The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd was an NBC/Lifetime dramedy that debuted in 1987. It was created by Jay Tarses and starred Blair Brown in the title role. The show earned Brown five Emmy Award nominations as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, one for each year the show was on. Tarses was also the recipient of multiple nominations. Dramedy, a portmanteau of drama and comedy, is a genre of movies and television in which the lines between these very different genres were blurred. ... Blair Brown (b. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Jump to: navigation, search Original logo. ... Jump to: navigation, search May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Jump to: navigation, search Original logo. ... Dramedy, a portmanteau of drama and comedy, is a genre of movies and television in which the lines between these very different genres were blurred. ... See also: 1986 in television, other events of 1987, 1988 in television and the list of years in television. For the United States network television schedule, please see 1987-88 United States network television schedule. ... Blair Brown (b. ... An Emmy Award. ...

The show depicted the life of a yuppie woman living in New York City, dealing with issues in her life ranging from career to family to dating. Molly Bickford Dodd is a divorced woman who drifts from job to job and relationship to relationship, a jazz singer who fancies herself a poet. Her ex-husband, a ne'er-do-well jazz musician, still adores her. Every man she meets (and the occasional woman) adores her. In fact, being an easy person to love is the root cause of most of Molly's problems in life. Yuppie, short for Young Urban Professional, describes a demographic of people comprising baby boomers as well as people in their late twenties and early thirties. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ...

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Tarses also wrote and directed many of its episodes (and made a number of cameo appearances). The show was filmed using a single camera, departing from the three-camera technique common in U.S. sitcoms since the days of I Love Lucy. Using only one camera created a single point of view, as if the viewer were observing the goings-on as Molly's companion. In mathematics, a directed set is a set A together with a binary relation ≤ having the following properties: a ≤ a for all a in A (reflexivity) if a ≤ b and b ≤ c, then a ≤ c (transitivity) for any two a and b in A, there exists a c in A... Martin Scorsese appears briefly in an uncredited role in this scene from Taxi Driver, the first scene in which Cybill Shepherd appears. ... A single camera setup is used to shoot some studio-produced television programs. ... Pioneered by Desi Arnaz with three cameras, commonly now four, the multicamera setup is used to shoot most studio-produced television programs such as situation comedies, soap operas, news programs, game shows, and talk shows. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... I Love Lucy is a classic and the most popular American sitcom from the 1950s, starring comedienne Lucille Ball, her husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. ... In literature and storytelling, a point of view is the related experience of the narrator - not that of the author. ...

NBC first broadcast the show as a summer replacement, running 13 episodes. It was a moderate ratings success, but not enough to be featured in the network's fall schedule. It was a mid-season replacement for NBC again in spring 1988, with 12 episodes (a season-ending 13th episode was produced by not aired).

Once cancelled, the Lifetime cable network picked it up, first re-airing the 26 episodes originally produced, then commissioning three more 13-episode seasons for 1989, 1990, and 1991.

Cast

In addition to Brown and Tarses, the cast included Allyn Ann McLerie as Molly's mother, James Greene as her building's elevator operation/doorman, William Converse-Roberts as her ex-husband Fred Dodd, and Maureen Anderman as her best friend Nina. Sandy Faison was a cast member during its run on NBC, David Strathairn and Richard Lawson each appeared in about a third of the episodes. David Russell Strathairn (born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California of Scottish and Hawaiian extraction) is an American film and television actor. ...

Major recurring roles were held by Victor Garber, Richard Venture (who played Molly's father), George Gaynes, John Pankow, and J. Smith-Cameron. Victor Garber Victor Joseph Garber, born March 16, 1949, in London, Ontario, Canada, is a film, stage, and television actor of Russian Jewish descent. ... George Gaynes (né George Jongejans) (born May 16, 1917) is a Finnish-American actor, born in Helsinki, Finland, the son of Iya De Gay (later known as Lady Iya Abdy) and Gerrit Jongejans. ... John Pankow, an American film and stage actor. ...

Now-well-known actors making multiple appearances in guest roles include Nathan Lane and Gina Gershon. Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a contemporary, award-winning American actor of the stage and screen. ... Publicity photo of Gina Gershon in Bound (1996) Gina Gershon (born June 10, 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is a Jewish-American actress of stage and screen. ...

External links and references

• A fan's website for the show, ad-free and very detailed
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd at the Internet Movie Database