The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Format: Sitcom

Created by: Ozzie Nelson

Directed by: Ozzie Nelson and David Nelson

Starring: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, and Ricky Nelson

Country of origin: United States

No. of seasons     14

No. of episodes     425

Production

Camera setup:    Single-camera

Running time:   25 minutes

Production company(s):  Stage Five Productions, Volcano Productions, ABC Productions

Broadcast

Original channel:  ABC

Picture format: Black-and-white (1952–1965), Color (1965–1966)

Audio format:  Monaural

Original run     October 3, 1952 –September 3, 1966

Chronology

Related shows:  Ozzie's Girls

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television where it continued its success, running on both radio and television for a few years. The series stars Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson (née Snyder, professionally Hilliard), and their young sons, David and Eric "Ricky" Nelson. Don DeFore had a recurring role as the Nelsons' friendly neighbor "Thorny".

Currently, reruns of the show are broadcast on Retro Television Network.


Orchestra

In the early 1930s, a booking at the Glen Island Casino gained national network radio exposure for Ozzie Nelson's orchestra. After three years together with the orchestra, Ozzie and Harriet signed to appear regularly on The Baker's Broadcast (1933–1938), hosted first by Joe Penner, then by Robert L. Ripley, and finally by cartoonist Feg Murray. The couple married on October 8, 1935 during this series run, and realized working together in radio would keep them together more than continuing their musical careers separately. In 1941, the Nelsons joined the cast of The Red Skelton Show, also providing much of the show's music. The couple stayed with the series for three years. 

They also built their radio experience by guest appearances, together and individually, on many top radio shows, from comedies such as The Fred Allen Show, to the mystery titan Suspense, in a 1947 episode called "Too Little to Live On".

Radio

When Red Skelton was drafted in March 1944, Ozzie Nelson was prompted to create his own family situation comedy.[1] The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet launched October 8, 1944 on CBS, it moved to NBC in October 1948, then made a late-season switch back to CBS in April 1949. The final years of the radio series were on ABC (the former NBC Blue Network) from October 14, 1949 to June 18, 1954. In total 402 radio episodes were produced. In an arrangement that amplified the growing pains of American broadcasting, as radio "grew up" into television, the Nelsons' deal with ABC gave the network the option to move their program to television. The struggling network needed proven talent that was not about to defect to the more established and wealthier networks like CBS or NBC.

The Nelsons' sons, David and Ricky, did not join the cast until the radio show's fifth year (initially appearing on the February 20, 1949 episode, ages 12 and 8, respectively). The two boys were played by professional actors prior to their joining because both were too young to perform. The role of David was played by Joel Davis from 1944 until 1945 when he was replaced by Tommy Bernard. Henry Blair appeared as Ricky. Other cast members included John Brown as Syd "Thorny" Thornberry, Lurene Tuttle as Harriet's mother, Bea Benaderet as Gloria, Janet Waldo as Emmy Lou, and Francis "Dink" Trout as Roger. Vocalists included Harriet Nelson, The King Sisters, and Ozzie Nelson. The announcers were Jack Bailey and Verne Smith. The music was by Billy May and Ozzie Nelson. The producers were Dave Elton and Ozzie Nelson. The show's sponsors included International Silver Company (1944–49), H.J. Heinz Company (1949–52) and Lambert Pharmacal's Listerine (1952–54).

Film

In 1952, the Nelsons starred with Rock Hudson in the Universal-International feature film, Here Come the Nelsons. The film depicted Ozzie as an advertising executive assigned to a campaign promoting women's underwear. The film, produced in the summer of 1951 while the radio show was on hiatus, opened theatrically on February 23, 1952.

It also doubled as a "pilot" for the television series, as Ozzie wanted to see if his family would be accepted on film as they were on radio. The success of Here Come the Nelsons convinced him that Ozzie & Harriet's future was on the small screen, while continuing their weekly radio show.

Television

Before the show aired, Ozzie Nelson persuaded ABC to agree to a 10-year contract that paid the Nelsons whether the series was canceled or not. The unprecedented contract and Ozzie's insistence on perfection in the show's production paid off in the show's remarkable longevity.

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet premiered on ABC on October 10, 1952, staying until September 3, 1966. The show strove for realism and featured exterior shots of the Nelsons' actual southern California home at 1822 Camino Palmero Street in Los Angeles as the fictional Nelsons' home. Interior shots were filmed on a sound stage recreated to look like the real interior of the Nelsons' home. Like its radio predecessor (which finally ended in 1954), the series focused mainly on the Nelson family at home, dealing with run-of-the-mill problems. As the series progressed and the boys grew up, storylines involving various characters were introduced. Many of the series storylines were taken from the Nelsons' real life. When the real David and Rick got married, to June Blair and Kristin Harmon respectively, their wives joined the cast of Ozzie and Harriet, and the marriages were written into the series. What was seldom written into the series was Ozzie's profession or mention of his lengthy and successful band-leading career. The popular joke about his career was that the only time he left the house was to go buy ice cream. According to his granddaughter, actress Tracy Nelson, Ozzie went to Rutgers to study law and when pressed would tell interviewers that the TV Ozzie was a lawyer.

Supporting cast members (some appearing in more than 50 episodes over ten years) included Don DeFore, Parley Baer, Lyle Talbot, Mary Jane Croft, Skip Young, Gordon Jones, James Stacy, Joe Flynn and Jack Wagner.

By the mid-1960s, America's social climate was changing, and the Nelsons' all American nuclear family epitomized the 1950s values and ideals that were quickly becoming a thing of the past. Ozzie, who wrote and directed all of the series' episodes, attempted to change with the times, but most viewers related the show to a bygone era.

The series cracked the top thirty programs in the Nielsen ratings for the first and only time during its eleventh season (1963–1964), when it ranked in 29th place. The show finally made the transition from black-and-white to color in its 1965–66 season.

In that season, Ozzie tried to recapture the series' earlier success portraying a young, growing family by introducing 9-year old Joel Davison and other boys to
interact with the Nelsons and create the illusion of a younger family. Joel appeared
in three episodes, but it was too late to reverse the declining ratings, and ABC
canceled Ozzie and Harriet in 1966.

The show ran for a total of fourteen television seasons and holds the record as the longest running American sitcom in television history.

Ozzie's Girls

In 1973, David Nelson produced a short-lived syndicated spin-off entitled Ozzie's
Girls, in which Ozzie and Harriet rented the boys' old room to two college students, portrayed by Susan Sennett and Brenda Sykes. Storylines centered around the Nelsons attempting to aid in the problems of two girls after having raised two sons.  The series' original pilot episode was shown on NBC in September 1972, but the network declined to schedule a weekly series. The unsold pilot, however, generated enough
interest for Ozzie to bypass the network in favor of producing the show for syndication (through Viacom and Filmways).

The series premiered on local stations, including New York's WABC-TV, in September 1973, but was cancelled after one season in September 1974.

Recordings

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet made the Nelsons' younger son, Rick, into a music teen idol. Ozzie realized the impact his musically gifted son could bring to the series, and went on to write storylines featuring Rick singing. Rick first sang in the April 10, 1957, episode, "Ricky the Drummer," performing a version of Fats Domino's hit, "I'm Walkin", and later signed a recording contract with Domino's label, Imperial
Records. Subsequent episodes that aired after Rick became one of the nation's most successful musicians were some of the show's highest-rated episodes.

Most of the pre-1964 episodes of the television series are in the public domain in the United States, except for the musical performances of Ricky Nelson included in the episodes (these are the exclusive and sole property of The Rick Nelson Company, LLC).

Many episodes have been unofficially released on home video, including VHS and DVD, on many different low-budget company labels. Sixteen DVDs containing episodes from the show are available from Alpha Video. One hundred of the episodes in the public domain have been released on DVD by Mill Creek Entertainment as part of the Essential

Ozzie & Harriet Collection.

The Rick Nelson Company, LLC, currently owns the rights to the original film elements.

An officially released video version of The Best of the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was released May 1, 2007 by Shout! Factory under license from The Rick Nelson Company. Both the Nelson company and David Nelson's trust hold copyright ownership for any new material derived from the film elements. Rick Nelson's son, Sam, is currently heading a project to digitize all 435 episodes from the original 35mm network negatives.

Episodes of the television series have been screened at the non-profit Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention held annually in Aberdeen, Maryland. 16 mm prints were used.

Collector/historian Martin Grams, Jr. presently owns more than 12 storage
bases of production materials, scripts, casting call sheets, contracts, telegrams, letters and other materials significant to the radio and television series.

Author Jim Cox wrote an article for SPERDVAC's Radiogram in early 2008, discussing the cultural significance of the radio program.

Syndication

In the decades since the show's cancellation, the series has been continuously shown on stations in public domain prints. Between 1985 and 1994, The Disney Channel aired the show as remastered from original 35 mm film elements, with new introductions by

Harriet Nelson.

The series was also aired on the Nostalgia TV Network and currently airs on the Retro

Television Network (RTV) at 7:30 p.m. EST Monday-Friday.

PBS member station KVCR-TV in San Bernardino, California (in the Los Angeles market) aired the show as late as May 2010, connected to the station's nostalgic television series, I Remember Television.

The Nelsons' post-TV lives

Ozzie Nelson continued to work in show business after the failure of the short lived
sitcom Ozzie's Girls. He took on the role of producer and director for some of TV's
popular shows, most notably: Adam-12, The D.A., and Bridget Loves Bernie. In 1975, Ozzie Nelson died of liver cancer at the age of 69.

In the years after Ozzie and Harriet was canceled, Rick Nelson's career and personal life changed drastically. Rick never regained the same momentum of his early career, though he continued to pursue a career in music. He shied away from his teen idol image and sound, forming the rock and roll/country fused Stone Canyon Band. Rick and the Stone Canyon Band had success with the 1972 single, "Garden Party". Ironically, Rick and the Band wrote the song in response to having been booed off the stage at a
rock and roll revival concert at Madison Square Garden when he refused to play his old hits from his teen idol days. Throughout the 1970s, Rick's life was riddled with debt and drug abuse. In 1981, he and wife Kristin Harmon divorced. While touring the United States, Rick Nelson was killed in a plane crash on December 31, 1985, in DeKalb in
Bowie County near Texarkana, Texas in northeast Texas. He was en route to a New Year's Eve concert in Dallas. BIn 1987, he was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Following Ozzie's death in 1975, Harriet became somewhat reclusive. In 1989, she made her last onscreen appearance in her granddaughter Tracy Nelson's TV series, Father Dowling Mysteries. Harriet never fully recovered from son Rick's death and she died of congestive heart failure and emphysema in 1994.

Ozzie, Harriet, and Rick are interred together in Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills
Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

David Nelson continued to produce feature films and television commercials and owned his commercial production company until his death from cancer in January 2011.

Reception

The series attracted large audiences, and although it was never a top-ten hit, it became synonymous with the 1950s ideal American family life. It is the longest-running live-action sitcom in US television history.

The Adventures of Pete and Pete

The Adventures of Pete and Pete

Hey, remember Fraser's wife on Fraser and Cheers?  She was on this show.

Genre:  Comedy, Surrealism

Created by:   Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi

Starring:    Mike Maronna, Danny Tamberelli, Alison Fanelli, Hardy Rawls, Judy Grafe, Toby Huss, Michelle Trachtenberg

Narrated by:    Mike Maronna

Theme music composer:  Mark Mulcahy

Opening theme:   "Hey Sandy" by Polaris

Composer(s): SVE

Country of origin:  United States

Original language(s):  English

No. of seasons:  3

No. of episodes:  36 (plus 5 specials and 16 shorts)

Production

Camera setup:   Single-camera

Running time:    24 minutes

Broadcast

Original channel:  Nickelodeon The N

Original run:    November 28, 1993 – December 28, 1996

The Adventures of Pete & Pete is an American children's television series produced by Wellsville Pictures and broadcast by Nickelodeon. The show featured humorous and surreal elements in its narrative, and many recurring themes centered on two brothers both named Pete Wrigley, and their various interactions with family, friends, and enemies.

The show was created by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi and began as minute-long shorts in 1989 that aired in between regular programs. Owing to the popularity of the shorts, five half-hour specials were made, followed by a regular half-hour series that ran for three seasons (1993–1996) and continued in reruns until around 1999. The N (now TeenNick) aired reruns of the show between 2002–2003. The first two seasons were released on DVD in 2005; the third was planned for 2006 but was indefinitely postponed.

Jason Ankeny of Allmusic called the series "the greatest children's show ever," while IGN called it "One of the most well-written kids shows ever."[

Setting

Pete & Pete is set in the town of Wellsville, USA (the state is never explicitly mentioned). An allusion to its location comes during "When Petes Collide", when the Petes' father runs four hours to the Canadian border to get rid of his bowling ball, Rolling Thunder. Portions of Wellsville were fictionalized for the purposes of the show; Glurt County, mentioned in "Yellow Fever" and "The Good, the Bad and the Lucky", does not exist in real life, either in New York or any other state (Wellsville is located in Allegany County), and the fictional Wellsville High School's mascot is a 
squid instead of the real Wellsville Lions.

The show was filmed largely in South Orange, New Jersey with location shots done in a variety of other spots around northern New Jersey, including the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. The exteriors of Pete & Pete's house (as seen in the credit sequence and other shots) were filmed on Woodridge Place in Leonia, New Jersey. The football field used for various episodes is that of Bayonne High School in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Episodes

In addition to the 34 regular season episodes, 5 specials and 26 shorts, the movie Snow Day was originally written by McRobb and Viscardi to be an extension of the television series, but Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures were not interested in a feature at the time. The film was eventually made by series director Chris Koch in 2000. However, by this time the principal actors had aged into adulthood. The characters were renamed and recast, but series regulars Chris Elliott, Iggy Pop and Damian Young make appearances.

Characters

Family

The show's primary narrator, Big Pete often acts as a voice of reason in contrast to the strange occurrences and people around him. Typical sibling rivalry aside, he and his brother are best friends. He plays trombone in the school marching band.

Little Pete Wrigley (Danny Tamberelli): 

Four years younger than his brother, Little Pete is often engaged in struggles against adults and other authority figures. He is also known to make irrational decisions in response to problems, like selling the house because his brother hung out with a girl instead of him, without taking responsibility for it. He frequently uses insults like "jerkweed" and "bite my neck hair."

"Petunia": 

A tattoo on Little Pete's left forearm depicting a woman in a red dress. It is frequently made to "dance" and gets its own credit in the show's opening sequence; the origins of that tattoo were originally given in a long forgotten Pete & Pete short, wherein Little Pete gets the tattoo as a gift for his mom on mother's day, for which he is initially punished, but ultimately is accepted. Another's origin, one of a sailing ship on Little Pete's back is unclear.

Joyce Wrigley (Judy Grafe):

    The Petes' mother, usually just called "Mom", has a metal plate in her head from an accident she had as a kid. It can pick up radio stations—and, in the case of little Pete's "WART Radio", it can also broadcast them.

Mom's Plate

    The plate in Mom's head, like Petunia, gets its own opening credit.

Don Wrigley (Hardy Rawls):

    Usually known as "Dad", Don is the Petes' father. He and Joyce met when the metal detector he was using on a beach led him to the metal plate in her head ("What We Did On Our Summer Vacation"). He is an extremely competitive driver, particularly during the family's excursion to Hoover Dam ("King of the Road"). Dad is known for being stubborn most of the time and his favorite hobbies include caring for his lawn ("Grounded For Life"), and fishing, particularly for "Old Bob", a legendary striped bass ("On Golden Pete").

Friends

Ellen Josephine Hickle (Alison Fanelli):

    Ellen is Big Pete's best friend; though romance develops between the two on rare occasions, Pete generally sees Ellen as "a girl and a friend, but not a girlfriend". 

Over the course of the show she demonstrates some obsessive tendencies. In the pre-season 1 shot "The Dot", as well as the season one episode "Day of the Dot" she attempted to achieve "Perfect Dotness" due to her placement "riding the I" in the Wellsville marching band's show. Later that season she became fixated with metallurgy while in shop class. In season three she was fanatical at getting an A in Mr. Slurm's driver's ed course and near the end of the season getting a pizza on time to Endless  Mike as a delivery girl. She played French horn in the band. Ellen is also a huge fan of Greco-Roman wrestling, and has vast knowledge on the subject as seen in the episode "Pinned"where she tries to coach Big Pete.

Artie, the Strongest Man in the World (Toby Huss):

    Little Pete's personal superhero, who is very eccentric but quite powerful — for
example, he can skip stones on Neptune, move an entire house by an inch, and hit a golf ball 300,003 yards. Artie is also one of the few adults Little Pete seems to have any respect for. His catchphrase is "For I am Artie — the strongest man ... in the world!" His trademark word "pipe!" aggravates the adults of the community, and his favorite scent is the air let out from a car tire. He left the show after the 2-part episode, "Farewell My Little Viking". His spot in the opening credits would later be replaced in the third season with Nona's.

Theodore "Teddy" L. Forzman (Dave Martel):

    Teddy is one of Big Pete's three friends (the others being Ellen and Bill). Teddy is kind of a dork and seemingly always in a good mood (except when affected by the mind-controlling substance Orange Lazarus). He is in the marching band with Pete and is known for bringing up odd facts and then remarking, "what, you guys didn't know 
that?". He also loves to exclaim "Excellenté!" while raising his finger and give "soul shakes" (an elaborate handshake punctuated by hissing "Soul!") to friends.

Bill Korn (Rick Barbarette):

    Bill is Big Pete's friend, who has a knack for practical jokes and sarcasm. He was renowned for getting Teddy to shoot milk out of his ears and getting Bus Driver Stu accused of kidnapping a busload of kids. He also admitted to once eating snot in the episode "Field of Pete". (This character did not appear in the third season.)

Nona F. Mecklenberg (Michelle Trachtenberg):

    Little Pete's best friend. Her middle initial "F" stands for Frances, but she wants to change it to Frank, Fahrvergnügen, or Forklift. She wears a cast, not because she has a broken arm but because it causes an annoying, itchy feeling on her arm which she enjoys scratching. Nona took Artie's place in the opening sequence for Season 3. 

She also had a brief crush on Little Pete once or twice in the series.

Natasha (Heather Matarazzo):

    A neighborhood kid and Little Pete's friend. She stays awake by pulling her pigtails.

Monica Perling (Maris Hudson):

    One of Little Pete's friends, Monica is the resident Kreb Scout (Girl Scout in season 2) who is ready for anything. Her unfortunate luck with pets has given her a reputation as the "Girl Scout of Death", and she even has a graveyard for them. She has excellent hearing. Supposedly, this is because one of her ancestors married a bloodhound.

Wayne Pardue (Justin Restivo):

    Also known as "Wayne the Pain". First appearing in the third season, Wayne was one of Little Pete's friends. But as his nickname implied, he was quite annoying. He frequently spouted expressions like "Geez Louise" and "Super Genius!" and also had a crush on Monica (as seen in "Dance Fever").

Clem (Aaron Schwartz):

    He was in several episodes as a friend of Little Pete. He served as the drummer of Little Pete's band, The Blowholes, and was a member of the Nightcrawlers, staying awake longer than anyone other than Little Pete and Artie.

Libby Hurley (Winnie Zhang):

    Appeared in the "Nightcrawlers" episode as a friend of Little Pete. Libby was adopted from China by the Hurley family. She stays awake via solar powered sneezes.

Enemies

"Endless" Mike Hellstrom (Rick Gomez):

    "Endless" Mike, mortal enemy of Big Pete, gets his nickname for reasons unknown(though it is speculated that it came about because he is perpetually repeating the same year in high school. It is also stated that his nickname is derived from the fact that "his hatred of Big Pete is endless". Another theory is that it is supposed to coincide with an anagram of his last name, making Mike an "Endless Hellstorm"). 

"Endless" Mike reigns over shop class, has a car, and loves Neapolitan ice cream.

Although his relationship with older Pete is often antagonistic they have joined forces on rare occasions, such as when Pete commissioned Mike to expel the family who bought his house, or borrowed his car to go on a date with Ellen (although both of these collaborations failed). In the episode "Halloweenie", he is the leader of the 
Pumpkin Eaters who are bent on ruining and destroying Halloween even though their reasons for hating the holiday are never explained. His family may own an 
exterminating business, as he is seen wearing a shirt with a "Hellstorm Exterminators" logo on the breast pocket in the episode "Time Tunnel". Also in Time Tunnel, "Endless" 

Mike hates Little Pete for embarrassing him at the drive in theatre by showing
everyone home movies of him as a baby and chases after him in his car.

"Hat Head" (Chris Leveille):

    The first bully to pick on the Petes; he appeared on several spots in the first
and second season. He was played by Chris Leveille, a Connecticut native.

"Open-Face" (Jason Late):

    One of Big Pete's enemies. A boy who is always shown eating open-faced sandwiches, even in church. Ellen dated him briefly in one episode.

Fran "Pit Stain" Jones (Eric Kushnick):

    Little Pete's mortal enemy, in season 3. He has a glandular disorder that gives
him huge, smelly armpit stains. Pit Stain loathes Little Pete for giving him his nickname, which even teachers call him by. He is in love with Nona. He is also often seen with his goons, "Hairnet" (Helen Davidson) and "Drawstring" (Yull Neri Borda). 

Drawstring was later replaced by "Nightbrace" (Robert Whitfield). During episode 3.07, "The Last Laugh", Little Pete and Pit Stain worked together in a mastermind prank on Principal Schwinger and the "Up With Personal Hygiene Singers".

"Papercut" (Christopher Conte):

Little Pete's mortal enemy in the season 2 episode "Farewell, My Little Viking" (parts 1 and 2). A boy who grew up in a copy shop and is covered with lacerations and scars from paper cuts as a result. He can fold paper into hundreds of origami shapes including makeshift weapons. As with the rest of his motif, he always picks "paper" when playing rock-paper-scissors. "Papercut" originally started off as one of Artie's mortal enemies and enjoyed making life miserable for the helpless students by making them throw rock. However, once Little Pete defies him by playing scissors, "Papercut" becomes his enemy and gets into a heated conflict with him. He makes it his personal mission to destroy Little Pete in the rematch. Unbeknownst to both him and "Papercut", when Artie returns with Mr. Wrigley, Little Pete defies him again by throwing his own weapon. Soon the students join him and run "Papercut" out of Wellsville.

Principal Ken Schwinger (Adam West):

The principal of Little Pete's school. Schwinger loathes Little Pete and always 
tries to stop his pranks, to no avail. He has a strange love of personal hygiene and creamed corn. Johnny Earwax, the lead singer of the "Up With Personal Hygiene Singers", was a personal friend of Schwinger's until a prank masterminded by Little Pete and Pit Stain made him and the singers mistrust him.

Lifeguard Mike "Urinator" Uplinger (Christopher Cooke):

 The lifeguard at the Wellsville swimming pool and a mortal enemy of both Petes that appeared in ("Splashdown"). He was able to convince Big Pete to take charge of the situation by throwing Little Pete and his friends out of the pool and to save adult swim. However after Little Pete defies him by going through with the Atomic splash, Big Pete joins him as well as the adults. Uplinger was chased out of the pool after Monica exposes him for his inability to hold in his bladder with a chemical known as Wee Wee See.

Neighborhood members

Phil Hickle (Steve Buscemi):

Ellen's father and guidance counselor of Big Pete's high school. Once an enemy of Don Wrigley.

James "Pop" Mecklenberg (Iggy Pop):

Nona's loving and occasionally overprotective dad.

Mr. Tastee (Toby Huss):

The mysterious ice cream vendor who symbolizes summer for the neighborhood kids. 

He never removes his mascot costume head and is very reluctant to let his customers get close to him. When the Petes' attempts to strike up a friendship causes Tastee to flee, they spend a summer tracking him down with the help of Ellen. His ice-cream truck is named the Tastee Mobile. It is suggested he also used to be married to a blind millionaire who calls him "Leonard".

Stu Benedict (Damian Young):

An eccentric and emotionally unstable bus driver who drives both Petes to school, often while nursing wounds from a relationship with fellow bus driver Sally Knorp while shouting out quotes such as "Passengers will refrain from KILLING MY SOUL!" 

However, Stu does play protector to Little Pete in season 3 episode "The Good, The Bad and the Lucky", and puts Pit Stain and his gang under bus arrest.

Frank Gulcher (Jim Lally):

    A crossing guard who defends the crosswalk with his life, abiding by "the code of the crosswalk". Once failed to save Little Pete's pet lizard Gary from death by oncoming traffic.

Guest stars

The many guest stars that appeared on Pete & Pete include:

Selma Blair — Penelope Ghiruto, school bus passenger from whose name Big Pete can make 27 words. ("Das Bus")

Elizabeth Bogush — Dian Senski, love interest of Big Pete, annoyed by his too-close friendship with Teddy. ("The Trouble With Teddy")

    Jude Ciccolella — Mr. Slurm, high school shop teacher with a claw for a hand. ("Tool and Die")

    Ellen Cleghorne — Bus driver Sally Knorp, on-again, off-again girlfriend of Stu Benedict. (Appears in "Day of the Dot" and "Yellow Fever," though she is mentioned in other episodes)

Marshall Crenshaw — "Lightning" Mel Ratner, a meter reader who joins Little Pete's band. ("A Hard Day's Pete")

Art Donovan — himself, talking to Big Pete about playing with Johnny Unitas.
("Space, Geeks, and Johnny Unitas")

Martin Donovan — crossing guard Kenneth G. Keegan who passes messages between Big

Pete and Ellen in "Apocalypse Pete"; also Smith ("Smitty"), a security guard whom

Little Pete and Petunia distract in "Space, Geeks, and Johnny Unitas."

Richard Edson — school janitor and field chalker Mr. Beverly.("Valentine's Day Massacre")

Chris Elliott — Meterman Ray, a meter reader who foretells Little Pete's future. ("Sick Day")

Gordon Gano — Mr. Zank, the first of many substitute math teachers. ("X=Why?")

Janeane Garofalo — Ms. Brackett, an English teacher. ("X=Why?")

Frank Gifford — himself, a customer at Dad's driving range. ("Rangeboy")

Ellen Greene — Abilene Jones, drive-in film operator. ("Time Tunnel")

Debbie Harry — a neighbor whose lawn the Petes sweep for land mines. ("New Year's Pete")

Eliza Harris — girl in the straitjacket. ("Last Laugh")

Juliana Hatfield — Emma, a young lunchlady. ("Don't Tread on Pete")

Patty Hearst — Mrs. Kretchmar, a member of the family that moves into the Wrigley house. ("35 Hours")

 William Hickey — Grandpa Wrigley, Dad's dad. ("When Petes Collide")

 David Johansen — Park Ranger Thorsen, who scrutinizes Dad's activities until learning he is hunting for Bob. ("On Golden Pete")

 LL Cool J — Mr. Throneberry, Little Pete's teacher. ("Sick Day")

 Luscious Jackson — the band that plays at the school dance. ("Dance Fever")

 Ann Magnuson — Eunice Puell, mail carrier and object of Little Pete's affection. ("Crisis in the Love Zone")

John McLaughlin — himself, devoting a portion of his show to support Big Pete's bid for Dad's bowling ball. ("When Petes Collide")

Miracle Legion — the four-piece version of Polaris that Little Pete sees in a garage ("A Hard Day's Pete"). Polaris, in turn, was Miracle Legion minus guitarist Mr. Ray.

Bebe Neuwirth — Mail Lady McGintee, a mail carrier whom Little Pete comes across on his sick day adventure. ("The Call", "Sick Day") ---- Hey she was Fraser's wife on Cheers and Fraser.

Larisa Oleynik — a nurse who rushes Little Pete through the hospital. ("Dance Fever")

Vincent Pastore — Plays Vincent Park, a neighbor and bowling agent who is impressed with Artie's bowling skills and gets him to sign a bowling contract.

Geoff Pierson — Mr. Perfect, dad's competition on a family trip to the Hoover Dam. ("The King of the Road")

Kate Pierson — mysterious blind millionaire Mrs. Vanderveer. ("What We Did on Our Summer Vacation")

Suzzy Roche — PEO MacMillian, meter maid and Inspector 34's love interest. ("Inspector 34")

James Rebhorn — Supervillain John McFlemp, who rallies the neighborhood to get rid of little Pete's superhero Artie and turn him into a respectable and conservative adult. ("Farewell My Little Viking" (parts 1 and 2))

Sarah Shannon — a grocery store employee who gives Little Pete a label from an expired can of tapioca pudding. ("Sick Day")

J. K. Simmons — Barber Dan, who refuses to talk to Big Pete. ("Saturday")

Michael Stipe — Captain Scrummy, ice-cream vendor known for the Sludgecicle.
("What We Did On Our Summer Vacation")

Golden Brooks — Heather, captain of the tennis team and Big Pete's love interest. ("Crisis in the Love Zone")

Syd Straw — math teacher Miss Fingerwood. Played bass in the Blowholes. ("A Hard Days Pete")

Liza Weil — Margie Corsell, a girl for whom Big Pete abandons his brother ("35 Hours"). Weil also played a bully in "Yellow Fever", with her mother Lisa as a teacher in the same episode.

Brittany Whittington — the Kretchmars' daughter, another member of the family that moved into the Wrigley house. ("35 Hours")

Matthew G.Cliff — "Chalkface", the name Little Pete gives to short-lived neighbourhood villain Roger SanGreko. Often seen in the background of episodes sporting a lime green hoodie with a purple lizard on the chest. He is given the name due to his fair skin and constant body odor that is easily mistaken with the scent of classroom
chalk. ("The Call", "Dance Fever")

One widely reported guest appearance — Hunter S. Thompson's, in "New Year's Pete" — has been described as "apocryphal" by show creator Will McRobb, who has said the Hunter Thompson listed in the credits is instead a similarly named extra.

Music

The show featured music by such artists as Luscious Jackson, Nice, Drop Nineteens,

Racecar, Chug, Poi Dog Pondering, Syd Straw and The Apples in Stereo. The music of Stephin Merritt can also be heard throughout the series, including songs from his projects The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and The Gothic Archies. On the DVD commentaries, the director and the creators revealed that they tried to use a song by the Pixies, but could not afford the rights.

Polaris, a side project of Mark Mulcahy's Miracle Legion, served as the show's "house band", providing the theme song and many other tunes heard throughout the series and even appearing in "Hard Day's Pete" as a local four-piece playing out of a garage.

Some of the Polaris' music from the show was released as a CD, Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete, including the theme song "Hey Sandy".

Music from the show was also available in 1995 on a promotional cassette single,
titled Happily Deranged, available by sending in UPC symbols from Kellogg's Frosted

Mini-Wheats. This cassette includes the Polaris songs "Hey Sandy", "She is Staggering", and "Coronado II". The cassette includes a short introduction and closing read by Big Pete. Robert Agnello was the writer and creator of numerous pieces of music for Pete and Pete. He wrote most of the Blowholes music such as: Marmalade Cream, Summer Wind, Piledriver and You Color my World. He also wrote One Lousy Dance which was sung by Iggy Pop and the Garbageman theme sung by David Johanson. A lot of the small music sound bites were performed by Agnello and his band Lamb to Slaughter.

Production music

The show also used music from standard production music libraries.

    "Drama Impact #3"
    "Fisticuffs" by Laurie Johnson
    "Ballata Per Un Pistolero (Ballad of a Gunman)" A notable Western theme in the style of Ennio Morricone, it was used whenever there was a showdown between characters, for example Little Pete and the ringing phone in "The Call".

"Lonely Stranger" by Laurie Johnson

Home video releases

VHS

Nickelodeon VHS tapes were first released through Sony Wonder, then through Paramount.

"Snick Vol. 1: Nick Snicks Friendship" — Includes one episode from each show in
the early Snick lineup: Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, The Ren & Stimpy Show, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. A pre-series Pete and Pete short is included in between each show. This tape includes the shorts "Artie, the Strongest Man in the World", "X-Ray Man", and "Route 34".

"Snick Vol. 2: Nick Snicks the Family" — Includes the same lineup as "Friendship".

The Pete and Pete shorts are "The Burping Room", "Mom's Plate", and "The Punishment".

"Classic Petes" — Includes the episodes "What We Did on Our Summer Vacation" and "Apocalypse Pete", plus the bonus short "Artie's Workout". (with an accompanying "Petunia" Tattoo)

"School Dazed" — Includes the episodes "Day of the Dot" and "Tool and Die", plus
the bonus short "StareMaster" (with an accompanying "Magic Motion Eyeball Card").

"Farewell, My Little Viking" — Includes both parts of the story, edited into one long episode. Also includes the short "Artie, the Strongest Man in the World".

AfterMASH

AfterMASH

Format: Sitcom

Starring:

Harry Morgan
Jamie Farr
William Christopher
Rosalind Chao
John Chappell
Jay O. Sanders
Barbara Townsend
David Ackroyd
Anne Pitoniak
Peter Michael Goetz
Brandis Kemp

Country of origin:   United States

Original language(s): English

No. of seasons: 2

No. of episodes: 29

Production

Executive producer(s): Burt Metcalfe

Running time: 22–25 minutes

Production company(s): 20th Century Fox Television

Distributor: 20th Television

Broadcast

Original channel:  CBS

Original run     September 26, 1983 – May 31, 1985

Chronology

Preceded by:  M*A*S*H
Followed by:   W*A*L*T*E*R

AfterMASH is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983, to December 11, 1984. A spin-off of the series M*A*S*H, the show takes place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicles the adventures of three characters from the original series: Colonel Potter (played by Harry Morgan), Klinger (played by Jamie Farr) and Father Mulcahy (played by William Christopher). 

M*A*S*H supporting cast-member Kellye Nakahara joined them, albeit off-camera, as the voice of the hospital's public address system. 

Rosalind Chao rounded out the starring cast as Soon-Lee Klinger, a Korean refugee whom Klinger met, fell in love with and married in the M*A*S*H series finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen."

AfterMASH premiered in the fall of 1983 in the same Monday night 9:00 P.M. EST. time slot as its predecessor M*A*S*H. It finished 10th out of all network shows for the 1983-1984 season according to Nielsen Media Research television ratings. For its second season CBS moved the show to Tuesday nights at 8:00 EST., opposite NBC's top ten hit The A-Team, and launched a marketing campaign featuring illustrations by Sanford Kossin of Max Klinger in a nurse's uniform, shaving off Mr. T's signature mohawk, theorizing that AfterMASH would take a large portion of The A-Team's audience. The theory, however, was proven wrong. In fact, the exact opposite occurred, as AfterMASH's ratings plummeted to near the bottom of the television rankings and the show was canceled nine episodes into its second season, while The A-Team continued until 1987, with 97 episodes.

In 2002, TV Guide listed the show as the seventh-worst TV series ever.[2] 

Synopsis

Season one

In the one-hour pilot episode "September of '53/Together Again", Colonel Potter
returned home from Korea to his wife Mildred (Barbara Townsend) in Hannibal, Missouri. 

He soon found retirement stifling, and Mildred suggested he return to work. Potter was soon hired by the cartoonish hospital administrator Mike D'Angelo (John Chappell) as the chief of staff at General Pershing Veteran's Hospital ("General General"), located in the fictional River Bend, Missouri.

Max Klinger had found himself in trouble with the law in Toledo. Colonel Potter wrote to him and offered him a job as his administrative assistant. Klinger's nemesis at General General was D'Angelo's executive secretary Alma Cox (Brandis Kemp), a mean-spirited woman who was forever trying to "get the goods" on him, from giving him a day to prepare for a civil service exam to rifling through his desk.

Father Mulcahy, whose hearing was damaged in the final episode of M*A*S*H, was suffering from depression and drinking heavily. Potter arranged for Mulcahy to receive an operation at another VA Hospital in St. Louis. After his hearing was surgically corrected, he stopped drinking and joined Potter and Klinger at "General General" as its Catholic chaplain.

Also on hand was the idealistic, talented, and often hungry young resident surgeon
Gene Pfeffier (Jay O. Sanders), attractive secretary Bonnie Hornbeck (Wendy Schaal), who had an eye for Klinger, and old-timer Bob Scannell (Patrick Cranshaw) who served under then-Sergeant Potter in World War I and was now a hospital resident of 35 years (thanks to his exposure to mustard gas). Unlike the other patients and staff who 
addressed Potter by his retired rank of colonel, Scannell called him "Sarge" at 
Potter's request.

The only other main character from the original series to appear on AfterMASH was Radar (played by Gary Burghoff), who appeared in a first season two-part episode. As Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy prepare to head to Iowa for Radar's wedding, Radar shows up in a panic at Potter's house in Missouri, believing his intended fiancée has cheated on him in "It Had To Be You". The Radar character later appeared in a pilot called W*A*L*T*E*R, in which Radar moved from Iowa to St. Louis, after his wife left 
him on his wedding night, and became a police officer. (The series was never picked up, and the pilot was aired in July 1984 as a TV special on CBS exclusively in the Eastern and Central timezones; the show was pre-empted in Pacific and Mountain timezones by the 1984 Democratic National Convention.)

The season included home scenes with the Potters, most notably when they were deluged with guests in "Thanksgiving of '53", and Potter tried to keep the phone occupied so Klinger couldn't call his relatives, who were on the way over to surprise him; this episode also marked the only onscreen appearance of Potter's oft-mentioned daughter, Evvy Ennis, and Potter's grandson, Corey. One of the season's standout episodes was the Emmy-nominated "Fall Out", where Potter and Pfeffier considered leaving General General, but reconsidered when they linked the leukemia seen in a patient with 

exposure to atomic testing; writer-director Larry Gelbart received a Peabody Award for this episode. The season closed in March with Klinger being arrested for decking a shady real estate agent as pregnant Soon Lee went into labor. In May, CBS announced the show was renewed for a second season.

Season two

Season Two opened with Klinger escaping from the River Bend County Jail to attend the birth of his child and remaining a fugitive until a judge sent him to the psychiatric unit at General General, where Klinger feigned insanity to avoid prison and the Potters took in Soon Lee and the (as yet unnamed) baby. Mike D'Angelo was transferred to Montana and was replaced by smarmy new administrator Wally Wainwright (Peter 
Michael Goetz). Anne Pitoniak was brought in to replace Barbara Townsend as Mildred Potter. Dr. Pfeffier was phased out late in the first season and replaced by Dr. Boyer (David Ackroyd), who had lost a leg in Korea and whose bitterness was only matched by his excellent surgical skills. (The character was never given a first name in the series, but publicity photos referred to him as "Dr. Mark Boyer.") An attractive new psychiatrist, Dr. Lenore Dudziak (Wendy Girard) arrived to begin the daunting task of evaluating Klinger, while Potter was horrified that Wainwright assigned Alma Cox as his new secretary.

The recurring M*A*S*H character Colonel Flagg (played by Edward Winter) appeared in the second season, now working for an unspecified intelligence agency whose agents are authorized to carry sidearms in their shoes; he is only too eager to testify against Klinger in "Trials". Character actors Arliss Howard, Timothy Busfield, William Sadler, and David Graf all appeared as patients.

Only three other characters from M*A*S*H were ever mentioned in the sequel series.

Hawkeye was referenced in the one-hour opening episode in a voice-over thought by Mulcahy. Frank Burns was mentioned once in the first season (Episode #14: "Chief of Staff") and once in the second season, both times by Sherman Potter. In a second season episode (#26: "Madness To His Method"), Dr. Potter writes a letter to Sidney Freedman, who is mentioned as now working at the University of Chicago, but does not appear in the episode. There is also a touching moment at the end of the "Chief of Staff" episode in which Potter is surprised to see that his hospital office has been redecorated with his desk, paintings, saddle, and other items from the 4077th as "Suicide is Painless" is played; Potter's portrait of Radar and his group portrait of Hawkeye, BJ, Houlihan, Winchester, Klinger, and Mulcahy (from the 10th season episode "Picture This") continued to be seen in his office through the remainder of the sequel series. In the W*A*L*T*E*R pilot, interviewer Clete Roberts is seen on TV mentioning that he had recently interviewed Hawkeye, and Radar mentions a picture he keeps in his 
wallet of him with Hawkeye, LTC Blake, and Major Houlihan.

In the next-to-last filmed episode, "Saturday's Heroes", the Klingers' baby is finally named. This episode (the final broadcast of the series) aired on May 31, 1985. 

(Several sources incorrectly claim that this episode ran on December 11, 1984, which was the originally intended air date for this episode. However, CBS had put the series "on hiatus" just a few days earlier and abruptly pulled the episode from the scheduled airing of December 11, even though it had been advertised in several newspaper listings and in TV Guide for that date.)

Format

AfterMASH made frequent references to M*A*S*H, and likewise featured storylines that highlighted the horrors and suffering of war, from the non-combat perspective of a veteran's hospital. The series was canceled after twenty-nine broadcast episodes. "Wet Feet", the thirtieth episode, was never aired.

Characters

Note: This table counts 21 episodes in the first season (with the first episode
being double length), and 8 episodes in the second season, as "Wet Feet" was never aired, the total being 29.

Actor     Role     Years     Seasons     Episodes

Harry Morgan     Col. Sherman Potter     1983-1985     1–2     29

Jamie Farr     Maxwell Klinger     1983-1985     1–2     29

William Christopher     Father John Mulcahy     1983-1985     1–2     29

Kellye Nakahara     PA Announcer     1983-1985     1–2     26

Rosalind Chao     Soon-Lee Klinger     1983-1985     1–2     23

Barbara Townsend and Anne Pitoniak     Mildred Potter     1983-1984, 1984-1985     1, 2 (actress replaced between seasons)     19

Brandis Kemp     Alma Cox     1983-1985     1–2     19

John Chappell     Mike D'Angelo     1983-1984     1     19

Patrick Cranshaw     Bob Scannell     1983-1985     1–2 (absent from last few
episodes of Season 2)     19

Jay O. Sanders     Dr. Gene Pfeiffer     1983-1984     1 (first half)     14

David Ackroyd     Dr. Mark Boyer     1984-1985     1 (second half)–2     12

Peter Michael Goetz     Wally Wainwright     1984-1985     2     5

Gary Burghoff     Walter "Radar" O'Reilly     1984     1     2

Edward Winter     Samuel Flagg     1984     2     1

Episode list

Season One (1983 - 1984)

#     Title     Director[n 1]     Writer[n 1]     Original airdate     Production Code

1     "Summer of '53 / Together Again"     Burt Metcalfe     Larry Gelbart    
September 26, 1983     2E01 (1), 2E02 

Potter, Klinger, and Father Mulcahy adjust to civilian life once again. In "Together
Again", Father Mulcahy has ear surgery. 
2     "Klinger vs. Klinger"     Will Mackenzie     Ken Levine, David Isaacs    
October 3, 1983     2E03

Klinger and Soon-Lee quarrel about money problems, but eventually settle their differences. A veteran is admitted to the hospital without paperwork. When he wakes up, he has an interesting secret. 
3     "Snap, Crackle, Plop"     Nick Havinga     Dennis Koenig     October 10, 1983     2E04

Klinger must take a test on short notice to secure his job. 4     "Staph Inspection"     Burt Metcalfe     Ken Levine, David Isaacs    
October 17, 1983     2E07

Patients are getting staph infections, just as the hospital is about to get an inspection. 5     "Night Shift"     Edward H. Feldman     Everett Greenbaum, Elliott Reed     October 24, 1983     2E06

During the night shift at the hospital, a father wants to see his young son, as
Klinger searches for missing mattresses. 
6     "Shall We Dance"     Will Mackenzie     Ken Levine, David Isaacs     October 31, 1983     2E05

During a weekly staff meeting, Mr. D'Angelo announces that a dance school wishes to hold a dance for the patients at the hospital. 7     "Little Broadcast of '53"     Burt Metcalfe     Dennis Koenig     November 7, 1983     2E08

While Klinger takes turn at doing a noon time radio broadcast for the patients. A new nurse tries to get used to life in the hospital. 8     "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"     Nick Havinga     Dennis Koenig     November 14, 1983     2E09

Visitor's Day at the hospital brings both a bake sale, and a troublesome freelance preacher.  9     "Thanksgiving of '53"     Burt Metcalfe     Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Dennis Koenig     November 21, 1983     2E10

Thanksgiving at the Potters' with a house full of guests. 10     "Fallout"     Larry Gelbart     Larry Gelbart     December 5, 1983     2E12

Patients deal with medical problems from their time in military service. 11     "Bladder Day Saints"     Nick Havinga     Everett Greenbaum, Elliott Reid  December 12, 1983     2E11

30 patients arrive for their annual bladder inspection. 12     "All About Christmas Eve"     Burt Metcalfe     Dennis Koenig     December 19, 1983     2E13

Christmas at the hospital. 13     "Chief of Staff"     Burt Brinckerhoff     Gordon Mitchell     January 2, 1984     2E15

As Klinger plans a special surprise for Col. Potter's birthday. Mr. D' Angelo finds
out he needs prostate surgery. 
14     "C.Y.A."     Burt Brinckerhoff     Janis Hirsch     January 9, 1984     2E14

Klinger helps a out patient who is paralyzed from the waist down. As Father Mulcahy discovers the V.A. did not pay the surgeon who restored his hearing, he quickly discovers he is not the only one the V.A. did not help because of red tape. 
15     "Yours Truly, Max Klinger"     Burt Metcalfe     Ken Levine, David Isaacs     January 16, 1984     2E16

Klinger writes Radar a letter about recent events in his life, including Soon-Lee being pregnant with his child, his struggle to sell frozen beef to make a little extra 
money and a troublesome new surgeon, Dr. Boyer. The episode ends at Radar's wedding rehearsal, with him reading the letter. 16     "It Had to Be You"     Larry Gelbart     Dennis Koenig, Ken Levine, David Isaacs     January 23, 1984     2E17

As the Potters, Klingers, and Father Mulcahy prepare to leave for Radar's Wedding, when Radar suddenly appears. He is on the lam from his own wedding after hearing his bride-to-be Suzie slept with a good friend. Meanwhile, Dr. Boyer heads to a bar near the hospital, looking for some female companionship of his own. Suzie appears still wearing her wedding dress, looking for Radar to explain what really happened. After an 
advance by Dr. Boyer, Suzie leaves and shows up at the Potters door. After discovering the truth, Radar and Suzie reconcile and Father Mulcahy performs their wedding ceremony. 17     "Odds and Ends"     Peter Levin     Everett Greenbaum, Elliott Reid     January 30, 1984     2E18

Max Klinger is in desperate need of $500 for his struggling family, especially with
the baby coming. He had even taken 3 jobs, but even after doing so he resorts to gambling, but in doing so he both wins and loses everything. Meanwhile Bob Scannell needs an operation to remove some shrapnel, and asks Father Mulcahy to help him write a new will. But once Bob Scannell learns about Klinger's troubles, he provides the money Klinger needs. 18     "Another Saturday Night"     Jamie Farr     Dennie Koenig (story)
Ken Levine, David Isaacs (teleplay)     February 6, 1984     2E19

With the Mrs. out of town for the night, Dr. Potter heads for the local bar for a meal and someone to talk to. Meanwhile, Klinger keeps dropping by for a take out order for Soon-Lee to satisfy her cravings. Also, Mr. D'Angelo drops by looking for a good meal, and meets a reformed hooker turned waitress, and later Father Mulcahy gets punched on 
the lip while defending her honor. 
19     "Fever Pitch"     Burt Metcalfe     Dennis Koenig     February 27, 1984     2E21

A hot day brings a patient who needs his fever cooled, Dr. Boyer wants to use a
cooling blanket but it isn't V.A. approved so he turns to Klinger to get one. 
Meanwhile, Father Mulcahy is in search of a new place to stay, after life in the 
rectory turns substandard. 20     "By the Book"     Gabrielle Beaumont     Larry Balmagia     March 5, 1984     2E20

Mulcahy must stop a man who thinks he is Superman from endangering other patients. 21     "Up and Down Payments"     Burt Metcalfe     Ken Levine, David Isaacs     March 12, 1984     2E22

Klinger gets arrested for punching a crooked real estate agent. Soon-Lee goes into labor. 

Season Two (1984 - 1985)

#     Title     Director.  Writer.  Original airdate     Production Code

22     "Less Miserable"     Burt Metcalfe     Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Dennis Koenig     September 23, 1984 2W01

While Soon-Lee is being rushed to the delivery room, Klinger stands in a jail cell
worried about his wife, and later conspires with another inmate in order to make his escape. Meanwhile, V.A. Administrator Burt Philbrick (Max Wright) tours the hospital, later informing Dr. Potter that Mr. D'Angelo has been replaced. Soon-Lee gives birth to her son, with Max at her side, after he tells everyone he is going to hide out at the hospital. 

23     "Calling Doctor Habibi"     Hy Averback     Dennis Koenig, Ken Levine,
David Isaacs     September 25, 1984     2W02

Wally Wainwright arrives and immediately runs into Klinger, who is still on the run
from the law. After introducing himself as Dr. Habibi, Klinger is asked to show Mr. 
Wainwright around. Later Mrs. Cox learns she is now Dr. Potter's clerk. 

24     "Strangers and Other Lovers"     Burt Metcalfe     Dennis Koenig     October 2, 1984     2W03

After Dr. Boyer finds a woman he wants to share his life with, but discovers she is
the wife of a patient. Klinger is finally arrested. 

25     "Trials"     Charles S. Dubin     Ken Levine, David Isaacs     October 9, 1984     2W04 Max Klinger's trial finally takes place. Back at the hospital, Mr. Wainwright forces Dr. Boyer into performing a difficult operation. Later, Klinger is sent to the hospital for a psychological evaluation. 

26     "Madness to His Method"     Burt Metcalfe     Tom Straw     October 16,
1984     2W05

Dr. Potter writes to Dr. Sydney Freeman about recent events at the hospital, including news of the hospital's brand new psychiatrist Dr. Lenore Dudziak (Wendy Girard). 

Klinger wants to prove to her that he is crazy enough not to go to jail due to recent events. Also, Dr. Boyer has a romantic interest in her. 

27     "The Recovery Room"     Charles S. Dubin     Jay Folb     October 30,
1984     2W06

With the arrival of Dr. Andy Caldwell, it seems Klinger is not the only one with
problems, when he tries to get full disability from the V.A. The Potters have trouble dealing with Soon-Lee's baby. Meanwhile Dr. Boyer's temper is getting the best of him,  as Dr. Dudziak suggests group therapy after he smashes a medical supply cabinet when he couldn't wait for the key. 

28     "Ward Is Hell"     Burt Metcalfe     Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Dennis Koenig    
December 4, 1984     2W09

Klinger runs a hospital lottery, as Dr. Boyer is laid up by a staph infection. 

29     "Saturday's Heroes"     Burt Metcalfe     Ken Levine, David Isaacs     May 31, 1985[n 4]     2W07

30[n 4]     "Wet Feet"     Hy Averback     Dennis Koenig     Not Aired[n 4]     2W08

31[n 5]     "All Day All Night, Mary Ann"         Ken Levine, David Isaacs  Not Produced[n 5]     None[n 5]

Notes

Credits from episode title cards
Production Code from end credits
The premiere episode of the second season aired in a time slot different from the regular schedule.

The episode "Wet Feet" was set to air at 8:30 p.m. on May 31, 1985, immediately
after the airing of "Saturday's Heroes" but was pre-empted by an unannounced CBS news documentary with Dan Rather. "Saturday's Heroes" was originally scheduled to air Dec. 11, 1984, before CBS put the series on hiatus and abruptly pulled the episode.

The script for "All Day All Night, Mary Ann" was written but the episode was never produced.