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American comedy-drama television series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mulligan's Stew is an American comedy-drama television series, that originally aired as a 90-minute NBC television film on June 20, 1977, and later, as a 60-minute series from October 25 to December 13, 1977. The series focused on the lives of the Mulligan family, who live in the fictitious Southern California community of Birchfield; high school teacher and football coach, Michael (Lawrence Pressman), his wife, Jane (Elinor Donahue), who is a school nurse.[1]
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Mulligan's Stew | |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Created by | Joanna Lee |
Starring | Lawrence Pressman Elinor Donahue |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 episodes |
Production | |
Running time | Pilot movie: 90 mins Series: 60 mins |
Production companies | Christiana Productions Paramount Television |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | June 20, 1977 |
Release | October 25 – December 13, 1977 |
Michael and Jane Mulligan have three children: Mark, Melinda and Jimmy. They find making ends meet difficult, but manageable. Things get tighter moneywise and spacewise when the Mulligans take in their nephew Adam (Moose) and nieces Polaris (Polly) and Starshine (Stevie) Freedman, after their parents (Michael's sister and brother-in-law) are killed in a plane crash in Hawaii while in the process of adopting the Vietnamese-born Kimmy, leaving the Mulligans to finalize the adoption. They deal with the changes and bond as a family.
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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TVM | "Mulligan's Stew" | Noel Black | Joanna Lee | June 20, 1977 |
1 | "Biggest Mansion" | Unknown | Unknown | October 25, 1977 |
2 | "Melinda Special" | Unknown | Unknown | November 1, 1977 |
3 | "Winning the Big Ones" | Unknown | Unknown | November 8, 1977 |
4 | "Little Grey Bird" | Unknown | Unknown | November 22, 1977 |
5 | "Ah, Wilderness" | Unknown | Unknown | December 6, 1977 |
6 | "The Perils of Being Pretty" | Unknown | Unknown | December 13, 1977 |
Mulligan's Stew was scheduled opposite four Top 20 hits: Three's Company and Soap on ABC, and M*A*S*H and One Day at a Time on CBS. As a result, it suffered from dismal ratings, and was cancelled at the end of 1977. It ranked dead last out of 104 shows airing that season with an average 10.5 rating.[2]
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