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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Gung Ho

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    Based on the successful film of the same name, this short-lived sitcom starred Scott Bakula as Hunt Stevenson (the role Michael Keaton had played in the movie), and Gedde Watanabe as Kaz in a different (but similar) role to the one he played in the film.

    The setting was an auto plant in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, which had been reopened under new ownership and management as part of Assan Motors, a Japanese owned company.

    Kaz was the newly installed plant manager, trying to balance his country’s traditions, the unfamiliar customs of the USA, and the demands of his management back in Japan.

    Saito (Sab Shimono) was his conservative Japanese assistant, who didn’t want to adapt at all. Kaz’s wife Umeki (Patti Yasutake), though properly subservient to her husband, sometimes flirted with the freedom accorded American women, while Saito’s wife, Yukiko (Emily Kuroda) was much more conservative.

    The comedy stemmed from the culture clash faced by the American workers and the Japanese management.

    Kaz Kazuhiro
    Gedde Watanabe
    Hunt Stevenson
    Scott Bakula
    Umeki Kazuhiro
    Patti Yasutake
    Buster
    Stephen Lee
    Googie
    Clint Howard
    Ito
    Rodney Kageyama
    Kenji
    Scott Atari
    Randi
    Heidi Lawson
    Mr Saito
    Sab Shimono
    Yukiko Saito
    Emily Kuroda

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