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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Makin’ It

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    Screening between 1 February and 16 March 1979, Makin’ It was a short-lived sitcom about Italian-American Billy Manucci, who is obsessed with the disco scene – and the Inferno nightclub.

    The Manucci family lived in King Street in Passaic, New Jersey.

    Billy was played by David Naughton, who sang the Dr Pepper advertisements in the late 70s and went on to star in An American Werewolf In London (1981).

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    Lou Antonio played his bumbling dad, Joseph, and Ellen Travolta (sister of John) played his mother, Dorothy.

    Billy was the middle child – he had a younger sister named Tina (Denise Miller) and an estranged-from-his-dad older brother Tony Herbert Manucci (Greg Antonacci), who was the star dancer at the local disco.

    Billy was trying to do well in college (he wanted to be a teacher) and had a daytime job at the Tasty Treats ice cream parlour (on an undetermined street with the address 3519).

    His two dimwitted best friends were Al “Kingfish” Sorrentino (Ralph Seymour) – who carried a boom box with him everywhere – and numbskull Bernard Fusco (Gary Prendergast). Corky (Rebecca Balding) was Billy’s girlfriend.

    The show was heavily influenced by Saturday Night Fever (1977) and used the music of the Bee Gees in the dance sequences, The theme song became a top-five hit two months after the series had been cancelled.

    Billy Manucci 
    David Naughton
    Tony Manucci 

    Greg Antonacci
    Tina Manucci 

    Denise Miller
    Joseph Manucci
    Lou Antonio
    Dorothy Manucci
    Ellen Travolta
    Al “Kingfish” Sorrentino
    Ralph Seymour
    Bernard Fusco
    Gary Prendergast
    Corky Crandall
    Rebecca Balding
    Suzanne
    Wendy Hoffman
    Felice
    Diane Robin
    Ivy Papastegios
    Jennifer Perito

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