Too Close For Comfort: Season 5

Brian Cooke

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Too Close for Comfort is an American sitcom television series 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. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show when the show was retooled in 1986 for what would turn out to be its final season, due to Ted Knight's death. The original concept of the series was based on the 1980s British sitcom Keep It in the Family. Knight plays work-at-home cartoonist Henry Rush, whose two adult daughters live in the downstairs apartment of his San Francisco townhouse. The family moves to Marin County for the show's final season, where Rush becomes a co-owner of the local weekly newspaper. Henry and Muriel Rush are owners of a two-unit house at 171-173 Buena Vista Avenue, East San Francisco, California. Henry is a conservative cartoonist who authors a comic strip called Cosmic Cow with a hand-puppet version of "Cosmic Cow." Muriel is a freelance photographer. They have two adult daughters, Jackie and Sara. Additional characters include Sara's friend, Monroe Ficus, and Henry's boss, Arthur Wainwright, who was head of Wainwright Publishing. The character of Monroe was originally intended to be used for only a single episode but producers added the character to the series. Ted Knight as Henry Rush Nancy Dussault as Muriel Rush Jim J. Bullock as Monroe Ficus Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Jackie Rush Lydia Cornell as Sara Rush Audrey Meadows as Iris Martin Deena Freeman as Apri Rush Selma Diamond as Mildred Rafkin Season 5 [1985] 1. Drawing Room 2. Nearly Departed 3. My Son, the PhD 4. All in a Day's Unemployment 5. Devereaux & Son 6. And Baby Makes Two 7. Reconcilable Differences 8. The Two Faces of Muriel 9. No Mas, Monroe 10. For Every Man, There's Two Women 11. Finders Keepers 12. These Stupid Things Remind Me of You 13. Terms of Endangerment 14. The British Are Coming, The British Are Coming 15. No Deposit, No Return 16. Off and Running 17. Accused, Confused and Abused 18. Arrivederci, Jackie 19. Ars Gratia Iris 20. Henry Enters the '80's 21. Freddie Loves It, We Love It, You're Cancelled