# What TV show is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-is-this/637483 "2012-10-12T02:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-is-this/637483/1 "2012-10-12T02:59:33Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-is-this/637483/2 "2012-10-12T03:01:05Z")
Mr. Belvedere? Never saw it, but it sounds like the premise. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-is-this/637483/3 "2012-10-12T03:20:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-is-this/637483/4 "2012-10-12T03:54:40Z")
[The Two of Us](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081953/), from 1981? [QUOTE=IMDB] 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 [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-is-this/637483/5 "2012-10-12T04:43:48Z")
[The Two of Us](http://www.tv.com/shows/the-two-of-us/episodes/) > [@](#): > > Slumber Party > Episode 2 > 4/13/81 > Gabby has a slumber party for her friends, and Brentwood knocks the girls out – literally. Yep - I do believe that’s the one! Thank you very much, goldmund!!