What was the nationality of the original Concept Creator and Supervising Producer of the TV show "Sightings"?
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Sightings (TV series) Sightings is an American paranormal and news television series that originally aired in the 1990s. The program began as a special titled "The UFO Report: Sightings" on October 18, 1991, as well as eventual follow up reports, "Ghost Report" and the "Psychic Experience". The original Concept Creator and Supervising Producer of that hour special produced by Paramount for Fox TV was Linda Moulton Howe, an Emmy Award-winning TV producer and documentary filmmaker of TV specials about science and the environment. One of her Emmy Award-winning broadcasts was "A Strange Harvest" (KMGH-TV in May 1980), about the worldwide animal-mutilation mystery linked by law enforcement to extraterrestrial biological entities.
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Linda Moulton Howe Linda Moulton Howe (born January 20, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary film maker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories, including her investigation of cattle mutilations and conclusion that they are performed by extraterrestrials. She is also noted for her speculations that the U.S. government is colluding with aliens.
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Mervyn Pinfield Mervyn Pinfield (28 February 1912 - 20 May 1966) was a British television producer and director working for the BBC during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the associate producer on the BBC television series "Doctor Who" from the first episode of "An Unearthly Child" to "The Romans", during Verity Lambert's tenure as producer.
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MythBusters MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003. The series was transmitted by numerous international broadcasters, including SBS Australia (first-run episodes, with repeat episodes shown on 7mate Australia), and other Discovery channels worldwide. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, used elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories. The show was one of the oldest—and the most popular—on Discovery Channel, being preceded only by "How It's Made" and "Daily Planet", both in Canada. From 2006 to 2016, the show was overseen by British show-runner Dan Tapster, working out of Sydney, San Francisco and Manchester.
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Colin Dexter Norman Colin Dexter, OBE (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his "Inspector Morse" series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, "Inspector Morse", from 1987 to 2000. His characters have spawned a sequel series, "Lewis", and a prequel series, "Endeavour".
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Tobin Wolf Theodore Walter "Tobin" Wolf, also known as Ted Wolf (July 21, 1922 – June 21, 1999), was an American writer who was responsible for creating the animated television series "ThunderCats". He was also an inventor with several patents to his name. Wolf was born in 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in 1999, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for creating the . Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television.
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Thom Beers Thom Beers (born c. July 20, 1952) is an American television producer and narrator/voice-over artist.
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Paul Monash Paul Monash (June 14, 1917 – January 14, 2003) was an American television and film producer and screenwriter.
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Ken Spears Charles Kenneth "Ken" Spears (born March 12, 1938) is an American television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Joe Ruby of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions.
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Ted Cooper Edward Theodore "Ted" Cooper (November 11, 1920 – December 5, 1999) was a long-time United States television scenic designer and creative consultant. Cooper is best known as the production designer and creative consultant for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, the leading producer of American TV game shows. He joined the firm in 1960 and was associated with it until his death at age 79.
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Anne Simon Anne Simon is an American biology professor, scientist, and a science advisor on the American television series "The X-Files", both the original series for all nine seasons and the 2016 miniseries. The first episode of the original series that she provided science consultation on was the first-season finale "The Erlenmeyer Flask", which was telecast on May 13, 1994. She became involved with the series through her connection as a family friend of series creator Chris Carter. She wrote a 2001 book about the biological science of the show, "The Real Science Behind the X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites and Mutants" (ISBN  ).
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Del Reisman Del Reisman (April 13, 1924 – January 8, 2011) was an American television producer, story editor and screenwriter whose lengthy credits included "The Twilight Zone" and "The Untouchables".
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Oliver Postgate Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. "Pingwings", "Pogles' Wood", "Noggin the Nog", "Ivor the Engine", "Clangers" and "Bagpuss", were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll "Bagpuss" was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.
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Nick Wauters Nick Wauters (] ) is a Belgian television writer and editor, best known as the creator and co-executive producer of the NBC television series "The Event".
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Peter William Armstrong Peter William Armstrong (born 1 April 1943) is a television and radio producer, whose career at the BBC spanned 25 years. He is best known for innovative religious programming and as the founder and project editor of the BBC's Domesday Project (1986), for which he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 BAFTAs. He is the father of documentary maker Franny Armstrong.
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Barbara Corday Barbara Corday (born October 15, 1944) is an American television executive, writer and producer known for co-creating the television series "Cagney & Lacey".
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Eren Ozker Eren Ozker (Turkish: "Eren Özker" ; 25 July 1948 – 25 February 1993) was a Turkish-American puppeteer and actress. She was one of the original performers during the first season of Jim Henson's popular television series "The Muppet Show".
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Anna Home Anna Margaret Home ( ) OBE (born 13 January 1938) is an English television producer and executive who worked for most of her career at the BBC.
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Emily Squires Emily Squires (August 23, 1941 – November 21, 2012) was an American television producer and director best known for her Emmy Award-winning work on "Sesame Street".
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Tom Warburton Thomas Warburton (born August 31, 1968), often credited as Mr. Warburton, is an American animator, producer, writer and designer. He is best known for creating the animated television series "". He also created the animated short "Kenny and the Chimp". Prior to that he served as production designer on the first season of "Beavis and Butt-Head" and was the lead character designer for the animated series "Pepper Ann". He is also the author of the book "A Thousand Times No". Since moving to Los Angeles in 2009 he has worked at Disney Television Animation serving as creative director on "Fish Hooks" and co-executive producer on "The 7D".
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John Falsey John Henry Falsey, Jr. (born 6 November 1951) is an American television writer and producer.