The Nutt House

For the 1992 film, see The Nutt House (film).

The Nutt House
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Mel Brooks Alan Spencer
Written by	Bruce Bilson Mel Brooks Alicia Marie Schudt Alan Spencer
Directed by	Gary Nelson
Starring	Cloris Leachman Harvey Korman Brian McNamara Molly Hagan Gregory Itzin Mark Blankfield
Theme music composer	Lance Rubin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	11 (6 unaired)
Production
Executive producer	Alan Spencer
Producer	Mel Brooks
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Brooksfilms Television Alan Spencer Productions Touchstone Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 20 (1989-09-20) – October 25, 1989 (1989-10-25)

The Nutt House is a situation comedy that aired on NBC as part of its 1989 Fall lineup.

Overview

The Nutt House was the creation of executive producers Mel Brooks and Alan Spencer and was a broad farce about a once-prestigious New York City hotel which had of late fallen on hard times, in part, no doubt, due to it being named for the proprietress, Edwina Nutt (Cloris Leachman). Other characters included manager Reginald Tarkington (Harvey Korman), and head of housekeeping Ms. Frick (also portrayed by Leachman). Frick, a more pleasant version of Leachman's Frau Blucher character from Brooks' Young Frankenstein, appeared in every episode, Mrs. Nutt only in the pilot.

The Nutt House was a very broad satire in which the main story was periodically interrupted by short, unrelated, and often surreal background gags, not unlike those of Police Squad!. Its audience was quite a narrow one, as the single-camera show was intensely visual, and it was canceled within six weeks of its premiere. However, all eleven of the produced episodes were broadcast on BBC 2 in the United Kingdom where Police Squad! was making a comeback thanks to the success of The Naked Gun. It became a moderate success being shown on Saturday evening following Clive James' Saturday Night Clive. Brooks appeared on this programme to promote the first episode of The Nutt House on 14 October 1989. However, to the dismay of viewers the BBC did not give the show a fixed airtime. Usually shown around 23.00 hours (but sometimes as late as 23.30), the final episode inexplicably aired at 19.30 on 16 December 1989.

Cast

• Cloris Leachman as Ms. Frick (also Edwina Nutt in the pilot episode)
• Harvey Korman as Reginald Tarkington
• Brian McNamara as Charles Nutt III
• Molly Hagan as Sally Lonnaneck
• Gregory Itzin as Dennis
• Mark Blankfield as Freddy

Episodes

Nº	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original U.S. air date	U.S. viewers (million)
1	"Pilot"	Gary Nelson	Mel Brooks & Alan Spencer	September 20, 1989 (1989-09-20)	N/A
2	"The Accidental Groom"	Bill Bixby	Alan Spencer	September 27, 1989 (1989-09-27)	N/A
3	"A Frick Called Wanda"	Bruce Bilson	Jim Geoghan	October 11, 1989 (1989-10-11)	N/A
4	"21 Men and a Baby"	Bruce Bilson	Alicia Marie Schudt	October 18, 1989 (1989-10-18)	N/A
5	"Suites, Lies and Videotape"	Roger Duchowny	Richard Day	October 25, 1989 (1989-10-25)	N/A
6	"When Charles Met Sally"	Bruce Bilson	Alan Spencer	Unaired	TBD
7	"A Night at the Reunion"	Art Wolff	Unknown	Unaired	TBD
8	"To Tell the Truth"	Art Wolff	Mark Curtiss & Rod Ash	Unaired	TBD
9	"My Man Tarkington"	Unknown	Unknown	Unaired	TBD
10	"The Nutt Cracker Suite"	Unknown	Unknown	Unaired	TBD

References

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

External links

• The Nutt House at IMDb
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