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William McElroy Dozier (/ ˈdoʊʒər /; February 13, 1908 – April 23, 1991) was an American film and television producer, writer and actor. He is best known for two television series, Batman and The Green Hornet.
Nov 4, 2014 · To produce the show, ABC relied on 20th Century Fox and Greenway Productions, a company headed by former CBS executive William Dozier. Fox and Greenway split ownership of the series, with...
Greenway Productions Records contains scripts from four of producer William Dozier's Greenway Productions television shows: Batman (Nov 1965-Dec 1967); The Green Hornet (Jun 1966- Jan 1967); The Loner (Jun 1965-Dec 1966); and The Tammy Grimes Show (Jun-Oct 1966).
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To best understand how Greenway Productions gave us the comics TV shows that, for good and ill, influenced us through today, we need to know the man behind it. William Dozier, born 1908 and a graduate of Jesuit-run Creighton University, had originally been on-track to become a lawyer before he met a Hollywood literary agent in 1935. Unlike other pe...
How Batman came to ABC is a story made up of interesting circumstances and connections. In 1965, audiences were being re-introduced to the serials made by Columbia Pictures back in 1943 under the program name “An Evening with Batman and Robin” where all 15 parts were run at different art houses in one four-hour stretch. One of these screenings was ...
The series Batman showed more superpowers than the character ever displayed. The show was panned by ABC’s test audiences, supposedly getting one of the network’s lowest scores. The show’s arrival on ABC was due more to large holes opening in the mid-season schedule, including one created when Shindig! lost its Thursday night slotand ABC feared that...
With Batman’s success, ABC was able to revisit Bennett’s prior market research and secure the rights to do a series based on one of the characters that scored higher than the Caped Crusader, the Green Hornet. Premiering on September 16, 1966, The Green Hornet was a departure for Dozier and ABC; their hero was played straight, both the villains and ...
Batman was like a lot of other pop art: it was designed for mass consumption and was ultimately disposable. Ratings declined for the second season over the first, and come the fall of 1967, The Green Hornet was not renewed and Batmanwent from two nights a week to one. Desperate to keep the series on the air and draw in more female viewers for seaso...
When Batman’s ratings were hot, and before The Green Hornetpremiered, Dozier’s Greenway Productions was approached by NBC to do one of the other properties Bennett’s research group found audiences wanted; they secured the rights to do a new Dick Tracy show and asked him to turn in a pilot. The show’s completed pilot suggests that, had this gone to ...
Before the end came, Dozier tried to place one more comic hero show on television: Wonder Woman. His proposed treatment, Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince? (which is above in its entirety) went for full-on, flat-out camp humor, playing on some of the worst sexist stereotypes filling television throughout that decade. Audiences then might not have laughe...
Dozier would only work on one more production, the film The Big Bounce for which his son Robert Dozier wrote the screenplay (one of a large list of scripts he wrote throughout the ’60s and ’70s). The film was panned, and Dozier would go into semi-retirement; he was still working in Hollywood, but only as an actor on such TV shows as Marcus Welby MD...
Sep 9, 2015 · Forty-nine years ago today, The Green Hornet premiered on ABC television on September 9, 1966. Produced by Greenway Productions and 20th Century Fox, the same team behind the cult classic Batman...
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Apr 26, 1991 · He worked at Screen Gems in the early 1960's, then became president of Greenway Productions, which made "Batman" from 1966 to 1968 for ABC. Mr. Dozier also produced "The Green Hornet" in 1966...
