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KevinLJ
12-29-2002, 08:23 PM
There was a show during the 80's about a day care that was run in a home and the star kid of the show lived in the basement. What is the name of this show...
Please HELP!!!!

samanddiane4eva
12-29-2002, 10:50 PM
Um... Charles In Charge?

Seane
12-30-2002, 11:52 PM
Was it Day by Day? Julia Louis Dryfus was in the show as a real yuppie...

MagicDust1488
01-03-2003, 04:02 AM
Originally posted by Seane
Was it Day by Day?

Do you mean "Step By Step...Day By Day"?

owepar
01-04-2003, 05:39 AM
No, "Day by Day," not "Step by Step." It was ran on NBC for two seasons from 88-89. Father Doug Sheehan (TV's Cluesless) and mother Linda Kelsey felt that they were missing out on watching their kids grow up. With the arrival of a new son, they decided to quit their jobs and run a daycare center from their home. C.B. Barnes (Greg Brady from the two big-screen Brady Bunch films) was their slacker son who lusted after mom and dad's daycare assistant, Courtney Thorne-Smith (Melrose Place). Julia Louis Dreyfus played the next-door-neighbor and Sheehan's former business partner, who often dropped in to be the butt of "children are so annoying" jokes.

owepar
01-05-2003, 12:21 AM
Dunno why I didn't think to look when I posted before, but there's an pretty complete episode guide and cast photo for Day by Day at TV Tome:

http://www.tvtome.com/DaybyDay/

KevinLJ
01-05-2003, 10:35 PM
I know it was a bad show and thanks for the information.

Doug
02-03-2003, 01:09 PM
Don't forget that Thora Birch played one of the pre-school children at the school, many years before AMERICAN BEAUTY.

Brian Damage
02-03-2003, 05:21 PM
Day by Day was a pretty cruddy show. It even did a crossover with Family Ties.

MrMike898
10-21-2003, 04:27 PM
Ooh, but do you guys remember the episode where the main characters' son Ross (played by Christopher Daniel Barnes) falls asleep while watching "The Brady Bunch" and dreams that he's the Brady's long lost other child Chuck Brady? They re-created the Brady living room set, and had the "Day By Day" parents play Mike and Carol Brady, and Maureen McCormick made a guest appearance as a very pregnant Marcia. It was a hoot! It was even funnier when, a few years later, Christopher Daniel Barnes was cast as Greg Brady in "The Brady Bunch Movie".