November 11, 1980
Too Close for Comfort debuted on ABC.
This
American sitcom which ran on the ABC network
from November 11, 1980, to May 5, 1983, and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984, to February 7, 1987. It was modeled after
the British seriesKeep It in the Family, which premiered nine
months before Too Close for Comfort debuted in the United States. Its name was changed
to The Ted Knight Show when the show was retooled for
what would turn out to be its final season.
Ted
Knight and Nancy Dussault star as respective
characters Henry and Muriel Rush, owners of a two-family house in Mill Valley, California. The two story red
house, seen at the opening and closing of each episode, was shot at 171–173
Buena Vista East Avenue in San Francisco, California.
Henry
is a conservative cartoonist who authors a comic strip called Cosmic
Cow. During scenes in which Henry draws in his bedroom, Knight used
his earlier acquired ventriloquism talents for comical conversations with a
hand-puppet version of "Cosmic Cow." Muriel is a laid back freelance
photographer, having been a band singer in her earlier days. They have two
grown children, older daughter, brunette Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) who works for a bank and younger daughter Sara (Lydia Cornell), a blonde bombshell and a
college student atSan Francisco State University.
At
the start of the premiere episode, Jackie and Sara are living with their
parents in a cramped, awkward arrangement. Their longtime downstairs tenant,
Myron (later called Neville) Rafkin, recently died. The family discovers Rafkin
was a transvestite and the many strange
women Henry had been opening the door for all those years were actually Rafkin
himself. Jackie and Sara convince their parents to allow them to move into the
now-vacant downstairs apartment. In a running gag, Henry falls off the girls'
ultra-modern chairs or couch every time he attempts to sit down. Despite the
daughters' push for independence and moving into the downstairs apartment,
Henry proves to be a very protective father and constantly meddles in their
affairs.
November 12, 1990
Actress Eve Arden, best known for playing the title
role in the radio and TV series Our Miss Brooks, dies at age 78.
Arden was born in Mill Valley, California, and began
acting as a teenager. By age 22, she was appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies. She
made two films under her birth name-Eunice Quedens-before her first picture as
Eve Arden (Oh, Doctor! in 1937). She frequently played the
kind-but-sarcastic girlfriend of the lead female role. Her films included No,
No, Nanette (1940), Mildred Pierce (1945), and Anatomy of a
Murder (1959). Her last film was Grease II (1982). She published an
autobiography, The Three Phases of Eve, in 1985.
November 11, 1980
Too Close for Comfort debuted on ABC.
This American sitcom which ran on the ABC network from November 11, 1980, to May 5, 1983, and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984, to February 7, 1987. It was modeled after the British seriesKeep It in the Family, which premiered nine months before Too Close for Comfort debuted in the United States. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show when the show was retooled for what would turn out to be its final season.
Ted
Knight and Nancy Dussault star as respective
characters Henry and Muriel Rush, owners of a two-family house in Mill Valley, California. The two story red
house, seen at the opening and closing of each episode, was shot at 171–173
Buena Vista East Avenue in San Francisco, California.
Henry
is a conservative cartoonist who authors a comic strip called Cosmic
Cow. During scenes in which Henry draws in his bedroom, Knight used
his earlier acquired ventriloquism talents for comical conversations with a
hand-puppet version of "Cosmic Cow." Muriel is a laid back freelance
photographer, having been a band singer in her earlier days. They have two
grown children, older daughter, brunette Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) who works for a bank and younger daughter Sara (Lydia Cornell), a blonde bombshell and a
college student atSan Francisco State University.
At the start of the premiere episode, Jackie and Sara are living with their parents in a cramped, awkward arrangement. Their longtime downstairs tenant, Myron (later called Neville) Rafkin, recently died. The family discovers Rafkin was a transvestite and the many strange women Henry had been opening the door for all those years were actually Rafkin himself. Jackie and Sara convince their parents to allow them to move into the now-vacant downstairs apartment. In a running gag, Henry falls off the girls' ultra-modern chairs or couch every time he attempts to sit down. Despite the daughters' push for independence and moving into the downstairs apartment, Henry proves to be a very protective father and constantly meddles in their affairs.
November 12, 1990
Actress Eve Arden, best known for playing the title role in the radio and TV series Our Miss Brooks, dies at age 78.
Arden was born in Mill Valley, California, and began acting as a teenager. By age 22, she was appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies. She made two films under her birth name-Eunice Quedens-before her first picture as Eve Arden (Oh, Doctor! in 1937). She frequently played the kind-but-sarcastic girlfriend of the lead female role. Her films included No, No, Nanette (1940), Mildred Pierce (1945), and Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Her last film was Grease II (1982). She published an autobiography, The Three Phases of Eve, in 1985.
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