SEASON 1 – CBS
Created by David E. Kelly.
Theme music by Erica Weis and Orr Rebhun
- 001. Pilot – 9/26/2013
- Simon Roberts (Robin Williams) and his daughter Sydney (Sarah Michelle Gellar) run the powerful advertising agency Roberts + Roberts in Chicago, with Simon being a happy-go-lucky jokester who was once the top in his field, and Sydney being more success driven and focused. Also on the staff are the charming womanizer copywriter Zach Cropper (James Wolk), the neurotic Andrew Keanelly (Hamish Linklater), and seemingly dimwitted assistant Lauren Slotsky (Amanda Setton). The team has a meeting with McDonald’s representative Hannah Sharples (Gail O’Grady), who is ready to fire the team until Simon promises that they can revive the You Deserve a Break Today jingle from 1972, but with a contemporary wholesome singer. Simon and Zach approach Kelly Clarkson (herself) to do it, but she says she is trying to re-brand herself with a sexier image. Simon manages to get her into the studio where she and Zach sing a sensual song called It Ain’t the Meat, It’s the Motion, before trying to pivot her to the original jingle, but she doesn’t bite and walks out on the session. Simon feels he’s failed, but Sydney approaches Kelly at her family dinner, and after Kelly forces her to sing the song in front of the restaurant, she agrees to perform the jingle. Simon is impressed with Sydney, who says she learned to take the leap from him. 12/14/16
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SEASON 1 – Fox
Created by Steven Levitan
Theme song by Steve Hampton and John Adair (and Paul Bessenbacher, uncredited)
- 001. Pilot – 4/13/2005
- Gavin P. Miller (Elon Gold) is a divorced, published author of a very low-selling book, who has opened his own bookstore called Stacked in Los Angeles with his younger brother Stuart (Brian Scolaro), who has a master’s degree in Psychology, but is basically a red-blooded male who is constantly chasing women, despite seldom getting any. Also working at Stacked is Katrina (Marissa Jaret Winokur), who mans the coffee shop counter. They have one regular customer, the curmudgeonly Professor Harold March (Christopher Lloyd), former head of the Physics department at Cal Tech, who likes to hang out, drink coffee, and read the paper. Once day a beautiful, busty woman named Skyler Dayton (Pamela Anderson) stops in the store after catching her musician boyfriend Eddie Banks (Charles Mesure) cheating on her once again, this time with two women at once, to search for a relationship self-help book. Stuart has an immediate crush on Skyler and tries to help her find a book. Gavin criticizes the book she winds up with and tries to steer her toward a headier book, but Skyler says the author looks too mean and buys her original choice, then hangs out to read it. After she asks Harold if he thinks people can change, and he says no, Skyler decides to break it off with her boyfriend. When she invites him to the bookstore to break up, Gavin becomes nervous when she tells him how he has an explosive temper. Meanwhile, Gavin still desires a reconciliation with her wife Charlotte (Paget Brewster), who stops by the bookstore with their children Owen (Vincent Martella) and Allegra (Carlie Westerman). Charlotte declines his request for a date because she has started to see a doctor. Gavin counters by telling her that he too is seeing someone, then sneaks over to Skyler and asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend. Charlotte is shocked, and their son Owen can’t take his eyes off her chest. Eddie shows up at the bookstore and pleads with her to come back to him. Charlotte also returns and has second thoughts about leaving the door open for a reconciliation. Gavin decides to pass on the offer, quoting lines from the book that Skyler is reading. Skyler throws him out of the bookstore, so he asks Charlotte out. She impulsively accepts, but then Gavin reminds her that their kids are in the car. Skyler announces a fresh start for herself to be her own soulmate, so Stuart asks her to come work at the bookstore. Gavin doesn’t think it is a good idea at all, especially considering the choice she made for the relationship book. Then Harold comes across an article that the author of the headier book had just strangled his wife with his Nobel Prize and stored her head in the freezer. Bruce Dent is the customer, Bruce. 11/27/23
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SEASON 1 – ABC
Created by Stu Silver, Dick Clair, and Jenna McMahon
Theme song: “It’s a Living” music by George Tipton and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
- 001. Pilot – 10/30/1980
- Inside the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, a group of ladies work as waitresses in the swanky Above the Top restaurant. Under the supervision of Nancy Beebe (Marian Mercer) are Jan Hoffmeyer (Barrie Youngfellow), Dorothy “Dot” Higgins (Gail Edwards), Cassie Cranston (Ann Jillian), Lois Adams (Susan Sullivan), and Vicki Allen (Wendy Schaal). Playing piano and often singing in the restaurant is Sonny Mann (Paul Kreppel). Jan is struggling to handle her evening hours at work while raising a teenager and going to college. Dot is nervous about her date with a guy named Brad, as he wants her to go away with him for the weekend, and up until now she has not slept with him… or anyone else for that matter. Dot is an aspiring actress who is trying out for a Dodge commercial and is excited that she has gotten to the final call backs along with three other actresses. Nancy is rather hard-nosed with the girls and complains about the waitresses putting on weight. She also tells Jan that she needs to apologize to a pair of men who she yelled out when they pinched her during their last visit. Jill is opposed to this, but Nancy threatens her job. She finally acquiesces, but as she is apologizing, one of the men pinch Nancy. Jill reads them the riot act and throws them out and is quite prepared to leave her job. However, Nancy has a change of heart and tells her that she should have hit them before throwing them out. She also offers to have Jill come to her house to get makeup trips. Dot finds a small dog in traffic on her way to the audition and is afraid that having him there with her cost her the job. They call her back with good news, but it turns out to be better news for the dog, as they want him for a dog food commercial, while she didn’t get the Dodge job. Vicki returns from her weekend with Brad and says she had a wonderful time and thinks that she is falling in love with Brad. Sure enough, he doesn’t call her for days, so she finally calls him, only to be told that he hopes to see her around some time. She confesses to the others that she didn’t sleep with him during their weekend, as she wasn’t ready. Lois and the other girls tell her that she shouldn’t sleep with anyone until she is ready, and if the guy is worth a damn, he will wait. The girls all throw their support to her, while Dot struggles to wait on all of the tables by herself. 11/30/24
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SEASON 1 – CBS
Created by Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf
Opening song: “Katy” by Ann Sothern and Bonnie Lake
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SEASON 1 – CBS
Created by Joe Gannon, Patt Shea, and Harriet Weiss
Theme song by Tony Greco
This series is a spin-off of the sitcom “Archie Bunker’s Place,” which is a spin-off of the sitcom “All in the Family”
- 000. Gloria, the First Day – 1/11/1982 UNAIRED Pilot
- Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor) drives his daughter Gloria Bunker Stivic and her son Joey to upstate New York to the office of Dr. Willard Adams DVM, where Gloria has taken a job as an assistant in his veterinary office. Archie tries to chat with Dr. Adams, but soon offends him by questioning why, as a failed doctor, did he choose to become a veterinarian rather than a dentist. Gloria rushes him back to the car so that he can head home, but he tells Gloria that when she fails at this job, he will be happy to come back and retrieve her. Although Joey had been looking forward to getting a dog, Gloria is disappointed when Dr. Adams tells her that he doesn’t allow pets on the premises as it would encourage people to drop off their unwanted pets all of the time. Gloria moves her things into her and Joey’s cottage, only to find that Dr. Adams’ assistant Jim Waynewrite (Rich Lohman) is sleeping nude on the fold-out bed in the living room. Although Dr. Adams had told him to move out the night before because he caught Jim having his own ‘pet’ Candy, who held the job that Gloria is now replacing, over at his place once too often. When Jim finds out that Gloria has absolutely no experience caring for animals, he expresses his disappointment that a woman with no experience has been hired. When Gloria tells Joey about the pet policy, he is upset and blames his father Mike for causing this mess by not being there and causing Gloria to have to work at all. Gloria begins her work, and meets Dr. Maggie Lawrence, who assists in the O.R. on surgery days. She has Gloria answer the phone, where she has to deal with an annoying patient named Louise Cotter-Smith (Ann Sweeny) who wants Dr. Adams to call her back. Gloria gradually gets in the swing of things on her first day, even meeting a patient monkey named Michael. That evening after everyone has left, Louise Cotter-Smith barges in and drops off a boxful of newborn puppies, telling Gloria to have Dr. Adams put them down, as she doesn’t want their mother to have to nurse the babies, as she wants her ready for a dog show. Gloria is furious that Dr. Adams would even entertain having the dogs put to sleep, so she has Joey take them back to their place. When Dr. Adams’ handyman Ben (Peter Pastore) tells him that he saw the puppies brought in, but they are now gone, Adams immediately goes to see Gloria. She tells him that she is quitting because she can’t work for a man who would put down newborn puppies. While she is yelling at him, he is calling Mrs. Cotter-Smith and demanding that she bring the mother over to nurse the puppies, under threat of him revealing that her dog ‘sleeps around’. After he hangs up with her, he yells at Gloria for assuming the worst out of him. He says that she did one thing right: trying to save the puppies, but she was wrong about him. She apologizes and asks if she can keep her job, and she agrees. Jim then stops by and yells at Gloria for keeping a recently spayed cat’s cage open, but Dr. Adams comes to her defense and says that it was Ben who did it. She asks to hold the cat, and after everyone leaves, she tells her that they both had rough days, even though the cat’s day was worse since she had gotten fixed. NOTE: This episode later aired as an episode of Archie Bunker’s Place on June 1, 1982, as Gloria: The First Day. 11/30/24
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