Driving Miss Daisy

TV Movie
1992
30m

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Failed series pilot based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play and multi-Academy Award-winning movie. It aired on CBS during the summer of 1992.Failed series pilot based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play and multi-Academy Award-winning movie. It aired on CBS during the summer of 1992.Failed series pilot based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play and multi-Academy Award-winning movie. It aired on CBS during the summer of 1992.

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Robert Guillaume

Hoke Colburn

Joan Plowright

Daisy Werthan

Saul Rubinek

Boolie Werthan

Theresa Merritt

Idella

Hillary B. Smith

Florine Werthan
(as Hillary Bailey Smith)

Mary Nell Santacroce

Nonie

Zoaunne LeRoy

Beulah

Anne Haney

Clemmie

Toni Gilman

Eleanor Roosevelt
(as Toni Gillman)

Ivar Brogger

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Director
- Will Mackenzie
Writer
- Alfred Uhry
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Trivia
The play "Driving Miss Daisy" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1988.

Connections
Spin-off from Miss Daisy et son chauffeur (1989)

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6/10

"Driving Miss Daisy"...with a laugh track?! What were they thinking?!

In 1988, "Driving Miss Daisy" was a huge hit on Broadway...so much so that it was made into a top film the following year. Oddly, the networks considered making a weekly series out of it...three years later. I am not sure why there was such a gap, but after seeing this failed pilot, I can see why it failed. Imagine watching "Driving Miss Daisy"...only to have a laugh track and guffaws!! It seemed very out of place and it never was originally a comedy....and after seeing the pilot, it was a comedy in name only. The show just wasn't written as a comedy...yet they stuck a laugh track on it!!

It's really a shame, as Robert Guillaume, Joan Plowright and Saul Rubinek are ALL talented folks and played their parts well. Sure, it wasn't Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy nor Dan Aykroyd...but the three TV pilot actors were most accomplished and up to the task...providing the writing and laugh track were reconsidered.