Gimme a Break!: Show information
First Telecast: October 29, 1981
Last Telecast: May 12, 1987
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Show Summary:
A rotund black housekeeper maintained
order in the home of a portly white police chief in this old-fashioned
comedy set in the fictional town of Glen Lawn, California. Policeman
Carl's beloved wife Margaret had died only months before, leaving him with
three, winsome daughters, ranging in age from cute grade-schooler to troublesome
teen. Wisecracks and fat jokes abounded, but there was a lot of love
as Nell tried to be friend and surrogate mother to the clan. Officer
Simpson was a dopey police officer who was frequently seen, and Joey was
a six-year-old orphan and junior-grade hustler who joined the household
in the third season.
As the 1985-1986 season opened the
chief had passed away (actor Dolph Sweet had died), and Nell became both
mother and father to the Kanisky brood. The man of the house was
now Jonathan, who had married Julie at the end of the previous season and
moved in. By 1986, with the Kanisky girls grown and/or college-bound,
Nell and her best friend Addy decided to leave Glen Lawn for New York City,
with Grandpa and little Joey in tow. There they discovered Joey's
irresponsible father Tim, who turned over Joey's younger brother Matthew
(played by Joey Lawrence's real-life brother) and departed, adding a second
child to the shifting household. Marty was Nell's nutty New York
landlord, who also owned the restaurant El Gaspacho downstairs, where he
put on a phony Spanish accent and called himself "Esteban".
Gimme a Break! was created by Mort Lachman and Sy Rosen.
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