For 4 decades Spelling the name was synonymous with success, money and recognition, but especially television. Aaron Spelling became the guru of the small screen, producing more than two hundred productions and taking the pulse of three generations of viewers, giving at all times what the industry needed, giving the worker total escape on foot their problems for 43 minutes a week, offering what he called, "Mind Candies".
His career is the epitome of the American Dream, Polish father and Russian mother suffered the ridicule of their peers during childhood and was orphaned very soon, but his passion for reading in 1954 was that he could sell his first script, but it was not that what life would be gained in the first place, and that until he founded his own company at 66, was devoted to play minor roles in television series of the era, as the well-known or I Love Lucy Gunsmoke . In 1968, his first success as an executive producer would screens with The Mod Squad. This production opened the doors of ABC in what would be one of the most prosperous relations industry as we know it today.
In 1974 he founded his own company, Aaron Spelling Productions , and start a solid amount of work with the ABC network on creating blockbusters that will be bound until the late 80's. His relationship with ABC was such that those skilled in the scene were quick to rename it as the Aaron Broadcasting Company, the volume of business that were taking place, and not forget that the critics were never next to the great magnate praises about concerns for decades have rocked Spelling productions calling them "Schlock Art", that comes from Yiddish (language Aaron's mother) and basically means the product of low value, poor quality. However his production revenues during the 70's some of the most notorious success as television landscape: The Rookies (1972-76), SWAT (1975-76), the ultraconocida Starsky & Hutch (1975 -79), Vega $ (1978-81), and its signature series and why it continues to recognize instantly Charlie's Angels (1976-81).
In the 80's signed an exclusive contract with ABC almost complete, producing numerous popular series as The Love Boat (1977-1986), Fantasy Island (1978-1984), Hart To Hart (1979-1984), Hotel (1983-1988 ) or the jewel in the crown Dynasty era (1981-1989) that was a stunning twist to the genre of soap operas.
But in the 89 and the cancellation of Dynasty Spelling seemed that the empire had reached its end, the exclusive contract had ended and it seemed that ABC does not charge more productions to the guru, leaving off the grill after 20 years producing television uninterrupted.
But the arrival of Fox in the early 90's marked the revival of the factory Spelling, with the reinvention of television for the teen genre and bombing which resulted Beverly Hills 90210 (1990-2000) that exalted to Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley and Luke Perry and made Spelling TV was back on the crest of the wave, co-producing this year's acclaimed Twin Peaks (1990 - 1991). In 1992, after having put on the map to FOX was commissioned from the spin off the chain Melrose Place (1992-1999) would be the vehicle Success for 7 seasons for players of the caliber of Marcia Cross and Heather Locklear.
TheWB 's birth also provided work for the manufacturer as the network would subsequently become his new ABC until 2006, and was premiered in 1996 7th Heaven (1996 - 2007) your favorite series and longest running production, and perhaps more light. But not all were successes, Savannah (1996-1997) and Safe Harbor (1999) in TheWB, Kindred: The Embrace (1996) on FOX or Sunset Beach (1997-1999) on NBC were loud thud, recent of the factory, that if he wins with Charmed (1998-2006) which meant a return to TV of Shannen Doherty and the "discovery" of Alyssa Milano or Summerland (2004-2005) with the first work Zack Efron.
And besides series, Spelling also produced dozens of interesting TV movies, among which Death Sentence (1974) with the first leading role for Nick Nolte, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) one of the early work of John Travolta and the miniseries And The Band Played On (1993) laying earned his first Emmy work with HBO.
And today even though his company has been acquired by CBS, his empire is far from pale, because their ideas seem to rejuvenate old series like few others, a screen adaptation of some them as Starsky & Hutch or Charlie's Angels join the remakes of their most popular soaps by CW as 90210 or Melrose Place and remodel project Charlie's Angels to turn back into a regular series.
Aaron Spelling was able to capture, for four decades, popular sentiment in society, productions creating light that provided a total escape from reality for an hour and trained fun series that have kept us glued to the TV year after year. Candy for the mind of the factory Spelling.
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