Monday, January 8, 2024

THE HAT SQUAD 2023 - HYPHENATES & OTHERS

 THE HAT SQUAD 2022 - HYPHENATES & OTHERS

NORMAN LLOYD - The man stands alone
Producer - 'All In The Family'/'Archie Bunker's Place', 'Sanford & Son', 'Maude', 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'/'Forever Fernwood', 'Good Times', 'The Jeffersons', 'One Day At A Time' (two versions), '227', 'Gloria', 'All That Glitters', 'Checking In', 'The Powers That Be', 'Sunday Dinner', 'Diff'rent Strokes', 'The Facts of Life', '704 Hauser', 
Director - 
Writer - 
Other -
Member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame since September, 2001

HYPHENATES

Frank Galati (ACTOR - "Come Along With Me", WRITER - "The Grapes of Wrath", "The American Clock", DIRECTOR - "The Grapes of Wrath")
Jean Bertho (DIRECTOR - 'En votre ame et conscience', 'Lecture pour tous', ACTOR - 'Si cetait vous?', 'L'inspecteur Leclerc enquete')
Burt Bacharach (COMPOSER - 'The Kraft Music Hall', 'ABC Stage 67', 'The Creative Person' ACTOR - 'The Nanny')
Maurizio Costanza (WRITER - 'Jazz Band', 'Cinema!!!',  HOST -'The Maurizio Costanzo Show', 'Bonta Loro', 'Bonta Sua'  ACTOR - 'Orazio')
Tom Jolls (NEWS - WKBW weatherman, ACTOR - 'Commander Tom Show')
Carol Higgins Clark (ACTRESS - "A Cry In The Night", "The Cradle Will Fall", "Stillwatch" AUTHOR - "Deck The Halls", "Mystery Cruise") 
Sue Johanson (ACTRESS - 'DeGrassi High', 'DeGrassi: The Next Generation' SEX EXPERT 'Late Show with David Letterman', 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien', 'Late Night with Jay Leno', 'The View', 'Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson', 'Last Call with Carson Daly')
Nathan Louis Jackson (WRITER - 'Luke Cage', 'Shameless', 'Resurrection', CO-PRODUCER - 'S.W.A.T.', '13 Reasons Why', 'Genius', 'Luke Cage')
Robert Klane (WRITER - 'Tracey Takes On', "The Odd Couple: Together Again", 'M*A*S*H' DIRECTOR - "The Odd Couple: Together Again", 'Baby Boom')
Alan Eisenberg (Executive Director of Actors' Equity, PRODUCER - 
Sandra Elkin (Producer & Host - 'Woman')
Michael Blakemore (DIRECTOR - Tonys for Play & Musical in same year, 'Great Performances', "Hofeber"; ACTOR - 'The Last Bastion', 'ITV Play of the Week')

THE OTHERS
Art McNally (Head of NFL Officiating who brought instant replay to the game of football)
Lloyd Morrisett (Co-Creator of 'Sesame Street')
Representative Patricia Schroeder (Democratic Congresswoman, ran for President, played by Nora Dunn on 'Saturday Night Live')
Newton Minow (FCC chief who called TV a "vast wasteland")
Robert Hanssen (FBI agent who spied for Russia.  Played by Chris Cooper)
Pat Robertson ('Christian' televangelist, portrayed by Al Franken)
Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber, portrayed on TV by Tobin Bell and Paul Bettany)
Marvin Kitman (TV critic for Long Island Newsday.  I wrote to him once and he sent a reply.  He had written a column asking who shot JR and wanted people to send in their suggestions.  I told him it was probably my Grammy O'Brien who was in Texas at the time.  He wrote back that JR would have loved that I turned in my own grandmother.)
Sinead O'Connor (Tore up a picture of the Pope on SNL and was banned for Life from the show.  She was later played by Jan Hooks in two sketches.)
William H. Dilday, Jr. (First Black TV station manager in United States)
Don Browne (Media executive Telemundo )
Edward Bleier (Powerhouse behind Time Warner Cable)
Rosalynn Carter (Former First Lady, portrayed by Laraine Newman & Ann Risley)
Lionel Dahmer (Father of Jeffrey Dahmer, portrayed by Richard Jenkins in 'Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story')
Neil Drossman (Adman who came up with copy for Meow Mix, etc)
Donald Wildmon (Founder of American Family which campaigned against television and pop culture)
David Thacker (Recordist & Boom Operator - 'Beyond Paradise', 'Father Brown', 'Doctors', 'Broadchurch', '24: Live Another Day')


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