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His And Hers aired from March until August 1990 on CBS.
Doug and Reggie( Martin Mull, Stephanie Faracy), were newly married marriage counselors who often seemed better at giving good advice to their clients than of taking it themselves.Reggie who had never been married before, suffered tremendous anxiety over her seeming inability to get pregnant. Living with them were Noah and Mandy ( Blake Soper, Lisa Picotte), the teenaged children from Doug's first marriage. Jeff ( Richard Kline), was Doug's best friend, an unscupolous divorce attorney who lined his pockets with the fallout from his buddy's counseling practice. Debbie ( Blair Tifkin), was Doug and Reggie's spaced-out receptionist and the Buckley's ( Jim Doughan, Jane Morris), were members of Doug's therapy group.
A Review from USA TODAY
TV PREVIEW/BY MATT ROUSH
'His & Hers,' a marriage of tedium
Once upon a time in the late '60s, when CBS still was a network to laugh with, not at, there came a sophisticated romantic sitcom called He & She.
A delightful comedy it was, too, with real-life marrieds Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin sparkling with wit, with freshness , with knowledge they were ahead of their times ( it lasted only a season).
His & Hers is no He & She. Sounding like a set of bath towells, it's more a wet blanket, a tepid nonenity about newlywed marriage counselors that's a sorry way to end an otherwise swell sitcom lineup.
The manic Doctor, Doctor, on regretable hiatus to make room for this, has its faults, but boredom isn't among them. His & Hers revels in ennui, from its dippy Love Crazy theme-rhyming cupid with stupid-to the shiny sterility of its lovebirds' home life.
A comedy about marriage counselors who are married might click if there were something inherently offbeat or inexplicable about their union.
But this is a case of bland blonds bonding, winsome Stephanie Faracy cuddling up to Martin Mull, whose usual smug irony is swamped by a dorky eagerness to please.
If she said tomato, he'd say tomato. Vanilla, vanilla, more to the point . And they should still call the whole thing off.
Tonight script piles on yuppie-sex buzzwords-the ticking biological clock, sperm tests-but sugar coats the terrors of adult intimacy.
" Your little guys aren't swimming," Faracy pouts in one of several sperm jokes. She'd like a child of her own, although her two nondescript stepkids should be a warning.
A slight gag contrasting her baby fixation with an elevator full of moms-to-be was more memorably handled on Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.
But then , Molly lived in the real world. His & Hers are just plastic pronouns marking time for the next CBS dud to arrive.
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