Ernie Sabella

Ernie Sabella

Born: September 19, 1949
in Westchester, New York, USA
Ernest Sabella (born September 19, 1949) is an American actor and voice actor, who is best known for his role as the voice of Pumbaa from The Lion King franchise. He is also known for his work in Broadway theatre, including starring roles in Guys and Dolls and Man of La Mancha.

Movies for Ernie Sabella...

Bakery in Brooklyn
Title: Bakery in Brooklyn
Character: Dave
Released: June 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her historic bakery. Vivien wants to keep up the tradition; Chloe feels that the business needs to be modernized. But when notified that they are about to be evicted, the two do not hesitate to work together to preserve the family legacy.
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The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
Title: The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: November 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in the African savannah, the film follows Kion as he assembles the members of the 'Lion Guard'. Throughout the film, the diverse team of young animals will learn how to utilize each of their unique abilities to solve problems and accomplish tasks to maintain balance within the Circle of Life, while also introducing viewers to the vast array of animals that populate the prodigious African landscape.
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Listen to Your Heart
Title: Listen to Your Heart
Character: Tony
Released: August 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism during her losing battle with cancer. It's love at first sight when Danny meets Ariana, a wealthy girl from Greenwich, CT who tragically cannot hear the music she inspires him to write. Ariana, hearing impaired since childhood, is torn between hanging onto the shelter her controlling mother provides and fighting for a love that, if given the chance, might just change her life
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
Title: Waking Sleeping Beauty
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 5, 2009
Type: Movie
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
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Title: Wild About Safety with Timon & Pumbaa
Character: Pumbaa
Released: January 27, 2008
Type: TV
Disney's Wild About Safety is an educational series that features short films that were produced by Disney Educational Productions, Duck Studios, and Underwriters' Laboratories.
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Title: Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Character: Harry The Horse (segment "Guys & Dolls")
Released: October 26, 2004
Type: Movie
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jerry Orbach introduce these one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony memories.
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Timon & Pumbaa Virtual Safari 2.0
Title: Timon & Pumbaa Virtual Safari 2.0
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: August 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Take on yet another virtual safari with Timon and Pumbaa.
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Timon & Pumbaa's Virtual Safari 1.5
Title: Timon & Pumbaa's Virtual Safari 1.5
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Timon and Pumbaa have Timon's Ma and Uncle Max for their new virtual safari.
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Behind the Legend: Timon
Title: Behind the Legend: Timon
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
A look at Timone.
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The Lion King 1½
Title: The Lion King 1½
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: February 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel to the smash Disney animated adventure takes you back -- way back -- before Simba's adventure began. You'll find out all about Timon and Pumbaa and tag along as they search for the perfect home and attempt to raise a rambunctious lion cub.
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Timon & Pumba's Virtual Safari
Title: Timon & Pumba's Virtual Safari
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: October 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Take a trip on either a boat or Jeep to explore Africa.
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Title: That's So Raven
Character: Mr. Petrachelli
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: TV
No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes. Raven's younger brother, Cory, is obsessed with money and creates get-rich-quick schemes to try to earn cash.
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Title: That's So Raven
Character: Mr. Petracelli
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: TV
No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes. Raven's younger brother, Cory, is obsessed with money and creates get-rich-quick schemes to try to earn cash.
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Title: Disney's House of Mouse
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: January 13, 2001
Type: TV
A very-recognizable audience of Disney animated characters gather into the House of Mouse nightclub to enjoy musical guests, cartoon shorts and Master of Ceremonies Mickey Mouse's comical introductions from the stage.
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Title: Disney's House of Mouse
Character: Pumbaa
Released: January 13, 2001
Type: TV
A very-recognizable audience of Disney animated characters gather into the House of Mouse nightclub to enjoy musical guests, cartoon shorts and Master of Ceremonies Mickey Mouse's comical introductions from the stage.
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Title: Ed
Character: Gary Swirdlock
Released: October 8, 2000
Type: TV
After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school crush.
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Title: Providence
Character: Lou Keppler
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: TV
Providence is an American television drama series.
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Title: The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: October 24, 1998
Type: Movie
The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter, Kiara who's as rebellious as her father was. But Kiara drives her parents to distraction when she catches the eye of Kovu, the son of the evil lioness, Zira. Will Kovu steal Kiara's heart?
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Title: Encore! Encore!
Released: September 22, 1998
Type: TV
Encore! Encore! is an American sitcom starring Nathan Lane as an opera singer. On the verge of becoming "The Fourth Tenor", Lane's character injures his vocal cords and must move in with his family, who run a vineyard in Northern California. The series premiered on NBC on September 22, 1998. Encore! Encore! struggled in the ratings from the start. After its fourth episode aired on October 27, 1998, NBC put the series on hiatus for two months. Thirteen episodes were ordered but the series was cancelled at midseason with two episodes left unaired. The final network episode aired on January 20, 1999. All 13 episodes later ran on Bravo.
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MouseHunt
Title: MouseHunt
Character: Maury, the Cat Care Society Owner
Released: December 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.
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In & Out
Title: In & Out
Character: Aldo Hooper
Released: September 10, 1997
Type: Movie
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
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On Holiday With Timon & Pumbaa
Title: On Holiday With Timon & Pumbaa
Character: Pumbaa (Voice)
Released: August 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Join Timon and Pumbaa, your favourite friends from The Lion King, for outrageous laughs and high-spirited, globe-trotting adventures. First destination - Africa. In 'Kenya Be My Friend', Timon and Pumbaa forget how to be friends when Timon forgets 'Bestest Best Friend Day'. In 'South Sea Sick', Timon plays doctor when Pumbaa eats a bad bug - but the cure may kill first. Then in 'Uganda Be An Elephant', Pumbaa learns he's happy just being himself after he tries to be one of the more popular animals in the jungle. Then, it's off to Central America in 'How To Beat The High Costa Rica'. A crook and his money are soon parted when Timon and Pumbaa try to recover stolen money from the evil bank robber, Quint.
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Title: The Practice
Character: Atty. Harland Bassett
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Dining Out with Timon & Pumbaa
Title: Dining Out with Timon & Pumbaa
Character: Pumbaa (Voice)
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: Movie
Join Timon and Pumbaa, your favourite friends from The Lion King, for outrageous laughs and high-spirited, globe-trotting adventures. Set sail for France in 'French Fried' as the evil chef, Quint, tries to turn their snail friend into a tasty entree of escargot. It's on with the show and the dance tights when Pumba has to perform with the 'Boarshoi' ballet in 'Russia Hour'. Then, it's off 'To Killimanjaro Bird' where the feathers fly when Timon and Pumbaa baby-sit a little eagle. Last stop, the U.S.A. in 'Rocky Mountain Lie'. Pumbaa makes friends with a stinkbug... that is, until Timon mistakes it for a grub and eats it!
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Around the World With Timon & Pumbaa
Title: Around the World With Timon & Pumbaa
Character: Pumbaa (Voice)
Released: May 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Join Timon and Pumbaa, your favorite friends from The Lion King, for outrageous laughs and high-spirited, globe-trotting adventures! First stop Boara Boara. Pumbaa gets the royal treatment when island natives think hes their long-lost king! Its a lesson in true friendship when Pumbaa strikes it rich and the evil criminal Quint steals his gold in Yukon Con. Then, Timon & Pumbaa play matchmaker for a couple of lovesick flying squirrels in Saskatchewan Catch. In Brazil Nuts, theres a rumble in the Amazon jungle when Timon & Pumbaa have to outsmart a couple of snakes that want to serve them up for dinner.
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Stand By Me
Title: Stand By Me
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In this short film, released theatrically with Disney’s Tom & Huck and starring The Lion King’s Timon and Pumbaa, Timon absentmindedly sings the classic song 'Stand By Me' while Pumbaa gets hurt in a series of slapstick ways
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Title: Timon & Pumbaa
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: September 8, 1995
Type: TV
Set after the events of the "The Lion King," follow Timon and Pumbaa as they go on misadventures in the jungle, as well as across the globe in various.
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Roommates
Title: Roommates
Character: Stash
Released: March 3, 1995
Type: Movie
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
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Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable
Title: Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: January 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King are chopping down trees and clogging up rivers to build the Hakuna Matata Lakeside Village. Simba comes to them and explains how their actions are harmful to nature.
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Quiz Show
Title: Quiz Show
Character: Car Salesman
Released: August 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
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The Lion King
Title: The Lion King
Character: Pumbaa (voice)
Released: June 24, 1994
Type: Movie
A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must decide his fate: Will he remain an outcast or face his demons and become what he needs to be?
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Guys And Dolls: Off The Record
Title: Guys And Dolls: Off The Record
Character: Himself / Harry the Horse
Released: December 7, 1992
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the cast-album recording session of the 1992 Tony-winning Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical. Originally broadcast as part of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 21, episode 4).
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Title: Mad About You
Character: Maurice
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: TV
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
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Going Under
Title: Going Under
Character: The Mole
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.
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Faith
Title: Faith
Character: Stanley
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Faith is a young dancer, whose parents are killed in a plane crash. Dancing is her refuge, but the streets of Los Angeles can be dangerous for a lonesome woman.
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Title: Saved by the Bell
Character: Leon Carosi
Released: August 20, 1989
Type: TV
Lovable schemer Zack Morris leads his pals on adventures at California's Bayside High School. The friends navigate relationships, final exams, school dances, breakups and more while frequently frustrating their principal, Mr. Richard Belding, who does his best to keep them in check.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Naked Man
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Manny / Sancho Panza
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Title: A Fine Romance
Character: George Shipman
Released: January 18, 1989
Type: TV
A Fine Romance is an American comedy-drama series that aired from January 18, 1989 to March 2, 1989. The series was filmed on location at various places in Europe.
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Fright Night Part 2
Title: Fright Night Part 2
Character: Dr. Scott Harrison
Released: April 7, 1988
Type: Movie
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!
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Title: A Different World
Character: Campus Policeman
Released: September 24, 1987
Type: TV
A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities. While it was a spin-off from The Cosby Show, A Different World would typically address issues that were avoided by The Cosby Show writers. One episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Title: Married... with Children
Character: Mr. Pond
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: TV
Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.
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Title: Roxie
Released: April 1, 1987
Type: TV
Roxie is a spin-off of Kate & Allie that aired on CBS from April 1, 1987 to April 8. The sitcom was cancelled after two episodes.
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Tough Guys
Title: Tough Guys
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: October 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.
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Title: Sledge Hammer!
Released: September 23, 1986
Type: TV
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
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Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: Donald Twinkacetti
Released: March 25, 1986
Type: TV
The chronicles of the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous.
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Copacabana
Title: Copacabana
Character: Sam Gropper
Released: December 3, 1985
Type: Movie
In 1948, aspiring songwriter Tony works as a bar pianist; he meets aspiring star Lola, and is immediately smitten. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge, they both start finding fame. However, fate steps in and she is swept to Havana to work in a splashy nightclub act where she is convinced she will find her stardom. Instead, she finds Rico, a suave gangster and the club owner.
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Title: It's Your Move
Character: Lou Donatelli
Released: September 26, 1984
Type: TV
It's Your Move is an American sitcom starring Jason Bateman, Tricia Cast, Caren Kaye, Ernie Sabella, David Garrison, and Garrett Morris. The show originally aired on NBC from 1984 to 1985.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Earnie
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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Title: Punky Brewster
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her guardian in this family-friendly sitcom.
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Title: St. Elsewhere
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: TV
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
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Title: Newhart
Released: October 2, 1982
Type: TV
Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.
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Title: Cheers
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: TV
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
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Title: Cagney & Lacey
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Character: Paulie
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Little Johnny Jones
Title: Little Johnny Jones
Character: Sing Song
Released: November 18, 1980
Type: Movie
An American jockey rides his horse in a London race but is accused of throwing it, until he finds out he was framed by a gambler and clears his name in this filmed stage production from Goodspeed Opera House.
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The Robber Bridegroom
Title: The Robber Bridegroom
Character: Big Harp
Released: June 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the plantation owner invites him to his home to meet his daughter.
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Title: Knots Landing
Released: December 27, 1979
Type: TV
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
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Title: The Facts of Life
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: TV
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York.
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Title: Broadway on Showtime
Character: Big Harp
Released: May 4, 1979
Type: TV
Theatrical performances from Broadway are presented for TV.
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Title: Diff'rent Strokes
Released: November 3, 1978
Type: TV
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
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Title: Alice
Released: August 31, 1976
Type: TV
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.