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The Persuaders! 40th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition in HD

To mark the 40th anniversary of THE PERSUADERS (PG),
Network has commissioned a High Definition digital restoration of all 24 episodes
for a new Blu-ray edition of the series with brand new special features

YouTube > NetworkDVD 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS90FYxM4LA

Jane Nebel Henson 1934-2013

former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson

who was influential in the creation of the popular U.S. TV puppet program

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/04/02/arts/02reuters-janehenson.html

Bonnie Gail Franklin 1944-2013

Bonnie Franklin ('s) portrayal of a pert but determined Ann Romano

on the television show “One Day at a Time” in the 1970s and ’80s

spun laughter out of the tribulations of a divorced woman

juggling parenting, career, love life and feminist convictions

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/arts/television/bonnie-franklin-actress-dies-at-69.html

http://movies.nytimes.com/person/24784/Bonnie-Franklin

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/arts/television/bonnie-franklin-actress-dies-at-69.html

Raymond Patrick Cusick 1928-2013

The iconic shape of the Daleks

– the most enduring villains from the BBC's

long-running television science-fiction series Doctor Who –

came from the imagination of the designer Raymond Cusick (...).

The famous domed silhouette,

with three protuberances – eyestalk, sucker arm and gun –

and distinctive spherical skirt decorations,

has retained its shape even into the current incarnation of the show.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/24/raymond-cusick

Conrad Stafford Bain 1923-2013

accomplished stage and film actor

who was best known for a late-career role on television

as the white adoptive father of two poor black boys

on the long-running comedy “Diff’rent Strokes”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/arts/television/conrad-bain-actor-on-diffrent-strokes-dies-at-89.html

Jack Klugman 1922-2012

rubber-mugged character actor

who leapt to television stardom in the 1970s

as the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison on “The Odd Couple”

and as the crusading forensic pathologist of “Quincy, M.E.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/arts/television/jack-klugman-stage-and-screen-actor-is-dead-at-90.html

Larry Hagman 1931-2012

Larry Hagman's portrayal

of one of television’s most beloved villains, J.R. Ewing,

led the CBS series “Dallas” to enormous world popularity

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/arts/television/larry-hagman-who-played-jr-ewing-on-dallas-dies-at-81.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/24/larry-hagman-obituary-jr-dallas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/nov/24/larry-hagman-dallas-jr

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/24/larry-hagman-dallas-dies-jr

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/arts/television/larry-hagman-who-played-jr-ewing-on-dallas-dies-at-81.html

Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn 1920-2012

Had it not been for his short stature and elf-like face,

the actor Clive Dunn (...) would have liked to play juvenile lead parts.

But his loss was the audience's – especially the television audience's – gain.

Though he was master of all sorts of old-man parts,

he will be remembered with most affection

as Lance Corporal Jones in the BBC television send-up

of life in the wartime Home Guard, Dad's Army (1968-77)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/07/clive-dunn

Digby Wolfe 1929-2012

writer and actor

whose acerbic wit, absurdist sensibility and political edge

helped shape “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,”

the zany collage of televised comedy

that captured the tumultuousness of the 1960s

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/arts/television/digby-wolfe-actor-and-laugh-in-writer-dies-at-82.html

Paul Bogart 1919-2012

puppeteer who bumbled into the new medium of television in 1950

and rose to be an Emmy-winning director known for popular shows

like “All in the Family” and “The Defenders”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/paul-bogart-tv-director-dies-at-92.html

Philip Madoc 1934-2012

The actor Philip Madoc (...)

became one of Wales's best-known faces

through playing villains and officers on television for half a century.

His rich, sonorous voice was heard to marvellous effect

when he took the role of King Lear in a 2007 BBC radio broadcast:

it was as ideal for Shakespeare as it was for light comedy

or reciting the prose of Dylan Thomas, at which he was masterly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/mar/05/philip-madoc

Phillip Bruns 1931-2012

familiar-face character actor

best known on television as the cigar-chomping hard-hat dad

on the 1970s soap-opera parody “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/arts/television/phil-bruns-dad-on-mary-hartman-mary-hartman-dies-at-80.html

Robert Hegyes 1951-2012

Robert Hegyes played Juan Epstein,

the Sweathog voted Most Likely to Take a Life,

on the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/television/robert-hegyes-60-of-welcome-back-kotter-is-dead.html

Betty (Elizabeth Mary) Driver, actor and singer 1920-2011

Betty Driver (...) was a gutsy and durable comic actor

who meant one thing to young audiences

and quite another to those who could remember

the second world war and the years immediately after it.

To the youthful, she will be remembered as Betty Turpin (later Betty Williams),

the barmaid, shoulder to cry on and wife of the policeman Cyril Turpin

in Granada television's Coronation Street,

whose cast she joined in 1969.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/15/betty-driver

Daniel Thomas Frazer 1921-2011

Dan Frazer, a character actor whose Hell’s Kitchen upbringing
prepared him for a long run of roles as a blue-collar type or a cop,
most notably as the beleaguered supervising officer Capt. Frank McNeil on “Kojak”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/arts/television/dan-frazer-fretful-supervisor-on-kojak-dies-at-90.html

Alan Grigsby Sues 1926-2011

His father raised racehorses, requiring him to move the family frequently,
uprooting Alan and his brother, John, from one school after another.
Alan Sues served in the Army in Europe during World War II.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/arts/television/alan-sues-a-laugh-in-cast-mainstay-dies-at-85.html

Hal Kanter 1918-2011

Emmy-winning comedy writer, director and producer known for creating “Julia,”
the first television series to center on the life of a black professional woman

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/arts/television/hal-kanter-a-creator-of-julia-series-on-tv-dies-at-92.html

Charles Samuel Dubronevski 1919-2011

Charles S. Dubin's career as a daring director in television’s early years
stalled after he refused to answer questions before Congress about Communist involvement,
then robustly rebounded as he went on to direct more episodes of “M*A*S*H” than anyone else

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/arts/television/charles-s-dubin-television-director-is-dead-at-92.html

Sherwood Charles Schwartz 1916-2011

Sherwood Schwartz created “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch,”
two of the most affectionately ridiculed and enduring television sitcoms of the 1960s and ’70s

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/arts/television/sherwood-schwartz-dies-at-94-created-gilligans-island.html

John Sullivan 1946-2011

John Sullivan created the sitcoms Only Fools and Horses,
Citizen Smith and Roger Roger

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/23/john-sullivan-only-fools-and-horses-dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/23/only-fools-writer-john-sullivan-dies

Madelyn Pugh USA 1921-2011

with her writing partners for the classic sitcom “I Love Lucy“
she concocted zany scenes in which the harebrained Lucy
dangles from a hotel balcony, poses as a sculpture
or stomps and wrestles in a vat full of grapes

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/arts/television/madelyn-pugh-davis-writer-for-i-love-lucy-dies-at-90.html

Sol Saks USA 1910-2011

he wrote the first episode of “Bewitched,”
the popular sitcom about a suburban housewife skilled in the uses of enchantment

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/arts/television/sol-saks-writer-of-bewitched-pilot-dies-at-100.html

Frank Deasy, TV scriptwriter 1960-2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/sep/20/frank-deasy-obituary

Troy Kennedy Martin, TV and film scriptwriter 1932-2009

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6835830.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/sep/16/television-bbc

screenwriter > Peter Bowker

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jul/21/desperate-romantics-bbc-drama

Stephen J. Cannell USA 1941-2010

Stephen J. Cannell
was one of television’s most prolific writers and series creators.
His work encompassed the “The Rockford Files” and “Wiseguy”
to “The A-Team” and “The Greatest American Hero,”

For 30 years, beginning in the early 1970s and extending through the 1990s,
television viewers could hardly go a week without running into a show written by Mr. Cannell.
His writing credits include more than 1,000 episodes of various series, primarily crime dramas,
and he is listed as the creator of almost 20 series — some long-running hits
like “The Rockford Files,” and “The Commish,” others quick flame-outs like “Booker. ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/arts/television/02cannell.html

Jackson Clark Gillis, prolific writer of TV drama USA 1916-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/arts/television/29gillis.html

Paul Abbott, creator of Shameless and State of Play

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/28/paul-abbott-uk-tv-drama

dramatist > Alan Frederick Plater 1935-2010

Playwright and author of TV dramas
including The Beiderbecke Affair and Fortunes of War

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jun/25/alan-plater-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/25/alan-plater-tributes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/25/alan-plater-dies

Allan Manings, writer and creator of television shows USA 1924-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/arts/television/23manings.html

Mary Fickett USA 1928-2011

Mary Fickett acted in theater, film and prime-time television
before becoming a legend among followers
of the daytime drama “All My Children” as Ruth Martin,
a nurse unafraid to speak her mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/arts/television/mary-fickett-a-pillar-of-all-my-children-dies-at-83.html

Margaret Tyzack 1931-2011

a stalwart British actress who won myriad awards
for her stage performances, including a Tony,
but who was best known in the United States for her roles
in the public television series “The Forsyte Saga” and “I, Claudius”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/arts/margaret-tyzack-british-actress-dies-at-79.html

Peter Michael Falk 1927-2011

Peter Falk marshaled actorly tics, prop room appurtenances
and his own physical idiosyncrasies
to personify Columbo,
one of the most famous and beloved fictional detectives in television history

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/19/alex-zane-on-columbo

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/arts/television/peter-falk-columbo-actor-dies-at-83.html

Barbara Ann McNeese 1930-2011

an actress with a familiar if not famous face on television for half a century,
who appeared on nearly 80 television series that spanned much of the medium’s history

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/television/barbara-stuart-tv-actress-is-dead-at-81.html

Elisabeth Sladen 1948-2011

a favourite companion of BBC television's great time traveller, Doctor Who

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/20/doctor-who-fantasy

Michael Tolan (born Seymour Tuchow) 1925-2011

actor who became a recurring presence on television in the 1960s and ’70s
after walking away from film and Broadway but who returned to the stage
to help found the American Place Theater, a successful Off Broadway house

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/television/04tolan.html

Charles Edward Sellier Jr. 1943-2011

producer and director of family-friendly films and television shows
and creator of the popular 1970s NBC series “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/television/04seiller.html

Donald Kirshner 1934-2011

music publisher of Brill Building hits
like “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin,’ ”
who later served as a deadpan Ed Sullivan for Kiss, the Ramones and others
with his 1970s television show, “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/arts/music/19kirshner.html

Albert Franklin Rucker Jr. / Clay Cole USA 1938-2010

his dance program “The Clay Cole Show”
had a loyal following among adolescent television viewers in the New York area in the 1960s
and gave many groups, including the Rolling Stones, early exposure on American television

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/television/24cole.html

Lamont Johnson Jr. USA 1922-2010

Emmy-winning television director
known for bringing an understated touch to delicate subjects.

(...)

Mr. Johnson, the director of more than 150 television shows, miniseries and movies of the week,
received 11 Emmy nominations during his 45-year directing career.

He won critical acclaim for “My Sweet Charlie” (1970), a look at tensions in interracial relationships;
“That Certain Summer” (1972), one of television’s first attempts to explore homosexuality;
and “Crisis at Central High” (1981), about the civil rights movement.

His 1975 television movie, “Fear on Trial,” examined the blacklisting of the 1950s,
a subject with which Mr. Johnson identified, having once found himself on such a list.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/arts/television/27johnson.html

Horace Paul Picerni 1922-2011

prolific television and screen actor
best known as Agent Eliot Ness’s right-hand man in the hit 1960s series “The Untouchables”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/television/21picerni.html

Anne Francis (born Ann Marvak) 1930-2011

She was best known for her roles
in the 1950s science-fiction film “Forbidden Planet”
and the 1960s television series “Honey West”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/arts/04francis.html

James Gordon MacArthur 1937-2010

James MacArthur played Danno,
the boyish-looking but hard-driving sidekick
on the long-running television detective show “Hawaii Five-O”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/arts/television/29mccarthur.html

Thomas Edward Bosley 1927-2010

Mr. Bosley is probably best known for his decade, beginning in 1974,
as Howard Cunningham, the gruff but reliably kind father of teenage children in 1950s Milwaukee
in the nostalgic situation comedy “Happy Days.”
He also had significant roles on popular crime-solving dramas,
including the title character in “The Father Dowling Mysteries”
and Sheriff Amos Tupper, an ally of the sleuth and mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury),
in “Murder, She Wrote.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/television/20bosley.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/20/happy-days-star-tom-bosley-dies

Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes) 1915-2010

as June Cleaver on the television series “Leave It to Beaver” [ 1957-1963 ]
[ she ] personified a Hollywood postwar family ideal
of the ever-sweet, ever-helpful suburban stay-at-home mom

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/arts/television/17billingsley.html

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) 1925-2010

a classically handsome movie star
who came out of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s
to find both wide popularity and critical acclaim in dramatic and comic roles alike,
from “The Defiant Ones” to “Some Like It Hot”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01curtis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/30/tony-curtis-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/30/tony-curtis-tributes-film-world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/sep/30/tony-curtis-true-hollywood-star
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/45555/Some-Like-It-Hot/overview
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/13109/The-Defiant-Ones/overview

Joseph Mantel / Joe Mantell, actor 1915-2010

a familiar figure on television beginning in the 1950s,
appearing in guest roles on numerous series
— dramas including “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Wanted: Dead or Alive,”
“The Twilight Zone,” “The Defenders,” “Mission: Impossible” and “Lou Grant”;
and situation comedies like “My Three Sons,” “Maude” and “Barney Miller.”
In the early ’60s he had a regular role on the comedy “Pete and Gladys,”
and in the late ’60s he had a recurring part on the detective drama “Mannix.”

In the movies he appeared in “Onionhead,” with Andy Griffith, and “The Sad Sack,” with Jerry Lewis.
In “The Birds,” Hitchcock’s classic horror film about avian madness in a California town,
he played a traveling salesman who advises, “Kill them all!”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/arts/01mantell.html

Davy Crockett > Fess Elisha Parker Jr, actor 1924-2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/18/fess-parker-obituary

Moyra Fraser, actor 1923-2009

On television, she made many appearances in popular sitcoms,
notably as Lady Tapwater in four episodes of Orlando in 1968,
and in The Good Life in the mid-1970s,
but she was best known as Judi Dench's first husband's sister
in Bob Larbey's As Time Goes By;
she was in 14 episodes between 1993 and 2005, her last work in all media.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/dec/15/moyra-fraser-obituary

TV actor > Mike Doyle

http://nytimes.com/2009/06/03/arts/television/03doyl.html

Patrick Joseph McGoohan actor, writer and director 1928-2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/14/television2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2009/jan/15
/patr-ck-mcgoohan-the-prisoner-danger-man?picture=341823739

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