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Broadcast History:
First Telecast: March 8, 1991
Mar 1991, ABC Fri 8:30-9:00
Total number of episodes: 35
Last Telecast: July 3, 1992
Mar 1991-Apr 1991, ABC Fri 9:30-10:00
Apr 1991-May 1991, ABC Tue 8:30-9:00
Sep 1991-Dec 1991, ABC Fri 9:30-10:00
Jan 1992-Mar 1992, ABC Fri 9:00-9:30
Mar 1992-Jun 1992, ABC Fri 9:30-10:00
Jul 1992, ABC Fri 8:30-9:00
Cast:
Julia Duffy as Maggie Campbell (1991)
Theme Song:
"Bread and Butter" (1964 pop song)
Download the Baby Talk theme song
Series Summary:
Mary Page Keller as Maggie Campbell
Paul & Ryan Jessup as Mickey Campbell
Tony Danza as Mickey Campbell (voice)
George Clooney as Joe (1991)
William Hickey as Fogarty (1991)
Lenny Wolpe as Howard (1991)
Tom Alan Robbins as Dr. Elliot Fleisher (1991)
Michelle Ashlee as Nurse Andrea (1991)
Scott Baio as James Halbrook
Polly Bergen as Doris Cambell
Francesca P. Roberts as Anita Craig
Alicia & Celicia Johnson as Danielle Craig
Vernee Watson-Johnson as Danielle Craig (voice)
Jessica Lundy as Susan Davis
Wayne Collins as Tony Craig
James Nardini as Warren
The idea of a TV baby whose thoughts could be heard was at least as old as the 1960 series Happy. Television had made progress in thirty years, however, as this time all the babies could be making unspoken wisecracks. In the Spring 1991 version, harried young single mom Maggie and infant Mickey lived in a Manhattan loft that was still under construction. Joe, Fogarty, and Howard were the incompetent construction workers who were always underfoot. By the fall, Maggie (now played by Mary Page Keller) had moved to an apartment in nearby, trendy Brooklyn Heights, where fun-loving young superintendent James, an aspiring songwriter, became her special friend. Also joining the cast in the fall were Doris, he meddling mom; Susan, a friend and co-worker at the accounting office where she worked; and Anita, a neighbor with a talkative infant of her own.
Nothing seemed to deter ABC from trying to make this inane sitcom a success. Not the fact that two leading ladies quit in the first six months (Connie Sellecca before it even premiered, and Julia Duffy at the end of the Spring 1991 run). Not the fact that gimmicky movies (in this case 1989's Look Who's Talking) hardly ever become successful TV series. And certainly not the fact that Baby Talk was voted the dubious honor of "Worst Series on Television" in the 1991 Electronic Media critics' poll.
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