In 1983, Larry Burton (Perfect Strangers star Bronson Pinchot) and Sally Easden (Shanna Reed) were married by a Holy Man at the foot of Victoria Mountain in Africa. Shortly after the ceremony, wild baboons broke into their camp and carried Larry off.
Larry thought Sally was killed. Sally, who was not hurt, believed Larry was killed.
Larry was kept alive by the monkeys and managed to escape by singing opera to them. He also escaped being eaten by cannibals by writing an expiration date on his neck – and eventually found his way to Kenya and safety.
Ten years later, Larry sees a newspaper article regarding Sally, who has opened an art gallery in Syracuse, New York.
Knowing that Sally is alive he decides to return to his wife. But Sally is dumbfounded to see that Larry is alive and well for she is now married to Boyd Flatt (Perry King), a curator at the local museum.
It appears that after the trauma of the jungle incident, a distraught Sally was unable to return to the home she and Larry had in Utah and chose to return to her childhood home in Syracuse. On the plane she met and fell in love with Boyd, whom she married three weeks later.
Larry appears to accept Boyd and moves in with him and Sally to write his memoirs in a book called Larry’s Africa.
Larry’s experiences have made him a bit strange around people and stories follow Larry’s misadventures as he attempts to readjust to life – and, as Sally hopes, realise that she and Larry are no longer married.
Other regular characters included Gabriella (Courteney Cox), Sally’s younger sister and partner in the art gallery, and Lindsay (Alex McKenna), Sally’s 10-year-old daughter (by Larry, although Boyd believes she is his daughter).
Following poor reviews and bad ratings, the CBS series was canceled after only three episodes had been aired. Only seven episodes were produced. Then cancellation enabled Courteney Cox to appear in Friends, which debuted a year later and became one of the most successful sitcoms ever.
Larry Burton
Bronson Pinchot Sally Easden/Burton/Flatt
Shanna Reed Boyd Flatt
Perry King Gabriella Easden
Courteney Cox Lindsay Flatt
Alex McKenna
Ten years later, Larry sees a newspaper article regarding Sally, who has opened an art gallery in Syracuse, New York.
