Fred Silverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three...

of Fred with brown hair. Originally named "Ronnie" when production for Scooby-Doo began in spring 1969, Fred was named by and after Fred Silverman, who...

episode of Matlock during its first season on NBC. Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove decided to use this character as a model for one of...

network which broadcasts the program, Franken attacked network president Fred Silverman for NBC's poor showing in the Nielsen ratings during his tenure. It...

animation studios to ensure that new programs would be safe for children. Fred Silverman, an executive for daytime programming at CBS, was then looking for a...

produced by Intermedia Entertainment Company (first season only), The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions (called Strathmore Productions in...

comedy programming). Tartikoff took over programming duties at NBC from Fred Silverman in 1981. At age 32, Tartikoff became the youngest president of NBC's...

Great Dane. Both the dog and the series would be renamed Scooby-Doo by Fred Silverman, CBS's head of daytime programming, between its unsuccessful first pitch...

October 28, 1992 to May 16, 1995. Its executive producers were O'Connor, Fred Silverman and Juanita Bartlett. This series marked O'Connor's return to a series...

criticize ABC's television production and marketing strategy under Fred Silverman. Klein referred to ABC's programs as "porn" in order to tap into the...

ABC's Fred Silverman read the script, he felt that middle America would not like the concept, and he decided to pass on the script. Silverman asked Larry...

role of Monica Quartermaine in the ABC soap opera General Hospital. Fred Silverman, then president of ABC, asked her to join the series, which at that...

creating mystery series. He frequently worked with television producer Fred Silverman and television writer Joel Steiger. Hargrove received an Emmy nomination...

aired after the end of the regular series, April 26, 2002, on CBS. Fred Silverman insisted that every season the series devote one episode as a television...

Big Pumpkin Fred Silverman (1937–2020), American TV executive and producer Jonathan Silverman (born 1966), American actor Joseph Silverman (1860–1930)...

Comics. The actual idea for the series came from then NBC President Fred Silverman who originated the concept for a series involving a "boy with a magic...

1973). The siblings were offered a weekly show by ABC-TV President Fred Silverman after he saw the duo co-host a week on The Mike Douglas Show which followed...

careers of Flip Wilson, Diahann Carroll, and Redd Foxx, among others. Fred Silverman replaced Schlosser in 1978. Schlosser played a key role in the creation...

executive Fred Silverman went forward in producing Mrs. Columbo as a spin-off to the original series. Levinson and Link further objected to Silverman's insistence...

executive Robert Wood, who replaced longtime CBS programming head Dann with Fred Silverman, following research highlighting the greater attraction to advertisers...

Scooby as quite common. The head of children's programming at CBS, Fred Silverman, came up with the character's name from the syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo"...

shooting. The budget was $5 million, $4 million of which was raised from Fred Silverman of NBC. The remainder came from EMI Films. For his second feature and...

Schwartz, Fred Rogers and Dick Wolf; newscasters Walter Cronkite, Ed Bradley, Bob Schieffer and David Brinkley; executives Fred Silverman, Sumner Redstone...

as Audra Lindley Michael David Simms as Don Taffner Brian Dennehy as Fred Silverman Liz Crawford as Jenilee Harrison Anne Ross as Priscilla Barnes The movie...

occasionally served as guest host in Carson's absence. NBC's president Fred Silverman was so impressed by Letterman's performance that he decided to offer...

caught the eye of CBS head of programming Fred Silverman while guest-hosting The Merv Griffin Show, and Silverman offered the duo their own variety show...

simply Lynne Farr during the 1987–88 season). The executive producer was Fred Silverman. The show focuses on Mickey Mackenzie (Teri Copley), a girl in her early...

for television by Dean Hargrove and Joel Steiger, and produced by The Fred Silverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions...

the duties as host on Wheel of Fortune from Chuck Woolery. However, Fred Silverman, the president and CEO of NBC, rejected his hiring, claiming Sajak was...

competition was coming from Filmation and DePatie–Freleng. Then-ABC president Fred Silverman gave its Saturday-morning time to them after dropping Filmation for...