Television
Schell's first TV credit was 1967's Till Eulenspiegel, a comedy on West Germen TV where she played Nele and was billed as Katherina von Schell. Schell spent much of her career in television, and most of that on British television, with over 47 series spaning nearly 30 years. She also played regular roles in other television series such as The Adventurer, One by One, Mog and Wish Me Luck, in addition to many other guest appearances, including The Persuaders!, The Troubleshooters, Arthur of the Britons, Return of the Saint, The Sweeney, The Onedin Line, The Gentle Touch, Lovejoy, Bergerac, The Bill and Howards' Way.
In addition to her career-defining work on Space: 1999, Schell is famous for another British sci-fi series appearance. In 1979, she appeared in a popular serial of the BBC series Doctor Who entitled City of Death as the Countess Scarlioni, wife of the episode's villain.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)