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4.7/10 TV Directed by Alan Rafkin Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 Final episode date 23 August 1972 Number of episodes 12 (2 unaired) | 8.1/10 IMDb Genre Situation comedy Starring Richard S. Castellano Original language(s) English First episode date 21 June 1972 Number of seasons 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Network American Broadcasting Company Cast Richard S Castellano, Bruno Kirby, Ed Peck, Virginia Vincent Similar That Girl, The Ted Knight Show, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Practice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Super is an American sitcom television series starring Richard S. Castellano which centers on the superintendent of an apartment building in New York City. The show aired on ABC from June 21, 1972 to August 23, 1972.
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Joe Girelli, the Italian-American superintendent (or "super") of an apartment building in a lower-middle-class section of New York City, is a big man (260 pounds; 118 kg) who prefers to be left alone so that he can drink beer while watching television. However, he rarely gets left alone. His family – wife Francesca, daughter Joanne, son Anthony, and brother Frankie, a big-shot lawyer – continually bothers him, the building's tenants are constantly banging on the pipes and complaining about him and one another, and city officials always are trying to condemn his building. His children are disrespectful toward him, and an endless series of ethnic and cultural disputes break out among the tenants, which include political revolutionaries, homosexuals, social workers, and police officers, and Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jewish Americans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans.