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Status: Ended
First Aired: November 11, 1980
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 129
Networks: ABC, Syndication
Genres: Comedy

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Too Close for Comfort(1980)

TMDB Rating: 6.3 (25 votes)

Overview

Too Close for Comfort is an American television sitcom which ran on the ABC network from November 11, 1980 until May 5, 1983, and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984 until September 27, 1986. It was modeled after the British series Keep It in the Family, which premiered nine months before Too Close for Comfort debuted in the U.S. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show when the show was retooled for its final season.

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Season 1

19 episodes • 1980

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Pilot	Nov 11, 1980
2	It Didn't Happen One Night	Nov 16, 1980
3	The Bag Lady	Nov 18, 1980
4	Sara's Monroe Doctrine	Nov 25, 1980
5	Que Sara, Sara	Dec 2, 1980
6	Tenants Anyone?	Dec 9, 1980
7	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfe?	Dec 16, 1980
8	Mister Big	Jan 6, 1981
9	The Location	Jan 13, 1981
10	A Friend in Need	Jan 27, 1981
11	A Fine Romance	Feb 3, 1981
12	The Boy in the Band	Feb 10, 1981
13	Deadline for Henry	Feb 17, 1981
14	Huey	Feb 24, 1981
15	Centerfold	Mar 3, 1981
16	What's Wrong with Mr. Right?	Mar 17, 1981
17	Up Your Easter Bonnet	Mar 24, 1981
18	Cosmic Cow vs. the Oval Office	May 5, 1981
19	The Return of Rafkin	May 12, 1981

Season 2

22 episodes • 1981

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Guess Who's Coming to Burp?	Oct 13, 1981
2	Your Guest is As Good As Mine	Oct 27, 1981
3	Who's Sara Now?	Nov 3, 1981
4	The Prince and the Frog	Nov 10, 1981
5	What's Our Rush?	Nov 17, 1981
6	Rafkin's Bum	Nov 24, 1981
7	Where There's a Will	Dec 1, 1981
8	The Remaking of Monroe	Dec 8, 1981
9	When the Bough Breaks	Dec 15, 1981
10	Cop-Out	Jan 5, 1982
11	April and September	Jan 12, 1982
12	A Fan for Henry	Jan 19, 1982
13	Brotherly Hate	Feb 2, 1982
14	Charlie's Last Hurrah	Feb 9, 1982
15	The Last Weekend	Feb 16, 1982
16	My Unfavorite Martin	Feb 23, 1982
17	Seventh Month Blues	Mar 2, 1982
18	As the Cookie Crumbles	Mar 9, 1982
19	Foreign Exchange	Mar 16, 1982
20	A Matter of Degree	Mar 23, 1982
21	A Policeman's Wife is Not a Happy One	May 4, 1982
22	Don't Shoot the Piano Movers	May 11, 1982

Season 3

22 episodes • 1982

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Break Out the Pampers (1)	Sep 30, 1982
2	Break Out the Pampers (2)	Sep 30, 1982
3	Guess Who's Coming Forever?	Oct 14, 1982
4	A Snip in Time	Oct 21, 1982
5	The Luck of the Iris	Oct 28, 1982
6	Do You Take This Woman Again?	Nov 4, 1982
7	Who Was That Baby I Saw You With?	Nov 11, 1982
8	Monroe's Secret Love's Secret	Nov 18, 1982
9	A Thanksgiving Tale	Nov 25, 1982
10	Pressure's Rising	Dec 9, 1982
11	Mr. Christmas	Dec 16, 1982
12	The Yearning Point	Jan 6, 1983
13	Briefly at the Counter	Jan 13, 1983
14	To Buy or Not to Buy	Jan 20, 1983
15	The Seperation	Jan 27, 1983
16	Girls of the Media	Feb 3, 1983
17	The Courier	Feb 17, 1983
18	The Adoption Story	Feb 24, 1983
19	Out to Lunch	Mar 10, 1983
20	A Portrait of Henry	Mar 17, 1983
21	Don't Rock the Boat	Apr 28, 1983
22	Family Business	May 5, 1983

Season 4

23 episodes • 1984

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Enemy Above	Apr 7, 1984
2	Making Mountains Out of Molehills	Apr 14, 1984
3	Just Another Pretty Face	Apr 21, 1984
4	Home Is Where the Bart Is	Apr 28, 1984
5	High Infidelity	May 5, 1984
6	Son of the Groom	May 12, 1984
7	Witness for the Persecution	May 19, 1984
8	Henry Draws a Blank	May 26, 1984
9	Shipmates	Jun 2, 1984
10	Is There a Doctor in the House?	Jun 9, 1984
11	High and Inside	Jun 16, 1984
12	The Runaway	Jun 23, 1984
13	The Graduates	Jul 14, 1984
14	Goodbye, Mr. Chip	Jul 21, 1984
15	No Patsy, This Kelly	Oct 6, 1984
16	Hawaii Five-8	Oct 13, 1984
17	Quick on the Draw	Oct 27, 1984
18	The Missing Fink	Nov 3, 1984
19	The Sound of Mother	Nov 10, 1984
20	The Return of Mr. Wonderful	Nov 17, 1984
21	Divorce Chicago Style	Nov 24, 1984
22	Cinderella Update	Dec 1, 1984
23	Henry Bites the Big Apple	Dec 8, 1984

Season 5

21 episodes • 1985

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Drawing Room	Feb 2, 1985
2	Nearly Departed	Feb 9, 1985
3	My Son, the PhD	Feb 16, 1985
4	All in a Day's Unemployment	Feb 23, 1985
5	Devereaux & Son	Mar 2, 1985
6	And Baby Makes Two	May 4, 1985
7	Reconcilable Differences	May 11, 1985
8	The Two Faces of Muriel	May 18, 1985
9	No Mas, Monroe	May 25, 1985
10	For Every Man, There's Two Women	Jul 20, 1985
11	Finders Keepers	Jul 27, 1985
12	These Stupid Things Remind Me of You	Aug 3, 1985
13	Terms of Endangerment	Sep 28, 1985
14	The British are Coming, The British are Coming	Oct 5, 1985
15	No Deposit, No Return	Oct 12, 1985
16	Off and Running	Oct 19, 1985
17	Accused, Confused and Abused	Oct 26, 1985
18	Arrivederci, Jackie	Nov 2, 1985
19	Ars Gratia Iris	Nov 9, 1985
20	Henry Enters the '80's	Nov 16, 1985
21	Freddie Loves it, We Love It, You're Cancelled	Nov 23, 1985

Season 6

22 episodes • 1986

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Henry's Change of Life	Apr 5, 1986
2	Front Page Monroe	Apr 12, 1986
3	Four is a Crowd	Apr 19, 1986
4	Ho-Ho Ho Chi Henry	Apr 26, 1986
5	Miss Marin Bugler	May 3, 1986
6	Garfield the Cat Joins the Marin Bugler	May 10, 1986
7	Bedtime for Henry	May 17, 1986
8	Educating Lisa	May 24, 1986
9	Henry's Novel Solution	May 31, 1986
10	Henry Gets Taken for a Ride	Jun 7, 1986
11	Late, Great Herbert Maxwell	Jul 12, 1986
12	Muriel's Fish Story	Jul 19, 1986
13	Ya Gotta Have Heart	Sep 27, 1986
14	Monroe's Critical Condition	Oct 4, 1986
15	Cyrano Henry	Oct 11, 1986
16	Family Fued	Oct 18, 1986
17	Rock Around Henry	Nov 1, 1986
18	Herb Kiss, Henry Tells	Nov 8, 1986
19	Believing is Seeing	Nov 15, 1986
20	Acropolis Now	Nov 22, 1986
21	Presenting Buddy Ficus	Jan 31, 1987
22	Lisa Goes Lottery Loco	Feb 7, 1987

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