Monday, January 2, 2023

THE HAT SQUAD 2022 - BEHIND THE SCENES

 

THE HAT SQUAD 2022 
BEHIND THE SCENES

WRITERS
Bruce Meyer (CBS News Writer)
Eric Chappelle ('Rising Champ', 'Only When I Laugh', 'The Bounder', 'Home To Roost')
Stephen S. Thompson (Won a BAFTA for 'Sitting In Limbo'
Joyce Rebeta-Burditt (Created 'Diagnosis Murder')
Raymond Briggs ("The Snowman", 'Fungus the Bogeyman', 'Jackanory')
Philip Purser ('ITV Play Of The Week', 'The Wednesday Play', 'A Family At War', 'The Wednesday Play')
Dale McRaven ('Perfect Strangers', 'Mork & Mindy', 'Angie', 'The Joey Bishop Show', 'The Partridge Family', 'The Dick Van Dyke Show', 'The Texas Wheelers', 'Gomer Pyle')
Raymond Allen ('Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em', 'The Little and Large Show')
Charles Fuller ("Zooman", "The Sky Is Gray", "A Gathering of Old Men")
John Jay Osborne (Wrote the novel on which 'The Paper Chase' was based.)

DIRECTORS
John Korty ("The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", 'Sesame Street', "The People", "Go Ask Alice", "The Ewok Adventure", "Ms. Scrooge")
Marvin L. Chomsky ('Holocaust', 'The Wild, Wild West', 'Star Trek', 'Maya', 'Strauss Dynasty')
Sir David Nicholas (ITN Producer/Director)
Ziggy Livnar ('National Geographic Explorer' filmmaker)
Peter Brook ('The Mahabharata', "Mesure pour Mesure", "La Cerisaie"
Wolfgang Petersen ('Das Boot', 'Tatort', 'Die Stadt Im Tal', "Van Der Valk und die Reichen")
Jonathan Stedall (BBC & ITV documentarian)
Mike Hodges ('The Tyrant King', 'Dandelion Dead', 'World In Action', 'ITV Playhouse')


PRODUCERS
Josh Gelman ('48 Hours', "That's The Way It Was")
Jay Wolpert ('The Price Is Right', 'Hit Man', 'Double Dare', 'Whew!')
Julian Fowles (KCET - "Mark Twain Tonight!", "Selma, Lord, Selma", "Leave 'Em Laughing")
Beryl Vertue ('Sherlock', 'Men Behaving Badly', 'Coupling')
Ivan Reitman ('Delta House', 'Beethoven', 'Alienators', 'Atom TV')
Av Westin ('20/20', 'CBS Reports', 'The Twentieth Century', 'ABC World News Tonight', 'Arts & Entertainment Revue', 'Years of Crisis')
Jack Willis ('American Masters', 'NET Journal', 'The 51st State', 'The American Parade', 'The Great American Dream Machine')
Chris Stuart ('Only Correct', 'Celebrity Poker Challenge', 'Oz & James Drink To Britain')
Chase Mishkin ("Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: In Concert")
Leslie Megahey ('Omnibus', 'Hollywood The Golden Years', 'Painting With Light')
Zack Estrin ('Prison Break', 'Lost In Space')
Robert Ferrante ('Nightwatch')
John Miller (BBC & ITV producer, founding member of Television South)
Jules Bass ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Frosty The Snowman")
George Newall ('Co-Creator of 'Schoolhouse Rock')


MUSIC
Stephen Lawrence ("Free To Be You And Me", 'Sesame Street')
Marilyn Bergman ('In The Heat Of The Night', 'Alice', 'Maude', 'Good Times', 'Brooklyn Bridge')
Donald Pippin (Conductor - "Mrs. Santa Claus", "Broadway At The Hollywood Bowl", 'Great Performances: Broadway Sings The Music Of Jule Styne', "Snow White Live")
James Rado (Music from "Hair" used in 'The Simpsons',  'Warehouse 13', 'Glee', 'Head Of The Class', 'The Muppet Show', 'The Benny Hill Show', 'Shindig!', 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 'Fame', 'Throb', 'Family Ties', 'My Name Is Earl', 'M', 'My Little Pony', 'Disjointed')
Manny Charlton ('Supernatural', 'Entourage', 'My Name Is Earl', 'Doctors')
Monty Norman ('Quick Before They Catch Us', 'It's Topol', 'Expresso Bongo', So many TV shows used his James Bond theme)
Lucy Simon (worked on "In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record".  Sister of Carly Simon.  Her older sister Joanna, an opera singer and entertainment reporter, died the day before.)
Angelo Badalamenti (Composer, 'Twin Peaks')

ANIMATION & PUPPETRY
Janibeth Johnson ("From The Top", UConn puppetry professor)
Paul Coker, Jr. (MAD artist, character designer of "Frosty the Snowman", 'Festival of Family Classics', "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "Here Comes Peter Cottontail")

EXECUTIVES
Jana Bennett (History Channel, TLC, FYI Network, BBC Worldwide Networks, Horizon.  She launched BBC3, BBC4, CBeebies, CBBC, and iPlayer)
Richard C. Wald (Executive with NBC and ABC)
Thomas S. Murphy (Head of Capital Cities Communications who engineered the takeover of ABC

OTHER CREW
Douglas Trumbull ('The Starlost', and I have to mention "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Silent Running", "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", "Blade Runner" and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture")
Michael Hopkins (CBS Director of Logistics for Special Events)
Victor Paganuzzi (CBS Scenic Designer, Created original 'CBS Sunday Morning' set)

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