THIRTYSOMETHING: SUCCESS (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas about the personal and professional dilemmas confronting a close-knit group of friends -- urban baby boomers in their thirties -- living in Philadelphia. In this episode, Michael and Elliot lose a crucial account that seals the fate of their fledgling ad agency. The men are doubly humiliated by the unctuous advertising mogul Miles Drentell, who first denies them supplemental work and then defeats the stricken duo in an intramural league basketball game. Throughout the episode Michael entertains fantasies of himself as a supremely competent pro basketball player in sequences that feature hoop star Charles Barkley. Michael's cousin Melissa's fortunes unexpectedly rise as she secures a photo assignment for a Carly Simon shoot. Melissa hesitates to invite the gang to a chic party hosted by Simon, however, fearing she will be hemmed in by their long-standing perceptions of her as an unsuccessful flake. Melissa's fears are justified when Elliot, in a misguided attempt to impress Drentell, brings him to the party and drunkenly causes a terrible scene. Includes commercials and promos.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: January 31, 1989 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:49
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:15684
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Basketball; Drama; Sports
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1987-1991
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "Cousins" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - Actifed cold medicine
- TV - Commercials - America's Dairy Farmers, National Dairy Board butter
- TV - Commercials - Burger King restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Celestial Seasonings tea
- TV - Commercials - Cover Girl makeup
- TV - Commercials - Ernest & Julio Gallo White Grenache wine
- TV - Commercials - First magazine
- TV - Commercials - Honda Accord car
- TV - Commercials - Luvs Deluxe diapers
- TV - Commercials - MacDonald's restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Secret deodorant
- TV - Commercials - Subaru cars
- TV - Commercials - Suzi Wan dinners
- TV - Commercials - Wendy's restaurants
- TV - Promos - "ABC World News Tonight"
- TV - Promos - "A Fine Romance"
- TV - Promos - "China Beach"
- TV - Promos - "Good Morning America"
- TV - Promos - "Hooperman"
- TV - Promos - "Nightline"
- TV - Promos - "Ruthless People" (telecast of feature film)
- TV - Promos - "Studio 5B"
- TV - Promos - "The Wonder Years"
CREDITS
- Edward Zwick … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Marshall Herskovitz … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Scott Winant … Supervising Producer
- Richard Kramer … Producer
- Ellen S. Pressman … Co-Producer
- Jeanne Byrd Hall … Associate Producer
- Ron Lagomarsino … Director
- Ann Lewis Hamilton … Writer
- Joseph Dougherty … Writer
- Susan Shilliday … Writer
- Stewart Levin … Music by
- W.G. Snuffy Walden … Theme Music by
- Timothy Busfield … Cast, Elliot Weston
- Polly Draper … Cast, Ellyn Warren
- Mel Harris … Cast, Hope Murdoch Steadman
- Peter Horton … Cast, Gary Shepherd
- Melanie Mayron … Cast, Melissa Steadman
- Ken Olin … Cast, Michael Steadman
- Patricia Wettig … Cast, Nancy Weston
- David Marshall Grant … Cast, Russell Fisher
- David Clennon … Cast, Miles Drentell
- Nana Visitor … Cast, Cyndy
- Richard Cummings … Cast, Mark Harriton
- Carly Simon … Cast, herself
- Matt Landers … Cast, Brian
- Andrew Divoff … Cast, the Limo Driver
- Conrad Bachman … Cast, Dan Rourke
- John Oldach … Cast, the Opposition Guy
- Brittany Craven … Cast, Janey
- Lacey Craven … Cast, Janey
- Charles Barkley … Cast, Himself