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LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE - Love and Murphy's Bed

Air Date/Released Friday, January 22, 1971
Station/Studio ABC / Paramount Studios
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)

A one-hour comedy anthology series, each episode featured three to four playlets, all dealing in the subject of love. Short comedy blackout sequences, starring a regular roster of actors including Bernie Kopell, Stuart Margolin, Tracy Reed and James Hampton, were interspersed between the playlets.

A philandering married couple each bring home a date, thinking the other is out of town. Four is a crowd, and their murphy's bed becomes the hiding place of their paramours, and eventually, the paramours' angry spouses. The neighbor (Joe Besser) on the other side of the alcove apartment wall is none too happy, and thoroughly confused, by the racket raised by the hidden lovers.


The show was syndicated in a re-edited 1/2-hour format, which is how it is usually seen on television; home video releases are the original 1-hour format.

Cast: Jo Ann Pflug (Sarah), Jim Hutton (John), Paul Picerni (Alfred), Carol Wayne (Irene), Joe Besser (Neighbor), Noam Pitlik (Irene's husband), Mitzi Hoag (Alfred's wife)

Crew: Jim Parker, Arnold Margolin (Executive Producers), William P. D'Angelo (Producer), Leslie Martinson (Director), Gene Thompson (Writer)
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