Anderson was born Gerald Alexander Abrahams on 14 April 1929 in Hampstead, London. The family name was changed by deed poll in 1939. When World War II broke out, Anderson's older brother Lionel volunteered for the RAF and was posted to the United States. He often wrote to his family and one of these letters described a USAF airbase called Thunderbird Field, a name that stuck in his brother's memory. Gerry Anderson began his career in photography and after the war he secured a traineeship with the British Colonial Film Unit. He developed an interest in film editing and moved on to Gai ...

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Diagnosis: Murder - Season 1 1993-199419 episodes. 01. Miracle Cure (10/29/93) 02. Amnesia (11/5/93) 03. Murder At The Telethon (11/12/93) 04. Inheritance Of Death (11/19/93) 05. The 13 Million Dollar Man (12/3/93) 06. Vanishing Act (1) (12/10/93) 07. Vanishing Act (2) (12/17/93) 08. Shanda's Song (1/7/94) 09. The Restless Remains (1/14/94) 10. Murder With Mirrors (1/21/94) 11. Flashda ...

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Diagnosis: Murder, Diagnosis: Murder - TV Movies, Diagnosis: Murder - Cast, Diagnosis: Murder - Episodes, Diagnosis: Murder - Season 1 1993-199419 episodes, Diagnosis: Murder - Season 2 1994-199522 episodes, Diagnosis: Murder - Novels, Diagnosis: Murder - Broadcasters

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The show gave considerable publicity to singer Tiny Tim, an unusual-looking man with long hair who sang in a falsetto voice while accompanying himself on ukulele. Thanks to his appearances on the show, he achieved a hit single with his piercing version of the vintage 1920s song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." Tiny Tim was later married on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to a woman known as Miss Vicky. Other musical moments came in the first season with some of the first music videos ever seen on TV, with cast members appearing in film clips set to the music ...

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Go-Go boots - Cinema. Marisa Mell pranced around seductively in the 1960s film, Danger: Diabolik wearing a miniskirt and boots. Carol Lynley would wear go-go boots throughout the film The Poseidon Adventure Nichelle Nichols' Commander Uhura wears a miniskirt and go-go boots variation of the current uniform for a starbase scene; and also a second off-duty outfit set in Admiral James T. Kirk's apartment, consisting of a one-piece sk ...

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Space: 1999 was the first attempt since the demise of Star Trek in 1969 at producing a large-scale weekly science fiction series, and the show drew a great deal of visual inspiration (and technical expertise) from the Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The show's special effects director Brian Johnson had in fact previously worked on both Thunderbirds (as Brian Johncock) and 2001. It was the last in a long line of successful science-fiction series that the Andersons produced as a couple, ...

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Written, created, and produced by Bruce Geller. The "Impossible Mission Force" (IMF) is a team of secret agents employed by the United States government, and sent on covert missions to fight dictators, evil organizations, and crime lords. Although a Cold War element was present throughout the series, the actual "Cold War" between the United States and the Soviet Union was not directly mentioned over the course of the series. However, in the early years many of the targets appeared to be the leaders of Slavic or Baltic countries; major ...

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Landau was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of 17 began working as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News, but influenced by Charlie Chaplin and the escapism of the cinema, he pursued becoming an actor. He attended the Actors Studio in the same class with Steve McQueen and in 1957, Landau made his Broadway debut in Middle of the Night. Encouraged by his mentor Lee Strasberg, Landau also taught acting. Some of the actors he has coached ...

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The show's plots often revolved around the characters' failed attempts to get off the deserted island where they have been shipwrecked. Often, the failure of that week's attempt was due to some bumbling error committed by Gilligan. Another popular element were the numerous dream sequences the castaways experience in the later episodes which provided variety to the series' limited premise. For instance, Gilligan dreams on separate occasions that he is Lord Admiral Gilligan fighting off pirates, Secret Agent 014, a goofy vampire who is hunted by Inspector Sherlock (played by the Professor) or Dr. Jekyll who turns in ...

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While it is difficult to locate a beginning point for the Girl Power movement in popular culture during the period of Third-wave feminism, critics have suggested the year 1995 and the influence of Cher in Clueless [7] as well as other films inspired by Jane Austen such as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility. In addition, Xena was introduced that ...

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Other guest appearances: Byron Morrow, Helen Kleeb, Val Avery, Bill Zuckert, Iris Adrian, Simon Oakland, Philip Pine, Len Lesser, Nestor Paiva, Maurice Marsac, Roger Price, Robert Ellenstein, Roy Engel, Jack Lambert, Byron Foulger, Vaughn Taylor, Tony Lo Bianco, Ted Knight, Jason Wingreen, Vince Howard, James Millhollin, Lee Bergere, Dino Natali, Howard Morton, Vic Tayback, William Boyett, Paul Dooley, Mickey Manners, Johnny Seven, Dick Wilson, Dort Clark, Mickey Deems, Paul Comi, Louis Quinn, Lewis Charles, Ralph Manza, Alex Rocco, Sid Haig ...

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A number of novels were published in the mid-1970s, consisting of novelizations of televised episodes and some original novels. Authors included E.C. Tubb, John Rankine, Brian Ball, and Michael Butterworth. Most of the titles were published in several countries (UK, USA, Germany and Japan), but some were only published in one country (notably the Phoenix of Megaron, US only, and Earthfall, UK only). Year One Novels included: 01 Breakaway by E.C. Tubb 02 Moon Odyssey by John Rankine 03 The Space Guardians by Brian Ball 04 Collision Course by E ...

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Four films were culled together from various episodes of the series in the 1970s and 1980s. One aim was to provide content for new US and European Cable TV and Satellite TV stations (and, potentially, for theatrical release which occurred in several European countries). A fifth film, Spazio: 1999, was created specifically for theatrical release in Italy. These films (with the exception of Spazio: 1999) were released to home video years before any episodes were officially available in that format. Spazio: 1999See also:

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Johnny Byrne has since revealed that Message was intended as a back-door pilot in hopes of promoting enough interest in the series to convince both series creator Gerry Anderson and potential investors of the viability of a new series. According to Byrne's revival concept, the series would take place some 25 years after the events in Message, and feature the children of the Alphans who leave Terra Alpha when the Moon and its Moonbase mysteriously return. The revival series would have delved more into the metaphysical asp ...

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Fans were upset by the lack of narrative closure, particularly in that the ultimate fate of the Alphans was never resolved. Years later, at the Breakaway 1999 convention, a short film titled Message from Moonbase Alpha, and produced by fans and written by series scribe Johnny Byrne, was premiered on, appropriately enough, September 13th, 1999. Featuring a moving eulogy performed by series regular Zienia Merton (in character as Sandra Benes), it told of the Alphans finally colonizing the planet Terra Alpha and saying their final farewe ...

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Individual episodes were intended to be broadcast in almost any order. The only guidelines are that Breakaway should be the first episode, followed by Season 1 episodes, with Testament of Arkadia being the last episode for Season 1. The Metamorph should be the first of Season 2, followed by the remaining episodes (there is a two-part episode in the second series). The order shown below is for ATV, the UK regional station based in Birmingham. Other stations, and other countries, used very different orders. In some cases, this included mixing S ...

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Smart would communicate with CONTROL using a rotary telephone concealed in his shoe. While it is decades ahead of its time in real life, the need to take off his shoe to use it and the loud bell among other design flaws lead to various humorously awkward situations. The term "shoe phone" has returned to currency as a slang expression for a handheld cellular telephone. Smart would always insist on following the rules and, when in the Chief's office, would insist on speaking under the Cone of Silence. One of the show's recurring gags, t ...

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The mission briefing heard at the start of every episode would usually begin with "Good morning/afternoon, Mister Phelps" (or "Mr. Briggs" in the first season), followed by a brief description of the situation. The message usually ended with, "Your mission, should you decide to accept it..." followed by the mission goal(s) described as briefly as possible. The recording then ends with: "As always, should you or any of your I. M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions." Depending upon the method of ...

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Several original novels, including two aimed at young readers and published by Whitman Books, were written in the late 1960s. Four paperback books were issued by Popular Library from 1967 to 1969 - one just named "Mission Impossible" and followups named "Code Name: Judas", "Code Name: Rapier", and "Code Name: Little Ivan". Dell Comics published a comic book on a sporadic schedule that lasted from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s altho ...

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In alphabetical order: Barbara Anderson as Mimi Davis (Season 7) Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter (Seasons 1-3) Sam Elliott as Dr. Doug Robert aka Lang (Season 5) Lynda Day George as Casey (Seasons 6-7) Peter Graves as Jim Phelps (Seasons 2-7) Steven Hill as Dan Briggs (Season 1) Bob Johnson as the Voice on Tape (uncredited) Martin Landau as Rollin Hand (Seasons 1-3) Peter Lupus as Willy Armitage Greg Morris as Barney Collier Leonard Nimoy as the Amazing Paris (Seasons 4-5) ...

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In 1980, media reports indicated that a reunion of the original cast was in the planning stages, for a project to be called Mission: Impossible '81. Ultimately this project was delayed into 1982 and 1983 (with the working title suitably updated) before being cancelled altogether. In 1988, the American fall television season was negatively affected by a writers' strike that prevented the commissioning of new scripts. Producers, anxious to provide new product for viewers but with the prospect of a lengthy strike, went into the va ...

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