Jay Ward
J Troplong "Jay" Ward (September 20, 1920 – October 12, 1989) was an American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken. His company, Jay Ward Productions, designed the trademark characters for the Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals and it made TV commercials for those products. Ward produced the non-animated series Fractured Flickers that featured comedy redubbing of silent films.
Biography
Early life
Ward was raised in Berkeley, California, and he earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He earned his MBA from Harvard University. His first career was real estate. Even when his animation company was at the height of its success, he continued to own his own real estate firm as a "fallback" business.
Ward married Ramona "Billie" Ward in 1943; the couple had three children: Ron, Carey, and Tiffany.
Jay Ward (baseball)
John Francis "Jay" Ward (September 9, 1938 – February 24, 2012) was a Major League Baseball player and coach. He was also a manager in the minor leagues.
Early life
Jay Ward was born on September 9, 1948 in Brookfield, Missouri to John and Francis Ward. He graduated from Highland High School in Highland, Illinois in 1956.
Playing career
Ward signed with the New York Yankees in 1956. In his first professional season with the Kearney Yankees of the Nebraska State League, Ward batted .331 with seven home runs and earned All-League honors. Two of those seven home runs were grand slams hit in consecutive innings on August 17.
He was plucked from the Yankees' farm system in the 1958 minor league draft by the Kansas City Athletics. It was as a member of their organization that Ward put together his finest minor league season. As a member of the Southern Association's Shreveport Sports in 1959, Ward batted .257 with 22 home runs and 84 runs batted in.
At the 1961 winter meetings, he was dealt to the Los Angeles Dodgers with Stan Johnson and Bobby Prescott for Bill Lajoie and Gordie Windhorn. Though Johnson and Prescott both had major league experience, only Ward and Windhorn would ever make a major league appearance after this deal. Midway through his first season in the Dodgers organization, he was dealt to the Minnesota Twins for Bert Cueto.
L.A. Law
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994.
Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including an ensemble cast, large number of parallel storylines, social drama, and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as capital punishment, abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff.
In addition to its main cast, L.A. Law was also well-known for featuring then relatively unknown actors and actresses in guest starring roles, who later went on to greater success in film and television including: Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Tambor, Kathy Bates, David Schwimmer, Jay O. Sanders, James Avery, Gates McFadden, Bryan Cranston, C.C.H. Pounder, Kevin Spacey, Richard Schiff, Carrie-Anne Moss, William H. Macy, Stephen Root, Christian Slater, and Lucy Liu. Several episodes of the show also included celebrities such as Vanna White, Buddy Hackett and Mamie Van Doren appearing as themselves in cameo roles.
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ALBUMS
- Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 3: 70's & 80's released: 1987
Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 3: 70's & 80's
Released 1987- Sesame Street
- The Muppet Show
- The Alvin Show
- Speed Racer
- The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
- Inspector Gadget
- The Smurfs
- Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines
- Scooby-Doo
- Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids
- The Archies (Everything's Archie)
- Josie and the Pussycats
- Dudley Do-Right
- Fractured Fairy Tales
- Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)
- The Bob Newhart Show (Home to Emily)
- The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)
- Welcome Back, Kotter (Welcome Back)
- Room 222
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Taxi (Angela)
- Barney Miller
- Three's Company
- Happy Days
- Laverne and Shirley (Making Our Dreams Come True)
- The Facts of Life
- Good Times
- One Day at a Time
- Gimme a Break
- Maude (And Then There's Maude)
- The Jeffersons (Movin' on Up)
- All in the Family (Those Were the Days)
- Sanford and Son (The Streetbeater)
- Dallas
- Dynasty
- Knots Landing
- L.A. Law
- St. Elsewhere
- Marcus Welby, M.D.
- M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
- The Waltons
- Little House on the Prairie
- Hart to Hart
- Charlie's Angels
- Wonder Woman
- Love Boat
- American Bandstand (Bandstand Boogie)
- Solid Gold
- Entertainment Tonight
- Miami Vice
- S.W.A.T.
- Baretta (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Barnaby Jones
- Starsky & Hutch (Gotcha)
- The Rookies
- Kojak
- The A-Team
- The Name of the Game
- Quincy, M.E.
- Hill Street Blues
- Simon & Simon
- Magnum, P.I.
- The Rockford Files
- NBC's Saturday Night Live
L. A.
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