Television Programs of America
Television Programs of America, Inc was a New York-based US television production company in the 1950s. TPA had a Canadian subsidiary, Normandie Productions.
This television production and distribution company was best known for Fury, King of the Wild Stallions.
The company was created in 1952 as a partnership between Chicago lawyer Milton Gordon and film producers Edward Small and Leon Fromkess.
The company often worked in association with the British production and distribution company ITC and its sister ITV company Associated TeleVision.
TPA also worked with Jack Wrather's companies Wrather-Alvarez Broadcasting, later Jack Wrather Productions, which held the rights to Lassie and The Lone Ranger.
In September 1958, Independent Television Corporation purchased TPA for $11,350,000. Wrather later sold his shares of Independent Television Corporation to ITC.Programs
TPA and Normandie productions included:
