"was seeing at the time, which meant that the need for special effects could be cut down. It has since come to light that two other actors played the voice of Peter Brady after Robert Beatty and before Tim Turner. Because Beatty's Canadian accent in ""The Invisible Man"" pilot was considered too harsh, ""Secret Experiment"" featured the softer American tones of Lee Patterson. Unfortunately, when the series was commissioned and went into production, Patterson was found to be committed workwise and so his place was taken by Paul Carpenter, a former band singer and B-feature leading man. However, Carpenter appeared"
"Christopher Knight (actor) Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957) is an American actor and businessman. He is known for playing Peter Brady on the 1970s series ""The Brady Bunch"". He has since gone on to become a successful businessman and enjoyed a semi-resurgence in the public eye with television appearances in the 2000s. His father, Edward Knight, was also an actor. After the end of his ""Brady Bunch"" appearances, Knight's acting career consisted mostly of making guest appearances on other television shows (""Happy Days"", ""The Love Boat""), and occasional film roles (""Just You and Me, Kid"", ""Curfew"", ""Good Girls"
"cast as his brother, Charles Bent. The plot involved the establishment in Bent's Old Fort on the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado. Kathryn Grayson played the ""Lone Woman,"" a Cheyenne Indian. From 1955 to 1959, Brady appeared five times on CBS's anthology series ""Schlitz Playhouse"", including as the roles of Reno Cromwell in ""Night of the Big Swamp"" and Calvin Penny in ""Papa Said No."" The ""Schlitz Playhouse"" episode ""The Salted Mine"" became the pilot for Brady's own western television series, ""Shotgun Slade"", which aired seventy-eight episodes in syndication from 1959 to 1961. In addition to ""Shotgun Slade"", Brady appeared"
"in several other television westerns, including ""Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater"", ""The High Chaparral"", ""Lancer"", ""Dirty Sally"", ""The Virginian"" (twice), and ""Gunsmoke"" (three times). In 1958, he played the lead role of Sergeant Matt Blake to Clint Eastwood's third billing as Keith Williams in ""Ambush at Cimarron Pass"". In 1961, he played the roles of John Keller in ""We're Holding Your Son"" on the anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan, ""General Electric Theater"", and Ernie Taggart in ""Voyage into Fear"" of the CBS detective series, ""Checkmate"". In 1962, Brady was cast in the lead guest role as reporter/commentator Floyd"
"Peter Gunn Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend Edie Hart, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960-1961. The series was created by Blake Edwards, who, on occasion, was also writer and director. The series is notable for being the first televised detective program whose character was created for television, whereas other early TV detectives had earlier appeared in other media. The series is probably best remembered today for its music, including the iconic ""Peter Gunn Theme"", which"
"series, Brady continued his association with Rogers on television and in personal appearances. He also rejoined the Sons of the Pioneers in 1959 as a replacement for Shug Fisher, a well-known character actor. In late 1962, Brady appeared with Rogers and Evans in their short-lived ABC comedy, western, and variety program ""The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show"", which lost out in the Saturday evenings ratings to ""The Jackie Gleason Show"" on CBS. Joining Brady on that program was comedian Cliff Arquette in his Charley Weaver role. Coincidentally, Arquette, like Brady, was born in Toledo. Pat Brady died at the"
"(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,"
"The 12-disc set features all 114 episodes of the series, as well as a bonus CD of Henry Mancini's award winning score. Peter Gunn Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend Edie Hart, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960-1961. The series was created by Blake Edwards, who, on occasion, was also writer and director. The series is notable for being the first televised detective program whose character was created for television, whereas other early TV detectives had"
"in a céilidh sequence for which he was also credited as an adviser. In the next decade, he played the repugnant Pew in Disney's ""Treasure Island"" (1950), Angus in ""Pandora and the Flying Dutchman"" (1951), and Dr. MacFarlane in ""Hobson's Choice"" (1954). Laurie's role as Private Frazer, the gaunt-faced, intense, pessimistic undertaker, and British Home Guard soldier in the sitcom ""Dad's Army"" (1968–1977) remains his best known TV role, although he featured in many British series of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s including ""Tales of Mystery"", ""Doctor Finlay's Casebook"", and ""The Avengers"". Laurie starred as Mad Peter in the Hammer"
"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, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer ""Packy"" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The frequent introduction to the show depicts the beloved stallion running inside the corral and approaching the camera as the announcer reads: ""FURY!..The story of a horse..and a"
"""Road to Germany"" and ""Family Gay"") submitted the year ""Family Guy"" was nominated for the ""Outstanding Comedy Series"". The family goes to Nifty Fifties Diner, a 1950s-themed restaurant, and they see waiters dressed up as celebrities from the 1950s, including James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Peter hears his favourite song The Trashmen's ""Surfin' Bird"" on the jukebox. He obtains a record of it from the restaurant. Peter repeats the song over and over on the way home in bed and even when waking up Lois in order to annoy his family. He asks Brian for the news paper"
"Robbie Petrie, with a long first ""e"": PEE-tree. Laura Petrie was played by Barbara Britton, Buddy Sorrell by Morty Gunty, Sally Rogers by Sylvia Miles, Ritchie by Gary Morgan, and Alan Sturdy, the Alan Brady character, was played by Jack Wakefield, although his face was never fully seen, which was also the case with Carl Reiner's Alan Brady for the first several seasons of ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"". The pilot was unsuccessful, which led Reiner to rework the show with Dick Van Dyke playing the central character (who went by Rob, not ""Robbie"", and pronounced his last name PETT-ree.)"
"two detectives simultaneously. The detectives' main confidential informant was the street-wise, ethically ambiguous, ""jive-talking"" Huggy Bear (Antonio Fargas), who often dressed in a flashy manner and operated his own bar (first named ""Huggy Bear's"", and later, ""The Pits""). The duo's boss was the gruff, no-nonsense-but-fair Captain Harold C. Dobey (Bernie Hamilton in the series, and gravel-voiced Richard Ward in the pilot). ""Starsky and Hutch"" continued the 1960s trend in some prime-time, U.S. TV dramas of portraying African-Americans (e.g., Huggy Bear, Capt. Dobey) in a positive light. Huggy's immense popularity with viewers caused producers Spelling and Goldberg to consider giving actor"
"Pete and Gladys Pete and Gladys is an American sitcom television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962. One of CBS television's most popular and highly rated sitcoms of the 1950s, ""December Bride"", starred Spring Byington and Harry Morgan as next-door neighbor Pete Porter. Pete spent most of his time complaining about his scatterbrained wife Gladys, who was unseen to viewers. In this spin-off series, Gladys emerges as the redhaired"
"""Sugarfoot"" (1959), ""Buckskin"" (1959), ""Peter Gunn"" (1959), ""U.S. Marshal"" (1959-1960), ""77 Sunset Strip"" (1960), ""Bonanza"" (1960), """" (1960), ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" (1960–61); ""Hawaiian Eye"" (1962), ""The Virginian"" (1962), ""Laramie"" (1960-1963), ""Perry Mason"" (1959-1966), ""Empire"" (as Hoot Hinkley in ""The Tiger Inside"", 1963), ""The Dakotas"" (1963), ""Lost in Space"" (1966, as Keema ""The Golden Man""), ""Dark Shadows"" (1967-1970), ""Emergency!"" (three episodes, 1972-1975), ""Dallas"" (1979-1984, as Vaughn Leland), ""Quincy, M.E."", (three episodes, 1979-82) and ""The Incredible Hulk, (as Buck Hendricks, a big game hunter looking to help news reporter Jack McGee capture ""The jolly green giant"") Patrick played Sheriff Patterson in the"
"a Western but a drama set in California in the 1850s). Another programming shift occurred at NBC: the network's flagship news program, ""The Huntley-Brinkley Report"", moved to the 7:15 PM weekday timeslot, for the first time going head to head against both ABC's and CBS's news programs. The face-off between the three networks' news programs would become the standard model for U.S. broadcast television; the three networks still air their network news programs against one another. 1958 saw a number of executive changes at the networks; these presidential shifts would affect the network television schedules. Oliver Treyz became the president"
"the title role. After two films, exhibitors complained. To them, Ralph Byrd ""was"" Dick Tracy, and only Ralph Byrd would do. RKO capitulated, and hired Byrd to finish the series. ""Dick Tracy's Dilemma"" and ""Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome"" were both released in 1947. Byrd continued to work in action fare in the late 1940s, and when the Dick Tracy property became a TV series in 1950, Byrd was the obvious choice to reprise his most famous role. The shows were produced on low budgets, with Byrd forced to cope with long hours and strenuous action scenes. The accelerated pace of"
"strong predictor of impending divorce in couples. Knight's manager, Phil Viardo, told a celebrity gossip website on May 29, 2011, that Knight and his wife, Curry, were announcing their separation. The date was the couple's fifth wedding anniversary. On February 2, 2012, on G4's ""Attack of the Show"", Curry said the divorce had been finalized. He married his fourth wife, Cara Kokenes, in November 2016. Christopher Knight (actor) Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957) is an American actor and businessman. He is known for playing Peter Brady on the 1970s series ""The Brady Bunch"". He has since gone on"
"of an oxygen tank. He died four years later at the age of sixty. He is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Scott Brady Scott Brady (born Gerard Kenneth Tierney; September 13, 1924 – April 16, 1985) was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in western films and as a ubiquitous television presence. Gerard Kenneth Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York to Lawrence and Maria Tierney; his father was an Irish American policeman who was chief of the New York aqueduct police force. His older and younger brothers were fellow actors"
"the United Kingdom, it was shown by the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s and repeated in the 1970s and 1980s. In Italy, RAI dubbed many episodes in the early 1960s with the title ""Avventure in elicottero"". Whirlybirds Whirlybirds (sometimes called The Whirlybirds or Copter Patrol) is a syndicated American drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960. It was produced by Desilu Studios. The program features the exploits of Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) and Pete ""P. T."" Moore (Craig Hill), owners of a fictitious helicopter chartering company,"
"Scott Brady Scott Brady (born Gerard Kenneth Tierney; September 13, 1924 – April 16, 1985) was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in western films and as a ubiquitous television presence. Gerard Kenneth Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York to Lawrence and Maria Tierney; his father was an Irish American policeman who was chief of the New York aqueduct police force. His older and younger brothers were fellow actors Lawrence and Edward Tierney, respectively. Brady was reared in suburban Westchester County, New York. He was nicknamed ""Jerry"" in his youth. He attended Roosevelt and"
"Patton was promoted to police chief in Brandon's place, previously having been Tracy's buffoonish partner. A new character was introduced named Sam Catchem to take Patton's place as Tracy's sidekick. Gould introduced topical story lines about television, juvenile delinquency, graft, organized crime, and other developments in American life during the 1950s; and elements of soap opera depicted Dick, Tess, and Junior (along with the Tracys' baby daughter Bonnie Braids) at home as a family. Depictions of family life alternated with the story's crime drama, as in the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend Model being"
"Brothers comedy, in which he plays a radio play-by-play announcer at the film's climactic college football game. His film career began in silent pictures in 1914 and ran some 40 years. In the early 1950s he turned his attention primarily to television, appearing in various western series as well as ""Superman"". Phil Tead starred in the episode ""Old Bailey"" of the western series, ""The Lone Ranger"", in 1952 from Season 3, episode 49, where he played the title character Old Bailey along with John Hart and Jay Silverheels. Tead's final television work came in several episodes of the western series,"
"a staple of ABC's programming dating back to the network's earlier sitcoms from the 1950s onward, such as ""The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"" (which premiered in 1952), ""Leave It to Beaver"" (which moved to ABC in 1958, after spending its first season on CBS), ""The Donna Reed Show"" (which premiered in 1958), ""The Flintstones"" (which premiered in 1960, but was largely an adult-oriented animated comedy until the birth of Pebbles in 1963), ""The Brady Bunch"" (which premiered in 1969), and ""The Partridge Family"" (which premiered in 1970; that series and ""The Brady Bunch"" became part of the Friday night"
"1962, between Jack Paar's departure and Johnny Carson's arrival, and they were regular substitute hosts on Arthur Godfrey's TV programs. They were frequent guest panelists and once were the mystery guests on the long-running quiz show ""What's My Line?"" The couple were also celebrity contestants on the TV game show ""Password."" Healy and Hayes appeared in the cult fantasy film ""The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T"" (1953) and the Broadway comedy ""Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?"" (1958), written by Norman Krasna. During the 1960s they starred in a breakfast conversation show on New York radio station 710"
"also was one of the actors who portrayed cowboy hero ""Red Ryder"" on the ""Red Ryder"" series during the 1940s. Hadley starred in two television series, ""Racket Squad"" (1950–1953) as Captain Braddock, and ""The Public Defender"" (1954–1955) as Bart Matthews, a fictional attorney for the indigent. He also was a guest star on such programs as the religion anthology series, ""Crossroads,"" and on Rory Calhoun's CBS western series, ""The Texan"". In 1959, he played fictitious Sheriff Ben Tildy in ""The Sheriff of Boot Hill"", with Denver Pyle cast as Joe Lufton. He also starred in Sea Hunt, Season 4/Episode 4;"
"assist from Bill Norton (Clinton Sundberg). One of the suspects is portrayed by famed Barnum & Bailey clown Emmett Kelly in his screen debut as an actor. Also in the cast are Rock Hudson, Julie London, Parley Baer (uncredited) and Jayne Meadows. There was also an Australian version of ""The Fat Man"", which premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on September 9, 1954 and ran through 1955 for a total of 52 episodes. It was later syndicated by the Artansa label, and 36 episodes remain in circulation today. The role of Brad Runyon was played in this version by Lloyd"
"the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""Sweet Bird of Youth"" (1962). Some of his other notable films include ""Deadline – U.S.A."" (1952), ""12 Angry Men"" (1957) as juror #10, ""The Unsinkable Molly Brown"" (1964), and ""Wild in the Streets"" (1968). One notable role Begley played both on television (twice in 1955) and in the theatrical film (1956) is William (Bill) Briggs, one of the three primary characters in Rod Serling's ""Patterns"". In 1956, he appeared in the Broadway production of ""Inherit the Wind"", in the role of Matthew Harrison Brady. For"
"which animated moving objects could be seen in a number of scenes. Although this ""Invisible Man"" was never transmitted, plot elements and footage from it were reused in the episodes ""Secret Experiment"", ""Picnic with Death"" and ""Bank Raid"". ""The Invisible Man"" pilot is included in its entirety on the Network DVD release of the series. Note: Series originally started filming in 1957. A second pilot episode titled ""Secret Experiment"" was made, and was used as the opening instalment of the series. This featured Dr. Peter Brady (who is only ever seen obliquely), who is unwittingly subjected to radiation and turns"
"Scott appeared twice too in the role of Jim Farragut. Child actors Sandy Descher and Bobby Driscoll appeared as war orphans awaiting adoption. Crusader (TV series) Crusader (sometimes erroneously listed as The Crusader) is a half-hour black-and-white American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS for two seasons from October 7, 1955 to December 28, 1956. It was originally sponsored by Camel cigarettes. The series stars Brian Keith as the fictitious free-lance journalist Matt Anders, whose mother's death in a World War II Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied Poland propels him to combat injustices worldwide during the height of the Cold"
"North America as a ""passage"" to the Pacific Ocean. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a metaphor for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode. One of the earlier series telecast in color, ""Northwest Passage"" aired new episodes on NBC from September 14, 1958, to March 13, 1959. Keith Larsen (1924–2006) played the lead role (originally that of Spencer Tracy in the film); Buddy Ebsen (1908–2003), later the star of CBS's ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" and ""Barnaby Jones"", appeared as Sergeant Hunk Marriner (originally played in the film by Walter Brennan,"
"included two films and four television series. The series starred Jack Webb as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Sgt. Ben Romero. Gibney shared announcing responsibilities along with George Fenneman. Gibney, alternating with Fenneman, was known for announcing the opening of the show which went as so: Gibney stayed with the show until its end on the radio on February 26, 1957. Gibney served as the announcer for ""The Penny Singleton Show"". The series premiered as a summer replacement series on May 30, 1950 on NBC radio. The series starred Penny Singleton, Jim Backus and Gale Gordon. He"
"Cotton Bowl (which ended in a scoreless tie). In addition, since Bond was only the star of ""Wagon Train"" and not a producer, he was not responsible for casting. Ward Bond Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and the NBC television series ""Wagon Train"" from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert, the cop, in Frank Capra's ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Ford's ""The Searchers"" (1956). Bond was born in Benkelman in Dundy County, Nebraska. Benkelman"