Fitz and Bones

1 9 8 1 (USA)
4 x 60 minute episodes

This short-lived NBC comedy adventure series found the Smothers Brothers playing a bumbling TV news crew in San Francisco.

Ryan Fitzpatrick (Dick Smothers) was an on-the-air news reporter for KSFB-TV, Channel 3, and Bones Howard (Tom Smothers) was his cameraman. The duo used unorthodox methods to get stories before the police.

Fitz’s style displeased the news director of his show, Newsline 3, Terri Seymour (Diana Muldaur) and KSFB station manager Robert “Whitey” Whitmore (Mike Kellin). The co-anchor of the show was Mel Bishop (Doug Hale). The KSFB announcer was Judy Fong (Momo Yashima), and Monty (Keith Barbour) was the videotape editor.

Rosie Cochran (Lynnette Mettey) was a lieutenant with the San Francisco Police Department, who was aided by Sergeant Charlie Wright (Tom Stern).

Fitz had an unfriendly rival in Lawrence Brody (Roger C Carmel), a newsman at KTJ-TV, Channel 9.

NBC left the series on the shelf for a year before finding a place for it in their schedule. Four of the five completed episodes finally aired in September and October 1981 to awful Nielsen ratings and a hammering from the critics.

Ryan Fitzpatrick
Dick Smothers
Bones Howard
Tom Smothers
Terri Seymour
Diana Muldaur
Lt. Rosie Cochran
Lynnette Mettey
Robert “Whitey” Whitmore
Mike Kellin
Lawrence Brody
Roger C Carmel
Miss Tucker
Janet Lyn Curtis
Sgt. Charlie Wright
Tom Stern
Murphy
John Finnegan
KSFB News Director
Guerin Barry
Judy Fong
Momo Yashima
Susan Brody
Pamela West
KSFB Technical Director
Ken Chandler
KSFB Control Room Director
Carole Schweid
Monty
Keith Barbour
Mel Bishop
Doug Hale