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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: Picket Fences Plot twist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.232906.3037@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <268@heimdall.sdrc.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:29:06 GMT
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- In article <268@heimdall.sdrc.com> gppeter@sgi7.sdrc.com (Peter Bennett) writes:
- >I just saw a bit of the Thanksgiving show on Picket Fences (rebroadcast
- >1/1/93). I loved the plot twist they had for Richard Kiley's father/
- >grandfather character and the young woman who came with him. (She's not
- >a money grabbing floozie, she has Cystic Fibrosis, and a very different
- >outlook on life that goes with it)
-
- This "old father visits with young floozy" schtick is becoming pretty
- common - or at least it seems that way. However, the only other one I
- can think of off hand is Murphy Brown.
-
- I would appreciate a list of any others you can think of.
-
- (P.S. Dan's father marries Crystal in Roseanne...)
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