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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 3 Mins Read

    Busting Loose

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    1 9 7 7 (USA)
    21 (25) x 30 minute episodes

    After graduating from engineering school, young Lenny Markowitz (Adam Arkin) decided it was time to get his own place, away from his over-protective parents Sam (Jack Kruschen) and Pearl (Pat Carroll).

    He secretly moved into a run-down apartment building at 36 West 43rd Street in Manhattan and set up his new home.

    Since he couldn’t even afford to cover up the ducks on the wallpaper left by the previous tenant, it was hardly a swinger’s pad. It did have compensations, though – most notably his next-door neighbour, Melody (Barbara Rhoades), a beautiful young woman who worked for Mr Escort – an escort service catering for men of all ages.

    To make money on a temporary basis until he could find more suitable employment, Lenny went to work as a salesman at the Wear Well Shoe Store – owned by Mr Cabell (Paul B. Brice) – where he worked with a hip black guy named Raymond (Ralph Wilcox).

    Lenny’s buddies, Lester (Danny Goldman), Allan (Steve Nathan), Woody (Paul Sylvan) and cab driver Vinnie (Greg Antonacci) were frequent visitors to his apartment and partners in mischief, such as when they went off to hunt girls at a fashionable Catskills resort.

    Lenny eventually found a girlfriend in a curvaceous young beauty named Jackie Gleason (Louise Williams) – no relation (or resemblance) to the famous TV comedian.

    The series was cancelled before the final four episodes were broadcast.

    Lenny Markowitz
    Adam Arkin
    Pearl Markowitz
    Pat Carroll
    Sam Markowitz
    Jack Kruschen
    Melody Feebeck
    Barbara Rhoades
    Vinnie Mordabito
    Greg Antonacci
    Woody Warshaw
    Paul Sylvan
    Allan Simmonds
    Steve Nathan
    Lester Bellman
    Danny Goldman
    Ralph Cabell
    Paul B. Brice
    Raymond St. Williams
    Ralph Wilcox
    Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Gleason
    Louise Williams
    Dorothy St. Williams
    Dorothy Butts

    Episodes

    Pilot | Five’s a Crowd | The Harder They Come, the Bigger They Fall | Still Nutsy After All These Years | Grandpa Markowitz | Hell Hath No Fury | Love’s Labor Lost | Kiss and Dwell | A Nut at the Opera | House of Noodles | Together Again | The Famous Announcer’s School | Singles’ Weekend | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Foiled Again | Roomies | Knight in Tarnished Armor | Mr Dennis Steps Out | The Decision (1) | The Decision (2) | All in Love’s Unfair || Welcome to Fleckmans*** | Mordabito’s Ragtime Band*** | Camp Sha-Man-Ga*** | Scenes from an Engagement***

    NB: Episodes marked *** were not broadcast.

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