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
