Stand By Your Man was an American sitcom that aired on FOX briefly in the spring of 1992. The series was created by Nancy Steen and Neil Thompson, who also wrote some of the episodes. It is notable for being Melissa Gilbert's return to series television after the conclusion of Little House on the Prairie nine years earlier, and the first (shared) sitcom starring role for Rosie O'Donnell, who was then on the verge of breaking into super fame. The ...
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Stand By Your Man was an American sitcom that aired on FOX briefly in the spring of 1992. The series was created by Nancy Steen and Neil Thompson, who also wrote some of the episodes. It is notable for being Melissa Gilbert's return to series television after the conclusion of Little House on the Prairie nine years earlier, and the first (shared) sitcom starring role for Rosie O'Donnell, who was then on the verge of breaking into super fame. The show only ran 8 episodes, the amount that Fox had ordered for a spring tryout run, on Sunday nights between April 5 and May 17, 1992.
The show's premise, as narrated in the opening credits by Fox network's chief announcer Joe Cipriano in a deadpan comical fashion, was that two sisters, sensible, down-to-earth Rochelle (Gilbert) and loud, crass, pushy Lorraine (O'Donnell) agreed to live together for emotional and moral support while their husbands were doing time in prison for robbery. It was hard to tell these two were even sisters, much less...
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