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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme music: “When We’re Singin” composed by Wes Farrell, Diane Hilderbrand, Danny Janssen, performed by The Partridge Family (aka The Wrecking Crew)

• 001. What? and Get Out of Show Business? – 9/25/1970
  • The Partridge Family drives down Hollywood Boulevard and then are seen being introduced by Johnny Cash (himself) before they perform Together (Havin’ a Ball). Through flashback, we are introduced to the recently widowed Shirley Partridge (Shirley Jones), who works as a bank teller in San Pueblo, California, where she is raising her five children Keith (David Cassidy), Laurie (Susan Dey), Danny (Danny Bonaduce), Chris (Jeremy Gelbwaks), and Tracy (Suzanne Crough). The kids have musical aspirations and practice as a band in their garage. When their new lead singer Gloria Steinman doesn’t show up, they convince their mother to join them and record the song Let the Good Times In. Convinced that the song could make millions, Danny stalks record producer Reuben Kincaid (Dave Madden) at his hotel and the airport until he finally agrees to produce the record. When the song becomes a hit, the kids further convince their mother to join them on the road so that they can go on a music tour in a purchased multicolored bus along with their dog Simone. They head to Las Vegas and perform at Caesar’s Palace. After some initial stage fright they perform both songs for an enthusiastic audience. Back home Chris considers quitting drumming after a girl named Debbie (Debra Pearce) plays her heart out in their living room. Gordon Jump and Ceil Cabot appear as a man and woman on the street. Hal Taggert is the hotel clerk. Felton Perry is the airport clerk. 12/28/14

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme music written by WAZ

• 001. Pilot – 9/23/2009
  • Jules Cobb (Courtney Cox) is a forty-something real estate agent in Gulfhaven, Florida, divorced from slacker husband Bobby (Brian Van Holt), with one teenager son Travis (Dan Byrd). Having spent her twenties and thirties raising her son, she is now torn between her married neighbor and best friend Ellie Torres (Christa Miller), who lives a relatively calm suburban existence with her husband Andy (Ian Gomez) and their baby Stan (Christopher and Zachary Randazzo), and her much-younger friend Laurie Keller (Busy Phillips), who works for Jules and is trying desperately to get her back on the dating scene. Jules has a rocky friendship with another neighbor, Grayson Ellis (Josh Hopkins), another forty-something divorcee, who works as a bartender at Gray’s Pub and has no problem getting back into the dating scene…generally with much younger women. Grayson has no problem antagonizing Jules, who wants to be his ‘paper buddy,’ having chats each morning when they get their newspapers. Laurie posts provocative real estate posters for Jules all over town, which the classmates of Travis are stealing. Adding to Travis’ humiliation is his father who takes a job cutting grass at Travis’ school. Laurie takes Jules out to a nightclub called Soho, where Jules meets a much younger man named Matt (David Clayton Rogers) and ends up sleeping with him multiple times, getting caught in a sexual act by her son and ex-husband when they come home unexpectedly. Travis gets into a fist fight with a classmate over the posters. Jules and Laurie track down the kid named Robbie (Tyler Steelman) stealing the posters and follow him back to his house where they confront him and take back the posters. Jules explains why she feels the need to go out and live to Travis, and as soon as he takes off for a friend. Jules sneaks Matt back in. Carolyn Hennesy plays competing realtor Barbara Coman. 12/28/14

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Sherry Coben

Opening Theme: “Along Comes a Friend” composed by John Loeffler and Ralph Schuckett, performed by John Loeffler

• 001. Allie’s First Date – 3/19/1984
  • Childhood friends Kate McCardle (Susan Saint James) and Allie Lowell (Jane Curtin) share a brownstone in Greenwich Village in New York City after their divorces. Sharing the house are Kate’s daughter Emma (Ari Meyers), Allie’s children Jennie (Alison Smith) and Chip (Frederick Koehler). Kate works at Sloane Travel and make a blind date with another agent named David Hamill (Kelsey Grammer) whom she has only talked to. When he picks up Kate for her date, she has a nice chat with Allie while she is wallpapering and then heads out on the date with Kate. When she returns, she reports that there was nothing between them. David calls Kate the next day and asks if she would be okay if he asks out Allie, who is ecstatic that David preferred her over Kate. Allie is also anxious to have David show up when her ex-husband Charles Lowell (Paul Hecht), who left her for another woman named Claire, is there to pick up the kids. Kate and Jennie give Allie last-minute dating advice, and then stalls Charles until David shows up. Allie and David go to dinner, where Allie spends the entire evening talking about her failed marriage. When the date ends early, she winds up hiding in the laundry room with their neighbor Roger (Jack Gilpin) until Charles drops off the kids. 12/28/18 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Irving Pincus

Theme song: “The Real McCoys” written by Harry Ruby

• 001. Californy, Here We Come – 10/3/1957
  • After inheriting a farm from relative Ben McCoy, Grandpa Amos McCoy (Walter Brennan) and his grandson Luke (Richard Crenna) head from their home in Smokey Corners, West Virginia to California with Luke’s new wife Kate (Kathleen Nolan) and his younger sister Tallahassee “Hassie” (Lydia Reed) and Little Luke (Michael Winkelman) in tow. Upon arrival they meet their Mexican ranch foreman Pepino (Tony Martinez), who Grandpa mistakes for a Russian. Although the house is run down, it is much larger than their home in the Appalachians and the kids are concerned about having their own rooms. Luke has a talk with Grandpa about warming up to Kate and calling her by her name rather than “ma’am.’ He finds out that Grandpa would have preferred him to meet a stronger woman, but agrees to give her a chance. Grandpa starts to miss home and fighting with his friend Frank Gooding. He tries bickering with Pepino, but the spots his neighbor Flora MacMichael (Madge Blake) feeding her sheep on his grass and kicks her off the property. He then learns from Pepino that Ben had agreed to allow the MacMichael animals to graze on his land in exchange for them allowing the McCoy ranch to get their water from the MacMichael ranch. The MacMichaels immediately stop the water supply, leaving Little Luke covered in soap from his bath. Luke insists that Grandpa go apologize, but he feels the family is getting soft and wants to head back to Smokey Corners. Grandpa degrades himself by apologizing to Flora, only to find that it was her brother George (Andy Clyde) who shut off the water. Amos and George begin to bicker and arm wrestle, and then Amos challenges him to a game of horseshoes and invites him to dinner. Now that he has found a friend he can bicker with, he decides to stay, much to relief of his family who has begun to miss him even before he left. 12/28/18 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – SHOWTIME

Created by Lisa Kudrow, Don Roos, Dan Bucatinsky

NOTE: This show is based on the web series “Web Therapy”, which consisted of 4 seasons of 67 episodes filmed between 2008-2014

Theme music composed by John Swihart

• 001. Click to Start – 7/19/2011
  • Philadelphia therapist Fiona Wallice (Lisa Kudrow) has left her practice at Lachman Brothers under undefined mysterious circumstances and has a conceived of a new practice of web therapy by which clients will video chat with her for just three minutes, so they can cut right to the chase rather than spending 50 minutes idly chatting. She first tests this out on her husband Kip (Victor Garber) who is sitting right next to her, and they simulate a session with him passively going through his litany of grievances about her controlling and needy tendencies and the fact that he’s been unhappy for 15 and a half years of their seventeen-year marriage as she blows through his money. She then chats with an old colleague from Lachman named Richard Pratt (Tim Bagley), with whom she is clearly interested… although she once had invited him to kiss her and when he tried, she referred to it as a ‘sex crime.’ Richard merely wants advice on his current girlfriend, and with that she closes the session for the week. She then chats with Gina Spinks (Jennifer Elise Cox), the ditsy receptionist at Lachman who helped put up her flyers in the breakroom, which led to Richard using her services. Fiona then returns to a session with Richard and in the midst of it, sends him a sexy picture. Richard is happy with his girlfriend but fears she is not taking her medication. Fiona inadvertently steers Richard toward proposing to his girlfriend. Later she chats with Kip who is upstairs about securing a start-up fee of $200,000 from Lachman, insinuating blackmail in her request. Finally she has a session with her former client Jerome Sokoloff (Dan Bucatinsky), who has recently turned to another therapist, thinking that Fiona doesn’t deal in incest. His issue is that he was going to propose to his girlfriend Hayley when he found out that she may have been conceived from a sperm donation from his father to one of her lesbian mothers. 12/27/18

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