Category: Continuity
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The Girl With Something Extra
If ever there was someone who a sitcom vehicle could be shaped around it’s Sally Field. Given her experience with The Girl With Something Extra though, it may not be a surprise that she never tried the sitcom format again. The show aired for 22 episodes in 1973-74, and was created by Bernard Slade. Field…
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Quark (But Not That Quark)
Quark was a sitcom created by Buck Henry, that served as a mid-season replacement on NBC in the early months of 1978. It starred Richard Benjamin, and ran for one season of eight episodes. It was filmed at Burbank Studios, and was sponsored by General Foods. Adam Quark was the Commander of the space station…
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Grandpa Goes To Washington
There’s too many jokes about aged Senators and shrinkelled oranges to be made. Grandpa Goes To Washington was an NBC sitcom starring Jack Albertson (see also Chico And The Man), which aired from 7th September 1978 to 6th January 1979. It was created by Richard Roseti, Len Slate, and Noel Baldwin. Unusually, the episodes were…
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NBC Coupling Hysteria
I want to talk about the NBC remake of Coupling. Not about how short-lived it was, nor how massively over-hyped it was – nor about the folly of taking the UK scripts and simply tearing out seven or eight pages. I want to talk about this preview article in the New York Post. It’s worth…
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Whoopi
It’s always interesting to look at how a show was promoted and received at the time of broadcast. Whoopi Goldberg had previously starred in a sitcom for CBS, Bagdad Cafe, but she returned to the format in 2003 for NBC’s Whoopi. Continuing the bewildering tradition of naming a sitcom after the star, who in turn…
