What TV show is this?

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Can’t remember the time frame (early '80s, perhaps), but the show was about a single-mother businesswoman, her young daughter and their butler. Haven’t a clue as to any of the actors involved (or I’d be looking them up on IMDb). Three scenes that I remember:

  1. Butler-to-be is applying for the job. One of the reasons he was interested was because the ad said he’d be working for an English major. She meant college; he took at as being a Brit army officer.

  2. Discussion of dinner, including tacos. Butler remembers seeing something called “taco shells” at the store; “I assumed it was some kind of escargot…”

  3. Daughter is having a pyjama party; mother is going out (work?), leaving the butler to babysit. Mother is very dubious of his plan to serve pate to the girls. For some reason there is discussion of a bottle of amaretto in the early part of the show. Mother returns home expecting wild children and frazzled butler; instead, the children are asleep and all is peace and quiet. Butler: “I put the rest of the amaretto in the pate…”

Anybody recognise this?

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Mr. Belvedere? Never saw it, but it sounds like the premise.

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Checked IMDb - Mr Belvedere worked for a family (mother, father, three kids). Show I’m looking for definitely had just the mother and daughter.

Thanks for the quick reply, though.

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The Two of Us, from 1981?

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Nan Gallagher, a television talk show host and single mother, needs some help to manage her house. She place an ad in the newspaper for a housekeeper. Robert Brentwood, an English butler, answers it. Now he is a bit arrogant and pompous and is not particularly fond of Americans. But nevertheless Nan decides to give him a try and he too, gives it a try
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The Two of Us

Yep - I do believe that’s the one!

Thank you very much, goldmund!!