What was this sitcom on PBS?
April 10, 2018 8:30 PM Subscribe
Trying to remember the name of what I believe was the first original sitcom on PBS. It would have been mid-90s in the post Seinfeld boom. It is not the anthology Trying Times. I remember very little about this short lived show, just that it was a big deal PBS was doing an original (not British) sitcom. Does anyone remember??
Best answer: The Steven Banks Show
"In 1994, PBS decided to do something completely different. That year, for the first -- and seemingly last -- time in their history, Public Broadcasting produced and aired a situation comedy created strictly for their own air."
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:29 PM on April 10, 2018 [4 favorites]
"In 1994, PBS decided to do something completely different. That year, for the first -- and seemingly last -- time in their history, Public Broadcasting produced and aired a situation comedy created strictly for their own air."
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:29 PM on April 10, 2018 [4 favorites]
Mary Hartman Mary Hartman?
posted by Hanuman1960 at 5:28 AM on April 11, 2018
posted by Hanuman1960 at 5:28 AM on April 11, 2018
> Mary Hartman Mary Hartman?
That was not a PBS program, it was produced by Norman Lear and Tandem Productions and was in syndication, first showing on KING-TV, an NBC affiliate.
posted by languagehat at 6:50 AM on April 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
That was not a PBS program, it was produced by Norman Lear and Tandem Productions and was in syndication, first showing on KING-TV, an NBC affiliate.
posted by languagehat at 6:50 AM on April 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
Could you be thinking of the very short-lived "Click and Clack's As The Wrench Turns" ?
posted by Napoleonic Terrier at 7:03 PM on April 11, 2018
posted by Napoleonic Terrier at 7:03 PM on April 11, 2018
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