One In A Million (TV series)

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Comedian Shirley Hemphill, who played the overpowering black waitress on What's Happening!!, got her own comedy series in 1980. In One in a Million, down-to-earth cabdriver Shirley Simmons to inherits Grayson Enterprises, a multi-million-dollar, white run conglomerate, when one of her customers died. Bald, scowling Mr. Cushing found this quite inexplicable, as he had planned to take over himself, and he was doubly vexed when scrappy Shirley decided to teach the big "en-dustrailists" how to look out for the ordinary people. Barton Stone (Richard Stone) was the somewhat naive nephew of Mr. Grayson; Nancy Boyer (Dorothy Fielding), Grayson's secretary and Shirley's ally. Max Kellerman (Carl Ballantine), the owner of the deli where Shirley hung out. and Edna and Raymond Simmons (Ann Weldon and Mel Stewart), her parents.

First Telecast: January 8, 1980

Last Telecast: June 23, 1980

[edit] Cast

[edit] Episodes

1. Chairman of the Board
First broadcast: 1/8/1980

2. Executive Dad
First broadcast: 1/15/1980

3. Shirley's Prince of a Guy
First broadcast: 1/26/1980

4. On the Cuff
First broadcast: 2/2/1980

Guest star: Ellen Bry (Joanie)

5. Lost Weekend
First broadcast: 2/9/1980

6. Stone vs. Simmons
First broadcast: 2/16/1980

7. The Chairman Babysits
First broadcast: 2/23/1980

8. Suddenly Single
First broadcast: 3/1/1980

9. Cushing Quits
First broadcast: 3/8/1980

10. Max Falls in Love
First broadcast: 3/15/1980

11. Over the Hill
First broadcast: 3/22/1980

12. The Committee
First broadcast: 3/29/1980

13. The Italian Connection
First broadcast: 4/5/1980