Hey, Landlord

Hey Landlord! is an American sitcom that appeared on NBC during the 1966–1967 season, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in the 8:30-9pm Eastern time period on Sunday nights. It is notable for its casting director Fred Roos, who later became a producer for Francis Ford Coppola. Roos discovered the counterculture sketch group The Committee in San Francisco and cast all members in bit parts in Hey Landlord!. It also served as the first TV show as co-creator/producer for Garry Marshall, who would go on to create Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and many other shows.

Hey, Landlord
Will Hutchins and Chanin Hale, 1966.
Genre	Situation comedy
Created by	Garry Marshall Jerry Belson
Starring	Will Hutchins Sandy Baron Michael Constantine Ann Morgan Guilbert Kathryn Minner Pamela Rodgers Miko Mayama
Theme music composer	Quincy Jones
Composer	Quincy Jones
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	31
Production
Executive producer	Lee Rich
Producers	Garry Marshall Jerry Belson
Production companies	Mirisch-Rich Television Productions, in association with United Artists Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 11, 1966 (1966-09-11) – April 23, 1967 (1967-04-23)

Plot, cast, and characters

This series stars Will Hutchins as Woody Banner, who learns that his uncle has died and that he has inherited from him a New York City brownstone apartment building in Manhattan's East 30s as its landlord. Other tenants in the building are Sandy Baron as comedian Chuck Hookstratten, Jack (Michael Constantine) who was a photographer, glamorous Theresa (Pamela Rodgers) and her roommate and best friend Kyoto (Miko Mayama), who frequently yells, "Hey, Landlord!" thus giving the show its title. Other co-stars are Ann Morgan Guilbert, and Kathryn Minner, who at the time specialized in playing little old ladies. Sally Field later appeared in four episodes as Woody's visiting sister Bonnie.

Plots from a few episodes of the show were believed to have been later used on Marshall's series Laverne and Shirley.

Production

The series lasted one season of 31 episodes; the last episode aired on April 23, 1967.

Episode list

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"Pursuit of a Dream"	Jerry Paris	Jerry Belson & Garry Marshall	September 11, 1966 (1966-09-11)
2	"If She Catches the Bouquet, I'll Die"	Unknown	Carl Kleinschmitt & Dale McRaven	September 18, 1966 (1966-09-18)
3	"From Out of the Past Comes the Thundering Hoofbeats"	Unknown	Carl Kleinschmitt & Dale McRaven	September 25, 1966 (1966-09-25)
4	"The Daring Duo vs. the Incredible Captain Kill"	Unknown	Sam Bobrick & Bill Idelson	October 2, 1966 (1966-10-02)
5	"Instant Family"	Jerry Paris	Jerry Belson & Garry Marshall	October 9, 1966 (1966-10-09)
6	"The Shapes of Wrath"	Jerry Paris	Jerry Belson & Garry Marshall	October 16, 1966 (1966-10-16)
7	"Chuck Nobody"	Unknown	Unknown	October 23, 1966 (1966-10-23)
8	"The Long Hot Bus"	Unknown	Unknown	October 30, 1966 (1966-10-30)
9	"Safari"	Jerry Paris	Carl Kleinschmitt & Dale McRaven	November 13, 1966 (1966-11-13)
10	"When You Need a Hidden Room, You Can Never Find One"	Jerry Paris	Arnold Margolin & Jim Parker	November 20, 1966 (1966-11-20)
11	"Divorce, Bachelor Style"	Jerry Paris	Jerry Belson & Garry Marshall	November 27, 1966 (1966-11-27)
12	"Sizzling Sidney"	Jerry Paris	Arnold Margolin & Jim Parker	December 4, 1966 (1966-12-04)
13	"The Big Fumble"	Jerry Paris	Jerry Belson & Garry Marshall	December 11, 1966 (1966-12-11)
14	"By the Sea, or at Least Rent It"	Jerry Paris	Peggy Elliott & Ed Scharlach	December 18, 1966 (1966-12-18)
15	"How You Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm, After They've Seen the Rug?"	Unknown	Unknown	December 25, 1966 (1966-12-25)
16	"Go Directly to Jail"	Jerry Paris	Dale McRaven & Carl Kleinschmitt	January 1, 1967 (1967-01-01)
17	"Roommate, Stay Away from My Door"	Unknown	Unknown	January 8, 1967 (1967-01-08)
18	"A Legend Dies"	Jerry Paris	Arnold Margolin & Jim Parker	January 15, 1967 (1967-01-15)
19	"Oh, How We Danced"	Unknown	Unknown	January 22, 1967 (1967-01-22)
20	"Same Time, Same Station, Same Girl a.k.a. The Screen Queen Quiz"	Unknown	Unknown	January 29, 1967 (1967-01-29)
21	"Stranger in the Night, Than in the Morning"	Jerry Paris	Peggy Elliott & Ed Scharlach	February 5, 1967 (1967-02-05)
22	"How Do You Follow Hi-Lites from Hamlet?"	Jerry Paris	Jim Parker & Arnold Margolin	February 12, 1967 (1967-02-12)
23	"Woody, Can You Spare a Sister?"	Unknown	Unknown	February 19, 1967 (1967-02-19)
24	"Sharin' Sharon"	Unknown	Unknown	February 26, 1967 (1967-02-26)
25	"Big Brother is Watching You"	Unknown	Unknown	March 5, 1967 (1967-03-05)
26	"A Little Off the Top"	Unknown	Unknown	March 12, 1967 (1967-03-12)
27	"Testing 1 - 2 - 3..."	John Rich	Jack Winter	March 26, 1967 (1967-03-26)
28	"Swingle City East"	John Rich	Rick Mittleman	April 2, 1967 (1967-04-02)
29	"Czech Your Wife, Sir?"	Garry Marshall	Peggy Elliott & Ed Scharlach	April 9, 1967 (1967-04-09)
30	"The Dinner Who Came to Man"	Unknown	Unknown	April 16, 1967 (1967-04-16)
31	"Aunt Harriet Wants You"	Jerry Belson	Bill Idelson & Sam Bobrick	April 23, 1967 (1967-04-23)

References

Kliph Nesteroff interview with Carl Gottlieb, April 2013

External links

• Hey, Landlord at IMDb