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SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song: “The Streetbeater” by Quincy Jones

NOTE: This series is an American adaptation of the BBC series “Steptoe and Son” which aired between 1962-1965, and was revived 1970-1974.

• 001. Crossed Swords – 1/14/1972
  • Fred G. Sanford (Redd Foxx) is an elderly widower of 23 years and junk dealer in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California. He and his son Lamont (Demond Wilson) live together in the house that doubles as their junk dealership Sanford and Son Salvage, but Lamont has aspirations of moving on to bigger and better things, but Fred often guilts him into staying, usually pretending to have a heart attack and ‘joining’ his late wife Elizabeth. Lamont has picked up a rare porcelain statue for $15, but thinks that it is worth a fortune and will be his ticket out of the business. He and Fred take it to an antiques dealer (William Lanteau) in Beverly Hills, who offers them $850 for it. Fred wants to take it, but Lamont thinks he can get more on the open market and puts it up for auction. Lamont successfully drives up the bid to $1500, but the auctioneer (Robert Manden) awards the statue to Fred, who has bid $2000 in the front row. Fred then ends up breaking the statue accidentally, blaming his arthritis. More frustrated than ever, Lamont threatens to move out, but can’t get the car started. The next day Fred leaves him a suicide note, but ends up happily coming out of the closet when he hears Lamont frantically calling the police. Gilchrist Stuart is an auction bidder. 3/28/15

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SEASON 1 – FOX

Created by Mitchell Hurwitz

Theme music by David Schwartz

• 001. Pilot – 11/2/2003
  • Widower Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is the Manager of his father’s real estate company The Bluth Company, based in Orange County, California. Michael has a strained relationships with most of his family, including his snippy socialite mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), his hippie, yet selfish, twin sister Lindsay (Portia di Rossi) his older brother magician George Oscar II – aka Gob (Will Arnett), and his younger brother Byron – aka Buster (Tony Hale), who is rather slow and indecisive about his future. Michael’s father George “Pop-Pop” (Jeffrey Tambor) is holding his retirement party on the ship Marina Hornblower, and Michael expects to be named as partner of the firm. Michael and his teenage son George Michael (Michael Cera) are living in the model home of one the company’s housing tracts. George Michael works at Bluth Company’s Original Frozen Banana Stand on Balboa Island. Lindsay and Michael haven’t spoken in a year, as her and her husband, the flamboyant Tobias Fünke (David Cross) have been attending fundraisers all over the country. Lindsay and Tobias and their daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat) show up in town a month prior to the party but do not tell Michael. Tobias is a former doctor who lost his medical license for administering CPR on a man who was just sleeping. Michael is disgusted with his mother, Lindsay, and Gob for dipping into company funds constantly. Meanwhile George Michael meets up with his cousin Maeby, and decide to play a prank on their parents by kissing and pretending they don’t know they are cousins. After they kiss on the boat, George Michael develops an immediate crush on her. Tobias thinks he’s trying out for a pirate troupe and winds up on a boat full of gay protesters. When George names Lucille as the C.E.O. instead of Michael, he decides to take his son and leave the family behind. Police and the SEC invade the party and arrest George for defrauding investors. George attempts to hide Gob’s magic trick the Aztec Tomb, and when the news reveals how it works, Gob is ostracized from the Magic Alliance. Tobias is arrested with the protesters and decides to following many of their footsteps…and become an actor. The SEC freezes the the company accounts, and Lucille puts Buster in charge of the company. Michael takes another job in Phoenix with a rival housing company. The family realizes they need Michael after all and begs him to come back. Micheal refuses, and visits his father in jail to formally resign from the Bluth Company. George explains that he didn’t appoint Michael as CEO to keep him out of legal trouble. John Beard plays newscaster John Beard. Stacey Woods is field reporter Trisha Thoon. Ron Howard is the narrator. 3/25/16

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns

Theme song: “Love Is All Around” written and performed by Sonny Curtis. 

• 001. Love Is All Around – 9/19/1970
  • 30-year old Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) moves from her hometown of Roseburg, Minnesota to Minneapolis after breaking it off with her fiancé who has not moved forward with getting married after two years together. She moves into a studio apartment on the third floor of a house owned by her friend Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman), who lives below her with her husband Lars and daughter Bess (Lisa Gerritsen). Her upstairs neighborhood Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) at first clashes with Mary because she wants this apartment, even hiring a locksmith (Dave Morick), to change Mary’s locks, but they eventually become friends. Mary applies for a job as secretary in the newsroom of WJM, but the irascible producer Lou Grant (Ed Asner) hires her to be the executive producer, a role in which she doesn’t know what to do at first. Her fellow associates are head writer Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod) and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). Mary receives a visit from a drunk Lou and assumes that he is making a pass at her, but actually only wants her help to type a letter to his wife, who has gone out of town and he misses. Mary also accepts a date with her ex-fiancé Bill (Angus Duncan), but it goes nowhere since it becomes obvious that he still has no desire to marry Mary. 3/24/17

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Paul Fusco and Tom Patchett

Theme music composed by Alf Clausen and Tom Kramer

• 000. Pilot – UNAIRED
  • At dinner in the Tanner household, Lynn asks to borrow Willie’s car since her boyfriend Lash doesn’t have a license, to which he refuses. This leads to an argument about Lash’s merits, and Lynn storms off. Later that night in his observatory, Willie picks up some strange satellite communications that are followed by a bright light, and a crash of spaceship into his roof. Willie carries the unconscious A.L.F. – Alien Life Form – into the living room, and the family debates whether they should call the authorities on the creature. When ALF wakes up, they find he can converse in English. Kate is mostly irritated by having him there, especially when he wakes up next to her in bed. ALF also doesn’t seem to care whether Willie can fix his spaceship, and doesn’t go to any lengths to hide himself from the neighbors the Ochmoneks. He bonds with the children, and Kate and Willie are able to make up and come to an understanding about her driving privileges. ALF tells Kate and Brian that his planet has exploded and there really isn’t anywhere for him to go. An officer named Darnell Valentine (Blackie Dammett) from the alien task force, and Kate quickly volunteers that they are not harboring any aliens. ALF acclimates to being part of the family and is the center of attention telling jokes at the dinner table. Everyone is amused… except for Kate. 11/15/20  

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SEASON 1  – CBS

Created  by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy

Theme song composed by Jerry Fielding

• 001. The Informer – 9/17/1965
  • In 1942 Germany, a World War 2 prison camp Stalag 13 serves as a base of Allied operations right under the nose of the camp Kommandant Colonel Wilhlem Klink (Werner Klemperer) and Sergeant of the Guard Sgt. Hans Georg Shultz (John Banner), who turns a blind eye to the resistance activities for fear of being sent to the German front. Heading up the resistance is American Air Force Colonel Robert E. Hogan (Bob Crane), who is joined by Staff Sergeant James “Kinch” Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon), French Air Force Corporal Louis LeBeau (Robert Clary), and Royal Air Force Corporal Peter Newkirk (Richard Dawson). One of the prisoners , Olsen (Stewart Moss), escapes and switches places with Lieutenant Andrew Carter (Larry Hovis), with the intention of giving him the identity of a German civilian in order to allow him to escape. Following that Olsen will return to keep the head count always the same, and the process will repeat. Hogan tests any incoming prisoner to make sure they are not a German ringer, and one prisoner, Wagner (Noam Pitlik), fails the test. Hogan pretends to have full trust in Wagner and takes him to show the underground operation that includes a prisoner steam room, a counterfeiting ring, and manufacturing of German novelty cigarette lighters. However he fills him with a series of lies, that makes his claims sound outlandish when he reports the camp to SS Gestapo officer Col. Burkhalter (Leon Askin), and thus causing Wagner to be sent to the front. Leonid Kinskey plays Russian POW Vladimir Minsk. Cynthia Lynn is Klink’s secretary Helga. Walter Janovitz is Oscar Schnitzer. Richard Sinatra is Sergeant Riley. Jon Cedar is Corporal Langenscheidt. NOTE: Although Carter escapes the camp in this pilot, his character would become Technical Sergeant and a series regular. This is the only episode to be filmed in black and white. 3/25/17

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