![]() ![]() Inspired by chef Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name, “Fresh Off the Boat” explored his upbringing as a Taiwanese-American raised by immigrant parents. That program premiered in 1994 and ran a single season. When the show premiered in 2015, it became the first broadcast series built around an Asian-American family since “All-American Girl,” another ABC comedy, which starred comic Margaret Cho. Despite the occasional tumult, the ABC series about an Asian-American family – which concludes its six-year run Friday – still left a mark. Additionally, in 1999, the world was honored with a TV-movie "biography" of the series, Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story.For a standard sitcom in most respects, “Fresh Off the Boat” weathered a fair amount of off-screen drama. The series' theme song went under the title "When We're Singin'" during season one the following year, the lyrics were rewritten and the song was retitled "Come On, Get Happy." Originally networkcast from September 25, 1970, to August 31, 1974, The Partridge Family also yielded a Saturday-morning cartoon spin-off, 1974's Partridge Family, 2200 AD, and that same year, several of the series' kid actors supplied the voices of their Partridge characters for another animated series, Goober and the Ghost Chasers. Also added to the cast that season was Alan Bursky as Reuben Kinkaid's nephew Alan Kinkaid, a shy, neurotic youngster who at the Partridges' urging emerged from his shell to pursue a career as a comedian. During the series' fourth and final season, Ricky Segall was seen as Ricky Stevens, a four-year-old neighbor kid who occasionally performed with the Partridges. Law and Love & War middle son Danny Partridge, the group's self-appointed business manager, played by future radio talk host Danny Bonaduce youngest son Chris, played by Jeremy Gelbwaks during season one and thereafter by Brian Foster and youngest daughter Tracy, portrayed by Suzanne Crough. As for the kids themselves, they included oldest son Keith Partridge, played by Shirley Jones' stepson David Cassidy, who attained teen-idol status by virtue of this series oldest daughter Laurie, played by Susan Dey, who grew up to star on such drama series as L.A. The group's agent was Reuben Kinkaid (Dave Madden), who professed to hate kids but who admitted to loving money. Almost by accident, Shirley began singing with her kids during an impromptu garage jam session, and thus was born the Partridge Family, a popular singing aggregation who traveled from one engagement to another in the family's battered, psychedelically decorated bus - all the while trying to lead a "normal" life. ![]() Loosely inspired by the career of the real-life family singing group the Cowsills, the ABC sitcom The Partridge Family starred Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, widowed mother of five musically inclined children. Cocreated by novelist Cecilia Hearn, Samantha Who? premiered October 15, 2007. ![]() Others in the heroine's orbit were her resentful mother Regina (Jean Smart) and her too-affable-to-be-true father Howard (Kevin Dunn) her best friend Andrea (Jennifer Esposito), an accomplished conniver and back-stabber in her own right and her former childhood buddy Dena (Melissa McCarthy), who had her own special reasons for hanging around to see which of the "two" Sams would ultimately prevail. Helping her put the pieces together was apartment-house doorman Frank (Tim Russ), who had often been the recipient of the "old" Sam's bitchiness and had a lot trouble reconciling himself to the "new" Sam, but was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. ![]() It was up to Sam to remain as nice and pleasant as she now was, or to revert to her previous nastiness. Sam's post-coma personality was one of pure "sweetness and light"-which greatly confused her friends, family members, and business associates, who recalled the pre-coma Sam as mean, overbearing, manipulating, vitriolic, and a hard-drinking, promiscuous party animal. Slowly but surely, Sam confirmed that she was 30 years old, the vice president of the real-estate firm Chapman and Funk, and the ex-girlfriend of a photographer named Todd (Barry Watson). Former Married.With Children costar Christina Applegate returned to television in the slightly schizophrenic ABC sitcom Samantha Who? Applegate played title character Samantha "Sam" Newly, who after being stuck down in a traffic accident, awakened from an eight-day coma suffering from "retrograde amnesia," with no memory of who she was nor what she'd been. ![]()
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