The Famous Teddy Z
“Just call up the famous Teddy Z.”
A mailroom clerk becomes a top agent at a Hollywood talent agency after he impresses a notoriously self-centered client. The series was inspired by an actual 1940s encounter involving Marlon Brando.
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CBS TV Promo - Famous Teddy Z - Jon Cryer
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Theodore "Teddy" Zakalokis, a young man working in a Hollywood talent agency in order to avoid being stuck in his Greek-American family's bakery. When Hollywood star Harland Keyvo (a caricature of Marlon Brando) meets Teddy Z, he is so impressed by his honesty that he makes him his new agent.
- Ep 1
1.Pilot
18-09-198930mTeddy goes to the airport a mail room clerk and winds up becoming a Hollywood agent for a big star, when he refuses to take any grief from that star.
- Ep 2
2.What's an Agent to Do?
25-09-198930mTeddy tells his grandmother about his new job at the agency, he also fires Laurie when she resents him bringing her along to be his secretary. He rehires her as he begins to learn...
- Ep 3
3.Bobby the Chimp
02-10-198930mFearing there is not much for him to do, Abe gives Teddy a client from a retiring agent. While appearing on Entertainment Tonight Teddy makes an appeal for this new client, Bobby t...
- Ep 4
4.Teddy Goes to Malibu
16-10-198930mThe entire family joins Teddy when he must check the dog and plants at the home of one of Al's clients. Disaster abounds at the house when the bathroom overflows, the dog escapes,...
- Ep 5
5.Teddy Makes $50,000 ... in One Day
23-10-198930mTeddy meets his first studio head and stands to make $50,000 for Harland's latest movie deal, Dark Closet, that is until Harland decides that ""acting is dumb"" because of the posi...
- Ep 6
6.Teddy Gets Fired
30-10-198930mAl gives Teddy a script to read, unknown to both, it is a slightly modified version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington which Al's client is passing to all the top agents for an articl...
- Ep 7
7.Teddy Falls in Love
13-11-198930mTeddy meets newly separated movie star, Esther Luna, who takes him home with her and together they really ""cook,"" much to Al's disbelief.
- Ep 8
8.Teddy Sells His House
20-11-198930mAfter someone bids on a price that he was just fishing with, Teddy tries to save the family house. Al who claims to never makes mistakes cuts the deal of the lifetime for a client...
- Ep 9
9.A Case of Murder
27-11-198930mTeddy gets Harland to join his other client, Bobby the Chimp, in Bobby's first film. There is trouble on the set when Harland discovers that Bobby's trailer is much bigger than his...
- Ep 10
10.Teddy Gets a House Guest
04-12-198930mA method actor moves in with the Zakalokis family to become prepared for his next role as a Greek-American who has an affair with an older relative.
- Ep 11
11.Season's Greetings From Al Floss
11-12-198930mAl is haunted by the ghost of his former boss, in the style of ""A Christmas Carol,"" after he makes Teddy and Laurie work for him on Christmas Day.
- Ep 12
12.Grandma Goes to Work
25-12-198930mTo help alleviate her fears, Teddy invites his grandmother to come down to the agency to see what he does. Once she understands what is going on, she has some ideas to make him a b...
- Ep 13
13.Teddy Meets His Hero
08-01-199030mTeddy is excited when he meets his favorite childhood TV host and then he crusades to bring him to an all new generation. The gap between generations is big but there may be
- Ep 14
14.Teddy Gets a Better Offer
22-01-199030mHarland sends Teddy to talk to another talent agency where he gets a better offer which him in a precarious position.
- Ep 15
15.Agent of the Year
12-05-199030mAl considers his nomination for ""Agent of the Year"" the death knell for his career. He discovers the nomination was engineered by his rival, Eileen Meisner.
- Ep 16
16.Teddy Goes to the Awards
TBA30mHarland, nominated for Best Actor, is out in the jungles of New Guinea and directs Teddy to accept an award in his absence, should he win. Harland turns up before the awards and sh...
- Ep 17
17.How to Make a Television Show
TBA30mTwo writers, one a friend of Laurie's, pitch an idea for a television series featuring a white and a Hispanic CIA agent in Nicaragua. Teddy learns the ins and outs of trying to lau...
- Ep 18
18.Al Tells the Truth
TBA30mAl and Teddy are at lunch where they are witness to a big shot producer slapping a man who bumped into him. When the man turns around and sues this big shot, the producer wants Al...
- Ep 19
19.Teddy's Big Date
TBA30mTeddy plans to take Laurie to a movie screening and when he picks her up, he meets her mother. He invites her to join them for dinner where she drinks too much, passes out and make...
- Ep 20
20.Teddy Gets a Guru
TBA30mTeddy gets an opportunity to sign Donna Gates, a star who's spiritual in the Shirley MacLaine sense of the word. Al tries to get her by faking levitation.
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