Fay | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Susan Harris |
Directed by | Alan Arkin James Burrows |
Starring | Lee Grant Joe Silver Audra Lindley Margaret Willock Stewart Moss Bill Gerber Norman Alden Lillian Lehman |
Opening theme | "Coming into My Own" performed by Jaye P. Morgan |
Composer | George Tipton |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Paul Junger Witt |
Producer | Jerry Mayer |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Danny Thomas Productions Universal Television |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | September 4, 1975 – June 2, 1976 |
Fay is an American sitcom starring Lee Grant as the title character. The series aired on NBC from September 1975 to June 1976.
Grant stars as Fay Stewart, a divorced woman in her forties, who, after 25 years of marriage to attorney Jack Stewart, starts a new job and begins dating.
The show first aired on September 4, 1975, and was pulled after the October 23 airing (along with The Montefuscos , which aired in the time slot immediately before Fay). It returned for two more episodes on May 12 and June 2, 1976, for a total of ten episodes. Four of them ("Jack Remarries", "Mr. Wonderful", "Danny Falls In Love", and "Not Another Mother's Day") were eventually re-edited into an overseas theatrical feature, Man Trouble, later included in a syndicated package of other MCA/Universal "movies" stitched together from their various short-lived TV series.
The series is notable for Lee Grant's lashing out at NBC brass on The Tonight Show for the network's quick cancellation. [1]
Grant was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series but lost out to Mary Tyler Moore.
Nº | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Air date | |
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1 | "Fay" | Alan Arkin | Susan Harris | September 4, 1975 | |
Series pilot: Fay admits to having an affair. | |||||
2 | "Jack Remarries" | Alan Arkin | Susan Harris | September 11, 1975 | |
Fay's ex-husband Jack is marrying a young stewardess. | |||||
3 | "Mom's Realization" | Richard Kinon | Gail Parent | September 18, 1975 | |
Fay's mother wants to bring her and Jack back together. | |||||
4 | "Mr. Wonderful" | Unknown | Dick Clair & Jenna McMahon | September 25, 1975 | |
Fay's childhood friend (Renée Taylor) is getting married, but her intended begins making passes at Fay. | |||||
5 | "Jack's Heart Attack" | Unknown | Susan Harris | October 2, 1975 | |
Thinking he's dying of a heart attack, Jack confesses to Fay about his cheating ways. | |||||
6 | "Not with My Husband You Don't" | James Burrows | S : Jerry Mayer T : Susan Harris & Sybil Adelman and Jerry Mayer | October 9, 1975 | |
Fay is ecstatic at the prospect of accompanying one of her firm's attorneys to Washington, D.C. | |||||
7 | "Lillian's Separation" | James Burrows | S : Dennis Klein T : Susan Harris & Sybil Adelman | October 16, 1975 | |
Lillian walks out on her husband (Norman Fell) and moves into Fay's apartment, where she does some unwanted redecorating. | |||||
8 | "Danny Falls in Love" | Unknown | S : Max Pisk T : Susan Harris | October 23, 1975 | |
Fay's lovelorn boss (Bill Gerber) comes to her apartment for some motherly comfort. | |||||
9 | "Fay and the Doctor" | Richard Kinon | Susan Harris | May 12, 1976 | |
Fay falls in love with a doctor; the only problem is he is married with children. | |||||
10 | "Not Another Mother's Day" | Joan Darling | Jerry Mayer | June 2, 1976 | |
Linda wants to wait until she graduates from college to have a second child, but her husband doesn't want to wait that long. |
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