Short-lived Paramount sitcom with a great cast - Jimmy Brogan, Eileen Heckart, Dixie Carter and Olivia Barash. An angel is sent to Chicago to care for orphaned kids.
Boy! How I wish I could watch the episodes of this lost gem! "Out of the blue" only lasted for 8 episodes, although 12 episodes were made, 4 sadly, never made it to tv before its cancellation (including a Thanksgiving episode)!!🎥📀📹📼
Out of the Blue. It was kind of silly for the ABC brass to have this new series kick off the 1979-80 season when no one knew exactly how successful or not it would be (it wasn't). Random's (Jimmy Brogan) guest appearance on _Happy Days_ ("Chachi Sells His Soul") would air just two days after the 2nd episode of _Out of the Blue_ had aired.
Before that or this, he was in a CBS show called THE FITZPATRICKS with Jimmy McNichol (Kristy's brother), Helen Hunt (another future FACTS guest star), and Sean Marshall (the original Pete from PETE'S DRAGON). Coincidentally, that show had the misfortune of being up against HAPPY DAYS and LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY.
Several, but they were all for the same production company. I remember her making an appearance on the Facts of Life once and that's the only time I saw her do something that wasn't for this company.
I remember Robin Williams (AKA Mork) introducing this character. I think the show's biggest problem was it was put opposite of 60 Minutes which was beating everything in sight at that time.
1979-81,Thursday night right after Angie then a different world on ABC. taken from a British tv show I love, from the same name, I know skip Mulligan plays the original British cast who plays Charlie.
She was one of the "It" TV kids back then. Other ones who popped up just as frequently as her were Corey Feldman, Meeno Peluce, Kristoff St. John(RIP), and a few others.
hanna Dean (died in 2015) is the sister of what's happening fame/ wiz evilene, Mabel king. she was once our next door neighbor in Harlem, my grandmother was once friends to Thelma carpenter who plays miss one on the wiz.(died of lymphoma in2011 in new York) .
I remember the Mork and Mindy turn on Sundays and how it seemed to hurt the show more than anything, but I never had a peek at this out of the Blue thing. I do remember Random the angel on the Happy Days episode, but never realized it was for a spinoff. With an angel?
Sting Rey I think they were outdone by AllIn The Family tho, with spinoffs for Gloria Bunker (All In The Family) and Florence Johnston (The Jeffersons) as well.
Richard Fuller i have to disagree. happy days spawned laverne & shirley, mork & mindy, blansky's beauties, out of the blue, joanie loves cachi, then there there were the cartoons.
@@DavePlues-cp8uw All In The Family had Jeffersons, which spawned the very short-lived Checking In (it is counted), Maude, which in turn gave Good Times, and Gloria I think is the last one.
It's so weird to see Jimmy Brogan with dark hair. I see him all the time at the comedy clubs in the Valley and his hair is completely white now (obviously, as this is 45 years old).
The problem, 'mkl62', is that this was scheduled on Sundays at 7pm(et)- opposite CBS' "60 MINUTES" and NBC's "DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD". Not much of an audience....and the entire two-hour "comedy block" it was supposed to spark {including "A NEW KIND OF FAMILY", "MORK & MINDY", and "THE ASSOCIATES"} collapsed with it.
I thought Tammy Lauren was on "Angie" in 1979. Interesting seeing Clark Brandon, who would later play Eddie, Jo's fiancé on the Facts of Life from Fall 1980 to Fall 1981.
millenniumman75 Tammy Lauren was on Angie in the first season in early 1979.She then went to the short-lived Out Of The Blue in the fall of 1979.I saw Tammy Lauren on many other things over the years.(Chuckle!)
star trek Barry I. Grauman ABC struggled against them, even into the 1990s if I remember right. "Life Goes On" was another show that had trouble. The only one that pulled out of it was, maybe, America's Funniest Home Videos - originally hosted by Bob Saget.
The angel-guy was on Happy Days too, when Chachi accidentally sold his soul to the devil, he showed up to help. What was weird tho, was that the show had already been cancelled/hiatus when he guest starred on Happy days. Bad timing.
I remember they aired this for a one-time-only showing on Saturday morning after the Plastic Man Preview Hour. I thought this was going to be part of the Plastic Man Comedy Adventure show. But like I said, they only showed it because the PMCAS did not make its season premiere until the following Saturday, 9/22/1979
According to a biography written by her son, stage/screen legend Eileen Heckart was furious about the Saturday morning airing, complaining, "I did NOT sign on to do a Goddamned kiddie show!" Nice phraseology from the Boss Angel.
It probably would've fared better in the ratings and maybe they would've actually aired all of 'em. But then again, Sid & Marty Krofft's decade-long reign had just ended, "The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam" would soon flop, followed by "Pryor's Place," and I can't recall another live-action show on Saturday mornings until they reran the Corey Haim sitcom "Roomies" 10 years later. Popular live-action didn't really return until the "Saved By the Bell" clones of the mid-'90s, during the final dying days of Saturday morning television.
Mrtv1017 That's doubtful my friend! The show only filmed a total of 8 episodes, with only 4 airing before the show was cancelled...With AntennaTV showing most of their shows on a daily schedule primarily, even if they showed all 8 episodes, they would start repeating episodes after a week and a half! Hehehe😂...Unless of course, they only showed it on weekends, like they did "My mother, the car", and "It's about time" among others...It might work out that way....just a thought...but like you, I would also love to see this show for the pure nostalgia of it! Take care! Ms. Elizabeth💾📹💻🎥
I sure am.I think the problem was we were oversaturated with everything Happy Days between that show itself and spinoffs,although Laverne & Shirley as well as Mork & Mindy did well on their own to the point that you even forgot they were even spun off from Happy Days.
It's argued whether this was a spin-off or just crossover. "Random" turned up on Happy Days 9 days *after* "Out of the Blue" premiered, but word is that that turned out to be an accident of scheduling. I had already seen the 1st episode of "...Blue" when he turned up on Happy Days and I actually thought it was kinda cool that the angel could travel from '79 back into the '50s but maybe that was just an accident of ABC.
Considering that Out of the Blue was a slight spin-off from Mork & Mindy and that Mork & Mindy was a Happy Days spinoff I'd call Out of the Blue a Happy Days Spinoff spinoff.(Chuckle!)
well, even though HAPPY DAYS was supposed to be set in the 50s. (the pilot and the first season were but that was it) it was really set in the 70s/early 80s with a tiny bit of the 50s mixed in.
I vaguely recall that Mork appeared on an episode of Out of the Blue. I wonder how they explained that, since Mork lived in Colorado and this show took place in Chicago. Random appeared on one episode of "Happy Days."
Charlene Zacks no, it was a spin-off of MORK & MINDY. In fact Robin Williams guest-starred in the first episode as Mork. He was the best part of the show; in fact the only good part.
star trek Out of the Blue . . . is chiefly notable as having featured a Mork & Mindy crossover, and for the controversy surrounding its status as a spin-off of Happy Days. The first episode of the show was broadcast a little over one week prior to an episode of Happy Days featuring Jimmy Brogan as the character Random.
It actually aired for a total of eight weeks... if Wikipedia is to be believed. According to Wikipedia, the show was initially on hiatus after the episode that aired October 21, 1979, and the final episode aired December 16, 1979. Four remaining episodes did not air until the show went into cable channel reruns. There were briefly plans to re-tool and re-title this series as _Heaven Help Us._
1:37 : News Report: Police were called to a residence this afternoon regarding the death of five children. Initial reports suggest they were crushed by a large woman. It is still under investigation whether the cause of the incident was a loss of balance, or the woman in question ill-advisedly taking part in a whimsical pile-on. Suspiciously, a man calling himself "Random" was reported as being uninjured, despite being on the bottom of said pile-on. He was taken to St, Hubbins Hospital for psychiatric testing after being seen walking around declaring that he was unhurt as he was "an Angel", and that he was "already dead anyway". Besides the aforementioned large woman, a middle aged woman was taken into custody for questioning as witnesses stated that she did not attempt to intervene or take action to avert the tragedy. As she was taken away, she was heard muttering "Someday, I'll be on a better show than this." It is not understood at this time what she meant. The names of the five child victims have been withheld pending notification of next of kin.
I saw her picture on imb she still looks pretty good, she did some stupid teen B movies in the 80's also. By the way EVERYONE ages so stop being so judgmental
The show’s producers, Tom Miller and Bob Boyett, moved over to Lorimar in the mid 80s and did all kinds of cheezy sitcoms for that studio. So you’re on the right track.
And at the same time, ABC was futzing around with MORK & MINDY and driving a huge chunk of of its audience away, never to get it back again. If anyone was smoking crap, it was them.
@@MrAce-fz3hj Tom Miller first got involved at Paramount Television in 1969, where he was credited as project developer for such TV movies as _The Immortal_ and _The Young Lawyers_ (both of which led to the one-season only TV series of the same names respectively, both in the 1970-71 season), while Eddie Milkis's tenure at Paramount dates back to 1964 (when the TV studio was still called Desilu), where he was in charge as post production supervisor for _Star Trek (The Original Series)_ and, after the 1967 absorption of Desilu into Paramount as a result of Gulf+Western's takeover of the former, as associate producer. He would return to being a post production supervisor in 1969, on shows like _The Brady Bunch_ and _Love, American Style._
Not Charles Fox's best theme song and easily Garry Marshall's worst show. Half the cast couldn't act and the colored maid (who REALLY couldn't act) was like some grotesque mammy parody. I saw 2 episodes out of the 8 that aired and they were both painful to sit through.
He was a consultant. (Obviously -- it was attached to two shows he created.) You are correct he wasn't the head cheese. The names in the opening credits, plus Barry Kemp I believe, were the day-to-dayers. In other news, did anyone ever actually see an episode of this that Dixie Carter wasn't in? The one that ABC dumped as a surprise after "A Pink Christmas" I guess? She was in all the ones that I saw, although admittedly that was only the series premiere (which Paramount considers 2 episodes, although it ran as 1) and "The Hustle" -- the latter of which used to be on here.
Boy! How I wish I could watch the episodes of this lost gem! "Out of the blue" only lasted for 8 episodes, although 12 episodes were made, 4 sadly, never made it to tv before its cancellation (including a Thanksgiving episode)!!🎥📀📹📼
The 70's and 80's tv show opening credits were the best
But they didn't tell us enough what the name of the show is. lol
I wish I knew the title of this show.
Wiseguy
I think it's called _Paint the Town Red._
Out of the Blue. It was kind of silly for the ABC brass to have this new series kick off the 1979-80 season when no one knew exactly how successful or not it would be (it wasn't). Random's (Jimmy Brogan) guest appearance on _Happy Days_ ("Chachi Sells His Soul") would air just two days after the 2nd episode of _Out of the Blue_ had aired.
Me too 🙄
LOL
It's a shame that this was all that was left from this warm and wacky show! thank you for this wonderful video!
Wrote to James Brogan c/o the Tonight Show some years back. He was surprised anyone remembered his show.
He was a writer on Tonight and he also appeared on it from time to time.
I miss classic shows!! Even the ones that didn't make it that long!! Its a part of youth!!
Called: FEELING GOOD looking back!!
From the people that brought you Happy Days, Bosom Buddies, and Full House. Tom Miller and Bob Boyett were quite the prolific producers.
U are missed. RIP, Dixie Carter ( Mrs. Richards) , Hannah Dean ( Gladys) , Eileen Heckart ( Boss Angel)
I could tell this was a Miller/Milkis/Boyett sitcom by the length of the theme song!
That, and the city of Chicago.
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Angie, however, was set in Philadelphia.
ClassicTVMan1981X Was this the first Miller-Boyett show to be set in Chicago?
R.I.P. Dixxie Carter 1939-2010
Before "Highway to Heaven" and "Touched By An Angel", there was "Out of the Blue".
Not surprised that they only aired 9 of the 12 episodes taped. There were numerous re-toolings and cast replacements.
Clark Brandon is ubiquitious pretty boy actor of the late 1970s He was on everything!! But that opening for the show was it long or WHAT??
Brandon appeared on a few episodes of "Facts of Life" and later starred in a short-lived CBS show called "Mr Merlin."
Before that or this, he was in a CBS show called THE FITZPATRICKS with Jimmy McNichol (Kristy's brother), Helen Hunt (another future FACTS guest star), and Sean Marshall (the original Pete from PETE'S DRAGON). Coincidentally, that show had the misfortune of being up against HAPPY DAYS and LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY.
@@happyplaces683 yeah, I remember Mr. Merlin. Loved that series as a kid.
His acting career has been dead since the early 90s. He's involved in education now.
How many short lived sitcoms did Tammy Lauren star in ?
Yeah, I realized that recently ... this show, Who's Watching the Kids, Angie (ran for 2 seaons but she was let go after season 1).
Several, but they were all for the same production company. I remember her making an appearance on the Facts of Life once and that's the only time I saw her do something that wasn't for this company.
She was also in a Disney movie with Elliott Gould and Ricky Schroder called THE LAST FLIGHT OF NOAH'S ARK.
My childhood crush Tammy Lauren!!
This must not have run long because I totally would've watched it just for her.
Never heard of it but with Dixie Carter I need to see every episode.
Tammy lauren was in everything in the early 80's
I remember Robin Williams (AKA Mork) introducing this character. I think the show's biggest problem was it was put opposite of 60 Minutes which was beating everything in sight at that time.
Also the lead just didnt seem to have the presence of Robin Willams or Henry Winkler either.
I watched this
I have never seen this show before.
1979-81,Thursday night right after Angie then a different world on ABC. taken from a British tv show I love, from the same name, I know skip Mulligan plays the original British cast who plays Charlie.
YES.
that come right after the roppers Sunday night 8:30 on ABC.
Was Tammy Lauren in every show in the late 70s and early 80s?!?
She was one of the "It" TV kids back then. Other ones who popped up just as frequently as her were Corey Feldman, Meeno Peluce, Kristoff St. John(RIP), and a few others.
This premiered today in 1979 on ABC. It didn't do too well despite the rubs it got from Happy Days and Mork & Mindy.
Do you have any episodes
Chicago's setting was similar to later Miller/Boyett sitcoms Perfect Strangers and Family Matters.
Jason Nadle Don't forget "Step by step"!😂💻😂💻
VALERIE was also set there. This credits sequence kind of looks like a prototype of that show's opening.
Step By Step was Wisconsin.
hanna Dean (died in 2015) is the sister of what's happening fame/ wiz evilene, Mabel king. she was once our next door neighbor in Harlem, my grandmother was once friends to Thelma carpenter who plays miss one on the wiz.(died of lymphoma in2011 in new York) .
I have often thought of this theme and hadn't found it. Looking for Mork's episode.
I saw this show maybe two times.
Twice . Not two times . Bloody Yanks 🇺🇸 butchering the English 🇬🇧 language
Gosh shows were just plain GOOFY in this era.. kinda lost now where every show takes itself sooo seriously..
They did try a cross-promotion to help the show...Brogan's angel was visited by another otherworldly traveler to Earth--Mork from Ork.
I remember the Mork and Mindy turn on Sundays and how it seemed to hurt the show more than anything, but I never had a peek at this out of the Blue thing.
I do remember Random the angel on the Happy Days episode, but never realized it was for a spinoff. With an angel?
happy days had a spin off assembly line.
Sting Rey I think they were outdone by AllIn The Family tho, with spinoffs for Gloria Bunker (All In The Family) and Florence Johnston (The Jeffersons) as well.
Richard Fuller i have to disagree. happy days spawned laverne & shirley, mork & mindy, blansky's beauties, out of the blue, joanie loves cachi, then there there were the cartoons.
@@2up3rm4n1don't forget bunker's place .. Maude..I think there might be one more left
@@DavePlues-cp8uw All In The Family had Jeffersons, which spawned the very short-lived Checking In (it is counted), Maude, which in turn gave Good Times, and Gloria I think is the last one.
I’m angel sent here to Earth. Prove it. Ok here’s two popsicles. Well I’m convinced.
Sounds like they knew this show was going to get cancelled, so they put almost no effort into the theme song.
The theme song is the only thing that I remember about the show.
Do you tape trade?
It's so weird to see Jimmy Brogan with dark hair. I see him all the time at the comedy clubs in the Valley and his hair is completely white now (obviously, as this is 45 years old).
The problem, 'mkl62', is that this was scheduled on Sundays at 7pm(et)- opposite CBS' "60 MINUTES" and NBC's "DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD". Not much of an audience....and the entire two-hour "comedy block" it was supposed to spark {including "A NEW KIND OF FAMILY", "MORK & MINDY", and "THE ASSOCIATES"} collapsed with it.
I thought Tammy Lauren was on "Angie" in 1979.
Interesting seeing Clark Brandon, who would later play Eddie, Jo's fiancé on the Facts of Life from Fall 1980 to Fall 1981.
....and "MR. MERLIN" (1981-'82).
millenniumman75 Tammy Lauren was on Angie in the first season in early 1979.She then went to the short-lived Out Of The Blue in the fall of 1979.I saw Tammy Lauren on many other things over the years.(Chuckle!)
Barry I. Grauman not to mention; the show sucked!!!
star trek Barry I. Grauman ABC struggled against them, even into the 1990s if I remember right. "Life Goes On" was another show that had trouble. The only one that pulled out of it was, maybe, America's Funniest Home Videos - originally hosted by Bob Saget.
i always had a crush on tammy lauren. didn't realize she was in so many shitty shows
Yeah but she grew up into a great looking woman
Not quite. Dixie had a role on the CBS sitcom 'On Our Own' during the 1977-78 season, over a year after leaving 'Edge'.
The angel-guy was on Happy Days too, when Chachi accidentally sold his soul to the devil, he showed up to help. What was weird tho, was that the show had already been cancelled/hiatus when he guest starred on Happy days. Bad timing.
Really? I thought he showed up on Happy Days as kind of a segue into his own show?
LOL Olivia Barash get out of town! She played Ronnie in that crappy movie Tuff Turf, I saw her on imb and she really doesn't look that old
I remember they aired this for a one-time-only showing on Saturday morning after the Plastic Man Preview Hour. I thought this was going to be part of the Plastic Man Comedy Adventure show. But like I said, they only showed it because the PMCAS did not make its season premiere until the following Saturday, 9/22/1979
According to a biography written by her son, stage/screen legend Eileen Heckart was furious about the Saturday morning airing, complaining, "I did NOT sign on to do a Goddamned kiddie show!" Nice phraseology from the Boss Angel.
Vinnie Rattolle I think if they had aired it there it might have worked back then. It would have been a SM first since the airing of Bewitched reruns.
It probably would've fared better in the ratings and maybe they would've actually aired all of 'em. But then again, Sid & Marty Krofft's decade-long reign had just ended, "The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam" would soon flop, followed by "Pryor's Place," and I can't recall another live-action show on Saturday mornings until they reran the Corey Haim sitcom "Roomies" 10 years later. Popular live-action didn't really return until the "Saved By the Bell" clones of the mid-'90s, during the final dying days of Saturday morning television.
Vinnie Rattolle There was "Pee Wee's Playhouse" in the late 80s.
I wonder this show would be on Antenna TV
Mrtv1017 That's doubtful my friend! The show only filmed a total of 8 episodes, with only 4 airing before the show was cancelled...With AntennaTV showing most of their shows on a daily schedule primarily, even if they showed all 8 episodes, they would start repeating episodes after a week and a half! Hehehe😂...Unless of course, they only showed it on weekends, like they did "My mother, the car", and "It's about time" among others...It might work out that way....just a thought...but like you, I would also love to see this show for the pure nostalgia of it! Take care! Ms. Elizabeth💾📹💻🎥
There were 12 episodes filmed... 13, if you split the first episode, one hour long, in two.
I dont remember this one.
Is any one else aware that this was a Happy Days Spin off?
I sure am.I think the problem was we were oversaturated with everything Happy Days between that show itself and spinoffs,although Laverne & Shirley as well as Mork & Mindy did well on their own to the point that you even forgot they were even spun off from Happy Days.
It's argued whether this was a spin-off or just crossover. "Random" turned up on Happy Days 9 days *after* "Out of the Blue" premiered, but word is that that turned out to be an accident of scheduling. I had already seen the 1st episode of "...Blue" when he turned up on Happy Days and I actually thought it was kinda cool that the angel could travel from '79 back into the '50s but maybe that was just an accident of ABC.
Considering that Out of the Blue was a slight spin-off from Mork & Mindy and that Mork & Mindy was a Happy Days spinoff I'd call Out of the Blue a Happy Days Spinoff spinoff.(Chuckle!)
well, even though HAPPY DAYS was supposed to be set in the 50s. (the pilot and the first season were but that was it) it was really set in the 70s/early 80s with a tiny bit of the 50s mixed in.
I vaguely recall that Mork appeared on an episode of Out of the Blue. I wonder how they explained that, since Mork lived in Colorado and this show took place in Chicago. Random appeared on one episode of "Happy Days."
The first show Dixie Carter (Designing Women, et al) did after leaving Edge of Night. :)
Jimmy Brogan played the minister at the end of "Bridesmaids."
Although technically not a spin-off, Mork (Robin Williams) appears in the first episode.
Tammy Lauren and Olivia Barash on the same show. Television doesn't get any better.
All it needed was Debralee Scott, and we would have had a trifecta, and my ten year old heart would have had a coronary.
@@thetreasurehouse1742I agree with you on that
"Aired" is not the same as "filmed".
GILMOREBOX Do you have the whole episode interested in the whole series??
pretty sure this was a spin off of Mork and Mindy.
Wanna trade? I can send you my list.
it's a mork and Mindy spin off lasted only a year.
This show was a spin off of Mork and Mindy. It did badly in the ratings, so it lasted only six weeks.
Charlene Zacks no, it was a spin-off of MORK & MINDY. In fact Robin Williams guest-starred in the first episode as Mork. He was the best part of the show; in fact the only good part.
star trek Out of the Blue . . . is chiefly notable as having featured a Mork & Mindy crossover, and for the controversy surrounding its status as a spin-off of Happy Days.
The first episode of the show was broadcast a little over one week prior to an episode of Happy Days featuring Jimmy Brogan as the character Random.
It was actually a Spin off of Happy Days....but his debut on that show was aired later....
It actually aired for a total of eight weeks... if Wikipedia is to be believed. According to Wikipedia, the show was initially on hiatus after the episode that aired October 21, 1979, and the final episode aired December 16, 1979. Four remaining episodes did not air until the show went into cable channel reruns.
There were briefly plans to re-tool and re-title this series as _Heaven Help Us._
I imagine if this show had lasted longer they wouldn't dropped a few cast members. Nine is too many.
1:37 :
News Report:
Police were called to a residence this afternoon regarding the death of five children.
Initial reports suggest they were crushed by a large woman. It is still under investigation whether the cause of the incident was a loss of balance, or the woman in question ill-advisedly taking part in a whimsical pile-on.
Suspiciously, a man calling himself "Random" was reported as being uninjured, despite being on the bottom of said pile-on. He was taken to St, Hubbins Hospital for psychiatric testing after being seen walking around declaring that he was unhurt as he was "an Angel", and that he was "already dead anyway".
Besides the aforementioned large woman, a middle aged woman was taken into custody for questioning as witnesses stated that she did not attempt to intervene or take action to avert the tragedy. As she was taken away, she was heard muttering "Someday, I'll be on a better show than this." It is not understood at this time what she meant.
The names of the five child victims have been withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Brogan later became one of Jay Leno's writers on "THE TONIGHT SHOW" in the '90s....
olivia barash was an early bloomer and quite a looker in her tweens and teens ("Sylvia" on little house)...TIME caught up to her ans was not kind
I saw her picture on imb she still looks pretty good, she did some stupid teen B movies in the 80's also. By the way EVERYONE ages so stop being so judgmental
@@homelesshannah50 She's in her 50s, but looks about 70. May not have been time so much as drugs.
Looks really cheesy, like something Lorimar would come up with.
The show’s producers, Tom Miller and Bob Boyett, moved over to Lorimar in the mid 80s and did all kinds of cheezy sitcoms for that studio. So you’re on the right track.
What the hell…?
Awful series.. good opening.
Shows like this make me think Miller and Boyett are actually the separated-at-birth evil twins of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin.
What kind of crap was Garry Marshall smoking? Did he really think that this garbage would make it???
And at the same time, ABC was futzing around with MORK & MINDY and driving a huge chunk of of its audience away, never to get it back again. If anyone was smoking crap, it was them.
This was really not a Garry Marshall show, although his producer partners Tom Miller and Eddie Milkis are involved with the show.
@@MrAce-fz3hj
Tom Miller first got involved at Paramount Television in 1969, where he was credited as project developer for such TV movies as _The Immortal_ and _The Young Lawyers_ (both of which led to the one-season only TV series of the same names respectively, both in the 1970-71 season), while Eddie Milkis's tenure at Paramount dates back to 1964 (when the TV studio was still called Desilu), where he was in charge as post production supervisor for _Star Trek (The Original Series)_ and, after the 1967 absorption of Desilu into Paramount as a result of Gulf+Western's takeover of the former, as associate producer. He would return to being a post production supervisor in 1969, on shows like _The Brady Bunch_ and _Love, American Style._
Travis James the funniest part is when the BIG FAT MAMMY at 1:44 sits on all of the white people and then just laugh LMAO 😂.
@@mikevickphilol!
That has to be the worst sitcom theme ever.
Horrible theme song. Ive noticed many short lived tv shows had awful theme songs
Not Charles Fox's best theme song and easily Garry Marshall's worst show. Half the cast couldn't act and the colored maid (who REALLY couldn't act) was like some grotesque mammy parody. I saw 2 episodes out of the 8 that aired and they were both painful to sit through.
This isn't a Garry Marshall show, it was though produced by his partners Tom Miller and Eddie Milkis.
He was a consultant. (Obviously -- it was attached to two shows he created.) You are correct he wasn't the head cheese. The names in the opening credits, plus Barry Kemp I believe, were the day-to-dayers.
In other news, did anyone ever actually see an episode of this that Dixie Carter wasn't in? The one that ABC dumped as a surprise after "A Pink Christmas" I guess? She was in all the ones that I saw, although admittedly that was only the series premiere (which Paramount considers 2 episodes, although it ran as 1) and "The Hustle" -- the latter of which used to be on here.
Yet another in a long line of shitty Happy Days spin-offs!
Terrible theme song. And terrible haircut on Jimmy Brogan.
Out of the Jew
Do you have any episodes