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Agreed. This was one of my favorite shows and I always sang along to the opening theme. I think it started going downhill when they started changing the cast.
I enjoyed this show a great deal. It was one of the sitcoms sold in first-run syndication alongside other favorites of mine (Mama's Family, Throb, etc.) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. By the time I startedd watching they had phased out Ann Jillian and Susan Sullivan in favor of Crystal Bernard and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and of course they'd brought in Howard as the object of Nancy's obsession. The show did last a reasonable amount of time, but it never did show up in "strip" syndication (five days per week), which I would love to see. Of course now it would look kind of dated. I must say I'm glad they upgraded the girls' uniforms for the restaurant from those red things they were wearing in this intro.
Nancy Beebe (Marian Mercer) was my favorite character of the bunch.
Though it has the Witt-Thomas pedigree, I think the absence of the third member of that team--Harris--has a lot to do with its lack of similarity in style to their bigger hits like Golden Girls, Soap, Benson, etc. Susan Harris writing IAL would have made it a much different show, of course, but she had a gift for writing a diverse group of women.
Loved this show back in the 80s/90s. On saturdays before tuning in to NBC's saturday shows we watched this and Mama's Family in my house. I thought the syndicated version was better. 6 seasons huh? Not a bad run
for the longest time I called the Bonaventure hotel in LA the "It's A living" building, I remember my first time in LA I saw that building and shouted "Hey, it's the it's a living building! Let's go in and maybe we can meet Ann Jillian!"
Surprised to find so many other people who liked it.
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