He & She

Infobox Television
show_name = He & She


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genre = Situation comedy
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starring = Richard Benjamin
Paula Prentiss
Jack Cassidy
Hamilton Camp
country = United States
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes =
executive_producer = Leonard Stern
producer =
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network = CBS
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first_aired = 1967
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"He & She" is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network as part of its 1967-68 lineup.

ynopsis

"He & She" starred real-life married couple Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss as Dick and Paula Hollister, a successful cartoonist and his wife, a social worker. Hollister's cartoon "Jetman" had in fact been so successful that it was now a network television series starring egomaniacal actor Oscar North (Jack Cassidy) as Jetman. North constantly argued with Hollister over the interpretation and direction of the Jetman character. Folksinger/actor Hamilton Camp played the role of handyman Andrew Hummel at the apartment building where the starring characters lived, and Kenneth Mars played firefighter Harry Zarakartos, who would often drop in on the Hollisters' apartment by a plank connected to the firehouse across the street.

Writers Chris Hayward and Allan Burns, who created the series "The Munsters", were hired by executive producer Leonard Stern (co-writer and producer of "Get Smart") as story editors for "He & She", for which they won the 1968 Emmy Award for comedy writing. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061261/awards "He & She" (1967) - Awards ] ] The show received four other Emmy nominations that year. Burns would go on to be a writer and co-creator (among others) of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", of which "He & She" is considered a major forerunner.

Despite the strong lead-in of "Green Acres", "He & She" was cancelled after one season, although selected episodes were later rerun as a summer replacement series by CBS in 1970. In 1998 TV Land ran selected episodes of the series, but has not been since then.

References

* Brooks, Tim, and Marsh, Earle, "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows"

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