Living Dolls

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Living Dolls
Format	Situation comedy
Created by	Ross Brown
Starring	Michael Learned, Leah Remini, Deborah Tucker, Alison Elliott, Halle Berry
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	12^[1]
Production
Running time	30 minutes (with commercials)
Production company(s)	Columbia Pictures Television
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	Sept. 26, 1989^[1] – Dec. 30, 1989^[1]
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

This article is about the television show. For the documentary, see Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen.

Living Dolls was a short-lived situation comedy featured on the fall 1989 schedule of American Broadcasting Company (ABC). It was a spin-off created by a writer from Who's the Boss? and featuring characters introduced during an episode of that show^[2]. Both Who's the Boss? and Living Dolls were produced by Columbia Pictures Television and ABC.

The show featured Charlie Briscoe (Leah Remini), a friend of Samantha Micelli (the Who's the Boss? character played by Alyssa Milano). Samantha is dabbling in a modeling career and Charlie, a friend from Samantha's old Brooklyn neighborhood comes to visit. While doing some test shots for a dog food commercial, it is discovered that Charlie is very photogenic. Charlie was then befriended by Trish Carlin (Michael Learned from The Waltons), the owner of a modeling agency for teenaged girls.

Living Dolls was almost universally derided by critics; it was the only series to earn an "F" by People magazine in their 1989 fall preview issue.

[edit] Cast

Michael Learned as Miss Patricia "Trish" Carlin
Leah Remini as Charlene "Charlie" Briscoe
Deborah Tucker as Caroline Weldon
Melissa Willis as Caroline Weldon (in pilot episode)
Alison Elliott as Martha Lambert
Halle Berry as Emily Franklin
Vivica A. Fox as Emily Franklin (in pilot episode)
David Moscow as Eric "Rick" Carlin
Jonathan Ward as Eric "Rick" Carlin (in pilot episode)

[edit] Trivia

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Berry, Moscow, and Tucker did not appear in the Who's the Boss? episode ("Living Dolls") episode^[2]^[3] produced to introduce Living Dolls as a spin-off. Their roles were portrayed by other people.
There were actually 2 pilots made for the series. The one above, shown in Season 5 where Charlie was already living with Trish and featuring the other characters, and one shown directly before the Living Dolls premiere [1], which illustrates the reasons why Charlie moved in with Trish in the first place.
Berry discovered she had Type 1 diabetes after passing out on the set of Living Dolls and spending a week in a diabetic coma^[4]^[5].