All American's roots trace back to 1967 where Anthony J. Scotti was a fledgling actor who was famous for playing "Tony Polar" in the movie Valley of the Dolls.
In 1979, the Scotti Brothers entered the television business by producing the pop music show America's Top 10, hosted by popular radio DJ Casey Kasem.
Two years later, the show's popularity led the Scotti Brothers and Syd Vinnedge, a veteran of TV and radio advertising, to found New York-based All American Television.
In 1982, All American hired George Back, the founder of a small television syndicator in New York who brought Joe Kovacs with him into the company.
In 1983, it entered into a joint venture with fellow New York-based syndicators MG Films and Perin Enterprises (later to merge as MG Perin) to distribute The Dance Show, produced by WSB-TV in Atlanta,[1] and picked up another program hosted by Casey Kasem named America's Choice.
[5] In 1988, it served as the advertising sales barter of Vestron Television's own Double Images movie packages, which was available to be for the syndication market.
[7] In late 1990, All American paved the way for success when it acquired the first-run syndication rights to Baywatch (a fledgling beach drama series that NBC canceled at the time) through LBS Communications.
The distribution rights of Baywatch and Family Feud reverted to All American in the agreement, while cancelling off LBS' collaboration with NBC, Memories...Then and Now.
[8] By late 1992, All American's first attempt to clone the success of Baywatch—an action series Acapulco H.E.A.T.—had been sold to half of the United States independent television market.
Also that year, it signed a deal with DIC Entertainment to launch Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, which was modeled on the success of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, for the 1994-95 syndicated TV season, using footage from Gridman the Hyper Agent, from Tsuburaya Productions and its Ultracom subsidiary.
A month later, former Fremantle chairman Larry Lamattina replaced Henry Siegel as the new president and CEO of All American Television.