A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
March 19, 1979
Original Title:
Fast Friends
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures Television
Green/Epstein Productions
Sandra Harmon Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 100
A young divorcee struggles to provide for her young son and make a new life for herself in the backstage jungle of a TV talk show, becoming fast friends with its head writer whose job it is to see that its host, a woman-chasing egomaniac, stays at the top of the ratings.
Art Direction:
Ross Bellah
Zoltan Muller
Associate Producer:
Judith Gill
Director:
Steven Hilliard Stern
Director of Photography:
Howard Schwartz
Editor:
Kurt Hirschler
Executive Producer:
Allen S. Epstein
Jim Green
Music:
Don Peake
Producer:
Sandra Harmon
Special Effects Coordinator:
James Fredburg
Stunt Coordinator:
Buck McDancer
Writer:
Sandra Harmon
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