CIVIL WARS: PILOT {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The premiere in this series of legal dramas about a group of Manhattan divorce attorneys. In this episode, attorney Eli Levinson suffers a nervous breakdown, leaving his partner Sydney Guilford struggling with a double workload. In Sydney's major case, her client, Susan, is seeking equitable distribution in her divorce from her husband, who appears to have extensive hidden assets which he refuses to declare. The other attorney on this case is Charlie Howell, who is at the same time helping a woman sue her husband for divorce because he has delusions that the spirit of Elvis Presley lives in him. But Sydney has the inside scoop to turn the case to her favor, because of some help from her private investigator friend. Sydney is also familiar with divorce from a personal angle, and she continues to have issues with her ex-husband that leave her feeling cynical about the institution of marriage. So when Charlie Howell takes their relationship onto a more personal level, Sydney fights her attraction to Howell. However, she is not so quick to refuse when he makes her a business proposition. Includes commercials, promos, and public service announcements. Includes a public service announcement with Jamie Lee Curtis for Project Literacy U.S. and a commercial with Candice Bergen for Sprint. This program is closed-captioned.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Bell Atlantic Foundation.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: November 20, 1991 Wednesday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:50
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:23419
- GENRE: Drama, legal
- SUBJECT HEADING: Divorce - Drama; Drama, legal
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1991-1993
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Black & Decker appliances
- TV - Commercials - Buick automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Cheerios cereal
- TV - Commercials - Dannon yogurt
- TV - Commercials - Denorex dandruff shampoo
- TV - Commercials - Duracell batteries
- TV - Commercials - Little Caesars restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Maxwell House coffee
- TV - Commercials - Oral-B toothbrushes
- TV - Commercials - Pine-Sol cleaning liquid
- TV - Commercials - Pizza Hut restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Sears stores
- TV - Commercials - Sprint communications
- TV - Commercials - Toyota automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Triaminic cold medicine
- TV - PSA - America's Dairy Farmers National Dairy Board
- TV - PSA - National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia
- TV - PSA - National Institute on Drug Abuse U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
- TV - PSA - Plus - Project Literacy Us
- TV - Promos - "20/20"
- TV - Promos - "Dead and Alive"
- TV - Promos - "Funny Farm"
- TV - Promos - "Good Morning America"
- TV - Promos - "Prime Time Live"
- TV - Promos - "The Entertainers"
CREDITS
- William M. Finkelstein … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Robert J. Doherty … Coordinating Producer
- Michael M. Robin … Producer, Director
- Gregory Hoblit … Supervising Associate Producer
- GiGi Coello-Bannon … Associate Producer
- Donald Markowitz … Music by
- Muriel Hemingway … Cast, Sydney Guilford
- Peter Onorati … Cast, Charlie Howell
- Debi Mazar … Cast, Denise Iannello
- Alan Rosenberg … Cast, Eli Levinson
- David Marciano … Cast, Jeffrey Lassick
- Jeff Perry … Cast, Richard Hancke
- Ray Buktenica … Cast, Ronald Peck
- Dennis Franz … Cast, Murray Seidleman
- Paul Guilfoyle … Cast, Jerry Bennett
- Karla Tamburrelli … Cast, Natalie Seidleman
- Gail Youngs … Cast, Susan Bennett
- Joe Pantoliano … Cast, Stan DeMarco
- Anne Gee Byrd … Cast, Judge Voorhees
- Julius Harris … Cast, Judge Adams
- Robert Benedetti … Cast, Dr. Zelnik
- de Prume, Cathryne … Cast, Laurie Heinz
- Ricky Jay … Cast, Lenny NiCastro
- Thomas Knickerbocker … Cast, the Man
- Byram Cassandra … Cast, the Woman
- Sumant … Cast, the Cabbie
- Devera Marcus … Cast, Mrs. Feigenbaum
- Steven Hack … Cast, Waiter #1
- Paul Sandman … Cast, Waiter #2
- Kenneth Jackman … Cast, the Clerk
- Andrew Rohrer … Cast, Barry Bauman
- Art Frankel … Cast, Owen Palmer