"Have Gun - Will Travel" - 1950's Western TV Series

One of the most popular and successful TV series as well as in radio version, Have Gun - Will Travel excelled in TV ratings being top #4 show by Nielsen Ratings on its 1st year and #3 in next 3 years and win wide audience.

Have Gun - Will Travel revolves the story about Paladin, a rich-educated man who turned into a professional gun-fighter working as champion-for-hire and preferred to settle problems peacefully and avoid violence but usually provoked but amazingly excelled in gun field. Paladin is a former Army Officer, a West Point graduate, a well-educated man having thorough knowledge in ancient history and classical literature, dressing semi-formal wear and attending operas, and exhibit strong passion for legal principles and the rule of law. But when working, he dressed in black, wore holster and used calling cards with a carried characteristic emblem of chess knight symbolizing him with his fighting movement like in chess board, very versatile and always unexpected. Paladin's typical service fee a thousand dollar making him well-equipped with his large rifle on his horse saddle, a derringer under his belt (save him countless times), a few expensive cigars in his boot and his custom-made, one ounce trigger, perfectly balanced six-shooter gun his main weapon. Paladin's main advantage over enemies was not his impressive equipments, but his rich education which is infallible to relate ancient antecedents to his situations and insight advantages but at the same time avoid violence as much as possible, killing is only the last resort.

Another character, Hey Boy, is the card bearer of Paladin's calling card with a notable chess knight emblem with inscription: “Have Gun – Will Travel... Wire Paladin, San Francisco". And a memorable quote from the series:

“I don't think you got a very good look at this gun while you had it. The balance is perfect. This trigger responds to a pressure of one ounce. If you look carefully in the barrel you'll see the lines of the rifling. It's a rarity in a hand weapon. This gun was handcrafted to my specifications and I rarely draw it unless I mean to use it. Would you care for a demonstration?”

Great adventures of Paladin in Western TV Series "Have Gun - Will Travel” was aired from 1957 to 1963, completed 6 seasons and total of 225 episodes now available on DVD.

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"The Odd Couple" - 1970'sTV Series

Based from 1965 Broadway play, The Odd Couple considered one of the finest and successful sitcom dominates in 1970's. An early example of well-written, character-driven and sophisticated sitcom hit film and TV series although not receive the viewer's popular recognition, it's syndication blossomed both in domestic and foreign audiences considering a highly relevant sitcom that deals with issues such as generation gap and sex in an adult fashion.

The Odd Couple is a story about two men divorced with their wives and have to live & share the same apartment, in spite they are mismatched friends and differs in lifestyle. Felix Unger, a neat, tidy, healthy nut and neurotic working as photographer in a portrait studio and as connoisseur of a classical music but being divorced and thrown out of his apartment needed to live with his childhood friend Oscar Madison. Oscar working as sloven Sports Journalist in New York Times, live exactly opposite with Felix, being a slow, casual, sloppy and messy. Felix's hygienic and healthy tips annoys Oscar who live like a pig that upsets Felix. Humor and comedy bring up the show as hey nearly drive each other's crazy, but morally they learn trust, love and friendship are further important living in different world. In the final episode, Felix's wife return to him remarried while Oscar finally gained his longing freedom.

The Odd Couple TV Series aired from 1970 until 1975, completed 5 seasons with total of 114 episodes and Tonny Randall played as Felix Unger won Emmy Award after the show was canceled.

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- "Zorro" - Over 85 Years of Action Adventure

From the term "fox" in Spanish, Zorro is a fictional nobleman, master swordsman, and the romantic defender of justice. The man in black custom with Spanish cape, the flat-bimmed Andalusian-style hat, the black cowl mask covers from eye level up to the head and equipped with a pistol (in the original story), a braided leather single tailed whip "bullwhip" and a sharp pointer sword "rapeir" which he often use to leave a mark "Z" by three quick cuts. Zorro learned his skills like acrobatics from swinging on ship masts, his fencing from Spanish master Manuel Escalante, various tricks from gypsies and a ship's cook and his disguising pattern from swashbuckling pirate. Zorro's two horses, Tornado the black one and Phantom the white horse.

Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, born in the 1790's, son of Asturian Captain Don Alejandro de la Vega and lived in Spanish-ear California. His mission, with the help of his fathers mute and deaf servant Bernardo, they defend the weak and fight the landowning nobility "the Caballeros", the pompous Don Rafael Montero and the corrupt tranny of the Spanish governor.

Zorro was first appeared in the 1919 serialized pulp magazine All-Story Weekly with the title of The Curse of Capistrano | Zorro. Walt Disney produced the 1957 TV Series of Zorro, with the story in 1820's, Don Alejandro requested Don Diego to return in Monterey, California and to help ending the evil reigning of corrupt local military of vicious Spanish commandant, Captain Monastario. The huge fans of this Zorro tv series, tuning every Thursday night at 7:30, recalls the very popular lyrics:

Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes a horseman known as Zorro.
This bold renegade carves a Z with his blade, a Z that stands for Zorro.

Zorro, the fox so cunning and free.
Zorro, who makes the sign of the Z.

Riding his black stallion with lightning sky background, the words echoed,

Zorro...Zorro...Zorro...

The Disney's anthology TV series live-action of Zorro was played by Guy Williams, completed 3 seasons with 83 episodes, aired from 1957-1959 on ABC, now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv

"Knight Rider" - Action/Sci-Fi TV Series

A 1982 TV series about a modern day knight crime fighter for law and justice with his incredible advanced super-car with artificial intelligence. The story starts when a dying billionaire philanthropist and founder of Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) Wilton Knight rescued an ambushed young undercover cop Michael Long who was publicly believed dead. After few surgeries, Wilton change Michael's identity into Michael Knight, a modern knight special type of here with new mission as a crime fighter and armed with super advanced black car named Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT). The customized armor car equipped with weapons flamethrower, smoke bombs, peevish, capable of accelerating 300 mph, jumping obstacle about 50 feet & other capabilities, and having artificial intelligence by on board computer "Knight 2000 Microprocessor" talking car and deliver sarcastic one-liners to Michael and communicated via a wrist communicator watch "comlink". Together they root out evils that are above the law, avoid violence whenever possible and take adventures with no back up.

In the final season, the KITT was being improved by streetwise mechanics after being neutralized into more powerful car with 40% speed increase (483 km/h), more technical gadgets and prepared to become Knight Industries Four Thousand. Michael is now teamed up with a female cop with a chip of her head and shoulder and take more adventure as the crimes rampant around Seattle.

Knight Rider's Michael Knight starred by David Hasselhoff in the 1982-1986 tv series, completed 4 seasons with total of 90 episodes, written by Tom Greene and Glen Larson. Now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv

"Miami Vice" - 1984 Actions & Adventures

Styled differed from earlier police shows, Miami Vice got the revolutionary aspects reflecting the more glitzy and gritty feel of 1980's new Wave culture. Phil Collins, Glen Frey Peter Gabriel, U2 and more artists' music added dramatical background to the show made specially for MTV audience, the lyrics and tempo contributes to the storyline showing character's images, emotions and energies.

Miami Vice was a story about two cops; Detective James "Sonny Burnett" Crockett - a former University of Florida Gators football legend but injured, drafted to US Army and served two tours in Southeast Asia and lately became uniformed patrol cop and live in his sailboat St. Vitus' Dance guarded by his crocodile pet, Elvis. Sonny's partner, Detective Ricardo Tubbs - a black ex-New York street cop came to south to find the drug dealer who murdered his brother. Together they cruise around Miami using Sonny's Ferrari Daytona Spyder 365 GTS/4 taking down Florida drug world, crime, prostitution, end large gunbattles, drug traffickers and throw down big Latin American drug dealer in series finale. In the emotional ending episodes, Tubbs says goodbye planning going back to "the big bad Bronx" while Sonny ask if Tubbs consider a career in further south law enforcer where the water is warm and drinks are cold, the two from being engaged in cynical and burned out still sharing close friendship.

MTV-influenced action tv series Miami Vice launced in 1984 until 1989, made five seasons with 111 episodes of adventures and misadventures, now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv

"The Best of Muppet Show"

The Best of Muppet Show

Jim Henson first created the muppet characters in 1955, appears on numerous tv programs both local and national but only gained popularity when they showed on the tv series Sesame Street in 1969. Jim sought a program that will be enjoyed both by young and old until in 1976, The Muppet Show was premiered and they become a cultural phenomenon. The show was actually produced in England and syndicated around the world and garnered tremendous ratings and stores jammed with muppets in toy merchandises.

The show features the Muppet stock company doing variety show filled with music, dancing and silly comedy sketches, humors and slapsticks. Weekly, they have special guest star join them accompanied by Kermit the Frog who serves as the host and stage manager of the show. Popular characters of the show includes:

• Kermit the Frog: show manager and host
• Miss Piggy: a glamorous diva pig show also pursuit Kermit
• Fozzie Bear: a stand-up comic bear
• Scooter: the gofer
• Great Gonzo: a general all-around weirdo or whatever
• Rowlf the Dog George: the playing piano dog
• Doctor Bunsen Honeydew: the scientist
• Beeker Meep: a slow-witted janitor
• Droop: the Anteater
• Crazy Donald later named Crazy Harry
• Brewsters: the old timer
• Mildred: the goose
• Rufus later named Muppy
• and many other
  

One of the special featured actress Mia Farrow, taught the muppets about love, and that everyone loves something.

The Best of the Muppet Show includes seasons 1-5 with total of 120 episodes lasted for 5 years from 1976 to 1981 now released on DVD available at TVAddicts.tv

"My So Called Life" ::.

A hanged up tv series lasted only for one season but everybody love it and it was a show that many could relate to. A story about 15 years old girl sophomore Angela Chase living in not usually mentioned but realistic family in mid-nineties, with all trials and difficulties being a teenager dealing with parents, friends guys and school. The show brought out issues like child abuse, homophobia, teenage alcoholism, homelessness, adultery, kinky sex, school violence, censorship, and drug use, among many others as these are introduced in the beginning of each episode and how they are resolved in the end. Most plot of the show revolves Angela's daydreaming about Jordan Catalano, life, friends and experiences as a high school student.

My So Called Life was canceled due to low ratings and inline in air time with some shows like Mad About You, Friends and many others but the network didn't see as audience love it as it was too good for TV .Viewer's comment on My So Called Life have great potential and very interesting especially for who remember these days and in the same age range with Angela.

My So Called Life runs only in one season with total of 19 episodes now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv

.:: The "Centennial TV Miniseries" - 1978 ::.

Marked as on of the longest and most ambitious television project at that time with huge budget ($25 Million) most complicated (employed four directors, five cinematographers, five producers with almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras and spanning 26 & 1/2 hours of television viewing.

Centennial was based on the best-selling novel with the same title by James A. Michener, a story history of a fictional town of Centennial, Colorado under settling of American West from late 18th century to the present (1970). People came to Centennial for gold, freedom and crime for many generations among memorable frontiersmen, trappers, Indians, ranchers, cowboys, and farmers from long ago and took a 100 years for murder cases to be solved. Packed with various adventures, affairs, opportunists, tragedy, violence, dubious Western progress and racial injustice just for the name of destiny.

Full 26 & 1/2 hours tv miniseries of Centennial now on DVD available at TVAddicts.tv

Judging Amy TV Series

A story about three generation women living together as they confront the personal and professional dilemmas in their changing, challenging lives. A real-life story about single mother Amy Madison Gray raising her young daughter Lauren, be a Family Court judge and live with Amy's opinionated mother Maxine in Hartford, Connecticut. Amy have to re-establish & balance her new life with her relatives and new friends and also her love life. Judge Amy make name for herself by her unusual methods, sentences and stubbornness but sometimes get her in trouble. Last episodes Amy quits judiciary and run for U.S. senate and try to prevent passing laws ending the juvenile justice system.

Main Characters:

• Amy Madison Gray, played by Amy Brenneman - After divorcing her husband, Amy Gray returns to her childhood home with her daughter and becomes a judge on Hartford's family court, trying to go on with her life. Balancing her new job, her family and trying to rebuild her love life isn't easy, but she keeps trying.

• Maxine McCarty Gray, played by Tyne Daly - Amy's widowed mother. A social worker for DCF (the Department of Children and Families), she retired once but returns to the job at the start of the series, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to help the children in her care, even bending the law. She's an opinionated, strong willed woman, very set in her ways and capable of holding long grudges (she hasn't spoken to her brother in over 12 years) but loving to her family.
  

• Vincent Gray played by Dan Futterman - Amy's younger brother, with whom she has always been closest.
  

• Kyle McCarty played by Kevin Rahm - Amy's cousin, the son of Maxine's estranged brother Richard. A former medical student who was expelled because of problems related to his addiction to drugs.
  

• Peter Gray, played by Marcus Giamatti - Amy's older brother. He inherited the family business from his father and he's good at it, even if it wasn't his first choice in life. He's a good but grey man who sometimes surprises people with some outbursts.
  

• Gillian Gray, played by Jessica Tuck - Peter's wife. A controlling woman with a good heart who completely loves her husband. She is usually well-meaning, but also often obsessive and nerve-wracking.

• Lauren Cassidy, played by Karle Warren - Amy's daughter, 6 years-old at the start of the series. A mostly well-adjusted girl going through the pains of childhood and pre-adolescence with divorced parents but a loving family. As a young girl, she struggles over her father's relationship with Leisha, whom she likes at first.
  

• Bruce van Exel, played by Richard T. Jones - Amy's Court Services Officer, who eventually becomes her friend. The series addresses a number of issues of their cross-racial friendship and how each feels differently about it.

• Donna Kozlowski, played by Jillian Armenante - Amy's clerk. An eccentric woman from a wealthy family, from whom she's estranged. Donna is intellectually a genius (she finishes her law degree in one and a half years) but socially awkward.

A worth watching tv series Judging Amy DVD completed 6 seasons and total of 138 episodes aired from 1999 to 2005, now on dvd available at DVDAvenue.tv

"Gummi Bears" Disney's Adventure

An animated TV series about seven anthropomorphic bears lived in medieval time at once populous big tree called Gummi Glen. The great gummies are refugees and looking for their ancient city with the help of their human friends and the Great Book of Gummi to resurrect the city and reunite all other bears scattered around the world. The bears are also the secret defenders of the Dunwyn Kingdom against former knight Duke Sigmund Igthorn and his created ogres army, but when the bears consume their secret Gummibeary juice give ability to bounce and also give human to temporarily become superhumans.

The seven gummies living Gummi Glen:

• Gruffi - Gruffi also can be viewed as the de facto leader of the Gummi Bears. A no-nonsense, perfectionist and conservative every-job-Gummi.
  
• Zummi - The colony's "keeper of Gummi wisdom" turned magician with unreliable skill. Frequently forgets important things, including spells, at the worst possible moment and does spoonerisms when stressed.
  
• Grammi - The matriach of the Gummi clan, she cooks and cleans and prepares the gummiberry juice. Her cookings - which sometimes are purely experimental - are not always appreciated by the others.
• Tummi - the gluttonous teenaged Gummi who is seemingly slow in thinking and action, but is as courageous as the rest. He has a sweet tooth and is a talented planter and loves building model boats.
  
• Sunni - "token adolescent" of the bunch who often rebels against the clan but learns her lessons eventually. She is quite fond of rather 'radical' fashions. Her dream is to one day be a princess. Even though Sunni and Calla are best friends, Sunni occasionally displays mild jealously of Calla because she is a princess.
• Cubbi - the youngest Gummi. An aspiring knight, he is always looking for adventure, and often finds it. Because of his youth, he is often not taken seriously by the others, which is just as frequently a huge mistake. When fighting crime at Dunwyn, he uses the masked identity of the Crimson Avenger.
• Gusto (Augustus) - the artistic Gummi and an individualist, he lives away from Gummi Glen with his toucan friend, Artie Deco. Gusto is an artist who is very creative with mercurial moods depending on how well his (sometimes unsophisticated) work is going or being appreciated. He sometimes goes to Gummi Glen to visit the rest of the Gummis.
  

Gummi Bear Friends/Ally:

• Cavin - Cavin is the squire of Sir Tuxford, the highest knight in King Gregor's court. Cavin befriends the Gummi Bears in the first episode and shares the same ambition as Cubbi - to become a knight. Cavin also had the medallion, given to him by his grandfather, that opened The Great Book of Gummi, the source of all Gummi Bear wisdom. The young squire also has a secret crush on Princess Calla.
• Princess Calla - Princess Calla is the daughter of King Gregor, ruler of Dunwyn. She is an adventurous character and she often drags the dumbstruck Cavin (who she is overly fond of) into story situations. Calla also befriended the Gummi Bears and is close friends with Sunni. She hates the pomp and circumstance that comes with being royalty while wishing to be more involved in the governance and defense of the realm. Consequently, she tends to be somewhat rebellious at times, often spurning her father's admonishment that "a princess must set an example for her people."

• King Gregor - King Gregor is the ruler of Dunwyn. He is a brave figure and protects his people from villains like Duke Igthorn with the help of Sir Tuxford and his knights. Gregor is unaware of the Gummi Bears' existence or involvement in saving his kingdom many times. His pride and joy is his daughter, Calla, which later included considerable respect of her previously hidden fighting prowess.

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"WKRP in Cincinnati" - Award Winning 1978 Comedy hit TV Series::.

An American comedy series of misadventures of the staff in a radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The series runs from 1978 'till 1982 took its finale. WKRP also won Humanitaz Prize and nominated for 10 in Emmy's.

The story plays as Arthur Carlson trying to rebuild his mother's failing business with his incompetent skills in business field but succeed with the help of his strange employees. Together with ideas, running gags and different gimmicks of his staff compose of a Wild Disc Jockey, a Venus Flytrap, a geeky News Director, an obsolete Advertising Sales Manager, a shy Journalism Major, a pretty Receptionist and a Firm Progarm Director work together and brought back the business to success into the restaurant.

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