#greg strangis

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In 1953, Martian invaders in flying ships invaded the Earth and were only stopped by their lack of immunity to Earth germs. (War of the Worlds, flm/ "The Resurrection", War of the Worlds TV)

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Greg Strangis

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Greg Strangis

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Sam Strangis, an Emmy-nominated CSI and CSI: Miami producer and Paramount exec and whose career dates back to classic 1960s and ’70s TV shows including Batman, The Brady Bunch and Happy Days, has died. He was 95.

His family told Deadline that Strangis died July 23 of kidney failure at Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance, CA, but the news had not been reported.

Strangis’ TV career spanned six decades, from directing NBC’s 1957-59 antebellum western The Restless Gun through the wildly successful first two seasons of CBS’ Crime Scene Investigation and spinoff CSI: Miami. He racked up dozens of credits along the way, also serving as Paramount’s VP of TV Production in the mid-’70s.

Born on June 19, 1929, in Tacoma, WA, Strangis began his career as a script supervisor at Revue Studios, leading his directing multiple episodes The Restless Gun. He went on to serve as production manager for the entire 1966-68 run of ABC’s tongue-in-cheek superhero series Batman, also directing some episodes. The show fronted by Adam West and Burt Ward never was a ratings success but gained camp-classic status in reruns.

Strangis then moved to Paramount Studios, where he was head of production and guided such memorable series as The Odd Couple; The Brady Bunch; Love, American Style; Mannix; Mission: Impossible; Happy Days and its spinoff Laverne & Shirley.

With his then-producing partner Don Boyle, Strangis left Paramount to produce Universal’s ambitious new ABC action series The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors. He followed up with several TV movies before returning to Paramount as VP of TV Production. 

Upon leaving Paramount, Strangis established Ten-Four Productions, an independent production company focused primarily on telefilms including Rainbow — the story of Judy Garland as a young star — Rainbow Warrior and Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story.

But Strangis’ biggest successes came late in his career.

He was a co-executive producer on the first two seasons of CBS’ smash drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from 2000-02. The franchise-spawning series starring William Peterson and Marg Helgenberger just missed the year-end primetime Top 10 in its rookie year and finished at No. 2 behind Friends the following season. Strangis shared an Outstanding Drama Series Emmy nom for Season 2 but lost it to The West Wing. He also received a Producers Guild nom for that season and the Kodak Vision Award at the PGA’s 2001 Golden Laurel Awards.

Strangis left the show after Season 2 to work on the David Caruso-led spinoff CSI: Miami, which premiered in September 2002 on CBS and was an out-of-the-box hit. He left the show after that initial season, but as the mothership show reigned as TV’s No. 1 primetime series through 2004-05, CSI: Miami was firmly ensconced in the Top 10. Both would continue to draw large audiences for years to come.

Strangis’ many other series producing credits include syndicated Soldier of Fortune, Inc. and War of the Worlds and CBS sitcom Harper Valley P.T.A. Earlier in his career, he served as second unit or assistant director on CBS’ The Loner and ABC’s The Patty Duke Show and The New Breed.

Strangis is survived by his wife, Bonnie; daughter Debi; producer sons Gary and Greg; sisters Judy and Cindy; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Gary Strangis is a two-time Emmy-winning producer of The Practice, and Greg Strangis worked on such series as Falcon Crest and Eight Is Enough.

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Hermit’s Lair - Human Antithesis https://t.me/Human_Antithesis

Pantheist - Closer To God (December 3rd, 2021) Country: United Kingdom Genres: Funeral Doom Metal, Progressive Doom Metal Format: FLAC

Lineup:

Kostas Panagiotou - Vocals, Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar

Jeremy Lewis - Guitars, Percussion (Track 2)

Frédéric Laborde - Guitars (Tracks 1 - 4)

Matt Strangis - Bass

John Devos - Drums

Guest/Session:

Andrei Oltean - Recorder, Flute

Miscellaneous Staff:

Cheryl Panagiotou - Artwork

Jeremy Lewis - Mixing

Greg Chandler - Mastering

Label: Melancholic Realm Productions

Tracklist:

Strange Times - 23:47

Erroneous Elation - 04:10

Wilderness - 12:59

Of Stardust We Are Made (And to Dust We Shall Return) - 06:44

Shadow of the Hierophant (Steve Hackett Cover) - 09:27

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The Land of the Lost, “Medusa” (1976)

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Baby Yoda Fan Art by Greg Strangis https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5X54aW

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Baby Yoda Fan Art by Greg Strangis (gregs on artstation)

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The 16th episode of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl marked the end of the series on December 25, 1976. ("Return of the Pharoh Part 2", Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, TV, event)

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Greg Strangis

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218: I Have This Piece of Paper

Proto-TNG and the Pike Memo.

We’ve all heard the stories about how Star Trek: The Next Generation was created. Or have we? While rummaging through Gene Roddenberry’s drawers, Larry Nemecek, John Champion, and Rod Roddenberry uncovered a long-lost memo from 1986 that presents a TNG that is very different from the one we know. The document, prepared by Paramount Network Television President John S. Pike, Greg Strangis, Jeff Hayes, and Rick Berman, outlines a premise, crew, and pilot for Star Trek’s return to television that until now was unknown.

In this episode of The Ready Room, C Bryan Jones and Larry Nemecek bring you an extended discussion about the document featured in episode four of Larry’s podcast, The Trek Files. We imagine what the adventures of Captain Rhon, Cadet Commander Brik, the painfully beautiful Helen Joyce, and the USS Odyssey might have been like—and why the security of the galaxy might depend on young Klingon officer Mynk and a simple piece of paper.

In our news segment, we look at Star Trek: Discovery’s nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in the GLADD Media Awards, given by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, a new book filled with lost scenes from The Original Series, and Larry shares his thoughts on a subject he’s very passionate: Tellarites.

News Intro (00:00:00) A GLADD Media Awards Nomination for Discovery (00:06:19) Those Discovery Tellarites (00:15:52) Star Trek Lost Scenes (00:25:18)

Feature: Proto-TNG and the Pike Memo Background (00:35:45) The Purpose of the Memo (00:39:03) The TNG Announcement (00:46:02) Concept and Crew (00:49:36) Let’s Remember 1986 (00:54:55) Character Parallels with Other Trek (01:02:54) Pilot Premise (01:12:41) Final Thoughts (01:22:39) Closing (01:35:08)

Hosts C Bryan Jones and Larry Nemecek

Production C Bryan Jones (Editor and Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Renee Roberts (Associate Producer) Zachary Fruhling (Associate Producer) Sam Piassick (Associate Producer) Kay Elizabeth Shaw (Associate Producer) Tim Robertson (Associate Producer) David Shuford (Associate Producer) Joo Kim (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)

New podcast episode:

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Lampago by Greg Strangis https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lxOWlG

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War of the Worlds: The Series

Told you I’d have two trailers!  Earlier, I mentioned the War of the Worlds TV series.  Well, I know it’s for a TV pilot rather than a movie, but why not, let’s have this on here.  This show was developed from Greg Strangis as a sequel to the 1953 film version, although this set up does raise quite a few issues.  For a start, the whole body-snatching things does come a bit out of nowhere, there wasn’t any hint of that in the original movie.  Also, they do make a plot point about this in the show, but an apocalyptic alien invasion happens and pretty much no-one remembers any of this?  Oh, and they’re not Martians anymore, they are called the Mor-Tax.  Yeah, it seems that they really had to bend over backwards to make this work with the continuity.

Apart from all this, the show is a lot of fun.  It’s pretty cheesy in that pre-X-Files sci-fi TV way, but with quite a dark streak going through this.  The violence, gore and body-horror at parts was on a par with the horror movies of the time.  I first saw this age 11, and one episode featured an alien possessed human being locked in a decompression chamber, and exploding in the vaccum!  Dude!  Add to that a very dark sense of humour, and it was a memorable show.  In the same episode, you can have scenes of eyes gouged out and head squished by an alien third arm, and Native American spirit magic (yes, really!) being used to destroy an alien Tripod.  Oh yeah, and it paid tribute to some of other versions of the story, like a visit to the town of Grover’s Mill where the Orson Welles radio version was set.

Unfortunately, this whole thing was derailed by the second season, which retooled things to the point it was unrecognisable, with massive confusion over if the aliens are the same ones or not.  This is really disappointing as the finale of season one ended with a cliffhanger that would have been really interesting if it had been followed up properly.   Ah well, we did get one fun season out of it, worth having a look if you can find the box-set.

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War of the Worlds (1988)

About to be worn like a human suit.

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In 1988, terrorists accidentally awaken Martian invaders from the original War of the Worlds invasion. By accidentally exposing the Martians to radioactive waste the germs were killed that kept the aliens dormant. This time around the aliens decided to invade a little lower key and reveal that they have the ability to take human bodies as disguises. A survivor of the original attack is soon wise to their reappearance and starts to hunt them with his colleagues and military handler. ("The Resurrection", War of the Worlds, TV)