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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 1 Min Read

    Ellen Burstyn Show, The

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    13 x 30 minute episodes

    Another eclectic family comedy from ABC. Here Burstyn plays Ellen Brewer – a writer-in-residence at a Baltimore college who shares a brownstone with her brash mother, Sydney, divorced daughter Molly, and five-year-old grandson, Nick.

    Burstyn’s own production company was behind the series shot in New York, so she gets the blame for creating a comedy without comedy.

    Her supposedly wisecracking mother was played by Elaine Stritch, an actress born to wisecrack but given only dumb cracks here.

    A lot of talent was wasted on this show.

    Ellen Brewer
    Ellen Burstyn
    Molly Brewer Ross
    Megan Mullally
    Nick Ross
    Jesse R. Tendler
    Tom Hines
    Barry Sobel
    Sydney Brewer
    Elaine Stritch

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