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Glen A. Larson

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Glen Albert Larson (January 3, 1937 – November 14, 2014) was an American musician, television producer and writer. [1]

91 relations: Alias Smith and Jones, American folk music revival, Antony Hamilton, Automan, B. J. and the Bear, Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica (miniseries), Big Man (The Four Preps song), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), Butch Cassidy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, California, Capitol Records, Caprica, Cover Up (TV series), Cyborg (novel), Dave Somerville, Donald P. Bellisario, Down by the Station, Edgar Award, Emmy Award, Ensign (LDS magazine), Esophageal cancer, Evening in Byzantium, Executive producer, Galactica 1980, Gene L. Coon, George Roy Hill, Get Christie Love!, Gidget, Grammy Award, Harlan Ellison, Hollywood Walk of Fame, In Like Flynn (film), It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series), James Garner, Jon-Erik Hexum, Knight Rider (1982 TV series), Knight Rider (2008 TV series), Larceny, Lee Majors, Leslie Stevens, Long Beach, California, Magnum, P.I., Manimal, Martin Caidin, McCloud (TV series), Mormons, Night Man, ..., Nightside (film), One West Waikiki, P.S. I Luv U, Philip Francis Nowlan, Prequel, Quincy, M.E., Quinn Martin, Rooster (film), Saga of a Star World, Santa Monica, California, Satire, Screenwriter, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Wars (film), Stephen J. Cannell, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Stu Phillips (composer), Sundance Kid, Switch (TV series), Sword of Justice (TV series), Syfy, Team Knight Rider, Television producer, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Fall Guy, The Four Preps, The Fugitive (TV series), The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Highwayman (TV series), The Hollywood Reporter, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Rockford Files, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Virginian (TV series), UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Ultraverse, Universal Pictures, Unknown Stuntman, Western (genre), William Goldman, 26 Miles (Santa Catalina). Expand index (41 more) »

Alias Smith and Jones

Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from January 1971 to January 1973.

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American folk music revival

The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

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Antony Hamilton

Antony Hamilton "Tony" Smith (4 May 1952 – 29 March 1995), known professionally as Antony Hamilton, was an English-born Australian actor, model, and dancer.

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Automan

Automan is an American soft science fiction superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson.

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B. J. and the Bear

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Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television series, created by Glen A. Larson, that began the ''Battlestar Galactica'' franchise.

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Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)

Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the ''Battlestar Galactica'' franchise.

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Battlestar Galactica (miniseries)

Battlestar Galactica is a three-hour miniseries (comprising four broadcast hours) starring Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, written and produced by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Michael Rymer.

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Big Man (The Four Preps song)

"Big Man" is a song released by The Four Preps in 1958.

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science-fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios.

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Butch Cassidy

Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, Bureau of Land Management.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film).

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Caprica

Caprica is an American science fiction drama television series.

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Cover Up (TV series)

Cover Up is an American action/adventure television series that aired for one season on CBS from September 22, 1984, to April 6, 1985.

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Cyborg (novel)

Cyborg is the title of a science fiction/secret agent novel, written by Martin Caidin, which was first published in 1972.

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Dave Somerville

David Troy Somerville (October 2, 1933 – July 14, 2015) was a Canadian singer operating primarily in the United States, best known as the co-founder, and original lead singer, of The Diamonds, one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1950s.

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Donald P. Bellisario

Donald Paul Bellisario (born August 8, 1935) is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and sometimes wrote episodes for the TV series Battlestar Galactica (1978), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982), Airwolf (1984), Quantum Leap (1989), JAG (1995), and NCIS (2003).

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Down by the Station

"Down by the Station" (also known as "Down at the Station") is a popular song written by Lee Ricks and Slim Gaillard in 1948, and most famously recorded by Tommy Dorsey.

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Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Ensign (LDS magazine)

The Ensign of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly shortened to Ensign, is an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach.

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Evening in Byzantium

Evening in Byzantium is a 1978 two-part, four-hour made-for-television film produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and Universal Television, and directed by Jerry London, about the Cannes Film Festival being overtaken by terrorists.

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Executive producer

Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product.

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Galactica 1980

Galactica 1980 is an American science fiction television series and a spin-off from the original Battlestar Galactica television series.

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Gene L. Coon

Eugene Lee Coon (January 7, 1924 – July 8, 1973) was an American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.

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George Roy Hill

George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 23, 2002) was an American film director.

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Get Christie Love!

Get Christie Love! is an American crime drama TV series starring Teresa Graves (a former featured comedienne on NBC's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) as an undercover African-American female police detective.

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Gidget

Gidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner (based on his teenage daughter, Kathy) in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction, and for his outspoken, combative personality.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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In Like Flynn (film)

In Like Flynn is an upcoming biographical film about the life of actor Errol Flynn.

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It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)

It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970.

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James Garner

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist.

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Jon-Erik Hexum

Jon-Erik Hexum (November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American actor.

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Knight Rider (1982 TV series)

Knight Rider is an American television series created and produced by Glen A. Larson.

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Knight Rider (2008 TV series)

Knight Rider is a 2008 series that follows the 1982 television series of the same title created by Glen A. Larson and the 2008 television movie.

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Larceny

Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking of the personal property of another person or business.

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Lee Majors

Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary; April 23, 1939) is an American film, television and voice actor.

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Leslie Stevens

Leslie Clark Stevens IV (February 3, 1924 – April 24, 1998) was an American producer, writer, and director.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.

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Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. is an American crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii.

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Manimal

Manimal is an American action–adventure series that ran from September 30 to December 17, 1983, on NBC.

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Martin Caidin

Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927 – March 24, 1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.

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McCloud (TV series)

McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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Night Man

Night Man is an American superhero television series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on The Night Man comic book published by Malibu Comics, which was later purchased by Marvel Comics, through its Ultraverse imprint, and was created by Steve Englehart. Englehart also wrote three episodes of the series. It was developed for television by Glen A. Larson. The show stars Matt McColm as the title character, a superhero whose real name was Johnny Domino, a saxophonist. Night Man is also one of the few series to cross over with characters from Larson's previous series. In the episode "Manimal", Johnny allies with Professor Jonathan Chase, the star of the short-lived 1980s' series Manimal.

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Nightside (film)

Nightside is a 1980 television pilot starring Doug McClure.

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One West Waikiki

'One West Waikiki is an American television series that aired on CNN and Heroes & Icons x rocks trees and waters by Energy Reduction The Hot Water People and A&E Home Video produced by Take Pride In America and Stephen J. Cannell Productions tress by Minwax and Time Life Video.

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P.S. I Luv U

P.S. I Luv U is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS as a part of its 1991-92 schedule.

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Philip Francis Nowlan

Philip Francis Nowlan (November 13, 1888 – February 1, 1940) was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.

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Prequel

A prequel is a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative.

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Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E. (also called Quincy) is an American medical mystery-drama television series from Universal Studios that aired from 1976 to 1983 on NBC.

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Quinn Martin

Quinn Martin (May 22, 1922 – September 5, 1987) was an American television producer.

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Rooster (film)

Rooster is a 1982 made-for-television film starring Paul Williams and Pat McCormick who were reunited after their pairing in the Smokey and the Bandit movies.

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Saga of a Star World

"Saga of a Star World" (or "Battlestar Galactica") is the pilot for the American science fiction television series of Battlestar Galactica which was produced in 1978 by Glen A. Larson.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas.

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Stephen J. Cannell

Stephen Joseph Cannell (February 5, 1941 – September 30, 2010) was an American television producer, writer, novelist, and occasional actor, and the founder of Cannell Entertainment (formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) and the Cannell Studios.

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Stratemeyer Syndicate

The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of mystery series for children, including Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys, and others.

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Stu Phillips (composer)

Stuart Phillips (born September 9, 1929 at the Notable Names Database (nndb.com)) is an American composer of film scores and television-series theme music, conductor and record producer.

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Sundance Kid

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West.

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Switch (TV series)

Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner.

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Sword of Justice (TV series)

Sword Of Justice is an American action-adventure television series that aired on NBC for one season during 1978 and 1979.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Team Knight Rider

Team Knight Rider (TKR) is a syndicated television series that was adapted from the Knight Rider franchise and ran between 1997 and 1998.

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Television producer

A television producer is a person who oversees all aspects of video production on a television program.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981, to May 2, 1986.

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The Four Preps

The Four Preps are an American popular music male quartet.

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The Fugitive (TV series)

The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins.

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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (re-titled The Hardy Boys for season three) is a television mystery series based on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew novel series.

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The Highwayman (TV series)

The Highwayman is an American action-adventure themed television series starring Sam J. Jones, set in "the near future." It was created by Glen A. Larson and Douglas Heyes.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure sitcom that ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981.

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The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day.

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The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man is an American science fiction and action television series about a former astronaut, Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors.

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The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian (slightly repackaged as The Men from Shiloh in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury, Doug McClure and Lee J. Cobb, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) television network from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes.

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UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica

UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, is a hospital located within the city of Santa Monica, California.

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Ultraverse

The Ultraverse was a comic book imprint published by the American company Malibu Comics which is owned by Marvel Comics.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Unknown Stuntman

"Unknown Stuntman" was a single sung by Lee Majors, released in 1984, written by Glen A. Larson, Gail Jensen, and Dave Somerville, and with a 2-minute and 38 second running time.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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William Goldman

William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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26 Miles (Santa Catalina)

"26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" is a popular song by the 1950s and 1960s pop band The Four Preps.

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