Tattingers

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Tattingers
Also known as
  • Tattinger's
  • Nick & Hillary
Genre Comedy drama
Created by Bruce Paltrow
Tom Fontana
John Masius
Starring Stephen Collins
Blythe Danner
Patrice Colihan
Chay Lentin
Jessica Prunell
Jerry Stiller
Mary Beth Hurt
Roderick Cook
Zach Grenier
Rob Morrow
Sue Francis Pai
Yusef Bulos
Robert Clohessy
Simon Jones
Chris Elliott
Anna Levine
Theme music composer Jonathan Tunick
Opening theme"Anybody's Guess" by Brock Walsh (Nick & Hillary run)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodesTattingers - 11 (2 unaired) Nick & Hillary - 4 (2 unaired)
Production
Producers Bruce Paltrow
Tom Fontana
John Masius
Running time60 minutes/30 minutes
Production companiesPaltrow Group
MTM Enterprises
Original release
Network NBC
ReleaseOctober 26, 1988 (1988-10-26) –
April 26, 1989 (1989-04-26)

Tattingers (later Tattinger's) is an American comedy-drama television series that aired by the NBC television network from October 26, 1988, to April 26, 1989, as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour sitcom Nick & Hillary.

Contents

An unaired episode, "Screwball," aired on TV Land on April 4, 1999. [1]

Synopsis

Tattingers is the story of a divorced couple, Nick and Hillary Tattinger (Stephen Collins and Blythe Danner), along with their 2 daughters: Nina and Winnifred. They had remained co-owner partners in a posh Manhattan restaurant until Nick was shot by a drug dealer, which prompted them to sell the restaurant and move to Paris. Their successors, however, proved incapable of properly running the restaurant, so Nick reclaimed the restaurant from them to give it another go. Real-life Manhattan celebrities often appeared in cameo roles as themselves as Nick's exclusive clientele.

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
Tattingers
1"Pilot"Bruce PaltrowTom Fontana, John Masius, Bruce PaltrowOctober 26, 1988 (1988-10-26)20.5 [2]
2"The Sonny Also Rises" Mark Tinker Tom FontanaNovember 2, 1988 (1988-11-02)12.5 [3]
3"Nouvelle York"Mark TinkerTom Fontana, Bruce PaltrowNovember 9, 1988 (1988-11-09)12.2 [4]
4"Virgin Spring" Allan Arkush Robert De Laurentiis November 16, 1988 (1988-11-16)11.0 [5]
5"Rest in Peas"Bruce Paltrow Channing Gibson, John Tinker November 30, 1988 (1988-11-30)11.3 [6]
6"Death and Taxis" Allan Arkush Channing Gibson, John TinkerDecember 7, 1988 (1988-12-07)9.7 [7]
7"Two Men and a Baby"Mark TinkerRobert De LaurentiisDecember 14, 1988 (1988-12-14)11.4 [8]
8"Broken Windows"Gwen Arner Noel Behn, Tom FontanaJanuary 4, 1989 (1989-01-04)9.9 [9]
9"Wall Street Blues" Gwen Arner Peter McCabe January 11, 1989 (1989-01-11)10.6 [10]
10"Screwball" John Whitesell Tom Fontana, John Masius, Bruce PaltrowJanuary 25, 1989 (1989-01-25)N/A
11"Ex-Appeal" Michael Fresco Bruce Paltrow, Deborah R. BaronUnairedN/A
Nick & Hillary
12"Half a Loaf..." Art Wolff Tom Fontana, Channing Gibson, John TinkerApril 20, 1989 (1989-04-20)21.0 [11]
13"El Sid" Don Scardino Story by : Tom Fontana & John Tinker
Teleplay by : Channing Gibson		April 26, 1989 (1989-04-26)13.3 [12]
14"Tour of Doody" John Whitesell Tom Fontana, Channing Gibson, John TinkerUnairedN/A
15"Money Matters" Alan Metzger Robert De Laurentiis, Tom Fontana, John Masius, Bruce PaltrowUnairedN/A

Reception

This program was a ratings failure and was cancelled in January 1989. However, NBC was apparently unwilling to give up totally on the characters or the concept, and the program was revamped into a half-hour sitcom, Nick & Hillary. This new series premiered on April 20, 1989, [13] but proved even less successful than its predecessor and was cancelled after only two episodes.

References

  1. ↑ Starr, Michael (March 26, 1999). "TV Land at 'Junction,' Heeds Fontana's Call". New York Post . Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Nielsen ratings". Life. USA Today . November 2, 1988. p. 3D. ProQuest   306129406.
  3. ↑ "Nielsen ratings". Life. USA Today . November 9, 1988. p. 3D. ProQuest   306136856.
  4. ↑ "Nielsen ratings". Life. USA Today . November 16, 1988. p. 3D. ProQuest   306140699.
  5. ↑ "Nielsen ratings". Life. USA Today . November 23, 1988. p. 3D. ProQuest   306124674.
  6. ↑ "Nielsen ratings". Life. USA Today . December 7, 1988. p. 3D. ProQuest   306146398.
  7. ↑ "Nielsen ratings". Life. USA Today . December 14, 1988. p. 3D. ProQuest   306143538.
  8. ↑ "A very 'Brady' ratings hit". Life. USA Today . December 21, 1988. p. 3D. ProQuest   306159082.
  9. ↑ "NBC, laughing all the way". Life. USA Today . January 11, 1989. p. 3D. ProQuest   306165080.
  10. ↑ "NBC clinches season's ratings title". Life. USA Today . January 18, 1989. p. 3D. ProQuest   306171627.
  11. ↑ "Sitcom rewards ABC's faith". Life. USA Today . April 26, 1989. p. 3D. ProQuest   306174966.
  12. ↑ "We loved CBS' 'Lucy' tribute". Life. USA Today . May 3, 1989. p. 3D. ProQuest   306197470.
  13. ↑ O'Connor, John (April 20, 1989). "Review/Television; NBC Series Is Changed From Soap Into Sitcom". The New York Times . Retrieved April 24, 2009.

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