Famous Alumni

TV Connections with UC Alumni

Classic TV shows, videos

 
 
“How the Grinch Stole Christmas”

“The Waltons” (’72-81)
• Emmy-winning producer, creator, writer, narrator Earl Hamner, CCM ’48

(See movie credit, too.)


“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (’66 TV, ’00 film)
• score by the late, Tony-winner Albert Hague, CCM ’42

“WKRP in Cincinnati” (’78-82)
“Growing Pains” (’85-92)
• writer, producer, director Dan Guntzelman, CCM ’70

“The Love Boat” (’76-86)
“The Odd Couple” (’70-75)
“The Brady Bunch” (’69-74)
“Peyton Place” (’64-69)
•creator, producer Douglas Cramer, A&S ’53

Tennessee Ernie Ford variety shows (’56-65)
• host, Grammy-winner Ernest Ford, att. CCM ’30s

“Wyatt Earp” (’55-61)
• starring Hugh O’Brian, att. ’43

“Bonanza” (’67-70)
• actor David Canary, A&S ’60

“The Partridge Family” (’70-74)

"Star Trek" (8 episodes, '67-1969)

"The Big Valley" (28 episodes, '65-68)

"Dennis the Menace" ('59)

• scores by George Dunning, CCM ’33 (more than 400 TV film credits in all)


“Sex and the City” ('98-04)
starring Sara Jessica Parker, CCM Prep School (See movie credits, too.)

"Alice" ('79-84)

“Sha Na Na” ('77)

• actress Pamela Myers, CCM ’69 (See Broadway credits, too.)

 

Channel-surfing for UC alumni today

“All My Children” (ABC soap opera since ’83)
actor David Canary, A&S ’60, five Emmys, 327 episodes as of early '08 (as Adam and Stuart Chandler)


“Passions” ('99-07, NBC soap opera)
actor Rodney Van Johnson, Ed ’85 (as T.C. Russell)
(More TV credits.)

“Side Order of Life” (premiered 2007, Lifetime Channel, w/Riva in a starring role as Vivy Porter)
"The Ghost Whisperer" ('08, ABC w/Jennifer Love Hewitt)

"Terminatorr: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" ('08)

"The Loop" ('07, Fox network)
actress Diana Maria Riva (Deanna Uhlenbrock as a UC student), CCM ’91, MFA (CCM) ’95
(More TV credits.)


"Days of Our Lives" ('08)

"Terminatorr: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" ('08)

• actor Keith Pillow, CCM '89 (More TV credits.)

"M.O.N.Y." ('08 pilot for an NBC drama about the mayor of New York. directed by Spike Lee)
"As the World Turns" ('07)

actor Samuel Stricklen, CCM '03

Reality TV

“Survivor"

student Michelle Yi, DAAP fashion design, appeared in February '07

Episodes you may have missed


Note: To find upcoming reruns of these TV shows, go to www.IMBd.com and type in the name of the actor you would like to see. A list of upcoming shows featuring that actor will be posted.

“Enterprise” ('01-05)

“Star Trek: Voyager” (’95-01)
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (’93-99)

• Emmy-winning makeup by Brad Look, MFA (CCM) ’88 (See his movie projects.)

"Grey's Anatomy" ('06)

"Wings" ('96)

"LA Law” (’86)

“Hill Street Blues” (’81)
“Happy Days” (’74)
• actress Teddi Siddall, CCM ’75

 
  Clockwise from top: Randy Van Johnson in “Passions,” Mark Hutker’s “amazing home,” Randy Harrison featured in a “Queer as Folk” story and David Canary in “Bonanza.”


“Grey's Anatomy" ('06)

"Huff" ('04-06, 17 episodes, w/Hank Azaria)

"Monk" ('05)

"House, M.D." ('04)

"Spin City” (’96-00, 20 episodes)
“Frasier” (’96)

"Sabrina the Teenage Witch" ('03)
• Tony-winning actress Faith Prince, CCM ’79

(See Faith's stage accomplishments on Broadway.)


"House, M.D." ('06-07)

"The Office" ('07)

"Cold Case" ('07)

"Hanna Montana" ('06-07)

"Arrested Development" ('06)

"The Bernie Mac Show" ('05)

"The King of Queens" ('05)

"CSI" ('02, five episodes)

"The Practice" ('02)

"Scrubs" ('01)

"Judging Amy" ('01)

• actor (Ray) Cooper Thornton, CCM '92 (See his movie roles, too.)

"Back at the Barnyard" ('07, Nickelodeon)

“The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour" ('06, specials 2 and 3)

"The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron” ('02-05, 15 episodes of the Nickelodeon TV series)
director Mike Gasaway, DAAP ’93 (See his movie credit, too.)

"Nip/Tuck" ('07)

"The Bold and the Beauatiful" ('07)

"24" ('06)

"Desperate Housewives" ('04)

"The Shield" ('05)

"Judging Amy" ('04-05)

"Friends" ('03)

"CSI" ('03)

"West Wing" ('01)

"NYPD Blue" ('01)

• actor Keith Pillow, CCM '89 (See his current TV shows.)

"West Wing" ('05-06, nine episodes, playing Jimmy Smits' deputy campaign manager the last season)

“Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” (fall '06, USA network series)

"CSI" ('04, five episodes)

"Everybody Loves Raymond" ('99-01)

"Drew Carey Show" ('00)

"X-Files" ('99)

"NYPD Blues" ('97-99)

"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” (’02-03)

More than 60 TV shows in all.
• actress Diana Maria Riva (Deanna Uhlenbrock as UC student), CCM ’91, MFA (CCM) ’95
(See her current TV shows, too.)


"Six Feet Under" ('03)

"Sabrina the Teenage Witch" ('00)

“Frasier” (’99)

"Friends” (’96)
• appearances by actor Jason Graae, CCM ’80

“Roots” (’79)
“Jesse Owens Story” (’84)
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (’87-95)
“California Raisins”
• actor, singer Dorian Harewood, CCM ’72 (72 film credits in all)
(See his movie credit, too.)

"Dirt" ('08, w/Courteney Cox)

"Grey's Anatomy" ('07)

"News Radio” (’95-99)
“Home Improvement” (’91)
• actress Vicki Lewis, att. CCM (See her movie credit, too.)

“Queer as Folk” (’00-05, 83 episodes of the Showtime series)
actor Randy Harrison, CCM ’00


"Th
e Young and the Restless" (CBS, '98-99, series regular as Trey Stark)

"The Jamie Foxx Show" ('97)

"Grace Under Fire" ('98)

"Pensacola: Wings of Gold" ('98, w/ James Brolin, series regular as 1st Lt. Wendell McCray)

Kentucky Fried Chicken TV commercial

actor Rodney Van Johnson, Ed ’85 (See his current TV shows.)

“The Chieftains -- Nashville Sessions" (concert, documentary for PBS and DVD)

"Chonda Pierce -- Best Bits" (comedy concert DVD for Time Life)

Chet Atkins concert w/Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings (for Cinemax)

Barbara Mandrell (final career concert for TNN, plus another TNN special and a home video)

Alabama (Christmas concert for TNN)

Dove Music Awards (seven productions of the live show)

• producer Bob Gordon, CCM '75, MBA '77

"For Love or Money” (NBC’s summer '03 reality dating show that awarded $1 million to a winning bachelorette)
featured bachelorette Melissa Wehrman, DAAP ’01, eliminated at end of second episode

“Top 10 Most Amazing Homes” (HGTV, ’03)
architect Mark Hutker, DAAP ’82, designed one of the featured homes

Las Vegas” ('03 NBC/DreamWorks series w/James Caan)
assistant costume designer Catherine Wall, DAAP ’83

“North and South” (’85 Civil War mini-series)
• dancer Steve Percer, Ed ’77 (director of a historical dance troupe)

Award winner

Emmy awards for a TV special on the Houston Grand Opera’s production of “Treemonisha” and the first episode of NBC's “First Tuesday” news magazine

producer Larry Patterson, A&S '66

Sports shows

“NBC Sunday Night Football" ('06 TV series)

"Super Bowl" ('05)

"Fox NFL Sunday” (’03)

HBO’s “Inside the NFL” (since ’77)
analyst, host, actor Cris Collinsworth, JD ’91, two-time Emmy winner

(former NFL player with the Cincinnati Bengals)

Celebrity Tennis (’74-78)
• co-host Tony Trabert, A&S ’52

NBC winter Olympics coverage (’02)
• track and field broadcaster Lewis Johnson, Univ ’86

Students on cable

 
   

Helping to prove that duct tape is the perfect home-repair staple, a few DAAP students reupholstered a couch in colorful adhesive for an '03 cable TV show called “I Did It With Duct Tape.” Cincinnati producer Karen Zanger went to DAAP to recruit students for her show that aired several times over the summer on the Do It Yourself Network, the sister network of HGTV and the Food Network.

Two students, Sara Madden and Allen Cochran, were particularly enthused and recruited friends to help. Once Zanger explained what she wanted, Madden even obtained the couch, from a street corner where it had been thrown out for the trash.

Two hours and five rolls of duct tape later, they had created a design statement for national airwaves.

“We had various segments for the show using duct tape for everything from sculpture to infant costuming to down-to-earth camping and hiking uses,” Zanger says, “but the segment with college kids was the best of the whole show.”

— D. Rieselman