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« on: December 25, 2010, 11:21:21 PM »

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Wasn't sure if there was a thread for this or not.  Personally, one of the best written tv shows ever.  A sitcom, soap opera themed tv show, with completely outlandish storylines involving murder, insanity, alien abduction, and the like.  Billy Crystal as the gay son and the brother with a puppet that kept interrupting the conversations.

My favorite, Richard Mulligan finding out he had cancer and 4 and a half months to live.  His reaction: "4 and a half? What's your problem with me doc? Everyone else gets 6 months to a year!"
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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2010, 02:49:39 AM »

Liked this show a lot too.  Can't believe Rod Roddy (Price Is Right/Press Your Luck announcer) is narrator.  Doesn't sound like the Rod Roddy I'm more familiar with.
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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2010, 09:16:41 AM »



Loved this show! Richard Mulligan(Burt Campbell) was my favorite character. Especially loved the episodes where he thought he could make himself invisible.   TeddyR
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2010, 11:27:07 AM »



Loved this show! Richard Mulligan(Burt Campbell) was my favorite character. Especially loved the episodes where he thought he could make himself invisible.   TeddyR
Wasn't there an instance down the line where he wasn't himself, but some kinda alien clone? Or he wasn't the father of the kids but a look-a-like with amnesia? Then he became town sheriff with Danny.
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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2010, 11:35:59 PM »

Yeah, Burt was abducted by aliens.  One of them was chosen to go as Burt's look-alike so it could have sex with his wife, which it really enjoyed.  TeddyR
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« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2010, 11:49:36 PM »

Yeah, Burt was abducted by aliens.  One of them was chosen to go as Burt's look-alike so it could have sex with his wife, which it really enjoyed.  TeddyR
That's it. 

Loved the show.  I think it's on dvd.  I HAVE to go grab it.  I used to watch the reruns on Comedy Central in the mid '90s.
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« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2010, 03:45:20 AM »

I love that episode I like the part when Burt tries to get back home on their transporter machine he vanish at his job and at the dinner with Mary. BounceGiggle
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« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2010, 01:49:05 PM »

Among the best theme music in TV history.
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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2010, 11:09:54 AM »

Richard Mulligan was an underrated actor. Besides being hilarious as Burt, he was great in Teachers, as the mental patient mistaken for a substitute history teacher, who ends up doing a good job. Mulligan had a couple of series that were kind of funny, but I'd have enjoyed seeing him do more movies.

We can't forget Soap's big breakout character, Benson, who was much funnier on Soap than he was after getting his own show. Robert Guillaume is another actor I'd like to have seen more of. Looking at the IMDB, he's worked pretty steadily, just not on many things I would have seen. I thought it was kind of cool recognizing his voice in The Lion King when I watched it with my daughter about a year ago. Never saw the movie until then. As soon as the baboon spoke, I just lit up. Robert Guillaume!

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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2010, 11:25:46 AM »

Richard Mulligan was an underrated actor. Besides being hilarious as Burt, he was great in Teachers, as the mental patient mistaken for a substitute history teacher, who ends up doing a good job. Mulligan had a couple of series that were kind of funny, but I'd have enjoyed seeing him do more movies.

We can't forget Soap's big breakout character, Benson, who was much funnier on Soap than he was after getting his own show. Robert Guillaume is another actor I'd like to have seen more of. Looking at the IMDB, he's worked pretty steadily, just not on many things I would have seen. I thought it was kind of cool recognizing his voice in The Lion King when I watched it with my daughter about a year ago. Never saw the movie until then. As soon as the baboon spoke, I just lit up. Robert Guillaume!

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Agreed on Robert Guillaume. He's done a lot of little parts, but he always brings a certain charm to everything he does.
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« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2010, 11:35:48 AM »

Richard Mulligan was an underrated actor. Besides being hilarious as Burt, he was great in Teachers, as the mental patient mistaken for a substitute history teacher, who ends up doing a good job. Mulligan had a couple of series that were kind of funny, but I'd have enjoyed seeing him do more movies.

We can't forget Soap's big breakout character, Benson, who was much funnier on Soap than he was after getting his own show. Robert Guillaume is another actor I'd like to have seen more of. Looking at the IMDB, he's worked pretty steadily, just not on many things I would have seen. I thought it was kind of cool recognizing his voice in The Lion King when I watched it with my daughter about a year ago. Never saw the movie until then. As soon as the baboon spoke, I just lit up. Robert Guillaume!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tq5_L9lBhY


Agreed on Robert Guillaume. He's done a lot of little parts, but he always brings a certain charm to everything he does.


He's one of those actors who always comes across as a likable person.

I've got mixed feelings about Benson's replacement, Saunders. The character was not as funny as Benson, but not bad. He just had big shoes to fill. And I generally like Roscoe Lee Browne.
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« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2010, 10:00:41 PM »

Mulligan was a brilliantly underrated character actor.  Great comic timing too.  Liked him on Empty Nest, although I wasn't a huge fan of that show. 

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« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2011, 06:25:19 PM »

Somewhere in the show,  Scott Baio's brother Jimmy had a role. I still remember his face but can't remember the name of his character.
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« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2011, 11:21:42 PM »

Jimmy Baio played Billy Tate.
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« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2011, 11:54:40 PM »

Billy Tate at one point fell in love with a teacher and had an affair with her.  He also got kidnapped by some weirdo religious cult, and one of their members was Robert Englund!
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