TV Show

The Famous Teddy Z

A mailroom clerk becomes a top agent at a Hollywood talent agency after he impresses a notoriously self-centered client. The series was inspired by an actual 1940s encounter involving Marlon Brando.

TV Show Stats +8%

1 seasons

20 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1989

Rating

TV Show

7.2/10

6 votes • HD

Season 1

20 episodes
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Pilot
Episode 1

Pilot

Episode 1 • Sep 18, 1989

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.

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What's an Agent to Do?
Episode 2

What's an Agent to Do?

Episode 2 • Sep 25, 1989

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.

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Bobby the Chimp
Episode 3

Bobby the Chimp

Episode 3 • Oct 02, 1989

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.

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Teddy Goes to Malibu
Episode 4

Teddy Goes to Malibu

Episode 4 • Oct 16, 1989

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.

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Teddy Makes $50,000 ... in One Day
Episode 5

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

Episode 5 • Oct 23, 1989

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.

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Teddy Gets Fired
Episode 6

Teddy Gets Fired

Episode 6 • Oct 30, 1989

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...

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