The Famous Teddy Z - Season 1

The Famous Teddy Z - Season 1

Season 1

Theodore "Teddy" Zakalokis, a young man working in a Hollywood talent agency in order to avoid being stuck in his Greek-American family's bakery. When Hollywood star Harland Keyvo (a caricature of Marlon Brando) meets Teddy Z, he is so impressed by his honesty that he makes him his new agent.
Network
Episodes20
DatesSep 18, 1989 - May 12, 1990

Episodes

Pilot
Season 1Episode 130 min

Pilot

Teddy goes to the airport a mail room clerk and winds up becoming a Hollywood agent for a big star, when he refuses to take any grief from that star.
Sep 18, 1989
What's an Agent to Do?
Season 1Episode 230 min

What's an Agent to Do?

Teddy tells his grandmother about his new job at the agency, he also fires Laurie when she resents him bringing her along to be his secretary. He rehires her as he begins to learn what an agent's job calls for.
Sep 25, 1989
Bobby the Chimp
Season 1Episode 330 min

Bobby the Chimp

Fearing there is not much for him to do, Abe gives Teddy a client from a retiring agent. While appearing on Entertainment Tonight Teddy makes an appeal for this new client, Bobby the Chimp, who's been fired by Landon Tarmac.
Oct 2, 1989
Teddy Goes to Malibu
Season 1Episode 430 min

Teddy Goes to Malibu

The entire family joins Teddy when he must check the dog and plants at the home of one of Al's clients. Disaster abounds at the house when the bathroom overflows, the dog escapes, the neighbor comes over; you get the idea.
Oct 16, 1989
Teddy Makes $50,000 ... in One Day
Season 1Episode 530 min

Teddy Makes $50,000 ... in One Day

Teddy meets his first studio head and stands to make $50,000 for Harland's latest movie deal, Dark Closet, that is until Harland decides that ""acting is dumb"" because of the position of Pluto.
Oct 23, 1989
Teddy Gets Fired
Season 1Episode 630 min

Teddy Gets Fired

Al gives Teddy a script to read, unknown to both, it is a slightly modified version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington which Al's client is passing to all the top agents for an article he is writing on Hollywood agents. Teddy takes the script to a studio to try to get it made and is fired by Abe, until...
Oct 30, 1989
Teddy Falls in Love
Season 1Episode 730 min

Teddy Falls in Love

Teddy meets newly separated movie star, Esther Luna, who takes him home with her and together they really ""cook,"" much to Al's disbelief.
Nov 13, 1989
Teddy Sells His House
Season 1Episode 830 min

Teddy Sells His House

After someone bids on a price that he was just fishing with, Teddy tries to save the family house. Al who claims to never makes mistakes cuts the deal of the lifetime for a client who is dead.
Nov 20, 1989
A Case of Murder
Season 1Episode 930 min

A Case of Murder

Teddy gets Harland to join his other client, Bobby the Chimp, in Bobby's first film. There is trouble on the set when Harland discovers that Bobby's trailer is much bigger than his, that doesn't bother him a much as the monkey does. Someone tries to murder Bobby on the set.
Nov 27, 1989
Teddy Gets a House Guest
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Teddy Gets a House Guest

A method actor moves in with the Zakalokis family to become prepared for his next role as a Greek-American who has an affair with an older relative.
Dec 4, 1989
Season's Greetings from Al Floss
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Season's Greetings from Al Floss

Al is haunted by the ghost of his former boss, in the style of ""A Christmas Carol,"" after he makes Teddy and Laurie work for him on Christmas Day.
Dec 11, 1989
Grandma Goes to Work
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Grandma Goes to Work

To help alleviate her fears, Teddy invites his grandmother to come down to the agency to see what he does. Once she understands what is going on, she has some ideas to make him a bigger player.
Dec 25, 1989
Teddy Meets His Hero
Season 1Episode 1330 min

Teddy Meets His Hero

Teddy is excited when he meets his favorite childhood TV host and then he crusades to bring him to an all new generation. The gap between generations is big but there may be
Jan 8, 1990
Teddy Gets a Better Offer
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Teddy Gets a Better Offer

Harland sends Teddy to talk to another talent agency where he gets a better offer which him in a precarious position.
Jan 22, 1990
Agent of the Year
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Agent of the Year

Al considers his nomination for ""Agent of the Year"" the death knell for his career. He discovers the nomination was engineered by his rival, Eileen Meisner.
May 12, 1990
Teddy Goes to the Awards
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Teddy Goes to the Awards

Harland, nominated for Best Actor, is out in the jungles of New Guinea and directs Teddy to accept an award in his absence, should he win. Harland turns up before the awards and shows a nervous Teddy how to deliver his acceptance speech that features a can of beans.
How to Make a Television Show
Season 1Episode 1730 min

How to Make a Television Show

Two writers, one a friend of Laurie's, pitch an idea for a television series featuring a white and a Hispanic CIA agent in Nicaragua. Teddy learns the ins and outs of trying to launch a pilot for television series, when the network turns the show into a half hour comedy, featuring two female FBI agents with three kids and one the kids has an invisible friend who's an angel.
Al Tells the Truth
Season 1Episode 1830 min

Al Tells the Truth

Al and Teddy are at lunch where they are witness to a big shot producer slapping a man who bumped into him. When the man turns around and sues this big shot, the producer wants Al to lie in his favor, Teddy is in favor of the truth.
Teddy's Big Date
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Teddy's Big Date

Teddy plans to take Laurie to a movie screening and when he picks her up, he meets her mother. He invites her to join them for dinner where she drinks too much, passes out and makes for a memorable evening.
Teddy Gets a Guru
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Teddy Gets a Guru

Teddy gets an opportunity to sign Donna Gates, a star who's spiritual in the Shirley MacLaine sense of the word. Al tries to get her by faking levitation.

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