"thirtysomething" No Promises (1989)

Director:

Ken Olin

Writers:

Liberty Godshall (writer)
Wes Irwin (researcher)

TV Series:

"thirtysomething" (1987)

Original Air Date:

10 January 1989 (Season 2, Episode 5)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Best Friend | Friendship | Marriage | Reconciliation | Business

Cast

Timothy Busfield	...	Elliot Weston (credit only)
Polly Draper	...	Ellyn Warren
Mel Harris	...	Hope Murdoch Steadman
Peter Horton	...	Gary Shepherd (credit only)
Melanie Mayron	...	Melissa Steadman (credit only)
Ken Olin	...	Michael Steadman
Patricia Wettig	...	Nancy Krieger Weston
Terry Kinney	...	Steve Woodman
Betsy Blair	...	Marjorie Warren
Charles Cioffi	...	James Warren
Hayley Carr	...	Young Ellyn (as Haley Carr)
Brittany Craven	...	Janey
Lacey Craven	...	Janey
Norma Donaldson	...	Bernice
Frank A. Roys	...	Ed Whitman

Directed by
Ken Olin

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Liberty Godshall		writer
Wes Irwin		researcher

Produced by
Jeanne Byrd	....	associate producer (as Jeanne Byrd Hall)
Marshall Herskovitz	....	executive producer
Richard Kramer	....	producer
Lindsley Parsons III	....	coordinating producer
Ellen S. Pressman	....	co-producer
Scott Winant	....	supervising producer
Edward Zwick	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Stewart Levin

Cinematography by
Jerry Hartleben

Casting by
Julie Alter
Susan Young

Art Direction by
Brandy Alexander

Production Management
Lindsley Parsons III	....	production manager
Bruce A. Pobjoy	....	post-production supervisor
Christopher Seitz	....	executive in charge of production

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mitchell Bock	....	first assistant director
Catherine Schlesinger	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Pola Shreiber	....	assistant property master

Sound Department
Todd Overton	....	utility cable
Will Yarbrough	....	sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Wes Irwin	....	video coordinator
Rod Robertson	....	best boy electric

Casting Department
Catherine Jane Holzer	....	extras casting (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Martin Bruestle	....	post-production coordinator
John Potter	....	colorist

Music Department
Richard S. Kaufman	....	music supervisor
Stewart Levin	....	composer: theme
W.G. Snuffy Walden	....	composer: theme

Other crew
Joseph Dougherty	....	story editor
Ann Lewis Hamilton	....	story editor
Susan Shilliday	....	story editor
Janie Thompson	....	assistant: Scott Winant
RaeAnn Emery	....	stand-in (uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Marshall Herskovitz		creator
Edward Zwick		creator

Sound Department
Ricardo Broadus	....	sound effects editor
William Freesh	....	sound re-recording mixer
William Gazecki	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tommy Goodwin	....	foley mixer
Clancy T. Troutman	....	sound designer

Camera and Electrical Department
Brian Bernstein	....	assistant camera
Don McCuaig	....	director of photography: second unit
Lee Redmond	....	camera operator
Randy Shanofsky	....	assistant camera
Richard Walden	....	camera operator

Distributors

• Shout! Factory (2010) (USA) (DVD)

Quotes:

Marjorie Warren:You see, there are two kinds of boys in high school. There are the good-looking ones, the ones on every team, the ones everyone wants. They're the greatest dancers too. And then there are the others... the boys who look as if they'd always rather be somewhere else reading a book...
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