Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9958-8 (ISBN)
As the cable TV industry exploded in the 1980s, offering viewers dozens of channels, an unprecedented number of series were produced. For every successful sitcom--The Golden Girls, Family Ties, Newhart--there were flops such as Take Five with George Segal, Annie McGuire with Mary Tyler Moore, One Big Family with Danny Thomas and Life with Lucy starring Lucille Ball, proving that a big name does not a hit show make. Other short-lived series were springboards for future stars, like Day by Day (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), The Duck Factory (Jim Carrey), Raising Miranda (Bryan Cranston) and Square Pegs (Sarah Jessica Parker). This book unearths many single-season sitcoms of the '80s, providing behind-the-scenes stories from cast members, guest stars, writers, producers and directors.
Bob Leszczak has spent the last four decades as an on-air radio personality. A frequent TV and film extra, he is the former writer/producer of a weekly five-hour syndicated music trivia program called “Solid Gold Scrapbook.” He lives in Manchester, New Jersey.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments deletexi
Preface
Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s
Ace Crawford, Private Eye
a.k.a. Pablo
All Is Forgiven
Aloha Paradise
Amanda’s
Ann Jillian
Annie McGuire
At Ease
Baby Boom
Baby Makes Five
Baker’s Dozen
Best of the West
Better Days
Beverly Hills Buntz
Blue Skies
The Boys
Boys Will Be Boys
The Brady Brides
Brand New Life
Breaking Away
Bustin’ Loose
The California Raisin Show (animated)
Charlie and Company
Checking In
Chicken Soup
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (partially animated)
Condo
Dads
Dirty Dancing
The Dom DeLuise Show
Domestic Life
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
The Drak Pack (animated)
Dreams
The Duck Factory
The Dukes (animated)
Easy Street
Eisenhower and Lutz
The Ellen Burstyn Show
Empire
Enos
E/R
Everything’s Relative
Family Man
The Famous Teddy Z
Fast Times
Fathers and Sons
A Fine Romance
First Impressions
Fitz and Bones
Foley Square
Foot in the Door
Foul Play
The Four Seasons
Frank’s Place
Free Spirit
Freebie and the Bean
Galaxy High (animated)
The Gary Coleman Show (animated)
George Burns Comedy Week
Gillligan’s Planet (animated)
Gloria
Good Time Harry
Goodtime Girls
Gun Shy
Gung Ho
Hail to the Chief
Half Nelson
Hard Knocks
Harry
Have Faith
Heartland
Herbie the Love Bug
He’s the Mayor
Homeroom
I Had Three Wives
I Married Dora
I’m a Big Girl Now
Isabel Sanford’s Honeymoon Hotel
It Takes Two
It’s Not Easy
It’s Your Move
Jack and Mike
Jennifer Slept Here
Joe Bash
Just in Time
Just Our Luck
Karen’s Song
Knight and Daye
Ladies’ Man
The Last Precinct
Learning the Ropes
Legmen
Leo and Liz in Beverly Hills
Lewis and Clark
Life and Times of Eddie Roberts (L. A. T. E. R.)
Life with Lucy
Live-In
Living Dolls
Lobo
The Lucie Arnaz Show
Madame’s Place
Maggie
Making the Grade
Mama Malone
Mama’s Boy
Marblehead Manor
Mary
Me and Maxx
Me and Mom
Meatballs and Spaghetti (animated)
Melba
Misfits of Science
Mr. Merlin
Mr. Smith
Mr. Sunshine
Mork and Mindy (animated)
Nearly Departed
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
The New Love American Style
The New Monkees
The New Odd Couple
Nick and Hillary
No Soap Radio
Nobody’s Perfect
Nothing in Common
Nothing Is Easy
The Nutt House
Off the Rack
Oh, Madeline
Once a Hero
One Big Family
One in a Million
One of the Boys (1982)
One of the Boys (1989)
Open All Night
Open House
Park Place
Partners in Crime
The People Next Door
Phyl and Mikhy
Police Squad
The Popcorn Kid
Probe
Pursuit of Happiness
Raising Miranda
The Redd Foxx Show
Reggie
Report to Murphy
The Robert Guillaume Show
Roomies
The Rousters
Roxie
Sanchez of Bel Air
Sara
Second Chance
Semi-Tough
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Shadow Chasers
Shaping Up
Shell Game
Shirley
Sister Kate
Six O’Clock Follies
The Slap Maxwell Story
Small and Frye
Snoops
Spencer
Square Pegs
Star of the Family
Starting from Scratch
Steambath
Stir Crazy
The Stockard Channing Show
Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs
Sweet Surrender
Take Five
Tanner ’88
Tattingers
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
The Thorns
Three’s a Crowd
Together We Stand
The Tortellis
Tough Cookies
Trial and Error
Tucker’s Witch
Under One Roof
United States
The Van Dyke Show
Washingtoon
What a Country
When the Whistle Blows
Women in Prison
You Can’t Take It with You
Zorro and Son
Appendix A: Shows Invited Back for a Truncated or Vastly Different Second Season
Aftermash
Angie
The Bad News Bears
The Baxters
Buffalo Bill
The Cavanaughs
Charles in Charge
The Charmings
Coming of Age
Day by Day
Double Trouble
Filthy Rich
Flo
FM
Good Morning, Miss Bliss
Goodnight, Beantown
Harper Valley
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Hello, Larry
Joanie Loves Chachi
Laverne and Shirley (animated)
Me and Mrs. C.
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Mr. President
My Sister Sam
The New Leave It to Beaver
Rags to Riches
The Ropers
Sanford
Sledge Hammer
Still the Beaver
Teachers Only
13 East
Trying Times
The Two of Us
We Got It Made
You Again?
Appendix B: The Sitcom Topical Index
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.03.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 45 photos, appendices, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 494 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-9958-3 / 0786499583 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-9958-8 / 9780786499588 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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