| Drop Dead Diva | |
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| Genre | Comedy-drama Fantasy Legal drama |
| Created by | Josh Berman |
The Returned opens in a small mountain community which is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly re-appear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely unaware of their own fatality.
Besides the 2004 film in which the show is based on, the plot is very similar to the Brazilian novel "Incidente em Antares" (Incident in Antares) by Erico Verissimo, which was published in 1971. A mini-series based on the book, Incidente em Antares (1994), was released in Brazil in 1994.
Paul Roberts is a seventeen-year-old boy who likes to keep to himself, limiting his social interaction to just his best friend Mac. Oh, as well as the vengeful ghosts he often encounters, of course.
CBS’ Ghost Whisperer tells the story of Melissa Gordon, a New York woman who’s trying to live a normal life as a wife, mother, and antique shop owner. Her gifts as a medium, however, often get in the way of that.
Before Patrick Wilson took on the role of renowned paranormal investigator Ed Warren in The Conjuring movie franchise, he was a man haunted by the ghost of his recently deceased wife.
The medium in question in the CBS series (originally at NBC) Medium is Allison DuBois, a wife, and mother of three daughters – whose character is based on the real-life purported medium of the same name.
Raines, NBC (2007) The last show on our list may have also been short-lived, but seven episodes of Jeff Goldblum as the protagonist will still be a gift that never stops giving. In NBC’s Raines, he plays the titular Michael Raines, a brilliant but eccentric homicide detective.
The only child of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko, Judith Eva Barsi beat 10,000-to-1 odds when she was discovered at a San Fernando Valley skating rink at age 5 1/2 in 1983 and mistaken for a three-year-old. Her first commercial was for Donald Duck Orange Juice and she went on to appear in anywhere ...
Heather Michele O'Rourke was born on December 27, 1975 in Santee, San Diego, California, to Kathleen, a seamstress, and Michael O'Rourke, a construction worker. She had German, Danish, English, and Irish ancestry.#N#Heather entered American cinematic pop-culture before first grade. She was sitting ...
Dorothy Stratten's story was brief, glorious and tragic. She was born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten on February 28, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She grew up in a rough neighborhood in Vancouver, but kept out of trouble and went through the motions of school. While not a beauty as a child...
XXXTentacion was born on January 23, 1998 in Plantation, Florida, USA as Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy. He was a composer and actor, known for Escape from South Crenshaw (2020), XXXTentacion: Jocelyn Flores (2017) and Tempus (2018). He died on June 18, 2018 in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Cameron Boyce was an American actor, with Afro-Caribbean and African-American descent. His paternal grandmother Jo Ann Allen was one of the "Clinton Twelve", the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the Southern United States (specifically in Clinton, Tennessee).#N#In 1999, ...
Pop Smoke was born on July 20, 1999 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Bashar Barakah Jackson. He was an actor and composer, known for Boogie (2021), Pop Smoke Feat. 50 Cent, Roddy Ricch: The Woo (2020) and Pop Smoke: AP (2021). He died on February 19, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Juice WRLD was born on December 2, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Jarad Anthony Higgins. He is known for his work on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Juice Wrld: Lucid Dreams (2018) and Eminem Feat. Juice WRLD: Godzilla (2020). He died on December 8, 2019 in Chicago.
The show's plot was that a group of "misfits" who ended up getting together because they all shared one thing in common, they had super powers.
The Nutt House was a comedy series from the minds of Mel Brooks and Alan Spencer and it aired on NBC from September 20, 1989 and lasted until October 25, 1989.
Nick Donovan (Asher Brauner ) and Ocee James (Steve Hanks) are former race car drivers who are hired by the LAPD, because of their superior driving skills. They are to become members of the newly formed B.A.D. Cats division which stands for Burglary Auto Detail Commercial Auto Thefts. Joining them in their fight to stop car thieves is Officer Samantha Jensen (a young Michelle Pfeiffer).
Shaun Cassidy, who gained teen idol status as Joe Hardy on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, took on the role of Dave Stohler, a guy who loved bicycle racing in the series Breaking Away inspired by the 1979 feature film of the same name.
Scott Bakula in Gung Ho. pinterest-pin-it. Based on the film of the same name, Gung Ho starred Scott Bakula as Hunt Stevenson in this short-lived series that first aired on ABC December 5, 1986 and lasted until June 27, 1987.
pinterest-pin-it. The Highwayman was an adventure series that aired on NBC beginning March 4, 1988 and lasted until May 6, 1988. Sam Jones (Flash Gordon fame) was the Highwayman, a US Marshal in this futuristic series that critics said was a cross between Mad Max and Knight Rider.
Sam Waterston stared as Quentin E. Deverille, a brilliant American professor who found himself laughed out of a job at Harvard because he dared speculate that it was possible to transmit picture and sound through the air.
This is the oldest show on the list (it originally aired from 1979-1990) and arguably the most iconic. One of Nickelodeon’s first sketch comedies for teens, YCDTOT featured a large cast of teenagers performing now (in)famous sketches, including a firing squad skit with an incompetent officer who could never quite finish his execution orders until he himself was in the line of fire, and locker jokes, a bit where the teen stars of the show all hid inside their lockers and poked their heads out so they could tell each other ridiculous one-liners.
Remember that one show where teenaged Jason Bateman played the oldest brother of a group of dreamy '90s boys who lived with their widowed father and witty Aunt Sandy (Sandy Duncan)? If you cannot recall the name of it, that could be because the show went through its fair share of title changes. Before it was called The Hogan Family, it was also called both Valerie and Valerie’s Family.
The show with the dinosaurs was actually called… Dinosaurs. Airing on ABC’s TGIF lineup from 1991-1994, it featured the voice acting of Stuart Pankin as daddy Dino Earl Sinclair, and Jessica Walter — who, along with raising the Bluth kids and Sterling Archer — has quite the history of playing mom to all sorts of eclectic individuals. The Sinclair family also had two teenagers, a baby, and a grandma dinosaur complete with white wig and lots of lipstick. Despite airing alongside family-centric fare like Full House and Family Matters, the show was definitely intended for a more mature, intelligent audience, and often featured tongue-in-cheek critiques of other sitcoms.
Another name for this show could have been: Chronicles of The Greatest Man-Child in History. Starring Chris Elliott, the show’s opening credits featured Elliott’s newspaper delivery boy riding a bike and lackadaisically flinging newspapers at houses while R.E.M.’s “Stand” played in the background. Elliott’s character, also named Chris, lived above his parents’ garage, and he was prone to moments of ridiculousness and insanity.
Another Saturday morning non-gem airing on the TNBC block that we definitely sorta remember watching, Hang Time was a show that focused on a high school basketball team —which, progressively enough, also included a girl (it was Saved By The Bell on a Basketball Court, basically). Hang Time had a virtual rotating cast every single season, which included a pre- Suicide Squad Jay Hernandez, former Chicago Bear Dick Butkus as a coach, and a young Anthony Anderson when he was the age his kids are now on Blackish.
Brotherly Love, leaving little to the imagination, starred the real-life Lawrence brothers: Joey, Matthew, and Andrew, who played brothers named...Joe, Matt, and Andy. Joe, the oldest, was the buff, tough-yet-sensitive mechanic.
Remember the show whose opening credits were a typical family trudging through their morning routine while The Beatles’ “Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” played? That was this early '90s family drama starring Kellie Martin as Becca, the quintessential nerdy teenage daughter, and Patty Lupone as Libby, the tough, awesome, and caring matriarch. Life Goes On centered on the Thatcher family, rounded out by dad Drew (Bill Smitrovich) and brother Corky (Chris Burke), a young man navigating teendom while living with Down’s Syndrome.