Fame (TV series)

Fame is an American television series from 1982 to 1987 was broadcast by NBC in the United States. The series was extremely popular in the 1980s, both in the u.s. and internationally, so that even the actors from the popular TV series went on tour with live shows under the name The Kids from Fame. Under this name were also different gramophone records of songs from the series released. For the performances at the Ahoy Sportpaleis Rotterdam to extra performances due to large success were inserted.

The series was based on the film Fame (1980). Like the movie followed the TV series the pupils and teachers of the High School for the Performing Arts, a high school inNew York City where the students, in addition to normal boxes, also much les get in music, dance and theatre. In the series were dramatic scenes interspersed with music and dance numbers.

The series won a number of Emmy's and (in 1984) a Golden Globe for best musical/comedy television series in the genre. Debbie Allen, one of the main characters as well as choreographer of the series, both won in 1982 as a 1983 Emmy for best choreography and in 1983 a Golden Globe for best actress in a television series.

The title song Fame, performed by Erica Gimpel (Coco Hernandez in the TV series), stood in 1983 three weeks at number 1 in the Dutch Top 40 (in the original version sung by Irene Cara, who played Coco Hernandez in the film).

The first season of the series was released on dvd in 2005. ==Leading Roles[ Edit] == ==Things Worth Knowing[ Edit] ==
 * Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy Johnson
 * Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli
 * Valerie Landsburg as Doris R. Schwartz
 * Carlo Imperato as Danny Amatullo
 * Erica Gimpel as Coco Hernandez
 * Lori Singer as Julie Miller
 * Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant
 * Albert Hague as Benjamin Shorofsky
 * Carol Mayo Jenkins as Elizabeth Sherwood
 * Michael Thoma as Greg Crandall
 * Singer Janet Jackson in the fourth season of Fame played the role of Cleo Hewitt.
 * Gene Anthony Ray (Leroy in the film and television series) in reality went to the High School for the Performing Arts, but was expelled from school after a year.
 * One of the best known songs is the song "Star maker", it was sung in the last episode of season 1 in the episode entitled "A Special Place". In this episode Greg Crandall by teacher cuts must leave school. The sorrow in this episode, however, was not played because it was known that Michael Thoma was seriously ill. A few weeks after the recording of this episode Michael Thoma died.