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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 1 Min Read

    Thorns, The

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    Mike Nichols produced this caviar comedy about a family of nouveau riche, social-climbing snobs.

    Sharing an elegant Upper East Side New York townhouse were Sloan (Tony Roberts), an insensitive, self-absorbed public relations executive; his status-seeking wife, Ginger (Kelly Bishop); and their three insufferable children, 16-year-old junior snob Chad (Adam Biesk), Joey (Lisa Rieffel), and Edmund (Jesse R. Tendler).

    The most frequent form of parental discipline was to buy the kids off; the most frequent social activity, buying and lying one’s way into all the right affairs.

    Cricket (Lori Petty) was the shapely mother’s helper, and Toinette (Mary Louise Wilson) the contemptuous French maid. Introducing a modicum of common sense were Sloan’s no-nonsense mother, Rose (Marilyn Cooper), who moved in when her Brooklyn apartment burned down; and Peggy (Maureen Stapleton), the sensible maid to a fabulously rich, reclusive widow who lived nearby (It turned out that Peggy was the widow herself, in disguise.)

    Sloan Thorn
    Tony Roberts
    Ginger Thorn
    Kelly Bishop
    Chad Thorn
    Adam Biesk
    Joey Thorn
    Lisa Rieffel
    Edmund Thorn
    Jesse R. Tendler
    Rose Thorn
    Marilyn Cooper
    Cricket
    Lori Petty
    Toinette
    Mary Louise Wilson
    Peggy/Mrs Hamilton
    Maureen Stapleton

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