Tattingers
Tattingers | |
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Also known as |
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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(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 (2 unaired) |
Production | |
Producer(s) |
Bruce Paltrow Tom Fontana John Masius |
Running time | 60 minutes/30 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Paltrow Group MTM Enterprises |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original 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.[1]
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,[2] 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
- ↑ Starr, Michael (March 26, 1999). "TV Land at 'Junction,' Heeds Fontana's Call". New York Post. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
- ↑ O'Connor, John (April 20, 1989). "Review/Television; NBC Series Is Changed From Soap Into Sitcom". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-24.