Sandy Frank

Sandy Frank
Born	New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Television producer
Known for	Founder of Sandy Frank Entertainment

Sandy Frank is an American television producer and international TV program distributer as well as a marketer of TV shows to US networks. Frank started his career as a sales executive for Paramount Pictures, subsequently moving on to Guild Films, and the NBC Television Network. He landed the key position of Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales with the television division of the Wrather Corporation, who produced and distributed the "Lassie" and "Lone Ranger" TV programs.

In 1964, he opened his first company, Sandy Frank Program Sales, Inc., and his first distribution successes were "You Asked For It" and "Lassie" (which he had acquired the rights for from the Wrather Corp.). Frank's Company also sold the original, off-network, half-hour "Bill Cosby Show," "The Dating Game", "Bobby Vinton Show", "Treasure Hunt", and "Lee Mendelson's Superstar Specials" (Lee created and produced the classic Charlie Brown Specials). Sandy Frank produced and distributed "NAME THAT TUNE", "YOU ASKED FOR IT", and BATTLE OF THE PLANETS.

Battle of the Planets, an American animated television adaptation of the Japanese anime series Gatchaman. [2] Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the Battle of the Planets adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment in 1978. The outer space series was distributed worldwide in over 100 countries as well as stripped on in over 90 stations in US syndication.

Frank's company is also well-known for its frequent appearances on Mystery Science Theater 3000, where some of the company's dubs of Japanese films were lampooned. They summed their thoughts up of the company in a song entitled "The Sandy Frank Song".[1] Frank has since responded, saying he was "intensely displeased" with their mockery of him.

Frank was also the leading distributor of travel adventure shows including "America", "High and Wild", "Across the Seven Seas", "The Traveler", "American West", etc. Today Sandy Frank continues to forge solid domestic and international business alliances, expanding worldwide awareness of his established hit program formats such as "YOU ASKED FOR IT " and "FACE THE MUSIC" as well as new, original and unique content such as "TAG THE VIRGIN", "TOTAL ECLIPSE", "RETRO VIDEO" and "THE MAKING OF".

In 2011 Frank is continuing to set the standards in the USA and worldwide for syndicated formats, forming alliances with a number of key players such as ASYLUM in the USA and SONY in the international marketplace. Currently, SFE is marketing DANGEROUS MINDS (hosted by Rudy Giuliani) for Primetime Network, (an anti terror TV series), YOU ASKED FOR IT, for Prime Time Network, (which had a six-week run in prime time at 8-9:00 PM on Sunday night on the NBC-TV Network in 2000), and FACE THE MUSIC, which is being re-launched in a new prime time version.

External links

• Sandy Frank Entertainment