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SEASON 1

Created by Al Lewis

Theme music by Wilbur Hatch

NOTE: This show is a continuation of the radio program of the same name that aired between 1948-1957

• 001. Trying to Pick a Fight – 10/3/1952
  • Constance “Connie” Brooks (Eve Arden) is a sarcastic high school English teacher at Madison High School, where she has a budding relationship with Biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell), and lives in the home of her landlady Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan) on Carroll Avenue. Her principal is the blustering and irritable Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), whose daughter Harriet (Gloria McMillan) attends the high school. Harriet’s boyfriend is squeaky-voiced Walter Denton (Richard Crenna), who also proclaims that Miss Brooks is his favorite teacher is Miss Brooks and often gives her rides to school in his topless jalopy. Walter tells Miss Brooks that he has picked a fight with Harriet because it always leads to an amorous make-up. Connie decides to try this herself with Philip but she can’t seem to make him angry. She then mentions this to Mr. Conklin, who tries it with his own wife Martha (Paula Winslowe). It seems to work too well when his housekeeper reports that she has left with her valise. He assumes that she is going to her mother’s house in Montrose, so he heads to the train station. When Martha calls the school, Connie explains the idea she put into his head and advises her to let his heels cool at the train station. Philip overhears this and becomes genuinely irritated with Connie. Martha invites Connie over to wait for Mr. Conklin’s return, but she begins to panic when he is out late, having borrowed Walter’s jalopy. Walter reports the car stolen to get the police to look for him, and eventually finds out that Conklin has gone all the way to Montrose. He is brought back by a police officer (Edwin Max) soaking wet from the rain. Conklin and his wife make up, Walter and Harriet make up, but when Connie thinks she is going to get a kiss from Philip, he merely feeds her a jellybean. Later Walter is arrested for driving his own ‘stolen’ car. NOTE: This episode was later broadcast as a rerun as a flashback episode with new footage in which Connie tells Mrs. Davis about her dream that relates to this episode. 3/28/16

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SEASON 1

Created by Mark Roberts

Opening theme: “I See Love” written by Keb’ Mo’ and Josh Kelley, performed by Keb’ Mo’

• 001. Pilot – 9/20/2010
  • Mike Biggs is a single lonely overweight Chicago police officer, who frequently hangs out at Abe’s diner with his partner Officer Carl McMillan (Reno Wilson), and Molly Flynn (Melissa McCarthy) is a single overweight fourth grade schoolteacher living with her wine-chugging mother Joyce (Swoozie Kurtz) and pot-smoking irresponsible sister Victoria (Katy Mixon). Both Molly and Mike separately attend an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and take a liking to one another. Molly invites Mike to come speak to her class, and after doing so, she gets distracted by the kids before he can ask her out again. He almost gets another chance at the next meeting, but when he falls over a table and dislocates his finger, the chance is ruined again. When he and Carl respond to a burglary call at Molly’s house, he finally gets to ask her for a date and she accepts. Nyambi Nyambi is Babatunde “Samuel”, the sarcastic waiter at Abe’s. Tucker Albrizzi is Tucker. Brendan Patrick Connor is the group leader George. Kiara Muhammad is Crystal. John O’Brien is the waiter. 3/27/17

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song: “Kiss Me” composed by Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby

• 001. Pilot – 9/20/1984
  • Dr. Clifford Huxtable is a middle-aged OB/GYN living in Brooklyn Heights, New York with his family, his lawyer wife Clair (Phylicia Ayers-Allen, later Phylicia Rashad), and their children Denise (Lisa Bonet), Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), and Rudy (Keisha Knight Pulliam). Clair is extremely angry when Theo brings home four D’s on his report card, and charges Cliff with talking some sense into him. Cliff uses Monopoly money to try and convince him that he will not be able to afford to live on a minimum wage job, and Theo in turn tries to tell his father that he should love him regardless of his talents. Cliff thinks that is ridiculous and insists that he try harder. Cliff also has to contend with Denise’s style of dress and her date (Todd Hallowell), a former merchant marine who has an earring. Cliff tries to get some alone-time with Clair when they go to bed, but Vanessa and Rudy end up in bed with them when Rudy thinks she hears a wolf-man in their closet. Keith Reddin is father-to-be Mr. McManis. 3/27/16  Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song: “The Streetbeater” by Quincy Jones

NOTE: This series is an American adaptation of the BBC series “Steptoe and Son” which aired between 1962-1965, and was revived 1970-1974.

• 001. Crossed Swords – 1/14/1972
  • Fred G. Sanford (Redd Foxx) is an elderly widower of 23 years and junk dealer in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California. He and his son Lamont (Demond Wilson) live together in the house that doubles as their junk dealership Sanford and Son Salvage, but Lamont has aspirations of moving on to bigger and better things, but Fred often guilts him into staying, usually pretending to have a heart attack and ‘joining’ his late wife Elizabeth. Lamont has picked up a rare porcelain statue for $15, but thinks that it is worth a fortune and will be his ticket out of the business. He and Fred take it to an antiques dealer (William Lanteau) in Beverly Hills, who offers them $850 for it. Fred wants to take it, but Lamont thinks he can get more on the open market and puts it up for auction. Lamont successfully drives up the bid to $1500, but the auctioneer (Robert Manden) awards the statue to Fred, who has bid $2000 in the front row. Fred then ends up breaking the statue accidentally, blaming his arthritis. More frustrated than ever, Lamont threatens to move out, but can’t get the car started. The next day Fred leaves him a suicide note, but ends up happily coming out of the closet when he hears Lamont frantically calling the police. Gilchrist Stuart is an auction bidder. 3/28/15

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SEASON 1 – FOX

Created by Mitchell Hurwitz

Theme music by David Schwartz

• 001. Pilot – 11/2/2003
  • Widower Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is the Manager of his father’s real estate company The Bluth Company, based in Orange County, California. Michael has a strained relationships with most of his family, including his snippy socialite mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), his hippie, yet selfish, twin sister Lindsay (Portia di Rossi) his older brother magician George Oscar II – aka Gob (Will Arnett), and his younger brother Byron – aka Buster (Tony Hale), who is rather slow and indecisive about his future. Michael’s father George “Pop-Pop” (Jeffrey Tambor) is holding his retirement party on the ship Marina Hornblower, and Michael expects to be named as partner of the firm. Michael and his teenage son George Michael (Michael Cera) are living in the model home of one the company’s housing tracts in Sudden Valley. George Michael works at Bluth Company’s Original Frozen Banana Stand on Balboa Island. Lindsay and Michael haven’t spoken in a year, as her and her husband, the flamboyant Tobias Fünke (David Cross) have been attending fundraisers all over the country. Lindsay and Tobias and their daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat) show up in town a month prior to the party but do not tell Michael. Tobias is a former doctor who lost his medical license for administering CPR on a man who was just sleeping. Michael is disgusted with his mother, Lindsay, and Gob for dipping into company funds constantly. Meanwhile George Michael meets up with his cousin Maeby, and decide to play a prank on their parents by kissing and pretending they don’t know they are cousins. After they kiss on the boat, George Michael develops an immediate crush on her. Tobias thinks he’s trying out for a pirate troupe and winds up on a boat full of gay protesters. When George names Lucille as the C.E.O. instead of Michael, he decides to take his son and leave the family behind. Police and the SEC invade the party and arrest George for defrauding investors. George attempts to hide Gob’s magic trick the Aztec Tomb, and when the news reveals how it works, Gob is ostracized from the Magic Alliance. Tobias is arrested with the protesters and decides to following many of their footsteps…and become an actor. The SEC freezes the the company accounts, and Lucille puts Buster in charge of the company. Michael takes another job in Phoenix with a rival housing company. The family realizes they need Michael after all and begs him to come back. Micheal refuses, and visits his father in jail to formally resign from the Bluth Company. George explains that he didn’t appoint Michael as CEO to keep him out of legal trouble. John Beard plays newscaster John Beard. Stacey Woods is field reporter Trisha Thoon. Ron Howard is the narrator. 3/25/16

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