Series

Gimme a Break! 1981

Created by Morton Lachman, Sy Rosen

  • Comedy, Family
  • 30 min episodes
  • 6 seasons
  • 137 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-G

Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.

ComedyFamilysuburbhousekeepersingle fathersitcomdomestic workerNBC

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Classical in form, effortless, earnest and comic.

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  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
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