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 television networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (the original incarnation of the Scooby-Doo franchise, 1969–1970), All in the Family (1971–1979), The Waltons (1972–1981), and Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), as well as the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977), and Shōgun (1980). For his success in programming such successful shows, Time magazine declared him "The Man with the Golden Gut" in 1977.[1]
^"The Man with the Golden Gut". Time. September 5, 1977. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
FredSilverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three...
episode of Matlock during its first season on NBC. Executive producers FredSilverman and Dean Hargrove decided to use this character as a model for one of...
comedy programming). Tartikoff took over programming duties at NBC from FredSilverman in 1981. At age 32, Tartikoff became the youngest president of NBC's...
executive Robert Wood, who replaced longtime CBS programming head Dann with FredSilverman, following research highlighting the greater attraction to advertisers...
criticize ABC's television production and marketing strategy under FredSilverman. Klein referred to ABC's programs as "porn" in order to tap into the...
the duties as host on Wheel of Fortune from Chuck Woolery. However, FredSilverman, the president and CEO of NBC, rejected his hiring, claiming Sajak was...
creating mystery series. He frequently worked with television producer FredSilverman and television writer Joel Steiger. Hargrove received an Emmy nomination...
simply Lynne Farr during the 1987–88 season). The executive producer was FredSilverman. 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 FredSilverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions...
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occasionally served as guest host in Carson's absence. NBC's president FredSilverman was so impressed by Letterman's performance that he decided to offer...
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, debuted on CBS in September 1969. After FredSilverman, then head of daytime programming at CBS, concluded that, after about...
Comics. The actual idea for the series came from then NBC President FredSilverman who originated the concept for a series involving a "boy with a magic...
Dann's approaches to programming would be reversed when FredSilverman replaced Dann in 1970; Silverman orchestrated the "rural purge" and took the network...
Osmond and his sister Marie co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show for a week. FredSilverman offered them a show of their own, The Donny & Marie Show, a television...
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