TMC
06-22-2022, 03:01 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/06/22/the-ten-best-empty-nest-episodes-of-season-one/
For the official series (https://web.archive.org/web/20140406114419/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3119523-empty-nest/?view=getnewpost), titled Empty Nest (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125154/http://www.jumptheshark.com/e/emptynest.htm), the premise was tweaked and now centered around Harry Weston, a recent widower and pediatrician, played by one of Susan Harris’ old Soap pals, Richard Mulligan.
Harry is now adjusting to living alone, without his wife, and minus his three daughters, two of whom are still in town — the neurotic Carol (Dinah Manoff, another Soap vet) and Barbara, the easygoing cop (Kristy McNichol). Rounding out the cast would be Park Overall as Laverne, Harry’s sharp-tongued, Southern nurse, and holdover David Leisure as Charley, the smarmy horndog and cruise ship purser who lives next door. (Oh, and Bear the dog as Dreyfuss — but I won’t be counting him as a character hereafter because, as we’ve noted with babes and animals, unless we’re privy to an active decision-making process, they’re not actually capable of driving story — they’re just narrative devices to which others respond.) With this new fivesome, Witt-Thomas-Harris had created a sitcom with a classic MTM structure — part domestic and part workplace, as Harry goes back and forth between his personal life of family and neighbors, and his professional life of colleagues and patients
For the official series (https://web.archive.org/web/20140406114419/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3119523-empty-nest/?view=getnewpost), titled Empty Nest (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125154/http://www.jumptheshark.com/e/emptynest.htm), the premise was tweaked and now centered around Harry Weston, a recent widower and pediatrician, played by one of Susan Harris’ old Soap pals, Richard Mulligan.
Harry is now adjusting to living alone, without his wife, and minus his three daughters, two of whom are still in town — the neurotic Carol (Dinah Manoff, another Soap vet) and Barbara, the easygoing cop (Kristy McNichol). Rounding out the cast would be Park Overall as Laverne, Harry’s sharp-tongued, Southern nurse, and holdover David Leisure as Charley, the smarmy horndog and cruise ship purser who lives next door. (Oh, and Bear the dog as Dreyfuss — but I won’t be counting him as a character hereafter because, as we’ve noted with babes and animals, unless we’re privy to an active decision-making process, they’re not actually capable of driving story — they’re just narrative devices to which others respond.) With this new fivesome, Witt-Thomas-Harris had created a sitcom with a classic MTM structure — part domestic and part workplace, as Harry goes back and forth between his personal life of family and neighbors, and his professional life of colleagues and patients