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They Came from Outer Space, the Glossary

They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction teen sitcom that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991.^[1]

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1990s American comic science fiction television series
First-run syndicated sitcoms

Allan Royal

Allan Royal (born August 17, 1944) is a Canadian actor, who is also sometimes credited as Allan G. Royal and Alan Royal.

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Beauty salon

A beauty salon or beauty parlor is an establishment that provides cosmetic treatments for people.

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Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England.

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Bill Finnegan

William Robinson Finnegan (June 29, 1928 – November 28, 2008) was an American television and film producer whose well known credits included The Fabulous Baker Boys, Hawaii Five-O and the cult hit, Reality Bites.

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Bobbie Phillips

Bobbie Phillips (born January 29, 1968) is an American actress.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.

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Bruce Bilson

Bruce Bilson (born May 19, 1928) is an American film director and television director.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.

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Centerfold

The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine is the inner pages of the middle sheet, usually containing a portrait, such as a pin-up or a nude.

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Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette is a line of American two-door, two-seater sports cars manufactured and marketed by General Motors under the Chevrolet marque since 1953.

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Chuck Bowman

Charles W. Bowman (born June 2, 1937) is an American actor, director, producer and writer of film and television.

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Cockatiel

The cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus), also known as the weero/weiro or quarrion, is a medium-sized parrot that is a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia.

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Dean Cameron

Dean Cameron (born Dean Eikleberry; December 25, 1962) is an American television and film actor and musician.

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Doppelgänger

A doppelgänger, sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a biologically unrelated look-alike or double, of a living person.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Eva LaRue

Eva Maria LaRue (born December 27, 1966) is an American actress and model.

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Farce

Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.

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Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hugh Hefner

Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher.

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John Astin

John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and director who has appeared in numerous stage, television and film roles, primarily in character roles.

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John Wayne

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

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Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos.

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Lawn jockey

A lawn jockey is a statue depicting a man in jockey clothes, intended to be placed in front yards as hitching posts, similar to those of footmen bearing lanterns near entrances and gnomes in gardens.

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Loan shark

A loan shark is a person who offers loans at extremely high or illegal interest rates, has strict terms of collection, and generally operates outside the law, often using the threat of violence or other illegal, aggressive, and extortionate actions when seeking to enforce the satisfaction of the debt.

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Malibu, California

Malibu is a beach city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, about west of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Nurse Ratched

Nurse Ratched (full name Mildred Ratched in the movie, also known as "Big Nurse") is a fictional character and the main antagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, first featured in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel as well as the 1975 film adaptation.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

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Park ranger

A ranger, park ranger, park warden, field ranger, or forest ranger is a person entrusted with protecting and preserving parklands and protected areas – private, national, state, provincial, or local parks.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Playboy Mansion

The Playboy Mansion, also known as the Playboy Mansion West, is the former home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, who lived there from 1971 until his death in 2017.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.

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Public-access television

Public-access television (sometimes called community-access television) is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable television specialty channels.

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Rule, Britannia!

"Rule, Britannia!" is a British patriotic song, originating from the 1740 poem "Rule, Britannia" by James Thomson and set to music by Thomas Arne in the same year.

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Running gag

A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling.

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Ruth Buzzi

Ruth Ann Buzzi (born July 24, 1936) is a retired American actress and comedian.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Shout! Studios

Shout! Factory, LLC, doing business as Shout! Studios (formerly doing business as its current legal name as Shout! Factory) is an American home video and music distributor founded in 2002 as Retropolis Entertainment.

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Sidney Hayers

Sidney Hayers (24 August 1921 – 8 February 2000) was a British film and television director, writer and producer.

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Single-camera setup

In filmmaking and video production, the single-camera setup or single-camera mode of production (also known as portable single crew, portable single camera or single-cam) is a method in which all of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Came_from_Outer_Space

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See also

1990s American comic science fiction television series

First-run syndicated sitcoms

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