Gimme a Break! Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Gimme a Break! Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom television series created by Mort

Lachman and Sy Rosen, that aired on NBC for six seasons from October

29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series starred Nell Carter as the

housekeeper for a widowed police chief (Dolph Sweet) and his three

daughters.The sitcom takes place in Glenlawn, a fictional suburb

located in California. Nellie Ruth "Nell" Harper (Nell Carter) agrees

to look after the Kanisky household as a special favor to her dying

friend Margaret Huffman Kanisky (played in flashback by Sharon

Spelman), who was the wife of police chief Carl Kanisky (Dolph Sweet),

serving as a parental figure to the Chief's three teenage daughters,

Katie (Kari Michaelsen), Julie (Lauri Hendler), and Samantha (Lara

Jill Miller). A foster son, Joey (Joey Lawrence), was added to the

Kanisky household in Season 3.Five episodes into the sixth and final

season, the show changed locales from Glenlawn to New York City, when

Nell, concerned for Joey's welfare after he moved there with his

absentee father, traveled there to check on him. She subsequently

assumed guardianship of Joey and his younger brother Matthew (played

by Joey Lawrence's real-life brother Matthew Lawrence) at their

father's request and was forced to permanently relocate there after

Chief Kanisky's father Stanley (John Hoyt) sold the family's Glenlawn

home.Over the six-year run, a handful of celebrities appeared on the

show, including singers Whitney Houston, Andy Gibb, Sammy Davis, Jr.,

Ray Parker Jr. and The Pointer Sisters. More often than not, the guest

singers would perform a song with Nell on the episodes. During the

third season, Pat Sajak guest-starred as himself when Nell and her

friend Addy (Telma Hopkins) were contestants on Wheel of Fortune.

Other notable guest stars included Milton Berle, Danny Glover, Rue

McClanahan, Tony Randall, Helen Hunt, Don Rickles, Gwen Verdon, Dennis

Haysbert, Ernie Hudson, Gary Collins, and Elizabeth Berkley.
Gimme a Break! Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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