Russell Morash

Creator

Russell Morash

Born — Died

1936-02-11 — 2024-06-19

Place of birth

Belmont, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Creator

Credits

5 titles

Russell Morash (1936–2024) was an American television producer and director best known as the creator of This Old House. A longtime producer at WGBH in Boston, he also worked on influential programs including The French Chef, The Victory Garden, and The New Yankee Workshop. Morash helped pioneer instructional television by putting skilled craftspeople and experts at the center of practical, real-world programs. His work on This Old House, which debuted in 1979, helped establish the modern home-improvement television genre.

Known for

American Masters poster
7.0

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.

American Masters

1986

Julia poster
6.2

Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.

Julia

2021

Between Time and Timbuktu poster
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A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.

Between Time and Timbuktu

1972

The Victory Garden: Vegetable Video poster
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Veggie Gardening 101. Bob and Jim are engaging hosts as they lead the viewer through the basics of choosing a site, preparing a garden plot, and raising a variety of vegetables, including some lesser-grown ones such as parsnips and leeks. Additionally, they demonstrate how to build a few garden structures including a compost bin and a simple cold-frame.

The Victory Garden: Vegetable Video

1986

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NR

This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted by the unmanned Ranger, Surveyor, and lunar orbiter spacecraft. It also shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of close-up photography of the Moon and includes views of craters, mountain ranges, and other lunar terrain.

Assignment: Shoot the Moon

1967

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