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All's Fair

  • TV Series
  • 1976–19771976–1977
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
62
YOUR RATING
Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters in All's Fair (1976)
ComedyRomance
A middle-aged man and a young woman fall in love amidst the political backdrop of Washington, D.C.A middle-aged man and a young woman fall in love amidst the political backdrop of Washington, D.C.A middle-aged man and a young woman fall in love amidst the political backdrop of Washington, D.C.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
62
YOUR RATING
  • Creators
    • Norman Lear
    • Rod Parker
    • Bob Schiller
  • Stars
    • Richard Crenna
    • Bernadette Peters
    • Lee Chamberlin
  • Creators
    • Norman Lear
    • Rod Parker
    • Bob Schiller
  • Stars
    • Richard Crenna
    • Bernadette Peters
    • Lee Chamberlin
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    • 6User reviews
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    Richard Crenna
    Richard Crenna
    • Richard C. Barrington
    Bernadette Peters
    Bernadette Peters
    • Charley Drake
    Lee Chamberlin
    Lee Chamberlin
    • Lucy Daniels
    J.A. Preston
    J.A. Preston
    • Allen Brooks
    Judith Kahan
    • Ginger Livingston
    Jack Dodson
    Jack Dodson
    • Senator Wayne Joplin
    Michael Keaton
    Michael Keaton
    • Lanny Wolf
    Phil Leeds
    Phil Leeds
    • Man…
    Janis Paige
    Janis Paige
    • Barbara
    Sandy Sprung
    • Blue Eyes' Wife…
    Jeff Altman
    Jeff Altman
    • President Carter
    Jeannie Linero
    • Amanda
    Ron Feinberg
    Ron Feinberg
    • Sheriff Grady Kibble
    Gordon Hurst
    • Farnsworth…
    Paul Zegler
    • Leonard Buffington
    Mark Harmon
    Mark Harmon
    • Ron
    William Schallert
    William Schallert
    • J.L. Radburn
    Alice Ghostley
    Alice Ghostley
    • Inez Radburn
    • Creators
      • Norman Lear
      • Rod Parker
      • Bob Schiller
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    Storyline

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    • Quotes

      [at a press conference]

      Charlotte: Exactly which part of a horse is the "patoot?"

      Richard: That part of the horse...is Richard Barrington.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Saturday Night Live: Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs (1976)

    User reviews6

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    1/10
    Forget it. (No, I mean really.)
    This was a show critics did handstands over, all predicting this would become the biggest hit of the new season. CBS, in fact, gave the series a full-season commitment, based on creator Norman Lear's previous track record. Boy, were they all wrong. It failed to find an audience no matter what timeslot the network put it in.

    The series, in a nutshell, was simply one more excuse for Lear to preach his tub-thumping, ivory-tower brand of liberalism. I'm a liberal, and I despised it. There is a story about a conservative TV critic who was always knocking Lear's shows, and it got under Lear's skin to the point that he hired the conservative critic away from his journalistic job, and he became a staff writer for "All's Fair." He reportedly was paid $600 a week to sit in and pitch script ideas for it, and his ideas were roundly ignored by Lear and his staff. What Lear really did was a legalized form of censorship-he used all the legal loopholes to suppress the critic's own views. All pretty despicable, coming from an outspoken opponent of censorship.

    CBS had ratings problems with "All's Fair" from the beginning. It was losing its Nielsen audience to ABC's "Monday Night Football." Well, I'm no football fan-or even a sports fan of any kind-but I'll gladly take a football game over this crapola any old day.

    But my final word to you is to forget you even heard of this series. Make like this whole review page never even existed. It'll never grow a cult following. Myself, I'm content to let it rot in permanent obscurity.
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    • Aug 9, 2019

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    • Release date
      • September 20, 1976 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • KTTV/Fox Television Center - 5746 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • TAT Communications Company
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    • 30 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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