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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Tom Hertz

Theme song: “How Many Ways” performed by Senor Happy

• 001. Pilot – 2/3/2007
  • Russell Dunbar (David Spade), a New York real estate manager meets his friend and coworker Adam Rhodes (Oliver Hudson) at the Island Diner, where Adam reveals that he has asked his girlfriend Jennifer Morgan (Bianca Kajlich) to move in with him and eventually marry him. Jennifer is friends with Audrey Bingham (Megyn Price), who has been married to Jeff (Patrick Warburton) for nearly a dozen years. Audrey hopes that Jeff will set a good example for being a husband to Adam. As Adam moves his stuff into Jennifer’s apartment, he reveals to Jeff that she had no room for his Mets memorabilia. He is also taken aback somewhat that she has already started a wedding registry, but he admits to Jeff that he is excited that she has a cake pan on it, since that implies he’ll get cake frequently. Jeff warns him that there will be no cake, nor many of the other things he is expecting, and also warns that sex has been replaced by watching The Late Show with David Letterman. Adam goes to the store and buys cake ingredients, but Jennifer tells him that she really doesn’t bake. A slight argument ensues, and it becomes apparent that Adam is having second thoughts about the proposal. Everyone goes to an art show together, mostly because of the open bar. Russell is set up on a blind date with Jennifer’s friend Karen Williams (Lauren Stamile), but while he waits for her, he flirts with the cocktail waitress Candy (Audra Blaser). Audrey is irritated with Jeff because he wants to get rid of her bike that she hasn’t used in two years, while she misses riding with him since he got rid of his bike. As he tries to figure out how to make it better. Adam is hit on by another girl at the art show named Sarah (Smith Cho). As the girl is chatting with him, he notice Jennifer across the gallery, and falls in love all over. The recognize they will have differences, but when they ask an elderly couple named Margaret (Gloria LeRoy) and Henry (Don Perry) to interpret a painting and they describe it the same way, they are convinced they will grow to see eye to eye as well. However after Adam and Jennifer walk away, Margaret berates her husband for always just saying what she says. Adam and Jennifer go home and she makes him a cake, but gives him a raincheck on sex, and suggests that he watch Letterman. Jeff is caught looking at bike sales online, but instead of selling her bike, he is looking for one of his own so they can ride together again. That earns him some love making… but only once. Despite a nice date with Karen, Russell brings Candy home. Despite staring at Karen’s business card while Candy chatters away, he tosses it aside when she asks to go at it a second time. 11/8/20

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Dale McRaven

Theme Song: “Nothing’s Going to Stop Me Now” composed by Jesse Frederick & Bennett Salvay, performed by David Pomeranz

• 001. Knock Knock, Who’s There? – 3/25/1986
  • Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker), a Madison, Wisconsin native who has recently moved away from his large family to Chicago to pursue his dreams of becoming a photojournalist, is visited by sheepherder Balki Bartokomous, a native of the Mediterranean island of Mypos. Balki claims to be related by way of his fifth cousin thrice-removed, who is the step-uncle to Larry, and based on that relationship, plans to live with Larry. Balki is distraught when Larry initially turns him down, but then has a change of heart and tells Balki he can stay with him until he gets on his feet. Balki is intent on learning American culture and is fascinated by even the simplest things and phrases. Larry takes Balki to work with him the next day at Ritz Discount. When Larry is called away by his neighbor friend Susan Campbell (Lise Cutter), Balki tends to a customer (Stephen Vinovich), who cons Balki into selling him $200 worth of merchandise for $45. When Larry’s boss Donald Twinkacetti (Ernie Sabella) finds out, he is livid, but gives Balki a chance to repair an old radio to see if he will hire him on to repay the debt. Larry doesn’t think he can do it, so he plants a smaller radio inside the old one. However Balki finds the radio and spoils the ruse before it ever gets started. However when he turns on the radio, the noise is so loud that it shatters most of the glass in the shop. A customer (Bobby Hosea) is impressed by its power and offers $500 for it. Balki is seen as a hero to Twikacetti and tells Larry to do the manual labor so Balki doesn’t hurt his hands. As Larry is moving the radio, it is revealed that Balki had hooked the radio up to giant speakers that would have valued the package at $1000. Twinkacetti fires them both, but Balki gives him a speech about what a good man Larry is, and Twinkacetti changes his mind and re-hires them, mostly because he intends to collect all the money they owe him out of their paychecks. 11/9/20

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SEASON 1 – CBS

TV series is based on the 1970 film “M*A*S*H,” which was based on the novel “MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors” by Richard Hooker

Developed by Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds

Theme song: “Suicide Is Painless (Instrumental Version)” written for the film by Johnny Mandel 

• 001. Pilot – 9/17/1992
  • In Uijeongbu, South Korea in 1959, the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital – aka MASH – 4077th unit is run by Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), who is assisted by Corporal Walter “Radar” O’Reilly (Gary Burghoff), who is seemingly one step ahead of Henry’s requests every time. His head surgeon is Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville), who although married, is having an affair with head nurse Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (Loretta Swit). Burns lives in a tent known as “The Swamp” with doctors Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, Captain Trapper John McIntire (Wayne Rogers), and Captain Oliver Harmon “Spearchucker” Jones (Timothy Brown). After a hard night of surgery, during which they bicker with both Frank and Margaret, Hawkeye and Trapper return to the Swamp where they are tended to by their local Korean houseboy Ho-Jon (Patrick Adiarte). They receive mail from home, Trapper from his wife, and Hawkeye from his alma mater in Maine. However this means they need to raise $2000 for a deposit and transportation to get him there. They come with the idea to host a party and raffle to win a weekend pass into Tokyo, and the date with a nurse. Hawkeye has been flirting with the engaged Lt. Maria “Dish” Schneider (Karen Philipp) and manages to talk her into being the date. Henry agrees to issue the passes initially, but when Hawkeye and Trapper get in a fight with Frank, he rescinds his offer and tells them they can no longer have the party. They also find out he will be off base having dinner with Brigadier General Hamilton Hammond  (G. Wood) the night the party is scheduled for. Radar tricks Henry into signing two passes as planned and they move forward with the party. In order to get Frank out of the picture, they drug him and wrap him like a patient. During the party, Margaret becomes suspicious and phones General Hammond, with whom she once had an affair. The event raises $1800, and Hawkeye rigs the raffle so that the winner is the unit chaplain Lt. Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy (George Morgan). Margaret finds Frank and wakes him just as Henry and General Hammond return. They are both ready to have Hawkeye and Trapper arrested, but then incoming wounded are announced and they ask to wait until after surgery to be arrested. They enlist General Hammond to assist in surgery, and he is so impressed with their work, he warns Henry not to lose them as surgeons. Odessa Cleveland is Lt. Ginger Bayliss. John Orchard is Capt. “Ugly John” Black. Linda Meiklejohn is Lt. Leslie Scorch. Laura Miller is Knocko. Bruno Kirby is Pvt. Lorenzo Boone. Jamie Farr is the speaker announcer. 11/8/20

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Seaman Jacobs, Ed James, and Jim Barnett

Theme song written by William Lava and Irving Taylor

• 001. Scourge of the West – 9/14/1965
  • Near the end of the Civil War, bumbling Private Wilton Parmenter (Ken Berry), a member of a Quartermaster corp and a proud Philadelphia military family, is sent to do the General’s (Barry Kelley) laundry. Along the way, he accidentally sneezes and causes a charge that ultimately leads to a Union Victory, earning Parmenter the nickname “The Scourge of Appomattox.” His family attends his ceremony where he is promoted to Captain, and awarded a Medal of Honor, followed by a Purple Heart, after being pricked with the Medal of Honor. He is also assigned to take over assigned to the remote Fort Courage. Upon his arrival there, he meets Sgt. Morgan Sylvester O’Rourke (Forrest Tucker), Corporal Randolph Agarn (Larry Storch), and Private Hannibal Shirley Dobbs (James Hampton), the bugler who can only play two songs. He also meets “Wrangler” Jane Angelica Thrift (Melody Patterson), the young attractive owner of the Trading Post and postmaster, who takes an instant liking to him. The men seem rather inept, especially when Agarn immediately fires the cannon into the lookout tour causing it – and the lookout Trooper Vanderbilt (Joe Brooks) – to collapse. O’Rourke and Agarn secretly run “O’Rourke Enterprises,” which makes money by selling war relics to tourists. They have also established peace with the Hekawi tribe, and often work with them on money-making ventures. Through their manipulation, the F troop is also collection rations for thirty men when they actually only have seventeen. Other than the Shug tribe, F troop sees very little action, but when they get word that Lieutenant Jefferson Hawkes (Jay Sheffield) is being sent by the Inspector General to check out the camp, O’Rourke and Agarn work with the Hekawi Chief Wild Eagle (Frank DeKova) to fake an attack to make it look like they are busy. They are instructed to attack when the cannon is fired. The defer to the elderly Roaring Chicken (Edward Everett Horton) on how to do a War Dance, but when they can’t figure one out, Agarn tutors them on how to do one. Meanwhile the Shug Indian Chief (Henry Brandon), decides to attack the fort for real. Just after the arrival of Hawkes, the Shug attack, and between Wrangler Jane’s crack shooting, Parmenter’s bumbling, and the name recognition of Parmenter as being the “Scourge of the West,” the Shug retreat, making it appear that Parmenter is a big hero. Later when Parmenter sets off the cannon for Retreat, the Hekawi make their fake attack. Alan Hewitt is Colonel Malcolm. 11/7/20

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