The Betty White Show
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| The Betty White Show | |
| Genre | Sitcom |
|---|---|
| Directed by | James Burrows Harvey Medlinsky Noam Pitlik Doug Rogers |
| Starring | Betty White John Hillerman Georgia Engel |
| Composer(s) | Dick DeBenedictis |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Stan Daniels Ed. Weinberger |
| Producer(s) | Bob Ellison Dale McRaven |
| Running time | 30 mins. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | September 12, 1977 – January 2, 1978 |
The Betty White Show is a short lived American sitcom which aired on CBS during the 1977-78 season. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises.
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[edit] Synopsis
Betty White starred as Joyce Whitman, a middle-aged actress, who was starring as a female detective in a fictitious police drama, Undercover Woman (ostensibly based on Angie Dickinson's Police Woman). Much of the humor stemmed from the fact that the show's producer was Whitman's ex-husband, John Whitman (played by John Hillerman), as well as the fact that White and her sidekick on Undercover Woman, a beautiful and much younger actress (played by Caren Kaye), did not like one another and missed no opportunity to trade insults. Also appearing was White's former Mary Tyler Moore Show costar, Georgia Engel.
The series was scheduled opposite ABC's Monday Night Football and The NBC Monday Movie and failed to generate viewers. The show was quickly canceled after fourteen episodes. [1]
The series was briefly rerun on Nick at Nite and TV Land in the 1990s. In one episode-a satire on "Popular TV character" being "killed off"-Police Chief Huff is "killed" only to be brought "back to life" by his identical "twin Brother"!
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Betty White | Joyce Whitman |
| John Hillerman | John Elliot |
| Georgia Engel | Mitzi Maloney |
| Caren Kaye | Tracy Garrett |
| Charles Cyphers | Hugo Muncy |
| Alex Henteloff | Doug Porterfield |
| Barney Phillips | Fletcher Huff |
[edit] Episodes
| Ep # | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Undercover Police Woman" | September 12, 1977 |
| 2 | "Mitzi's Cousin" | September 19, 1977 |
| 3 | "Make Yourself at Home...Steal Something" | September 26, 1977 |
| 4 | "Doug Gets Fired" | October 3, 1977 |
| 5 | "We're Not Divorced: Part 1" | October 10, 1977 |
| 6 | "We're Not Divorced: Part 2" | October 17, 1977 |
| 7 | "Mitzi's Jealousy" | October 24, 1977 |
| 8 | "Good Night, Sweet Fletch" | October 31, 1977 |
| 9 | "John's Mother" | November 7, 1977 |
| 10 | "Joyce, The Matchmaker" | November 14, 1977 |
| 11 | "Joyce's Wedding" | December 12, 1977 |
| 12 | "Play Misty for John" | December 19, 1977 |
| 13 | "Fletcher's Decision" | December 26, 1977 |
| 14 | "The Stunt Woman" | January 2, 1978 |
[edit] References
- ^ Spadoni, Mike (2004-08). "TV Greats and Unsung Heroes: Betty White". televisionheaven.co.uk. http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/bettywhite.htm. Retrieved on 2008-08-06.
