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Word: disney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competitive TV marketplace, it is turning increasingly to sitcoms and other network-style series. 1st & Ten, which debuted in August, follows the fortunes of a struggling pro football team owned by a sexy divorcee. Showtime's newest entry is Washingtoon, a sitcom about a naive freshman Senator. The Disney Channel last season scored with Still the Beaver, an update of the old network comedy Leave It to Beaver, and this month introduced Danger Bay, an adventure series about a family that saves animals in peril. The USA Network has just unveiled its first original sitcom, Check It Out!, starring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking: Cable goes in for sitcoms | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...calls it Death Is a Lone- ly Business, and he dedicates the work to such masters of the form as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are about as close to this beachfront vaudeville as Mars and Saturn are to Pluto (the Disney dog, not the planet). It hardly matters. All of the productions, from Something Wicked This Way Comes to The Martian Chronicles, are portions sawed from a long plank called Bradbury. Brief or full length, they bear the characteristic fine grain, knots, splinters and warps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dwarfed By Ancient Archetypes Death Is a Lonely Business | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...comedies all have good script writers, the pairing of Cusack and Armstrong might have been relatively magical, something like proto-Belushi meets proto-Murray. Instead, they are confined to gags that only a teen messiah could save, and only a child could enjoy. Hopefully, Cusack's role in the Disney flick The Journey of Natty Gann turns out better...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: The Title Says It | 10/18/1985 | See Source »

...father was lost in the line into Disney World six years and three hundred sixty days ago which means my stepmother will no longer be a legal relative when he's declared dead this week. How can I drink with her? --Lost in the Legalities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dull the Pain | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

...about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard. Creator Aaron Spelling's vision of Hollywood's "raw underbelly" features a ludicrous gallery of street folk (good-hearted prostitutes, a "cute" bag lady and a caped wacko called Captain Crusader) who could be refugees from a Walt Disney version of Freaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Old Habits, New Formats | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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