A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
October 30, 1988
# of Seasons: 1
# of Episodes: 3
Finale:
November 1, 1998
Original Title:
Favorite Son
Alternate Titles:
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Genres:
War & Politics
Production Companies:
NBC Productions
Steve Sohmer Productions
Countries:
US
Favorite Son is a miniseries about political intrigue that aired on NBC in 1988 a week before that year's presidential election. It starred Harry Hamlin, Linda Kozlowski, James Whitmore, Robert Loggia, John Mahoney, Ronny Cox, and a pre-Seinfeld Jason Alexander. The miniseries was adapted from the 1987 novel of the same written by Steve Sohmer, who also wrote the teleplay.
Associate Producer:
Tim Myers
Casting:
Mary V. Buck
Susan Edelman
Director:
Jeff Bleckner
Director of Photography:
Bradford May
Editor:
Jeff Freeman
Executive Producer:
Steve Sohmer
Music:
John Morris
Novel:
Steve Sohmer
Producer:
Jonathan Bernstein
Production Designer:
David M. Haber
Special Effects:
Martin Becker
Supervising Film Editor:
Joe Ann Fogle
Teleplay:
Steve Sohmer
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.