I
don't have much to say about the second half of this strip, so I'll
just cut and paste the IMDB plot summary description for the hit 1980s
sitcom "Mr. Belvedere" here:
Popular
80s sitcom based on the Gwen Davenport novel, "Belvedere,"
which in turn was thrice adapted to the big screen. Like its earlier
novel and big-screen brethren, "Mr. Belvedere" featured
British butler Lynn Belvedere, who takes a job as a live-in nanny
for a typical American family and records their everyday experiences
in his diary for future use in writing a novel. In the 1985 small-screen
version, the Owens family served as that "typical American family"
and the source of fodder for Belvedere who had previously worked as
a gentry for Winston Churchill and had connections to British royalty.
Family patriarch George (played by sports-caster Bob Uecker) was,
in an example of art imitating life, a sports writer; the matriarch
was Marsha, a law student. The couple, which had settled in suburban
Pittsburgh, had three children: Awkward teen-ager Kevin, precocious
(and easily embarrassed) Heather and mischievous prankster Wesley.
George was initially uncomfortable hiring the worldly Belvedere, but
eventually came to appreciate the Englishman's friendship (as well
as his expert culinary skills). Wesley, unlike his elder siblings,
seemed to never get along with Belvedere; however, even he came to
appreciate the British native's advice that he would regularly dispense
to the family. Each episode ended with Belvedere writing in his journal,
giving the show's moral while putting everything into perspective.
In later years, Marsha graduated from law school and got her first
job, while Kevin (and later, Heather) graduated from high school and
entered college. The 1985 small-screen adaptation of "Mr. Belvedere"
marked the end of a long succession of unsuccessful attempts to bring
Davenport's novel to television; the three earlier pilots were made
in the 1950s (soon after the final big-screen movie) and 1960s.
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written by Brian Rathjen {briguy_52732@yahoo.com}