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    1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 8 (Canada)
    66 x 30 minute episodes

    This dire Canadian sitcom starred Don Adams – best known as either Maxwell Smart or the voice of Inspector Gadget, depending on your age – as Howard Bannister, the harried manager of (the fictional) Cobb’s supermarket in Ontario.

    Dinah Christie co-starred as Howard’s secretary, Elsie, and his stereotypical employees included a punk girl and a gay man.

    Despite the presence of the comedy veteran, the show – based on the superior British series Tripper’s Day – suffered from mediocre writing, corny dialogue, groan-inducing jokes and cardboard sets. It just looked cheap.

    I guess Don had bills to pay like the rest of us . . .

    Howard Bannister
    Don Adams
    Edna Moseley
    Dinah Christie
    Jack Christian
    Jeff Pustil
    Marlene Weimaraner
    Kathleen Laskey
    Leslie Rappaport
    Aaron Schwartz
    Viker
    Gordon Clapp
    Murray Amherst
    Simon Reynolds
    Jennifer Woods
    Tonya Williams
    Alf Scully
    Henry Beckman

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