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"Benson" (1979) More at IMDbPro »TV series 1979-1986

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"Benson" (1979): Season 2: Episode 12 -- When the governor goes on the air live, a lover's quarrel erupts in the studio, and even Benson gets into the act when the cameras roll.
"Benson" (1979): Season 2: Episode 11 -- One of the governor's press secretary's gambits involves a reluctant Benson in the Big Buddy program for kids from broken homes.
"Benson" (1979): Season 2: Episode 10 -- Benson's attempt to conduct a romantic interlude in his new apartment becomes a comical disaster when Pete has a terrible confrontation with his ex-wife and comes knocking on Benson's door.
"Benson" (1979): Season 2: Episode 9 -- Everyone is brokenhearted at the governor's mansion when the boss decides to send his daughter Katie away to boarding school and Benson is powerless to intervene.
"Benson" (1979): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Benson hates air travel, even the safe kind, which doesn't help much when the governor has to take over the controls of their private jet after the pilot has a heart attack.

Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   414 votes
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Creator:
Susan Harris
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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 full episode list
Release Date:
13 September 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family more
Plot:
The exploits of sharp-tongued gubernatorial butler Benson DuBois. full summary
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 3 wins & 18 nominations more
User Comments:
I HEAR YOU! more

Cast

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Robert Guillaume ... Benson DuBois (158 episodes, 1979-1986)

James Noble ... Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling (158 episodes, 1979-1986)
Inga Swenson ... Miss Gretchen Wilomena Kraus (158 episodes, 1979-1986)
Missy Gold ... Katherine 'Katie' Olivia Gatling (157 episodes, 1979-1986)

Rene Auberjonois ... Clayton Runnymede Endicott III (134 episodes, 1980-1986)

Ethan Phillips ... Peter 'Pete' John Downey (96 episodes, 1980-1984)
Didi Conn ... Denise Florence Stevens Downey (72 episodes, 1981-1984)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
30 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The series was on the air seven years, longer than the show from which it was spun-off, "Soap" (1977), which lasted four years. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the episode "Fools Gold" the blueprints Benson was hiding in his robe weren't visible in early shots (long or close-up) of the scene, but can be clearly seen sticking out of his robe right before he takes them out to show the Governor. more
Quotes:
Gretchen: You insult my cooking. You insult my looks. You insult the way I dress...
Benson DuBois: Did I miss something?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Golden Girls: Blind Ambitions (#1.23)" (1986) more

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5 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
I HEAR YOU!, 23 November 2004
Author: bcolquho from Saco, Maine

That was Miss Kraus' favorite line. I swear she had the hearing of a dog. Benson could be at his table in the kitchen and say

something under his breath. Miss Kraus would always yell from an impossibly long distance: "I HEAR YOU!" Clayton and Taylor were jackasses. They were always the foils for Benson's subtle but

ascerbic wit. In one episode, Katie, Governor Gatling's daughter, (that's Gatling as in Gatling gun, folks,) had to write a report on her family. So she got the bright idea to watch The Sound of Music,

(1965), and do a report on the Von Trapp family. When she told her father, he told her to write it about the staff and to consider it her family. So she did and she got a "B" on it some other kid watched

The Sound of Music and did his on the family in the movie. He got an "A." Eugene Gatling, the governor of an unnamed Southern

state, is widowed and Benson goes to work for him. He later

becomes the budget director and lieutenant governor. In one

episode, Kraus writes a convict in prison and unwittingly offers him a job when he shows up unannounced on the doorstep of the

governor's mansion, he turns out to be a great cook. Unfortunately, he's used to cooking for hundreds of convicts. So Kraus gets him

a job at another state agency. When Governor Gatling asks why

he didn't go to Washington to work for Congress, Benson replies that as a condition of his parole, he can't associate with criminals. "I HEAR YOU!"

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