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The Famous Teddy Z: Created by Hugh Wilson. With Jon Cryer, Jane Sibbett, Milton Selzer, Erica Yohn. Ted Zakalokis, stuck working in his family's bakery, joins the Navy to escape. He temporarily works in a talent agency's publicity office in Hollywood.
- (137)
- 1989-09-18
- Comedy
- 30
The Famous Teddy Z is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS during the fall of 1989. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and inspired by the true story of Jay Kantor, who was a mailroom clerk at MCA and later became Marlon Brando's agent.
Teddy Zakalokis, a lowly mailroom clerk at the Unlimited Talent Agency, finds himself abruptly representing a major Hollywood actor through a freakish bit of good luck.
S1.E1 ∙ Pilot. Mon, Sep 18, 1989. Teddy Zakalokis whose family owns a bakery which he doesn't want to be a part of, evades joining by joining the army and getting a job in the mail room of a Hollywood Talent Agency.
A mailroom clerk becomes a top agent at a Hollywood talent agency after he impresses a notoriously self-centered client. The series was inspired by an actual 1940s encounter involving Marlon Brando.
Al Floss isn't happy and tries to dissuade Teddy from accepting, but Abe Werkfinder feels that as long as the man wants to stay with his agency, he must do anything to make him happy, so he convinces Teddy to accept the high-paying job and instructs Al to train him.
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