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SEASON 1 – HBO

Created by Armando Ianucci

Theme music composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams and Christopher Willis

• 001. Fundraiser – 4/22/2012
  • Vice President of the United States Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has decided to make the Clean Jobs Commission her legacy – with the help of her staff: Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky), personal aide Gary Walsh (Tony Cole), Director of Communications Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh), and personal assistant Sue Wilson (Sufe Bradshaw). The staff is constantly at odds with White House liaison Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons). Selina attempts to gather support for a filibuster reform bill, but only a handful of Senators show up at a gathering because one of her staff members sent out a Tweet pushing coin starch utensils instead of plastic, angering both the plastic and oil industries – who have a good portion of Senators in its pocket. Selina seeks help from Senator Hallowes (Kate Burton) who is rather cold to her and comments that she was “hoisted by her own retard” – a comment that Selina repeats during an uncomfortable speech, much to the chagrin of the Mental Health groups. She also manages to steal Dan Egan (Reid Scott) from Hallowes’ staff. He had dated Amy in the past and is rather unscrupulous, but Selina needs his candor and effectiveness. Amy also mishandles the signing of a condolence card for Senator Reeves who passes away. She accidentally signs her own name instead of forging that of the VP. Gary is forced to retrieve it from Jonah, but only gets it on the condition that he arrange a date with Amy. Will Love is Phillip Dorsey. 10/18/14

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Sol Saks

Theme music by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller. Opening sequence animation by Hanna-Barbera.

• 001. I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha – 9/17/1964
  • Madison Avenue executive Darrin Stephens (Dick York) meets an attractive girl named Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) and the two fall in love and get married. She does not reveal to her husband until after their wedding that she is in fact a witch. Her mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead) does not approve of Samantha marrying a mortal man but thinks that as soon as she tells him the truth, he will leave her. However, Darrin loves her and wants to keep her as his wife anyway…with the stipulation that she not use her witchcraft. When an ex-girlfriend of Darrin named Sheila Sommers (Nancy Kovack) finds out that Darrin has gotten married while she was out of town, she invites Darrin and Samantha to a dinner party in an attempt to embarrass Samantha by telling them that it is casual when it is really formal. She seats Samantha away from Darrin and continually flirts with him and also takes every opportunity to belittle Samantha. After a while Samantha has had a enough and uses her powers to embarrass Sheila by causing the party to unravel. Darrin forgives her but reminds her that she has promised to not use witchcraft, but when she clean up a messy kitchen with the twitch of her nose, she tells herself that she will wean off it gradually. C. Lindsay Workman is Doctor Koblin, Gene Blakely is Dave, Paul Barselow aka Paul Barselou is the bartender Al. The Narrator is Jose Ferrer. 10/18/14

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Alfred Hitchcock

Theme song: “Funeral March of the Marionette” by Charles Gounod

• 001. Revenge – 10/2/1955
  • Carl (Ralph Meeker) and Elsa Spann (Vera Miles) have moved to a beach-side California trailer park so that Elsa can recover from a recent nervous breakdown. After Carl leaves for work, Elsa gabs with her neighbor Mrs. Ferguson (Francis Bavier) then lays out in the sun in her bathing suit, although it is clear that Mrs. Ferguson disapproves. When Carl returns home, he finds Elsa on the floor, the victim of some variety of assault by an intruder. The police and Elsa’s doctor (John Gallaudet) arrive at the scene, and Elsa’s doctor recommends that they move out of the trailer park or that her breakdown might become permanent. Elsa answers questions as briefly as possible while maintaining a vacant stare. As the Spanns are driving around before finding a motel, Elsa points out the man (Ray Montgomery) who attacked her. Carl follows him to his hotel room and bludgeons him with a wrench. As they drive on, Elsa then points out yet another man and claims that he is the attacker…as polices sirens roar in the distance. In the narration epilogue it is revealed that Carl was caught, indicted, tried, and sentenced and paid his debt to society for taking the law in his own hands. Ray Teal is the police lieutenant. NOTE: This episode was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who provides opening and closing remarks for this and each succeeding episode. 10/18/14

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Edmund L. Hartmann and Don Fedderson

Theme music composed by Frank De Vol

• 001. Buffy – 9/12/1966
  • Successful consulting engineer for Davis & Gaynor, Bill Davis (Brian Keith) lives the life of a playboy bachelor in Manhattan, assisted by his stiff English butler Giles French (Sebastian Cabot). Family member Fran Heiger (Louise Latham) shows up one night from Terra Haute, Indiana with Davis’s niece Buffy Patterson (Anissa Jones), the daughter of his late brother who was killed with his wife in a car accident. She has decided that Buffy does not get along with her husband, and before Bill can give her an answer, she has abandoned Buffy. Uncle Bill tries to convince Buffy that she might like to attend a school in Switzerland, but this causes her to run away and hide in the basement. With the help of his friend Miss Faversham (Heather Angel), French retrieves her and Uncle Bill tells her that she can stay with him. As Bill is getting ready to leave on a business trip for Peru, another relative Bess Melville (Barbara Perry) shows up with Buffy’s twin brother Jody (Johnny Whitaker). Bill rushes off leaving the kids with Mr. French. After he’s gone, relative Alice Grayson (Shirley O’Hara) shows up with their older sister, 15-year-old Cissy (Kathy Garver). Philip Ober is Bill’s business partner Ted Gaynor. Lisa Seagram is Bill’s date Miss Larrabee. Sandy Wirth is Bill’s other date Miss Hodges. 10/16/14

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Bill Cosby, based on his comedy routines of reminisces of the friends of his youth first heard on his LP “Revenge”

The series was preceded by a 1969 one-hour NBC comedy special titled “Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert“

Theme song: “Gonna Have a Good Time” composed by Ricky Sheldon and Edward Fournier, performed by Michael Gray with Kim Carnes and Edward Fournier on background vocals

• 001. Lying – 9/9/1972
  • Bill Cosby (himself) hangs out in a Philadelphia junkyard and talks about the dangers of lying, and then introduces us to the animated Fat Albert (Bill Cosby, Michael Lee Gray singing voice) and his friends James “Mushmouth” Mush (Bill Cosby), Dumb Donald (Lou Scheimer), Bill Cosby‘s younger self (himself) and his younger brother Russell (Jan Crawford), Weird Harold (Gerald Edwards), Rudy Davis (Eric Suter), and Buckey Miller (Jan Crawford). They too discuss lying and perform the song Don’t Go Telling a Lie. They run into their friend Edward (Eric Suter), who has just got back from Florida and claims to have lost his shoes wrestling alligators. The kids simulate alligator wrestling down at the muddy river, and get filthy. The kids go to Edward’s house to seek advice on how to get clean, but his cousin Violet (Erika Carroll aka Erika Schemier) refuses to let them see Edward and then spray them down with a hose. Edward gives them advice on how to lie to their parents to explain why they got so wet. Bill later tells Edward’s sister about the alligator stories, and she tells him that Edward can’t even swim. The boys then coax Edward into swimming, but Violet shows up and pleads with them to save her cousin, which they do. The gang forgives Edward but tells him that if he lies again, they’ll clobber him. Live action Bill recaps that there is no need to tell lies, because the truth can be trouble enough. 10/11/17

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