SISTERS: BROKEN ANGEL (TV)
Summary
One in this serial drama series about the four Reed sisters -- Alex, Georgie, Teddy, and Frankie -- of Winnetka, Illinois. In this episode, as Christmas draws near, the following events occur: Alex learns her talk show, "Alex Live," will be cancelled due to low ratings and lack of sponsors; Frankie and Mitch realize it was a mistake to give custody of their infant son, Thomas, to Frankie's sister Georgie; the other sisters visit Georgie, who has decked out her house for Christmas as a salve for her family's recent troubles with her teenage son Trevor; Alex complains about her cancellation woes to the Santa at the Pricetown discount store; a hostile Trevor smashes Georgie's heirloom tree-topper (a glass angel given to her by her father) and hits Georgie when she tries to prevent him from leaving the house; as Alex prepares for her last show, Big Al, the owner of Pricetown, arrives at the studio and saves the day by offering to sponsor the program; Teddy learns that Falconer has not celebrated Christmas since his young son died; Georgie and John send Trevor to the Rediscover Institute, a reform school; Alex invites Big Al over for dinner and is taken aback by his gifts of a refrigerator, and a Moroccan feast -- complete with waiters and belly dancer -- which he has delivered to her house; Georgie is devastated over her inability to handle Trevor's problems and blames John for the decision to send their son away; Frankie and Mitch each petition the judge to give holiday custody of Thomas to the other as a gift; Georgie dismantles her Christmas decorations and tells the sisters she will not be celebrating the holidays this year; Alex learns that Big Al was the Santa at Pricetown, and feels guilty for misjudging him as crude; Teddy accompanies Falconer to his son's grave and suggests he start to forgive himself for the boy's accidental death; the family gathers at Alex's for a bittersweet Christmas Eve dinner, and Georgie arrives to tell Frankie and Mitch that she has arranged to give them permanent custody of Thomas. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: December 11, 1993 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:47:06
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:34843
- GENRE: Drama, night-time serial
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, night-time serial; Family; Christmas
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1991-1996
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Ron Cowen … Executive Producer, Created by
- Daniel Lipman … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Christopher Keyser … Co-Executive Producer
- Amy Lippman … Co-Executive Producer
- Kathryn Pratt … Co-Executive Producer
- Kevin Inch … Co-Executive Producer
- Jessie Ward … Coordinating Producer
- Lisa Melamed … Producer
- Bethany Rooney … Director
- W.G. Snuffy Walden … Music by
- John Debney … Theme Music by
- Swoosie Kurtz … Cast, Alex Reed Halsey
- Patricia Kalember … Cast, Georgie Reed Whitsig
- Julianne Phillips … Cast, Frankie Reed
- Sela Ward … Cast, Teddy Reed
- Garrett M. Brown … Cast, John Whitsig
- Ed Marinaro … Cast, Mitch Margolis
- Heather McAdam … Cast, Cat Margolis
- Ryan Francis … Cast, Trevor Whitsig
- Dustin Berkovitz … Cast, Evan Whitsig
- Robert Klein … Cast, Big Al
- Nora Dunn … Cast, Norma
- George Clooney … Cast, James Falconer
- Jill Novick … Cast, Teenage Teddy
- Richard Gilbert-Hill … Cast, Paul
- Riff Regan … Cast, Young Georgie
- Tasia Schutt … Cast, Little Frankie
- Carol Androsky … Cast, the Female Shopper
- Stephen Taylor Knott … Cast, Casey Falconer
- Johnny Rogers … Cast, Little Trevor