Paper Moon (TV series)

Paper Moon
Jodie Foster and Christopher Connelly.
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.