This short-lived NBC sitcom about an earnest yuppie couple trying to raise two small children starred Dana Delany as career woman Georgia Holden, who quit work to be with the kids – 5-year-old Bart (Edan Gross) and 2-year-old baby Lynnie (played by twins Rebecca and Sarah Simms on a rotating basis) – and Mark Blum as her husband, Ken.
Other regular characters included Georgia’s recently divorced father, Frank Macklin (David Doyle); Ken’s mother, Joyce(Marjorie Lord) ; Georgia and Ken’s neighbours Marty and Lya Gafney (Thom Sharp and Louise Williams); their son Taylor (Victor DiMattia); swinging bachelor Vaughn Parker (Christopher Rich); Ray (Damon Wayans), and the Holdens’ punk babysitter, Cak (Viveka Davis).
The debut episode was a trite affair about Georgia and Ken having their plans to celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary disrupted by Bart locking himself in a closet on his first day of kindergarten. It didn’t get any better.
Five episodes were shown in a Saturday night slot in the spring of 1987, temporarily replacing 227.
A sixth episode was run on 8 July because NBC censors insisted on a later timeslot – the episode dealt with attempts by Ken and Georgia to get away from their kids long enough to enjoy an intimate moment together (they eventually check into a motel in the middle of the afternoon).
Dana Delany went on to bigger fame a year later in an altogether different series, China Beach.
Georgia Holden
Dana Delany Ken Holden
Mark Blum Bart Holden
Edan Gross Lynnie Holden
Rebecca Simms
Sarah Simms Francis “Frank” Macklin
David Doyle Joyce Holden
Marjorie Lord Marty Gafney
Thom Sharp Lyla Gafney
Louise Williams Taylor Gafney
Victor DiMattia Vaughn Parker
Christopher Rich Ray
Damon Wayans Cak
Viveka Davis
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Other regular characters included Georgia’s recently divorced father, Frank Macklin (David Doyle); Ken’s mother, Joyce(Marjorie Lord) ; Georgia and Ken’s neighbours Marty and Lya Gafney (Thom Sharp and Louise Williams); their son Taylor (Victor DiMattia); swinging bachelor Vaughn Parker (Christopher Rich); Ray (Damon Wayans), and the Holdens’ punk babysitter, Cak (Viveka Davis).
