''Ladies' Man'' is an American

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starring

Lawrence Pressman Lawrence Pressman (born David Milton Pressman; July 10, 1939) is an American actor. He is best known for roles on '' Doogie Howser, M.D.'', '' Ladies' Man'', a recurring role on '' Profiler'', the title character on '' Mulligan's Stew'' and as a ...

as a divorced male working at a women's magazine. The series premiered October 27, 1980, on

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. The program also stars

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and her former husband, Herbert Edelman. The show was written by Anne Convy and

Carmen Finestra Carmen Finestra (born June 26, 1947) is an American producer and TV writer who currently is partnered with Matt Williams and David McFadzean in Wind Dancer Productions, a firm which Finestra also co-owns and co-founded with actor Tim Allen. For W ...

. The series did not do well in the ratings and was canceled after one season.

Synopsis

Divorced Alan Thackeray (Pressman) was a single father of daughter Amy (Natasha Ryan) and was completely surrounded by women. At home, with good advice on how to raise Amy (and to provide her with a motherly figure in her life, in lieu of her real mother), was his cheerful and friendly next-door neighbor, Betty Brill (

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). At ''Women's Life'' magazine, the magazine he worked at as a feature writer, he was also surrounded by women. The staff included fellow columnists: serious minded researcher Gretchen ( Simone Griffeth); Susan (

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), a militant

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; and romantic minded reporter Andrea Gibbons (Betty Kennedy); and all were supervised by the magazine's hard-to-please and somewhat dominating editor, Elaine Holstein (Sorel). The only other male at ''Women's Life'', aside from Alan, was the harried accountant, Reggie (Edelman). Situations dealing with his homelife and work life, which was completely surrounded by women was the main premise of the series.

Cast

... Alan Thackeray * Natasha Ryan ... Amy Thackeray *

... Betty Brill * Simone Griffeth ... Gretchen *

... Susan * Betty Kennedy ... Andrea Gibbons * Herbert Edelman ... Reggie *

... Elaine Holstein

Episodes

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*{{IMDb title, 0080238, Ladies Man 1980s American sitcoms 1980 American television series debuts 1981 American television series endings Television series by 20th Century Fox Television CBS sitcoms