Paper Moon | |
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Jodie Foster and Christopher Connelly.
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Genre | Situation comedy |
Written by | Pamela Chais Howard Fast |
Starring |
Christopher Connelly Jodie Foster |
Theme music composer |
Harold Arlen Billy Rose |
Country of origin | USA |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Anthony Wilson |
Producer(s) | Robert Stambler |
Running time | 30 mins. (approx) |
Production company(s) | Paramount Network Television |
Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Picture format | Color |
Audio format | Monoaural |
Original release | September 12 – December 19, 1974 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | Paper Moon |
Paper Moon is a situation comedy which aired on ABC during the fall of 1974, starring Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster in the roles of Moses Pray and his presumed daughter, Addie. The series is based on the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film of the same name starring Ryan O'Neal and real-life daughter Tatum O'Neal, which was based on Joe David Brown's 1971 novel entitled Addie Pray.
In the story line, the Prays, living in the American Midwest during the Great Depression, are determined to get rich by any questionable means necessary. Among other activities, Moses (sometimes called "Moze") fraudulently sells Bibles, claiming to be a representative of the non-existent "Dixie Bible Company." Addie’s late mother was a friend of Moses’s, and because Addie believes that she resembles Moses, she is therefore convinced that he is her father.
Produced by Paramount Television, the series aired at 8:30 p.m. Eastern on Thursday following ABC's The Odd Couple and opposite the last half-hours of NBC's Sierra, a Jack Webb adventure, and CBS's family drama, The Waltons, then in its third season. The series did not attract a steady audience and was cancelled after its first season of thirteen episodes.