The Association released their first records for the label. Early copies of the album And Then... Along Comes the Association show the Four Star disclaimer blacked out at the bottom of the label. David Charnay's acquisition From 1967 to 1989, David Charnay was the leader of a buyout group that owned a controlling interest in Four Star Television and subsequently renamed the television company: Four Star International. For more than two decades, he served as president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Four Star. He directed the company, employing his only son, John Charnay as Director of Public Relations, as well as employing many of Hollywood's leading producers, stars, and executives of the late 20th and early 21st century, including Deke Heyward, Morey Amsterdam, Dick Colbert, Tony Thomopoulos, and collaborating with Aaron Spelling and George Spota for continued film and television projects, as well as many Hollywood stars and starlets before many producers advanced to create their own companies. Four Star amassed a sizable inventory of programs for syndication, then the world's largest syndication company. Charnay led a turnaround in Four Star that involved both vertical integration and horizontal integration, which developed the company into a global powerhouse syndicator of its large collection of shows that included: The Rifleman, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Rogues, Zane Grey Theatre and The Big Valley. While it did get a hit of sorts in producing a show called Thrill Seekers, (which was a sort of proto-reality TV program, and the first reality show in the United States), the studio's primary niche was in its successful syndication to global film and television audiences. In 1985, Four Star renewed its ties with Charnay himself. That year, on July 16, 1985, Kidpix had inked an agreement with Four Star Television to handle worldwide distribution on all six Kidpix features, with the first three already set up for home video by Embassy Home Entertainment, and the other three already set up for home video by Paramount Home Video. During his tenure, in 1987, they made a pact with Color Systems Technology to do a colorized version of Wanted: Dead or Alive, which was originally set up in black and white, which led to a lawsuit from Compact Video and Four Star against the colorizing company who developed the color version of the show. Final acquisitions: Robert Seidenglanz, Ronald Perelman and Rupert Murdoch David Charnay