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SEASON 1 – Fox

Created by Steven Levitan

Theme song by Steve Hampton and John Adair (and Paul Bessenbacher, uncredited)

• 001. Pilot – 4/13/2005
  • Gavin P. Miller (Elon Gold) is a divorced, published author of a very low-selling book, who has opened his own bookstore called Stacked in Los Angeles with his younger brother Stuart (Brian Scolaro), who has a master’s degree in Psychology, but is basically a red-blooded male who is constantly chasing women, despite seldom getting any. Also working at Stacked is Katrina (Marissa Jaret Winokur), who mans the coffee shop counter. They have one regular customer, the curmudgeonly Professor Harold March (Christopher Lloyd), former head of the Physics department at Cal Tech, who likes to hang out, drink coffee, and read the paper. Once day a beautiful, busty woman named Skyler Dayton (Pamela Anderson) stops in the store after catching her musician boyfriend Eddie Banks (Charles Mesure) cheating on her once again, this time with two women at once, to search for a relationship self-help book. Stuart has an immediate crush on Skyler and tries to help her find a book. Gavin criticizes the book she winds up with and tries to steer her toward a headier book, but Skyler says the author looks too mean and buys her original choice, then hangs out to read it. After she asks Harold if he thinks people can change, and he says no, Skyler decides to break it off with her boyfriend. When she invites him to the bookstore to break up, Gavin becomes nervous when she tells him how he has an explosive temper. Meanwhile, Gavin still desires a reconciliation with her wife Charlotte (Paget Brewster), who stops by the bookstore with their children Owen (Vincent Martella) and Allegra (Carlie Westerman). Charlotte declines his request for a date because she has started to see a doctor. Gavin counters by telling her that he too is seeing someone, then sneaks over to Skyler and asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend. Charlotte is shocked, and their son Owen can’t take his eyes off her chest. Eddie shows up at the bookstore and pleads with her to come back to him. Charlotte also returns and has second thoughts about leaving the door open for a reconciliation. Gavin decides to pass on the offer, quoting lines from the book that Skyler is reading. Skyler throws him out of the bookstore, so he asks Charlotte out. She impulsively accepts, but then Gavin reminds her that their kids are in the car. Skyler announces a fresh start for herself to be her own soulmate, so Stuart asks her to come work at the bookstore. Gavin doesn’t think it is a good idea at all, especially considering the choice she made for the relationship book. Then Harold comes across an article that the author of the headier book had just strangled his wife with his Nobel Prize and stored her head in the freezer. Bruce Dent is the customer, Bruce. 11/27/23

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Stu Silver, Dick Clair, and Jenna McMahon

Theme song: “It’s a Living” composed by George Tipton and Leslie Bricusse

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf

Opening song: “Katy” by Gordon Zahler and Leith Stevens

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• 090. Pandora – 3/16/1961
  • Mr. Devery plans on traveling to Los Angeles to visit with noted actor Anthony Bardot (Guy Mitchell), where he hopes to talk him into letting the Bartley House host his premier party in the Crystal Room. Katy, however, notes that Devery already has a Hotel Managers Convention booked for the weekend. Since Katy has known Bardot since before his days as a star, she volunteers to go in his place. Upon arrival at Bardot’s home, she meets Bardot’s latest secretary Mavis (Jane Burgess), who is storming out of the house and quitting. Bardot tells her that he has had trouble finding and keeping a secretary who didn’t want to either marry him or get a job in the pictures. He introduces her to his assistant Gabby Hoff (Luke Anthony) and housekeeper Mrs. Dudley (Jeane Wood). Katy agrees to help Bardot find a suitable secretary. She starts by calling an employment agency and speaks to a Mrs. Norton (Fay Baker) and tells her that she is looking for a simply, unsophisticated girl. It so happens that she has a girl fresh off the bus from Iowa named Pandora Peterson (Pat Carroll) in her office, although she worries that Pandora may be too clumsy when the wheel falls off of her chair while she is in the office, and she attempts to fix it. Katy asks Norton to send her right over but not tell her that she is working for Anthony Bardot. After she interviews Pandora and sees the incredible speed at which she types, Katy determines that she would be perfect for the job and introduces her to Bardot, causing Pandora to faint dead away. After she recovers, she meets Gabby, who puts her to work rubber stamping Bardot’s autographed photos. Pandora tries to impress Gabby with her Hollywood impersonations of Betty Duck and one that sounds just like Katherine Hepburn but apparently isn’t. Bardot tells Pandora that he is going out to lunch, and Gabby warns Pandora about making sure that she keeps the door bolted when no one is there as fans sometimes try and get in to see Bardot. As she writes a letter home to her mother, Pandora notices a but full of tourist sightseers outside the house. One tourist lady (Edith Leslie) bribes the bus driver (Art Lewis) to let her get off the bus to take pictures of the house. She winds up wandering into the yard and tripping on the front porch. Pandora brings her inside to help her, causing the other tourists to all file into the house and start looting for souvenirs. Bardot returns amidst the pandemonium, and after clearing the house, fires Katy. Both Gabby and Katy try to convince Bardot that the situation wasn’t entirely her fault and that everyone deserves a second chance. Bardot is adamant about getting rid of her, causing Pandora to rail him about that fact that maybe if he would go out and greet his fans once in a while, things like this wouldn’t happen. She tells him them that they just wanted something to remember him by, but she wants to leave and forget him. As a parting shot, she tells Bardot that he is ugly. Bardot is impressed with her and tells her that she is wonderful and has a job for life with him. She then reveals that she had taken a few souvenirs in her purse after all. Later, when Bardot needs Pandora to take a letter, she shows him that she has taken the typewriter apart to give it some maintenance. NOTE: This episode was intended as a backdoor pilot to a sitcom to be named either Pandora or The Pat Carroll Show but was never picked up by the network. 11/26/24

SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Joe Gannon, Patt Shea, and Harriet Weiss

Theme music by 

This series is a spin-off of the sitcom “Archie Bunker’s Place,” which is a spin-off of the sitcom “All in the Family”

• 001. The First Day – 9/26/1982
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• 002. First Date – 10/3/1982
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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Theme song: “Rise and Shine” by Hoyt Curting

• 000. The Flagstones – UNAIRED DEMONSTRATION FILM 1960
  • This was a 90-second demonstration film sent to potential sponsors, which showed a scene of Wilma taking Fred his lunch while he floats in the pool. Barney appears in his spear-fishing garb and punctures Fred’s flotation device. Barney manages to save Fred’s sandwich and eats it. The scene is later re-created in the episode The Swimming Pool. Daws Butler voices both Fred and Barney. Jean Vander Pyl voices Wilma. June Foray voices Betty. 11/30/14

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