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SEASON 1 – CBS

 Theme song: “Everybody Loves Raymond Theme” by Rick Marotta

• 001. Pilot – 9/13/1996
  • Ray Barone (Ray Romano) is a sports columnist for New York Newsday living in Long Island with his wife Debra (Patricia Heaton) and his daughter Ally (Madylin Sweeten) and twin toddler sons Matthew and Gregory (Drew, Justin, and Amber Ferreira). His parents Frank (Peter Boyle) and Rose “Marie” (Doris Roberts) and brother Robert (Brad Garrett) live across the street. Debra’s birthday is coming up and she would prefer to spend it alone with her family and not with Ray’s parents, whom she sees as intrusive. This feeling is further solidified when she finds out that while she was at the movies with a friend, Ray left the babysitting duties with his family while he went out for pizza with his friend Leo (Stephen Lee). Instead of telling him parents the truth, he tells them that he is taking Debra to Bear Mountain. When they come over to the house when Ray and Debra are supposed to be gone, Ray is forced to tell them that they need to be less invasive. His parents claim to understand, although Robert, who is often jealous of Ray, seems to be a bit hurt. Ray and Debra’s time alone is ultimately interrupted by Ally. 2/27/14 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – FOX

Created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt

Opening theme song: “Love and Marriage” – music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Performed by Frank Sinatra

• 001. Pilot – 4/5/1987
  • Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill) is a frustrated husband of fifteen years working as a women’s shoe salesman at Gary’s Shoes & Accessories in the New Market Mall in a Chicago suburb. At home are his lazy wife Peg (Katey Sagal), who doesn’t work, young teen children Kelly (Christina Applegate) and Bud (David Faustino), and their dog Buck. Al is irritated that Peg hasn’t gone out to get juice or any other food and heads off to work, where his co-worker Luke Ventura (Ritch Shydner) invites him to go to the basketball game. Al accepts but Peg won’t let him go because she’s invited over their newlywed neighbors Steve (David Garrison) and Marcy Rhoades (Amanda Bearse). Steve and Marcy’s relationship during their first two months has been amiable, but as soon as Peg starts questioning why Steve goes to bed so much later than Marcy, and Al tells Steve that his future son will be a sissy since Marcy doesn’t allow him to watch sports, the two end up bickering and heading home to re-define their relationship. Al and Peg, their work done, turn off the TV and head up to the bedroom. Diana Bellamy and Sue Ann Gilfillan plays Al’s customers. 2/15/15

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SEASON 1 – FX

Opening theme: “Temptation Sensation” by Heinz Kiessling

• 001. The Gang Gets Racist – 8/4/2005
  • Twin siblings Dennis (Glenn Howerton) and “Sweet Dee” Reynolds (Kaitlyn Olson) and their friends Ronald “Mac” McDonald (Rob McElhenney) and Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day) run the small bar Paddy’s Irish Pub in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dee brings her black friend Terrell (Malcolm Barrett) from her acting class to meet the guys, and after they accidentally come across as racist, they end up hiring him to help bring business to Paddy’s. Charlie has a huge crush on the waitress (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) at Java Company, but he turns her off immediately when she misconstrues him as being racist as well. Mac wants to make more black friends so he drags Charlie to a college campus to mingle. They only seem attracted to Charlie, and a black girl named Janell (Telisha Shaw) asks him out. He is not interested but takes her out to Java so that he can prove to the waitress that he is not racist. The waitress tells Janell what is going on and she punches Charlie and gives him a black eye. Meanwhile Terrell has filled up the bar with customers, but they soon realize that Terrel is gay and it has become a gay bar. Mac and Dee object to this, but Dennis and Charlie are pleased with how much they are making. Dee orchestrates getting Dennis drunk and having her acting class friends pretend they had an encounter with him, which causes him to vote to change the bar back to the way it was. It is revealed that Janell is Terrell’s sister, and that Dee’s acting friends couldn’t show for the ruse, indicating that Dennis’ gay encounters were real. 2/15/15

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff

Theme song: “It Takes Diff’rent Strokes” composed and performed by Alan Thicke , Al Burton, and Gloria Loring

• 001. Movin’ In – 11/3/1978
  • Wealthy industrialist Philip Drummond (Conrad Bain) lives in a high rise apartment in Manhattan with his 13-year old daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), who spends most of her time in boarding school. Big changes occur when their black housekeeper Lucy passes away and asks Phil on her deathbed to take care of her two sons. Phil hires a new housekeeper named Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae) and the moves Lucy’s sons 13-year old Willis (Todd Bridges) and 8-year old Arnold Jackson (Gary Coleman) from Harlem into his home. Mrs. Garrett nearly quits when she finds out that her new boss is bringing in two boys, but changes her mind when she finds out they are orphans. They arrive at the penthouse apartment and while Arnold is thrilled with its opulence, Willis has reservations about being a fish out of water and refuses to accept his new home. Mr. Drummond tries to make them feel welcome by getting them to participate in family fun time and then having loads of toys and a pony delivered to their house. Will is still resigned to leaving and going back to Harlem to live with another family, but after Mr. Drummond tells Willis that he is being selfish, and Arnold concurs. Willis spends some time thinking in the hot tub and decides to give living there a shot, with the stipulation that the door is always open if he wants to leave. 2/15/15

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Carl Reiner

Theme music by Earle Hagen

• 000. Head of the Family – 7/19/1960
  • Rob Petrie (Carl Reiner) works as a writer for The Allan Sturdy Show along with fellow writers Sally Rogers (Sylvia Miles) and Buddy Sorrell (Morty Gunty). At home, Rob’s wife Laura (Barbara Britton) is confronted by their neighbor Mrs. Harley (Jean Sincere), as Rob has promised to write the verbiage for her information on the school bazaar for the school bulleti. Although he hasn’t completed it yet, Laura promises her that he will. Meanwhile, Rob and Laura’s six-year-old son Ritchie (Gary Morgan) is upset because two of his friends, Freddie (Mannie Sloan) and Roy (Joey Trent) have made fun of him because his father is nothing but a TV writer for a show that their fathers think stinks. Ritchie thinks that his father doesn’t have a real job and furthermore, doesn’t have time to play baseball with him on Sundays since that is when the show airs. When Rob returns home from work and finds out that his so suddenly doesn’t like him, he reluctantly agrees with Laura’s suggestion to take Ritchie to work and show him how important his work is. Things don’t go too well during the course of their day at the office, as neither Buddy nor Sally seem to show any respect for Rob and constantly want to take breaks. Allan Sturdy (Jack Wakefield) then calls Rob into his office, so he takes Ritchie with him, who then gets to witness Rob getting yelled at because Allan doesn’t care for the monologue. As the day at the office ends, Ritchie wants to go home and has no more appreciation of his father’s job than he started with. Alan tries to make him feel better by buying him a new football, a helmet, and shoulder pads. The next day, Ritchie heads off to school and gives his father the cold shoulder. When he arrives at school, he finds Freddie and Roy and a group of students reading the school bulletin and laughing uproariously. Ritchie joins in laughing at the invitation to the school bazaar, only to learn from his teacher (Nancy Kenyon) that it was written by his father. The teacher asks if his father makes him laugh a lot and says it must be fun living at his house. All of the kids fuss about how great of a writer his father is. When Rob gets home from work that night, he finds that Ritchie is in a great mood and is thrilled to learn that his father can make a funny poem any time he wants. Milton Kamen is Snappy, the food delivery man. NOTE: This pilot episode originally was aired as part of the anthology series The Comedy Spot. It was later adapted into The Dick Van Dyke Show episode Father of the Week. 8/2/25

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