John Ammonds was also central to the duo's most successful period in the 1970s.

Ernest Maxin started choreographing the musical numbers in 1970, and succeeded John Ammonds as producer of the BBC TV shows in 1974.

Their peculiar skipping dance, devised by their BBC producer John Ammonds, was a modified form of a dance used by Groucho Marx.

It was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman and first performed in the eighth episode of the show's first series, " Full Frontal Nudity " ( 7 December 1969 ).

The show's future was not to be, however, because John Doggett's presence gave only a small ratings boost to the show's eighth season.

The show's organiser, Bob Geldof, other musicians such as Elton John and Dave Grohl, and various music journalists commented that Queen stole the show.

The show's theme song is " As Long as We've Got Each Other ," which was written and composed by both John Bettis ( Lyrics ) and Steve Dorff ( Music ).

The show's original pilot episode featured a calypso theme song by future film composer John Williams, and different lyrics.

The show's tone could move from silly to sobering from one episode to the next, with dramatic tension often occurring between the civilian draftees of 4077th — Hawkeye, Trapper John, B. J.

The planned host of the NBC show was John Barbour, who did not understand the show's concept and considered it a straight talent show as opposed to Barris's parody concept.

The band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the Festive Fifty that year, with " Dreams Burn Down " and " Like a Daydream " at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and " Taste " at number 25.

Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the show's executive producer.

Initially, Del Boy, Rodney and Grandad were the show's only regulars, along with the occasional appearances of dopey roadsweeper Trigger ( Roger Lloyd Pack ) and pretentious used car salesman Boycie ( John Challis ).

She is also known for starring on the show 8 Simple Rules in the role of Cate Hennessy, where she worked with John Ritter until his death, leading to Sagal taking over as the series ' lead for the remainder of the show's run.

The show's writers based MacGyver's inventions on items they found on location, concepts from scientific advisers John Koivula and Jim Green, and real events.

This marked a shift in the show's style with the writers moving from the Punch and Judy style to more subtle and atmospheric sketches, notably a series in which an awkward John and Norma Major ate peas for dinner.

Episode five of the second series of the BBC's Life on Mars features a recreation of the opening of Camberwick Green, with a puppet of the show's main character, Sam Tyler ( John Simm ), emerging from the musical box and despairing over his colleague, Gene Hunt ( Philip Glenister ), who can be seen in puppet form " kicking in a nonce " at the end.

The child actor Stephen Dudley ( John ) was given his part by his father, the show's producer Terence Dudley, while Tanya Ronder ( Lizzie ) is the daughter of Jack Ronder, who wrote eight episodes of Survivors.

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 was written by co-creator Cannell ( 36 episodes ); one of the show's producers and Garner's partner at Cherokee Productions, Juanita Bartlett ( 34 episodes ; also Scarecrow and Mrs. King and In the Heat of the Night ); David Chase ( 16 episodes ; Northern Exposure and The Sopranos ); and Roy Huggins ( as John Thomas James ), among others.

The show's intro and outro make use of John Lennon's " Imagine ", which is notable for its antireligious theme.

For example: several skits from the cult 1960s TV show At Last the 1948 Show were resuscitated by John Cleese ( one of that show's creators ) and performed by him with various Amnesty show cast members, including fellow Pythons ( Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman ) and other peers ( John Bird, John Fortune and Tim Brooke-Taylor ( the last also an At Last the 1948 Show writer / star ), younger performers ( Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones ), and Cleese's then wife, actress / writer Connie Booth.

In a salute to the original Secret Policeman's Ball that was the show's direct inspiration – the finale of the show was a re-creation by four performers ( Alan Rickman, Vic Reeves, Eddie Izzard and Harry Enfield ) of the celebrated Four Yorkshiremen sketch that had been performed at the 1979 Amnesty gala by John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Rowan Atkinson.

Immediately following Willard Scott's three-year-run as WRC-TV Washington, D. C .' s Bozo, the show's sponsors, McDonald's drive-in restaurant franchisees John Gibson and Oscar Goldstein ( Gee Gee Distributing Corporation ), hired Scott to portray " Ronald McDonald, the Hamburger-Happy Clown " for their local commercials on the character's first three television ' spots.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

* 1946 – John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer ( The Byrds )

Parsons asked Woolfson to become his manager and Woolfson managed Parsons ' career as a producer and engineer through a string of successes including Pilot, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, John Miles, Al Stewart, Ambrosia and The Hollies.

* 1978 – John Buffalo Mailer, American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist

* 1939 – John Peel, English radio host and producer ( d. 2004 )

* 1949 – John Oates, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer ( Hall & Oates )

He remains the only person, along with John Finch, to have held the three posts of script editor, writer and producer.

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

* 1952 – John Lurie, American actor, musician, painter, director and producer

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

O ' Brien was introduced to producer John Beck who promised to find a studio to make the film ( at this point in time RKO was no longer a production company ).

In the American version, producer John Beck used stock footage of a violent earthquake from the film The Mysterians to make the climactic earthquake seem far more violent and destructive.

Listening in on the show was producer John Guedel, who got a brainstorm.

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.

* John G. Young, American director, producer and writer

* John Sacret Young, author, producer, director, and screenwriter

* 1949 – John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Mogul Thrash, Family, Roxy Music, UK, and Asia )

* 1949 – John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer ( McFadden & Whitehead ) ( d. 2004 )

* 1949 – John Illsley, English singer-songwriter, bassist, and producer ( Dire Straits )

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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