development season
DeVito, Danny
Dharma & Greg
Dick Van Dyke Show, The
Different World, A
Diff’rent Strokes
DiFranco, Ani
digital delivery
Diller, Barry
Diller, Ralph
Director, Roger
Disney, Roy
Disney-ABC
See also
ABC
Disney Channel
Disney Company (Walt)
Disney Feature Animation (Walt)
domestic market
Donna Reed Show, The
Dos Passos, John
Dougherty, Joe
Doyle, Tim
“dramedy” genre
DreamWorks
Dreiser, Theodore
Drew Carey Show, The
Driscoll, Mark
Duggan, Michael
Dukes of Hazzard, The
DVDs
Dytman, Jack
E
Earth 2
Earth: Final Conflict
earthquakes of 1992 and 1994
Ed
Ehrin, Kerry
Eisner, Michael
Electra, Carmen
Ellen
Ellis, Bret Easton
Emmy awards
Empty Nest
Entertainment Weekly
Entourage
Entous, Barry
Equalizer, The
ER
Eve
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
executive producers
executive script consultants
executive story consultant
executive story editor
F
Fall Guy, The
Falsey, John
Family Law
Family Matters
Family Ties
Fante, John
Fattore, Gina
FCC
Fear Factor
Felicity
Ferber, Bruce
Ferrer, Heidi
films
Financial Interest and Syndication
(“Fin-Syn”) rules
repealed
Fincannon, Lisa and Craig
first-run syndication
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flint, Carol
Flintstones, The
Fontana, Tom
Ford Motors
foreign markets
Forman, Chaka
For Your Love
48 Hours
Fowler, Mark
Fox, Michael J.
Fox, Rick
Fox Broadcasting Company
Cable Networks
local stations
Fox Television
Frank’s Place
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Freddy’s Nightmares
freelancers
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The
Friends
Fries, Charles
“fronts,”
Frost, Mark
Fuchs, Daniel
Full White (Blue, Pink)
Funt, Allen
G
Gansa, Alex
General Electric
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilliland, Eric
Gilmore Girls
Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour,
The
Glory Days
Goldberg, Gary David
golden age of television second
Golden Girls, The
Goldman, Wendy
Goldman, William
Goldsmith, Josh
Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
Good Times
Goodyear Television Playhouse
Gordon, Jill
Gosselaar, Mark-Paul
Grace Under Fire
Green Acres
Greenstein, Jeff
Gretzky, Wayne
Grey’s Anatomy
Grossi, Len
Grounded for Life
Growing Pains
H
Haggis, Paul
Hair & Makeup trailer
Hall, Barbara
Hall, Brad
Hamilton, Anne Lewis
Hammett, Dashiell
Hanks, Tom
Happy Days
Harbinson, Patrick
Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardy Boys Mysteries, The
Harmon, Angie
Harris, Mel
Harrison, Jim
Harry and the Hendersons
Hart to Hart
Harvard Lampoon
Have Faith
Hawaiian Heat
HBO
Head of the Class
Hee Haw
Helford, Bruce
Hellman, Lillian
Herskovitz, Marshall
Hertz, Tom
Hervey, Winnie
Hill Street Blues
Hispanic writers
Hoffman, Dustin
“Hollywood Ten,”
Hollywood Writers Report
Holmes, Katie
Home Front
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
Hooperman
House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC)
Houston Knights
Hsiao, Rita
Huff
Humanitas Awards
Hunter
Hunter, Holly
Hunter, Ian McLellan
Hyperion Bay
I
I’ll Fly Away
I Love Lucy
independent production companies
Infinity radio stations
in-flight usage fees
International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees Local
(Cartoonists’ Union)
International Creative Management
(ICM)
Internet
Dear John
interracial kiss
It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
J
Jack and Jill
Jackson, Josh
Jake and the Fatman
Jamie Foxx Show, The
Janollari, David
J. Crew
Jeffersons, The
J.J. Starbuck, Private Eye
Jonas, Tony
Josiah’s Canon
Judd, Ashley
Judge, Mike
Jung, Carl
Junge, Alexa
Justice League of America
Just in Time
Just Shoot Me!
K
Kapinos, Tom
Katz, Evan
Katzenberg, Jeffrey
Kazan, Elia
Kelley, David E.
Kellner, Jamie
Kellner, Melissa
Kelly, David
Kemp, Barry
Keyser, Chris
King, Jeff
King, Rodney
King of Queens, The
King of the Hill
Klein, Paul
Klugman, Jack
Klum, Heidi
Knight Rider
Koch, Howard
Kohan, Buz
Kohan, David
Kozoll, Michael
Kraft Television Theatre
Kurland, Norm
Kurtz, Swoosie
L
labor unions
See also Writers Guild of America
L.A. Doctors
L.A. Law
Lardner, Ring
Latham, Lynn
Laurents, Arthur
Law and Harry McGraw, The
L.A. Weekly
Law & Order
Law & Order: CI
Law & Order: SVU
Lawson, Bianca
Lawson, John Howard
Lear, Norman
Leave It to Beaver
Lechowick, Bernie
Legends of the Fall (Harrison)
Le Lay, Patrick<
br />
Levin, Jordan
Levin, Mark
Levinson, Richard
Levitan, Steven
license fees
Lifetime network
Lipman, Dan
Lippman, Amy
literary boutiques
Litvack, John
Long, Rob
LOP (Least Objectionable Programming)
Lorre, Chuck
Los Angeles Times
Lost
Lou Grant
Lowe, Chad
Lowry, Brian
M
MacGruder and Loud
MacGyver
Mad About You
Maggie Winters
Magnum, P.I.
MAGR (modified adjusted gross revenues)
Mahern, Michael
Major Dad
Make Room for Daddy
Malcolm in the Middle
Manimal
Manning, Paul
Mark, Bonnie
Marlens, Neal
Married…with Children
Martial Law
Marty
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Mary Tyler Moore
M*A*S*H*
Masius, John
Matlock
Matt Houston
Maude
Mayberry R.F.D.
Mazza, Tom
McCoy
McHale’s Navy
McInerey, Jay
McKee, Robert
McLuhan, Marshall
McRaney, Gerald “Mackie,”
Medium
“meet ’n’ greet,”
Melrose Place
Melvoin, Jeff
merchandising
See also product placement
Meyer, Marlene
MGM
Miami Vice
Midnight Caller
Mike Hammer
Milch, David
Millennium
Miller, Arthur
minority writers
Minow, Newton N.
MIPCOM
Mirkin, David
Mittleman, Rick
momentum
Moonlighting
Moore, Mary Tyler
Mosko, Steve
MTM Enterprises
MTV
Munsters Today, The
Murder, She Wrote
Murdoch, Rupert
Murphy Brown
Muscle
Music Corporation of America
(MCA)
Mutchnick, Max
My Name Is Earl
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
N
Nanny, The
Nannyand the Professor
narrowcasting
National Labor Relations Board
NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives)
NBC
NBCP (NBC Productions)
Network
networking
Newhart
News Corp.
NewsRadio
New Yorker
New York Observer
New York Times
Nichols, Nichelle
Nicholson, Jack
Nickelodeon
Nielsen ratings
Night Court
nonunion productions and writers (nonscripted shows)
nonwriting executive producer (EPs)
Northern Exposure
Noticiero Univision
Noveck, Lanny
NYPD Blue
O
Oakley, Bill
Odd Couple, The
Odets, Clifford
off first–run syndication
Office, The
off-network syndication
Ogilvy & Mather
Ohara
Okie, Rick
one-hour dramas
One on One
One Tree Hill
On the Waterfront
Oprah
Overmyer, Eric
Ovitz, Mike
Oz
P
packaging
Palone, Gavin
Paltrow, Bruce
Paramount
Paramount Digital Entertainment
Parent ’Hood, The
Parents Television Council
Parker, Dorothy
Partners in Crime
Party of Five
Pasadena
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
Peil, Mary Beth
Perry, Mark
Pet Rock Productions
Petticoat Junction
Philco Playhouse
Phyllis
Picket Fences
Pickett, Cindy
Pickford, Mary
pickup season
Piller, Michael
pilot(s): development season
downturn of
and
presentation tapes
production season
staffing season and
writing, in
season
pitching
Pittsburgh Press
Playhouse 90
POD (producer overall deal)
Pollack, Sydney
Pollack, Tom
Pomerantz, Earl
Popular
Practice, The
Prange, Greg
Prey
producer
See also nonwriting
producer (cont.) executive producer; writer-producers production schedule
product placement and integration
Profiler
program fees
Providence
R
race issue
Rae, Cassidy
Rain Man
Reagan, Ronald
reality TV
Real World, The
recession of 1994
recurring-character payments
Redstone, Sumner
Reilly, Kevin
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
residuals
Rhimes, Shonda
Rhoda
Ricki Lake Show, The
Riordan, Richard
Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Riptide
Risky Business
Robbins, Michael
Robbins, Tom
Roberts, Eric
Rockford Files, The
Roman Holiday
Romano, John
Ronn, David
Room
Room for Two
Rose, Reginald
Roseanne
Rosenthal, David
Rosenthal, Phil
Roswell
Rothman, Robb
Rothman-Brecher
S
Sackheim, William
Sarnoff, Mr.
satellite networks
satellite TV
Savalas, Telly
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scherick, Jay
Schneider, Bonnie
Schulberg, Budd
Screen Actors Guild
Screen Gems
screenwriters
Screen Writers Guild (SWG)
Scrubs
Second Time Around
Secret of My Success, The
Seinfeld
earnings of
September
attacks
Serling, Rod
7th Heaven
Sex and the City
Shatner, William
Sheinberg, Bill
Sheinberg, Sid
Shell Game
Shepard, Scott
Sherman-Palladino, Amy
She’s Having a Baby
Shield, The
showrunner
actors and
Dawson’s and
defined
demographics of
importance of
specs and
staffing season and
story room and
training of
Showtime
Sikowitz, Mike
&n
bsp; Silbermann, Chris
Silverman, Fred
Simms, Paul
Simon & Simon
Simpson, Nicole Brown
Simpson, O.J.
Simpsons, The
Singer, Robert
Single Guy, The
Sisters
sitcom: demise of
invention of
production schedule
and writing of
writers of, and dramedy
60 Minutes
Slap Maxwell Story, The
Sledge Hammer!
Smirnoff, Yakov
Songs of Dawson’s Creek (CDs)
Sons and Daughters
Sony
returns to TV business
shuts down Columbia TriStar
Sony Consumer Products
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Television
Sopranos, The
South, Frank
Soviet Union, collapse of
spec scripts
market for
staffing season and
Spelling, Aaron
Spenser: for Hire
Spielberg, Steven
Spike TV
Spin City
Sports Night
staffing season
staff writers: compensation for
getting job as
race, sex, and age biases and
record seasons for, in 1990s
reduction of
sitcom schedule and script development by
Standards and Practices
Starr, Darren
Starsky & Hutch
star system
Star Trek
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
Steinberg, Doug
St. Elsewhere
Stepakoff, Charlotte
Stepakoff, Elizabeth
Stepakoff, Sophie
Stern, Daniel
Stern, Leonard
Steve Harvey Show, The
Stewart, Jimmy
Stingray
stock market drop of
storyboard artists
story editor
story room (Room)
Streets of San Francisco, The
“strips” or stripping
Strong Medicine
Studio 60
studios: consolidation of
demise of
development deals and
executives, and writers
film and
Fin-Syn and
packaging fees and
rise of
SWG and
WGA strike of 1988 and
writers and
See also independent production companies
Stupin, Paul
superstations
supervising producer
Survivor
Swartzlander, Ric
S.W.A.T.
Sweeney, D.B.
syndication
T
Taken
T. and T.
Tannenbaum, Eric
Tarses, Jamie
Tarses, Jay
Tartikoff, Brandon
Tarzan
Taxi
TBS
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Telecommunications Act (1996)
Television Critics Association(TCA) tour
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Texaco Star Theater
That ’70s Show
That Was Then
3rd Rock from the Sun
thirtysomething
Thompson, Robert J.
Three
Tick, The
Tilden, Peter
Time magazine
TimeWarner
Tinker, Grant
Tinker, Mark
T. J. Hooker
TNT
To Have & to Hold
To Heal a Nation
Total Security
Touchstone
Tour of Duty
Toy Story 2
“tracking,”
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