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That's My Mama
''That's My Mama'' is an American television sitcom that was the first series to be produced by Columbia Pictures Television and originally broadcast for 39 episodes on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 4, 1974, to December 24, 1975. ''That's My Mama'' was never a ratings success, having always been beaten by NBC's ''Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Little House on the Prairie'' among other competing programs, and was not among the 30 most-watched U.S. programs in the Nielsen ratings for either the 1974–1975 or 1975–1976 television seasons. As a result, the series ended on Christmas Eve 1975. Synopsis Set in a middle-class African American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., the program revolved around the character Clifton Curtis (played by Clifton Davis), a man in his mid-20s who worked as a barber at Oscar's Barber Shop, the family barber shop he had inherited from his late father. While Clifton enjoyed being a bachelor, his loving, but tart-tongued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Ralph Ross
Stanley Ralph Ross (July 22, 1935 – March 16, 2000) was an American writer and actor. Born Stanley Ralph Rosenberg, he was raised in Brooklyn, New York, working at Nathan’s Famous and as a barker at the Coney Island freak show. His classmate at Abraham Lincoln High School (and later the best man at his wedding) was Louis Gossett Jr.. Career After graduating from high school in 1952, Ross sang with a vocal group first called The Three Feathers, and then The Formals, who recorded a single for Dawn Records. Their arranger was Dave Lambert. Rather than going to college, Ross performed as a comedy duo with Paul Krassner. He then sold adding machines, and worked as an agent for photographers (including Weegee) and models. “I didn’t know I was a writer,” Ross later recalled. “I didn’t find that out until many years later.” Ross moved to Los Angeles in 1956, and met his wife, Neila Hyman, almost immediately. While working in advertising (“where I learned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little House On The Prairie (TV Series)
''Little House on the Prairie'' is an American Western (genre), Western historical drama television series loosely based on the ''Little House on the Prairie'' book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The series is centered on the Ingalls family, who live on a farm on Plum Creek (Cottonwood River tributary), Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s–1890s. Charles, Caroline, Laura, Mary, and Carrie Ingalls are respectively portrayed by Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, and twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, Lindsay and Sydney Greenbush. In 1972, with the encouragement of his wife and daughter, television producer and former NBC executive Ed Friendly acquired the film and television rights to Wilder's novels from Roger MacBride, Roger Lea MacBride and engaged Blanche Hanalis to write the teleplay for a Little House on the Prairie (film), two-hour motion picture pilot. Friendly then asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot; Landon ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob LaHendro
Robert LaHendro (born February 9, 1935) is an American television director. Born in Chicago, Illinois, LaHendro began his career in 1966, when he worked as a stage manager on the variety television series ''The Red Skelton Show''. He then worked as an associate director for ''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'' from 1968 to 1969. LaHendro made his directorial debut on the sitcom television series ''Sanford and Son'', where he directed for two episodes. His directing credits include ''All in the Family'', '' Flo'', '' Hot l Baltimore'', ''Good Times'', ''That's My Mama'', '' Santa Barbara'', '' Archie Bunker's Place'', ''Fish'' and ''Welcome Back, Kotter''. In 1973, LaHendro was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Owned and operated by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the P ... in the categor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernestine Wade
Ernestine Wade (August 7, 1906 – April 15, 1983) was an American actress. She was best known for playing the role of Sapphire Stevens on both the radio and TV versions of '' The Amos 'n' Andy Show''. Career Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Wade was trained as a singer and organist. Her family had a strong connection to the theater. Her mother, Hazel Wade, worked in vaudeville as a performer, while her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Johnson, worked for the Lincoln Theater in Baltimore, Maryland. Ernestine grew up in Los Angeles and started her acting career at age four. In 1935, Ernestine was a member of the Four Hot Chocolates singing group. She appeared in bit parts in films and did the voice performance of a butterfly in the 1946 Walt Disney production ''Song of the South''. Wade was a member of the choir organized by actress-singer Anne Brown for the filming of the George Gershwin biographical film ''Rhapsody in Blue'' (1945) and appeared in the film as one of the "Catfish Row" r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilunga Adell
Ilunga Adell (born William Adell Stevenson on November 27, 1948) is an American television and film producer, screenwriter, and actor who has written for many television series, primarily sitcoms, such as ''Sanford and Son'', '' 227'', ''A Different World'', '' Married... with Children'', '' Roc'' and ''Moesha''. Ilunga also produced the teen-themed series '' City Guys'', for which he also has written several episodes, the short-lived TV series ''Up and Coming'',''New York Times''"New series treads sensitive line" ''Eugene Register-Guard'', October 11, 1980. Retrieved on May 30, 2013. and ''My Brother and Me ''My Brother and Me'' is an American sitcom that originally aired on Nickelodeon created by Ilunga Adell and Calvin Brown Jr. and was executive produced by Michael Warren and Dee LaDuke who previously created '' Family Matters'' and '' Step ...''. References External links * 1948 births Living people American male film actors American male screenwriters A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graduate Student
Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate education, undergraduate (Bachelor's degree, bachelor's) degree. The organization and structure of postgraduate education varies in different countries, as well as in different institutions within countries. The term "graduate school" or "grad school" is typically used in North America, while "postgraduate" is more common in the rest of the English-speaking world. Graduate degrees can include master's degree, master's and doctorate, doctoral degrees, and other qualifications such as graduate certificate, graduate diplomas, certificates and professional degrees. A distinction is typically made between graduate schools (where courses of study vary in the degree to which they provide training for a particular profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Bernard
Ed Bernard (born July 4, 1939) is an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Joe Styles on '' Police Woman'', Principal Jim Willis on '' The White Shadow'', and as Lieutenant Bill Giles on '' Hardcastle and McCormick''. Career Bernard is a television actor. He played Detective Joe Styles in 91 episodes of the television series '' Police Woman'' from 1974 to 1978. After ''Police Woman'', he portrayed Jim Willis in the cast in the television series '' The White Shadow'' from 1978 to 1980 and Lt. Bill Giles on Hardcastle and McCormick from 1984 to 1985. Bernard has made guest appearances on many television shows, including ''Mannix'', '' Love Story'', ''Kojak'', '' Police Story'', ''T.J. Hooker'', '' In the House'', and ''Becker''. Filmography *'' Shaft'' (1971) as Peerce *'' The Hot Rock'' (1972) as Cop *'' Across 110th Street'' (1972) as Joe Logart *'' Trader Horn'' (1973) as Apague *'' Love Story'' (1973), episode "A Glow of Dying Embers" as Peter *'' Police S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States, United States federal government responsible for providing mail, postal service in the United States, its insular areas and Compact of Free Association, associated states. It is one of a few government agencies Postal Clause, explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States. As of March 29, 2024, the USPS has 525,377 career employees and nearly 114,623 pre-career employees. The USPS has a monopoly on traditional Letter (message), letter delivery within the U.S. and operates under a Universal service, universal service obligation (USO), both of which are defined across a broad set of legal mandates, which obligate it to provide uniform price and quality across the entirety of its service area. The Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What's Happening Now!!
''What's Happening Now!!'' is an American sitcom sequel to the original American Broadcasting Company, ABC 1976–1979 sitcom ''What's Happening!!'' focusing on its main characters as independent people. It aired in first-run broadcast syndication from September 7, 1985 until March 26, 1988. Premise In the series, Roger "Raj" Thomas (Ernest Lee Thomas, Ernest Thomas) has graduated from the University of Southern California, and become a fledgling writer. He and his new wife Nadine (Anne-Marie Johnson), a social worker, move in to his old home in Watts, Los Angeles, Watts (given to him by his mother, Mabel Thomas (Mabel King), now remarried and living in Phoenix, Arizona). His sister, Dee (Danielle Spencer (American actress), Danielle Spencer), is away at college. Childhood friend, Dwayne Nelson (Haywood Nelson), has become a computer programmer, while Freddie "Rerun" Stubbs (Fred Berry) is now a used-car salesman. The old soda shop hangout, Rob's Place, has gone out of business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was an American stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by ''Time'' in 1965 as "one of the country's foremost celebrated Negro comedians." Early life Cambridge was born in New York City on February 26, 1933, to Alexander and Sarah Cambridge, who were immigrants from British Guiana. His parents, dissatisfied with the New York Public School System, sent him to live with his grandparents in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, during his primary school years. When he was 13, Cambridge moved back to New York and attended Flushing High School in Flushing, Queens. In 1949, Cambridge studied medicine at Hofstra College, which he attended for three years before dropping out to pursue a career in acting. Stage and screen career While pursuing an acting career, Cambridge supported himself with a variety of jobs, including "cab driver, bead-sorter, ambulance drive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amen (TV Series)
''Amen'' is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that aired on NBC from September 27, 1986, to May 11, 1991. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, ''Amen'' stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s and early 1990s that featured predominantly black casts – others included '' The Cosby Show'', '' A Different World'', '' The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', and '' 227''. Premise The series revolves around Ernest Frye, a widower deacon of the First Community Church of Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ..., who also works as a lawyer. He is often dishonest and frequently gets into trouble with his many harebrained schemes. Frye has a single daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barber
A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums. They were the locations of open debates, voicing public concerns, and engaging citizens in discussions about contemporary issues. In previous times, barbers (known as barber surgeons) also performed surgery and dentistry. With the development of safety razors and the decreasing prevalence of beards in English-speaking world, Anglophonic cultures, most barbers now specialize in cutting men's scalp hair as opposed to facial hair. Names In modern times, the term "barber" is used both as a professional title and to refer to hairdressers who specialize in men's hair. Historically, all hairdressers were considered barbers. In the 20th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
