Continuity Error The Ol Ball Game

At the start of "The Ol Ball Game" from Season 4, a woman walks past Chris as he's throwing a ball back to Danny. We then see Danny and then some talking between Nicole and Jesse and as we go back to Chris they repeat the same shot of the woman walking past Chris again.

Fame Blooper 2 Come One Come All

A great Blooper featuring Valerie Landsburg and Carlo Imperato as they repeatedly mess up a scene from the season one episode "Come One Come All"

Erica Gimpel in "Betty's Treats"

Erica Gimpel stars in this short independent film "Betty's Treats".

Carlo Imperato Why Do I?

A rare Carlo Imperato performance from Italian TV from the late 80s/early 90s. I'm not sure of the exact title of this song but I'm calling it "Why Do I?" The camera work at the start is terrible! Apologies for the video quality but it's the best that I have.

Debbie Allen in An American Hero

Debbie Allen stars in "An American Hero" from 1995.

Gene Anthony Ray Win Lose Draw 1988

Gene Anthony Ray on "Win, Lose, Draw" live from central Park 1988.

Fame Blooper 1

A short Fame Blooper where Valerie Landsburg walks into a door. 

Olivia Barash in Out of The Blue 1979

Olivia Barash stars in an episode of the short lived 1979 sitcom "Out of the Blue".

Michael Cerveris You

Michael Cerveris performs "You" from the 1987 movie "Tokyo Pop" featuring Carrie Hamilton on backing vocals.

Carrie Hamilton & Debbie Allen Mother's Day Special

It's Mother's Day in the U.K. on Sunday so Happy Mother's Day to everyone.

In 1987 Carrie Hamilton presented a Mother's Day special called "Superstars and their Moms" with her own Mother Carol Burnet. They mention their time on Fame togetehr and Debbie Allen features in one of the segments as she and her sister Phylica Rashad celebrate their mother.

Valerie Landsburg On "You Again"

Valerie Landsburg played Pam in the 1986 short lived TV series "You Again" with Jack Klugman and John Stamos. In this epiosde her character Pam is pregnant. I'm assuming that Valerie was really pregnant in this epiosde as the time line fits in with before her daughter Taylor was born.

Miles From Here - Kenny Rankin

"Miles From Here" comes from the season 1 episode "Metamorphosis". Written by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford it is performed by Kenny Rankin.

"You Know What I'd Like?

I'd Like To Wake Up Miles From Here.

A Cabin In The Woods Somewhere,

With A Rocking Chair.

You Know What I'd Like?

To Drive From Here To Santa Fe,

And Leave My Past Along The Way.

For  Yesterday.

Singing Hey, Fly Away!

You Know What I'd Like?

I'd Like To Write A Symphony,

To Play My Life In Every Key.

In Harmony.

Take You Away,

Where We Can Spend Some Time Alone.

Build A House And Call It Home.

Oh Babe, I'm Home.

I'm Tangled Up In All The Lives Of All The Folks I Know.

I'd Like To Just Let Go.

You Know What I'd Like?

I'd Like The Crazy Days To End.

To Close My Eyes And Count To Ten,

And To Start Again.

Close My Eyes And Count To Ten And Start Again

Start Again, Start Again.

Close My Eyes And Count To Ten And Start Again
Start Again, Start Again.

Close My Eyes And Count To Ten And Start Again

Start Again, Start Again." 

Debbie Allen In The House Valentines Episode

A Valentines edition of "In The House" from 1995 starring Debbie Allen.

Fame Parody by the Marketing Crew.

Parody of Fame by the Marketing Crew.

Doris Schwartz Time & Again Season 2 Behind the Scenes

As I receive quite a few messages about my fan fiction story “Doris Schwartz time and Again”, I thought I’d write an update on what is happening. I’m not giving away the storyline though, I’m afraid!

I mentioned last year that when I started the story I didn’t know where it was going or what was actually happening, I just wanted to see how things developed.

Well, by the end of season 1 I knew to make things work I needed a to know where I was taking the story so that I could plan ahead and plant seeds of the stories that were to come. So I did just that and developed plan for where the season 3 finale would go and knew the story arc I wanted to take through season 3.

I then worked backwards and started to develop ideas for season 2.
Although, Season 2 did rather take on a life of it’s own as I knew I wanted to save Nicole from dying but this felt should result in consequences and as Danny was the only other main character in the car it seemed he was the natural choice to kill off. Sorry Danny fans! I know some of you were shocked by this but as this is a time travel story that does mean Dead characters can still be part of the story.

The planned 9 episodes quickly grew to 12 as the ideas and drama around the Danny/Nicole events just flowed so I realised that I was going to need more episodes to do the story justice. Originally that storyline was just ment to fill 2 episodes mid way through but as the ideas came and I knew the hospital was going to be a major setting I soon realised that it needed to be the end of the season leading to the finale.

People have asked when we are going to get some answers to what's going on. Please be patient as if I give too much away at once that means the story will be over. The plan is that as season 4 is the final season the episodes there will address what's happening. So we have got a whole season of more mystery to come before we get there. Although the season 3 finale will revisit some of the events that have already happened and link some of them together.

One thing I wanted to did want to do in season 2 was include more music to make the story more Fame like. I'm fully aware that the time travel story is not something people would normally associate with Fame, so I thought including more songs would help with that and not just the Fame songs we already know and love but to create moments where characters could perform other songs. Hopefully that is working and I plan to include more in season 3.

Anyway, I do now know where season 3 is going and have already written some of them and also have a rough plan of how the story will end in season 4 next year.

I have been asked if I will write another story focussing on a different character when this story ends. Well, I will be writing other stories but they will be different to the current time travel mystery as I don’t think I could come up with a similar story for a different character without pretty much repeating myself. So I’ve come up with an idea which I’m calling “Fame duets”, which will be a series but each episode will focus on 2 characters as we catch up with their lives after school but there will be an ongoing thread throughout each episode.

Still that’s all in the future and there's lots more time travel with Doris to come first. New episodes go live later in the year!

As always keep you questions and ideas coming, and keep reading!

Nia Peeples KTLA National Wear Red Day

Nia Peeples promoting National Wear Red Day which is today.

For more information go to American Heart Foundation.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/

On The Fame Set

Valerie Landsburg, lee Curreri, Carlo Imperato, Carol Mayo Jenkins and Albert Hague discuss the Fame set and work schedule.

Gene Anthony Ray Jet Magazine Words of Wisdom 1982