What a Dummy | |
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Genre | Situation comedy |
Directed by | Scott Redman Jerry Ross |
Starring | Annabel Armour Kaye Ballard Stephen Dorff David Doty Janna Michaels Joshua Rudoy |
Voices of | Loren Freeman |
Composer(s) | Bill Fulton |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 min. |
Release | |
Original network | Syndicated |
Original release | September 29, 1990 | – May 25, 1991
What a Dummy is a syndicated television sitcom that lasted for one season in 1990. The premise of the show was that the Brannigan family of Secaucus, New Jersey was getting advice from a talking, thinking ventriloquist’s dummy named Buzz (voiced by Loren Freeman), who had been locked in a trunk for fifty years before being discovered by the family. Kaye Ballard played the family’s next-door neighbor, Mrs. Treva Travalony.
The series also aired in Germany, as Der Familienschreck, Spanish countries as Vaya muñeco, and Italy as L’amico di legno.