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JESSICA NOVAK - Kenny

Air Date/Released Thursday, November 19, 1981
Station/Studio CBS

L.A. television reporter Jessica Novak is assigned to human-interest stories, but strives for hard news reporting. Her efforts frequently bring her into conflict with News Director Max Kenyon, and usually find her in the middle of a crisis. An attempt to pick up where CBS' hit series LOU GRANT left off, capitalizing on the growing national fascination with television news/feature correspondents like Geraldo Rivera. The series lasted only 7 episodes.

Jessica becomes involved in the plight of a retarded young man named Kenny (Adam Arkin), and a prostitution ring. Comic relief is provided by Moe Tannenbaum (Michael Tucci), who is campaigning to earn The Three Stooges a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moe enlists a couple friends to impersonate the Stooges, and they invade Jessica's newsroom with Stooge antics.


The impersonator actors, and episode writer Ira Steven Behr, portrayed the Stooges and straightman 2 years later in a skit at the Stooges' Hollywood Walk of Fame award ceremony on August 30, 1983. Michael Tucci (Moe) and Barry Pearl (Curly) also costarred in GREASE (1978) as T-Birds 'Sonny' and 'Doody;' with Kelly Ward ('Putzie'), that movie includes a scene of them clowning around doing Stooges-schtick.

Cast: Helen Shaver (Jessica Novak), David Spielberg (Max Kenyon), Lara Parker (Katie Robbins), Kip Gilman (Vince Halloran), Andrew Rubin (Phil Bonelli), Nina Wilcox (Audrey Stiles), Erik Kilpatrick (Ricky Duran), Adam Arkin (Kenny), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Lew), Lyman Ward (Stan Metzgar), Michael Tucci (Moe Tannenbaum), Danny Goldman (Larry impersonator), Barry Pearl (Curly impersonator)

Crew: Ira Steven Behr (Writer), Mare Merson (Executive Producer), Paul Waigner (Producer)
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