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Highcliffe Manor (1979)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Robert Leszczak
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
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HIGHCLIFFE MANOR
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Alan Landsburg Productions
for
NBC (Thursdays)(12Apr79-3May79)
Created by Robert Blees
Produced by Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner
Associate Producer: Patricia Fass Palmer

US Situation Comedy series 1979 6 episodes x 30 min

Starring
Shelley Fabares as Helen Blacke (widow of the foundation's founder)
Stephen McHattie as Reverend Ian Glenville
Eugenie Ross-Leming as Dr. Frances Kisgadden
Gerald Gordon as Dr. Felix Morger
Audrey Landers as Wendy (secretary to the late Berkeley Blacke)
Jenny O'Hara as Rebecca (the housekeeper)
Christian Marlowe as Bram Shelley
David Byrd as Dr. Lester
Luis Avalos as Dr. Sanchez
Ernie Hudson as Smythe (valet to the late Mr. Blacke)
Harold Sakata as Cheng

Narrated by Peter Lawford

Premise:
Comedy melodrama/ Gothic Farce set at a mysterious desolate island,
the Headquarters of the Blacke Foundation, a Scientific Research Institute.

Theme Song "Highcliffe Manor" by Frank De Vol

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NBC (Thursdays)(12Apr79-3May79)

1.1 [--] Highcliffe Manor: THE BLACKE DEATH
12 April 1979 NBC Thur
Written by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Directed by Nick Havinga

1.2 [--] Highcliffe Manor: BERKELEY CHEATS THE GRAVE
19 April 1979 NBC Thur
Written by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Directed by Nick Havinga

1.3 [--] Highcliffe Manor: THE EVIL FROM WITHIN
26 April 1979 NBC Thur
Teleplay by Earle Doud; Story by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Directed by Nick Havinga

1.4 [--] Highcliffe Manor: LOVE BLOOMS
3 May 1979 NBC Thur
Teleplay by Rick Orloff; Story by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Directed by Nick Havinga

1.5 [--] Highcliffe Manor: SEX & VIOLENCE
1979 (Not Aired on Network ?)
Written by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Directed by Nick Havinga
Guest Cast:
Inga Swenson

1.6 [--] Highcliffe Manor: STARK TERROR
1979 (Not Aired on Network ?)
Teleplay by Carmen Finestra & John Surgal; Story by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
Directed by Nick Havinga

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