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TATTINGERS: PILOT {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)

Summary

Premiere of this dramatic series about New York restaurant owner Nick Tattinger and the people involved in his life. In this episode, Nick has sold his restaurant and plans to move to France after having been shot in the chest six months earlier. Upon returning to New York City to attend his daughter Nina's "coming out" party, Nick becomes involved in a series of problems that interferes with his plans to return to France. Peterson Burke, who now owns the restaurant, has brought it to the brink of ruin, and he is planning to sell it to a ruthless real estate developer named John Yancy, who has been using physical violence to force other business owners on the block to sell their property to him. Following an ugly confrontation with Yancy's hitman, which almost ruins Nina's "coming out" party, Nick decides to stay in New York and buy back the restaurant to prevent Yancy from taking control. Commercials deleted.

Details

  • NETWORK: NBC
  • DATE: October 26, 1988 10:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:48:15
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: T88:0508
  • GENRE: Drama
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Drama
  • SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1988-1989
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Mark Tinker … Executive Producer
  • Bruce Paltrow … Executive Producer, Director, Created by, Writer
  • Tom Fontana … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
  • Jim Finnerty … Coordinating Producer
  • Robert DeLaurentis … Producer
  • John Tinker … Producer
  • Channing Gibson … Producer
  • Steven Milkis … Associate Producer
  • John Masius … Created by, Writer
  • Jonathan Tunick … Music by
  • Jack Gilford … Cast, Shlomo
  • Uta Hagen … Cast, Honey
  • George DiCenzo … Cast, John Yancy
  • Stephen Collins … Cast, Nick Tattinger
  • Blythe Danner … Cast, Hillary Tattinger
  • Jerry Stiller … Cast, Sid
  • Roderick Cook … Cast, Louis
  • Zach Grenier … Cast, Sonny Frank
  • Patrice Colihan … Cast, Nina
  • Chay Lentin … Cast, Winnifred
  • Thomas Quinn … Cast, O'Malley
  • Simon Jones … Cast, Norman Asher
  • Sue Francis Pai … Cast, Billie Low
  • Oliver Platt … Cast, Burke
  • Yusef Bulos … Cast, Alphonse
  • John Finn … Cast, McIntosh's Torpedo