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All's Fair

All's Fair
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All's Fair
Richard Crenna Bernadette Peters Alls Fair 1977.JPG
Crenna and Peters
Format     Sitcom
Created by     Norman Lear
Starring     Richard Crenna
Bernadette Peters
Michael Keaton
Country of origin     USA
No. of episodes     24
Production
Running time     approx. 0:30
(per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel     CBS
Original run     September 20, 1976 – April 30, 1977

All's Fair is an American television situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1976 to

1977. The show co-stars Richard Crenna as a conservative political columnist and

Bernadette Peters as a liberal photographer and concerns their romantic mismatch

because of age and political opinions. This is the television series debut of actor

Michael Keaton as Lanny Wolf. Peters was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her

role. Although the show received some good reviews, it lasted only one season.

Contents

    1 Plot
    2 Cast and crew
    3 Reception
    4 Awards and nominations
    5 References
    6 External links

Plot

In Washington, D.C., an older (49) conservative columnist Richard C. Barrington

(Richard Crenna) and a young (23) liberal photographer Charlotte (Charley) Drake

(Bernadette Peters) become romantically involved. The complications of their politics

and the age difference provide the story lines. They are "separated by politics,

generation gap, manners and living styles".[1]

Barrington is a gourmet cook who lives in a luxurious Washington townhouse, and Drake

is a vegetarian. Barrington has a girl friend, a literary agent (Salome Jens), when he

first meets Drake.[2] The style of the show is "almost constant hysteria, the rapid

pacing set to the sounds of argumentative shouting."[1]
Cast and crew

Cast

Source: Nostalgia Central[3]

    Richard C. Barrington – Richard Crenna
    Charlotte (Charley) Drake – Bernadette Peters
    Lucy Daniels, Al's girlfriend and a reporter – Lee Chamberlin
    Allen Brooks, Richard's assistant – J.A. Preston
    Ginger Livingston, Charley's roommate – Judith Kahan
    Senator Wayne Joplin, a liberal Senator and friend of Richard – Jack Dodson
    Lanny Wolf (1976), aide to President Carter – Michael Keaton

Crew

    Norman Lear – Production Supervisor
    Michael Elias – Producer
    Rod Parker – Executive Producer
    Bob Claver – Director
    Hal Cooper – Director
    Bob Schiller – Writer and Producer
    Bob Weiskopf – Writer and Producer
    Ben Stein – Consultant and writer[4][5]

Reception

The reviewer for Knight News Wire wrote that the show "looks like the best new comedy

series of the year...The show looks sound in both writing and acting ... the

characters spend a lot of time shouting. Lear seems to have decided ... that

high-decibel dialogue is necessary to hold the attention of a large audience."[6]

The critic for The New York Times wrote that "The casting is first-rate and the

finger-snapping pace of the show leaves just about everything looking easy and

undemanding.[2]

The reviewer for Copley News Service wrote that he did not believe in the relationship

(between Crenna and Peters). However, he wrote that "it works. It works because Crenna

is an expert farceur and Peters is, well, cute and full of the old ginger. It works

because the dialogue has crackle and wit. ... Peters has spunk and spirit and a bawdy

and snappishly delightful wit ... a well-paced, intelligently conceived and altogether

trenchant comedy and I don't see how it can miss."[7]
Awards and nominations

    Golden Globe, 1977, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy

or Musical - Bernadette Peters (nominated)[8]