The Debbie Reynolds Show is a situation comedy which aired on the NBC television network during the 1969-70 television season. The series was produced by Filmways, but the distribution rights are currently owned by Universal Media Studios through its ownership of NBC Productions (due to Debbie's original contract with the network to produce the series).
Debbie Reynolds portrayed Debbie Thompson, a housewife married to Jim, a successful sportswrit...
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The Debbie Reynolds Show is a situation comedy which aired on the NBC television network during the 1969-70 television season. The series was produced by Filmways, but the distribution rights are currently owned by Universal Media Studios through its ownership of NBC Productions (due to Debbie's original contract with the network to produce the series).
Debbie Reynolds portrayed Debbie Thompson, a housewife married to Jim, a successful sportswriter for the Los Angeles Sun. Jim was portrayed by actor Don Chastain, his boss by longtime television actor Tom Bosley. Debbie's attempts to amuse herself were regarded as being reminiscent of those of Lucille Ball on Here's Lucy- hardly a coincidence, as creator/producer Jess Oppenheimer was the original producer and co-creator of I Love Lucy.
A spoof was made of this show in a 1970 episode of the BBC series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in a sketch primarily written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman entitled "The Attila the Hun Show." It...
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