Hanging In
{{Short description|American sitcom television series}}
{{for|the 1981 Canadian television sitcom|Hangin' In}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
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|genre = Sitcom
|writer = Bill Davenport
Charlie Hauck
Arthur Julian
Sy Rosen
Rod Parker
|director = Alan Rafkin
Walter C. Miller (series finale)
|starring = Bill Macy
Barbara Rhoades
Dennis Burkley
Nedra Volz
|theme_music_composer = Billy Byers
|country = United States
|language = English
|num_seasons = 1
|num_episodes = 4
|executive_producer = Norman Lear
Sy Rosen
|producer = Ken Stump
|runtime = 22–24 minutes
|company = T.A.T. Communications Company
|channel = CBS
|first_aired = {{Start date|1979|8|8}}
|last_aired = {{End date|1979|8|29}}
|related = Mr. Dugan}}
Hanging In is an American sitcom television series that aired for four episodes on CBS on Wednesday nights from August 8, 1979, to August 29, 1979.
Summary
After his failed attempt to launch the sitcom Mr. Dugan, Norman Lear reworked the project, finally coming up with Hanging In, the story of Lou Harper, a former professional football star who becomes president of fictional Braddock University. Bill Macy (who had played Maude's husband, Walter Findlay, in Maude) resurfaced as the star of the version that finally did air, in August 1979.
Most of the supporting cast of Mr. Dugan and its several different incarnations (including the final three episodes of Maude and the unsold pilot Onward and Upward, which featured Good Times star John Amos) also appeared in Hanging In. As The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows: 1946-Present by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh dryly put it, "the actors must have known their lines pretty well by this point", as the scripts on each project were nearly identical.[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=hanging+in%3A+1979%3A+bill+macy&pg=PA578 Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle F.] The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present
In the end, Hanging In lasted just four weeks on CBS, leaving the air after its August 29, 1979 broadcast.
Cast
- Bill Macy as Louis "Lou" G. Harper
- Barbara Rhoades as Maggie Gallagher
- Dennis Burkley as Sam Dickey
- Nedra Volz as Pinky Nolan
- Darian Mathias as Rita Zefferelli
Episodes
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| Title = New Man on Campus
| DirectedBy = Alan Rafkin
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Charlie Hauck, Bill Davenport & Arthur Julian|s=Rod Parker}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|8|8}}
| ShortSummary = A new university president has inherited an office from his predecessor and waiting for him is Maggie Gallagher, the high pressured Dean of Faculty; Sam Dickey, the glib Director of Development; and Pinky, a wise-cracking housekeeper—all itching to give this idealistic greenhorn the benefit of their academic savvy.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| Title = Old Girlfriend
| DirectedBy = Alan Rafkin
| WrittenBy = Sy Rosen
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|8|15}}
| ShortSummary = The unexpected visit of an ex-girlfriend drives Sam to an attack of compulsive eating.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| Title = Lou's Little Problem
| DirectedBy = Alan Rafkin
| WrittenBy = Bill Davenport
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|8|22}}
| ShortSummary = Lou pays a pretty price for his snobbish attitude about women while at a gala fund-raising dinner—as TV-news cameras roll.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| Title = Sleep with the Fishes
| DirectedBy = Walter C. Miller
| WrittenBy = Arthur Julian & Sy Rosen
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|8|29}}
| ShortSummary = Menacing phone calls on a dark and stormy night suggest to Lou and staff that a mob boss wants revenge because his son was refused admission to the school.
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0078620|title=Hanging In}}
{{Maude}}
{{Norman Lear}}
Category:1979 American television series debuts
Category:1979 American television series endings
Category:1970s American sitcoms
Category:1970s American college television series
Category:American English-language television shows
Category:Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Category:Television shows filmed in Toronto
Category:Television series created by Norman Lear
Category:Television shows set in Connecticut
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