Mason Adams

Mason Adams

Born: February 26, 1919
Died: April 26, 2005

Movies for Mason Adams...

American Eats: History on a Bun
Title: American Eats: History on a Bun
Character: Narrator
Released: April 30, 2006
Type: Movie
The history behind America's most popular foods.
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Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait
Title: Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait
Character: Narrator
Released: October 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Biography of the American Painter and Illustrator, Norman Rockwell.
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Title: The West Wing
Character: Justice Joseph Crouch
Released: September 22, 1999
Type: TV
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
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Life Among the Cannibals
Title: Life Among the Cannibals
Character: Francis
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Jasper James decides to leave his girlfriend and moves into a very large house with low rent but gradually discovers that his neighbor Troy has a very strange behavior.
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Title: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Character: Mr. Trapwell (segment "The Scoop")
Released: November 4, 1998
Type: TV
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
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The Lesser Evil
Title: The Lesser Evil
Character: Derek's Father
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Four best friends reunite in a remote cabin for the first time in two decades. They are not there to reminisce about the good old days, but rather, to sort out the deadly details of one fateful afternoon in their past, when they all skipped school - and their lives were altered forever. Now the haunting truth has caught up with them, along with the reality that they are probably heading for jail. But in the soul-searching angst of deciding right from wrong, the though of going down after all this time seems incomprehensible. And with the authorities hot on their trail, the old friends quickly realize that someone has to pay and their only option to remain free is to sacrifice the only thing they've held on to for years... each other!
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Title: From the Earth to the Moon
Character: Clinton Anderson
Released: April 5, 1998
Type: TV
The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.
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Hudson River Blues
Title: Hudson River Blues
Released: December 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.
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Title: Oz
Character: Mr. Hoyt
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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Touch
Title: Touch
Character: Father Nestor
Released: February 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Down-and-out former preacher Bill Hill witnesses stranger Juvenal save a woman from her abusive husband by defusing the latter's anger — and ending his wife's blindness. Determined to profit from Juvenal's mystical powers, Bill asks an old friend, Lynn Faulkner, to sneak into the Alcoholics Anonymous facility where Juvenal works as a counselor, but she finds herself falling for the healer.
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Title: Murder One
Character: Sidney Pomerantz
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: TV
Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a much-publicised murder trial, he is now involved in the defense of Neil Avedon, a famous young actor who has been suffering from severe drug and alcohol problems - and has been charged with the murder for which Cross was acquitted.
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Not of This Earth
Title: Not of This Earth
Character: Dr. Rochelle
Released: September 5, 1995
Type: Movie
An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
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Houseguest
Title: Houseguest
Character: Mr. Pike
Released: January 6, 1995
Type: Movie
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Title: Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Character: Henry D. Hyde
Released: February 26, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
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Son in Law
Title: Son in Law
Character: Walter Warner Sr.
Released: July 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
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Title: Class of '96
Character: President Harris
Released: January 19, 1993
Type: TV
Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the University of Toronto.
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Buying a Landslide
Title: Buying a Landslide
Character: Bob Rutherford
Released: September 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne, ex Democrat turned Republican. But Tyne is alarmed by an unexpected twist in the Partin campaign and reacts in devastating fashion.
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Toy Soldiers
Title: Toy Soldiers
Character: Deputy Director Brown
Released: April 24, 1991
Type: Movie
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
Title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
Character: Frank Halloran
Released: February 11, 1991
Type: Movie
A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not the murderer in this case Perry Mason intents to find the killer...
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It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Title: It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 14, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.
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Title: Family Matters
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: TV
A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
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Title: Knight & Daye
Character: Everett Daye
Released: July 8, 1989
Type: TV
Knight & Daye is an NBC television sitcom that ran for only seven episodes in the summer of 1989. The show was about Hank and Everett, two former friends that hadn't spoken to each other in years after Everett married the woman they were both interested in, but are reunited for a radio talk show. Their bickering proves to be a ratings bonanza.
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Title: Monsters
Released: October 22, 1988
Type: TV
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons. In a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode of Monsters featured a different monster which the story concerned, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats. Similar to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were rarely very straightforward action plots and often contained some ironic twist in which a character's conceit or greed would do him in, often with gruesome results. Adding to this was a sense of comedy often lost on horror productions which might in some instances lighten the audience's mood but in many cases added to the overall eeriness of the production.
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Title: Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Character: Francis Ryan
Released: November 2, 1986
Type: TV
When mobster James Moretti is about to be indicted, one of his people thinks he can get to Adam J. Warner, the Vice President to stop it. So he arranges for lawyer Jennifer Parker to get a job at a prestigious law firm. He knows Parker had an affair with Warner and Warner is the father of her son. When she meets him, she has nothing but contempt for him because his brother tried to kill her. Moretti thinks that Parker owes him, so he tells her to tell Warner to stop the indictment. Parker reconnects with Warner much to the consternation of his wife.
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Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Title: Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Character: Father Francis Ryan
Released: November 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Jennifer's life changes when Warner, now Vice President of the United States, decides to see her and her son, Joshua. At the same time, Jennifer is unaware that James Moretti, an underworld figure, holds her responsible for the death of his brother. Moretti determines to blackmail her and Warner into halting a Justice Department indictment against another underworld figure. Further complicating Jennifer's life is her mother, who abandoning her as a child, reappears with a new identity, Marchesa Allabrandi.
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Who Is Julia?
Title: Who Is Julia?
Character: Dr. Gordon
Released: October 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
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Walt Disney World: A Dream Come True
Title: Walt Disney World: A Dream Come True
Character: Narrator
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A historical perspective of the creation of Walt Disney World.
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Northstar
Title: Northstar
Character: Dr. Karl Janss
Released: August 9, 1986
Type: Movie
An astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.
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Title: Morningstar/Eveningstar
Released: March 25, 1986
Type: TV
Retirement-home residents share their quarters with displaced kids after their orphanage is destroyed by fire. One of the youngsters was played by Fred Savage, whose next series was `The Wonder Years.'
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Title: Matlock
Character: Bob Ranier
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: TV
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
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Under Siege
Title: Under Siege
Character: Geoffrey Wiggins
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: Movie
Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in Washington DC. FBI probes indicate that the attack is by Arab terrorists led by Iranians. Subsequent attacks are via airplanes exploded in mid-air, crowded restaurants, and an attack on a mall. Administration cabinet heads push the President to retaliate. The director of the FBI believes that there may be more to the story than the investigation has revealed and the Secretary of Defense is the only other person urging caution.
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F/X
Title: F/X
Character: Col. Mason
Released: February 7, 1986
Type: Movie
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
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The Whimsical World of Oz
Title: The Whimsical World of Oz
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A promotional piece for the Disney film "Return to Oz", that also traces the history of the Oz books and films.
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The Night They Saved Christmas
Title: The Night They Saved Christmas
Character: Sumner Murdock
Released: December 13, 1984
Type: Movie
An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her children to convince her husband (who works for the company) that the first site is where the oil they want is. Along the way, Santa explains all his secrets in delivering presents all around the world.
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Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Title: Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Character: Ford
Released: December 11, 1984
Type: Movie
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
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Passions
Title: Passions
Character: Ron Sandler
Released: October 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Roger Philby
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Adam
Title: Adam
Character: Ray Mellette
Released: October 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh deal with their grief in front of the whole country when their son, Adam, is abducted and later found dead.
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Great Day
Title: Great Day
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Michael Preece.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Professor Lloyd Rhodes
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat
Title: The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat
Character: The Cat in the Hat / Narrator
Released: May 20, 1982
Type: Movie
The Cat in the Hat is all set for a lovely picnic, but the evil Grinch changes his plans by inventing a contraption that captures noise and makes it sound ferocious. The Cat has to save the world from the clutches of the Grinch and the only way to do it is to reach Grinch's soft spot.
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The Kid with the Broken Halo
Title: The Kid with the Broken Halo
Character: Harry Tannenbaum
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. He keeps messing up and causing trouble in angel training. The archangel, Michael, decides to give him one more shot. His mission: Help out the problems of three cases. First, the Desautel family, who are on the edge of breaking up. Then, the McNulty family, who are workaholics. Finally, Dorothea Powell who is a secluded, grumpy old woman. Andy's guide on earth is Blake, who is none too thrilled to work with Andy.
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The Final Conflict
Title: The Final Conflict
Character: President
Released: March 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.
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Revenge of the Stepford Wives
Title: Revenge of the Stepford Wives
Character: Wally
Released: October 12, 1980
Type: Movie
A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that Stepford is not as clean-cut as it seems.
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Murder Can Hurt You!
Title: Murder Can Hurt You!
Character: Willie the Wino
Released: May 21, 1980
Type: Movie
A private eye spoof that sends up assorted TV detectives from Ironside, Columbo and Kojak to Baretta, McCloud and Starsky and Hutch, as eight bumbling super-sleuths band together in a battle of wits against the devilishly clever Master Criminal.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Character: Elmo Tyson
Released: May 12, 1980
Type: Movie
A carnival drifter marries into an aristocratic family and unwillingly takes on a ruthless sheriff who fancies himself a political kingmaker in this pilot film to the later series.
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A Shining Season
Title: A Shining Season
Character: Dr. Ed Johnson
Released: December 26, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls' track team to a winning season.
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And Baby Makes Six
Title: And Baby Makes Six
Character: Dr. Eliot Losen
Released: October 22, 1979
Type: Movie
A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Richard Simmons
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: Lou Grant
Character: Charlie Hume
Released: September 20, 1977
Type: TV
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Title: Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Character: Grandpa (voice)
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Raggedy Ann and Andy leave their playroom to rescue Babette, a beautiful French doll kidnapped by a pirate.
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The Deadliest Season
Title: The Deadliest Season
Character: Bill Cavins
Released: March 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
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God Told Me To
Title: God Told Me To
Character: Obstetrician
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
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The Happy Hooker
Title: The Happy Hooker
Character: The Banker with Chris
Released: May 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
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Title: Another World
Released: May 4, 1964
Type: TV
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.
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Title: Decoy
Character: Bill Wendover
Released: October 14, 1957
Type: TV
New York City policewoman Casey Jones' assignment to fight crime often entails her going undercover in some of the seediest and most dangerous parts of the city. Decoy is a groundbreaking American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with thirty-nine 30-minute black-and-white episodes. It was the first American police series with a female protagonist. Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain.
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Title: The Phil Silvers Show
Character: GI Engineer Walter Maxwell (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, was a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army. The series was created and largely written by Nat Hiken, and won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series. The show is sometimes titled Sergeant Bilko or simply Bilko in reruns, and is very often referred to by these names, both on-screen and by viewers. The show's success transformed Silvers from a journeyman comedian into a star, and writer-producer Hiken from a highly-regarded behind-the-scenes comedy writer into a publicly recognized creator.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Mr. Watkins
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Mr. Bell
Title: Mr. Bell
Character: Thomas Watson
Released: March 13, 1947
Type: Movie
This is 1947 biography movie about how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Augustus Watson invented the first discernible speech, transmitted over a telephone.