Based on true events, Battleground tells the story of a group of men in the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Surprisingly realistic for the time, none of the men are heroic and…
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was inspired by an episode of the original Star Trek series, “Space Seed,” which aired during the first season. At the end of that episode, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) sent Khan Noonien Singh…
The brainchild of Gene Levitt and produced by Aaron Spelling and his partner Leonard Goldberg, Fantasy Island first appeared on ABC in the form of a television movie on January 14, 1977. Due to the film’s high ratings, ABC went…
In the tradition of Airplane!, the ZAZ (Jerry Zucker/Jim Abrahams/David Zucker) triumvirate unleashed The Naked Gun in theaters in 1988. Based on their short-lived 1982 ABC television series Police Squad!, which was cancelled after six episodes, the frenetic pace and…