Dads (TV 1997)

Director:

Lee Shallat Chemel

Writer:

Mark Ganzel

Stars:

Steven Eckholdt, C. Thomas Howell, Adam Ferrara

Cast

Cast overview:
Steven Eckholdt	...	Tom
C. Thomas Howell	...	Tom
Adam Ferrara	...	Carl Sr.
Jane Sibbett	...	Melinda Nicholls
Amitai Gross	...	Nicky
Mercedes Kastner	...	(as Mercedes Villamil)
Chelsea Parnell
Scotty Leavenworth	...	Henry, Melinda's son
Rue McClanahan	...	Dr. Neuhauser

Storyline

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Genres:

Short | Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1997 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Bland Sit-Com Pilot with a Strange History

I saw this program on a "self-erasing" videotape sent to me by a marketing firm in June of 2006. The printed materials that came with the tape suggested that this program was "being considered" for network series status. Nine years after it was made? I don't think so! Apparently this pilot is being used as a shill to get recruited audiences to sit through commercials for products like Energizer batteries and Pepperidge Farm cookies. It must have been chosen because it is so utterly non-controversial (and bland) that it made the commercials seem lively by comparison. Its plot, if you can call it that, focuses on three youngish dads trying to support each other through divorce, their kids starting preschool and other mildly interesting mini-crises. I can see why it was never picked up for broadcast. A cookie-cutter "cute" show with some of the most obnoxious child actors I've ever seen, it even featured a bad performance by Rue McLanahan (with an on-again-off-again German accent) as the preschool's headmistress. Not worth watching, even if you ARE getting paid to do so!!