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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Edmund L. Hartmann and Don Fedderson

Theme music composed by Frank De Vol

• 001. Buffy – 9/12/1966
  • Successful consulting engineer for Davis & Gaynor, Bill Davis (Brian Keith) lives the life of a playboy bachelor in Manhattan, assisted by his stiff English butler Giles French (Sebastian Cabot). Family member Fran Heiger (Louise Latham) shows up one night from Terra Haute, Indiana with Davis’s niece Buffy Patterson (Anissa Jones), the daughter of his late brother who was killed with his wife in a car accident. She has decided that Buffy does not get along with her husband, and before Bill can give her an answer, she has abandoned Buffy. Uncle Bill tries to convince Buffy that she might like to attend a school in Switzerland, but this causes her to run away and hide in the basement. With the help of his friend Miss Faversham (Heather Angel), French retrieves her and Uncle Bill tells her that she can stay with him. As Bill is getting ready to leave on a business trip for Peru, another relative Bess Melville (Barbara Perry) shows up with Buffy’s twin brother Jody (Johnny Whitaker). Bill rushes off leaving the kids with Mr. French. After he’s gone, relative Alice Grayson (Shirley O’Hara) shows up with their older sister, 15-year-old Cissy (Kathy Garver). Philip Ober is Bill’s business partner Ted Gaynor. Lisa Seagram is Bill’s date Miss Larrabee. Sandy Wirth is Bill’s other date Miss Hodges. 10/16/14

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Bill Cosby, based on his comedy routines of reminisces of the friends of his youth first heard on his LP “Revenge”

The series was preceded by a 1969 one-hour NBC comedy special titled “Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert“

Theme song: “Gonna Have a Good Time” composed by Ricky Sheldon and Edward Fournier, performed by Michael Gray with Kim Carnes and Edward Fournier on background vocals

• 001. Lying – 9/9/1972
  • Bill Cosby (himself) hangs out in a Philadelphia junkyard and talks about the dangers of lying, and then introduces us to the animated Fat Albert (Bill Cosby, Michael Lee Gray singing voice) and his friends James “Mushmouth” Mush (Bill Cosby), Dumb Donald (Lou Scheimer), Bill Cosby‘s younger self (himself) and his younger brother Russell (Jan Crawford), Weird Harold (Gerald Edwards), Rudy Davis (Eric Suter), and Buckey Miller (Jan Crawford). They too discuss lying and perform the song Don’t Go Telling a Lie. They run into their friend Edward (Eric Suter), who has just got back from Florida and claims to have lost his shoes wrestling alligators. The kids simulate alligator wrestling down at the muddy river, and get filthy. The kids go to Edward’s house to seek advice on how to get clean, but his cousin Violet (Erika Carroll aka Erika Schemier) refuses to let them see Edward and then spray them down with a hose. Edward gives them advice on how to lie to their parents to explain why they got so wet. Bill later tells Edward’s sister about the alligator stories, and she tells him that Edward can’t even swim. The boys then coax Edward into swimming, but Violet shows up and pleads with them to save her cousin, which they do. The gang forgives Edward but tells him that if he lies again, they’ll clobber him. Live action Bill recaps that there is no need to tell lies, because the truth can be trouble enough. 10/11/17

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Paul Henning

Theme music composed by Del Sharbutt, Frank Stanton, Richard Uhl

NOTE: This series was re-named “Love That Bob” in syndication. NOTE: Robert Cummings portrayed a character named Bob Collins in the 1945 film “You Came Along”

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• 001. Calling Dr. Baxter – 1/2/1955
  • Photographer Bob Collins (Robert Cummings) is a photographer and Air Force Reserve officer living in Hollywood with his widowed sister Margaret MacDonald (Rosemary DeCamp) and her teenage son Chuck (Dwayne Hickman). As a bachelor who often takes pictures of models, Bob is quite the ladies’ man, but wishes to remain single despite the fact that his secretary Charmaine “Schultzy” Schultz (Ann B. Davis) being in love with him. She goes to great lengths to assist Bob, including dressing in a gorilla suit for a shot with a model bride (Joi Lansing)… which causes confusion when one of Margaret’s older friends named Mrs. Anderson (Isabel Randolph) comes to have her dog’s photo taken by Bob, and thinks that Bob’s assistant Schultzy is actually a gorilla. Later Margaret asks Bob to have a father talk with Chuck, because she thinks he is becoming too fixated a former neighbor girl he knew as a child named Francine Williams (Diane Jergens). Bob thinks it is harmless until he sees how much Francine has grown up. He tries to Chuck at his studio, but he is too distracted by the various models (Donna Foster, Beverly Kidd, Trudy Wroe) Meanwhile, Margaret gets a letter from an old classmate named Dr. Tony Baxter (Frank Wilcox), who requests to see a recent picture of Margaret. She plans to send him a picture of her and Chuck, but Bob, anxious to help marry her off, takes some sexier photos of her to send Baxter. Schultzy takes it upon herself to send off the photos when she sees how young Margaret looks, and also tells Baxter how much her ‘little boy’ Chuck needs a father. Once Baxter gets the photos, he immediately departs on a flight to Los Angeles. Margaret thinks she will look too old when he sees her in person, so Bob sets up special studio lighting in the house. When he first arrives, he meets Mrs. Anderson, who had come to pick up a card table and is sitting in the light. He also meets Chuck who is dressed like a little boy and claims to be eight years old. Bob runs her out of the house and volunteers to have Schultzy drive her home, but Mrs. Anderson still thinks Schultzy is a gorilla. Just as both Margaret and Bob thinks that Baxter going to propose, he tells her that he only came to find out who took the great photos, so he can hire the photographer to take pictures for him and his wife. Bob immediately puts the champagne he has passed out back in the bottle. 1/6/22

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SEASON 1 – FX

Created Louis C.K.

Theme song: “Brother Louie” written by Errol Brown and Anthony Wilson, performed by Ian Lloyd

• 001. Pilot – 6/29/2010
  • Louie C.K. (himself) is a divorced comedian raising two young daughters named Lilly (Hadley Delany) and Jane (Ashley Gerasimovich). He talks about his life while performing at the Comedy Cellar nightclub. He helps chaperone a field trip for Lillie’s class to the Bronx Botanical Garden and runs afoul of the bus driver (William Stephenson), who has no idea how to get there and ends up abandoning the bus in Harlem. The teacher (Ashlie Atkinson) wants to take the kids to the nearest subway station, but Louie hires limos to come pick up the kids and take them home. Later Louie goes on a first date with a girl (Chelsea Peretti), which goes terribly. He runs into her naked neighbor (Kathleen Butler) when he goes to pick her up, they end up at a cheap pizza place for dinner, and the girl mistakes Louie for a man who bangs on the bathroom door when she uses the restroom. When he tries to kiss her, she runs away and leaves in a helicopter. 10/10/14

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Parke Levy

Theme music written by Eliot Daniel

NOTE: This series was adapted from the CBS radio series of the same name that aired 1952-1953

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• 001. Lily Ruskin Arrives – 10/4/1954
  • Matt Henshaw (Dean Miller) is an architect who works for Gordon & Co. Architects living in Westwood, California, with his wife Ruth (Frances Rafferty). Matt prepares to meet his widow mother-in-law Lily Ruskin (Spring Byington), who is arriving from Philadelphia for a visit. His friend and neighbor Pete Porter (Harry Morgan), who is constantly complaining about his wife Gladys, comes with the Henshaws to train station to meet Lily, and warns Matt that her ‘visit’ could turn into years. Matt hasn’t seen Lily for five years since the wedding, but remembers her as a wonderful person. She arrives with a man named Gus Warner (Harry Cheshire) whom she met on the train and has already proposed to her. Matt takes a disliking to him when he starts borrowing money for Matt and never picking up the check when they go out to eat. When Gus gives Lily an expensive ring, Pete and Matt begin to suspect that he committed a recent jewelry store robbery. Matt starts to question Gus to find out what he does for a living. Before he can answer, he needs to take a phone call, and asks to be excused. In reality he is buying stock in steel, but when Matt, Ruth, and Lily overhear his end, it sounds as if he is trying to unload stolen merchandise. Gus asks Lily for the ring back so he can have it ensured, but Lily steals it back and takes it to Police Lieutenant Morgan (Moroni Olsen), who confirms that it is stolen. However back home, Gus is panicking because the ring is missing, and shows Matt the bill of sale for the ring that cost $3200. Matt and Ruth and Gus meet them at the station. It turns out that it was them that had reported the ring stolen. It all leads to a big fight between Warner and the family, and he and Lily call the engagement off. Matt is apologetic, but Lily says that she could never marry a man with a temper like that. Lieutenant Morgan comes to pick up Lily for a date. Sam McDaniel is the train porter. 1/19/20

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