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Pipo de Clown. Uit de collectie: Bewegend Geheugen

Lucille Ball was een Amerikaanse actrice en comédienne. Ze is geboren in New York in 1911 en overleed in 1989 op 77-jarige leeftijd in Beverly Hills aan een gescheurde aorta. Wij kennen haar vooral

Yesterday I explored the "roots" of PEYTON PLACE, the hit primetime serial which debuted on ABC in the fall of 1964. I recently began watching the show on DVD and am becoming slightly obsessed with it. The show originally aired twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30PM) for it's first season and and both half-hours ranked in the Top 20 and leading the expansion to three nights a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) in June 1965. The lovely Dorothy Malone assumed the role of Constance MacKenzie (following in the footsteps of Lana Turner and Eleanor Parker), the single mother who ran the local bookshop and raised sweet, naive Allison (played by 19-year-old newcomer Mia Farrow). In the very first episode Dr. Michael Rossi (Ed Nelson) arrives from the big city to set up shop following the death of Doctor Donald Brooks. Turns out Rossi was present at Alison's birth and knows something about her absentee father. This freaks Constance out - and clues to the baby daddy's true identity are dropped. Sweet innocent Allison is drawn to bad boy Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal, wearing some very revealing trousers) and mama Connie is none to happy about this - mostly because Rodney already has a girlfriend. Meanwhile, Rodney's father Leslie Harrington (Paul Langton) is about to enter into a torrid affair with his secretary Julie Anderson (Kasey Rogers), when Rodney walks in on them! We soon finf out that Julie's husband is an abusive salesman and she's much better off in her boss's arms. Soon Julie's not-so-pure daughter Betty (played by future VALLEY OF THE DOLLS diva Barbara Parkins) is dumped by her boyfriend. Guess who? Rodney! Meanwhile Rodney's brother Norman (Christopher Connelly) is in love with Allison... All these romantic entanglements and mysteries overlap and intertwine like the best of daytime soaps, though the show is not videtaped and scored with organ music, but filmed to look somewhat like a cross between a feature film and a sitcom. The lush cinematic score and the gorgeous New England scenery elevate the show and give it a warmth and richness which I find very comforting. The show ran for 5 seasons in total, and along the way it converted to color and featured great performers like Lee Grant, Ruth Warrick, Gena Rowlands, Ruby Dee, Barbara Rush, Mariette Hartley and even pre-AIRPLANE! Leslie Nielsen. The show was canceled in 1969, but resurfaced on NBC in 1972 as the daytime series RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE. Several supporting actors returned in their original roles, but the major roles were recast. RETURN was axed in January 1974. NBC aired MURDER IN PEYTON PLACE (1978) in primetime and it reunited many of the original cast members. Another NBC sequel, PEYTON PLACE: THE NEXT GENERATION aired in 1985 and was intended as a pilot for a new series, which never materialized. Maybe the CW has a revival up it's sleeves? As a continue watching the first season, I look forward to future releases of PEYTON PLACE from Shout! Factory

Informatie over The Cosby Show op MijnSerie

Mccloud S1&2 (D). In 1970 schitterde Emmy-winnaar Dennis Weaver als de onverschrokken Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud. Van het platteland geplukt en in de...

Jeugdsentiment. Op tv, als boek en in de herhaling Meer

De tovenaar uit de 11e eeuw, verdwaald in de tijd

Niet alleen van bekende Nederlanders is het interessant om te weten naar welke series zij kijken. Het zijn juist vaak die onbekende Nederlanders waarvan je soms wilt weten waar zij naar kijken en waarom.

Verfilming van John Jakes' bestsellertrilogie De met een Emmy Award bekroonde verfilming van John Jakes' bestsellertrilogie vertelt het verhaal van de turbulente en emotionele gebeurtenissen in de aanloop naar de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog. Dit grootse epos, in de traditie van Gone with the Wind, schetst het leven van twee families, de Hazards en de Mains, geografisch en ideologisch verdeeld over de twee verschillende oorlogskampen. De haat, de vooroordelen en de hebzucht, die het weefsel van een natie verscheuren, dreigen ook de draden te verbreken waardoor de twee families met elkaar verbonden zijn. De hele collectie, met Boek 1: North and South, Boek 2: Love and War en Boek 3: Heaven and Hell, is nu verkrijgbaar in dit ideale geschenkpakket voor verzamelaars.