Word: leachman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barber in a typical example of Backstairs wit.) Only a sketchy attempt is made to re-create the nation's capital during the periods covered by the story. The one continuing dramatic conflict derives from the cardboard characterization of a mildly officious real-life housekeeper, Mrs. Jaffray (Cloris Leachman). Other wise, the show's major dramatic scenes all too often feature medical crises, which occur as regularly here as they do on Marcus Welby...
...Very, Very Nervous in sunny California. On the way to the institute, he is told that his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. Shortly thereafter he meets two of his associates at the institute, Dr. Montague and Nurse Diesel, played by two Brooks regulars, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman. Korman, as the neurotic, weak-willed doctor, seems to be trapped in reruns of the Carol Burnett Show. Leachman repeats her role as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein. Looking for all the world like a wrestler and sporting a pair of somehow dangerous-looking breasts, Nurse Diesel cruelly controls the place, running...
White and Hillerman are superb foils for each other, but a little insult humor, however dryly delivered, goes a long way. Phyllis, another MTM effort, failed precisely because Cloris Leachman's strident putdowns tuckered out the audience. The Betty White Show can avoid Phyllis' fate if its creators capitalize on the satirical possibilities of their TV industry setting. Betty White, not to mention her viewers, simply must have more room to breathe...
...transmitted intelligence, along with a rather unique respect for its characters and its audience. The snorting, hoorawing Archie Bunker's All in the Family has no such charm. Over the years, MTM has been rich enough in its talent to spin off Rhoda (Valerie Harper) and Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) into fairly good series of their...
...said a tear-choked Mary Tyler Moore to her colleagues in television's most famous fictional newsroom. The occasion: the taping of the 168th and final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, scheduled to air March 19. Even such spin-off graduates as Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman were written into the farewell show. How to end it? New management fires everyone but Anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). At a post-taping, post-mortem dinner, Mary and the rest of the cast sat through the outtakes of lines that were blown over the years. Said one bemused cast...