Frank Wayne (Acting)

Now You See It

Fast-paced entertainment series voiced by Mel Giedroyc, featuring the best and worst of magic and other incredible performers from around the world.

Release Date: 2015-01-10

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

The Price Is Right

"Come on down!" The Price Is Right features a wide variety of games and contests with the same basic challenge: Guess the prices of everyday (or not-quite-everyday) retail items. 

Release Date: 1972-09-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 1750

Vote Count: 83

Password

Password is an American television game show which was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions. The host was Allen Ludden, who had previously been well known as the host of the G.E. College Bowl. Password originally aired for 1,555 daytime telecasts each weekday from October 2, 1961 to September 15, 1967 on CBS, along with weekly prime time airings from January 2, 1962 to September 9, 1965 and December 25, 1966 to May 22, 1967. An additional 1,099 daytime shows aired from April 5, 1971 to June 27, 1975 on ABC. The show's announcers were Jack Clark and Lee Vines on CBS and John Harlan on ABC. Two revivals later aired on NBC from 1979–1982 and 1984–1989, followed by a prime time version on CBS from 2008–2009. In 2013, TV Guide ranked it #8 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.

Release Date: 1961-10-02

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 174

Vote Count: 6

Arson Squad

Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one conflagration, so the villains have a murder rap hanging over them.

Release Date: 1945-09-11

Character: Tracy

Swingin' on a Rainbow

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.

Release Date: 1945-09-01

Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)

Destroyer

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.

Release Date: 1943-08-19

Character: Pharmacist's Mate

Vote Count: 15

Mission to Moscow

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Release Date: 1943-04-29

Character: Heckler (uncredited)

Vote Count: 17

Pacific Blackout

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.

Release Date: 1941-12-31

Character: Military Police Sergeant

Vote Count: 3

Sea Raiders

A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.

Release Date: 1941-10-13

Character: Fenwick's Guard

Vote Count: 1

King of the Royal Mounted

The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.

Release Date: 1940-09-19

Character: Brant - Speedboat Driver-Thug

Vote Count: 1

Drums of Fu Manchu

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.

Release Date: 1940-03-15

Character: Dacoit 14 with Microphone

Vote Count: 5

The Fighting Renegade

El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian, the professor's niece accompanies the party as only she can translate the Aztec writings in the diary of her father, murdered on a similar expedition six years previous. The professor is murdered by a knife, and the weapon is recognized as the property of El Puma. Magpie, a Federal Investigator, knows that El Puma is really "Lightnin' Bill' Carson, a former federal agent who has been missing since Marian's father was slain. The reluctant Magpie believes that his old pal is guilty. Carson sets out to prove otherwise.

Release Date: 1939-08-31

Character: Stagecoach Driver

Vote Count: 3

Daredevils of the Red Circle

Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.

Release Date: 1939-06-10

Character: Dan

Vote Count: 2

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.

Release Date: 1939-05-06

Character: Henchman

Vote Count: 4

The Man from Texas

Hall is after Dennison's land and hires the Shooting Kid to finish him off. The Marshal sends Tex to help Dennison, but the Kid has been helped by Tex in the past and changes sides.

Release Date: 1939-04-19

Character: Henchman Longhorn

Outlaws' Paradise

Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.

Release Date: 1939-04-18

Character: FBI Agent Dickson

Smoky Trails

Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.

Release Date: 1939-03-03

Character: Henchman

Code of the Cactus

A story of cattle rustling and double identities.

Release Date: 1939-02-25

Character: Henchman Jake

Vote Count: 4

Six-Gun Trail

Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.

Release Date: 1938-11-25

Character: Messenger

Vote Count: 1

Lightning Carson Rides Again

Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.

Release Date: 1938-10-09

Character: Bank Cashier

Vote Count: 4

Six Shootin' Sheriff

Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.

Release Date: 1938-05-20

Character: Henchman

Vote Count: 7

Sky Racket

A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.

Release Date: 1937-10-01

Character: Henchman Pete

Vote Count: 3

Million Dollar Racket

Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.

Release Date: 1937-09-30

Character: Eddie

Vote Count: 1

Blake of Scotland Yard

Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the "Scorpion".

Release Date: 1937-01-30

Character: Charles - the Footman

Vote Count: 3

Blake of Scotland Yard

A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.

Release Date: 1937-01-30

Character: Charles, the Footman

Vote Count: 2

Now You See It

Now You See It is an American television game show created by Frank Wayne for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Two seasons were produced, and both aired on CBS. The first season ran from April 1, 1974 until June 13, 1975, and was hosted by Jack Narz. The second season ran from April 3 until July 14, 1989 and was emceed by veteran Los Angeles news anchor Chuck Henry. Johnny Olson was the original announcer, with Gene Wood substituting on occasion. Los Angeles disc jockey Mark Driscoll announced for the first month of the 1989 season, with Don Morrow replacing him for the remainder of the run. Although several tweaks to the game were made over the time Now You See It was on the air, the core format remained the same. Contestants competed to find words on a grid that was similar to a word search puzzle that served as answers to questions asked by the host.

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 1