Arnie

📊 Series Specifications

Network CBS
Episode Runtime ~20 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 48
Original Language EN
Creator David Swift

Arnie (1970)

Created by David Swift
⭐ 2.6 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 48 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Arnie is a television sitcom that ran for two seasons on the CBS network. It stars Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon, and Roger Bowen. Bernardi played the title character, Arnie Nuvo, a longtime blue collar employee at the fictitious Continental Flange Company, who overnight was promoted to an executive position. The storylines mainly focused on this fish out of water situation, and on Arnie's sometimes-problematic relationship with his well-meaning but wealthy and eccentric boss, Hamilton Majors Jr.. Because he still held his union card, Arnie could negotiate tricky management/labor situations that no one else could. Arnie's surname was presumably a pun on nouveau riche, and possibly also on Art Nouveau. In addition to Bernardi, Bowen, and Langdon, cast members included Del Russel and Stephanie Steele as Arnie's son and daughter, Richard and Andrea; Elaine Shore as Arnie's secretary, Felicia; and Herb Voland as sour-tempered executive Neil Ogilvie. In its first season, despite being the lead-in to The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights and winning an Emmy nomination as best comedy series, Arnie received only fair Nielsen ratings. For its second season, in order to increase its viewership, CBS made a major cast change in the show's format. Charles Nelson Reilly joined the cast as Randy Robinson, a TV chef who called himself "The Giddyap Gourmet," apparently a reference to The Galloping Gourmet.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Arnie (Pilot Episode)
E2 Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Arnie's first executive paycheck brings a sinking stomach, thanks to a premature spending binge (TV Guide)

E3 Change of a Lifetime

New executive Arnie kindles resentment among his old blue-collar buddies (TV Guide)

E4 Wife vs. Secretary

Arnie's bragging about his secretary nets him a jealous wife (TV Guide)

E5 The Friendship Gap

Arnie chooses his replacement as loading foreman - from among his old buddies (TV Guide)

E6 An Urge to Splurge

Arnie helps an elderly couple face compulsory retirement (TV Guide)

E7 Chance of a Lifetime

Lil heads a picket line to fight pollution - at Arnie's company (TV Guide)

E8 Swinging Sixties

Arnie's been ordered to shave off his mustache (TV Guide)

E9 Let Them Eat Cookies

Arnie becomes involved in industrial espionage (TV Guide)

E10 Trouble in the Air

Boss Majors' latest pet project: on-the-job exercising for his executives (TV Guide)

E11 One Strike and You're Out

""Arnie has no heart for the task at hand: negotiating a new union contract with his loading dock buddies. The new executive is still a union man."" (TV Guide)

E12 For Whom the Whistle Blows

A swank San Francisco hotel sets the scene for Arnie's first major sales meeting (TV Guide)

E13 Why Spy?

Office protocol calls for Christmas gifts worth $100; the Nuvos are giving homemade cookies (TV Guide)

E14 To Buy or Not to Buy?

Boss Majors has a new housing development, and the Nuvos feel pressure to buy a home (TV Guide)

E15 Second Honeymoon
E16 You Can't Lose for Winning

Lady Luck visits Arnie in a poker game - the big loser is his boss Majors (TV Guide)

E17 Hello, Holly

The executive Arnie replaced is in town; rumor is he wants his old job back (TV Guide)

E18 Father Meets Daughter

Arnie tries to pay more attention to Andrea.

E19 Citizen Pain

Arnie must be in Nassau on the same day the Nuvos have planned a second wedding for Julius and his wife (TV Guide)

E20 Stand Up for Julius

Arnie gets symptoms of an ulcer on the eve of his bowling league semifinals (TV Guide)

E21 Strangeness in the Night

Arnie's involved in an office feud (TV Guide)

E22 Feud for Thought

Arnie's furtive behavior causes suspicion at the office (TV Guide)

E23 My Sister's Keeper

Arnie canvasses the company to find dates for his attractive sister (TV Guide)

E24 No Harmony in Trying

An audition for the fourth voice in the company's all-male quartet produces a winner who's a surprise to all (TV Guide)

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