i remember a pre ncis mark Harmon in Mann and machine and Hemingways granddaughter played the android …
Yes!! Robot couple was terrific. I tried to explain to my child that there was once a TV show with just a couple of mimes. He didn’t believe me until I pulled up clips on YouTube. Only in the 70’s.
Hmm. I don’t think any of this is accurate. Neither of them are in that show, and they’ve never even worked together. The Hemingway sisters are Ernest’s granddaughters, though.
Nope-It was David Andrews and Yancy Butler.
Reading the synopsis, I’m struck by the similarity with the “How I Met Your Mother” episode of The Dick van Dyke Show.
I presume that you mean the episode called “Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced” which was first aired on October 31, 1961. Both the Nancy Dussault pilot and the episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show were written by Carl Reiner. The pilot was directed by Dick Van Dyke. It is the only thing ever directed by him. I don’t see any resemblance in the plot descriptions on the IMDb website. I haven’t watched either one though.
Pepper Dennis starred Rebecca Romijn as a determined female reporter who would stop at nothing to get her story, no matter how many times she had to don the purple bikini to do so.
I haven’t seen the Nancy Dussault show, but the idea that they met dancing on stage and it was love at first sight sounds similar to me.
Yep. Although I barely remember him in it. Mostly I remember Jay Tarses and the catchy animated opening.
I loved that show. It really had heart as well as humor (and a not-yet-manic Carrey who instead, acted).
Do watch that first episode on Youtube. If memory serves, Carrey’s a hapless failure of a cartoonist who shows up to an interview at a small animation studio (The Duck Factory), which he’s sure he’s going to fail… But, the boss who was to interview him has suddenly died and everyone assumes Carrey was hired and are leaning on him in their grief and welcoming him to the The Duck Factory family… and hilarity does indeed do some ensuing.
I only remember it because Comedy Central started showing it after Carrey got famous… I do not remember actually watching it though.
Anyone remember a short run series from 1990 or so, which was a spoof review of new television shows. I remember two of the fictitious shows were “Beauty and the Beet” (“and although he has the head of a beet, we will never be apart”) and “Crystal Balls” (an Angie Dickinson-type police woman uses psychic powers to fight crime)
Thank you!
P.S. Did you remember it, or do you have mad searching skills?
[hangs head in shame]
Yeah, I googled instead of just knowing it.
[/hangs head in shame]
Mad skills - I tried googling with no luck
I remember “Normal Life”, starring the two oldest Zappa children, a short-lived sitcom from the early 1990s.
A few years before that, there was a dreadful syndicated sit"com" (it wasn’t funny) called “Learning The Ropes”, which featured original “DeGrassi Junior High” actress Nicole Stoffman as the daughter of a professional wrestler.
I caught a couple episodes when it was rerun on the local UHF station in the 80’s. Didn’t do that much for me. Frankly, neither did Anne Francis.
Dweebs, a kind of prototypical Big Bang Theory about software startup nerds and their hot receptionist. It was from the '90s and one of the stars was Peter Scolari as a Bill Gates type. It only lasted a few episodes, but I liked it.
Pearl, also from the 90s, about a working-class woman (Rhea Perlman) who goes back to college and contends with a tyrannical, conceited professor (Malcolm McDowell). Eventually they began to see each other’s value. I don’t remember how long it lasted - maybe one season?
The original Cupid (not the newer one, but the one from the late '90s) starring Jeremy Piven as a guy who may or not have really been Cupid.