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The series then fell to #64 in the ratings after having to compete against ABC's popular series The Invaders and the CBS staple The Red Skelton Show. Occasional Wife was canceled after one season. The series was also notable for being one of the first sitcoms to completely eliminate the use of the laugh track, which set the series apart from. Occasional Wife was a single season sitcom airing in 1966-1967 on Nbc. The setting was the Brahms Babyfood Company where Peter Christopher worked. The policy at Brahms was they only promoted married people. Since Peter Christopher was a swinging bachelor he came up with an idea to have an Occasional Wife. TV Shows On DVD.

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1. Peter Christopher is a young executive at Brahms Baby Food whose boss only promotes married men. This is Peter's problem, how to remain a bachelor while enjoying the benefits of marriage at his work. Peter shares his problem with his friend Greta, a hat check girl at a local night club he frequents. Greta gives Peter an idea when she suggests he do the same thing she does to protect her at.
2. Peter Christopher is a young executive at Brahms Baby Food whose boss only promotes married men. This is Peter's problem, how to remain a bachelor while enjoying the benefits of marriage at his work. Peter shares his problem with his friend Greta, a hat check girl at a local night club he frequents. Greta gives Peter an idea when she suggests he do the same thing she does to protect her at.
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Occasional Wife is an American sitcom which aired on NBC beginning September 13, 1966 and running until May 9, 1967 (repeats were aired through August 29). It was originally on NBC's Tuesday night schedule, airing from 8:30–9:00PM ET/PT. Reruns were aired on Comedy Central in 1992.

Synopsis[edit]

The lead character was Peter Christopher, a bachelor who enjoyed the single life, but was blocked from professional advancement by not having a wife. Peter's boss, baby-food manufacturer Max Brahms, was, because of his product, a strong believer in marriage and family. Christopher asked a young hat check girl, Greta Patterson, to pose as his wife at company functions. In return, Peter set up Greta in an apartment two floors above his own in a Manhattan building. Greta would use the fire escape to slip into Peter's 7th floor apartment from her apartment on the 9th floor whenever his boss would drop by unexpectedly. As a silent running gag, Bryan O'Byrne played the 'Man in the middle' who bemusedly watching the comings and goings of the two from his 8th floor vantage point. The sitcom's uncredited narrator was the well-known sports announcer Vin Scully.

The series first experienced good ratings, tying at #18 with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in the Nielsen ratings. The series then fell to #64 in the ratings after having to compete against ABC's popular series The Invaders and the CBS staple The Red Skelton Show. Occasional Wife was canceled after one season.^[1]

The series was also notable for being one of the first sitcoms to completely eliminate the use of the laugh track, which set the series apart from other sitcoms on at the time. Its practice of not using canned laughter has now become an industry standard with most modern day single camera sitcoms.^{[citation needed]}

Cast[edit]

• Michael Callan as Peter Christopher
• Patricia Harty as Greta Patterson
• Jack Collins as Max Brahms
• Stuart Margolin as Bernie Kramer
• Chris Noel as Marilyn
• Bryan O'Byrne as Man-in-the-Middle
• Jack Riley as Wally Frick
• Sara Seegar as Mrs. Christopher (Peter's mother)
• Susan Silo as Vera Frick
• Joan Tompkins as Mrs. Brahms (two episodes)

Episodes[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

1. ^'Television Obscurities – 10 Of The Most Outlandish TV Concepts Ever'. tvobscurities.com. 2004-01-01. Retrieved 2008-08-29.

References[edit]

Ernest Pintoff

• Brooks, T. & Marsh, E. (1979). The Complete Directory To Primetime Network TV Shows. New York: Ballantine Books, pp. 454–455
• Brooks, T. (1987). The Complete Directory To Primetime TV Stars. New York: Ballantine Books, p. 141
• Tucker, D. C. (2010). Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, pp. 171–177

External links[edit]

Occasional Wife Nostalgia Central

• Occasional Wife on IMDb
• Occasional Wife at TV.com

Occasional Wife - TV Guide