Bosom Buddies
Some like it Hanks in this cross-dressing sitcom that launched one of Hollywood's most accomplished careers. It doesn't get any "Before They Were Stars" than this. The future Oscar-winner hadn't even made Bachelor Party yet! Hanks (in riffing, wiseass mode that lives on in Vince Vaughan), and Peter Scolari star as struggling ad-agency artist and writer Kip and Henry, best friends whose apartment building is demolished. Desperate for a place to live, they transform themselves into Buffy and Hildegarde so they can live in the for-women-only Susan B. Anthony Hotel. Kip and Henry pass themselves off as the "girls': brothers, allowing Kip to romance nurse and aspiring dancer Sunny (Donna Dixon), and Henry to write a book about the experience. "This is nuts, stupid, crazy," Kip rants, and so it is, but Bosom Buddies is never a drag, thanks to Hanks and Scolari's spontaneous chemistry. They are a comedy team without, pardon the expression, a straight man. The late Wendie Jo Sperber is a force of nature as Amy, the ad-agency receptionist with an unrequited crush on Henry, leading to one of this season's less jokey, more character-driven episodes, "Beauty and the Beasts." Holland Taylor is at her imperious best as Kip and Henry's credit-grabbing boss. Lucille Benson replaces the pilot's Edie Adams as the Susan B. Anthony's formidable new manager.
Cast and Characters
- Tom Hanks as Kip Wilson/ Buffy Wilson
- Peter Scolari as Henry Desmond/ Hildegrade Desmond
- Donna Dixon as Sonny Lumet
- Holland Taylor as Ruth Dunbar
- Thelma Hopkins as Isabelle Hammond
- Lucille Benson as Lilly Sinclair
- Wendie Jo Sperber as Amy Cassidy
Broadcast History, Episode Guide & TV Schedule
First Telecast: November 27, 1980Last Telecast: September 15, 1984
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 37
Original Network: ABC
Original Primetime Television Scheudle:
- November 1980- September 1981, ABC, Thursday 8:30-9:00pm
- October 1981, ABC, Thursday 9:00-9:30pm
- November 1981- January 1982, ABC, Friday 8:30-9:00pm
- February 1982- March 1982, ABC, Thursday 8:30-9:00pm
- May 1982- June 1982, ABC, Thursday 8:30-9:00pm
- July 1984- September 1984, NBC, Saturday 9:00-9:30pm
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