Brothers and Sisters (1979 TV series)

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For the 2006 television series of Brothers & Sisters, see Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series).
Brothers and Sisters
Genre Sitcom
Written by Paul Diamond
Jeff Franklin
Allen Goldstein
Bernie Kahn
David Lerner
Brian Levant
Jerry Mayer
Andy Ruben
Roy Teicher
Directed by Nick Abdo
John Bowab
Lowell Ganz
Will Mackenzie
Dick Martin
Tony Mordente
Dennis Steinmetz
George Tyne
Starring William Windom
Chris Lemmon
Jon Cutler
Randy Brooks
Composer(s) Ken Heller
Mark Snow
Country of origin  United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 12
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Bob Brunner
Arthur Silver
Producer(s) Nick Abdo
Hy Averback
Jerry Mayer
Running time 30 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Original run January 21, 1979 – April 6, 1979
Chronology
Related shows Delta House
Co-Ed Fever

Brothers and Sisters is an NBC sitcom that attempted to capitalize on the success of the 1978 motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the second of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979 (the others were ABC's Delta House and CBS' Co-Ed Fever).

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Synopsis

Brothers and Sisters takes place on the campus of Crandall College, with William Windom starring as Dean Larry Crandall. Chris Lemmon (Milos "Checko" Sabolcik), Jon Cutler (Larry Zipper), and Randy Brooks (Ronald Holmes III) play three students who live in the basement of Pi Nu fraternity. Rather than attend class, the three cellar-dwellers would create havoc with the more straight-laced members of the fraternity, and "interact" with the Gamma Iota sorority sisters that live nearby.

On January 21, NBC debuted Brothers and Sisters as a follow-up to their telecast of Super Bowl XIII, three days after ABC aired the first episode of its Animal House-inspired series (which was, in fact, the "official" series in everything but name). Two weeks later (February 4), Co-Ed Fever made its' debut on CBS after a broadcast of the motion picture Rocky, but all three "frat house" series were off the air by the end of April (with Co-Ed Fever having only one episode broadcast). Brothers and Sisters made its last appearance on April 6, 1979; Delta House followed suit on April 21, 1979.

The show's lack of success became apparent when series regular Mary Crosby turned up as a celebrity on NBC's Hollywood Squares for a week in March 1979; host Peter Marshall mentioned Brothers and Sisters as airing "on another network", only to be informed by Crosby that they were, in fact, on the same network.

Cast

Actor Role
Chris Lemmon Milos "Checko" Sabolcik
William Windom Larry Crandall
Mary Crosby Suzy Cooper
Randy Brooks Ronald Holmes III
Larry Anderson Harlan Ramsey
Jon Cutler Stanley Zipper
Roy Teicher Seymour
Amy Johnston Mary Lee

Episodes

Episode # Episode Title Original Airdate
1 Pilot January 21, 1979
2 "High Times" January 26, 1979
3 "Man in Chains" February 2, 1979
4 "Mirror Image" February 9, 1979
5 "Made in Japan" February 16, 1979
6 "A Wrenching Problem" February 23, 1979
7 "Lucky Me" March 9, 1979
8 "Love and Marriage" March 16, 1979
9 "Spring Vacation" March 23, 1979
10 "Save the Monkey" March 28, 1979
11 "Main Event" March 30, 1979
12 "Truth or Consequences" April 6, 1979

References

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_and_Sisters_(1979_TV_series)"

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