Tattingers
1988 American TV series or program
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Tattingers (later Tattinger's) is an American comedy-drama television series that aired by the NBC television network from October 26, 1988, to April 26, 1989, as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour sitcom Nick & Hillary.
- Tattinger's
- Nick & Hillary
Tom Fontana
John Masius
Blythe Danner
Patrice Colihan
Chay Lentin
Jessica Prunell
Jerry Stiller
Mary Beth Hurt
Roderick Cook
Zach Grenier
Rob Morrow
Sue Francis Pai
Yusef Bulos
Robert Clohessy
Simon Jones
Chris Elliott
Anna Levine
| Tattingers | |
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| Also known as |
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| Genre | Comedy drama |
| Created by | Bruce Paltrow Tom Fontana John Masius |
| Starring | Stephen Collins Blythe Danner Patrice Colihan Chay Lentin Jessica Prunell Jerry Stiller Mary Beth Hurt Roderick Cook Zach Grenier Rob Morrow Sue Francis Pai Yusef Bulos Robert Clohessy Simon Jones Chris Elliott Anna Levine |
| Theme music composer | Jonathan Tunick |
| Opening theme | "Anybody's Guess" by Brock Walsh (Nick & Hillary run) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | Tattingers - 11 (2 unaired) Nick & Hillary - 4 (2 unaired) |
| Production | |
| Producers | Bruce Paltrow Tom Fontana John Masius |
| Running time | 60 minutes/30 minutes |
| Production companies | Paltrow Group MTM Enterprises |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | October 26, 1988 – April 26, 1989 |
An unaired episode, "Screwball," aired on TV Land on April 4, 1999.[1]
Synopsis
Tattingers is the story of a divorced couple, Nick and Hillary Tattinger (Stephen Collins and Blythe Danner), along with their 2 daughters: Nina and Winnifred. They had remained co-owner partners in a posh Manhattan restaurant until Nick was shot by a drug dealer, which prompted them to sell the restaurant and move to Paris. Their successors, however, proved incapable of properly running the restaurant, so Nick reclaimed the restaurant from them to give it another go. Real-life Manhattan celebrities often appeared in cameo roles as themselves as Nick's exclusive clientele.
Cast
- Stephen Collins as Nick Tattinger
- Blythe Danner as Hillary Tattinger
- Jerry Stiller as Sid Wilbur
- Roderick Cook as Louis Chatham
- Zach Grenier as Sonny Franks (Tattingers)
- Patrice Colihan as Nina Tattinger
- Chay Lentin as Winnifred Tattinger
- Thomas Quinn as O'Malley (Tattingers)
- Mary Beth Hurt as Sheila Bradley
- Chris Elliott as Spin (Nick & Hillary)
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |||||||
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| Tattingers | ||||||||||||
| 1 | "Pilot" | Bruce Paltrow | Tom Fontana, John Masius, Bruce Paltrow | October 26, 1988 | 20.5[2] | |||||||
| 2 | "The Sonny Also Rises" | Mark Tinker | Tom Fontana | November 2, 1988 | 12.5[3] | |||||||
| 3 | "Nouvelle York" | Mark Tinker | Tom Fontana, Bruce Paltrow | November 9, 1988 | 12.2[4] | |||||||
| 4 | "Virgin Spring" | Allan Arkush | Robert De Laurentiis | November 16, 1988 | 11.0[5] | |||||||
| 5 | "Rest in Peas" | Bruce Paltrow | Channing Gibson, John Tinker | November 30, 1988 | 11.3[6] | |||||||
| 6 | "Death and Taxis" | Allan Arkush | Channing Gibson, John Tinker | December 7, 1988 | 9.7[7] | |||||||
| 7 | "Two Men and a Baby" | Mark Tinker | Robert De Laurentiis | December 14, 1988 | 11.4[8] | |||||||
| 8 | "Broken Windows" | Gwen Arner | Noel Behn, Tom Fontana | January 4, 1989 | 9.9[9] | |||||||
| 9 | "Wall Street Blues" | Gwen Arner | Peter McCabe | January 11, 1989 | 10.6[10] | |||||||
| 10 | "Screwball" | John Whitesell | Tom Fontana, John Masius, Bruce Paltrow | January 25, 1989 | N/A | |||||||
| 11 | "Ex-Appeal" | Michael Fresco | Bruce Paltrow, Deborah R. Baron | Unaired | N/A | |||||||
| Nick & Hillary | ||||||||||||
| 12 | "Half a Loaf..." | Art Wolff | Tom Fontana, Channing Gibson, John Tinker | April 20, 1989 | 21.0[11] | |||||||
| 13 | "El Sid" | Don Scardino | Story by : Tom Fontana & John Tinker Teleplay by : Channing Gibson | April 26, 1989 | 13.3[12] | |||||||
| 14 | "Tour of Doody" | John Whitesell | Tom Fontana, Channing Gibson, John Tinker | Unaired | N/A | |||||||
| 15 | "Money Matters" | Alan Metzger | Robert De Laurentiis, Tom Fontana, John Masius, Bruce Paltrow | Unaired | N/A | |||||||
Reception
This program was a ratings failure and was cancelled in January 1989. However, NBC was apparently unwilling to give up totally on the characters or the concept, and the program was revamped into a half-hour sitcom, Nick & Hillary. This new series premiered on April 20, 1989,[13] but proved even less successful than its predecessor and was cancelled after only two episodes.