managing producer-head writer for Armstrong InterActive's Emmy-winning TV programming. Theroux became one of the industry leaders on the Nominating Committee of The Hit Parade Hall of Fame. Screenplays he had written include the goodtime comedy screenplay and novelization versions of The Craziest Christmas. The History of Rock and Roll In 1975, Theroux found that the script of the 1969 production of The History of Rock and Roll contained many inaccuracies and omissions. As Drake-Chenault programmer/DJ/music historian and Director of Special Features, he researched, rewrote, and rebuilt the program entirely from scratch. The new version dramatically expanded the story with fresh interviews, insightful narration, more music, and a host of innovations—-all in a modular format which allowed stations more programming flexibility. Bill Drake knew that the rising popularity of stereo FM rock stations made it necessary to redo the show in stereo. The documentary approached each year of the history, between 1955 and 1977, with a focused half-hour, and devoted separate segments to key artists and trends. Theroux acquired all rights to the trademark name The History of Rock and Roll and in 2021 relaunched the concept via an all-new two-hour weekly series version hosted by Wink Martindale and syndicated by G Networks. Bill Drake himself narrated the 1978 52 hour version of the rockumentary. Among other things, Theroux had Drake-Chenault chief engineer Mark Ford painstakingly assemble two kinds of annual montages: one of each chart-topping hit of a given year (in sequence) and the other of other key songs there was no time to play in full. Those #1 hit montages were reprised for the climactic final hour of the show, edited together back to back, to create a fast-paced 45-minute medley of every chart-topping hit from 1955 to the fall of 1977. The 1978 edition of The History of Rock and Roll debuted as a marathon broadcast over more than 400 domestic stations and another 400 overseas, and won Billboard magazine's "Top Special Program of the Year" award. That success sparked Theroux to write "The Top Ten: 1956–Present", a book about the ten biggest hit records of each year. In 1998 Theroux began hosting his own version of The History of Rock and Roll as a fast-paced syndicated daily 2-minute feature. The online showcasing of that feature led to it winning the title of "Best Online Program" in the New York Festivals International Radio Programming Awards global competition. In