Marc Cushman
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Marc Cushman is a WGA screenwriter whose TV credits include scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and Diagnosis Murder, with webseries credits including Star Trek Continues. His feature film credits include Midnight Confessions, Teresa’s Tattoo, The Magic of Christmas, and In the Eyes of a Killer.
Marc’s directing credits include the award winning comedy-documentary, Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney, plus An Evening with the Golddiggers, and The Story of O. Marc also writes about television, with his “biography of a TV show,” I Spy: A History of the Groundbreaking Television Series, the mammoth Saturn Award-winning three-volume set, These are the Voyages – Star Trek: The Original Series (Seasons One, Two and Three), documenting in unparalleled detail the production of the first Star Trek series, then continued with a second three-volume set, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, documenting the making of Star Trek: The Animated Series, the aborted 1977 series, “Star Trek: Phase II,” and 1979’s Star Trek – The Motion Picture. Marc has also written authorized books concerning many of Irwin Allen’s properties, including Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and the two-volume music biography, Long Distance Voyages: The Story of the Moody Blues. Author Marc Cushman is available for personal appearances. Please email Jacobs Brown Press to schedule your event. jacobsbrownpress@gmail.com |
BOOKS by Marc Cushman
Irwin Allen's Lost In Space:
The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series
By Marc Cushman
Edited by Mark Alfred
Softcover - Autographed by the Author when purchased through Jacobs Brown website store
Saturn Award Winner 2014
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These books are a work of journalism and not endorsed, sponsored, or affiliated with CBS Studios Inc. or the "Star Trek®" franchise.
The Star Trek® trademarks, logos, and related names are owned by CBS Studios Inc., and are used under "fair use" guidelines.
The Star Trek® trademarks, logos, and related names are owned by CBS Studios Inc., and are used under "fair use" guidelines.
I Spy: A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Television Series
A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Television Series by Marc Cushman and Linda J. LaRosa (foreword by Robert Culp)
One of the most popular and award-winning television series of the sixties, I Spy was the first weekly broadcast to star both a white and a black actor. But in 1964, producer Sheldon Leonard had financed the show himself, and his idea for a racially integrated cast had earned his show the moniker "Sheldon's Folley."
Pairing established white actor Robert Culp with Bill Cosby, a black comedian with barely an acting credit to his name, troubled some executives at NBC, and many wondered whether affiliates in the South would ever air the show. Only two years later, Cosby accepted the Emmy for Best Leading Actor and I Spy cemented its role in history.
This is a complete history of I Spy and the profound change it evoked in broadcasting, social ideals, and racial equality. Rich with interviews and photographs, it discusses I Spy's unique approach to race, co-starring interracial actors as equals. It also describes how the show became the template for popular "buddy genre" shows and films that followed. It covers the show's significance as the first series to shoot episodes around the world and puts I Spy in context with other works within the spy genre at a time when spy books, shows, and films exploded in popularity. A complete episode guide includes writers, directors, cast, crew, plot synopses and commentary.
One of the most popular and award-winning television series of the sixties, I Spy was the first weekly broadcast to star both a white and a black actor. But in 1964, producer Sheldon Leonard had financed the show himself, and his idea for a racially integrated cast had earned his show the moniker "Sheldon's Folley."
Pairing established white actor Robert Culp with Bill Cosby, a black comedian with barely an acting credit to his name, troubled some executives at NBC, and many wondered whether affiliates in the South would ever air the show. Only two years later, Cosby accepted the Emmy for Best Leading Actor and I Spy cemented its role in history.
This is a complete history of I Spy and the profound change it evoked in broadcasting, social ideals, and racial equality. Rich with interviews and photographs, it discusses I Spy's unique approach to race, co-starring interracial actors as equals. It also describes how the show became the template for popular "buddy genre" shows and films that followed. It covers the show's significance as the first series to shoot episodes around the world and puts I Spy in context with other works within the spy genre at a time when spy books, shows, and films exploded in popularity. A complete episode guide includes writers, directors, cast, crew, plot synopses and commentary.
