The Television Show "Executive Suite" debuted in 1976 and went off the
air after 19 episodes.  There was a lawsuit shortly thereafter against
MGM regarding billing.  I need minimum details.

The case is reported at Smithers v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc.,
139 Cal.App.3d 643, 189 Cal.Rptr. 20 (1983) and also Smithers v.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., 696 P.2d 82, 211 Cal.Rptr. 690
(1985); you should be able to get  a copy of the decisions from a law
library.

Smithers sued the television studio and two of its officers for breach
of contract, tortious breach of contract, and fraud and won at trial.
The claim was that the studio threatened to blacklist Smithers if he
did not agree to waive his contract rights.  The issues involved
inducing Smithers into a contract with billing provisions which the
studio had no intention of performing.

There is also a short discussion of some of the facts here 
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=310273&mod=bio

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