''Eisenhower and Lutz'' is an American

sitcom A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...

which aired for thirteen episodes on

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from March 14 to June 20, 1988.

Overview

The series stars

Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on ''Quantum Leap'' and as Captain Jonathan Archer on ''Star Trek: Enterprise''. For ''Quantum L ...

as Barnett M. "Bud" Lutz, Jr., a shiftless ambulance-chasing lawyer. Lutz had trouble getting clients, so his father (

Henderson Forsythe Henderson Forsythe (September 11, 1917 – April 17, 2006) was an American actor. Forsythe was known for his role as Dr. David Stewart #2 on the soap opera ''As the World Turns'', a role he played for 32 years, and for his work on the New York sta ...

) added the name "Eisenhower" to his shingle to attract clientele. Lutz spent more time trading quips with the women in his life–Megan ( DeLane Matthews) and K.K. (

Patricia Richardson Patricia Castle Richardson (born February 23, 1951) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Jill Taylor on the ABC sitcom ''Home Improvement'', for which she was nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Le ...

)–than he did actual legal work. Creator

Allan Burns Allan Pennington Burns (May 18, 1935January 30, 2021) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was best known for co-creating and writing for the television sitcoms ''The Munsters'' and ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. Early life ...

later used three actors from this series—Matthews, Richardson and Geter—on his 1989

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sitcom '' FM''.

Cast

as Barnett M. "Bud" Lutz, Jr *

as Barnett M. "Big Bud" Lutz * DeLane Matthews as Megan O'Malley *

as Kay "K.K." Dunne * Leo Geter as Dwayne Spitler * Rose Portillo as Millie Zamora

Episodes

External links

* 1988 American television series debuts 1988 American television series endings 1980s American sitcoms 1980s American legal television series 1980s American workplace comedy television series CBS original programming Television shows set in Palm Springs, California English-language television shows Fictional American lawyers Television series by MTM Enterprises {{US-comedy-tv-prog-stub