Brothers and Sisters (1979 TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Brothers and Sisters


caption =
genre = Sitcom
writer = Paul Diamond
Jeff Franklin
Allen Goldstein
Bernie Kahn
David Lerner
Brian Levant
Jerry Mayer
Andy Ruben
Roy Teicher
director = Nick Abdo
John Bowab
Lowell Ganz
Will Mackenzie
Dick Martin
Tony Mordente
Dennis Steinmetz
George Tyne
starring = William Windom
Chris Lemmon
Jon Cutler
Randy Brooks
composer = Ken Heller
Mark Snow
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 12
list_episodes =
executive_producer = Bob Brunner
Arthur Silver
producer = Nick Abdo
Hy Averback
Jerry Mayer
runtime = 30 mins.
channel = NBC
first_aired = January 21, 1979
last_aired = April 6, 1979
related = "Delta House"
"Co-Ed Fever"

"Brothers and Sisters" is an NBC sitcom that attempted to capitalize on the success of the 1978 motion picture "National Lampoon's Animal House". It was the second of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979 (the others were ABC's "Delta House" and CBS' "Co-Ed Fever").

ynopsis

"Brothers and Sisters" takes place on the campus of Crandall College, with William Windom starring as Dean Larry Crandall. Chris Lemmon (Milos "Checko" Sabolcik), Jon Cutler (Larry Zipper), and Randy Brooks (Ronald Holmes III) play three students who live in the basement of Pi Nu fraternity. Rather than attend class, the three cellar-dwellers would create havoc with the more straight-laced members of the fraternity, and "interact" with the Gamma Iota sorority sisters that live nearby.

On January 21, NBC debuted "Brothers and Sisters" as a follow-up to their telecast of Super Bowl XIII, three days after ABC aired the first episode of its "Animal House"-inspired series (which was, in fact, the "official" series in everything but name). Two weeks later (February 4), "Co-Ed Fever" made its' debut on CBS after a broadcast of the motion picture "Rocky", but all three "frat house" series were off the air by the end of April (with "Co-Ed Fever" having only one episode broadcast). "Brothers and Sisters" made its last appearance on April 6, 1979; "Delta House" followed suit on April 21, 1979.

The show's lack of success became apparent when series regular Mary Crosby turned up as a celebrity on NBC's "Hollywood Squares" for a week in March 1979; host Peter Marshall mentioned "Brothers and Sisters" as airing "on another network", only to be informed by Crosby that they were, in fact, on the "same" network.

Cast

Episodes

References

*Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present" ISBN 0-345-45542-8
*"TV Guide Guide to TV (2006)" ISBN 0-7607-7572-9

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