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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Dorothy

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    This short-lived situation comedy about a middle-aged woman who served as surrogate den mother to a quartet of rambunctious boarding school girls debuted in August 1979 in the 8:30 PM time slot on Friday nights. The series was named after its star, Broadway veteran Dorothy Loudon.

    Dorothy Banks (Loudon) was an effervescent and liberated former Broadway showgirl who took a live-in job teaching music and drama at the exclusive Hannah Huntley School for Girls, a somewhat old-fashioned institution in Connecticut.

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    Other members of the faculty such as dizzy and emotional French teacher Miss Cathcart (Priscilla Morrill) – who unnecessarily added a French phrase to almost every sentence of conversation – and bespectacled biology instructor Mr Landis (Kip Gilman), and very prissy and demanding headmaster/grandson of the school’s founder Burton Foley (Russell Nype) – found Dorothy’s methods unorthodox and off-putting.

    But her students – including streetwise tomboy Frankie (Linda Manz), brunette Margo (Michele Greene), pretty blonde Cissy (Elissa Leeds) and nerdy bookworm Meredith (Susan Brecht) – thought she was wonderful.

    Frankie looked and spoke like a street urchin, but had a vaguely identified patron whose charity kept the school from closing, and therefore from expelling her.

    While the near-identical NBC show The Facts of Life, became a long-running hit that lasted for seven seasons and enjoyed a strong syndicated afterlife, Dorothy, on CBS, vanished into obscurity after its initial batch of four episodes were broadcast.

    Dorothy Banks
    Dorothy Loudon
    Frankie
    Linda Manz
    Margo
    Michele Greene
    Cissy
    Elissa Leeds
    Meredith
    Susan Brecht
    Jack Landis
    Kip Gilman
    Lorna Cathcart
    Priscilla Morrill
    Headmaster Burton Foley
    Russell Nype
    Mrs Foley
    Irene Tedrow

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