Gimme a Break! - Season 3 - Eps 8: Nell's Friend

Name: Eps 8: Nell's Friend
Released: 1983-12-01
Rating: 3.3

1983-12-01 • 30 min • ⭐ 6.6/10

While Nell is out getting the Chief's clothes cleaned, Addy Wilson, Nell's childhood friend arrives at the house. She meets the girls, and says Nell's real name is ""Nellie Ruth"". When Nell comes home, she is intrigued by Addy, and begins to think Addy considers her as a women who is illiterate and one who had a chance at a singing career but failed and is now a housekeeper. Nell then goes to night school to get her diploma, but Addy is the teacher there and Nell decides to drop out. In the end, Nell flips out when Addy comes over and then the two reconcile, when she tells her she would never call Nell illigitimate, and is happy for her that she is who she is, and Nell decides to go back to night school to get her diploma.

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About Gimme a Break!

Title: Gimme a Break!

First Air Date: 1981-10-29

Last Air Date: 1987-05-12

Status: Ended

Rating: 6.6/10 (from 28 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 6

Total Episodes: 137

Network: NBC

Genres: Comedy, Family

Production Companies: Reeves Entertainment Group, Alan Landsburg Productions, Mort Lachman & Associates

Synopsis

Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.