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On Our Own

  • TV Series
  • 1977–1978
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Bess Armstrong, Dixie Carter, Lynnie Greene, John Christopher Jones, Dan Resin, and Gretchen Wyler in On Our Own (1977)
SitcomComedy

A short-lived sitcom centering on Julia Peters and Maria Teresa Bonino, two career women living in New York City. The two work for the Bedford Advertising Agency and episodes revolve around ... Read allA short-lived sitcom centering on Julia Peters and Maria Teresa Bonino, two career women living in New York City. The two work for the Bedford Advertising Agency and episodes revolve around their personal lives and their work lives.A short-lived sitcom centering on Julia Peters and Maria Teresa Bonino, two career women living in New York City. The two work for the Bedford Advertising Agency and episodes revolve around their personal lives and their work lives.

  • Creator
    • Bob Randall
  • Stars
    • Bess Armstrong
    • Lynnie Greene
    • John Christopher Jones
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    83
    YOUR RATING
    • Creator
      • Bob Randall
    • Stars
      • Bess Armstrong
      • Lynnie Greene
      • John Christopher Jones
    • 10User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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  • Episodes22

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    Bess Armstrong
    Bess Armstrong
    • Julia Peters
    • 1977–1978
    Lynnie Greene
    Lynnie Greene
    • Maria Teresa Bonino
    • 1977–1978
    John Christopher Jones
    John Christopher Jones
    • Eddie Barnes
    • 1977–1978
    Dixie Carter
    Dixie Carter
    • April Baxter
    • 1977–1978
    Gretchen Wyler
    Gretchen Wyler
    • Toni McBain
    • 1977–1978
    Dan Resin
    • Craig Boatwright
    • 1977–1978
    Bob Randall
    • J.M. Bedford
    • 1977–1978
    Gene Baylos
    • Wally
    • 1977
    Danny Aiello
    Danny Aiello
    • Skip Mazarelli
    • 1978
    Elliott Reid
    Elliott Reid
    • Klaus von Hildenberg
    • 1978
    Marc Jordan
    • Angelo
    • 1978
    Mary Denham
    • Corky
    • 1978
    Adam Monti
    • Jimmy
    • 1978
    Monica Wolff
    • Nancy
    • 1978
    James Naughton
    James Naughton
    • Barry Spaulding
    • 1977
    Jacqueline Arnold
    • Actress #1
    • 1978
    Dawson Mays
    • Jim
    • 1977
    William Duell
    • Mr. Ace
    • 1978
    • Creator
      • Bob Randall
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    4dmcbee_dc

    Discovering Dixie Carter

    The best thing about this show was Dixie Carter. I couldn't even remember the name of it and found it by clicking around until I saw Bess Armstrong's name and looked through her credits.

    Dixie Carter was this alluring mature woman who worked at the advertising company. One of the guys - a young pup would just melt whenever she walked by. She rarely said much.

    And then one episode she pulled out her southern drawl and gave a sales pitch for some product that she was working on - I about fell out of my chair. She gave this big souther smile and then switched back to the cool, aloof character she had been playing all along. I loved it!
    Noir-It-All

    Size of TV audiences amazing in the '70's

    You can tell from the posts on this page that On Our Own was not a big hit. But, the audience for this show would be phenomenally large for any show today. I watched a few episodes but millions of others must have, too. I looked and acted a lot like Lynne Greene. Everywhere I went, parties, discos, total strangers told me I looked and acted like this actress (who was an inch taller and ten pounds thinner than me.) Even my family, living 1,500 miles away, called me long distance telling me to turn on the TV to watch my double. Not just because I look like her, I thought the character was a good one, really funny. In the second season, the characters were no longer roommates. One night, the Bess Armstrong character got sick. Being out of town and young, she did not have a doctor in NYC, so she called Maria, the New Yorker. Of course, Maria had the phone number of a cousin who was a doctor. When reading the number to Bess, she began, "Area code...." Back then, that meant long distance! What a trip.
    2pmike-11312

    Boring, trite

    Found this page by accident and have a vague memory of the show. - mainly that I watched it a couple of times and couldn't figure out why it was on. Scripts were rehashings, dialogue was cliched; just boring. None of the characters or actors were memorable (never was a fan of Carter- what an overactor!).

    It's telling that about half the posters here remember it fondly because they had some attachment to it ( my house.... I saw it filmed....... I was on it...etc. ). Forgotten, as it should be.
    9cagleheadinor

    A Nice Memory

    I was 12 when this show aired. I remember my whole family really enjoyed watching it every week. I was disappointed it was canceled after only one season. I would love to see it again. Some shows stick in your memory and others don't despite the length of the run of the show. I have always followed what the cast did after the series ended. I'm really glad that Lynne Greene had a successful career behind the scenes. She was a great actress especially in her appearances on Golden Girls as a young "Dorothy". I was sad to hear that Gretchen Wyler died this year of cancer. She was a brilliant actress on TV and on Broadway. Bess Armstrong is still going strong. It is a credit to the casting of On Own that the cast went on to have long careers, although, not high profile. I doubt this show will ever show up on DVD but it would be nice to see it again.
    4chm2006

    NYC 70's Vibes

    Like a hazy dream, i am watching on FreeVee and wondering...is this really happening, or rather did this happen in 1978? I guess it did because I am having fun watching. The lead characters are examples of career women being manhandled in a male dominated 70's society, but the humor is maudlin and somewhat excruciating. It was shot in NYC and you can really tell the difference in acting styles, and set design. Exterior shots look like Rhoda's building, but i cant be sure. And sometimes the scripts and pacing feel like a NY stage play, esp since there's quite a bit of cringe in the way the lead girls over act and emote in very silly ways, but it is an incredible unintentional expose on feminism in the 70's. Everyone is sweet natured and people acted kinder. The men in the supporting cast are misfits and all the women are heroes. Dixie Carter is surprisingly bad here and her bad timing is difficult to explain, but Gretchen Wyler is pretty funny and every once in a while a good joke or a comic bit lands well. Bess is the stronger of the two, but her character is often forced to deliver lines all alone onstage, and it is campy. Lynnie is very presentational and indicated a lot and had too many jokes about being Catholic that completely sink with a thud. Her 2 part episode w/Danny Aiello as her love interest is extremely sappy like a Kmart version of Moonstruck. There are workplace ensemble scenes and apartment scenes, and lots of new york extras and actors playing parents and or agency clients. Kay Medford was in ep 3, James Naughton (I Love My Wife) was in ep4. Christopher Hewitt was in ep 5. The wardrobe is from Bloomingdale's and both women have those curled under joan of arc/bowl haircuts from 1978 that look a bit like mushroom caps. The theme song is noisily sung (belty/wail broadway style) and difficult to understand the lyrics until you hear it more than once. It's a sorta cute sitcom but episodes always feel half finished, like a lot of mistakes were included, set walls dont actually look real... as if this were taking place on the new york stage. Still it is fun to discover an ancient, fully -formed sitcom shot in NYC that history and vintage tv networks seem to have forgotten, and i managed to get thru all 19 episodes posted at free vee. Imdb seems to credit both leading ladies with 22 episodes, so maybe there are lost episodes?!

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    • Trivia
      Filmed in New York City before a live audience.
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Tony Curtis/Steve Landesberg/Bess Armstrong/Merie Earle (1978)

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    • Release date
      • October 9, 1977 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • CBS Broadcast Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Time-Life Television Productions
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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