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SEASON 1 – The WB

Created by Allison M. Gibson

Theme song: “I’m a Survivor” written by Shelby Kennedy and Phillip White, performed by Reba McEntire

• 001. Pilot – 10/5/2001
  • The Hart family, who reside in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and is made up of dentist Brock (Christopher Rich), his ex-wife Reba Nell (Reba McEntire), their teenage daughter Cheyenne (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), middle daughter Kyra (Scarlett Pomers), and youngest son Jake (Mitch Holleman), are sent to court-ordered therapy after a melee ensues at the separation custody hearing. The doctor Susan Peters (Nell Carter) is trying to get to the root of their problems, when it is revealed that Brock is going to marry his dental receptionist Barbara Jean Booker (Melissa Peterman) and she is pregnant, and also that Cheyenne is pregnant from her boyfriend Van Montgomery (Steve Howey). Brock and Reba are naturally angry, but Reba plans to offer her daughter support. She sends Van home to tell his parents the news. That night she finds Van hiding under Cheyenne’s bed. She has snuck him into the house because when he told his parents, they responded by kicking him out. Reba tells him that he can live at their house, so she can help oversee the raising of the baby. Van makes a grand gesture and asks Cheyenne to marry him. Although Brock is his assistant coach and a fan of Van as a high school football player, he is against the marriage and tells Reba that he refuses to come to the wedding. She demands that he come, and is asked to bring ice to the wedding ceremony at her house. Reba works hard to get ready for the wedding despite a series of crises including Cheyenne refusing to wear Reba’s wedding dress in favor of a tiny strapless dress with no bra, and Cheyenne melting down because she’s afraid her father isn’t coming. When Reba starts burning the food, she too nearly has a nervous breakdown. Brock finally shows up with the ice, as well as the eternally perky Barbara Jean. Reba recovers just in time to stop a fight between Cheyenne and Van, started because Van plans to play football after the wedding. This results in a small melee that causes Barbara Jean to fall into the cake. Reba has a talk with Cheyenne realizing that their lives are not how they planned them to be, but it is important that they learn to plot a new course. The wedding goes on as planned. Bret Loehr is Jake’s friend Bret. Jorge Luis Abreu is the wedding photographer. 1/10/22

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Sheldon Leonard

This series is a semi-spinoff of “The Danny Thomas Show,” as the character of Andy Taylor is introduced in episode #206, “Danny Meets Andy Griffith”

Theme Song: “The Fishin’ Hole” by Earle Hagen and Herbert W. Spencer. The announcer is Colin Male.

• 001. The New Housekeeper – 10/3/1960
  • Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) is a friendly widowed sheriff for the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, living with his young son Opie Taylor (Ron Howard). His cousin Barney Fife (Don Knotts) serves as his bumbling deputy. The Taylor’s housekeeper Rose (Mary Treen) is getting married and leaving them behind, and Opie couldn’t be more upset about it. He tries to interrupt the wedding proceedings, but Andy finishes the service and tells Opie that his Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), who raised him as a boy will soon be coming to take care of them. Opie has no confidence in Aunt Bea, especially when he figures out she can’t play baseball or fish. The final straw is when she leaves his birdcage door open and his bird Dickie escapes. Bee senses Opie’s disappointment in her and is ready to leave when Opie stops her, citing the fact that she needs him since she has no idea how to do anything for herself – ie. fishing and baseball. As Andy sings Crawdad Hole on the front porch, Opie announces that Dickie has returned. Meanwhile, Barney arrests the elderly Emma Brand (Cheerio Meredith) for jaywalking. Frank Ferguson is Wilbur Pine. 1/11/14 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – CBS

Theme song: “Dobie” written by Lionel Newman and Max Shulman, performed by Judd Conlon’s Rhythmaires

NOTE: This series was based on the Max Shulman short stories between 1945-1951, collected in a single volume of the same title, and subsequently the 1953 motion picture “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis”

• 001. Caper at the Bijou – 9/29/1959
  • Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman) is a girl-crazy teenager living with his parents, the gruff and easily frustrated Herbert (Frank Faylen) and the placid and flighty Winifred (Florida Friebus), who run a grocery store attached to their home. After his father refuses him, his mother slips him some money to attend Jackpot Night at the theater. A girl named Thalia Menninger (Tuesday Weld) approaches him to partner up and split the jackpot if one of them wins. Dobie not only agrees, he immediately falls in love with her. Thalia admits that she might be interested…if Dobie only had some money. Dobie promises her that he’ll come up with enough to take her to the Junior Prom. Dobie and his friend Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver) concoct a scheme to cheat at Jackpot Night by calling Dobie’s number no matter what he draws from his seat in the front row. At the last minute Dobie’s conscience catches up with him and he refuses to claim the prize, so another number is drawn. Thalia is disappointed and tells Dobie she’s like to stick with him, but she can’t be with someone who is penniless. Maynard then shows up at the theater late indicating that Dobie’s number had rightfully been drawn after all. Herbert Anderson plays the teacher Mr. Pomfritt and Jason Wingreen is the theater manager. 1/10/14

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SEASON 1 – HBO

Theme music composed by Mark Rivers

• 001. Pilot – 6/11/206
  • Louie (Louis C.K.) makes very little money working in a muffler shop, and his wife Kim (Pamela Adlon) is the major breadwinner, working as a nurse. They have a four-year old daughter named Lucy (Kelly Gould) who has just had a birthday, during which she got two Barbie dolls, one white and one black. Kim throws them both away, which offends their black neighbors Walter (Jerry Minor) and Ellen (Kim Hawthorne). Louis tries to make it right by inviting them for dinner, but he forgets about it and they show up and see the remnants of a finished dinner on the table. Louis admits that he just wants to be friends with them so Lucy will know about black people, and Water agrees to be friendly for her sake. Louie is also caught masturbating in the closet, and Kim agrees to have sex with him every day for a week. Walter’s friends Mike (Michael G. Hagerty) and Rich (Jim Norton) convince him that Kim only wants to have another baby – which turns out to be true. Her efforts to seduce him go in vain, as Louie thinks they are too broke to have another child. In the end, Louie decides that he won’t let bill collectors determine the course of his life, so he agrees to try for the baby. Laura Kightlinger plays Tina, Mike’s wife and also Kim’s friend. Rick Shapiro plays Jerry. 1/9/14 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Chuck Lorre and Steve Molero

This is a prequel spinoff of the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory”

Theme song: “Mighty Little Man” by Steve Burns

• 001. Pilot – 9/25/2017
  • New York Theoretical Physicist Sheldon Cooper (voice of Jim Parsons) narrates tales of his life as a 9-year old living with his family in Medford, a city in East Texas, in 1989. Sheldon (Iain Armitage) is a boy genius with plenty of quirks, obsessions, and phobias, all of which confound his mother Mary (Zoe Perry), his high school football coach father George Sr. (Lance Barber), older brother Georgie (Montana Jordan), and twin sister Missy (Raegan Revord). Sheldon is getting ready to start his accelerated education in high school, much to the embarrassment of Georgie. Over dinner, Sheldon observes his family and participates in his prayer handholding by putting on mittens to avoid germs. Although he doesn’t believe in God, he agrees to join his mother at church because he loves her. During the service, he questions much of Pastor Jeff Hodgkin’s (Matt Hobby) teachings about evil thoughts, much to the irritation of churchgoer Betty (Marcia Ann Burrs). His mother sends him out to play on his last day of Summer break, but he is scared of everything including bully Billy Sparks (Wyatt McClure). On the morning of his first day at high school, Sheldon can’t find his bowtie and blames Georgie, but it turns out to be his father who hid it, hoping that he will appear less strange to the other kids. Sheldon is reluctant to give it up, since his TV hero Captain Proton (Bob Newhart) wears one, but eventually his mother is able to talk him out of it. When he gets into his first classroom, he quickly run afoul of his teacher Ms. Vicky MacElroy (Valerie Mahaffey) when he is quick to point out the rule violations of the students, as well as her mustache. This goes the same in every class, and soon Mr. Hubert Givens (Brian Stepanek) and Ms. Ingram (Danielle Pinnock) join Ms. MacElroy in pleading with Principal Petersen (Rex Linn) that Sheldon shouldn’t be in the public high school. Meanwhile Sheldon roams the high school and meets music teacher Ms. Fenley (Melissa Tang), who discovers that Sheldon is also a music prodigy with perfect pitch. The principal meets with Sheldon’s parents and Mary insists that he stay in the school, and they find a way to make it work. Georgie is so embarrassed by his brother that he takes it out on a kid named Stinson (Christian Alexander Garcia) on the football field when he attacks him. Back home George has a discussion with Sheldon about tattling on others and indicates that he lost his job by telling on some former school associates for some shady practices. That night at dinner he removes his glove in order to hold his father’s hand. Doc Farrow is Assistant Coach Wilkins. 1/3/20

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