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MCA Television (also known as MCA TV) is the original name of the television production and distribution company now known as NBC Universal Television Distribution, a unit of NBC Universal.

[edit] 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 1997, it also had a specialty production division called MTE (for MCA Television Enterprises) 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 1997, 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 Television.

[edit] 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 their shows.

Title	Format	Network	Years
The Adventures of Kit Carson	Western	Syndication	1951–55
General Electric Theater	Anthology	CBS	1953–62
Queen for a Day	Game show	NBC	1956–60
		ABC	1960–64
My Three Sons	Sitcom	ABC	1960–65 1
		CBS	1965–72
You Bet Your Life	Game show	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 23
Xena: Warrior Princess	Adventure	Syndication	1995–2001 23
Team Knight Rider	Sci-fi adventure	Syndication	1997–98 2
Young Hercules	Adventure	FOX	1998–99 3

¹MCA 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 assumed co-production duties with Fedderson. The entire series is now owned and distributed by CBS Television Distribution
²Produced from 1997 to 1998 by Universal Televison
³Produced after 1998 by Studios USA Television

[edit] External links

• MCA Television at the Internet Movie Database