# TV Show/Movie Crew Who Don't Get Credit **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 4, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-movie-crew-who-dont-get-credit/792786 "2017-08-04T17:12:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-movie-crew-who-dont-get-credit/792786/1 "2017-08-04T17:12:25Z")
This may be more of a legal question…and I don’t mean they don’t get a shout out for working on the show during the opening credits. [This press release](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iconic-outlander-wardrobe-soon-to-be-available-as-mccalls-sewing-patterns-300496676.html) announces a licensing agreement between McCall Pattern Company and Sony Pictures to release sewing patterns based on the Starz show _Outlander_, which is based on Diana Gabaldon’s books. If you read the press release, nowhere does it name the genius behind the costume department, Terry Dresbach. (She’s married to executive producer Ron Moore, and they met while working on _Carnivale_.) She’s been talking some about it on Twitter, and it just seems to be the way things work. How do costume designers not get credit when their creations are licensed? Are other crew in the same situation? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-movie-crew-who-dont-get-credit/792786/2 "2017-08-06T15:42:30Z")
Bump once. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-movie-crew-who-dont-get-credit/792786/3 "2017-08-06T16:22:30Z")
You might have better response by having this moved to Cafe Society. Consult a Mod. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-movie-crew-who-dont-get-credit/792786/4 "2017-08-06T19:40:12Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Are other crew in the same situation? Gene Gene the Dancing Machine was really an NBC stagehand for several years but only credited as such for “The Gong Show”. He worked on “The Tonight Show” as well; Johnny even had him on camera a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-movie-crew-who-dont-get-credit/792786/5 "2017-08-06T20:49:05Z")
I work in theater building sets. Sometimes shows move lock, stock, and barrel to another theater, and the designer(s) gets another fee without doing any new work, and the craftspeople who built the scenery, or sewed the costumes don’t get paid again! So it sometimes works the other way. depends on the contract. Anyway, she probably got paid a licensing fee whether she got the credit or not.