"Too Close for Comfort" (1980) TV series 1980-1986

Creator:

Brian Cooke

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Release Date:

5 February 1983 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Jackie and Sarah Rush are two grown sisters who live in half of a duplex. Their parents, Henry and Muriel...

Plot Keywords:

Cartoonist | Sitcom | Remake | San Francisco California | Based On British TV Series

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Ted Knight	...	Henry Rush (129 episodes, 1980-1987)
Nancy Dussault	...	Muriel Rush (129 episodes, 1980-1987)
Jim J. Bullock	...	Monroe Ficus (119 episodes, 1980-1987)
Deborah Van Valkenburgh	...	Jackie Rush (107 episodes, 1980-1985)
Lydia Cornell	...	Sara Rush (106 episodes, 1980-1985)

Also Known As:

The Ted Knight Show (new title)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

171-173 Buena Vista Avenue East, San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

D.L. Taffner Productions

Trivia:

The name of Henry's comic book was "Cosmic Cow".

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Too Close for Comfort

Great Show! But Deborah Van Valkenburg stole my heart in the 80's!!!

I used to watch this show back in the 80's, then watched all the re-runs, and still to this day watch it on video. The acting was great as Henry (Knight) was the over protective father with the ego who always clashed with clumsy Monroe Ficus (Jim J Bullock). This show dealt with lots of subjects and was very entertaining.

My favorite on the show was the daughters, both Sara (Lydia Cornell) and Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburg). Both are beautiful and would steal any mans heart. Sara the blonde ditz is the one that most men would want, but I was intrigued by Jackie as a kid. She is smarter, more confident, more mature, and honestly prettier. Her black hair, pretty smile, and voice were very alluring. Her character as Jackie Rush was the prototype of the type of woman I dreamed about be married to when I got older. The blonde bimbo act can get dry after a while, but it was only an act as Lydia Cornell is a very bright woman in real life. Both these daughters were alway rebelling with their parent to be independent of them, yet always lived in the basement.

I truly miss this show as it was an all time 80's great in the ranks of Threes Company, Silver Spoons, Diff'rt Strokes, and others. How I miss the good old happy 80's. The show may be outdated, but the story lines are still good even in this day and age. Scary how we haven't really progressed by that much. Cell Phones and Internet don't really make the world go round and round.