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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Thicker Than Water

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    In 1910 an enterprising young man named Jonas Paine established a business called ‘Paine’s Pure Pickles’. In 1911 he won the gold medal for his gherkins at the American Grain Exhibition.

    He and his wife had two children: Nellie (Julie Harris), born in 1933, and Ernie (Richard Long), born in 1937. Jonas was widowed in 1955 and became chronically ill in 1963.

    Ernie eventually left home (because he couldn’t stand the smell of pickles), leaving spinster Nellie to run the family pickle works and care for her father, “an old codger who just won’t kick the bucket.”

    In 1973, at the age of 82, Jonas (Malcolm Atterbury) takes another turn for the worse and Ernie – now a penniless playboy who studiously avoids work and drinks too much – realises there is money at stake and rushes back home.

    Nellie and Ernie despise each other but Jonas has made it a condition of his will that his grown-up children will each receive $75,000 in five years time, providing they both “operate the family pickle works and live together in the family residence”.

    Reluctantly, Nellie and Ernie agree to Pop’s conditions and struggle to care for him and the pickle plant – and each other.

    Lyle Woodstock (Jim Connell) is Jonas’s lawyer; Lily Paine (Jessica Myerson) is a cousin; Walter (Lou Fant) is Lily’s husband; Agnes (Dolores Albin) works in the pickle factory.

    This ABC summer series was a US remake of the British comedy series Nearest and Dearest (which had a five-year run between 1968 and 1973) but was not successful and was cancelled after just nine weeks.

    Nellie Paine
    Julie Harris
    Ernie Paine
    Richard Long
    Jonas Paine
    Malcolm Atterbury
    Walter 
    Lou Fant
    Lily
    Jessica Myerson
    Bert Taylor
    Pat Cranshaw
    Lyle Woodstock
    Jim Connell
    Agnes Dorsel
    Dolores Albin

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