Eisenhower and Lutz

[icecream]

Has anyone here seen or even heard of this one season sitcom from 1988? The description in my primetime directory sounds interesting, plus it stars Patricia Richardson from Home Improvement and Scott Bakula. With their lack of sitcom success at the time, CBS could have been more patient with it. But it might be a good thing Eisenhower and Lutz did not become a long running show, then Patricia Richardson might not have been cast on Home Improvement.

[DJM77]

YouTube has 12 episodes. I think that there were 13 of them. I've never watched it.

[TMC]

https://www.looper.com/1206824/early...-forget-about/

Scott Bakula - Eisenhower & Lutz



The star of "NCIS: New Orleans" for the entirety of its seven-season run, Scott Bakula has been a TV icon for decades. He's had a number of hit roles over the years, including time traveling do-gooder Sam Beckett in "Quantum Leap" and Captain Jonathan Archer in "Star Trek: Enterprise." However, not every TV role he took on became a success. In fact, one of his earliest attempts at leading his own series was such a debacle he might be hoping we let it stay buried. Back in the late 1980s, Bakula had a disastrous turn as Bud Lutz in the ill-conceived single-season sitcom "Eisenhower & Lutz."

It goes without saying that Scott Bakula is a charismatic leading man who oozes earnest charm. That's one of the reasons things went so wrong for this series, which is centered on a sleazy, womanizing lawyer who cheats his clients and treats women like garbage. Because he's played by a likable everyman in Bakula, we're not sure whether we're supposed to sneer at him or cheer him on. He gets caught in the middle of a love triangle with his current girlfriend Megan (DeLane Matthews) and his hopelessly-in-love ex Kay (Patricia Richardson). Not funny, not clever, and painfully sexist from start to finish, the series was quickly canned. Nobody seems to even remember that it existed, and we're guessing that's how Bakula wants it.