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Arnie

Name: Arnie
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1970-09-19
Cast: Sue Ane Langdon, Charles Nelson Reilly, Herschel Bernardi, Roger Bowen, Herb Voland

5.3·2 seasons·48 episodes·20 min avg.

Arnie is a television sitcom that ran for two seasons on the CBS network. It stars Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon, and Roger Bowen. Bernardi played the title character, Arnie Nuvo, a longtime blue collar employee at the fictitious Continental Flange Company, who overnight was promoted to an executive position. The storylines mainly focused on this fish out of water situation, and on Arnie's sometimes-problematic relationship with his well-meaning but wealthy and eccentric boss, Hamilton Majors Jr.. Because he still held his union card, Arnie could negotiate tricky management/labor situations that no one else could. Arnie's surname was presumably a pun on nouveau riche, and possibly also on Art Nouveau. In addition to Bernardi, Bowen, and Langdon, cast members included Del Russel and Stephanie Steele as Arnie's son and daughter, Richard and Andrea; Elaine Shore as Arnie's secretary, Felicia; and Herb Voland as sour-tempered executive Neil Ogilvie. In its first season, despite being the lead-in to The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights and winning an Emmy nomination as best comedy series, Arnie received only fair Nielsen ratings. For its second season, in order to increase its viewership, CBS made a major cast change in the show's format. Charles Nelson Reilly joined the cast as Randy Robinson, a TV chef who called himself "The Giddyap Gourmet," apparently a reference to The Galloping Gourmet.

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Sep 19, 1970

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Oct 26, 1970

Arnie's first executive paycheck brings a sinking stomach, thanks to a premature spending binge (TV Guide)

Change of a Lifetime

Oct 3, 1970

New executive Arnie kindles resentment among his old blue-collar buddies (TV Guide)

Wife vs. Secretary

Nov 4, 1970

Arnie's bragging about his secretary nets him a jealous wife (TV Guide)

The Friendship Gap

Oct 10, 1970

Arnie chooses his replacement as loading foreman - from among his old buddies (TV Guide)

An Urge to Splurge

Oct 17, 1970

Arnie helps an elderly couple face compulsory retirement (TV Guide)

Chance of a Lifetime

Oct 3, 1970

Lil heads a picket line to fight pollution - at Arnie's company (TV Guide)

Swinging Sixties

Oct 12, 1970

Arnie's been ordered to shave off his mustache (TV Guide)

Let Them Eat Cookies

Nov 20, 1970

Arnie becomes involved in industrial espionage (TV Guide)

Trouble in the Air

Nov 16, 1970

Boss Majors' latest pet project: on-the-job exercising for his executives (TV Guide)

One Strike and You're Out

Oct 14, 1970

""Arnie has no heart for the task at hand: negotiating a new union contract with his loading dock buddies. The new executive is still a union man."" (TV Guide)

For Whom the Whistle Blows

Nov 6, 1970

A swank San Francisco hotel sets the scene for Arnie's first major sales meeting (TV Guide)

Why Spy?

Oct 30, 1970

Office protocol calls for Christmas gifts worth $100; the Nuvos are giving homemade cookies (TV Guide)

To Buy or Not to Buy?

Dec 3, 1970

Boss Majors has a new housing development, and the Nuvos feel pressure to buy a home (TV Guide)

Second Honeymoon

Dec 15, 1970

You Can't Lose for Winning