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SEASON 1 – Starz

Created by John Enborn, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge, and Paul Rudd

Theme music by Josh Kramon

• 001. Willow Canyon Homeowners Annual Party – 3/20/2009
  • The Los Angeles-based Party Down catering company is working a homeowners annual party in Willow Canyon. The team is led by the ambitious team leader Ron Wayne Donald (Ken Marino). The others on the team include aspiring comedian Casey Klein (Lizzy Caplan), saccharine screenwriter Roman DeBeers (Martin Starr), aspiring actor Kyle Bradway (Ryan Hansen), and former actress Constance Carmell (Jane Lynch). Coming back to work on this particular day after an absence of working as an actor is Henry Pollard (Adam Scott). The party is hosted by Gordon (Enrico Colantoni) and Liddy McSpadden (Rebecca Creskoff). Ron briefs his team on sensitivity training, not eating the guest’s food, and putting out the trip jar, and then introduces Henry to the others. Casey shows up late while bickering on the phone with her husband Mike Klein (Wes Armstrong), causing Ron to give her a final warning. The host Gordon is drastically underdressed and unenthusiastic about the party, much to the irritation of his wife. Many of the guests start to recognize Henry, but he won’t reveal what has made him famous. Casey is worried that her husband Mike will show up and cause a scene since they are in an argument. She asks Henry to look out for him and warn her if he shows up, and then realizes that she recognizes him as ‘that guy’. Roman messes with Kyle by calling and leaving a message for him, telling him that he is being considered for a role. When Ron has an accident while juggling a bottle for some kids, he tries to go clean it up in the bathroom. Kyle and the hosts’ teenage daughter Monica (Eden Sher) are making out in the bedroom nearby, and she thinks that Ron is masturbating. Ron gives her an impassioned speech to her about not saying anything or he will destroy her. Gordon shares with Henry how miserable he is with his lifestyle. Kyle finally recognizes Henry from his beer commercial, and recalls his famous line “Are we having fun yet?” Once he mentions it in front of the party, the floodgates open for everyone quoting it to him and asking him to say it. When Mike shows up at the party, Henry tries to stop him and have him wait outside, but Mike pushes him into the pool. Gordon takes this as his cue to get completely naked and jump into the pool, but no one will join him in the pool. Kyle gets the message about the part being offered to him, which mentions that the character now has cancer. Roman encourages him to shave all of the hair off of his body. Casey thanks Henry for trying to stop Mike, but she winds up getting fired by Ron, who then puts her back on ‘final warning’ when she threatens to sue. Casey tells Henry that her husband got a job offer in Vermont, so they will likely be moving there. When Casey sees Kyle shaving off his eyebrows, she tells him that it was Roman who left the message. Ron tries to fill out the comment card for Party Down, but Liddy tells him that she wants to do it herself. Each of the Party Down employees gets $14 in tips, but Henry gets $13.36. However, he gets a hand job in the car from one of the female guests named Heidi (Jackie Debatin) who recognizes him from the commercial. Cantrell Harris is the black party guest Mike. Andrea Lwin is the Asian guest. Dan Sachoff is the guest who notes they lost. Andy Siegel is the boring fat guest. 1/13/24

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SEASON 1

Created by Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner

Theme music composed by Ben Vaughn.

• 001. Brains and Eggs – 1/9/1996
  • Four alien life forms on an extraterrestrial expedition take the life form of humans known as the Solomons and move into an attic apartment in Rutherford, Ohio, owned by landlady Mamie Dubcek (Elmarie Wendel). The leader of the expedition is High Commander Dick (John Lithgow), who gets a job as a physics professor at Pendleton State University. Second in command is Security Officer Sally (Kristen Stewart), the only entity to take on a female form. Tommy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the oldest being and Information Officer, who has taken the form of a teenage boy. Harry (French Stewart) is seemingly the most dim-witted of the crew, but has a transmitter in his head. As the aliens begin to understand the bodies they now inhabit, Dick finds that he is both appalled and attracted to his colleague anthropology professor Dr. Mary Albright (Jane Curtin), while Tommy finds himself obsessed with teenage sexual desire, and Sally is disgusted at the prospect of having dead cow on her hands as she prepares meatloaf. During his physics class, his students Leon (Ian Lithgow), Bug Pollone (David DeLuise), Aubrey Pitman (Chris Hogan), and Caryn (Danielle Nicolet), discuss how ‘feelings’ are the core of the human experience, which inspires Dick to extend his ‘family’s’ mission. The Solomons attend a party at Dean Sumner’s house, during which Dick expresses his desire to experience feelings with Mary. He ends up kissing her, gets slapped, and gets kissed back. After the party Dick pontificates how fascinating humans are, leading the others to speculate that he has ‘probed’ Mary. Simbi Khali plays secretary Nina Campbell. Jennifer Rhodes is Mrs. Sumner. Marnette Patterson is the volleyball girl. Dan Gilvezan is the voice of the D.J. Susan Leslie is the kissing woman. 1/18/16

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Opening theme song music by John Adair, Steve Hampton, Korbin Kraus, lyrics by Steve Levitan

• 001. Pilot – 9/23/1999
  • New York City editor and nebbish germaphobe Henry McNeeley (Neil Patrick Harris) is given a new assignment by his boss Audrey Radford (Harriet Sansom Harris), and although he hopes it is with respected author Jonathan Dalton (Stanley DeSantis), it turns out it with horror novelist Ian Stark (Tony Shalhoub), who once had a major hit with a book called Below Ground. Henry visits Ian who seems to be suffering a severe case of writer’s block, and he, along with assistant Jake Donovan (Eddie McClintock) seems to have no interest in Henry but rather playing a barrage of practical jokes on him. Henry finally gets tired of it and walks out on Ian, accusing him of being afraid of being a one-book wonder. This finally inspires Ian to start writing again, in a fashion that greatly impresses Henry… but he still wants to leave him because he thinks Ian is crazy. Henry is assigned to Dalton, but finds him so boring, that he returns to Ian, pretending to hang himself as a practical joke, but getting stuck hanging from the ceiling. He pleads with Ian to both help him down and take him back on as his editor… but Ian leaves him hanging both literally and figuratively. Heather Dubrow aka Heather Paige Kent plays Maddie the bartender at the bar where Ian sings in a band. 1/16/16

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Theme song: “The Nanny Named Fran” written by Ann Hampton Callaway, performed by Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway. NOTE: The pilot lead-in utilized the song “If My Friends Could See Me Now” as performed by Gwen Verdon, which was subsequently dropped and replaced in syndicated releases of the pilot episode

• 001. Pilot – 11/3/1993
  • Outspoken Jewish woman Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) is employed as a bridal consultant in Flushing, New York until her boss and boyfriend Danny Imperiali (Jonathan Penner) breaks up with and fires her. Fran begins selling door-to-door cosmetics and stumbles onto the home of widowed British Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy). The butler Niles (Daniel Davis) mistakes Fran for a nanny applicant, and although she is exposed as having no credentials, Sheffield gives her a shot for the weekend since he is hosting a party, and his business partner C.C. Babcock (Lauren Lane), who is clearly interested in Maxwell beyond work, doesn’t want the kids around for it. Fran immediately moves into the mansion and tries to blend into the family by eating at the breakfast table with Sheffield and his three children, the timid Maggie (Nicholle Tom), the impudent Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury), and the youngest Grace (Madeline Zima), who is already in therapy. Her first act is to ignore the wishes of their father and C.C. by getting them prepared to attend the party. Sheffield is initially shocked when they show up, but their polished behavior quickly wins him over and he admits that the party went well. However when he catches Maggie kissing Eddie (James Marsden), one of the catering company’s workers, he blows his top, and ends up firing Fran when she tries to interfere. Maxwell later visits Fran at the home of her mother Sylvia (Renee Taylor) and asks Fran to come back with the stipulation that each of them try to understand the other’s viewpoints on things a little better. Rachel Chagall is Fran’s friend Val Toriello. Dee Dee Rescher is Dottie. 1/17/16

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Hal Kanter

Opening theme song composed by Elmer Bernstein.

• 001. Mama’s Man – 9/17/1968
  • Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll) is an African-American widow whose husband Walter was killed during the Vietnam War, living in Los Angeles and trying to find a job to support herself and her six year old son Corey (Marc Copage). Julia leaves Corey alone at home to go for a job interview with a doctor’s office at AstroSpace Industries for a nursing position. Her interview is with Mr. Colton (Whit Bissell), who immediately rejects her on the basis of her color. Meanwhile at home, Corey, who has been told not to open the door for anyone, has let in the child living downstairs, Earl J. Waggedorn (Michael Link). When Julia returns home she finds a bloody knife on the floor and in a panic, follows the trail downstairs to the Waggedorn apartment where she meets Earl’s mother Marie (Betty Beaird). Earl has a minor cut from trying to cut an orange, but Marie is furious that Corey has been left alone. She soon settles down and offers to babysit Corey. Julia is called back by Dr. Morton Chegley (Lloyd Nolan), who is angry at Colton for dismissing Julia so quickly when the office is in such need of help. He doesn’t seem to care about her race, and calls her back for another interview. Lonely for a father, Corey attempts to fix Julia up with a TV repairman named Dick Privet (Lloyd Haynes), who he meets at the Waggedorn apartment, by unplugging the television. It turns out that Dick is married with a family, but Julia remains optimistic about their future now that she thinks she’ll be getting the job. Charles Lampkin is janitor Charley. William O’Connell is the messenger. Steve Pendleton is the other TV repairman.  1/17/16

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