Daddy's Girls (1994 TV series)

For other uses, see Daddy's Girl (disambiguation).

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.

Daddy's Girls
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Brenda Hampton David Landsberg
Starring	Dudley Moore Harvey Fierstein Stacy Galina Meredith Scott Lynn Keri Russell Phil Buckman Alan Ruck
Composer	Nick South
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (10 unaired)
Production
Executive producer	David Landsberg
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Carydan Productions Witt/Thomas Productions Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 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

• Dudley Moore as Dudley Walker
• Harvey Fierstein as Dennis Sinclair
• Stacy Galina as Amy Walker
• Meredith Scott Lynn as Samantha Walker
• Keri Russell as Phoebe Walker
• Phil Buckman as Scar
• Alan Ruck as Lenny

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"Pilot"	Barnet Kellman	David Landsberg & Brenda Hampton	September 21, 1994 (1994-09-21)
2	"American in Paris...Cool"	Unknown	Unknown	September 28, 1994 (1994-09-28)
3	"Keep Your Business Out of My Business"	Unknown	Unknown	October 12, 1994 (1994-10-12)
4	"Hit and Run"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
5	"Losin' It"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
6	"A Month of Sundays"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
7	"Triple Double"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
8	"Thank God It's Thursday"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
9	"Three Play"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
10	"Hard Sell"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
11	"The Honeymoon's Over"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
12	"Feed a Cold"	TBD	TBD	Unaired
13	"All in the Family"	TBD	TBD	Unaired

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.^{[citation needed]}