The Wonder Years of Fred Savage

Born in a Chicago suburb, Fred Savage began appearing in local TV commercials from the time he could read. In 1986, Fred made his big-screen debut in Disney's The Boy Who Could Fly. Savage's subsequent film roles of note included the inquisitive grandson of yarn-spinning Peter Falk in The Princess Bride (1987) and the junior edition of Judge Reinhold in Vice Versa (1988). After essaying a supporting part in the 1986 TV series Morningstar/Eveningstar, Savage was elevated to top billing in the role of Kevin Arnold on the nostalgic seriocomedy The Wonder Years (1988-1993). Fred Savage is the brother of Ben Savage, star of TV's Boy Meets World (1993), and juvenile supporting actress Kala Savage.

Fred Savage is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the television series The Wonder Years, an American television show drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC, from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII.

The show achieved a spot in the Nielsen Top Ten for two of its six seasons. TV Guide named the show one of the 1980s' 20 best. After only six episodes aired, The Wonder Years won an Emmy for best comedy show series in 1988. Moreover, at the age of 13, Fred Savage gained the honor of being the youngest actor ever nominated Outstanding Lead Actor for a Comedy Series. In addition, the tv show was awarded a Peabody Award in 1989, for achieving two seemingly contradictory effects, evoking a traditional family sitcom while pushing boundaries and using new modes of storytelling. In total, the tv series won 22 awards, and was nominated for a further 54 more.

The Wonder Years | TV Episodes

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Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane

Teri Hatcher jumped into acting after a brief stint as a cheerleader for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers. After several small roles, she was cast in 1993 for the television episodes Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. The show was a hit, and Hatcher's success on TV was matched by her success on the Internet: in the early days of the World Wide Web, Hatcher was unofficially "the most downloaded woman in the world." After Lois & Clark, Hatcher moved into feature films, including the James Bond flick Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997, with Pierce Brosnan as Bond and Spy Kids (2001). In 2004 she landed a role on another hit series, the jokey, soapy television show drama Desperate Housewives, playing as her show bio put it, "a single mom searching for love amid the sometimes sordid, always intriguing goings-on of her suburban neighborhood."

Hatcher's TV debut was as a “Love Boat Mermaid” on the TV series The Love Boat. She is also known for her long-running series of Radio Shack TV commercials with former NFL star Howie Long. Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria co-star with Hatcher many on Desperate Housewives.

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

One of the most beloved characters in comic book history, Superman was created in 1938 by artist Joe Shuster and writer Jerry Siegel. Superman came to Earth as a baby from the planet Krypton; on Earth he had super strength, X-ray vision and could fly. His only weakness was the substance Kryptonite, which rendered him powerless. He kept his identity secret, posing as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent and changing into his Superman costume with the distinctive "S" on the chest whenever he set out to do good deeds. Other key characters included his love interest Lois Lane, his news editor Perry White, and the villainous Lex Luthor. Superman was played in the movies most famously by actor Christopher Reeve, and in the popular 1950's television series The Adventures of Superman he was played by George Reeves. His popularity was renewed by the 1990s TV series Lois and Clark, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher.

Traditionally Superman is "more powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound."

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TV Teen Star: Melissa Joan Hart

After spending the 1990s as a TV teen star, Melissa Joan Hart set her sights on feature films. Born and raised on Long Island, Hart began acting in TV commercials as a child. She further honed her skills in New York theater in the late '80s as the youngest member of the Circle Repertory Lab Company. Hart then broke through as a cable TV favorite and a CableACE Award nominee in the role of the precocious titular preteen on the Nickelodeon series Clarissa Explains. After the tv series ended, Hart moved to network TV stardom in 1996 as the supernaturally gifted title teen on Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Maintaining her pert prime time persona while revealing her range, Hart also starred in several TV movies, including:

• Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare

• Twisted Desire

• The Right Connections

• Silencing Mary (the college date rape drama)

Though Hart continued to produce and star in Sabrina, she also attempted to parlay her TV fame into movie stardom with the romantic comedy Drive Me Crazy. The film, however, failed to perform as well as the Britney Spears tune that gave it its title. Hart raised eyebrows that same year when she tried to shed her squeaky-clean adolescent image with a racy photo spread and interview in men's magazine Maxim.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch | TV Show

By now Sabrina – I mean Melissa Joan Hart already completed her new movie for this year entitled “Nine Dead”. This is an interesting variation on horror films, the movie is likely to be rated "R". This may be unexpected to some viewers who remember the Television series work of Ms. Melissa Joan Hart.

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Lynda Carter: The Wonder Woman

Lynda Carter was once considered one of the most beautiful women in the western world. Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Friends encouraged her to become a performer, she began studying voice and by the time she graduated, she was named her school's most talented student. She briefly attended Arizona State University, but dropped out to become a professional singer and tour the country with several rock groups. By 1972, Carter had returned home and entered a local beauty pageant. She won and went on to win the title of Miss World-USA. After that, Carter studied acting in New York. She started her career in television making guest appearances on such shows as Starsky and Hutch, but Carter did not become famous celebrity until winning the title role of Wonder Woman in 1975. The Wonder Woman shows originally started out as specials on the ABC network, but by 1976 had been turned into a series. The network canceled the tv show after one season and it was picked up by CBS and aired there for a few years. When the series ended, she had a somewhat successful career as a Las Vegas entertainer. She also continues to occasionally appear in television movies and as a series guest star.

Wonder Woman

Disregarding an unsold pilot film starring Cathy Lee Crosby as the title character, William Moulton Marston's celebrated comic-book super heroine Wonder Woman made her TV bow in the formidable person of Lynda Carter. Introduced on November 7, 1975, with the two-hour opener The New Original Wonder Woman, the ABC fantasy adventure series began its semi-weekly run on April 21, 1976. When Wonder Woman moved from ABC to CBS for its second season, quite a few changes were imposed upon its format. First, the title was altered to The New Adventures of Wonder Woman. Second, the tv series time frame was moved up from the 1940s to the 1970s, with Diana/Wonder Woman fighting contemporary baddies on behalf of the Inter-Agency Defense Command, headed by Joe Atkinson. In this revised form, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman survived on CBS until September 11, 1979.

Career

Lynda Carter began her career as a singer and toured extensively with various rock bands, appearing in venues from Las Vegas to the Catskills. After winning the Miss World USA crown in the 1970's, Carter embarked on her career as a TV Series Actress, and soon found success as the star of the hugely popular television series "Wonder Woman," a beloved show still being broadcast today in countries around the world. Other starring roles in television series followed, including "Partners in Crime" with Loni Anderson, and the frontier drama "Hawkeye."

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Kiefer Sutherland: Star of the TV series 24

Kiefer Sutherland is the star of the tv series 24. The show, with Sutherland as counter-terrorism expert Jack Bauer, broke convention by having each hour-long episode represent an hour in Bauer's day. Sutherland's success on television came after a respectable 15 years in the movies industry.

Sutherland's first film and memorable turn as a bully in Stand By Me led to a string of successful ensemble movies, including The Lost Boys (1987), Young Guns (1988), and Flatliners (1990). Although he has carried the lead in several movies and played a variety of roles, he has a reputation for playing creeps and jerks, such as in A Few Good Men (1992) with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, Freeway (1996), Dark City (1998) and Phone Booth (2002l). Kiefer is the son of movie star Donald Sutherland.

"24"

Since 2001, Sutherland is most widely associated with the role of Jack Bauer, on the critically acclaimed television series 24. After being nominated four times for the "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" Primetime Emmy Award, Sutherland won the award in 2006 for his role in 24's fifth season.

Thrilling, violent, intriguing, as well as engaging, "24" is a hot show!

Season five ended with Jack kidnapped by Cheng and sailing on a ship bound for China. How is he going to escape this one? The President of United States was arrested. Who will be sworn in to take his place?

People who are die-hard fans love the non-stop action, not to mention the political intrigue. Our hero Jack is an expert working for the Counter Terrorism Unit, CTU. His life, as well as his family's, is on the line as he rescues humanity on a daily basis.

TV Series | 24

Together with the President of the United States, Jack tackles unknown enemies. Most people take things day-by-day, but in their case it goes hour-by-hour. Who can they trust? Who is on which side? One shocking moment after another make for heart stopping, riveting television.

The cast list goes on:

• Chloe O'Brian, portrayed by Mary Lynn Rajskub

• Omar Hassan, portrayed by Anil Kapoor

• Renee Walker, portrayed by Annie Wersching

• Brian Hastings, portrayed by Mykelti Williamson

• Dana Walsh, portrayed by Katee Sackhoff

• Rob Weiss, portrayed by Chris Diamantopoulos

• Arlo Glass, portrayed by John Boyd

• Cole Ortiz, portrayed by Freddie Prinze Jr.

• Allison Taylor, portrayed by Cherry Jones

The show has also added Adoni Maropis and Steven Schub as bad guys.

24 has made its mark in television history by being the first show in real time one-hour episodes. The tv show is filmed in L.A. and has been renewed for a sixth season. Viewers love "24" and can't wait for "24: The Game", the video game version created by Sony for Play Station 2.

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Ron Ely as TARZAN

Native Texan Ronald Pierce “Ron” Ely was born on 1938. In The mid 1950s, he enrolled at the University of Texas, but he soon made his way to California. After signing with 20th Century Fox in the late 1950s, Ely appeared in small roles in several films and television series, including the films South Pacific and The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker and the TV series How to Marry a Millionaire. In 1960 Ely was cast in the CBS series The Aquanauts, but the show was cancelled after just one season. Several more films followed, but his big break did not come until 1966, when the 6'4" actor was cast in the role of Tarzan for the TV series of the same name.

Ely had tried out for the role of Tarzan, but he lost out to football player turned to actor. Mark Henry made three Tarzan films and was originally cast for the series, but he declined it after some bad experiences while shooting his first Tarzan film. Ely was then cast in the role.

After a number of attempts to create a Tarzan TV series had failed, producer Sy Weintraub finally was able to bring Tarzan to the small screen. Tarzan aired on NBC beginning in September 1966 and lasted until September 1968. In the series, there is no Jane in sight. Tarzan is assisted only by Cheetah and Jai, an orphan. Citing sagging ratings and rising production costs, NBC canceled Tarzan in 1968. Throughout the run of the series, several films were released, mostly using footage from the series. In the early 1970s, Ely made a number of films in Germany, where he became very popular in a brief series of adventure films. His next hit would come with the release of Doc Savage.

Ron Ely Today

In the past few years, Ely has cooled his acting career, focusing instead on writing mystery novels focusing on the character, Jake Sands. His novels are titled Night Shadows and East Beach, both published in the mid 1990s. But on occasion, Ely makes appearances on popular TV shows, his most recent being Sheena and Renegade.

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Richard Dean Anderson: Actor, Composer and Producer

Like many screen veterans who headline a hit network television series for multiple seasons, the genial American actor, producer and composer Richard Dean Anderson will forever be associated with one role, the lead actor in the television series MacGyver. This tv show broadcast on ABC Network and premiered on September 1985 and lasted on May 1992. The program's gimmick was revolved with secret agent and scientist expert named Angus MacGyver, a inventive nonviolent hero, crack special forces agent and science expert capable of using common household substances and implements to perform feats of wonder.

Although Anderson's resume packs in a number of key television show and a recurrent starring role on the popular Stargate SG-1, the actor is best known for turning MacGyver into a veritable American icon for Gen-Xers during the mid to late 1980 and early 1990. Anderson nevertheless caught his second wind and returned to television series as Col. Jack O'Neill in the 1997 series Stargate SG-1, which originated on show time and won as Best Genre TV Actor for this tv show. Adapted from the hit 1994 movie Stargate, the program found O'Neill emerging from semi-retirement and continually traveling to interstellar "stargate" portals to protect the universe from hostile alien invasions. Stargate SG-1 bowed to extraordinary reviews and ratings and became a permanent hit. Anderson stayed with the series through its eighth season, and appeared as a guest star occasionally during the rest of its run.

As a composer and producer, Anderson composed a song for a soundtrack for MacGyver. He has served as an executive producer only in the five shows in which he has acted himself, MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis, MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday, Stargate SG-1, Firehouse and From Stargate to Atlantis: Sci Fi Lowdown. Anderson also composed the song "Eau d'Leo" for the MacGyver episode "The Negotiator". Together with Michael Greenburg, Anderson created the Gekko Film Corporation. The company was involved with Stargate SG-1, producing every episode from 1997-2007 with the exception of 2006. The company itself has served as Anderson backing agency.

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