A BRILLIANT TV/WRITER PRODUCER

A BRILLIANT TV/WRITER PRODUCER

by ARNOLD KANE
A BRILLIANT TV/WRITER PRODUCER

A BRILLIANT TV/WRITER PRODUCER

by ARNOLD KANE

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Overview

"A Brilliant TV Writer/Producer" is my fourth book. I started my television career in 1956 producing "Pantomime Quiz" a comedy game show starring Mike Stokey. Stokey won the first Emmy ever given for a game show. He moved Pantomime Quiz from Hollywood to New York City in 1966. I booked all the talent on the show and wrote all the stumpers or charades used on the series. Among the Talent I book on Pantomime Quiz was Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett, Howie Morris, Stubby Kaye, Susan Cabot, Merv Griffin, Bobby Morse, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Basil Rathbone, Anne Francis. We also used Johnny Carson, Dick Clark, Morty Gunty and Henny Youngman. After that I produced and wrote a Golf Series starring 1958 PGA Champion Dow Finsterwald and has guests like: Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Mantle, Roger Marris, Rocky Graziano, Jack Dempsey, Phil Foster, Harvey Stone. I also worked with Regis Philbin, Cary Grant, Raquel Welch, Mike Douglas, Roger Ailes, John Wayne, Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore, Marlo Thomas, Danny Thomas, Andy Griffith, Earle Hagen, Joe Namath, Jack Lemmon,Rowan and Martin, Goldie Hawn, Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Linda Lavin, Richard Burton, Sammy Davis Jr, Elizabeth Taylor, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Bonnie Franklin, E. Duke Vincent, Diana Rigg, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Fred Silverman, Sharon Gless, Pat Harrington, Bill D'angelo, Aaron Spelling, Doug Cramer, Gordon Farr, Bob Newhart, Bernie Brillstein, John Denver, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, The Carpenters, Dixie Carter Hal Holborok,Jimmy Breslin, Frank Sinatra, Vic Damone , Susan Clark, Alex Karris, Manny Lewis, David Susskind, Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, Sonny Bono, Cher, Betty White among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781098318758
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication date: 07/31/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 218
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

MY 50 YEARS AS A SUCCESSFUL TV WRITER/PRODUCER. WORKING WITH MANY, MANY FAMOUS STARS.

Table of Contents

The Beginning 1

"Do You Always Have to be So Funny?" 4

TV and Me 15

Tony Soprano is a Wuss! 25

Skip-The Years 30

Local Television and Mo! 37

The Mike Douglas Show 48

Regis and Other People 51

Back in the Big Apple Again 55

California Here I Come 61

A Writing Partner 69

The Sitcom Years and Other Things 75

Alice and a Few Other Things 102

The Velvet Knife Strikes 109

You Can't Go Home Again 112

Here We Go Again 119

A Big White Lie! 132

Back in the Saddle Again 136

In Love with Love 140

This and That and More of That 144

Canada O'Canada 156

Doghouse 166

The Black Days 171

Starting Over 179

Y'all Come Back Ya Hear 191

The Back Nine 199

What's Next 203

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