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Household Chores Helper “The Gorilla” (1966)

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52 years ago today, March 23, 1971, the final episode of The Beverly Hillbillies aired. It originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from September 26, 1962 to March 23, 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

The series is about a poor backwoods family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of "fish out of water" television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS. In 1963, Henning introduced Petticoat Junction, and in 1965 he reversed the rags-to-riches model for Green Acres. Panned by many entertainment critics in its time, it quickly became a huge ratings success for most of its nine-year run on CBS.

The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched television episodes of all time. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. The series remains in syndication on MeTV, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox.

In 1997, the episode "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" was ranked #62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

The Beverly Hillbillies was one of the very few network situation comedies to feature multi-episode story arcs and was among the earliest farce comedy series on American television.

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The Beverly Hillbillies, 1962 (serial) Episode 4

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy television series 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…

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Bad movie I have The Addams Family: Relatively Freaky Season one vol. one 1964

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Rhodes Productions - A Filmways Company

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1975

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A Filmways Television Presentation - 1961.

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18 de Setiembre en #1964 Se cumple 55 años se emitió el primer episodio de #TheAddamsFamily (Los Locos Addams), fue una serie de televisión estadounidense, de comedia infantil y fantasía, que se emitió por la red de televisión ABC desde 1964 hasta #1966. La serie estuvo basada en las caricaturas que Charles Addams había publicado en el The New Yorker, y que fueron adaptadas para la televisión por el productor David Levy. Constó de sesenta y cuatro capítulos de treinta minutos de duración, filmados en blanco y negro y emitidos en la cadena ABC, del 18 de septiembre de 1964 al 8 de abril de 1966. Suele ser comparada con su rival de la cadena de televisión CBS, The Munsters. Esta serie fue la primera adaptación de los personajes de The Addams Family en incluir la famosa melodía característica. The #Addams Family fue producida inicialmente por Filmways, Inc. en General Service Studios en Hollywood, California. La compañía que la sucedió, MGM Television, tiene los derechos del programa. #Collage #ProgramaCollage #Cine #Historiadecine #revistacollage #magazine #series #televisión (en Montevideo, Uruguay) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ooavkAxK9/?igshid=lftbzlgtvwzi

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A Filmways Television Presentation: Mr. Ed (1962).

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Gomez Addams (John Astin) is madly in love with his refined wife, Morticia (Carolyn Jones).

The Addams Family is an American macabre/black comedy sitcom based on the characters from Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. The 30-minute television series was created by David Levy and Donald Saltzman and shot in black-and-white, airing for two seasons on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8, 1966, for a total of 64 episodes. The show is also notable for its opening theme, which was composed and sung by Vic Mizzy.

The show was originally produced by head writer Nat Perrin for Filmways, Inc., at General Service Studios in Hollywood, California. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television now owns the rights to the show.

Genre  Sitcom, Comedy horror Created by  David Levy Based on  The Addams Family by Charles Addams Starring  Carolyn Jones John Astin Jackie Coogan Ted Cassidy Blossom Rock Ken Weatherwax Lisa Loring Opening theme  Vic Mizzy Country of origin  United States Original language  English No. of seasons 2 No. of episodes 64 (List of episodes)

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Green-Eyed Gomez - Original airdate: November 6, 1964

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SNL Syndication & Home Video Releases - 1980s

If you enjoy 70s SNL, then this era was made just for you. Syndication was really good for that era of SNL during this decade.  You got 30 minute and 60 minute Best of Saturday Night Live, they were just compilations of the best sketches from that era. Though in some cases, they did run edited one hour versions of SNL episodes.  The heavily edited 30 minute versions were more favored by local stations as they ran shorter.  These were the ones that were eventually picked up by Nick at Nite in 1988 and ran for two years on their schedule (On a side note, that was my first exposure to SNL). 

In 1979, Lorne Michaels launched Broadway Video. The beginnings of this company was mainly in video post-production but NBC partnered up with them to produce compilation specials of SNL to air in prime time (The Best of Saturday Night Live came from this partnership). It should be noted that NBC owns the copyright to SNL. Syndication rights to 1970s SNL were originally acquired by Filmways Television, then Orion, and later on MGM. Everything 1980s and onward were held by Broadway Video.  It does get a bit confusing as to who owns distribution rights around this time period as it bounced around a bit, but nowadays NBC fully owns both the copyright and full syndication rights.

In the 1980s, SNL would find a lot of success on the home video market by producing “Best of” compilations based around cast members and hosts like John Belushi, Gilda Radner, and Steve Martin. Also producing “Best Of” compilations on entire seasons too. Mainly, all of their compilations were from 70s SNL though in later years they would branch out to produce more for the late 80s and early 90s. There are so many of these VHS releases put out on the market in the 1980s, a lot of them only released through VHS and never were re-released on any other format, so if you want “The Best of Chevy Chase”, you’ll never see it anywhere except if you can find the VHS version. As mentioned above, some of these issues are due to the fact that distribution rights are pretty mixed up. For some releases throughout the 1980s, you had Warner Home Video and Paramount, I believe Starmaker Entertainment had the rights in the 1990s.  Though, by the time we get to the 2000s era, the majority of the ownership went to Lions Gate.  They actually re-released a couple of the Best Ofs with updated material. Though I’ll get more into Lions Gate and all of that once I get to the 2000s era.

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Petticoat Junction E11, Uncle Joe's Replacement 1963. Greetings to all. Follow us for the best variety of classic films and cartoons. Storyline-When Kate and the girls go into town to pick up the pocket watch they ordered through Drucker's store - the watch being Uncle Joe's birthday present - Kate, in an effort to boost Herby's confidence, he who is working for Sam, inadvertently offers him a job as Assistant Manager at the hotel, with an imminent promotion to Manager. Herby readily accepts. Kate doesn't have the heart not to give him the job, so she decides that she can give him some menial tasks at the hotel under the guise of the important sounding position. However, Uncle Joe believes that Herby's arrival and Kate not wanting him to go into town with her and the girls among other things means that Herby is his professional replacement at the hotel and Kate is setting him out to pasture against his will. Wanting to feel useful while doing something important, Uncle Joe goes in search of a job. He gets one, telling everyone that he is an executive with some large company. Knowing that he's probably earning money in some low level job, Kate comes up with a scheme that will make Uncle Joe's wish to be an executive come true. However, that scheme backfires, which sets in motion a deal between Kate and Sam to bring life in the valley for both Uncle Joe and Herby back into equilibrium.Petticoat Junction is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970.[1] The series takes place at the Shady Rest Hotel, which is run by Kate Bradley, her three daughters Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo, and her uncle Joe Carson. The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters produced by Paul Henning. Petticoat Junction was created upon the success of Henning's previous rural/urban-themed sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971). The success of Petticoat Junction led to a spin-off, Green Acres (1965–1971). Petticoat Junction was produced by Wayfilms (a joint venture of Filmways Television and Pen-Ten Productions).Created by Paul HenningRuth HenningStarring Bea BenaderetEdgar BuchananLinda Kaye HenningJeannine RileyPat WoodellGunilla HuttonLori SaundersMeredith MacRaeSmiley BurnetteJimmy HawkinsCharles LaneRufe DavisFrank CadyMike MinorElna Danelle HubbellJune LockhartJonathan DalyHigginsCountry of origin United StatesNo. of seasons 7No. of episodes 222 (List of episodes)ProductionExecutive producer(s) Jay SommersCharles StewartCamera setup Single-cameraRunning time 25 minutesProduction company(s) Wayfilms, Inc.The CBS Television NetworkDistributor CBS Enterprises(1970-1971)Viacom Enterprises(1971-1994)Paramount Domestic Television(1994-2006)CBS Paramount Domestic Television(2006-2007)CBS Television Distribution(2007-present)ReleaseOriginal network CBSPicture format Black-and-white(1963–65)Color(1965–1970)

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The Beverly Hillbillies, 1962 (serial) Episode 3

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy television series 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…

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Having figured out a way to bring a talking horse to television without attracting the ire of Universal Pictures, Arthur Lubin began taking his George Burns produced Mister Ed pilot to the networks. Would they be as optimistic about the show’s viability as he was?

Of course, they would not. Mr. Lubin had put so much effort behind this show that he wasn’t willing to take no for an answer. Taking some of the notes he had received from the networks, he re-cast Wilbur and reshot the pilot with new new actor: Alan Young. This time, he teamed up with Filmways Productions and sought to produce the show in syndication.

A syndicated television show has to be sold town to town, which can be quite a daunting challenge. A network show only has to be sold once - to the television network - which then requires its affiliates to air the show. With no such backing, Filmways had to find enough stations across the country that would be willing to carry the show to make its production worthwhile. Arthur Lubin personally took on this challenge, selling Mister Ed to local stations himself. The gambit worked and Mister Ed premiered in 1961.

The show was a huge success, proving Arthur Lubin correct. The show’s seemingly instant success prompted CBS to make a rare decision- it was picking up Mister Ed’s second season. Most of the time, shows go from network television to syndication. This amazing horse would do the opposite- a huge sign of its initial success.

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Filmways Studio, New York

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Martin Ransohoff, 90, Producer Of Classic '60s Sitcoms And Feature Films

Among the evergreen television series his company, Filmways Television, produced were Mister Ed, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Addams Family; the titles he produced for the big screen included Save the Tiger, Catch-22, The Cincinnati Kid (he fired Sam Peckinpah as director and replaced him with Norman Jewison), and The Americanization of Emily.

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