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, 1980
Last 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

Theme Song Lyrics and Intro

"My Life" by Billy Joel

I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life, and leave me alone I never said you had to offer me a second chance I never said I was a victim of circumstance I still belong, don't get me wrong And you can speak your mind But not on my time They will tell you you can't sleep alone In a strange place Then they'll tell you you can't sleep With somebody else But sooner or later you sleep In your own space Either way it's okay You wake up with yourself.

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