Sandy Frank, Distributor Behind Battle of the Planets, Dies at 97
Television producer and distributor Sandy Frank died on October 20 at 97. Born Sandel Frank on July 11, 1929, he started in sales at Paramount Pictures in the late 1940s and later worked at Guild Films, NBC, and Wrather Corporation. His syndication company, Sandy Frank Program Sales, founded in 1964 and renamed Sandy Frank Entertainment in 1978, produced and distributed Battle of the Planets, the English adaptation of Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gatchaman, in 1978.