TV series

Apple Pie
1978 · 1 season
A gentle, old-fashioned sitcom full of eccentric characters and light laughs, easy to watch and forget.
- Created by
- Norman Lear
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Rue McClanahan, Dabney Coleman, Jack Gilford
- Overview
- Ginger-Nell Hollyhock is a single and lonely hairdresser who lives in Kansas City, Missouri during the Great Depression year of 1933. When Ginger-Nell places classified ads in the local newspapers, she recruits a group of wacky relatives - a con-man husband, Fast Eddie Murtaugh; a tap-dancing daughter, Anna Marie Hollyhock; a son who wanted to fly like a bird, Junior Hollyhock; and a tottering old blind grandfather, Grandpa Hollyhock - all of whom come to live together for the laughs.
- How it feels
- Light, whimsical, warm and absurd. Brisk and fine in the background.
- About
- Family, found family, class, survival
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Norman Lear
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Rue McClanahan, Dabney Coleman, Jack Gilford




