Remember WENN | |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Developed by | Rupert Holmes |
Starring | Tom Beckett Carolee Carmello George Hall Margaret Hall John Bedford Lloyd Melinda Mullins Christopher Murney Amanda Naughton Hugh O'Gorman Kevin O'Rourke Dina Spybey Mary Stout |
Composer | Rupert Holmes |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 56 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Paula Connelly Skorka |
Producers | Frank Doelger Howard Meltzer |
Cinematography | David Sperling |
Production companies | Entertainment Group Turtleback Productions |
Original release | |
Network | American Movie Classics |
Release | January 31, 1996 – September 11, 1998 |
Remember WENN is a comedy-drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics, as the network's first scripted original series. Created and written by Rupert Holmes (with music also by Holmes) and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the late 1930s and early 1940s, it depicted events (both dramatic and comic) in the personal and professional lives of the station's staff in the era before and during World War II and the Golden Age of Radio. It is not related to the real radio station in Alabama known with the WENN callsign from 1959 to 1983 and again since 2009. The series title is a play on the phrase "remember when".
The show ran for four seasons totalling 56 episodes, including an hour-long Christmas episode. The series was slated for a fifth season, but was cancelled when new management took over AMC. Holmes says that it was his favorite writing experience of his career. [1] After decades of being unavailable to audiences, all four seasons of the series are currently streaming on AMC+ and PLEX TV.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "On the Air" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | January 13, 1996 |
2 | 2 | "Klondike 9366" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | January 13, 1996 |
3 | 3 | "A Rock and a Soft Place" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | February 7, 1996 |
4 | 4 | "There But for the Grace" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | February 21, 1996 |
5 | 5 | "Sight Unseen" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | June 1, 1996 |
6 | 6 | "Emperor Smith" | Frank Doelger | Rupert Holmes | June 8, 1996 |
7 | 7 | "Who's Minding the Asylum?" | Howard Meltzer | Story by : Rupert Holmes Teleplay by : Rupert Holmes & G. Ross Parker | June 15, 1996 |
8 | 8 | "Armchair Detective" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | June 22, 1996 |
9 | 9 | "Hilary Booth, Registered Nurse" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | June 29, 1996 |
10 | 10 | "Valentino Speaks!" | Juan José Campanella | Story by : Rupert Holmes Teleplay by : G. Ross Parker | July 13, 1996 |
11 | 11 | "A Capital Idea" | Frank Doelger | Rupert Holmes | July 20, 1996 |
12 | 12 | "Popping the Question" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | August 3, 1996 |
13 | 13 | "World of Tomorrow" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | August 17, 1996 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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14 | 1 | "Radio Silence" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | November 16, 1996 |
15 | 2 | "I Now Pronounce You Man and Wife Again" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | November 23, 1996 |
16 | 3 | "Some Good News, Some Bad News" | Bruce Leddy | Rupert Holmes | November 30, 1996 |
17 | 4 | "Don't Act Like That" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | December 7, 1996 |
18 | 5 | "The Diva That Wouldn't Die" | Richard Shepard | Story by : Rupert Holmes Teleplay by : Rick Mitz | December 14, 1996 |
19 | 6 | "Christmas in the Airwaves" | Peter Lauer | Rupert Holmes | December 21, 1996 |
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21 | 8 | "Behind Every Great Woman" | Danny Leiner | Story by : Rupert Holmes Teleplay by : Rupert Holmes & Rick Mitz | December 28, 1996 |
22 | 9 | "Strange Bedfellows" | Chris Koch | Rupert Holmes | January 4, 1997 |
23 | 10 | "Close Quarters" | Peter Lauer | Rupert Holmes | January 11, 1997 |
24 | 11 | "Scott Sherwood of the F.B.I." | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | January 18, 1997 |
25 | 12 | "The First Mrs. Bloom" | Julian Petrillo | Rupert Holmes | January 25, 1997 |
26 | 13 | "Like a Brother" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | February 1, 1997 |
27 | 14 | "Magic" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | February 8, 1997 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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28 | 1 | "In the WENN Small Hours" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | August 16, 1997 |
29 | 2 | "Prior to Broadway" | Richard Shepard | Story by : Emily Whitesell & Rupert Holmes Teleplay by : Rupert Holmes | August 23, 1997 |
30 | 3 | "Who's Scott Sherwood?" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | August 30, 1997 |
31 | 4 | "The New Actor" | Joanna Kerns | Rupert Holmes | September 6, 1997 |
32 | 5 | "Two for the Price of One" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | September 13, 1997 |
33 | 6 | "The Importance of Being Betty" | Michael Tuchner | Rupert Holmes & Leon Seidman | September 20, 1997 |
34 | 7 | "Mr. & Mrs. Singer" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | September 27, 1997 |
35 | 8 | "Nothing Up My Sleeve" | Jason Alexander | Rupert Holmes | October 11, 1997 |
36 | 9 | "A Star in Stripes Forever" | Jill Mitwell | Rupert Holmes | October 18, 1997 |
37 | 10 | "A Girl Like Maple" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | October 25, 1997 |
38 | 11 | "From the Pen of Gertrude Reece" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | November 1, 1997 |
39 | 12 | "Eugenia Breimer, Master Spy" | Julian Petrillo | Rupert Holmes | November 8, 1997 |
40 | 13 | "Courting Disaster" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | November 15, 1997 |
41 | 14 | "And How" | Julian Petrillo | Rupert Holmes | November 22, 1997 |
42 | 15 | "The Ghost of WENN" | Jill Mitwell | Rupert Holmes | December 6, 1997 |
43 | 16 | "Caller I.D." | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | December 13, 1997 |
44 | 17 | "Happy Homecomings" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | December 27, 1997 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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45 | 1 | "Some Time, Some Station" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | June 19, 1998 |
46 | 2 | "Thanks a Lottery!" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | June 26, 1998 |
47 | 3 | "You've Met Your Match" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | July 3, 1998 |
48 | 4 | "And If I Die Before I Sleep" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | July 10, 1998 |
49 | 5 | "Hillary's Agent" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | July 17, 1998 |
50 | 6 | "Birth of a Station" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | July 24, 1998 |
51 | 7 | "Follies of WENN" | Richard Shepard | Rupert Holmes | July 31, 1998 |
52 | 8 | "Pitfall" | Joanna Kerns | Rupert Holmes | August 7, 1998 |
53 | 9 | "Work Shift" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | August 14, 1998 |
54 | 10 | "Past Tense, Future Imperfect" | Danny Leiner | Rupert Holmes | August 21, 1998 |
55 | 11 | "The Sunset Also Rises" | Juan José Campanella | David Ives | August 28, 1998 |
56 | 12 | "At Cross Purposes" | Howard Meltzer | Rupert Holmes | September 4, 1998 |
57 | 13 | "All's Noisy on the Pittsburgh Front" | Juan José Campanella | Rupert Holmes | September 11, 1998 |
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