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"Rainbow"
"Rainbow" is a long-form fashion drama filmed and produced by TVB Wireless in 1978, with a total of 85 episodes, produced by Lee Tim Seng, and officially broadcast in early 1979.
Since the early days of wireless establishment, Li Tim Seng has been introduced to TVB, and in May 1969, Lee Tim Shing officially became the 365th TVB staff, and since the 1970s, he has created many classic TV works and TV characters, which are loved by the audience.
▲ Li TimSheng made a cameo appearance in "Happy Tonight" as "Sweeping the Streets"
Several of the featured dramas introduced before: "Frenzy", "Family Change", "Tycoon", "Strongman", "Struggle", Li Tiansheng has participated in the work of choreographer or producer, and the drama "Rainbow" has officially embarked on the road of supervising production.
▲ Li Tim Seng's employee number at TVB is 00365
▲ Second from right: Li Tiansheng; first from right: Zhou Runfa; second from left: Ren Dahua
The drama "Rainbow" is mainly about Yu Shukuan, who after the death of her husband, concentrated on running a fashion company and became famous in the fashion industry. When her daughter Ren Yihua was ten years old, she remarried to Superintendent Kang Shixiong despite her family's opposition.
Ren Xiahua returned from studying abroad and decided to compete with his mother in his career, but ended in failure, but fortunately got the care and comfort of his police boyfriend Yu Boduan.
At this time, Liang Peiyi, who was also a leader in the fashion industry, took Ren Yihua into his company and fought against Yu Shukuan. And the drug dealer Tu Ritian also changed to fashion, he admired Liang Peiyi very much, and quickly pulled her over, making Xia Hua and Pei Yi also become competitors.
Superintendent Kang Shixiong and Tu Ritian also secretly colluded to embezzle and accept bribes, and Se-hung suspected that his subordinate, Bai Duan, was an undercover agent of the ICAC.
Just a few days before Xia Hua and Bai Duan were preparing to get married, Bai Duan suddenly died, and Xia Hua believed that Bai Duan had been murdered.
▲ Zheng Shaoqiu played Wei Zhengli, a friend of Yu Baiduan (Tan Yonglin) in "Tianhong"
So He and Bai Duan's lawyer friend Wei Zhengli began to investigate the truth, exposing one black curtain after another. At the same time, Liang Peiyi also saw through the true face of Tu Ritian and shot to end everything in front of him.
▲ Ren Dahua played the studio staff Aji in "Rainbow"
Ren Xiahua is played by the famous Hong Kong program host Zheng Yuling, who is the do sister we are familiar with.
After graduating from high school, Zheng Yuling gave up her dream of becoming a news anchor because her family conditions were not allowed, and she missed the application time of the wireless artist training class because of the examination, and later joined Jiayi.
At first, she was not reused by Jiayi, and she was a little disappointed, but later her teachers Huang Xia and Jian Erqing both saw her potential and encouraged her to continue to develop in the TV circle. Her second TV series episode on TVB was "Rainbow", and she was the protagonist from the beginning.
Playing Ren Xiahua's mother, Yu Shukuan, is Hong Kong film and television amphibious actress Leung Shan, "Rainbow" is her masterpiece and her first TV series starring in WIRELESS.
Later, she also starred in the 82nd version of "Tianlong Babu" in Duan Yu's mother Dao Baifeng.
▲ Liang Shan played Dao Baifeng in 1982's "Tianlong Babu"
Liang Peiyi's actor is wireless sister Wang Mingquan, when filming "Tianhong", Wang Mingquan has already starred in the protagonist of many major plays of wireless, her image of a strong woman, acting can be said to be like a fish, and Sister A's singing career at that time was also booming, singing theme songs for many costume dramas and fashion dramas, and also produced an album of the same name for the drama "Tianhong".
It is said that bad people are more difficult to play than good people, but once successful, the character image must be impressive. For example, Xie Xian, who is known as the "fourth brother". The fourth brother did not like to read since he was a child, liked to play around, and made his debut in 1953 to make movies.
25 years later, in 1978, the fourth brother was invited to join TVB Wireless to shoot a TV series, and he played Tu Ritian in "Rainbow", which was his second time in a wireless drama.
Until the end of the 1980s, he often appeared in wireless dramas, the most famous of which was also the opponent play with Sister A.
For example, Luo Sihai, a casino hero in "The King of a Thousand Kings", and Ruan Tingshen, who is obsessed with emotion in "Thousands of Rivers and Mountains Are Always Love".
▲ Xie Xian played Luo Sihai in 1980's "King of a Thousand Kings"
▲ Xie Xian played Ruan Tingshen in 1982's "Thousands of Rivers and Mountains Always Love"
There is also a role that everyone knows, that is, Yang Kang's biological father Yang Tiexin in the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Archery Hero".
▲ Xie Xian played Yang Tiexin in 1983's "Legend of the Eagle Shooter"
The 83rd edition of "Shooting Eagle" and "Divine Eagle" can be described as a collection of stars. In addition to Xie Xian, who played Yang Tiexin, there was also Liu Dan, who played Hong Qigong. In the drama "Rainbow", The corrupt police superintendent Kang Shixiong, played by Liu Dan, although he was not the protagonist, his acting skills had been recognized by the industry at that time.
Later, in the 1980 broadcast of "Shanghai Beach", Liu Dan played Feng Jingyao, which was well known to the audience.
▲ Liu Dan played Feng Jingyao in 1980's "Shanghai Beach"
▲ Liu Dan played Hong Qigong in 1983's "Legend of the Eagle Shooter"
There is also a character in "Rainbow", that is, yu Boduan, the boyfriend of the heroine Ren Xiahua, played by the famous singer Tan Yonglin. Tam Wing Lin debuted as the lead singer in the band, in the 60s and 70s has become a little famous in the music industry, after he returned from studying in Singapore, in 1973 The Band Ofvina was officially established, and it was very popular. TVB Wireless runs several columns for the Band Ofuna every week to promote them. Tan Yonglin has only starred in two TV series so far, "Rainbow" is one of them, in which he is a policeman, with a fashionable hairstyle, plus a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, the shape is very handsome, but unfortunately he lost his life before the end.
1979 was the last year of the 70s, and in that year, TVB Wireless created many classic dramas, both fashion dramas and costume dramas. The appearance of "Rainbow" may only be a glimmer of that era, but like other dramas, it also gives actors the opportunity to become famous, gives the audience room to think, and also gives many people the possibility of leaving a mark on the television industry.
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