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📺 Series

Arnie

📅 1970 ⭐ 3.0 🕐 20m US US

Arnie is a television sitcom that ran for two seasons on the CBS network. It stars Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon, and Roger Bowen. Bernardi played the title character, Arnie Nuvo, a longtime blue collar employee at the fictitious Continental Flange Company, who overnight was promoted to an executive position. The storylines mainly focused on this fish out of water situation, and on Arnie's sometimes-problematic relationship with his well-meaning but wealthy and eccentric boss, Hamilton Majors Jr.. Because he still held his union card, Arnie could negotiate tricky management/labor situations that no one else could. Arnie's surname was presumably a pun on nouveau riche, and possibly also on Art Nouveau. In addition to Bernardi, Bowen, and Langdon, cast members included Del Russel and Stephanie Steele as Arnie's son and daughter, Richard and Andrea; Elaine Shore as Arnie's secretary, Felicia; and Herb Voland as sour-tempered executive Neil Ogilvie. In its first season, despite being the lead-in to The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights and winning an Emmy nomination as best comedy series, Arnie received only fair Nielsen ratings. For its second season, in order to increase its viewership, CBS made a major cast change in the show's format. Charles Nelson Reilly joined the cast as Randy Robinson, a TV chef who called himself "The Giddyap Gourmet," apparently a reference to The Galloping Gourmet.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 24 episodes
E1
Arnie (Pilot Episode) 1970-09-19
E2
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow 1970-10-26
E3
Change of a Lifetime 1970-10-03
E4
Wife vs. Secretary 1970-11-04
E5
The Friendship Gap 1970-10-10
E6
An Urge to Splurge 1970-10-17
E7
Chance of a Lifetime 1970-10-03
E8
Swinging Sixties 1970-10-12
E9
Let Them Eat Cookies 1970-11-20
E10
Trouble in the Air 1970-11-16
E11
One Strike and You're Out 1970-10-14
E12
For Whom the Whistle Blows 1970-11-06
E13
Why Spy? 1970-10-30
E14
To Buy or Not to Buy? 1970-12-03
E15
Second Honeymoon 1970-12-15
E16
You Can't Lose for Winning 1970-12-20
E17
Hello, Holly 1971-01-07
E18
Father Meets Daughter 1971-01-13
E19
Citizen Pain 1971-01-21
E20
Stand Up for Julius 1971-01-21
E21
Strangeness in the Night 1971-02-09
E22
Feud for Thought 1971-02-02
E23
My Sister's Keeper 1971-02-19
E24
No Harmony in Trying 1971-02-19
Season 2 24 episodes
E1
Honey, I'm Sorry But... 1971-09-13
E2
Nuvo Riche 1971-09-07
E3
Well There Goes the Neighborhood 1971-09-14
E4
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blew 1971-09-22
E5
Boom or Bust 1971-10-13
E6
Pushing Pinky Out of the Treehouse 1971-10-19
E7
The Maid 1971-09-29
E8
A Poem for Guess Who 1971-10-19
E9
Welcome to the Club 1971-10-12
E10
The Return of Fingers Ferguson 1971-10-27
E11
Et tu Arnie 1971-11-08
E12
This Land is My Land 1971-11-18
E13
Let Ham Put You in the Driver's Seat 1971-11-30
E14
The Gift of the Majors 1971-12-02
E15
The Only Way to Go 1971-12-31
E16
Guess Who's Coming to Our House? 1972-01-07
E17
What's Up Doc? 1972-01-17
E18
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth 1972-01-21
E19
Room at the Top 1972-01-31
E20
Surprise, Surprise! 1972-02-12
E21
Uncle Nikko 1972-02-11
E22
Wilson Tastes Good Like a Candidate Should 1972-02-21
E23
Now You Take Teddy Roosevelt 1972-02-28
E24
Star Trekking 1972-03-06
Cast
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