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- StarFred WeintraubVariety show taped at the Bitter End in New York's Greenwich Village featuring comedy acts and musical performances, hosted by Fred Weintraub.
- StarsLaraine NewmanKathryn RossetterPhil Nee"The Canned Film Festival" was a hosted horror movie (comedy) series that aired in 1986, with Laraine Newman playing Laraine, the owner and sole usherette at the Ritz Theater in the fictional town of Limekirk, Texas, USA.
- CreatorsJohn MankiewiczDaniel PyneStarsBruce MacVittieStanley TucciAnn TalmanGround-breaking cinema verite police drama in which two sets of partners drive the Newark graveyard shift, encountering an ever-shifting landscape of characters while musing on the murkiness of life, race, religion, fertility, and lunch.
- StarsMel BlancJune ForayFrom WB, comes the hit local NY series, "Bugs and Daffy" which aired on WNEW, and later WNYW, from 1985 - 1987. And then on WWOR from 1987 - 1992. It was a hit anthology series which featured numerous "Looney Tunes" shorts from the the 1940s to around 1960.
- StarTed MeyersThis series began in NYC/Secaucus, on local station WOR-TV channel 9, in 1955, and ran a little more than 3 decades on that station, ending as a WWOR show in 1988. It featured top-tier movies, where each feature would run for an entire week, airing twice nightly. This format, that simulated the local neighborhood movie house, was also adopted by other local stations, realizing that this was one way to reach the most viewers, considering the competition from the networks. The first 3 features were "Magic Town" staring James Stewart, "Body And SouL" staring John Garfield", and "A Double Life"staring Ronald Coleman. Much of the 1930s and 40s library from RKO were featured. As the station was a subsidiary of "RKO General Tire", many of those films were rental free, to the station. Those RKO films included "King Kong","Gunga Din","Citizen Kane" and the "Fred Astaire"- "Ginger Rogers" RKO musicals. In the summer of 1957, a few of those RKO films such as "King Kong" and "Top Hat" were aired, one time only, on ABC Network TV, on Saturday nights, after which they returned to be rerun on "Million Dollar Movie".
- StarsSally Jessy RaphaelMyreah Mai MooreDavy JonesThis show was one of the first challengers to Phil Donahue's undisputed rule over the daytime talk world. Raphael's subjects were often more sensational, and were often aimed more at titilation, rather than information.
- StarsMario CantoneSusan AdriensenJamie SorrentiniMario Cantone hosted this syndicated children's variety and game show.
- StarsRossi MorrealeCheryl BryantBruceJustin GuariniContestants earn cash by answering questions about pop culture and current events, then they are tempted to spend their winnings on their choice of major prizes or keep on playing to become the winner.
- StarsHoward SternRobin QuiversJackie MartlingHoward Stern's short lived WWOR-TV Channel 9 show.
- StarsAl GoldsteinMark BlackwellJackie MasonThe legendary comedian discussed the most interesting news stories of the week with a diverse (and usually hilarious) panel of hand-picked celebrity guests.
- StarsJoe FranklinJennifer DeloraSteven LanceThe series was the oldest known television talk show, running uninterrupted from 1951 to 1993. It was hosted by the experienced comedy writer Joe Franklin, the credited creator of the talk show genre. Franklin was considered an authority on the popular culture of the early 20th century, and the episodes typically focused on veteran performers of show business. He also invited up-and-coming performers, and Franklin claimed that his show featured some of the earliest television appearances of Woody Allen, Garth Brooks, Michael Jackson, Bette Midler, Al Pacino, and Barbra Streisand.
- StarsMorton Downey Jr.Roy InnisAl SharptonMorton Downey Jr. moderates a raucous shock-jock talk show.