We Got It Made

We Got It Made
We Got it Made season-two opening title
Genre	Situation comedy
Written by	Michael S. Baser Lynne Farr Brao Bob Brunner David Chambers Chet Dowling Gordon Farr Jeffrey Ferro Ken Hecht Arnold Kane Sandy Krinski Susan H. Lee Bowie Lennon C.M. Leon Laura Levine Chick Mitchell Geoffrey Neigher Kim Weiskopf Margaret Weisman Fredric Weiss
Directed by	James R. Drake Alan Rafkin
Starring	Teri Copley Tom Villard Matt McCoy
Theme music composer	Tom Wells
Opening theme	"We Got It Made"
Composer(s)	Tom Wells
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	46
Production
Executive producer(s)	Fred Silverman
Producer(s)	Lynne Farr Brao Gordon Farr Alan Rafkin
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production company(s)	InterMedia Entertainment Company The Farr Organization Inc. MGM/UA Television
Release
Original network	NBC (1983-1984) Syndication (1987-1988)
Original release	September 8, 1983 (1983-09-08) – September 3, 1988 (1988-09-03)

We Got It Made was an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 8, 1983 to March 10, 1984 and in first-run syndication from September 11, 1987 to March 30, 1988. The series was created by Gordon Farr and Lynne Farr Brao (credited as simply Lynne Farr during the 1987-88 season), and was executive produced by Fred Silverman in association with MGM Television.

Synopsis

1983 NBC version

The show focuses on Mickey Mackenzie (Teri Copley), a girl in her early 20s who applies for a housekeeping job in Manhattan. Her employers are two bachelors who share the two-bedroom apartment—conservative attorney David Tucker (Matt McCoy) and goofy, idealistic salesman Jay Bostwick (Tom Villard). Mickey is the first—and-only applicant for the job; in fact, both David and Jay are so taken by her beauty, they immediately hire her.

Both David and Jay had girlfriends—David's was Claudia (Stepfanie Kramer, who left midway through the first season and found far greater fame on the NBC crime drama, Hunter), while Jay dated kindergarten teacher Beth Sorensen (Bonnie Urseth). Both Claudia and Beth were skeptical about their boyfriends having such an attractive maid living with them, but they eventually grew to accept Mickey as a friend.

When it first premiered, We Got It Made looked to be successful, winning its time slot early in the run.^[1] Before long, though, negative reviews from both critics and the general viewing public eroded its viewership. NBC moved the series from its original Thursday night berth to Saturdays in January 1984. The change in its night and time did little in keeping the series on the air; in March 1984, We Got It Made was cancelled.

1987 syndicated version

We Got It Made was revived in first-run syndication for the 1987-1988 season as part of NBC's "Prime Time Begins at 7:30" campaign, in which the network's owned-and-operated stations ran first-run sitcoms in the 7:30-8:00 pm time slot to counterprogram competing stations' game shows, sitcom reruns, and other offerings. However, the series was picked up by non-NBC stations, as well.

Teri Copley and Tom Villard were the only returning cast members, Jay and Beth no longer were a couple (Bonnie Urseth had decided not to participate this time), and David was now played by John Hillner. David, Jay, and Mickey had new neighbors, as well—policeman Max Papavasiolios Sr. (Ron Karabatsos) and his son, Max Jr. (Lance Wilson-White).^[2] Mickey seemed to allow greater physical attention—and affection—from the now-single Jay and David, but at the same time, she doted on them as if they were her young sons. She also had a special relationship with teenaged Max, who frequently came to her for advice in attracting and dealing with women, although he would have preferred putting that advice to use on Mickey alone.

As they had with the NBC version, critics lambasted the series, and We Got It Made lasted only one season in syndication.^[1] The series' final original episode was released on March 30, 1988, with reruns airing until the week of September 3, 1988, in most markets.

Cast

We Got it Made first season cast photo featuring Villard, Copley and McCoy.

• Teri Copley as Mickey Mackenzie
• Tom Villard as Jay Bostwick
• Matt McCoy as David Tucker (1983–1984)
• John Hillner as David Tucker (1987–1988)
• Bonnie Urseth as Beth Sorensen (1983–1984)
• Stepfanie Kramer as Claudia (1983–1984)
• Ron Karabatsos as Max Papavasilios Sr. (1987–1988)
• Lance Wilson-White as Max Papavasilios, Jr. (1987–1988)

Episode list

Season 1

Season 2

Runner - Russ Timmins. (Summer 1987)

In popular culture

Around the original network airing of the show, SCTV did a satirical television ad for a show starring Pirini Scleroso (Andrea Martin) called 'We Got a Maid' in which Pirini is the maid to two bachelors instead of the expected Teri Copley type that people would usually see.

See also

• List of programs broadcast by NBC

References

External links

• We Got It Made at the Internet Movie Database
• We Got It Made at TV.com
• We Got It Made at Nostalgia Central