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Fresno (miniseries)

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Fresno is a 1986 American television comedy miniseries that parodied prime time soap operas of the time such as Falcon Crest, Dallas, and Dynasty. [1]

50 relations: Anthony Heald, Atlanta, Barry Kemp (TV producer), Bill Paxton, Bob Mackie, Carol Burnett, Casting Society of America, CBS, Charles Grodin, Charles Keating, Charles Keating (actor), Comedy, Conquistador, Dabney Coleman, Dallas (1978 TV series), Dynasty (1981 TV series), Falcon Crest, Fresno, California, Gregory Harrison, Henry Darrow, Jeff Bleckner, Jeffrey Jones, Jerry Van Dyke, John Morris (composer), Knots Landing, Los Angeles Times, Louise Latham, Luis Ávalos, Mary Tyler Moore, Michael Richards, Miniseries, MTM Enterprises, Natalie Gregory, New York City, Pat Corley, Prime time, R. W. Goodwin, Soap opera, Teresa Ganzel, Teri Garr, The New York Times, The New York Times Company, Time (magazine), Tom Poston, Turner Broadcasting System, Turner Classic Movies, Valerie Mahaffey, WarnerMedia, 20th Television, 21st Century Fox.

Anthony Heald

Philip Anthony Mair Heald (born August 25, 1944) is an American actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's jail nemesis, Dr. Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and for playing assistant principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's Boston Public.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Barry Kemp (TV producer)

Barry Kemp born December 4, 1949 is a television producer, director and writer, and a movie producer.

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Bill Paxton

William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and director.

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Bob Mackie

Robert Gordon Mackie (born March 24, 1940), known universally as Bob Mackie, is an American fashion designer and costumer, best known for his dressing of entertainment icons such as Joan Rivers, Cher, RuPaul, Barbara Eden, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Tina Turner, Carol Burnett and Mitzi Gaynor.

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Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer and writer, whose career spans seven decades of television.

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Casting Society of America

The Casting Society of America (CSA), founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1982, is a professional society of about 700 casting directors for film, television and theatre in Australia, Canada, India, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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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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Charles Grodin

Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an American actor, comedian, author, and former television talk show host.

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Charles Keating

Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, and activist best known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.

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Charles Keating (actor)

Charles Keating (22 October 1941 – 8 August 2014) was an English actor of stage, screen, and television, and a narrator of audiobooks.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

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Dabney Coleman

Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor.

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Dallas (1978 TV series)

Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991.

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Dynasty (1981 TV series)

Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989.

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Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American prime time television soap opera that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990.

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Fresno, California

Fresno (Spanish for "ash tree") is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County.

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Gregory Harrison

Gregory Neale Harrison (born May 31, 1950) is an American actor.

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Henry Darrow

Henry Darrow (born Enrique Tomás Delgado, September 15, 1933) is a Puerto Rican character actor of stage and film known for his role as Manolito "Mano" Montoya on the 1960s television series The High Chaparral.

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Jeff Bleckner

Jeff Bleckner (born August 12, 1943) is an American theatre and television director.

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Jeffrey Jones

Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American actor best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), and A. W. Merrick in Deadwood (2004–2006).

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Jerry Van Dyke

Jerry McCord Van Dyke (July 27, 1931 – January 5, 2018) was an American actor, musician and comedian.

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John Morris (composer)

John Leonard Morris (October 18, 1926 – January 25, 2018) was an American film, television and broadway composer, dance arranger, conductor, and trained concert pianist.

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Knots Landing

Knots Landing is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Louise Latham

Louise Latham (September 23, 1922 – February 12, 2018) was an American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Bernice Edgar in Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 film Marnie.

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Luis Ávalos

Luis Ávalos (September 2, 1946 – January 22, 2014) was a Cuban character actor.

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Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a single woman working as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966), in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother.

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Michael Richards

Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American actor, writer, television producer and comedian, widely known for his portrayal of Cosmo Kramer on the television sitcom Seinfeld, for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series three times.

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Miniseries

A miniseries (or mini-series, also known as a serial in the UK) is a television program that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

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MTM Enterprises

MTM Enterprises (later known as MTM Enterprises, Inc.) was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS.

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Natalie Gregory

Natalie Lynn Gregory (born October 20, 1975) is an American former child actress.

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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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Pat Corley

Pat Corley (June 1, 1930 – September 11, 2006) was an American actor.

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Prime time

The prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming.

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R. W. Goodwin

Robert W. Goodwin (born 1943), billed as R. W. Goodwin, is an Australian-born American television producer and director best known for his work as senior executive producer of The X-Files.

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Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

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Teresa Ganzel

Teresa Ganzel (born March 23, 1957) is an American television, film and voice over actress.

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Teri Garr

Teri Ann Garr (born December 11, 1944) is an American stage, television and film actress, singer, dancer and voice artist. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film, in the early 1960s including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley musicals. She is perhaps best known for appearing in comedy films, including Young Frankenstein (1974), Mr. Mom (1983) and Tootsie (1982) which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role Sandra "Sandy" Lester. Her quick banter led to Garr being a regular guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and David Letterman's late-late night talk shows. She also appeared on television as Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of the sitcom Friends (1997–98). Garr has been largely retired from performing since 2007.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Poston

Thomas Gordon Poston (October 17, 1921 – April 30, 2007) was an American television and film actor.

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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American media conglomerate that is part of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and manages the collection of cable television networks and properties initiated or acquired by Ted Turner.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Valerie Mahaffey

Valerie Mahaffey (born June 16, 1953) is an American character actress and producer.

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WarnerMedia

Warner Media, LLC (formerly Time Warner Inc.), doing business as WarnerMedia, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City and owned by AT&T.

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20th Television

Twentieth Television (or 20TV, stylized as 20th Television) is an American television syndication studio and the syndication arm of 20th Century Fox Television, itself a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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21st Century Fox

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (stylized as 21st Century Fox) is an American multinational mass media corporation that is based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno_(miniseries)

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