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Composer(s)
  
Ken Heller Mark Snow

First episode date
  
21 January 1979

Network
  
NBC

Number of episodes
  
12

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Genre
  
Sitcom

Country of origin
  
United States

Final episode date
  
6 April 1979

Number of seasons
  
1

Written by
  
Paul Diamond Jeff Franklin Allen Goldstein Bernie Kahn David Lerner Brian Levant Jerry Mayer Andy Ruben Roy Teicher

Directed by
  
Nick Abdo John Bowab Lowell Ganz Will Mackenzie Dick Martin Tony Mordente Dennis Steinmetz George Tyne

Starring
  
William Windom Chris Lemmon Jon Cutler Randy Brooks

Cast
  
Mary Crosby, William Windom, Chris Lemmon, Randy Brooks, Larry Anderson

Similar
  
Co‑Ed Fever, The Bad News Bears, Delta House, Hello - Larry, M*A*S*H

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Brothers and Sisters is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from January to April 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the 1978 motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the second of three frat-house comedy series to air in early 1979 (the others were ABC's Delta House and CBS' Co-Ed Fever).

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Synopsis

Brothers and Sisters takes place on the campus of Crandall College, with William Windom starring as Dean Larry Crandall. Chris Lemmon (Milos "Checko" Sabolcik), Jon Cutler (Larry Zipper), and Randy Brooks (Ronald Holmes III) play three students who live in the basement of Pi Nu fraternity, nicknamed "Le Dump". Rather than attend class, the three cellar-dwellers create havoc with the more strait-laced members of the fraternity, and interact with the Gamma Iota sorority sisters that live nearby.

On January 21, NBC debuted Brothers and Sisters as a follow-up to their telecast of Super Bowl XIII, three days after ABC aired the first episode of its Animal House-inspired series (which was, in fact, the official series in everything but name). Two weeks later (February 4), Co-Ed Fever made its debut on CBS after a broadcast of the motion picture Rocky, but all three "frat-house" series were off the air by the end of April (with Co-Ed Fever having only one episode broadcast) after all of them ran into trouble with the networks' Standards and Practices departments because of their content. Brothers and Sisters made its last appearance on April 6, 1979; Delta House followed suit on April 21, 1979.

Of the three (if CBS' series was picked), Brothers and Sisters was arguably the least successful of them (mainly because of the fact from having three similar shows, not to mention NBC's own woes at the time), with the show's lack of success apparent when series regular Mary Crosby turned up as a celebrity on NBC's Hollywood Squares for a week in March 1979; host Peter Marshall mentioned Brothers and Sisters as airing "on another network", only to be informed by Crosby that they were, in fact, on the same network.

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