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Irwin Allen

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Irwin Allen (June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) was an American television, documentary and film director and producer with a varied career who became known as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. [1]

160 relations: A Girl in Every Port (1952 film), A. D. Flowers, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award for Best Picture, Adventures of the Queen, Alice in Wonderland (1985 film), Alien Nation, American Broadcasting Company, Angela Cartwright, Arthur Conan Doyle, Babylon 5, BBC Four, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Bill Mumy, Bob May (actor), Castaway, Cave-In!, CBS, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Bennett (screenwriter), City Beneath the Sea (1971 film), City College of New York, Cleopatra (1963 film), Code Red (U.S. TV series), Columbia University, Costume designer, Dangerous Mission, Dennis Hopper, Dick Tufeld, Disaster film, Double Dynamite, DuckTales, Emmy Award, Film director, Film producer, Film studio, Fire! (1977 film), First Spaceship on Venus, Five Weeks in a Balloon, Five Weeks in a Balloon (film), Flood!, Fox Broadcasting Company, Foxstar Productions, Frank Sinatra, Gary Oldman, George Lucas, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Raspberry Awards, Gossip columnist, Great Depression, ..., Groucho Marx, Guy Williams (actor), Hanging by a Thread (1979 film), Heather Graham, Hedy Lamarr, Hell and High Water (1954 film), Hendrik Willem van Loon, History of the Jews in Russia, Jane Russell, John Farrow, John Guillermin, John Larroquette, John Williams, Johnny Carson, Jonathan Harris, Jules Verne, June Lockhart, Kevin Burns, King Kong (1933 film), KLAC, L. B. Abbott, Lacey Chabert, Land of the Giants, List of DuckTales episodes, Logan's Run (film), Lost in Space, Lost in Space (film), Lulu.com, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Marx Brothers, Matt LeBlanc, Mimi Rogers, Monogram Pictures, Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Mystery Science Theater 3000, New York (state), New York City, P. T. Barnum, Paul Gallico, Paul Zastupnevich, Peter Lorre, Pinocchio, Print syndication, Rachel Carson, Ray Harryhausen, Red Buttons, Robert Mitchum, Ronald Colman, Ronald Neame, Santa Monica, California, Science fiction on television, Scrooge McDuck, Second City Television, Sheila Matthews Allen, Silent Running, Simon & Schuster, Special Achievement Academy Award, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Wars, Star Wars (film), Steve Allen, Stock footage, Stop motion, Talent agent, Television producer, The Animal World (film), The Big Circus, The Enemy Below, The Glass Inferno, The Lost World (1925 film), The Lost World (1960 film), The Man from the 25th Century, The Memory of Eva Ryker, The Night the Bridge Fell Down, The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film), The Poseidon Adventure (novel), The Return of Captain Nemo, The Sea Around Us, The Sea Around Us (film), The Story of Mankind, The Story of Mankind (film), The Swarm (film), The Swiss Family Robinson, The Swiss Family Robinson (1975 TV series), The Time Tunnel, The Tower (novel), The Towering Inferno, Time Travelers (1976 film), USOS Seaview, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), Van Allen radiation belt, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Vir Cotto, Viva Knievel!, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series), Voyagers!, Warner Bros., Wesley Crusher, When Time Ran Out, Where Danger Lives, William Bendix, William Hurt, Willis H. O'Brien, 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Television, 3D film. Expand index (110 more) »

A Girl in Every Port (1952 film)

A Girl in Every Port is a 1952 comedy film directed by Chester Erskine.

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A. D. Flowers

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Adventures of the Queen

Adventures of the Queen is a 1975 American TV movie starring Robert Stack.

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Alice in Wonderland (1985 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1985 two-part made-for-television film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

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Alien Nation

Alien Nation is an American science fiction media franchise comprising film, television, and other media productions about alien refugees living on Earth.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Angela Cartwright

Angela Margaret Cartwright (born September 9, 1952) is an English-born American actress primarily known for her roles in movies and television.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American action-adventure disaster film and a sequel to The Poseidon Adventure (1972) directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine and Sally Field.

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Bill Mumy

Charles William Mumy Jr. (born February 1, 1954) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice actor, author and a figure in the science-fiction community.

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Bob May (actor)

Bob May (September 4, 1939 – January 18, 2009) was an American actor best remembered for playing The Robot on the television series Lost in Space, which debuted in 1965 and ran until 1968.

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Castaway

A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore.

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Cave-In!

Cave-In! (sometimes listed as Cave In!) is an American action film starring Dennis Cole, Leslie Nielsen, and James Olson.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.

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Charles Bennett (screenwriter)

Charles Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright, screenwriter and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.

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City Beneath the Sea (1971 film)

City Beneath the Sea is a 1971 science fiction television film and television pilot for a proposed series by Irwin Allen.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.

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Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film chronicling the struggles of Cleopatra, the young Queen of Egypt, to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

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Code Red (U.S. TV series)

Code Red is an American drama series that ran from 1981 to 1982 on ABC and was produced by Irwin Allen.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Costume designer

A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television.

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Dangerous Mission

Dangerous Mission is a 1954 Technicolor film noir thriller film starring Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price, and William Bendix.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist.

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Dick Tufeld

Richard Norton "Dick" Tufeld (December 11, 1926 – January 22, 2012) was an American actor, announcer, narrator and voice actor from the late 1940s until the early 21st century.

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Disaster film

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device.

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Double Dynamite

Double Dynamite is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra.

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DuckTales

DuckTales is an American animated television series, produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and distributed by Buena Vista Television.

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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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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Film studio

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Fire! (1977 film)

Fire! is a 1977 American made-for-television action-drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen starring Ernest Borgnine, Vera Miles, Patty Duke Astin, Alex Cord, Donna Mills, Lloyd Nolan, Neville Brand, Ty Hardin and Erik Estrada.

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First Spaceship on Venus

First Spaceship on Venus, (a.k.a. in German: Der Schweigende Stern; in Polish: Milcząca Gwiazda; literal English translation: The Silent Star), also known in English as Planet of the Dead and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply, is a 1960 East German/Polish color science fiction film, directed by Kurt Maetzig, that stars Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe, and Yoko Tani.

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Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863.

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Five Weeks in a Balloon (film)

Five Weeks in a Balloon is a 1962 adventure film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne filmed in CinemaScope.

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Flood!

Flood! is a 1976 American made-for-television adventure film directed by Earl Bellamy.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Foxstar Productions

Foxstar Productions was a television production subsidiary of News Corporation.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Gary Oldman

Gary Leonard OldmanBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005. (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker who has performed in theatre, film and television.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

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Golden Raspberry Awards

The Golden Raspberry Awards (also known in short terms as Razzies and Razzie Awards) is a mock award in recognition of the worst in film.

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Gossip columnist

A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star.

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Guy Williams (actor)

Guy Williams (born Armando Joseph Catalano; January 14, 1924 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian-American actor and former fashion model.

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Hanging by a Thread (1979 film)

Hanging by a Thread is a 1979 television disaster movie starring Sam Groom about friends stranded in a disabled cable-car above a ravine.

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Heather Graham

Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970) is an American actress.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.

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Hell and High Water (1954 film)

Hell and High Water is a 1954 Technicolor Cold War drama film starring Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi and Victor Francen.

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Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author.

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History of the Jews in Russia

Jews in the Russian Empire have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world.

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Jane Russell

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011) was an American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.

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John Farrow

John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 190427 January 1963) was an Australian-born American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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John Guillermin

John Guillermin (11 November 192527 September 2015) was a British film director, writer and producer who was most active in big budget, action adventure films throughout his lengthy career.

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John Larroquette

John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American actor.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Johnny Carson

John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.

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Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American character actor "whose career included more than 500 television and movie appearances, as well as voice overs." Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the television version of The Third Man and the fussy villain Dr.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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June Lockhart

June Lockhart (born June 25, 1925) is an American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television, also with performances on stage and in film.

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Kevin Burns

Kevin Burns (born June 18, 1955 in Schenectady, New York) is an American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter.

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King Kong (1933 film)

King Kong is a 1933 American NR pre-Code monster adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

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KLAC

KLAC AM 570 is a radio station serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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L. B. Abbott

Lenwood Ballard "Bill" Abbott, A.S.C. also known as L. B. Abbott (13 June 1908, Pasadena, California – 28 September 1985, Los Angeles) was a special effects expert, cinematographer and cameraman.

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Lacey Chabert

Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American actress, voice actress, and singer.

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Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants is an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22, 1970.

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List of DuckTales episodes

The following is an episode list for the Disney animated television series DuckTales.

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Logan's Run (film)

Logan's Run is a 1976 American science fiction film, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, and Peter Ustinov.

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Lost in Space

Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen.

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Lost in Space (film)

Lost in Space is a 1998 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins, and starring William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, and Gary Oldman.

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Lulu.com

Lulu Press, Inc., doing business as Lulu.com, is an online print-on-demand, self-publishing, and distribution platform.

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Mark Goddard

Mark Goddard (born Charles Harvey Goddard; July 24, 1936) is an American actor who has starred in a number of television programs.

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Marta Kristen

Marta Kristen (born February 26, 1945) is a Norwegian-born American actress.

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Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.

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Matt LeBlanc

Matthew Steven LeBlanc (born July 25, 1967) is an American actor and television host.

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Mimi Rogers

Miriam "Mimi" Rogers (née Spickler; born January 27, 1956) is an American film and television actress, producer and competitive poker player.

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Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, mostly on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

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Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery

Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries is the largest Jewish cemetery organization in California.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Alternaversal Productions, LLC.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017).

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Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer.

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Paul Zastupnevich

Paul Zastupnevich (December 24, 1921 – May 9, 1997) was an American costume designer and assistant to movie producer and director Irwin Allen, active in film from 1959 to 1980.

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Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor.

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Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi.

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Print syndication

Print syndication distributes news articles, columns, comic strips and other features to newspapers, magazines and websites.

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Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

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Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation".

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Red Buttons

Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt; February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was an American actor and comedian.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer.

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Ronald Colman

Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, before emigrating to the USA, and having a successful Hollywood film career, he was most popular during the 1920s, 1930's, and 1940's.

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Ronald Neame

Ronald Elwin Neame CBE BSC (23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.

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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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Science fiction on television

Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

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Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck is a fictional character created in 1947 by Carl Barks during his time as a work-for-hire for The Walt Disney Company.

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Second City Television

Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV, is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran between 1976 and 1984.

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Sheila Matthews Allen

Sheila Mathews Allen (February 2, 1929 – November 15, 2013) was an American actress.

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Silent Running

Silent Running is a 1972 environmental-themed American post-apocalyptic science fiction film.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Special Achievement Academy Award

The Special Achievement Award is an Academy Award given for an achievement that makes an exceptional contribution to the motion picture for which it was created, but for which there is no annual award category.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.

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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

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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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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Steve Allen

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism.

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Stock footage

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures, and file footage is film or video footage that can be used again in other films.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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Talent agent

A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, writers, screenwriters, broadcast journalists, and other professionals in various entertainment or broadcast businesses.

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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 Animal World (film)

The Animal World is a 1956 documentary film that was produced, written and directed by Irwin Allen.

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The Big Circus

The Big Circus is a 1959 film starring Victor Mature as a circus owner struggling with financial trouble and a murderous unknown saboteur.

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The Enemy Below

The Enemy Below is a 1957 DeLuxe Color war film in CinemaScope, which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German U-boat during World War II.

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The Glass Inferno

The Glass Inferno is a 1974 novel by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.

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The Lost World (1925 film)

The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name.

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The Lost World (1960 film)

The Lost World is a 1960 De Luxe Color and a CinemaScope fantasy adventure film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle and directed by Irwin Allen.

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The Man from the 25th Century

The Man from the 25th Century is a 1968 short produced by Irwin Allen.

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The Memory of Eva Ryker

The Memory of Eva Ryker is a 1980 American TV movie starring Natalie Wood.

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The Night the Bridge Fell Down

The Night the Bridge Fell Down is an American disaster film starring James MacArthur, Desi Arnaz Jr., and Leslie Nielsen.

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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)

The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's eponymous 1969 novel.

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The Poseidon Adventure (novel)

The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969.

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The Return of Captain Nemo

The Return of Captain Nemo (theatrical title: The Amazing Captain Nemo) is a 1978 American science fiction adventure television miniseries directed by Alex March and Paul Stader (the latter directed the underwater sequences), and loosely based on characters and settings from Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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The Sea Around Us

The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951.

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The Sea Around Us (film)

The Sea Around Us is a 1953 American documentary film directed by Irwin Allen and released by RKO.

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The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and published in 1921.

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The Story of Mankind (film)

The Story of Mankind is a 1957 American fantasy film, very loosely based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon.

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The Swarm (film)

The Swarm is a 1978 American disaster-horror film about a killer bee invasion of Texas.

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The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.

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The Swiss Family Robinson (1975 TV series)

The Swiss Family Robinson is an American action and adventure series that was broadcast during the 1975–76 TV season.

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The Time Tunnel

The Time Tunnel is an American color science-fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure and starring James Darren and Robert Colbert.

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The Tower (novel)

The Tower is a 1973 novel by Richard Martin Stern.

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The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.

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Time Travelers (1976 film)

Time Travelers is a 1976 science fiction movie starring Sam Groom, Tom Hallick, and Richard Basehart.

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USOS Seaview

Seaview, a fictional privately owned nuclear submarine, was the setting for the 1961 motion picture Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, starring Walter Pidgeon, and later for the 1964–1968 ABC television series of the same title.

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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is a fictional starship in the fictional Star Trek universe that serves as both the main setting of the original ''Star Trek'' television series, as well as the primary transportation method for the show's characters.

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Van Allen radiation belt

A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field.

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Victor Mature

Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actor who starred most notably in several Biblical movies during the 1950s, and was known for his dark good looks and mega-watt smile.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.

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Vir Cotto

Vir Cotto is a character from the fictional Babylon 5 universe, played on screen by Stephen Furst.

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Viva Knievel!

Viva Knievel! is a 1977 American action-adventure film starring Evel Knievel (as himself), Gene Kelly, and Lauren Hutton.

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1961 American science fiction disaster film from 20th Century Fox, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, that stars Walter Pidgeon as Admiral Harriman Nelson, and Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane.

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name.

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Voyagers!

Voyagers! is an American science fiction television series about time travel that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Wesley Crusher

Wesley Crusher is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, appearing regularly in the first four seasons and sporadically afterward.

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When Time Ran Out

When Time Ran Out is a 1980 disaster film starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Burgess Meredith, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Pat Morita, Edward Albert, and Barbara Carrera.

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Where Danger Lives

Where Danger Lives is a 1950 film noir thriller directed by John Farrow and starring Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue and Claude Rains.

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William Bendix

William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters.

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William Hurt

William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor.

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Willis H. O'Brien

Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962) was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World (1925), King Kong (1933) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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20th Century Fox Television

Twentieth Century Fox Television (or TCFTV, stylized as 20th Century Fox Television) is the television production division of 20th Century Fox, and a production arm of the Fox Television Group (both are owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox).

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3D film

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional sangu, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Allen

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