Billy Van Zandt

William Van Zandt is an American playwright and actor, and the author of the best-selling TV memoir Get in the Car, Jane.

Works

American Dad!
7.0

American Dad!

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

Release Date: 2005-02-06

Character: Jerry the Dentist (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2165

Center of the Universe
7.0

Center of the Universe

Center of the Universe is a television series on CBS, which ran from October 27, 2004, until January 19, 2005. The sitcom was canceled after just 10 episodes aired. It was set in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Goodman starred as John Barnett, a good-natured and successful operator of a security company. The series involved the dependency of his entire family on John for everything -- money, jobs, housing, and personal guidance in every decision. Tagline: "The world doesn't revolve around John...but his family does." A total of 15 episodes were produced.

Release Date: 2004-10-27

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Yes, Dear
6.7

Yes, Dear

A comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although her husband, Greg, is a success in his career, his more difficult job is keeping his wife calm as they raise their two young children. While Kim is determined to be the perfect mother and perfect wife and to raise the perfect children, her sister, Christine Hughes, a very down-to-earth mother of two, continually reminds her that life will never be perfect. Christine's husband, Jimmy, often feels compelled to share with his brother-in-law his philosophy about being a husband and a parent while still remaining a man.

Release Date: 2000-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 38

3.5

A Wake in Providence

When Anthony's African-American girlfriend Alissa meets his Italian-American family at his grandfather's funeral, confrontations, confessions, and a hilarious race to the altar ensue!

Release Date: 1999-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Louie

Vote Count: 4

The Hughleys
6.8

The Hughleys

The Hughleys is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 22, 1998 to April 28, 2000 and on the UPN network from September 11, 2000 to May 20, 2002. It starred comedian D. L. Hughley as the main character, Darryl Hughley, and Elise Neal as Yvonne, his hard-working wife, who move their family from the inner city to suburban Los Angeles.

Release Date: 1998-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character:

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 13

Suddenly Susan
5.7

Suddenly Susan

Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life.

Release Date: 1996-09-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 26

Bless This House

Bless This House

Bless This House is an American CBS sitcom which starred Andrew Dice Clay and Cathy Moriarty.

Release Date: 1995-09-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 16

The Wayans Bros.
7.1

The Wayans Bros.

The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The series starred real-life brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Both brothers were already well-known from the sketch comedy show In Living Color that aired from 1990 to 1994 on Fox. The series also starred John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford.

Release Date: 1995-01-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 102

Vote Count: 60

Daddy Dearest
4.0

Daddy Dearest

A single father's angry and cynical father moves in with him. Hilarity ensues.

Release Date: 1993-09-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 2

Martin
7.7

Martin

Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.

Release Date: 1992-08-27

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character:

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 118

Nurses
7.0

Nurses

Nurses is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 14, 1991, to May 7, 1994, created and produced by Susan Harris as a spin-off of Empty Nest, which itself was a spin-off of The Golden Girls.

Release Date: 1991-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 6

Sydney
7.0

Sydney

Sydney is an American sitcom, starring Valerie Bertinelli, Matthew Perry and Craig Bierko, that aired on CBS in 1990.

Release Date: 1990-03-12

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Anything But Love
5.9

Anything But Love

Anything But Love is an American television sitcom, which aired on ABC from March 7, 1989 to June 3, 1992, spanning four seasons and 56 episodes. The show starred Richard Lewis as Marty Gold and Jamie Lee Curtis as Hannah Miller, coworkers at a Chicago magazine with a mutual romantic attraction to each other, who struggled to keep their relationship strictly professional. The series, from creator Wendy Kout and developers Dennis Koenig and Peter Noah, was produced by Adam Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

Release Date: 1989-03-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Harold

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 7

Life with Lucy
8.3

Life with Lucy

Life With Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The show ran on the ABC network in 1986 not on the CBS network as her previous shows had and unlike Ball's previous programs, it was a critical and ratings flop. Only eight out of the thirteen episodes that were filmed aired before ABC cancelled the series. It is the very last sitcom she starred in before her death in 1989.

Release Date: 1986-09-20

Character: Delivery Boy

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

The New Odd Couple
4.5

The New Odd Couple

The New Odd Couple is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1982–1983, and was an updated version of the 1970s television series The Odd Couple. The New Odd Couple was the second attempt to remake a series of one of Neil Simon's plays with a primarily African-American cast. The first was Barefoot in the Park.

Release Date: 1982-10-29

Character: Fred

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Newhart
7.1

Newhart

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

Release Date: 1982-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 50

6.8

Taps

Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Release Date: 1981-12-20

Character: Bug

Vote Count: 272

Skag

Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.

Release Date: 1980-01-06

6.5

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Release Date: 1979-12-07

Character: Alien Boy

Vote Count: 1753

6.0

Jaws 2

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Release Date: 1978-06-16

Character: Bob

Vote Count: 1932

I Love Lucy
7.9

I Love Lucy

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Release Date: 1951-10-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 224

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