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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme song: “Hooperman Theme” by Mike Post

• 001. Hooperman (Pilot) – 9/23/1987
  • Inspector Harry Hooperman (John Ritter) is a plainclothes officer for the San Francisco Police Department, living alone in a dilapidated apartment. He has a close relationship with his elderly landlady Estelle Metzler (Maxine Stuart). Among his co-workers are his steely Captain Celeste “C.Z.” Stern (Barbara Basson), his partner Inspector Clarence McNeil (Felton Perry), dispatcher Betty Bushkin (Alix Elias), conservative Inspector Boris “Bobo” Pritzger (Clarence Felder), gay officer Rick Silardi (Joseph Gian), and officer Maureen “Mo” DeMott (Sydney Walsh), who is intent on dating Silardi. After having his car broken into, Hooperman helps get suicidal 16-year old Roger Bayshore (Philip Tanzini) off a ledge by dropping a watermelon onto the street. Once he gets to the station, he hears of the homicide of his landlady Mrs. Metezler during a robbery. Hooperman inherits the apartment building and her disagreeable Jack Russell Terrier Bijoux, which he has no place to take except for the station. When Silardi and DeMott arrest a man named Cripps (Ned Bellamy) for burglary, Bijoux tries to attack him, leading Hooperman to believe that he is the killer of Mrs. Metzler. Hooperman is able to get a warrant to search Cripps’ apartment from Judge Shinley (David Byrd) under the guise that the informant’s name is a man “B. Joux”, and finds the gun and a piece of Estelle’s jewelry. Despite the efforts of District Attorney Kimmel (Michael Holden), the Defense Attorney (Amy Aquino) and Judge Janice Neiman (Eric Yohn) get the case thrown out because the chief witness was a dog. However Hooperman is able to rouse the Cripps to anger and force him to admit that he “should have killed the dog too.” A woman named Susan Smith (Debrah Farentino) answers Hooperman’s ad for a building managers and shows up to meet him, amid a sea of complaining tenants, including T.J. (Paul Linke) and Rudy (Rod Gist). 3/23/15

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SEASON 1

Created by Mort Lewis and Sam Shayon

• 001. The Case of the Parolee – 3/11/1954
  • Public Defender Bart Matthews (Reed Hadley) introduces himself and his job, to defend those accused of a crime who cannot afford their own attorney. He then relates the story of a girl named Alice Parker (Mary Ellen Kay) who comes to see him and beg his services for her boyfriend Mark Collins (Christian Drake), who has been accused of stealing funds from his employer Buy-Rite Appliance Co. Because Collins is a parolee, who had previously been arrested on a robbery charge after falling into the wrong crowd, he has lost hope and feels that the cards are stacked against him, so therefore does not even want a lawyer. Matthews agrees to go talk with him, and tells him that he promises to do everything he can to get him off if he is indeed innocent. Collins agree to use his services, and relates the story of how his parole officer set him up with the job. While there, his new boss Mr. Marshall (Fay Roope) acts as if he is doing Matthews a favor by allowing him to work there with his record, but declines when Collins says he’ll be glad to ask for another assignment. He also meets a persuasive and effective bill collector named Fred Davis (Douglas Fowley) who frequently returns to the office with large sums of cash. Davis also seems to be getting hounded by a man named Mike Clark (Snub Pollard), who Davis claims is a down-on-his-luck brother-in-law who wants money, and who he keeps putting off. Collins also begins dating the office secretary Alice, and the two fall in love. One night a $2000 deposit that is locked in Alice’s desk is stolen, and the nigh watchman is knocked unconscious. Collins is arrested because he had access to the key through Alice, and because of his previous record. Matthew finds out about the name Mike Clark from Alice, and traces him through his phone number to the seedy Crescent Bar. The bartender (George Lloyd) claims to not know Mike Clark, and then recognizes Matthews as the Public Defender. This spooks Clark who escapes out the window through the office. Matthews and Officer Hanlon (John Close) look through the papers in the office, and determine that Clark is a bookie, to whom Fred Davis owed money and recently made a payoff. They interview Davis in the presence of Mr. Marshall, and try to force Davis to admit that he stole the money. He only offers the alibi that he was home, but Marshall claims that he tries to call Davis the evening of the robbery after watching the fights on TV, and Davis never answered. Matthews calls the TV station to verify the time the fights end, and finds out that they never aired that night. This means that Marshall is lying, and when he tries to escape, they know he is the guilty party who stole the money. Matthews later states that he lied about the fights not having aired in order to trap Marshall. 3/22/21

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SEASON 1 – SHOWTIME

Created by Matthew Carnahan

Music by Mark Mothersbaugh

• 001. Gods of Dangerous Financial Instruments – 1/8/2012
  • Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle) heads up a pod of the Los Angeles consulting firm Galweather Stearn, made up of Jeannie van der Hooven (Kristen Bell), Clyde Oberholdt (Ben Schwartz), and Doug Guggenheim (Josh Lawson). Marty lives in an apartment with his opinionated father Jeremiah (Glynn Turman), a retired psychiatrist, and Marty’s flamboyant 15-year old son Roscoe (Donis Leonard Jr.), who is trying out for the female lead in the school production of Grease. Marty has a sexual relationship with his ex-wife Monica Talbot (Dawn Olivieri), but they are typically at odds, especially with her working for competing firm Kinsley & Associates. Marty and the Pod travel to New York City to pitch ideas to mega-bank MetroCapital, whose CEO K. Warren McDale (John Aylward) has come under fire for issuing executive bonuses while the banks collapse around them and many people lose their homes.  Marty meets a stripper/hooker named April (Megalyn Echikunwoke), and when MetroCapital’s second-in-command Greg Norbert (Greg Germann) spots them, April claims to be Marty’s wife and accepts an invitation to have dinner with Greg and his wife Rachel (Anna Camp). Before the dinner Marty finds out that MetroCapital has also called in Kinsley & Associates. During dinner, Rachel joins Rachel in the bathroom and they have sex, which leads to a fist fight between Marty and a drunk Greg. Marty and the Pod pitch an idea for the MetroCapital to issue loan amnesty to their borrows, which at first McDale has no interest in, until he is told that ultimately it won’t cost much more than the image spots they are already doing; Galweather Stearn is awarded the account. Meanwhile Marty argues with Roscoe’s Principal Gita (Mo Gaffney) about whether Roscoe should try for the part, when a fellow classmate Brittany Kauffman (Valencia Barnes) wants the part of Sandy. However when Marty meet’s Brittany’s beautiful mother Alisette (Daphne Duplaix), he sells out Roscoe to sleep with her, and Roscoe ends up playing Rizzo. Sexual tension mounts between Marty and Jeannie. Chris McGinn is the sleeping bag woman. 3/14/17

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SEASON 1 – NETFLIX

Created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock

Opening theme: “Unbreakable” by The Gregory Brothers and Mike Britt

• 001. Kimmy Goes Outside! – 3/6/2005
  • Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper), who was abducted in the eighth grade and three other women, Cyndee Pokorny (Sara Chase), Gretchen Chalker (Lauren Adams), Donna Maria Nunez (Sol Miranda) have been held in an underground bunker in Durnsville, Indiana for the past fifteen years, have been told that there was a nuclear apocalypse above ground. The perpetrator Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm) is apprehended, and the women are rescued by the SWAT team. Dubbed as the ‘Indiana Mole Women,’ the ladies travel to New York City where they are interviewed on the Today Show by Matt Lauer (himself). Kimmy decides to stay and New York and start a new life there, despite the warnings of the other women. She visits an apartment with a roommate owner and meets the building owner Lillian Kaushtupper (Carol Kane), who has placed the ad because the tenant Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess), a flamboyant gay black man who hasn’t paid rent in two months. They tell Kimmy if she gets a job, she can have the apartment. While looking for a job, she encounters a young shoplifter Buckley Voorhees (Tanner Flood), and when she takes him home, she is hired by his rich and eccentric mother Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) to be his nanny. The only normal person in the house appears to be Buckley’s tutor Charles (Andrew Ridings). Kimmy returns to the apartment and pays for several months rent out of the money that was collected for the mole women. To celebrate her new life, Ellie goes out dancing with Titus, and her backpack containing all of her $13,000 is stolen. She also returns to the Voorhees for work and is fired for being late. Titus tells her that he was once Ronald Wilkerson from Mississippi, and over the past seven years New York City has eaten him alive, returns the rent money, and sends her home. As she gets ready to leave, she remembers a time she refused to be fooled by Reverend Wayne about all the creatures being destroyed because she has found a rat. She realizes she is ‘unbreakable’ and decides to stay. Mike Britt is Walter Bankston. James Coker is Jayson. McKinley Belcher III is Bryce. Albert Christmas, Agnes Chung, and Robin Rieger, as Carla Tuesday, are reporters. Patrick Cooley is the SWAT guy. James DiGiacomo is the boy on the playground. Arielle Lever is the club girl. Danielle Polanco is the dancer. Stephen Scott Scarpulla is the production assistant. 3/8/20 

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Allan Burns and Chris Hayward. Developed by Norm Liebmann and Ed Haas.

Theme song composed by Jack Marshall

• 000. My Fair Munster (Pilot) – UNAIRED 1964
  • Marilyn’s latest date Jack runs for his life when he sees Herman, so consequently she begins to feel depressed that she hasn’t found a man. Herman and his wife Phoebe (Joan Marshall) think that Marilyn is an ugly duckling and that she’ll never get married and get out of the house. Grandpa decides to help by creating a love potion in his dungeon. Happy Derman is Eddie. NOTE: This is the 13-minute color pilot footage used to pitch the series to CBS. 4/13/20

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