"Douglas started his film career in the late 1960s and early 1970s, appearing in little known films such as ""Hail, Hero!"", ""Adam at 6 A.M."", and ""Summertree"". His performance in ""Hail, Hero!"" earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. His first significant role came in the TV series ""The Streets of San Francisco"" from 1972 to 1976, in which he starred alongside Karl Malden. Douglas later said that Malden became a ""mentor"" and someone he ""admired and loved deeply"". After Douglas left the show, he had a long association with his mentor until"
"Capitol (TV series) Capitol is an American soap opera which aired on CBS from March 29, 1982, to March 20, 1987, for 1,270 episodes. As its name suggests, the storyline usually revolves around the political intrigues of people whose lives are intertwined in Washington, D.C. ""Capitol"" revolves around the Denning, Clegg, and McCandless families, who live in the fictional Washington, D.C., suburb of Jeffersonia. At the center of the drama are feuding matriarchs Clarissa Tyler McCandless (Constance Towers) and Myrna Clegg (Carolyn Jones; Marla Adams; Marj Dusay). Kindly and down-to-earth Clarissa and vituperative and vindictive Myrna are former best friends"
"in his long-running post-""Hillbillies"" television series. Based on ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" movie, a PC computer adventure game for operating system MS-DOS was developed by Synergistic Software, Inc. and published in 1993 by Capstone Software. The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom (situation comedy) television series originally broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozarks region who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. The show was"
"as well as overseas broadcasts; it later enjoyed a 1980s revival, after MTV aired reruns of the program in 1986. The series centered on the adventures of the Monkees, a struggling rock band from Los Angeles, California consisting of Micky, Davy, Michael, and Peter. The comic elements of the storyline were provided by the strange and often surreal encounters that the band would have while searching for their big break. In the early 1960s, aspiring filmmakers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider had formed Raybert Productions and were trying to get a foot in the door in Hollywood. They were inspired"
"21 years and more than 4,000 episodes. In 1978, production of the show moved to CBS Television City in Hollywood, where it remained until the end of the show's run in 1981. In the fall of 1980, Westinghouse dropped Douglas in favor of John Davidson, although his show continued, with Syndicast taking over the program's distribution. However, in an effort to boost falling ratings during the show's final season, a third of the staff was fired and the program was revamped with a traveling roadshow format, re-titled ""The Mike Douglas Entertainment Hour"". The format change did not help, and Douglas'"
"California, Douglas was the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and German American mother Anne Buydens. He was the younger brother of Peter Douglas, and his older half-brothers were Michael and Joel Douglas. Douglas studied at Pitzer College, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the London Academy of Dramatic Art. Douglas made his screen debut in 1971 in ""A Gunfight"", starring his father and Johnny Cash. In 1982, Douglas appeared in the NBC television film ""Remembrance of Love"", also starring his father. Douglas portrayed a younger version of his father's character in flashback scenes. He appeared in several films"
"home base was transferred to Los Angeles, where it remained until finally going off the air in 1981. Near the end of its run, the series switched to a traveling roadshow format and became ""The Mike Douglas Entertainment Hour"", but this change failed to boost falling ratings. After his series was cancelled, Douglas hosted CNN's Los Angeles-based celebrity interview show, ""People Now"", taking over the hosting duties from Lee Leonard. He was replaced in January 1983 by WTBS personality Bill Tush. Douglas became a local cultural icon in Philadelphia, often inviting prominent players from the city's professional sports teams to"
"opera, but its ratings never surpassed ""Capitol"" ratings peak. Capitol (TV series) Capitol is an American soap opera which aired on CBS from March 29, 1982, to March 20, 1987, for 1,270 episodes. As its name suggests, the storyline usually revolves around the political intrigues of people whose lives are intertwined in Washington, D.C. ""Capitol"" revolves around the Denning, Clegg, and McCandless families, who live in the fictional Washington, D.C., suburb of Jeffersonia. At the center of the drama are feuding matriarchs Clarissa Tyler McCandless (Constance Towers) and Myrna Clegg (Carolyn Jones; Marla Adams; Marj Dusay). Kindly and down-to-earth Clarissa"
"Douglas (1958–2004), from stepmother Anne Buydens. Douglas attended The Allen-Stevenson School in New York City, Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and The Choate Preparatory School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, where he was also the Honorary President of the UCSB Alumni Association. He studied acting with Wynn Handman at The American Place Theatre in New York City. His first TV breakthrough role came with a 1969 CBS-TV ""Playhouse"" special, ""The Experiment""—and it was the only time he was billed as ""M.K. Douglas."" Michael"
"McCloud (TV series) McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired 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 metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator. The first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker,"
"for their move to California and meet with him to give notice that they will no longer be staying in his house. Another of Michael's close friends, Al Bender (played by Billy Crystal), marries Gloria's best friend Trudy Tannen in a 1976 episode. Mike accepts a faculty position at UCSB and he and Gloria move to Santa Barbara, California, at the end of the 1977–78 season (at which time Reiner and Struthers ceased to be regulars on the show). They appear in a Christmas episode during the 1978–79 season, in which Archie and Edith (and Edith's niece Stephanie) visit Michael"
"much different that his hometown i.e. rude people, dreary weather, until he meets a nice, down to earth woman who is also there from New Jersey. California Girls (film) California Girls is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy-drama film starring Robby Benson and Martin Mull, directed by Rick Wallace. It originally aired on ABC on March 24, 1985. A Jersey City auto mechanic travels to California in search of his dream girl, the ""California Girl"", a girl he saw in cosmetics commercials. He meets the woman of his dreams and a Hollywood photographer who show him the good life of Los"
"Mulligan's Stew Mulligan's Stew was an American comedy-drama television series that originally aired as a 90-minute NBC television movie on June 20, 1977, and later, as a 60-minute series from October 25, 1977 to December 13, 1977. The series focused on the lives of the Mulligan family, who live in the fictitious Southern California community of Birchfield; high school teacher and football coach, Michael (Lawrence Pressman), his wife, Jane (Elinor Donahue), who's a school nurse. Michael and Jane have three children: Mark, Melinda and Jimmy. They find making ends meet difficult, but manageable. Things get tighter moneywise and spacewise when"
"California Girls (film) California Girls is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy-drama film starring Robby Benson and Martin Mull, directed by Rick Wallace. It originally aired on ABC on March 24, 1985. A Jersey City auto mechanic travels to California in search of his dream girl, the ""California Girl"", a girl he saw in cosmetics commercials. He meets the woman of his dreams and a Hollywood photographer who show him the good life of Los Angeles. The ""dream girl"" convinces him to follow his dreams and open his own garage with an inheritance from his father. However, their manager may have"
"When Michael Calls When Michael Calls is a 1972 American made-for-television horror-thriller film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Elizabeth Ashley, Ben Gazzara and Michael Douglas. It was adapted from John Farris' 1967 novel of the same name. Helen Connelly is a woman whose nephew Michael died fifteen years earlier. She is separated from her husband, Doremus. She is close to Michael's brother, Craig. When mysterious happenings began taking place and she begins receiving phone calls from the supposedly dead Michael, Helen begins to wonder if Michael is really dead or if she is losing touch with reality. The television"
"1978. ""Nichols"" is currently broadcast on the GetTV network. Nichols (TV series) Nichols (also known as James Garner as Nichols) is an American Western television series starring James Garner. It was first broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set in the fictional town of Nichols, Arizona, ""Nichols"" differed from traditional Western series. The time period was 1914, at the beginning of the motorized era and well after the decline of the ""Old West"". The main character, a sheriff also named Nichols, rode on a motorcycle and in an automobile rather than on the traditional horse."
"Acapulco (TV series) Acapulco is an American half-hour adventure series that aired on NBC in 1961. It is notable for providing Telly Savalas with his first regularly recurring role in a television series. Ralph Taeger and James Coburn starred as Korean War veterans who, tired of life in the States, take up residence in southern Mexico as beachcombers. Each episode relates their experiences helping people in distress. They often worked for Mr. Carver (Savalas), protecting him from enemies he made during his career as a criminal lawyer. Taeger and Coburn were starring in ""Klondike"", another Ziv Television/NBC series, when it"
"Californication (TV series) Californication is an American comedy-drama television series created by Tom Kapinos, which aired for seven seasons on Showtime from August 13, 2007 to June 29, 2014. The show follows New Yorker Hank Moody (David Duchovny), a troubled novelist who moves to California and suffers from writer's block. His drinking, womanizing, and drug abuse complicate his relationships with his longtime lover Karen (Natascha McElhone) and their daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin). Hank struggles to find purpose in his life as he passes up multiple opportunities, eventually making the right decision for happiness. The show's other main characters are Hank's"
"premiere, the show moved to Monday at 8 p.m. The show had many cast changes during the run. Thomas Calabro was the only original cast member to remain on the series throughout its entire run. The show earned several Golden Globe nominations and placed #51 on ""Entertainment Weekly"" ""New TV Classics"" list. The show is set in a small apartment courtyard complex located at 4616 Melrose Place in the city of West Hollywood, California. Several young individuals reside in the apartments, each with their own dreams and drives. The original format for the show was to have self-contained stories that"
"""Growing Pains"", ""Benson"", ""Soap"", ""Family Ties"", ""Seinfeld"", ""The Simpsons"", ""the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)"", ""Married... with Children"", ""Dragon Ball"", ""Hee Haw"", and ""Moonlighting"". The 1980s was a decade of transformation in television. Cable television became more accessible and therefore, more popular. By the middle of the decade, almost 70% of the American population had cable television and over 85% were paying for cable services such as HBO or Showtime. People who lived in rural areas where cable TV service was not available could still access cable channels through a large (and expensive) satellite dish, which, by the mid-1990s, was phased"
"The Mike Douglas Show The Mike Douglas Show was an American daytime television talk show that was hosted by Mike Douglas. Initially, it aired only in Cleveland during much of its first two years, followed by expansion to Philadelphia and nationwide. It went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1981. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting, and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia. ""The Mike Douglas Show"" premiered on KYW in Cleveland on December 11, 1961, and featured a mix of light banter with"
"""The Wild Bunch"", chief bandit ""El Guapo"" in ""Three Amigos"" (USA, 1986), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, shady businessman Manuel in the comedy ""Used Cars"" (USA, 1980), and the smuggler ""Juan"" in ""Romancing the Stone"" (USA, 1984) starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film ""El rincón de las vírgenes"" (""The Virgins' Corner""), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood. The movie was set in"
"his lack of training frustrated him, and he eventually moved with his first wife, actress Arlene Martel, and their daughter Avra, to California. Settling in the San Fernando Valley, Douglas sold insurance by day and took acting classes at night. Although he still struggled, he received encouragement after appearing in the play, ""John Brown's Body"". For several years, Douglas appeared on TV shows like """" and ""The Feather and Father Gang"", often playing the villain. At the same time, Martel decided to move herself and their two children — Avra and Jodaman, to Carmel. They eventually divorced. He remarried, to"
"Mexican, this time a revolutionary named Luis Chama). ""I Kiss the Hand"" (1973) was a thriller made in Italy. He spent three years as Dr. Theodore Stuart on the series """" (1969–1972). He appeared in 1973's ""Enter the Dragon"", Bruce Lee's first starring role in a Hollywood feature. He was in action films: ""Mitchell"" (1974), ""The Swiss Conspiracy"" (1975), ""Strange Shadows in an Empty Room"" (1976), ""Napoli violenta"" (1976), ""Mark Strikes Again"" (1976), ""A Special Cop in Action"" (1976), ""Cross Shot"" (1976), ""The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist"" (1977). In 1974 he appeared as the police chief Fuller in"
"House Calls (TV series) House Calls is an American sitcom that lasted three seasons and 57 episodes, from December 17, 1979 to September 13, 1982, on CBS television, produced by Universal Television and based upon the 1978 feature film of the same name. British-born Ann Atkinson (Lynn Redgrave), as hospital administrator, had three unruly doctors to cope with, and the comedy arose from their interactions. Dr. Charley Michaels (Wayne Rogers) became the main problem for her, because of the romantic angle. She always pulled herself up short just before falling hopelessly in love with him. Dr. Solomon (Ray Buktenica) was"
"in 1972, remaining constantly in the top 15 of shows for the next 11 seasons, and eventually aired the most watched single episode of any series in U.S. television history during its 1983 series finale. An unusual side effect of the rural purge was the diminution of the laugh track. Most of the rural-oriented programs were filmed in the single-camera setup without a studio audience, with the canned laughter added by laugh-track proprietor Charley Douglass. The newer shows that came to television in the early 1970s were multiple-camera setups with live studio audiences, a trend that would become the norm"
"that he had an affair with the allegedly bisexual actor Brad Davis, who had AIDS and committed assisted suicide in 1991. His younger brother, Patrick Sean Murphy, was killed in the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001. Timothy Patrick Murphy Timothy Patrick Murphy (November 3, 1959 – December 6, 1988) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Mickey Trotter on the popular CBS prime time soap opera ""Dallas"" from 1982–83. Murphy started his acting career as an adolescent in several television commercials and from there he went on to act in the 1978 miniseries"
"Rhinemann Exchange"" (1978), ""The Immigrants"" (1978), and ""The Thief of Baghdad"" (1978). McDowall's TV movie/mini-series work in the 1980s included ""The Martian Chronicles"" (1980), ""The Memory of Eva Ryker"" (1980), ""The Return of the King"" (1980) (on which he did voice over work), ""The Million Dollar Face"" (1981), ""Judgement Day"" (1981), ""Twilight Theatre"" (1982), ""Mae West"" (1982), ""This Girl for Hire"" (1983), ""The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1984), ""London and Davis in New York"" (1984), ""Hollywood Wives"" (1985), and ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1985). TV series included ""Boomer and Miss 21st Century"", ""Fantasy Island"" (several times), ""Faerie Tale Theatre"", ""Tales"
"(1987–1988), a police-themed drama. The two shows made history for being among the few TV shows with an Asian American series lead. Morita was born in Isleton, California. Morita's father Tamaru, born in 1897, had immigrated to California from Kumamoto Prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu in 1915. Tamaru's wife Momoe, born in 1903, had emigrated to California in 1913. Noriyuki, as Pat was named, had a brother named Hideo (Harry) who was twelve years older. Morita developed spinal tuberculosis (Pott disease) at the age of two and spent the bulk of the next nine years in the Weimar"
"The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom (situation comedy) television series originally broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozarks region who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by writer Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired ""country cousin"" series on CBS: ""Petticoat Junction"", and its spin-off ""Green Acres"", which reversed the rags-to-riches, country-to-city"
"No, ""our SERIES!"" The cameras pulled back to show the entire stage as the cast and crew waved goodbye and performed curtain calls. I Married Dora I Married Dora is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 22, 1987 to January 8, 1988. It was created by Michael J. Leeson. Los Angeles architect and single father Peter Farrell (Daniel Hugh Kelly) was dependent upon his housekeeper Dora Calderon (Elizabeth Peña). However, she was an illegal alien from El Salvador and the United States government's Immigration and Naturalization Service was about to deport her. To prevent her from being"
"in the 1980s in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. The show is loosely based on the showrunner's childhood, during which he videotaped events, many of which are reenacted throughout the program. It shows the reality of the 1980s through a young boy's eyes. The series stars Jeff Garlin as patriarch Murray and Wendi McLendon-Covey as matriarch Beverly. Their two older children are Erica (Hayley Orrantia) and Barry (Troy Gentile). The youngest child, Adam (Sean Giambrone), documents his family life with his video camera. Beverly's father, Albert ""Pops"" Solomon (George Segal), is frequently around to provide advice or to help out his grandchildren (often"
"Dan August Dan August is an American crime drama series which aired on ABC from September 23, 1970, to April 8, 1971. Burt Reynolds played the title character. Reruns of the series aired in prime time on CBS from May to October 1973 and from April to June 1975. In 2018, the series was shown on the television network getTV. Reynolds stars as police lieutenant Dan August who investigates homicide cases in his (fictional) hometown of Santa Luisa, California. (The town is supposedly based on Santa Barbara but was filmed in Oxnard in Ventura County.) Other cast members include Norman"