") was the production company of actor and filmmaker Jack Webb, and was active from 1951 until his death in 1982. Many of its series were produced in association with Universal Television; most of them were originally broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States. In 1962, Webb had signed a deal with Warner Bros. in order to produce motion pictures and television shows as an independent producer. Webb was employed by Warner Bros. Television in 1963, and as a result, he attempted to absorb the company. After failing, he resurrected the company, with ''Selena Mead'' as its first project, but it was never materialized, and he joined Universal Television, where he stayed for the next 12 years in order to produce television shows. In 1977, he quit Universal and set up the company independently, with a distribution agreement with Worldvision Enterprises and maintains an office at Samuel Goldwyn Studios. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCloud (TV Series)
''McCloud'' is an American police drama television series created by Herman Miller, that aired on NBC from September 16, 1970, to April 17, 1977. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years as part of the '' NBC Mystery Movie'' rotating wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico, who was on loan to the New York City Police Department (NYCPD) as a special investigator. History The first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker, who turned it down. Universal hired Dennis Weaver, who was well known as a "western" actor from ''Gunsmoke''. The pilot, "Portrait of a Dead Girl", aired on February 17, 1970, and established the premise by having McCloud escort a prisoner from New Mexico to New York City, only to become embroiled in solving a complicated murder case. This premise of "a cowboy in the big city" was adapted from the 1968 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbo (TV Series)
''Columbo'' is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of '' The NBC Mystery Movie''. ''Columbo'' then aired on ABC as a rotating program on ''The ABC Mystery Movie'' from 1989 to 1990, and on a less frequent basis from 1990 to 2003. Columbo is a shrewd and exceptionally observant homicide detective whose trademarks include his rumpled beige raincoat, unassuming demeanor, cigar, battered Peugeot 403 car, love of chili, and unseen wife (whom he mentions frequently). He often leaves a room only to return with the catchphrase "Just one more thing" to ask a critical question. The character and show, created by Richard Levinson and William Link, popularized the inverted detective story format (sometimes referred to as a "howcatchem"). This genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Woman (TV Series)
''Police Woman'' is an American police procedural television series created by Robert L. Collins starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978. Synopsis Based on an original screenplay by Lincoln C. Hilburn, the series revolves around Sergeant#Police 7, Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson (Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Sergeant William "Bill" Crowley (Earl Holliman) was her immediate superior, and Pete Royster (Charles Dierkop) and Joe Styles (Ed Bernard) were the other half of the undercover team that investigated everything from murders to rape and drug-related crime, drug crimes. In many episodes, Pepper went undercover (as a prostitute, nurse, teacher, flight attendant, prison inmate, dancer, waitress, etc.) to get close enough to the suspects to gain valuable information that would lead to their arrest. Character's name Although Dickinson's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironside (TV Series)
''Ironside'' is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over eight seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside (usually addressed by the title "Chief Ironside"), a consultant to the San Francisco police department (formerly chief of detectives), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie titled ''Ironside''. When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, from late 1967 onward, it was broadcast as ''A Man Called Ironside''. The show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations. ''Ironside'' was a production of Burr's Harbour Productions Unlimited in association with Universal Television. Plot The series revolves around former San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside ( Raymond Burr), a Navy veteran, widower, and veteran of 25 years of police service, forced to retire from the department af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starsky And Hutch
''Starsky & Hutch'' is an American action television series, which consisted of a 72-minute pilot movie (originally aired as a '' Movie of the Week'' entry) and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn (inspired by the success of the then recent movie '' Busting''), produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions and starred Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul in the title roles, Starsky and Hutch. It was broadcast from April 1975 (pilot movie) to August 1979 on the ABC network. ''Starsky & Hutch'' was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television in the United States and, originally, Metromedia Producers Corporation and later on 20th Television in Canada and some other parts of the world. Sony Pictures Television is now the worldwide distributor for the series. The series later inspired a video game and a feature film. Cast The series' protagonists were two Southern California police detectives: Sergeant David Michael Starsky ( Paul Michael Glaser) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baretta
''Baretta'' is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a revised and milder version of a 1973–1974 ABC series, '' Toma'', starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as ''Baretta'', with Robert Blake in the title role. " Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow," the show's theme music, was composed by Dave Grusin and Morgan Ames and sung by Sammy Davis Jr., in addition to being a chart hit for two other artists. Overview Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta is an unorthodox plainclothes police detective (Badge #609) with the 53rd Precinct in an unnamed, fictional city. He resides in Apartment 2C of the run-down King Edward Hotel with Fred, his Triton cockatoo. A master of disguise, Baretta wears many while performing his duties. When not working he usually wears a short-sleeve sweatshirt, casual slacks, a brown sue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kojak
''Kojak'' is an American Action film, action Crime film, crime Drama (film and television), drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theophilus "Theo" Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular ''Cannon (TV series), Cannon'' series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978. In 1999, ''TV Guide'' ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. Production The show was created by Abby Mann, an Academy Award–winning film writer best known for his work on drama anthologies such as ''Robert Montgomery Presents'' and ''Playhouse 90''. Universal Television approached him to do a story based on the 1963 Career Girls Murders, Wylie-Hoffert murders, the brutal rape and murder of two young professional women in Manhattan. Owing to poor and corrupt police work and the prevailing casual attitude toward suspects' civil rights, the crimes in the Wylie-Hoffert case were pinned on a youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown Atlanta, Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of Golden age (metaphor), classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co. film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. Unlike its sister networks TBS (American TV channel), TBS, TNT (American TV network), TNT, and TruTV, TCM does not carry any sports cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
