Diver Dan

Starring: Allen Swift, Frank D. Freda, Suzanne Turner
First Aired: January 4, 1960
Number of Seasons: N/A
Estimated Production Cost: Unknown

Children in the 1960s were a lot easier to please than today’s generation of teenagers. Smartphones did not exist at the time, and the only sources of entertainment were the imagination and non-computerized toy collections. Diver Dan, as well as cartoons in general, were enormously popular. Diver Dan was not produced by a major television network such as Disney or CBS. Instead, Brian Cartoons produced the show, which was then released by ITC Entertainment. Later, it would be syndicated to NBC affiliates, and local stations would re-edit the segments into half-hour blocks for broadcast. It was created by John Ferlaine, who also served as executive producer. He is a cartoonist himself, and he got the concept for this from a comic strip he did called Fish Tales.

Diver Dan

Dog and Cat

Starring: Lou Antonio, Kim Basinger, Matt Clark 
First Aired: March 5, 1977
Number of Seasons: 1
Estimated Production Cost: Unknown

Dog and Cat took use of Kim Basinger’s notoriety at the time to make a successful film. The actress, who had already established herself as one of the most influential models of the decade, sought to make the move into acting. Despite the fact that she would go on to star in a slew of other projects over the next few years, Dog and Cat would not be a career-defining role for the actress because it only lasted six episodes. In addition to Lawrence Gordon, the show was syndicated by CBS, despite the fact that it originally aired on the ABC television network. The sitcom was produced by Paramount, and it was the first to be overseen by ABC executive Brandon Tartikoff, who served as showrunner. Dog and Cat took over for the show Most Wanted, which had landed the highly sought-after Monday night television schedule. Basinger and Lou Antonio co-starred in the film as two partners who worked together in the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dog And Cat