Tracy Tormé
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Tracy R. Tormé, the son of Mel Tormé, is a screenwriter and producer of such works as Saturday Night Live, Odyssey 5, Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Fire in the Sky. He is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School.
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Sliders
Template:Main Tracy Tormé is the creator of the show Sliders, but has had conflicts with the Fox Network during the production of the show.
Tracy Tormé wanted the end of an episode to be linked to the beginning of the next episode, but Tracy Tormé claimed that Fox did not allow him to do this because they wanted to air the episodes in their preferred order, and that linking episodes would force them to air them in Tormé's order. Tracy Tormé also felt that this screwed up the show's continuity. Template:Ref
Tracy Tormé claimed that Fox wanted an action-oriented show based on popular movies where it is intended that the viewer forgets what has been seen five minutes later. He claimed that Fox did not want anything intellectual or political, and that they didn't want satire. Tracy Tormé says he was embarrassed by the third season. Template:Ref
Tracy Tormé says that by the third season, all his allies had been fired, the other executive producers, the network, and the studio all wanted to go in a direction that Tracy Tormé disagreed with, and by that time he had gotten tired of fighting battles with the network, so he walked away from the show. Template:Ref
Tracy Tormé has been critical of the changes to the characters of Sliders. He said that originally, Quinn Mallory and Rembrandt Brown were intended to be misfits but were then changed to be "action heroes" and were always getting into fights with people.
In the summer of 1997, after Sliders had been cancelled by Fox but before it was picked up by the Sci Fi Channel, Tracy Tormé said he would like to bring Sliders back to its original roots Template:Ref. The Dimension of Continuity claims that Tracy Tormé had bid to reclaim control of Sliders in the fourth season, but that he did not want to work with David Peckinpah, who had been contracted for another season.
Fictional References
In the world of Star Trek, Tracy Tormé is known as the creator of the Dixon Hill series. Tracy Tormé wrote the first season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "The Big Goodbye," in which the Dixon Hill series is introduced.
References
- Template:Note http://www.dimensionofcontinuity.com/bts.htm - Accessed February 4, 2006
- Template:Note http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/Tormé27jun97.htm - Accessed February 4, 2006
- Template:Note http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/dragon97/TracyTormé.html - Accessed February 4, 2006