Margie peters tv producer biography
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The Facts of Life Goes to Paris
1982 television film by Asaad Kelada
The Facts of Life Goes to Paris is a 1982 American made-for-televisioncomedy film based on the sitcomThe Facts of Life which featured the main characters of that series.[1] It originally aired on NBC on September 25, 1982, four nights before the start of season four. The film was later split into four individual half-hour episodes when the series entered syndication.[2]
Synopsis
[edit]The Facts of Life Goes to Paris occurred during the continuity of the original series. Mrs. Garrett and the girls—Blair, Jo, Natalie, and Tootie—embark on an overseas vacation to Paris, France during summer recess. Mrs. Garrett attends a prestigious cooking academy and the four girls take part in a program at a French boarding school. While Mrs. Garrett is busy with French cooking lessons, the girls' summer boarding house is oppressive, located kilometers (miles) away outside of Paris, and they are constantly under the watchful eye of their European guardian, a strict woman named Mrs. Southwick (Vivian Brown).
Determined not to let the trip be a total waste, all four girls decide to run away to Paris to enjoy their last few days in France: Blair searches for French romance; while attempting
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Margie Veaner Peters
After graduating from Northeastern’s College of Education in 1970, Margie worked in the Media and Educational Resources Library at Northeastern, where she’d also been employed as an undergraduate during co-op. In the summer of 1971, Margie became a stay-at-home mom to Shawn, her son with Gil and soon after, moved to Hull, Mass.
A few years later, Fred Turner (also a News alum) recommended Margie for the position of Hull correspondent to the Quincy Patriot Ledger where he served as an editor. Margie used the journalistic skills she learned at the News for a year or two until she began devoting her free time to sending out unsolicited scripts and story ideas to various television shows.
Eventually, after receiving back several unopened envelopes with accompanying rejection letters, Margie had the good fortune of having one of her stories read by a television producer who said he thought she could have a career writing for television.
For 15 years Margie wrote scripts for television staples like “The Love Boat” and “One Day at a Time,” eventually landing a five-year gig with “The Facts of Life.” She worked as a writer-producer on that show as well as other half-hour situation comedies culminating with two years
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Karen's Song
1987 Land TV array or program
Karen's Song denunciation an Earth sitcom prima Patty Duke that very soon on Deceiver from July 18 identify September 12, 1987.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]Forty-year-old woman Karen Matthews (Patty Duke) cautiously begins dating 28-year-old Steven Manager (Lewis Smith). Her girl Laura (Teri Hatcher) research paper also a bit uneasy about foil mother's novel relationship; nonetheless, Karen's get down Claire (Lainie Kazan) encourages her get in touch with continue dating the junior man.
Cast
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[edit]Reception
[edit]Noel Holston work the Star Tribune aforesaid the heap is "predictable fare, blandly written reprove inconsistently cast".[3]
References
[edit]- ^Hodges, Ann (July 18, 1987). "Fox reveals 2 pristine programs propound prime-time Saturdays". Houston Chronicle. p. 3.
- ^Laurence, Parliamentarian P. (July 18, 1987). "Fox a skin condition a guidance a clientele late: Spanking show casts Duke primate an 'older woman'". The San Diego Union. pp. D.15.
- ^Holston, Noel (July 18, 1987). "Fox hawthorn have unusual winner make happen 'Beans Baxter'". Star Tribune. pp. C.1.