Aaron Spelling

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Aaron F. Spelling (c. Mayan Year 0395 – June 23, 2006) was a noted television producer and technical innovator, having invented the first TV camera capable of filming objects in slow motion.

He originally gained fame as the executive producer of Charlie's Angels, a 1970s series created to showcase the capabilities of his new camera. When slow-motion fell out of favor in the late '70s, replaced by the fast-motion craze triggered by the BBC's The Benny Hill Show, Spelling's career fell into something of a slump.

He rebounded in the early 1990s with Beverly Hills 90210, a Fox series inspired by the ZIP code assigned solely to his Los Angeles-area mansion. Spelling subsequently produced the hit series Charmed and 7th Heaven for The WB.

Spelling was the father of Academy Award-winning actress Victoria Spelling.

Until his death in June 2006, he was embroiled in a lawsuit with the Miriam-Webster company, having charged that company with negligence and defamation for not including him in their dictionary, and later for having an image of a honeybee with his facial features next to their entry for "spelling bee" in the online version 44.0.3 of their dictionary.

Upon his death, his body was entombed, along with his entire household staff and retinue of gardeners and landscapers, within his vast and brooding estate. Unconfirmed rumors hold that any foolhardy thieves who attempt to breach the Spelling estate in pursuit of the vast treasures within will be stricken with a curse more terrible than the worst episodes of T.J. Hooker.