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...
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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...
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A Limo for a Lame-O (section Fred Silverman and NBC)
network which broadcasts the program, Franken attacked network president Fred Silverman for NBC's poor showing in the Nielsen ratings during his tenure. It...
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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...
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produced by Intermedia Entertainment Company (first season only), The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions (called Strathmore Productions in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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executive Robert Wood, who replaced longtime CBS programming head Dann with Fred Silverman, following research highlighting the greater attraction to advertisers...
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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...
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creating mystery series. He frequently worked with television producer Fred Silverman and television writer Joel Steiger. Hargrove received an Emmy nomination...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Schwartz, Fred Rogers and Dick Wolf; newscasters Walter Cronkite, Ed Bradley, Bob Schieffer and David Brinkley; executives Fred Silverman, Sumner Redstone...
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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...
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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...
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Big Pumpkin Fred Silverman (1937–2020), American TV executive and producer Jonathan Silverman (born 1966), American actor Joseph Silverman (1860–1930)...
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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...
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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...
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for television by Dean Hargrove and Joel Steiger, and produced by The Fred Silverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions...
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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...
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Dink, the Little Dinosaur 1989–1990 21 Piggsburg Pigs! 1990 Fox The Fred Silverman Company and The Sy Fischer Company 13 Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa...
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Grandin, Alvernette Jimenez, Tamara Champlin and Fred Willard. Tom Canning led the house band, and Fred Silverman was the show's producer. The announcer was...
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providing the voice of Roadblock, he received a phone call from producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove. He was their first choice to play Matlock's private...
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ten-year-old Gary Coleman at the suggestion of ABC President Fred Silverman. Silverman was a huge proponent of Coleman and, feeling that breakout stardom...
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suggested by ABC president Fred Silverman, who had seen her in her initial appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Silverman hired her the day before...
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