Too Close for Comfort

Too Close for Comfort is an American television sitcom which ran on the ABC network and in first-run syndication from 1980 to 1986. It was modeled after the British series Keep it in the Family. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show during the latter part of its run. Ted Knight and Nancy Dussault star as Henry and Muriel Rush, owners of a two-family house in San Francisco. The two story red house, seen at the opening and closing of each epi... more

Too Close for Comfort is an American television sitcom which ran on the ABC network and in first-run syndication from 1980 to 1986. It was modeled after the British series Keep it in the Family. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show during the latter part of its run. Ted Knight and Nancy Dussault star as Henry and Muriel Rush, owners of a two-family house in San Francisco. The two story red house, seen at the opening and closing of each episode was shot at 171-173 Buena Vista Avenue in San Francisco. Henry is a conservative cartoonist who authors a comic strip called Cosmic Cow. During scenes in which Henry draws in his bedroom, Knight used his earlier acquired ventroliquism talents for comical conversations with a hand-puppet version of "Cosmic Cow." Muriel is a laid back freelance photographer, having been a band singer in her earlier days. They have two grown daughters, brunette Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) who works for a bank, and the younger Sara (Lydia Cornell), a... less