Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

Anderson paid singer Michael Holliday £ 2, 000 to sing the songs in the shows that were composed by Barry Gray.

Working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman.

Music for Captain Scarlet was composed by Barry Gray, an innovator in electronic music, who had scored all the Supermarionation series preceding it.

Winchell feuded with New York radio host Barry Gray, whom he described as " Borey Pink " and a " disk jerk ".

Barry Gray ( 18 July 1908 – 26 April 1984 ) was a British musician and composer best known for his collaborations with television and film producer Gerry Anderson.

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Other WMCA " Good Guys " included Jack Spector, B. Mitchel Reed, Dan Daniel and Johnny Dark, and talk show host Barry Gray.

Barry Gray composed the music, and Derek Meddings was the special effects director.

" Action Stations ," " Launch Stations ," and " Battle Stations " are sounded not by sirens but by a rapid drum-beat, composed and recorded by series composer Barry Gray, played over the Marineville public address system.

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( This was actually produced by series composer Barry Gray, on an Ondes Martenot.

Gray was also able to take the band towards a more jazz-influenced sound ( drawing on his further experience as a piano player with Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr and John Barry ).

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* 1978: The Rear Column by Simon Gray, starring Jeremy Irons, Barry Foster, Simon Ward and Clive Francis

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New York photographers Barry Hollywood, Gray Scott and Jon Moe have contributed the greatest number of covers.

In 1945, host Barry Gray began dropping music and adding talk with celebrities and later call-in listeners ; he is thus sometimes considered " The Father of Talk Radio ", and his show lasted on WMCA through several decades and format changes.

Despite additional contributions from successful songwriters and producers including Jeff Barry, Dobie Gray, Bryan Adams, Rick Springfield, Will Jennings, and Holly Knight, the albums were not commercially successful.

The music for the series was composed and conducted by Barry Gray.

Replacements later in the run included Barry Nelson and Don Chastain as Julian, Elizabeth Allen, Dolores Gray, and Millicent Martin as Dorothy, and Lisa Brown and Karen Ziemba as Peggy.

One of the show's other writers, Barry Cryer, said: " You could write almost anything knowing these two would do it brilliantly.

To keep the show's title plausible, the show's head writer, George Tibbles, fashioned a three-part story arc in which an orphaned friend of youngest brother Richard ( better known as Chip and played by Stanley Livingston ), Ernie Thompson ( played by his real-life brother, Barry Livingston ), awaits adoption when his current foster parents are transferred to the Orient.

Jack Barry, the show's host and co-owner of Barry-Enright Productions, was not involved in the actual rigging, but later helped in the cover-up.

The show's traditional reliance on the character-driven sketches featuring Damon and Keenen gave way to an increasing reliance upon walk-on cameos and guest appearances, including Nick Bakay, Barry Bonds, James Brown, Rodney Dangerfield, Bret Hart, Sherman Hemsley, Biz Markie, Peter Marshall, Ed O ' Neill, Chris Rock, Macho Man Randy Savage, Tupac Shakur, and players from the National Basketball Association.

Conductor John Owen Edwards along with JAY Records recorded the first ever complete recording, with all musical numbers, scene change music and incidental music, of the show's score in the 1990s with Judy Kaye and Barry Bostwick starred.

The show is chiefly known for being the link between two long standing RTÉ series, in that Gabriel Byrne's character, Pat Barry, had first appeared in The Riordans, towards the end of that show's run.

The show's final season saw Toukie Smith, Barry Sobel, Stoney Jackson, Kevin Peter Hall and Paul Winfield join the cast in an effort to rejuvenate the show's sagging ratings.

Veteran game-show host Jack Barry and his producing partner Dan Enright, along with Robert Noah and Buddy Piper, created Concentration, but others working at Barry & Enright Productions also contributed to the show's development.

Janet is given the opportunity to have Brad committed by the show's host, a supposedly blind Austrian named Bert Schnick ( Barry Humphries ), who promises her that the experience will improve their marriage.

The original show's six children ( Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb, and Susan Olsen ) voiced their animated counterparts in the first season ; however, as the series ' name implies, the parents and Alice the housekeeper characters were omitted from the show.

For much of his time on the show, " with Barry Norman " was appended to the show's title.

Although credited as " A Jack Barry Production ", there had been speculation that ex-partner Enright was somehow involved with the show, and indeed Enright was credited as executive producer in the show's final year on CBS.

New cast members included Dick Van Patten as the show's producer, Barry Gordon as the show's writer, Henry Darrow as the stage manager, Barbara Rush as the show's star, and Richard Dawson and Chita Rivera as the Prestons ' neighbors.

The show's theme was later re-used on another Barry & Enright show, Nipsey Russell's Juvenile Jury.

Drafted by the show's musical supervisor, Don Kirshner, Barry brought with him a few Neil Diamond-penned tunes for the group to record.

During the next three years, Barry composed dozens of songs for the fictional Archies group, including the show's theme, " Everything's Archie ", and the " Dances of the Week " ( a staple of the show's first season ).

The show's regular cast members included Tony Bonner as airport manager Paul MacFarlane, later replaced by Gary Doolan ( Gerard Kennedy ), Tina Bursill, Brian James, Ken James, Tom Burlinson, Joanne Samuel, Gaynor Martin, Andrew McKaige, Bartholomew John, Bruce Barry, Judy Morris, Deborah Coulls, Maurie Fields, Susanna Lobez, Kit Taylor, Penelope Stewart and Kerry Armstrong.

Although Star Maidens did not benefit from as large a budget, both series had the same music by Barry Gray, production designer ( Keith Wilson ), and various props, sets, and even sound effects from Space: 1999 were re-used for Star Maidens ( the show's opening credits, for example, includes special effects footage of the Moon travelling in space, as seen in Space: 1999 ).