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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Newhart

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    In this series, Newhart played Dick Loudon, a writer of “how-to” books who moved from New York to Norwich, Vermont to realise his dream of running a country inn. His smart, funny, and sexy wife was named Joanna (played by Mary Frann).

    As with Newhart’s previous comedies, there were numerous quirky supporting characters. Tom Poston (who had been a frequent guest on the earlier show) was the inn’s unhandy handyman, George Utley, and Julia Duffy played the vain and spoiled Stephanie Vanderkellen (an heiress working as a maid at the 200-year-old Stratford Inn – Stephanie replaced her less interesting cousin, Leslie, after the first season).

    Stephanie’s boyfriend, Michael Harris (Peter Scolari), was an insufferable 1980s yuppie and producer of a local TV show, Vermont Today, which Dick began hosting a few years into Newhart’s run.

    newhart_096Perhaps the most memorable, and certainly the most unusual, characters were three bizarre backwoodsmen, of whom only one ever spoke (until the final episode).

    “I’m Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl,” was their stock introduction. They could always be counted upon to enjoy any activity that would disgust most people.

    The show, like Newhart’s earlier sitcom, weeded out weak characters and developed the strong ones as it went along.

    Newhart closed its successful eight-year run with one of the best final episodes of any series.

    Everyone in town sold their property to a Japanese corporation, and the finale included a parody of Fiddler on the Roof, and ended with Newhart waking up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette and explaining that he’d had a very strange dream (a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous 1986-87 season of Dallas.)

    Sadly, Mary Frann died in 1998 at the age of 55.

    Dick Loudon 
    Bob Newhart
    Joanna Loudon 

    Mary Frann
    Kirk Devane 

    Steven Kampmann
    George Utley 

    Tom Poston
    Leslie Vanderkellen 

    Jennifer Holmes
    Stephanie Vanderkellen 

    Julia Duffy
    Larry 

    William Sanderson
    Darryl 1

    Tony Papenfuss
    Darryl 2 

    John Voldstad
    Jim Dixon 

    Thomas Hill
    Chester Wanamaker 

    William Lanteau
    Cindy Parker Devane 

    Rebecca York
    Michael Harris 

    Peter Scolari
    Harley Estin 

    Jeff Doucette
    Elliot Gabler 

    Lee Wilkof
    Bev Dutton 

    Linda Carlson
    Constable Shifflett 

    Todd Susman
    J.J. 

    Fred Applegate
    Bud 

    Ralph Manza
    Paul 

    Cliff Bemis
    Prudence Goddard 

    Kathy Kinney
    Art Rusnak 

    David Pressman

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