Fame executive producer for seasons 1 to 3, William Blinn was interviewed for the Archive of American TV in 2005. The full interview lasts nearly 4 hours and covers the whole of his career as a writer and producer. The segment on Fame last about 35 minutes and has been broken down into 5 parts. This is part 3.
Bill discusses how they needed to change the original Fame pilot to make it work better. He also gives an idea of what would be happening behind the scenes when planning an episode, which was done at the same time as they were recording the current episode; The problems they had with Gene Anthony Ray; his relationship with Erica Gimpel and Debbie Allen and how he was fired by MGM from the show.
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