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• Neurotic Los Angeles divorcee Christine Campbell (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), owner of a women’s gym, enrolls her son Ritchie (Trevor Gagnon) in a prestigious private Westbridge School, where other students’ moms can’t quite understand Christine’s need to work. Christine’s has a friendly relationship with her ex-husband Richard (Clark Gregg), and he comes to the school for Ritchie’s first day. Marly Erhardt (Tricia O’Kelley) and Lindsay (Alex Kapp Horner) two of the catty moms at the school, inform Christine that Richard now has a new younger girlfriend (Emily Rutherfurd) who is also named Christine. This prompts Christine to blow up at the couple, but eventually learn to cope with the situation – while also being pleased that Ritchie is enjoying his new school. Amy Farrington is Ali, an employee at the gym. 4/14/13

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• 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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• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »