Gimme a Break! - Season 5 - Eps 14: Second Chance (1)
Nell decides to quit college and pursue a real singing career. She becomes the manager for an ex-con who wrote a song in jail and decides to put it to music. When Nell and the ex-con go to Skipper Dwane's for amature night to perform the song, Gary Collins is there, and Nell asks him if he liked the song. Gary says he hated it when the ex-con sang it, but when Nell signs it, he insists that he put Nell on his hour magazine show. When Nell goes backstage to tell the ex-con how he did, she freaks when he has a string of floss out and thinks he is going to kill her. She tells him that she thinks he is going to kill him because Gary hated his song.
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.
Cast
Nell Carter
Nell Harper
Lara Jill Miller
Sam Kinisky
John Hoyt
Stanley Kanisky
Joey Lawrence
Joey Donovan
Telma Hopkins
Addy Wilson
Matthew Lawrence
Matthew Donovan
Paul Sand
Marty
Rosie O'Donnell
Maggie O'Brien
Rosetta LeNoire
Maybelle Harper