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Genre | Sitcom |
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Composer | Mat Morse |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 19 (7 unaired) |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
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Release | March 17, 1998 – March 16, 1999 |
LateLine is an American sitcom television series that premiered on NBC on March 17, 1998. The series concluded on March 16, 1999, with seven episodes left unaired due to an abrupt cancellation. Three of the unaired episodes were telecast by the Showtime cable network in December 1999.
Created by John Markus and Al Franken (the latter of whom co-starred in the series), LateLine depicted the behind-the-scenes goings-on of a fictitious late-night television news broadcast, patterned in part after the long-running ABC program Nightline . Many plotlines in the series were satirical, dealing with topics like Deep Throat and the Watergate break-in, and the episodes often had cameos by famous politicians.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Andy Ackerman | Al Franken & John Markus | March 17, 1998 |
2 | 2 | "Al Anonymous" | Unknown | Unknown | March 24, 1998 |
3 | 3 | "Gale Gets a Life" | Unknown | Unknown | March 31, 1998 |
4 | 4 | "Buddy Hackett" | Andy Ackerman | Story by : Steve Lookner Teleplay by : Al Franken & John Markus & Earl Pomerantz | April 7, 1998 |
5 | 5 | "Pearce's New Best Friend" | Ken Levine | Al Franken & John Markus & Earl Pomerantz | April 14, 1998 |
6 | 6 | "Lawyer, Lawyer" | Unknown | Unknown | April 21, 1998 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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7 | 1 | "Pearce on Conan" | Unknown | Unknown | January 6, 1999 |
8 | 2 | "Protecting the Source" | Unknown | Unknown | January 13, 1999 |
9 | 3 | "The Minister of Television" | Unknown | Unknown | January 14, 1999 |
10 | 4 | "Kids 'N' Guns" | Unknown | Unknown | January 20, 1999 |
11 | 5 | "Svadharma" | Unknown | Unknown | January 27, 1999 |
12 | 6 | "Karp's Night Out" | Unknown | Unknown | March 16, 1999 |
13 | 7 | "The Christian Guy" | TBD | TBD | * |
14 | 8 | "Mona Moves Up" | TBD | TBD | * |
15 | 9 | "Error Apparent" | TBD | TBD | * |
16 | 10 | "Requiem for a Horse" | TBD | TBD | * |
17 | 11 | "The Negotiator" | TBD | TBD | * |
18 | 12 | "Eine Kleine Office Problem" | TBD | TBD | * |
19 | 13 | "The Seventh Plague" | TBD | TBD | * |
* Not aired on NBC
On August 17, 2004, Paramount released a DVD set containing all nineteen episodes on three discs.
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