The Famous Teddy Z Season 1

The Famous Teddy Z - Season 1

1989 • 20 episodes

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20 episodes
Sep 17, 1989

About this season

Theodore "Teddy" Zakalokis, a young man working in a Hollywood talent agency in order to avoid being stuck in his Greek-American family's bakery. When Hollywood star Harland Keyvo (a caricature of Marlon Brando) meets Teddy Z, he is so impressed by his honesty that he makes him his new agent.

Episodes

Seasons & Episodes

20 episodes
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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Teddy Falls in Love
Episode 7

Teddy Falls in Love

Episode 7 • Nov 13, 1989

Teddy meets newly separated movie star, Esther Luna, who takes him home with her and together they really ""cook,"" much to Al's disbelief.

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Teddy Sells His House
Episode 8

Teddy Sells His House

Episode 8 • Nov 20, 1989

After someone bids on a price that he was just fishing with, Teddy tries to save the family house. Al who claims to never makes mistakes cuts the deal of the lifetime for a client who is dead.

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A Case of Murder
Episode 9

A Case of Murder

Episode 9 • Nov 27, 1989

Teddy gets Harland to join his other client, Bobby the Chimp, in Bobby's first film. There is trouble on the set when Harland discovers that Bobby's trailer is much bigger than his, that doesn't bother him a much as the monkey does. Someone tries to murder Bobby on the set.

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Teddy Gets a House Guest
Episode 10

Teddy Gets a House Guest

Episode 10 • Dec 04, 1989

A method actor moves in with the Zakalokis family to become prepared for his next role as a Greek-American who has an affair with an older relative.

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Season's Greetings From Al Floss
Episode 11

Season's Greetings From Al Floss

Episode 11 • Dec 11, 1989

Al is haunted by the ghost of his former boss, in the style of ""A Christmas Carol,"" after he makes Teddy and Laurie work for him on Christmas Day.

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Grandma Goes to Work
Episode 12

Grandma Goes to Work

Episode 12 • Dec 25, 1989

To help alleviate her fears, Teddy invites his grandmother to come down to the agency to see what he does. Once she understands what is going on, she has some ideas to make him a bigger player.

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Teddy Meets His Hero
Episode 13

Teddy Meets His Hero

Episode 13 • Jan 08, 1990

Teddy is excited when he meets his favorite childhood TV host and then he crusades to bring him to an all new generation. The gap between generations is big but there may be

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Teddy Gets a Better Offer
Episode 14

Teddy Gets a Better Offer

Episode 14 • Jan 22, 1990

Harland sends Teddy to talk to another talent agency where he gets a better offer which him in a precarious position.

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Agent of the Year
Episode 15

Agent of the Year

Episode 15 • May 12, 1990

Al considers his nomination for ""Agent of the Year"" the death knell for his career. He discovers the nomination was engineered by his rival, Eileen Meisner.

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Teddy Goes to the Awards
Episode 16

Teddy Goes to the Awards

Episode 16 • TBA

Harland, nominated for Best Actor, is out in the jungles of New Guinea and directs Teddy to accept an award in his absence, should he win. Harland turns up before the awards and shows a nervous Teddy how to deliver his acceptance speech that features a can of beans.

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How to Make a Television Show
Episode 17

How to Make a Television Show

Episode 17 • TBA

Two writers, one a friend of Laurie's, pitch an idea for a television series featuring a white and a Hispanic CIA agent in Nicaragua. Teddy learns the ins and outs of trying to launch a pilot for television series, when the network turns the show into a half hour comedy, featuring two female FBI agents with three kids and one the kids has an invisible friend who's an angel.

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Al Tells the Truth
Episode 18

Al Tells the Truth

Episode 18 • TBA

Al and Teddy are at lunch where they are witness to a big shot producer slapping a man who bumped into him. When the man turns around and sues this big shot, the producer wants Al to lie in his favor, Teddy is in favor of the truth.

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Teddy's Big Date
Episode 19

Teddy's Big Date

Episode 19 • TBA

Teddy plans to take Laurie to a movie screening and when he picks her up, he meets her mother. He invites her to join them for dinner where she drinks too much, passes out and makes for a memorable evening.

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Teddy Gets a Guru
Episode 20

Teddy Gets a Guru

Episode 20 • TBA

Teddy gets an opportunity to sign Donna Gates, a star who's spiritual in the Shirley MacLaine sense of the word. Al tries to get her by faking levitation.

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