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Franco Bario

television producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5484516 ↗
Source-derived summary

Franco E. Bario is an American television line producer.

Career

Bario produced the NBC situation comedies Saved by the Bell from 1990 to 1993, Saved by the Bell: The New Class from 1993 to 1995, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years from 1993 to 1994. He also produced the 1992 television movie Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style, and the series California Dreams from 1992 to 1996. Bario next did the ABC comedy Grace Under Fire from 1996 to 1998, followed by the first season of Fox's That '70s Show from 1998 to 1999. He later produced Living With Fran for The WB from 2005 to 2006, and Lifetime's Rita Rocks from 2008 to 2009.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Franco Bario” as television producer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Franco, Bario and television.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1993, 1995, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Franco, Bario and television providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5484516. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1993, 1995 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Franco Bario” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.