Tattingers

Tattingers
Genre	Comedy-drama
Created by	Bruce Paltrow Tom Fontana John Masius
Starring	Stephen Collins Blythe Danner Patrice Colihan Chay Lentin Jessica Prunell Jerry Stiller Mary Beth Hurt Roderick Cook Zach Grenier Rob Morrow Sue Francis Pai Yusef Bulos Robert Clohessy Simon Jones Chris Elliott Anna Levine
Theme music composer	Jonathan Tunick
Opening theme	"Anybody's Guess" by Brock Walsh (Nick & Hillary run)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (2 unaired)
Production
Producers	Bruce Paltrow Tom Fontana John Masius
Running time	60 minutes/30 minutes
Production companies	Paltrow Group MTM Enterprises
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	October 26, 1988 – April 26, 1989

Tattingers (later Tattinger's) is an American comedy-drama series that aired by the NBC television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour sitcom Nick & Hillary.

An unaired episode, "Screwball," aired on TV Land on April 4, 1999.

Synopsis

Tattingers is the story of a couple, Nick and Hillary Tattinger (Stephen Collins and Blythe Danner), they have 2 daughters Nina and Winnifred, who had co-owned a posh Manhattan restaurant. They had divorced, but remained partners in the restaurant until Nick was shot by a drug dealer and decided to sell the restaurant and leave Manhattan for Paris. However, his successors proved incapable of running the restaurant properly, so Nick reclaimed the restaurant from them and decided to give it another go. Real-life Manhattan celebrities often appeared in cameo roles as themselves, Nick's exclusive clientele.

Reception

This program was a ratings failure and was cancelled in January 1989. However, NBC was apparently unwilling to give up totally on the characters or the concept, and the program was revamped into a half-hour sitcom, Nick & Hillary. This new series premiered on April 20, 1989, but proved even less successful than its predecessor and was cancelled after only two episodes.

References

• Brooks, Tim, and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present