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The Pruitts of Southampton. The Pruitts of Southampton is an American situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Party (1954) by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedienne very much in the style of Lucille Ball.
The Phyllis Diller Show: Created by David Levy. With Phyllis Diller, Reginald Gardiner, Grady Sutton, Pam Freeman. Follows the Pruitt family, who live like royalty in a huge mansion.
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- 1966-09-06
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30 x 30 minute episodes. The Pruitts of Southampton were just like the Rockefellers or the Vanderbilts, except for two things: they were broke and Mrs Pruitt looked, dressed and acted like Phyllis Diller. For reasons that don’t matter very much, the Pruitts were obliged to keep up appearances of wealth in their Long Island mansion while ...
Posters 1. An audit by the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes reveals that the supposedly incredibly wealthy Pruitts family is in fact broke. Presumably causing the economic depression, an improbably charitable IRS allows them to continue living in their mansion and maintaining the pretensions of great wealth.
The plot basically revolves around the Pruitt family living in Long Island, who live like royalty in a huge mansion. Slight problem is that they are flat broke & live off the state. Each episode involves Phyllis trying a new harebrained scheme to raise money & keep it from the IRS. As you can imagine, it all end in utter chaos.
Jul 6, 2021 · The Pruitts of Southampton is an American situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Par...
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0 %. September 6, 1966 • 30m. During a party, an IRS agent arrives to inform the Pruitts that they are $10 million in debt and that their possessions now belong to the United States government. But they are going to allow the Pruitts to maintain the illusion that they are wealthy, rather than risk a stock-market collapse with the news that ...
