Living Dolls
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| Living Dolls | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Situation comedy |
| Creator(s) | Ross Brown |
| Developer(s) | Embassy Television and ABC |
| Starring | Michael Learned, Leah Remini, Deborah Tucker, Alison Elliott, Halle Berry |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 12[1] |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | Sept. 26, 1989[1] – Dec. 30, 1989[1] |
| Links | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Living Dolls was a short-lived situation comedy featured on the fall 1989 schedule of American Broadcasting Company (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[2]. Both Who's the Boss? and Living Dolls were produced by Embassy Television and ABC.
The show featured Charlie Briscoe (Leah Remini), a friend of Samantha Micelli (the Who's the Boss? character played by Alyssa Milano). Charlie was 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.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Learned as Miss Patricia "Trish" Carlin
- Leah Remini as Charlene "Charlie" Briscoe
- Deborah Tucker as Caroline Weldon
- Alison Elliott as Martha Lambert
- Halle Berry as Emily Franklin
- David Moscow as Eric "Rick" Carlin
[edit] Trivia
- Berry, Moscow, and Tucker did not appear in the Who's the Boss? episode ("Living Dolls") episode[2][3] produced to introduce Living Dolls as a spin-off. Their roles were portrayed by other people.
- There were actually 2 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 [1], which illustrates the reasons why Charlie moved in with Trish in the first place.
- Berry discovered she had Type 1 diabetes after passing out on the set of Living Dolls and spending a week in a diabetic coma[4][5].
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Episode List from TV.com
- ^ a b "Living Dolls" episode of Who's the Boss?, a TV.com summary
- ^ IMDb trivia from its biography of Vivica A. Fox
- ^ Halle Berry: My battle with diabetes, a December 13, 2005 Daily Mail article
- ^ Halle's Diabetes Dilemma, a November 20, 2002 article from World Entertainment News Network
