In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit... thus began "The A-Team," Steven J. Cannell's cult hit, which ran on NBC for five seasons. Originally conceived as a vehicle for up-and-coming action star, Mr. T, the show's comic book violence, off-the-wall characters and dangerous situations made it an instant hit.
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Named by Time magazine as one of "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" originally debuted in 1955 as a half-hour anthology series, hosted by iconic film director Alfred Hitchcock. In September of 1962, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," was extended to a full hour and renamed "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour." Another 93 episodes were produced, and the show continued to run through 1965.
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Originally conceived in the 1960s as a project called "Adam's Ark" by series Creator and Executive Producer Glen A. Larson, the shortened pilot for "Battlestar Galactica" was first released as a feature film in July of 1978. At $7 million, "Battlestar" was the biggest-budgeted pilot ever at the time with the price tag of subsequent episodes hovering around $1 million each.
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Based upon the classic comic strip character of the 1920s, which itself was based on novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan, "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was first presented as a feature film in 1979. Later that year, series Creator and Executive Producer Glen A. Larson debuted the series as a follow-up to his "Battlestar Galactica."
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Infamous for his portrayal of Sergeant Joe Friday in his television series "Dragnet," Jack Webb founded Mark VII Productions in 1951, which produced "Emergency!" Based on the daily adventures of Los Angeles County Fire Department's fictional Squad 51, "Emergency!" highlighted the then unknown profession of paramedic.
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Legend has it that in the early 1980s, NBC Entertainment Chief Brandon Tartikoff brainstormed a series with two words - MTV cops. Originally entitled "Gold Coast," the two-hour pilot met its match in Executive Producer Michael Mann, now recognized as the contemporary master of neo-noir.
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In his follow-up to "The Twilight Zone," series creator Rod Serling narrated an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum of the bizarre. Each week Serling presented audiences with a chilling work of art, which served as the connective link between that episode's three stories.
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