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Going Places was a situation comedy aired by the ABC television network as part of its 1990-91 prime time schedule. The show was created by Howard Adler and Robert Griffard. Going Places was developed by Robert L. Boyett and Thomas L. Miller of Miller Boyett, the production company that also created the ABC Sitcoms Full House, Perfect Strangers and Family Matters among others. And it, liie the other Miller/Boyett sitcoms was heavily inspired by a previous ABC sitcom, in this case Bosom Buddies. A situation comedy (sitcom) is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ...
This article is about the American network, for the Australian network, see Australian Broadcasting Corporation The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ...
A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ...
This was the television schedule on all four networks for the fall season beginning in September 1990. ...
Full House was an American television sitcom that ran from 1987 to 1995. ...
Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom which ran for eight seasons from 1986 through 1993 on ABC. The show was moved around in the prime-time lineup and eventually landed on Fridays as part of TGIF. It is about Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker), a high-strung Chicago resident, sharing...
Family Matters was an American sitcom about a middle class African American family living in Chicago. ...
Going Places has been described as American television's ultimate expression of navel-gazing, as it was a program written by young television comedy writers about the lives of young television comedy writers. The show's original premise was that four young writers, Charlie Davis (Alan Ruck), his brother Jack (Jerry Levine), Alex Burton (Heather Locklear), and Kate Griffin (Hallie Todd) were the writing staff of Here's Looking at You, a Candid Camera-type program featuring real people caught in their unawares. Their professional lives were essentially indistinguishable from their personal ones as all lived together in a Los Angeles beach house. Kate's eight-year old nephew Nick was also a resident in the beach house. Alan Ruck (born July 1, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor with experience on the stage, television and films. ...
Jerry Levine (born March 12, 1957) is an American actor and director, best known for his role as Rupert Styles Stilinski in Teen Wolf. ...
Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear in The Perfect Man. ...
Hallie Todd (born Hallie J Eckstein on 7 January 1962 in Los Angeles) is an American actress. ...
Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s, then screened in the United States in the 1950s, with local versions produced around the world. ...
Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area - City 1,290. ...
The producers and ABC apparently had a lot of confidence in this program. The original concept failed to garner much of an audience, but rather than cancelling the show, the fictional Here's Looking at You was cancelled instead and the four went to work as the production team for a manic talk show host, Dick Roberts (Steve Vinovich). Only when this format also failed to find an audience was Going Places cancelled. A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ...
Reference
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows is a trade paperback reference work by the American television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh , published by Ballantine Books. ...
External links - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098805/
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