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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 1 Min Read

    When The Whistle Blows

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    This ABC comedy featured a gang of young construction workers out to have a good time, on the job and off.

    Lucy (Susan Buckner) was the only woman on the crew, and just “one of the guys”. Randy (Philip Brown) was the college graduate; Buzz (Doug Barr), the complete extrovert; and Hunk (Tim Rossovich), the resident hulk.

    Others around the construction site were Norm Jenkins (Dolph Sweet), the older guy whose wife, Dottie (Alice Hirson), wished he would slow down; Bulldog (Noble Willingham); Hanrahan (Gary Allen), the foreman; and Darlene (Sue Ane Langdon), the operator of the gang’s favourite hangout.

    When The Whistle Blows was one of the first US comedies to film with a single camera and no laugh track.

    Buzz Dillard
    Doug Barr
    Randy Hanford
    Philip Brown
    Lucy Davis
    Susan Buckner
    Martin “Hunk” Kincaid
    Tim Rossovich
    Norm Jenkins
    Dolph Sweet
    Dottie Jenkins
    Alice Hirson
    Ted Hanrahan
    Gary Allen
    Bulldog
    Noble Willingham
    Darlene Ridgeway
    Sue Ane Langdon

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