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godsprincess_76 · 09-06-2003, 05:36 PM

I was watching GAB the other day in Texas and the episode was on where Nell helps the kid who is caught shoplifting. Don Rickles plays the store owner, but I cannot find anywhere who plays the kid. She is a young girl (about 13 or 14) and her name is Danni on the show. Does anyone know who played her? She looks familiar and it is driving me crazy!

TJL · 09-06-2003, 06:09 PM

Go to www.epguides.com and see if they have an episode guide to "Gimme A Break."

The guides usually list guest stars for each episode. You might be able to get a name there.

Dani407 · 09-07-2003, 08:50 AM

I can't find it listed either

TJ · 01-14-2004, 08:11 AM

This was the pilot episode for a proposed series called Max (aka The Don Rickles Show). It aired on 04/28/83.

A spinoff from Gimme a Break. Don Rickles stars as Max Sorenson, a grocer who takes in a streetwise orphan (LaShana Dendy) to live with him in the apartment above the store. In the pilot, Nell Carter catches the girl shoplifting. The authors of The Sweeps say that "the pilot was of such negligible substance that it collapsed of its own weightlessness." Cast: Don Rickles (as Max Sorenson), LaShana Dendy (Danny), Nell Carter (Nell Harper), Dolph Sweet (Carl Kanisky), Lara Jill Miller (Samantha Kanisky), Lauri Hendler (Julie Kanisky), Kari Michaelson (Kate Kanisky), Barbara Hamilton (Shopper)

LaShana Dendy also appeared on Diff'rent Strokes and The Jeffersons. Here is her Internet Movie Database entry:

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0218954/

09-06-2003, 05:36 PM	#1
godsprincess_76 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 05, 2001 Location: Texas Posts: 26	Question about a guest star.... I was watching GAB the other day in Texas and the episode was on where Nell helps the kid who is caught shoplifting. Don Rickles plays the store owner, but I cannot find anywhere who plays the kid. She is a young girl (about 13 or 14) and her name is Danni on the show. Does anyone know who played her? She looks familiar and it is driving me crazy!
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TJL Suburbanite Extrordinaire Forum Star Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: New Jersey - the cradle of civilization Posts: 16,591	Go to www.epguides.com and see if they have an episode guide to "Gimme A Break." The guides usually list guest stars for each episode. You might be able to get a name there.
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09-07-2003, 08:50 AM	#3
Dani407 Member Forum Hawk Join Date: Jan 24, 2003 Posts: 4	I can't find it listed either

01-14-2004, 08:11 AM	#4
TJ Site Owner Administrator Forum Star Join Date: Feb 03, 2000 Location: Marietta, GA Posts: 10,676	This was the pilot episode for a proposed series called Max (aka The Don Rickles Show). It aired on 04/28/83. A spinoff from Gimme a Break. Don Rickles stars as Max Sorenson, a grocer who takes in a streetwise orphan (LaShana Dendy) to live with him in the apartment above the store. In the pilot, Nell Carter catches the girl shoplifting. The authors of The Sweeps say that "the pilot was of such negligible substance that it collapsed of its own weightlessness." Cast: Don Rickles (as Max Sorenson), LaShana Dendy (Danny), Nell Carter (Nell Harper), Dolph Sweet (Carl Kanisky), Lara Jill Miller (Samantha Kanisky), Lauri Hendler (Julie Kanisky), Kari Michaelson (Kate Kanisky), Barbara Hamilton (Shopper) LaShana Dendy also appeared on Diff'rent Strokes and The Jeffersons. Here is her Internet Movie Database entry: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0218954/