"with touchy subject matter for 1970s television. Examples include: Lynde garnered considerable fame and wealth from the series, appearing a total of 707 times. He bought Errol Flynn's old Hollywood mansion and spent an enormous amount of money on renovations and decorations. In 1972, Lynde starred in a short-lived ABC sitcom, ""The Paul Lynde Show"", playing an uptight attorney and father at odds with his liberal-minded son-in-law. The series was a contractual fulfillment to ABC in place of an aborted ninth season of ""Bewitched"". Lynde starred as Paul Simms, the father of a family that consisted of wife Martha (Elizabeth"
"to the set. From season six until the sitcom ended in 1972, Dick Sargent played Darrin Stephens. Sargent was originally offered the role of Darrin in 1964, but turned it down to do a short-lived sitcom called ""Broadside"". For the next 18 months, York was largely bed-ridden in a haze of prescription painkillers. In his memoir, ""The Seesaw Girl and Me"", published posthumously, he describes the struggle to break his addiction and come to grips with the loss of his career. The book is in large part a love letter to his wife, Joan (née Alt), the seesaw girl of"
"The Westerner (TV series) The Westerner is a highbrow American Western series that aired on NBC from September 30 to December 30, 1960. Created, written and produced by Sam Peckinpah, who also directed some episodes, the series was a Four Star Television production. ""The Westerner"" stars Brian Keith as amiable, unexceptional cowhand/drifter Dave Blassingame, and features John Dehner as rakish Burgundy Smith, who appeared in three episodes. Dave Blassingame was a basically decent, ordinary man who was handy with a gun and his fists (and, when the occasion arose, the ladies). A cowboy and drifter, he could sometimes behave amorally"
"sequences by Keenan Wynn. Black Saddle Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on NBC from January 10, 1959, to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's ""Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater"", with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. Series star Peter Breck's character, Clay Culhane, is a gunfighter who becomes a lawyer after his brothers are killed in a shootout, a gunfight in which he himself was seriously injured, but survived. Realising that"
"The Dick Van Dyke Show The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and Mary Tyler Moore. It centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Van Dyke). The show was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff. The music for the show's theme song was written by Earle Hagen."
"that year. On screen, Samantha tells Darrin over the phone the news of her second pregnancy. That same month, Dick Sargent was cast to play Darrin beginning in the sixth season. Beginning with the sixth season's (1969–1970) opening credits, in addition to York being replaced with Sargent, Elizabeth Montgomery was billed above the title, and David White now received billing as well, after Agnes Moorehead's. During this year, the show saw a significant decline in ratings, falling from eleventh to 24th place. In mid-1970, the set of the Stephens' home was being rebuilt due to a fire. In June, the"
"The Paul Lynde Show The Paul Lynde Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC. The series starred comedian Paul Lynde and aired for one season, with original episodes running from September 13, 1972, to March 14, 1973. It has recently been added to the weekend Antenna Tv Network schedule. The series starred Lynde as Paul Simms, a general-practice attorney and the father of a family that consisted of his wife Martha (Elizabeth Allen) and daughters Barbara (Jane Actman) and Sally (Pamelyn Ferdin). The Simms family lived in the fictional city of Ocean Grove, California. It also starred John"
"Black Saddle Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on NBC from January 10, 1959, to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's ""Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater"", with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. Series star Peter Breck's character, Clay Culhane, is a gunfighter who becomes a lawyer after his brothers are killed in a shootout, a gunfight in which he himself was seriously injured, but survived. Realising that his life had to"
"weeks apart: as John Torsett in ""The Bounty Hunter"" and as Tad Dundee in ""Comanche Scalps"", the latter segment with Leonard Nimoy as The Comanche and veteran character actor Lane Bradford as William Essey. Others cast on ""Tate"" were: Timeless Media Group released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 on October 30, 2007 in a 3-disc set entitled 'Tate'. Tate (TV series) Tate is an American Western television series starring David McLean that aired on NBC from June 8 until September 14, 1960. It was created by Harry Julian Fink, who wrote most of the scripts, and produced"
"doubled as pilots for potential Four Star Television series, including an unsuccessful attempt to revive ""The Westerner"" in a modern-day setting, featuring Lee Marvin in Brian Keith's original role. The original pilot episode for ""Burke's Law"" (""Who Killed Julie Greer?""), starring Powell as Amos Burke, appeared as the debut episode of this series, featuring Ronald Reagan (who later went on serve as the Governor of California, and then become the 40th President of the United States). ""Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater"" had run on CBS in the late 1950s, but he switched networks for his last series. ""The Dick Powell"
"(1957) and ""The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock"" (1959) and the television series, ""Bonanza"" and ""Cimarron Strip,"" before it burned to the ground in the massive Newhall/Malibu fire of 1970. The series continued in reruns on NBC until 1966 and was syndicated throughout the 1960s and 1970s by ITC Entertainment, which produced the series. Fury (TV series) Fury (retitled Brave Stallion in syndicated reruns) is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to 1960. It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son,"
"to force the cancellation of the new comedy/drama ""It's a Man's World"" on NBC, co-starring Glenn Corbett, Michael Burns, Ted Bessell, and Randy Boone. In the spring of 1960, ""Cheyenne"" outdistanced singer Kate Smith's return to television on CBS's ""The Kate Smith Show"", which was cancelled after some six months on the air. As of September 2015, ""Cheyenne"" was being shown twice every weekday on the Encore Western channel. ""Cheyenne"" episodes with the Bronco character aired on COZI TV. As of December 2016, ""Cheyenne"" was being shown on the ""Heroes and Icons"" network. Warner Home Video released a ""Best of..."""
"Klondike (TV series) Klondike is a 17-episode half-hour American Western/Northern television series starring Ralph Taeger and James Coburn that aired on NBC. The series premiered on October 10, 1960, and ran until February 13, 1961, facing stiff competition from ""The Danny Thomas Show"" on CBS and the second half of the first-season detective series ""Surfside 6"" starring Troy Donahue on ABC. ""Klondike"" followed Dale Robertson's ""Tales of Wells Fargo"" on the NBC schedule. ""Klondike"" was set during the early days of the Klondike Gold Rush 1897 in the town of Skagway in the Alaskan Klondike region with, in addition to"
"the late 1950s, and first-run syndication shrank sharply, for a decade. Some stalwart series continued, including ""Death Valley Days""; other ambitious projects were also to flourish, however briefly, such as ""The Play of the Week"" (1959–1961), produced by David Susskind (of the syndicated talk show ""Open End"" and also producer of such network fare as ""NYPD""). Among other syndicated series of the 1950s were MCA's ""The Abbott and Costello Show"" (vaudeville-style comedy) and Guild Films' ""Liberace"" (musical variety) and ""Life With Elizabeth"", a domestic situation comedy that introduced Betty White to a national audience. In addition to the ""Adventures of"
"together in every episode: When the show first came on the air, TIME magazine said: However, several months later, daily newspaper television columns disagreed—for example: The Witness (TV series) The Witness is an American television show broadcast on the CBS network in the United States within the 1960-61 television season, in which a fictional ""Committee"" of lawyers cross-examined actors portraying actual people from the recent past of the United States who had been considered criminal or suspicious. David Susskind was the Executive Producer; Murray Susskind (David's brother) and Nick Mayo were line producers—the production company was Talent Associates. The show"
"and colorful character appealed to children. She expressed a fondness for the show's star Elizabeth Montgomery and said she had enjoyed working with her. Co-star Dick Sargent, who in 1969 replaced the ill Dick York as Samantha's husband Darrin Stephens, had a more difficult relationship with Moorehead, caustically describing her as ""a tough old bird."" In fall 1964, Moorehead participated in a five-minute commercial spot featuring casts of both ""Bonanza"" and ""Bewitched"", announcing the new 1965 Chevrolet line. Moorehead was featured with Dan Blocker extolling the virtues of the new '65 Chevy II. In 1970, Moorehead appeared as a dying"
"of 1950s and 1960s television Western series leads reprising their roles in quick cameo appearances (Gene Barry as Bat Masterson, Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp, Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, David Carradine as ""Kung Fu""'s Caine, Chuck Connors as The Rifleman, and so on). A two-DVD set of the complete series was released by Shout! Factory in February 2017. The Westerner (TV series) The Westerner is a highbrow American Western series that aired on NBC from September 30 to December 30, 1960. Created, written and produced by Sam Peckinpah, who also directed some episodes, the"
"of Difference."" Though primarily known for television work, White had several minor feature film roles, including ""Sweet Smell of Success"" (1957), ""The Apartment"" (1960), in which he played a philandering executive, and featured roles in ""Sunrise at Campobello"" (also 1960) and ""The Lawbreakers"" (1961). In 1964, White was cast as sycophantic advertising executive Larry Tate on ""Bewitched"", a role he inhabited for the show's entire run (1964–1972). The character is president of the McMann & Tate advertising agency, workplace of Dick York's (and later Dick Sargent's) Darrin Stephens character. Many of the show's episodes revolved around Tate's attempts to land"
"The New Dick Van Dyke Show The New Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke that aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. It was Van Dyke's first return to series television since ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"". CBS was so eager to have Dick Van Dyke return to their network that they signed him to a three-year contract. Van Dyke was living in Cave Creek, Arizona, at the time and did not want to move back to Hollywood, so the network agreed to film the show at Southwestern Studio on Stage 1 in nearby"
"Rick, respectively. The special also featured the appearances of Paul Rudd, Gus van Sant, Megan Mullally, Paul Scheer, and Kathryn Hahn. Simon & Simon Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from 1981 to 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS, and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two disparate brothers who run a San Diego private detective agency. The show revolves around the decisively polar-opposite Simon brothers, Rick (McRaney) and Andrew Jackson/""A.J."" (Parker). Rick is the less-refined, but still pleasant, United States Marine Corps Vietnam veteran with a penchant for cowboy boots, denim"
"of this popular CBS anthology series featured Kimbrough in the romantic lead opposite newcomer Abigail Kellogg. Also starring Glenda Farrell in a recurring role with Tom Tully as a guest star. Written by John Holt. U.S. Steel Hour ran from 1953 to 1963. (1953-1955 on ABC, 1955-1963 on CBS). Laurette (1960) – Directed by Jose Quintero opening at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut on September 30, 1960. This production included Clint Kimbrough as Jack, son of Laurette, Joan Hackett, Judy Holliday and Patrick O’Neal. Written by Stanley Young from a biography of Laurette Taylor by Marguerite Courtney. Laurette"
"an hour-long series, which premiered in 1960. The 1960 version featured Paul Burke as Detective Adam Flint, a sensitive and cerebral policeman in his early thirties. Horace McMahon returned as Lt. Parker as did Harry Bellaver as Sgt. Arcaro. Nancy Malone appeared regularly (for about half the newly produced episodes) as Adam Flint's aspiring actress girlfriend, Libby Kingston. The hour-long version of the show was broadcast by ABC in the 10:00 p.m. slot on Wednesday nights. For this iteration of the series, writer Silliphant was forced to reduce his involvement considerably, as he was simultaneously working as the main scriptwriter"
"television. In 1950, NBC optioned Telecomics' product and repackaged it as ""NBC Comics"". In 1951, Slesinger acquired the rights to make a ""Blondie"" television show with Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumsteadand his wife ""Pat Lake"" starred as ""Blondie."" at the request of ""Randolph Hearst"" who cared for her as if she was his daughter. Pat Lake nee:Patricia Van Cleeve Lake an American socialite, actress and radio comedian, was also ""Marion Davies""nice. Slesinger was completing the pilot episode at the time of his death on December 17, 1953. Amid the shock and confusion of his unexpected passing, the reels of the"
"Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961. Created by Luke Short and Charles A. Wallace, ""Zane Grey Theatre"" was originally based on the short stories and novels of Western author Zane Grey, but as the episodes continued, new material was included. Aaron Spelling wrote twenty ""Zane Grey"" episodes. The series opened each week with a prelude of the episode followed by the introduction, the firing of a gun, with the proclamation: ""From out of the West, Dick"
"in ""The Case of the Wintry Wife"" in 1961. In the 1959-1960 television season, Phillips portrayed police Lieutenant Geller in the syndicated crime drama ""Johnny Midnight"", starring Edmond O'Brien as a New York City actor-turned-private detective. The following season, Phillips appeared as another police lieutenant, named ""Avery,"" in seven episodes of the syndicated crime drama ""The Brothers Brannagan"", starring Stephen Dunne and Mark Roberts. Phillips remained active in television through the 1970s and until just prior to his death in 1982. Phillips was generally a guest star or featured player (e.g. a one-time appearance as an escaped criminal on the"
"which was begun as a television movie. He alternated between television movies and feature films during the 1970s. Sargent's directorial work from this period includes; ""The Taking of Pelham One Two Three"", the TV movies ""Hustling"" with Lee Remick and Jill Clayburgh and Tribes with Jan-Michael Vincent and Darren McGavin, as well as international award-winning ABC film ""The Night That Panicked America"". In 1974, he won his first Directors Guild of America Award for ""The Marcus-Nelson Murders"" (1973), which was the TV movie pilot for the ""Kojak"" series. In the 1980s, Sargent directed mini-series ""Manions of America"", which featured Pierce"
"and Marge"" for Union Oil. Yarmy was the younger brother of actor Don Adams. Yarmy was married and had one daughter. Yarmy died of lung cancer in Studio City, Los Angeles on May 5, 1992. He was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery. A group of comedians called ""Yarmy's Army"" formed to support him in his final illness, and continues after his death doing benefit concerts to help fellow comedians in need. Dick Yarmy Dick Yarmy (February 14, 1933 – May 5, 1992) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout the 1960s to the"
"on a sitcom. Making its ABC debut on September 14, 1964, the series was based on a 1955 episode of the Golden Age of Television live anthology drama series, ""The United States Steel Hour"", which starred Andy Griffith as Private Will Stockdale, a folksy storytelling southerner who has a commonsense remedy for every problem, thus frustrating his slow-burning, by-the-book sergeant. The play became a long-running 1955–57 Broadway play and a 1958 film, with star Andy Griffith continuing to repeat his role. In 1964, however, Griffith was busy with his own show, playing a folksy Southern sheriff on CBS' Monday night"
"be producer, and he hired James Webb to write a script. George Peppard was announced for the lead role in October 1960. Irene Dunne and Bing Crosby originally were announced as stars. Laurence Harvey and John Wayne were going to appear in one sequence together. By April 1961, John Wayne and Spencer Tracy had firmed their plans to play General Sherman and Grant for a segment directed by John Ford. James Stewart had signed to play a leading role. Other roles would go to Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Russ Tamblyn and Carroll Baker while Henry Hathaway and George Sherman would"
"released on May 19, 2015. Bronco (TV series) Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin (the last played by Scott Marlowe). ""Bronco"" premiered in the fall of 1958 when Warner Brothers executives and actor Clint Walker clashed over Walker's contract on the series ""Cheyenne"". Walker had"
"Lancer (TV series) Lancer is an American Western series that aired Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. (EST) on CBS from September 24, 1968, to June 23, 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan as a father with two half-brother sons, played by James Stacy and Wayne Maunder, an arrangement similar to the more successful ""Bonanza"" on NBC. Duggan stars as the less than admirable Murdoch Lancer, the patriarch of the Lancer family. Stacy appears as half-Mexican gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer. Wayne Maunder was cast as Scott Lancer, the educated older son (though he is younger than Stacy) and a veteran of the"
"serial followed the adventures of ex-Commando Captain Richard Barton MC (Noel Johnson, later Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies) who, with his mates Jock Anderson (Alex McCrindle) and Snowy White (John Mann), solved all sorts of crimes, escaped from dangerous situations, and saved the nation from disaster time and again. The series was replaced from time to time by one about the adventures of an explorer. One episode was titled ""Plague on the Plateau"". Beginning in 1948, the Hammer film company made three ""Dick Barton"" films and, long after the radio series had been replaced by ""The Archers"", Southern Television made"
"Switch (TV series) Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975, and August 20, 1978, bumping the ""Hawaii Five-O"" detective series to Friday nights. ""Switch"" was inspired by the 1973 movie ""The Sting"" and was similar to ""The Rockford Files"", which had debuted a year earlier. It was created by Glen A. Larson; in his memoir, ""The Garner Files"", ""Rockford Files"" star James Garner accuses Larson of essentially rewriting ""Rockford"" scripts without authorization for use on this show. Donald P. Bellisario"