Odd Man Out (American TV series)

Odd Man Out is an American sitcom that aired on the ABC television network^[2] as a part of the TGIF lineup. It aired from September 24, 1999, to January 7, 2000.^[3] This show was created by Ed Decter and John J. Strauss.

Odd Man Out
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Ed Decter John J. Strauss
Written by	Tom J. Astle Barton Dean Ed Decter Matt Ember Michael Feldman Mark Goffman John Hoberg Laura Perkins-Brittain Alicia Sky Varinaitis John J. Strauss Jillian Tohber
Directed by	Gil Junger David Kendall John P. Whitesell
Starring	Erik von Detten Trevor Fehrman Jessica Capshaw Natalia Cigliuti Vicki Davis Marina Malota Markie Post
Composer	Ben Decter
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Barton Dean Ed Decter John J. Strauss
Producers	Jason Shubb Craig Wyrick-Solari
Cinematography	Richard Brown
Editor	Steve Rasch
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production companies	Frontier Pictures Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24) – January 7, 2000 (2000-01-07)[1]

Synopsis

Set in Miami, the show revolved around 15-year-old Andrew Whitney (Erik von Detten), the only male in a house full of women. He is constantly surrounded by his three sisters (Val, Paige, and Elizabeth), Aunt Jordan, and widowed mom, Julia. The episodes mostly revolved around Andrew's lack of privacy and dealing with his best friend Keith's crush on his unresponsive older sister, Paige.

Cast

• Erik von Detten as Andrew Whitney
• Trevor Fehrman as Keith Carlson, Andrew's best friend
• Jessica Capshaw as Aunt Jordan, Andrew's maternal aunt
• Natalia Cigliuti as Paige Whitney, Andrew's older sister
• Vicki Davis as Valerie "Val" Whitney, Andrew's older sister
• Marina Malota as Elizabeth Whitney, Andrew's younger sister
• Markie Post as Julia Whitney, Andrew's widowed mother

Production

The show was heavily promoted in the summer of 1999, primarily as a last-ditch effort to save the faltering TGIF block, which had been in severe decline since The Walt Disney Company took over the block in 1997. ABC commercials showing teenage girls screaming "EVD!" (the initials of star Erik von Detten) were prominent; at the time, this was the peak of the boy band craze, and this was a common practice. The commercials mentioned very little about the show itself, and did not even mention the name until a few weeks before the show was to debut: a typical advertisement, following clips of girls screaming "EVD!" would follow a shadow of von Detten with a question mark and a voiceover stating "What is EVD? Find out Fridays this fall on ABC." This type of mysterious promotion did little to hold interest in the show once it debuted. The series was canceled after 13 episodes and replaced with the reality show Making the Band; it was the last new sitcom to debut on TGIF in its original form, and TGIF would itself end at the end of the season.

Von Detten would later go on to co-star in another series, Complete Savages, during a TGIF revival in 2004. That series had an opposite premise in that Von Detten was but one member of an all-male family.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Viewers (millions)
1	"The First Girlfriend's Club"	Gil Junger	Jillian Tohber	September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24)	9.18[4]
2	"Good Will Hunting"	Gil Junger	Laura Perkins-Brittain	October 1, 1999 (1999-10-01)	8.73[5]
3	"The Unbelievable Truth"	Gil Junger	Ed Decter & John J. Strauss	October 8, 1999 (1999-10-08)	9.99[6]
4	"The Road to Caracus"	David Kendall	Nina de Castro	October 15, 1999 (1999-10-15)	8.65[7]
5	"You've Got Female"	David Kendall	Mark Goffman	October 22, 1999 (1999-10-22)	7.98[8]
6	"Batman Forever"	David Kendall	Story by : Tom J. Astle & Kristine Skeie Teleplay by : Tom J. Astle	October 29, 1999 (1999-10-29)	8.11[9]
7	"In the Name of the Father"	David Kendall	Matt Ember	November 5, 1999 (1999-11-05)	9.36[10]
8	"Fight Club"	David Kendall	Alicia Sky Varinaitis	November 19, 1999 (1999-11-19)	8.94[11]
9	"Great Expectations"	David Kendall	Tom J. Astle	December 3, 1999 (1999-12-03)	7.77[12]
10	"Punch Line"	David Kendall	Michael Feldman	December 10, 1999 (1999-12-10)	7.50[13]
11	"Little Women"	David Kendall	Michael Feldman	December 17, 1999 (1999-12-17)	7.17[14]
12	"What About Bob?"	David Kendall	Matt Ember	December 24, 1999 (1999-12-24)	4.83[15]
13	"My Life as a Dog"	Gil Junger	Tom J. Astle	January 7, 2000 (2000-01-07)	8.76[16]