Mark Linn-Baker
Larry Appleton
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- 1. Knock, Knock, Who's There? Mar 25, 1986
- An immigrant disrupts his American cousin's life.
- 2. Picture This! Apr 1, 1986
- Larry regrets teaching Balki how to say no.
- 3. First Date Apr 8, 1986
- Larry is embarrassed by Balki's outrageous approach to dating girls.
Perfect Strangers: Created by Dale McRaven. With Bronson Pinchot, Mark Linn-Baker, Melanie Wilson, Rebeca Arthur. A high-strung and cynical man's life is never the same when his naive but good-natured cousin comes to America to live with him.
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The series chronicles the relationship of Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot). Larry, a Wisconsin native from a large family, has just moved into his first apartment in Chicago, and is savoring his first taste of privacy when Balki, a hitherto-unknown cousin from a Mediterraneanisland, "Mypos"...
Development
The series was the brainchild of Dale McRaven (co-creator of Mork & Mindy) and producers Tom Miller and Robert Boyett. Miller claimed that the series' inspiration came in the wake of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, when America experienced a wave of renewed patriotic sentiment. Their idea for a comedy about an immigrant in America was initially rejected by all three major commercial television networks operating in the U.S. at the time (ABC, CBS, and NBC). In December 1984, Bronson P...
Season 1
The series commences with Larry living alone in an apartment in Chicago. In the pilot episode, Balki unexpectedly shows up at Larry's door claiming to be his distant cousin. Balki soon joins Larry as a clerk at the Ritz Discount Store, located on the ground level of their apartment building. Their boss is Donald "Twinkie" Twinkacetti (Ernie Sabella), an unscrupulous miser who is also their landlord. Twinkacetti's incessant berating of his two employees (he calls Balki "Turnip" and Larry "Yo-Y...
Season 2
For its second season, Perfect Strangers was moved to Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m. as a lead-in to the new ABC sitcom Head of the Class. Susan's character was phased out early in this season. Larry began dating Jennifer Lyons (Melanie Wilson) and Balki began dating Mary Anne Spencer (Rebeca Arthur), after meeting them through a local gym.In later episodes, it is revealed that both women are flight attendants who live in Larry and Balki's building.
Main cast 1. Bronson Pinchot – Balki Bartokomous 2. Mark Linn-Baker – Larry Appleton 3. Melanie Wilson – Jennifer Lyons (later Appleton)(seasons 2–8) 4. Rebeca Arthur – Mary Anne Spencer (later Bartokomous)(seasons 2–8) 5. Belita Moreno – Edwina Twinkacetti (seasons 1–2); Lydia Markham(seasons 3–7) 6. Ernie Sabella – Donald Twinkacetti(seasons 1–2)...
Perfect Strangers was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions in association with Lorimar-Telepictures, which later became Lorimar Television in 1988. The show, for its entire run, was executive produced by Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett, and series creator Dale McRaven was executive producer with them for the first two seasons, becoming an ex...
There were a total of eight seasons in the series. The first and last seasons were six episodes each. The second through fourth seasons had 22 episodes each, and the fifth through seventh each had 24 episodes. There were a total of 150 episodes in the series. Perfect Strangers' ratings remained steady throughout its long run, usually ranking among ...
From August 28, 1989, to July 13, 1990, reruns of the first four seasons of Perfect Strangers aired on ABC's daytime program block. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (former sister company to series production company Lorimar Television) distributed the series for broadcast television syndication from September 1990 to September 1997. U...
Family Matters
Perfect Strangers had a spin-off series, the highly rated, long-running family sitcom Family Matters, which aired from September 22, 1989, to July 17, 1998. The series was centered around Harriette Winslow (Jo Marie Payton) in the role she originated on Perfect Strangers (Harriette was played by Judyann Elder for the second half of season nine after Payton's departure), and her cop husband Carl (Reginald VelJohnson; the character was initially introduced on Perfect Strangers in the fourth-sea...
The season four episode "Maid to Order" was released as part of a limited edition bonus disc of the complete first season DVD of Night Courton February 8, 2005 by Warner Home Video. In February 2008, Warner Home Video released seasons 1 and 2 of Perfect Strangers on DVD in Regions 1, 2 & 4. Further planned season releases ultimately did not materia...
Professional wrestling tag team Edge & Christian referenced Balki in a backstage segment of the December 18, 2000 episode of WWF Raw is War, when Edge tells Christian"so that's why Balki is a perfe...Perfect Strangers and star Mark Linn-Baker are referenced in the HBO TV series The Leftovers, which takes place after a fictional global event called the "Sudden Departure," the inexplicable, simul...In the Master of None episode "Indians on TV", Dev (Aziz Ansari) and Ravi (Ravi Patel) are offered the main roles in an Indian-centric remake of Perfect Strangers, with the main characters being Da...Fellow ABC sitcom The Goldbergs paid homage to Perfect Strangersin the season six episode "Our Perfect Strangers," by re-creating the show's iconic opening sequence with a distant cousin, Gleb, who...When the show was aired in Brazil, Balki was renamed "Zeca" (a Brazilian nickname) and his nationality was changed to Brazilian, specifically from the state of Minas Gerais, in a blatant adulterati...In the fall of 2006, the Russian TV station REN TV launched a remake of Perfect Strangers featuring Andrei, from a remote former Soviet republic, who moves in with his cousin Ivan, a Moscowresident.The show was aired 1988 until 1994 on TVRI in IndonesiaFrom the late 1980s into the mid-1990s, the show was aired by Channel 2 in Saudi Arabia- 8
- 150 (list of episodes)
- March 25, 1986 –, August 6, 1993
- ABC
Nine Perfect Strangers is an American drama television series based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty. Created by David E. Kelley who also developed the series alongside John-Henry Butterworth, the series premiered on August 18, 2021, on Hulu.
- David E. Kelley & John-Henry Butterworth
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Emmy® Award nominee Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker star in this hilarious, long-running comedy series that showcases how family can often be stranger than, well, strangers!
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Based on The New York Times best-selling book by author Liane Moriarty, "Nine Perfect Strangers" takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness...
Prime Video Seasons 1-8. Buy Perfect Strangers on Prime Video. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. When Wisconsin native Larry Appleton moves into his first apartment in Chicago,...
