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SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme music by Jeff Alexander

• 000. Pilot – UNAIRED
  • Kaye & Roger Buell and Eve & Herb Hubbard are neighbors who don’t care much for each other. Their animosity is intensified when Kaye and Roger come over to Eve and Herb’s house to use their TV when they believe the Hubbards are out. However Eve and Herb are hiding in the closet and overhear a barrage of insults. They are caught when the Buells see smoke coming out of the closet from Herb’s cigar. Meanwhile, their children Jerry Buell and Suzie Hubbard (Kay Cole) have gotten engaged, so Kay and Eve decide to make amends. This soon erupts again when Eve wants to have a small wedding, while Kay envisions a small wedding so they can save money. This time the kids join in the fight and soo break it off. Kay and Eve are beside themselves with regret and try to come up with a way to get them back together, but soon it happens naturally, and the wedding is back on. They plan an outdoor wedding at the Hubbard house, using Kaye’s piano for Eve to play while Kaye sings a solo of Oh Promise Me, annoying the neighbor Mr. Cornell in the process. That night it rains heavily, and both couples struggle to get it out of the rain, but only succeed in pulling it into the neighbors the Cornell’s pool. The children decide to make a wedding that they attended a double marriage and come home man and wife, so the outdoor wedding was unnecessary anyway. 3/7/20

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song written by Linda Laurie and performed by Wesley Eure

• 001. Cha-Ka – 9/7/1974
  • After Rick Marshall (Spencer Milligan) and his children Will (Wesley Eure) and Holly (Kathy Coleman) are dumped into another world during a rafting expedition, they begin to explore the area. They run across a dinosaur which they nickname “Grumpy”, a mysterious pylon, and a tribe of Pakuni advanced simians. They befriend a young Paku named Cha-Ka (Phillip Paley), but after catching him attempting to steal their fire, they begin to mistrust him. Cha-Ka brings fruit to the Marshalls as a peace offering. 4/14/13 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – TV Land

Created by Suzanne Martin

Theme song by Ron Wasserman and Emerson Swinford

• 001. Pilot – 6/16/2010
  • Melanie Moretti (Valerie Bertinelli), Joy Scroggs (Jane Leeves), and actress Victoria Chase (Wendy Malick) are headed from L.A. for a Paris getaway when their plane becomes grounded in Cleveland, Ohio. While stranded in the city, they visit a local bar Stormi’s and are immediately hit on by a group of men, including Hank (John Schneider), whom Melanie begins to date. Sensing that their attractiveness status is greatly heightened in the Midwest, Melanie decides to relocate her life – and talks her friends into staying for a while. They rent a house with a salty live-in caretaker named Elka Ostrovsky (Betty White). Melanie soon finds out that Hank is married. Tim Bagley plays the realtor Larry who shows the house. 4/14/13 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Sherwood Schwartz

Theme Song: “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island” (Version 1) written by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle, performed by The Wellingtons

• 000. Marooned – UNAIRED PILOT 1964
  • After the S.S. Minnow, a charter ship that has departed from Honolulu, Hawaii, is caught in a storm and directed off course, Skipper Jonas Grumby and First Mate Gilligan awaken on a uncharted desert island with their passengers Thurston & Lovey Howell, a high school professor (John Gabriel), Ginger (Kit Smythe), and Bunny (Nancy McCarthy). Gilligan foils the Professor’s attempts at fixing the transmitter by accidentally snagging it – along with the radio – with his fishing pole and inadvertently feeding it to the fish. Eventually Gilligan finds the radio inside of one of the fish that he catches, and the crew begins listening to the fish to see if they can locate the transmitter. NOTE: The calypso theme song of the pilot was written by John Williams and performed by Sherwood Schwartz. 4/14/13 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker

Theme music written by Jack Elliot and Allyn Ferguson, performed by Chuck Berghofer

• 001. Ramon – 1/23/1975
  • Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) must deal with his wife Elizabeth (Barbara Barrie) who is concerned about the amount of danger involved with her husband’s job in the 12th Precinct, located in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, as well as a junkie named Ramon (Chu Chu Malave), who is holding  hostage the other officers at the station – Sgt. Phillip Fish (Abe Vigoda), Det. Stanley “Wojo” Wojciehowicz (Max Gail), Sgt. Ron Harris (Ron Glass), Sgt. Nick Yemana (Jack Soo), and Sgt. Miguel “Chano” Amangual (Gregory Sierra). Eventually Barney is able to talk Ramon into surrendering his gun, by offering him the card of the lawyer that Barney’s daughter Rachel (Anne Wyndham) is dating. Barney’s wife is not happy when she hears that her husband’s life has been in danger once again. 4/14/13 Read the rest of this entry »