20th Century Fox Television

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Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc. (on-logo as 20th Century Fox Television) is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Twentieth Television (also spelled 20th Television) is a separate distribution arm overseen by News Corp.'s Fox Television Stations Group, although it uses a variant of the studio logo. ^[1]

20th Century Fox Television was founded in 1949 as other studios were branching out into television production as well. At that time, the company was known as TCF Television Productions, Inc. until 1955. The logo from 1960 to 1992 seemed to suggest that the division was called 20th Television Fox, but this was untrue. TCFT absorbed the operations of TV production companies Metromedia Producers Corporation in 1986 and MTM Enterprises in 1998, and is the current distributor for most of the shows originally produced by the two companies.

Since 1986, TCFT has produced the bulk of series airing on the Fox network, including The Simpsons. Twentieth Television produced the first two series that aired on Fox's sister network, MyNetworkTV: Desire and Fashion House.

From 1993 to 1994, the 20th Television logo was used to represent 20th Century Fox Television, though as stated, these were separate entities.

[edit] Notable TV series by TCFT

20th Century Fox Television logo, used since 1995

30th Century Fox Television variation logo, used at the end of Futurama

• Crusade In Europe (1949)
• My Friend Flicka (1956-1958)
• Broken Arrow (1956-1960)
• Man Without a Gun (1957-1959)
• Five Fingers (1959-1960)
• Adventures in Paradise (1959-1962)
• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-1963)
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968)
• Peyton Place (1964-1969)
• Daniel Boone (1964-1970)
• Lost in Space (1965-1968)
• The Fox Television Comedy Hour (1965-1995)
• Batman (1966-1968)
• Land of the Giants (1968-1970)
• Julia (1968-1971)
• Room 222 (1969-1974)
• Beat the Clock (1969-1972)
• Here Come the Double Deckers (1970-1971) (co-production with the BBC)
• Nanny and the Professor (1970-1971)
• M*A*S*H (1972-1983) (from the 1970 film of the same name)
• That's Hollywood (1976-1982)
• ABC Weekend Special (1977-present; selected episodes)
• James at 15 (1977-1978)
• The Paper Chase (1978-1986)
• Dance Fever (1979-1987)
• Trapper John, M.D. (1979-1986)
• Breaking Away (1980-1981)
• The Fall Guy (1981-1986)
• 9 to 5 (1982-1983, 1986-1988) (from the 1980 film of the same name)
• Masquerade (1983-1984)
• Mr. Belvedere (1985-1990) (based on the 1948 film Sitting Pretty and its two sequels)
• Small Wonder (1985-1989)
• Saturday Supercade (1985-1986, distributed only) (co-production with Lucasfilm Ltd.)
• The Wizard (1986-1987)
• L.A. Law (1986-1994)
• Hooperman (1987-1989)
• The Tracey Ullman Show (1987-1990)
• 21 Jump Street (1987-1991) (co-production with Stephen J. Cannell Productions)
• America's Most Wanted (1988-present)
• The Simpsons (1989-present)
• COPS (1989-present)
• Sister Kate (1989-1990)
• Anything But Love (1989-1992)
• Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989-1993)
• Good Grief (1990-1991)
• In Living Color (1990-1994)
• The Sunday Comics (1991-1992)
• Civil Wars (1991-1993)
• Silk Stalkings (1991-1999) (co-production with Stephen J. Cannell Productions)
• Picket Fences (1992-1996)
• The X-Files (1993-2002)
• NYPD Blue (1993-2005)
• Chicago Hope (1994-2000)
• The Crew (1995-1996)
• Space: Above and Beyond (1995-1996)
• The Pretender (1996-2000)
• King of the Hill (1997-present)
• 413 Hope St. (1997-1998)
• Nothing Sacred (1997-1998)
• The Visitor (1997-1998)
• Ally McBeal (1997-2002)
• Dharma & Greg (1997-2002)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
• The Practice (1997-2004)
• The Big House (1998-present)
• The Magic Hour (1998-2000)
• Holding the Baby (1998-2000)
• Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1998-2001)
• The Hughleys (1998-2002)
• Martial Law (1998-2002)
• Judging Amy (1999-2005)
• Harsh Realm (1999-2000)
• Stark Raving Mad (1999-2000)
• Ally (1999-2000)
• Roswell (1999-2002)
• Family Guy (1999-2002, 2005-present)
• Futurama (1999-2003) as 30th Century Fox
• Angel (1999-2004)
• Greed (1999-2000)
• Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006)
• Super Greed (2000)
• Maisy Mouse (2001)
• Reba (2001-2007)
• 24 (2001-present)
• Firefly (2003)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005) (distributed only)
• Tru Calling (2003-2005)
• My Name Is Earl (2005-present)
• American Dad (2005-present)
• Prison Break (2005-present)
• The 1/2 Hour News Hour (2007-present) (seen on sister network Fox News Channel)
• Point Pleasant (2005)
• Burn Notice (2007-present) Premieres June 28 on USA
• Journeyman (2007)
• Back to You (2007-2008)
• Temptation (2007-present) (co-production with Fremantle Media North America)
• Dollhouse (2009)

[edit] See also

• 20th Television

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