Daddy's Girls (1994 TV series)

Daddy's Girls is an American television sitcom created by Brenda Hampton and David Landsberg, that aired on CBS from September 21 to October 12, 1994.

For other uses, see Daddy's Girl (disambiguation).
Daddy's Girls
GenreSitcom
Created by
Starring
ComposerNick South
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (10 unaired)
Production
Executive producerDavid Landsberg
Running time30 minutes
Production companies
Release
Original networkCBS
Original releaseSeptember 21 (1994-09-21) –
October 12, 1994 (1994-10-12)

Overview

The series followed Dudley Walker (Dudley Moore), the owner of a New York fashion house who loses his wife and his business partner when, after a years-long secret affair, they run off together leaving him as the primary caretaker to his three daughters.

The series is notable as the first in which a gay principal character was played by an openly gay actor.[1] Harvey Fierstein played Dennis Sinclair, a high-strung designer at Walker's firm.[2]

The series was critically panned, and was placed "on hiatus" after only three episodes had aired.

This was Moore's penultimate on-screen job and his last regular television series. He later attributed his difficulties during the production of the show to the early stages of progressive supranuclear palsy, the disease that ultimately led to his death in 2002.[3]

Cast

Episodes
No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"Pilot"Barnet KellmanDavid Landsberg & Brenda HamptonSeptember 21, 1994 (1994-09-21)
2"American in Paris...Cool"UnknownUnknownSeptember 28, 1994 (1994-09-28)
3"Keep Your Business Out of My Business"UnknownUnknownOctober 12, 1994 (1994-10-12)
4"Hit and Run"TBDTBDUnaired
5"Losin' It"TBDTBDUnaired
6"A Month of Sundays"TBDTBDUnaired
7"Triple Double"TBDTBDUnaired
8"Thank God It's Thursday"TBDTBDUnaired
9"Three Play"TBDTBDUnaired
10"Hard Sell"TBDTBDUnaired
11"The Honeymoon's Over"TBDTBDUnaired
12"Feed a Cold"TBDTBDUnaired
13"All in the Family"TBDTBDUnaired

Reception

Although Fierstein earned praise for his performance, Daddy's Girls was hated by critics. New York magazine called the series "Despised, reviled."[4] Entertainment Weekly, somewhat prophetically, found Moore to be "wan and confused".[5] The Dallas Morning News could only say that "Daddy's Girls isn't horrendously bad" but somewhat prophetically predicted that it would not last until Christmas.

References
  1. Tom Jincha (September 21, 1994). "DUDLEY DO WRONG: 'DADDY'S GIRLS' A SITCOM DUD". Sun-Sentinel.
  2. "Gays on the Tube". The Advocate. No. 713/714. Here Publishing. August 20, 1996. p. 22 – via Google Books.
  3. "Dudley Moore has rare brain disease". BBC News. September 30, 1999. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
  4. "TV – 'E.R.,' 'Chicago Hope,' Martin Short". New York Magazine. Vol. 27, no. 26. New York Media, LLC. September 12, 1994. p. 48 – via Google Books.
  5. "Daddy's Girls; Something Wilder; Madman if the Peopole". Entertainment Weekly. September 30, 1994.
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