- Living Dolls
Infobox Television
show_name = Living Dolls
caption =
genre = Sitcom
creator = Ross Brown
writer = Ross Brown
Eric Gilliland
director = John Sgueglia
starring =Michael Learned Leah Remini Deborah Tucker Alison Elliott Halle Berry
theme_music_composer = John Beasley
John Vester
opentheme = "Living Dolls"
composer = Jonathan Wolff
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 12
executive_producer = Ross Brown
Martin Cohan
Phyllis Glick
Blake Hunter
producer =R.J. Colleary
Martha Williamson
asst_producer = Michael Greenspon
co-producer =Valri Bromfield
runtime = 30 mins.
channel = ABC
first_aired =September 26 , 1989
last_aired =December 30 , 1989
related = "Who's the Boss? ""Living Dolls" is a short-lived
situation comedy featured on the fall 1989 schedule of ABC. It was a spin-off created by a writer from "Who's the Boss? " and featuring characters introduced during an episode of that show. [http://www.tv.com/whos-the-boss/living-dolls/episode/18456/summary.html "Living Dolls" episode of "Who's the Boss?"] , aTV.com summary] Both "Who's the Boss?" and "Living Dolls" were produced byColumbia Pictures Television and ABC.ynopsis
The show featured Charlie Briscoe (
Leah Remini ), a friend of Samantha Micelli (the "Who's the Boss?" character played byAlyssa Milano ). Samantha is dabbling in a modeling career and Charlie, a friend from Samantha's old Brooklyn neighborhood comes to visit. While doing some test shots for a dog food commercial, it is discovered that Charlie is very photogenic. Charlie was then befriended by Trish Carlin (Michael Learned from "The Waltons "), the owner of a modeling agency for teenaged girls."Living Dolls" was almost universally derided by critics; it was the only series to earn an "F" by "People" magazine in their 1989 fall preview issue.
Cast
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Michael Learned as Miss Patricia "Trish" Carlin
*Leah Remini as Charlene "Charlie" Briscoe
*Deborah Tucker as Caroline Weldon
*Melissa Willis as Caroline Weldon (in pilot episode)
*Alison Elliott as Martha Lambert
*Halle Berry as Emily Franklin
*Vivica A. Fox as Emily Franklin (in pilot episode)
*David Moscow as Eric "Rick" Carlin
*Jonathan Ward as Eric "Rick" Carlin (in pilot episode)Trivia
* Berry, Moscow, and Tucker did not appear in the "Who's the Boss?" episode ("Living Dolls") episode [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000407/bio IMDb trivia] from its biography of
Vivica A. Fox ] produced to introduce "Living Dolls" as a spin-off. Their roles were portrayed by other people.
*There were actually two pilots made for the series. The one above, shown in Season 5 where Charlie was already living with Trish and featuring the other characters, and one shown directly before the "Living Dolls" premiere, which illustrates the reasons why Charlie moved in with Trish in the first place. [ [http://www.tv.com/whos-the-boss/lifes-a-ditch/episode/18462/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;1 "Life's a Ditch"] ]References
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