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    Delta House

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    13 x 30 minute episodes

    This sitcom version of the movie National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) followed the continuing misadventures of the most notorious fraternity house on the campus at Faber College, Oregon, in 1963.

    Josh Mostel co-starred as Jim “Blotto” Blutarsky, the younger brother of the now-graduated Bluto (played by John Belushi in the movie version).

    His Delta frat buddies were sadsack Flounder (Stephen Furst), moustachioed motorcycle maniac Daniel Simpson Day – nicknamed D-Day (Bruce McGill), Delta president Robert Hoover (James Widdoes), womaniser Eric “Otter” Stratton (Peter Fox) and Pinto (Richard Seer).

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    The corrupt dean, Vernon Wormer (John Vernon, also back from the movie version), frequently conspired with the stuffy and wealthy members of Delta’s rival, Omega House – led by preppy Greg Marmalard (Brian Patrick Clarke) – to plan a way to get the riotous members of Delta expelled.

    Wormer’s other cohort in crime was Doug Niedermeyer (Gary Cookson), another Omega House member who was seeking a way to close Delta House.

    Unfortunately, the TV version was broadcast during the “family hour” and so stringent rules were placed upon the show from the censors.

    The series suffered greatly because so much of what made the movie a box office smash was not allowed in the series because of its time slot.

    The show’s time slot changed often, and the Deltas never graduated to a second season.

    A young Michelle Pfeiffer guested in a number of episodes as a nameless blonde bombshell co-ed (pictured below right). Gary Cookson recalls; “she put up with a lot – walking around in high heels in a little bikini with lots of padding . . . but you felt there was a protective angel watching over her who would get her through that demeaning role”.

    Pfeiffer went on to far greater things in Hollywood.

    Dean Vernon Wormer
    John Vernon
    Kent ‘Flounder’ Dorfman
    Stephen Furst
    Daniel Simpson Day (D-Day)
    Bruce McGill
    Robert Hoover
    James Widdoes
    Eric ‘Otter’ Stratton
    Peter Fox
    Doug Niedermeyer
    Gary Cookson
    Mandy Pepperidge
    Susanna Dalton
    Muffy
    Wendy Goldman
    Larry ‘Pinto’ Kroger
    Richard Seer
    Greg Marmalard
    Brian Patrick Clarke
    Einswine
    Lee Wilkof
    Jim ‘Blotto’ Blutarsky
    Josh Mostel
    Prof. Dave Jennings
    Peter Kastner
    The Bombshell
    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Episodes

    The Legacy | The Guns of October | The Shortest Yard | The Lady in Weighting | Parent’s Day | The Draft | The Deformity | Big Man on Campus | The Fall of Dean Wormer | The Blotto Who Came to Dinner | Campus Fair | Hoover and the Bomb | The Matriculation of Kent Dorfman

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