Madman of the People

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Madman of the People
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Chris Cluess; Stu Kreisman
Directed by	James Burrows; Jim Drake; Philip Charles MacKenzie; John Ratzenberger
Starring	Dabney Coleman; Concetta Tomei; Amy Aquino; Craig Bierko; Cynthia Gibb; John Ales
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Executive producers	Chris Cluess; Stu Kreisman; E. Duke Vincent; Aaron Spelling
Producers	Penny Adams; Stephen C. Grossman
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Kreiscluesco Industries; Spelling Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 22, 1994 –; June 17, 1995

Madman of the People is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1994 to 1995. It was scheduled in the Thursday 9:30 timeslot, part of Must See TV.

Madman of the People was produced by Spelling Television.^[1]

Synopsis

The series stars character actor Dabney Coleman as Jack "Madman" Buckner, an outspoken newspaper columnist who had written a popular column, Madman of the People, in Your Times magazine for 30 years. The premise of the show involves Buckner's daughter, Meg (Cynthia Gibb), being brought in by the publisher to bring Buckner's column into the 1990s.

Cast

Dabney Coleman as Jack "Madman" Buckner
Concetta Tomei as Delia Buckner
Cynthia Gibb as Meg Buckner
John Ales as Dylan Buckner
Amy Aquino as Sasha Danziger
Craig Bierko as B.J. Cooper

Reception

Though the series initially won favorable opinions from critics, and was popular with audiences, ranking 12th for the season with a 14.9 average household share, it was still cancelled after only one season, making it one of the highest rated shows ever to get cancelled, according to classictvhits.com. However, while the show did well in the ratings, it lost a considerable portion of its lead-in audience from Seinfeld and was also hindering the then-freshman hit drama ER. NBC noticed the early success of Friends and decided to re-shuffle its lineup to put that show in the 9:30 PM EST spot, leading to one of the most dominant programming blocs in TV history.^[2]

References

^ "Madman of the People". Retrieved 2006-10-01.
^ "1994–95 TV: The One Where Friends and ER Blew Up -- Vulture". Vulture. Retrieved 23 May 2015.

External links

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[1] "Madman of the People". Retrieved 2006-10-01.

[2] "1994–95 TV: The One Where Friends and ER Blew Up -- Vulture". Vulture. Retrieved 23 May 2015.

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