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treky · 07-19-2006, 02:17 AM

"THE COP & THE KID"? It was a short-lived sitcom on NBC, sometime in the mid 70s

tv star collector · 07-19-2006, 08:22 AM

Vaguely. My mother and I watched that show. Charles Durning (later of
EVENING SHADE) starred in it. Old-time movie actress Patsy Kelly (who
often teamed with Thelma Todd) also had a regular role, as the cop's mother.

For the record, it aired on NBC from Dec. 4, 1975 to Mar. 4, 1976. Another
ethnic comedy (the cop was white; the kid, black), it told the story of a
middle-aged Irish cop who, through a strange circumstance, found himself
assigned custody of a young, black orphan. Sort of like DIFF'RENT STROKES
(before that show came to exist).

TV Knowledge Fan · 09-05-2006, 05:41 PM

...the idea of this show was to emulate "CHICO AND THE MAN", 'tv star collector' [just as its companion show on the NBC Thursday night schedule, "GRADY", was to evoke memories of "SANFORD AND SON" by giving its second banana his own series]. BOTH of those shows are in their respective archives {SONY/"GRADY" and VIACOM-Paramount/"THE COP AND THE KID"}, waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world......

TVFactFan · 09-10-2006, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TV Knowledge Fan

...the idea of this show was to emulate "CHICO AND THE MAN", 'tv star collector' [just as its companion show on the NBC Thursday night schedule, "GRADY", was to evoke memories of "SANFORD AND SON" by giving its second banana his own series]. BOTH of those shows are in their respective archives {SONY/"GRADY" and VIACOM-Paramount/"THE COP AND THE KID"}, waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world......

I would love to see Cop and the Kid one Day but that how is on no Traders list

07-19-2006, 02:17 AM	#1
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09-05-2006, 05:41 PM	#3
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	Nope... ...the idea of this show was to emulate "CHICO AND THE MAN", 'tv star collector' [just as its companion show on the NBC Thursday night schedule, "GRADY", was to evoke memories of "SANFORD AND SON" by giving its second banana his own series]. BOTH of those shows are in their respective archives {SONY/"GRADY" and VIACOM-Paramount/"THE COP AND THE KID"}, waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world......

07-19-2006, 08:22 AM	#2
tv star collector I Love Susie Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 18, 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 4,486	Vaguely. My mother and I watched that show. Charles Durning (later of EVENING SHADE) starred in it. Old-time movie actress Patsy Kelly (who often teamed with Thelma Todd) also had a regular role, as the cop's mother. For the record, it aired on NBC from Dec. 4, 1975 to Mar. 4, 1976. Another ethnic comedy (the cop was white; the kid, black), it told the story of a middle-aged Irish cop who, through a strange circumstance, found himself assigned custody of a young, black orphan. Sort of like DIFF'RENT STROKES (before that show came to exist).