Evening Shade saw Burt Reynolds displaying a deft touch at comedy (he wrote some episodes too, as well as directing and producing), alongside the always excellent Marilu Henner (Taxi).
I remember watching this quite a lot when it aired on Channel Four, and it ran for 99 episodes on CBS between 1990 and 1994.
Here’s the opening moments of the pilot episode:
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
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