Daddy's Girls (1994 TV series)

Daddy's Girls
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Brenda Hampton David Landsberg
Starring	Dudley Moore Harvey Fierstein Stacy Galina Meredith Scott Lynn Keri Russell Phil Buckman Alan Ruck
Composer(s)	Nick South
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (10 unaired)
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Landsberg
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Carydan Productions Witt/Thomas Productions Warner Bros. Television
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	CBS
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	September 21 – October 12, 1994

Daddy's Girls is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in the fall of 1994. The series followed Dudley Walker (Dudley Moore), the owner of a New York fashion house who loses his wife and his business partner when, after a years-long secret affair, they run off together leaving him as the primary caretaker to his three daughters.

The series is notable as the first in which a gay principal character was played by an openly gay actor.^[1] Harvey Fierstein played Dennis Sinclair, a high-strung designer at Walker's firm.^[2]

Although Fierstein earned praise for his performance, Daddy's Girls was hated by critics. New York magazine called the series "Despised, reviled."^[3] Entertainment Weekly, somewhat prophetically, found Moore to be "wan and confused."^[4] The Dallas Morning News could only say that "Daddy's Girls isn't horrendously bad" but predicted that it would not last until Christmas. Indeed, the series was placed "on hiatus" after only three episodes aired.

This was Moore's penultimate on-screen job and his last regular television series. He later attributed his difficulties during the production of the show to the early stages of progressive supranuclear palsy, the disease that ultimately led to his death in 2002.^[5]

Cast

• Dudley Moore as Dudley Walker
• Harvey Fierstein as Dennis Sinclair
• Stacy Galina as Amy Walker
• Meredith Scott Lynn as Samantha Walker
• Keri Russell as Phoebe Walker
• Phil Buckman as Scar
• Alan Ruck as Lenny

Episodes

• "Pilot" — September 21, 1994
• "American in Paris...Cool" — September 28, 1994
• "Keep Your Business Out of My Business" — October 12, 1994
• "Hit and Run" — UNAIRED
• "Losin' It" — UNAIRED
• "A Month of Sundays" — UNAIRED
• "Triple Double" — UNAIRED
• "Thank God It's Thursday" — UNAIRED
• "Three Play" — UNAIRED
• "Hard Sell" — UNAIRED
• "The Honeymoon's Over" — UNAIRED
• "Feed a Cold" — UNAIRED
• "All in the Family" — UNAIRED

References

1. ↑ Dudley Do Wrong: 'Daddy's Girls' A Sitcom Dud
2. ↑ Gays on the Tube
3. ↑ TV
4. ↑ Daddy's Girls; Something Wilder; Madman of the People
5. ↑ "Dudley Moore has rare brain disease". BBC News. 30 September 1999. Retrieved 29 March 2010. 

External links

• Daddy's Girls at the Internet Movie Database