Nothing sells on television like seeing talented people do their thing. So a show based on New York City's High School for the Performing Arts was the basis for a classic film and a TV series that had a respectable run of five years in the 80s.
The nice thing was that in a show like Fame it was never a star vehicle as such. Some of the faces from the motion picture are in the cast, but they were added and subtracted quite a bit over the run. Some sang, some dance, some played musical instruments. They all took the usual academic subjects.
The faculty came and went as well. Debbie Allen was the constant, the dance teacher. Broadway composer Albert Hague was the music teacher. One of the best story lines was when a regular science teacher played by Ken Swofford got to be principal. At first he was quite baffled by the dynamics of the place, but over several episodes he got into it.
Whether its Ted Mack's Amateur Hour or America's Got Talent, talent like they had in Fame always sells.
The nice thing was that in a show like Fame it was never a star vehicle as such. Some of the faces from the motion picture are in the cast, but they were added and subtracted quite a bit over the run. Some sang, some dance, some played musical instruments. They all took the usual academic subjects.
The faculty came and went as well. Debbie Allen was the constant, the dance teacher. Broadway composer Albert Hague was the music teacher. One of the best story lines was when a regular science teacher played by Ken Swofford got to be principal. At first he was quite baffled by the dynamics of the place, but over several episodes he got into it.
Whether its Ted Mack's Amateur Hour or America's Got Talent, talent like they had in Fame always sells.