Pride & Joy

A good-natured but unfortunately forgettable sitcom about two young couples adjusting to the fact that parenthood has turned them from best friends into rivals where their respective kids are concerned -- and emphasized the fact that the Shermans are middle-class at heart while the Greens are unrepentantly blue collar.

1st Season Spring 1995

Production credits:
Reserve Room Productions, Inc./Touchstone Television
Executive producer: Marc Lawrence
Supervising producers: David Pollock, Elias Davis
Producers: Caryn Lucas, Robert Borden, Arleen Sorkin, Paul Slansky
Produced by Ana Krewson
Created by Marc Lawrence
Associate producer: Steve Lamar
Creative consultants: Katie Ford, Larry Spencer

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1. "Pilot"
   gs: Tom Virtue [ Clown ], Ping Wu [ Delivery Man ], Richard Chaim [ Teenager ]

   First-time mother Amy hesitates to return to her job and "abandon" her son to her work-at-home husband.

   b: 21 Mar 95 pc: K301 w: Marc Lawrence d: Tommy Schlamme

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2. "Meant to Be"
   

   Questions about Carol and Nathan's courtship surface after Nathan's admission that he once had a crush on Amy in college.

   b: 28 Mar 95 pc: K302 w: Wil Calhoun d: Tom Moore

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3. "Terror at 30,000 Feet"
   gs: Maggie Wheeler [ Flight Attendant ], Richard Poe [ Herb ], Zaid Farid [ Security Officer ], Peggy Roeder [ Nun ], Peyton Reed [ Frenchman ]

   Amy and Greg spend their anniversary on a plane trip home, but the presence of Baby Mel gives fellow passengers little to celebrate.

   b: 4 Apr 95 pc: K303 w: ______________ d: ______________

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4. "Are You My Mother?"
   gs: David Wohl [ Bernard ], Rose Abdoo [ Wendy ], Veanne Cox [ Lisa ]

   Carol and Amy decide to make and market their own baby food; Greg steals Nathan's thunder when he attends Nathan's "Mommy and Me" group.

   b: 11 Apr 95 pc: K304 w: Katie Ford d: Tom Moore

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5. "Genius"
   gs: Cynthia Mace [ Mrs. Kluger ], Susan Gibney [ Donna ], Preston Maybank [ Jeffrey ], Jack Laufer [ Bruce ], Chelsea Lynn [ Vanessa ], John Petlock [ Raymond ]

   An argument divides Carol and Amy over whose child could -- or should -- fill the sole vacancy at a school for gifted children; and the tiff soon spreads to Nathan and Greg.

   b: 25 Apr 95 pc: K305 w: Caryn Lucas & Katie Ford & Robert Borden d: Arlene Sanford

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6. "Brenda's Secret"
   gs: Peri Gilpin [ Brenda ], Jack Black [ Man ], Henrietta Mantel [ Nanny #1 ], Christin Hinojosa [ Laughing Nanny ], Denny Pierce [ Messenger ]

   Amy approves of her brother's fiancée -- until she learns that the woman may have had an affair after they got engaged.

   b: 3 May 95 pc: K306 w: Leslie Eberhard & Don Payne & John Frink d: Tom Moore