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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Year:
Duration:
60 min
Genres:
Adventure
IMDB rate:
6.7
Director:
Barry Crane
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1982-09-19
Filming Locations: Murphys, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Pam Newman
Jackie (22 episodes, 1982-1983)
Roger Wilson
Daniel McFadden
Peter Horton
Crane McFadden
Drake Hogestyn
Brian McFadden
Bryan Utman
Ford McFadden
Tim Topper
Evan McFadden
River Phoenix
Guthrie McFadden
Terri Treas
Hannah McFadden
Joan Kjar
Marie (9 episodes, 1982-1983)
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Trivia
Another script, "The Rescue", centered around a ten passenger turboprop Beechcraft aircraft, which crashes in the high Sierra mountain range, with the family of seven brothers rescuing the pilot and passengers. Requesting information about the airplane from the Beechcraft Company in Ohio, required sending the script for an approval for the production company to use any Beechcraft airplanes. The Production Designer located an airplane salvage yard in Reno, Nevada, that had identical airplanes that could be filmed. The salvage yard owner packed the two fuselages, wings and tail parts into a pickup truck and trailer, delivering the airplane parts to the stage. On a Murphys location exterior sight, the one airplane was assembled and set in an open forest glade. With no snowfall, plastic shaved snow particles was sprinkled on the ground to simulate a snow fall. On Stage, the Beechcraft fuselage was set in a forest setting. The salvage owner became the technical advisor, related to both airplane's assembly and use. He removed one side of the stage's fuselage for the cast and camera crew to work inside the airplane. From the Beechcraft Company's sales brochure, the art department had Pacific Studios deliver a color blow up of the cockpit's instrument panel, which was mounted in front of the gutted pilot's instrument cockpit panel. Exteriors were first to be filmed and a miracle occurred. Overnight, a snow storm dropped four inches of powder in the Sierra range, the location's airplane crash sight was under the 4" deep powder of snow! This show, in the 1983 EMMY Nomination entries, was nominated in the film series Art Direction EMMY category.
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While filming the exterior Beechcraft airplane crash sight for "The Rescue", large fans, placed in front of the foreground multiple camera positions, blew shaved white-plastic particles simulating snow flurries. During the night, an actual snow storm blew over the Sierra mountains covering the film sight in 'real snow'. After the production company had departed in January 1983, the Federal Forestry Division required MGM Studios to clean up the filming location sight. After the snow melted, the ground was covered with the shavings of plastic. MGM contracted a local Murphys company to clean and sweep the location, during June 1983, a sizable clean-up payment of $10,000.00.
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MGM and CBS TV initially ordered 6 programs after approving the 90 minute pilot. The original film musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" established the basis for a musical TV series, which was to include a musical (staged song and dance) sequence in the one hour long scenario. David Gerber had established a location filming company on a distant location far from Culver City: Murphy (where he owned the Murphy Hotel), and in Angels Camp, Sonora, all located in the Mother Lode foothills of the Sierra Mountains, in the heart of Calaveras County. Building this musical segment into each hour program was difficult based upon rehearsing music, dance moves, and placing the number in a location where the number could be performed. Plus the fact the seven lead brothers were neither dancers nor singers! Although the ratings numbers for CBS were fairly good, the prospect of the series renewal was facing the actor-leads demanding a raise in salary; with another demand of each featured cast being provided with a star motor home dressing room (plus Terri = 8 total motor home trailer-vehicles). The producers ploy of offering a six show location deal to the crew for minimum pay, which included location $$ for being on location, was an incentive under the low job market-summer prospects in Hollywood. After four programs were in the can, with two to complete, the producers announced an additional four shows had been ordered. This maneuver continued until a full twenty two episodes were completed (for a full show order). The original company had been assembled in Murphy in late April. The show wrapped up in Murphy, in January 1983. The cast and crew would have to wait until late Spring for a renewal order. CBS TV canceled the show in May 1983.
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Richard Dean Anderson Allyn Ann McLerie Brad Savage
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