Arnie(1970)
Overview
Arnie is a television sitcom that ran for two seasons on the CBS network. It stars Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon, and Roger Bowen. Bernardi played the title character, Arnie Nuvo, a longtime blue collar employee at the fictitious Continental Flange Company, who overnight was promoted to an executive position. The storylines mainly focused on this fish out of water situation, and on Arnie's sometimes-problematic relationship with his well-meaning but wealthy and eccentric boss, Hamilton Majors Jr.. Because he still held his union card, Arnie could negotiate tricky management/labor situations that no one else could. Arnie's surname was presumably a pun on nouveau riche, and possibly also on Art Nouveau. In addition to Bernardi, Bowen, and Langdon, cast members included Del Russel and Stephanie Steele as Arnie's son and daughter, Richard and Andrea; Elaine Shore as Arnie's secretary, Felicia; and Herb Voland as sour-tempered executive Neil Ogilvie. In its first season, despite being the lead-in to The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights and winning an Emmy nomination as best comedy series, Arnie received only fair Nielsen ratings. For its second season, in order to increase its viewership, CBS made a major cast change in the show's format. Charles Nelson Reilly joined the cast as Randy Robinson, a TV chef who called himself "The Giddyap Gourmet," apparently a reference to The Galloping Gourmet.
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No imageSeason 1
24 episodes • 1970
Season 1
24 episodes • 1970
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arnie (Pilot Episode) | Sep 19, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow | Oct 26, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Change of a Lifetime | Oct 3, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Wife vs. Secretary | Nov 4, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Friendship Gap | Oct 10, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 6 | An Urge to Splurge | Oct 17, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Chance of a Lifetime | Oct 3, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Swinging Sixties | Oct 12, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Let Them Eat Cookies | Nov 20, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Trouble in the Air | Nov 16, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 11 | One Strike and You're Out | Oct 14, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 12 | For Whom the Whistle Blows | Nov 6, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Why Spy? | Oct 30, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 14 | To Buy or Not to Buy? | Dec 3, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Second Honeymoon | Dec 15, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 16 | You Can't Lose for Winning | Dec 20, 1970 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Hello, Holly | Jan 7, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Father Meets Daughter | Jan 13, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Citizen Pain | Jan 21, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Stand Up for Julius | Jan 21, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Strangeness in the Night | Feb 9, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Feud for Thought | Feb 2, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 23 | My Sister's Keeper | Feb 19, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 24 | No Harmony in Trying | Feb 19, 1971 | 0.0 |
No imageSeason 2
24 episodes • 1971
Season 2
24 episodes • 1971
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honey, I'm Sorry But... | Sep 13, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Nuvo Riche | Sep 7, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Well There Goes the Neighborhood | Sep 14, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blew | Sep 22, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Boom or Bust | Oct 13, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Pushing Pinky Out of the Treehouse | Oct 19, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Maid | Sep 29, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 8 | A Poem for Guess Who | Oct 19, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Welcome to the Club | Oct 12, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Return of Fingers Ferguson | Oct 27, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Et tu Arnie | Nov 8, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 12 | This Land is My Land | Nov 18, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Let Ham Put You in the Driver's Seat | Nov 30, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Gift of the Majors | Dec 2, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 15 | The Only Way to Go | Dec 31, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Guess Who's Coming to Our House? | Jan 7, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 17 | What's Up Doc? | Jan 17, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 18 | The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth | Jan 21, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Room at the Top | Jan 31, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Surprise, Surprise! | Feb 12, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Uncle Nikko | Feb 11, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Wilson Tastes Good Like a Candidate Should | Feb 21, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Now You Take Teddy Roosevelt | Feb 28, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Star Trekking | Mar 6, 1972 | 0.0 |
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