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Musical series (3/5): “Fame”, the enchanted college

There is Lydia Grant, the demanding dance teacher, Benjamin Shorofsky, the fine music lover with the airs of old sage, or Elizabeth Sherwood, the humanist English teacher. And there are the students: Leroy Johnson and Coco Hernandez, the charismatic dancers, Julie Miller and Bruno Martelli, the applied musicians, Doris Schwartz and Danny Amatullo, the apprentice actors.

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Fame, a total of 136 episodes for 6 seasons aired in the United States between 1982 and 1987. At the heart of history, a fictional performing art school, the High School of Performing Arts. Its location in the cosmopolitan city of New York allows the establishment of a vast choral structure in which people of various origins meet. As for its roots in the 1980s, it allows us to document the evolution of society in filigree, and to accompany, for example, the explosion of the hip-hop movement.

Two films

By exaggerating a little, we can say that Fame is to musical series what Citizen Kane is in author’s cinema. A milestone, a founding classic of which certain scenes danced in the street remain a wonder. Or when the musical, this genre so emblematic of the golden age of Hollywood studios, invades the small screen. However, remember that at the origin of the series, there is a film of the same name, directed in 1980 by Alan Parker, and object in 2009 of an inept remake signed Kevin Tancharoen.


“Fame” (1982-1987), series in 136 episodes and 6 seasons created by Christopher Gore. Regularly rebroadcast by various television channels, the series is unfortunately not available on DVD or on paid streaming platforms.


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