The Super (TV series)

The Super
Richard S. Castellano (seated) as Joe Girelli in The Super in 1972. Standing left to right are Margaret Castellano as Joanne Girelli, Ardell Sheridan as Francesca Girelli, and Bruno Kirby as Anthony Girelli.
Genre	Situation comedy
Directed by	Alan Rafkin
Starring	Richard S. Castellano
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12 (2 unaired)
Production
Producer(s)	Alan Rafkin
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Metromedia
Release
Original network	ABC
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	June 21 (1972-06-21) – August 23, 1972 (1972-08-23)

The Super is an American sitcom television series starring Richard S. Castellano which centers on the superintendent of an apartment building in New York City. The show aired on ABC from June 21, 1972 to August 23, 1972.

Joe Girelli, the Italian-American superintendent (or "super") of an apartment building in a lower-middle-class section of New York City, is a big man (260 pounds; 118 kg) who prefers to be left alone so that he can drink beer while watching television. However, he rarely gets left alone. His family – wife Francesca, daughter Joanne, son Anthony, and brother Frankie, a big-shot lawyer – continually bothers him, the building's tenants are constantly banging on the pipes and complaining about him and one another, and city officials always are trying to condemn his building. His children are disrespectful toward him, and an endless series of ethnic and cultural disputes break out among the tenants, which include political revolutionaries, homosexuals, social workers, and police officers, and Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jewish Americans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans.