Too Close for Comfort
| Too Close for Comfort | |
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| Also known as | 'The Ted Knight Show (season 6 title) |
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Brian Cooke |
| Developed by | Arne Sultan Earl Barret |
| Starring |
Ted Knight Nancy Dussault Lydia Cornell (seasons 1-5) Jim J. Bullock (as Jm J. Bullock) Deborah Van Valkenburgh (seasons 1-5) Deena Freeman (season 2) Audrey Meadows (season 3, regular; seasons 4-5, recurring) Pat Carroll (season 6) Lisa Antille (season 6) |
| Opening theme | "Too Close for Comfort", performed by |
| Composer(s) | (all season 4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.12, multiples) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 129 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Earl Barret Arne Sultan (seasons 1-4) Aaron Ruben (seasons 5-6) |
| Producer(s) |
Supervising producers: Jerry McPhie (season 1) Norman Hopps (seasons 2-3) Volney Howard III (seasons 4-6) Producers: Austin Kalish & Irma Kalish (seasons 1-2) Douglas Arango & Phil Doran (season 3) George Yanok (seasons 4-6) |
| Camera setup | Videotape; Multi-camera |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | D.L. Taffner Productions Metromedia Producers Corporation Fox Television Stations (season 6) |
| Distributor | DLT Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network |
ABC (1980–1983) Syndication (1984–1986) |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | November 11, 1980 – February 7, 1987 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Keep It in the Family Family Business |
Too Close for Comfort is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from November 11, 1980, to May 5, 1983 and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984 to February 7, 1987. It was modeled after the British series Keep It in the Family, which premiered nine months before Too Close for Comfort debuted in the United States. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show when the show was retooled for what would turn out to be its final season.
Ted Knight and Nancy Dussault star as respective characters Henry and Muriel Rush, owners of a two-family house in Mill Valley, California. The two story red house, seen at the opening and closing of each episode, was shot at 171–173 Buena Vista East Avenue in San Francisco, California.
Henry is a conservative cartoonist who authors a comic strip called Cosmic Cow. During scenes in which Henry draws in his bedroom, Knight used his earlier acquired ventriloquism talents for comical conversations with a hand-puppet version of "Cosmic Cow." Muriel is a laid back freelance photographer, having been a band singer in her earlier days. They have two grown children, older daughter, brunette Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) who works for a bank and younger daughter Sara (Lydia Cornell), a blonde bombshell and a college student at San Francisco State University.
At the start of the premiere episode, Jackie and Sara are living with their parents in a cramped, awkward arrangement. Their longtime downstairs tenant, Myron (later called Neville) Rafkin, recently died. The family discovers Rafkin was a transvestite and the many strange women Henry had been opening the door for all those years were actually Rafkin himself. Jackie and Sara convince their parents to allow them to move into the now-vacant downstairs apartment. In a running gag, Henry falls off the girls' ultra-modern chairs or couch every time he attempts to sit down. Despite the daughters' push for independence and moving into the downstairs apartment, Henry proves to be a very protective father and constantly meddles in their affairs.
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