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The show was produced by MGM Television and broadcast on the NBC television network in the U.S. and on the BBC in the United Kingdom. It won a number of Emmy and in 1983 and 1984 was voted the Golden Globe Awards: Television, Best Series, Musical/Comedy. Actress, director and choreographer Debbie Allen, who had a small role in the motion picture but played a major character in the television version, also won several awards. The popularity of the film and television productions was such that its cast members went on the road to perform live concerts. MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... An Emmy Award. ... For the main article see Golden Globe Award. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ... Debbie Allen (born Deborrah Kaye Allen on January 16, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American actress, choreographer, film director, television producer and a member of the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities. ...

The show's theme song with the same title was a pop hit for singer Irene Cara. At the 2005 Emmy Awards, the song was performed by Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars. Fame was a pop song, released in 1980 and made popular as the theme song to the Fame movie and TV series. ... Irene Cara (born Irene Escalera on March 18, 1959 in New York City) is an American-born singer actress of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. ... An Emmy Award. ... Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress who currently stars in the U.S. television show Veronica Mars. ... Veronica Mars is a television series on the UPN network. ...

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, who currently holds the distribution rights for all MGM television series, released the first season of Fame on DVD on November 1, 2005. [1] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home video, DVD, and UMD distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidary of Sony Corporation. ... DVD-R writing/reading side, based on Photo DVD.jpg. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Cast

•  Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant
•  Olivia Barash as Maxie (season 6)
•  Jesse Borrego as Jesse Velasquez (seasons 4-6)
•  Michael Cerveris as Ian Ware (season 6)
•  Loretta Chandler as Dusty Tyler (seasons 5-6)
•  Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli (seasons 1-3)
•  Cynthia Gibb as Holly Laird (seasons 3-5)
•  Erica Gimpel as Coco Hernandez (seasons 1-3)
•  Albert Hague as Benjamin Shorofsky
•  Carrie Hamilton as Reggie Higgins (seasons 5-6)
•  Page Hannah as Kate Riley (season 5)
•  Elisa Heinsohn as Jillian Beckett (season 6)
•  Billy Hufsey as Christopher Donlon (seasons 3-6)
•  Carlo Imperato as Danny Amatullo
•  Janet Jackson as Cleo Hewitt (season 4)
•  Graham Jarvis as principal Bob Dyrenforth (seasons 5-6)
•  Carol Mayo Jenkins as Elizabeth Sherwood (seasons 1-5)
•  Valerie Landsburg as Doris Schwartz (seasons 1-4)
•  Dick Miller as Lou Mackie (season 6)
•  Ann Nelson as Mrs. Berg (seasons 4-6)
•  P.R. Paul as Montgomery MacNeil (season 1)
•  Nia Peeples as Nicole Chapman (seasons 4-6)
•  Eric Pierpoint as Paul Seger (season 6)
•  Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy Johnson
•  Lori Singer as Julie Miller (seasons 1-2)
•  Morgan Stevens as David Reardon (season 2)
•  Ken Swofford as Quentin Morloch (seasons 3-5)

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Recurring Characters

•  Carmine Caridi as Angelo Martelli (seasons 1-2)
•  Michael DeLorenzo as Michael (seasons 1-3)
•  David Greenlee as Dwight Mendenhall (seasons 2-5)
•  Dick Miller as Lou Mackie (seasons 4-5, regular on season 6)
•  Ann Nelson as Mrs. Berg (seasons 1-3, regular on seasons 4-6)
•  Robert Romanus as Miltie Horowitz (seasons 5-6)
•  Carolyn J. Silas (season 6)
•  Morgan Stevens as David Reardon (seasons 3-4, regular on season 2)
•  Michael Thoma as Gregory Crandell (season 1)
•  Bronwyn Thomas (seasons 1-4)

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Episode Guide

Season 1 (1982)

The Crew

Executive Producer: William Blinn
Consulting Producer: David DeSilva
Producer: Mel Swope
Associate Producer: Parke Perine

Executive Story Consultant: Hindi Brooks (episodes 1-13)
Story Consultant: Christopher Gore

The Episodes

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Season 2 (1982-1983)

This was a good season.

Season 3 (1983-1984)

Season 4 (1984-1985)

Season 5 (1985-1986)

Season 6 (1986-1987)

External links

• Fame at the Internet Movie Database