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MCA Television
| MCA Television | |
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| Founded | 1950 |
| Dissolved | 1996 (became Universal Television Enterprises) |
| President | |
| Notable Works | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Xena: Warrior Princess Probe My Three Sons (seasons 1-5) Queen for a Day |
MCA Television (also known as MCA TV) is the original name of the television production and distribution company now known as NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, a unit of NBCUniversal.
History
MCA TV was formed in 1950 by parent company MCA (Music Corporation of America) to serve as the distributor for shows produced by its TV production arm, Revue Studios, and for independently-produced shows later acquired for syndication, as well as operating as a production company in its own right. From 1987 to 1996, it also had a specialty production division called MTE (for MCA Television Entertainment) which produced cable-TV movies and series, most notably the sitcom Dream On.
Some of the best-remembered and most popular series produced by MCA TV include My Three Sons, which it co-produced only for its first five seasons (see footnote below for details), and the syndicated 1990s adventure series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, both of which were the flagship series of MCA TV's syndicated action/adventure block, Action Pack.
With the acquisition of MCA by Canadian company Seagram in 1996, MCA TV was renamed Universal Television Enterprises. In 1998, Barry Diller bought the company (along with other former MCA television and cable-TV properties) and renamed and revamped it as the syndication division of Studios USA.
List of shows produced by MCA Television
Note: For shows distributed by MCA TV from the libraries of Revue Studios, Universal Television, Alan Landsburg Productions/Reeves Entertainment Group and certain shows from Carson Productions, Talent Associates, Dick Clark Productions and other independent companies, see those articles for their lists of shows.
| Title | Format | Buyer | Year(s) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Adventures of Kit Carson | Western | Syndication | 1951–55 | |||||
| General Electric Theater | Anthology | CBS | 1953–62 | |||||
| Queen for a Day | Game Shows | NBC | 1956–60 | |||||
| ABC | 1960–64 | |||||||
| My Three Sons | Sitcom | ABC | 1960–65 | |||||
| MCA TV, which originally co-produced the series with Don Fedderson Productions, produced only the episodes that aired on ABC before the show moved to CBS in 1965, at which point CBS took over co-production duties with Fedderson. The entire series is now owned and distributed by CBS Media Ventures | ||||||||
| CBS | 1965–72 | |||||||
| You Bet Your Life | Game Shows | Syndication | 1980 | |||||
| Out of This World | Sitcom | Syndication | 1987–91 | |||||
| Probe | Sci-fi | ABC | 1988 | |||||
| Tequila and Bonetti | Sitcom | CBS | 1992 | |||||
| Last Call | Roundtable chat | Syndication | 1994–95 | |||||
| Vanishing Son | Drama | Syndication | 1995 | |||||
| Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | Adventure | Syndication | 1995–99 | |||||
| Produced from 1997 to 1998 by Universal Television Produced after 1998 by Studios USA | ||||||||
| Xena: Warrior Princess | Adventure | Syndication | 1995–2001 | |||||
| Produced from 1997 to 1998 by Universal Television Produced after 1998 by Studios USA | ||||||||
| Team Knight Rider | Sci-fi adventure | Syndication | 1997–98 | |||||
| Produced from 1997 to 1998 by Universal Television | ||||||||
| Young Hercules | Adventure | FOX | 1998–99 | |||||
| Produced after 1998 by Studios USA | ||||||||
External links
- MCA Television projects on IMDb
- MCA Television closing logos at Closing Logos Group Wiki
