James at 15
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James at 15 (later James at 16) is an American drama series that aired on NBC during the 1977–1978 season.
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Also known as | James at 16 |
Genre | Drama |
Created by | Dan Wakefield |
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Theme music composer | John Ford Coley |
Opening theme | "James" performed by Lee Montgomery |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 1 movie / 20 episodes |
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Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 45–48 minutes |
Production company | 20th Century Fox Television |
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Network | NBC |
Release | September 5, 1977 (1977-09-05) |
Release | October 27, 1977 (1977-10-27) – June 29, 1978 (1978-06-29) |
The series was preceded by the 1977 TV movie James at 15, which aired on Monday September 5, 1977 and was intended as a television pilot for the series. Both were written by Dan Wakefield, a journalist and fiction writer whose novel Going All the Way, a tale of coming of age in the 1950s, had led to his being contacted by David Sontag of Twentieth Century Fox.
Sontag, the senior vice-president of creative affairs at Fox, had had a lunch meeting in New York City with Paul Klein, the head of programming at NBC. Klein said he needed a series for Sunday night. On the spot, Sontag pitched the idea for a coming-of-age series seen through the eyes of a teenage boy, including his dreams, fantasies, and hopes. Klein loved the idea and asked Sontag who would write it, with Sontag's suggesting Dan Wakefield.[1] Despite this unsourced account of the "creation" of the series, Sontag created no characters, no plotlines, and no settings. The on-screen credit for the series reads "Created by Dan Wakefield," as it was Wakefield who worked out the specifics from Sontag's general conceptual outline.