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Sitcom Advent Calender Day Eleven

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:

Evening Shade
Day Eleven
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