# Arnie (TV series)

Arnie is an American television sitcom that ran for two seasons (1970–72) on CBS. It starred Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon, and Roger Bowen.
Bernardi played the title character, Arnie Nuvo, a longtime blue-collar employee at the fictitious Continental Flange Company, who overnight was promoted to an executive position. The story lines mainly focused on this fish-out-of-water situation, and on Arnie's sometimes-problematic relationship with his well-meaning but wealthy and eccentric boss, Hamilton Majors Jr. (Bowen). Because he still held his union card, Arnie could negotiate tricky management/labor situations that no one else could. Arnie's surname was presumably a pun on nouveau riche (which his promotion effectively made him), and possibly also on Art Nouveau.
In addition to Bernardi, Bowen, and Langdon (as Arnie's wife Lilian), cast members included Del Russel and Stephanie Steele as Arnie's son and daughter, Richard and Andrea, respectively; Elaine Shore as Arnie's secretary, Felicia; Herb Voland as sour-tempered vice president Neil Ogilvie, and Tom Pedi as Arnie's loading-dock friend, Julius. Olan Soule appeared occasionally as Fred Springer, another vice president.
In its first season, despite being the lead-in to The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights and winning an Emmy nomination as best comedy series, Arnie received only fair Nielsen ratings. For its second season, to increase its viewership, CBS made a major cast change in the show's format. Dick Van Patten was dropped as the Nuvos' next-door neighbor, and Charles Nelson Reilly joined the cast as Randy Robinson, a TV chef who called himself "The Giddyap Gourmet", an obvious reference to The Galloping Gourmet.
Also, the network decided to move the show to Monday nights at 10:00 pm followed at 10:30 pm by a new sitcom that had debuted in January, 1971, on Tuesday nights to mediocre ratings, All in the Family. At the last minute, a switch was made and My Three Sons left its comfortable Saturday nighttime slot and took over the 10:00 pm slot on Mondays with Arnie slotted at 10:30. Both shows sank in the ratings. All In the Family was moved to Saturday nights at 8:00, where it became the number-one show for five consecutive years. At midseason, My Three Sons was moved to Thursday nights and Arnie returned to the Saturday night primetime schedule. The changes did not help. Both shows were canceled at the end of the 1971–1972 season.

## Cast

* Herschel Bernardi as Arnie Nuvo
* Stephanie Steele as Andrea Nuvo
* Del Russel as Richard Nuvo
* Sue Ane Langdon as Lilian Nuvo
* Roger Bowen as Hamilton Majors, Jr.

## Episodes
### Season 1: 1970–71

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | David Swift | David Swift | September 19, 1970 (1970-09-19) | E-101 |
| 2 | 2 | "An Urge to Splurge" | Allen Baron | Unknown | September 26, 1970 (1970-09-26) | E-106 |
| 3 | 3 | "Change of a Lifetime" | Jay Sandrich | Unknown | October 3, 1970 (1970-10-03) | E-107 |
| 4 | 4 | "Wife vs. Secretary" | Allen Baron | Unknown | October 10, 1970 (1970-10-10) | E-104 |
| 5 | 5 | "The Friendship Gap" | Allen Baron | Unknown | October 17, 1970 (1970-10-17) | E-105 |
| 6 | 6 | "Swinging Sixties" | Russ Mayberry | David Swift | October 24, 1970 (1970-10-24) | E-108 |
| 7 | 7 | "Trouble in the Air" | Gary Nelson | Betty Bonaduce | October 31, 1970 (1970-10-31) | E-110 |
| 8 | 8 | "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" | Don Richardson | Rick Mittleman | November 7, 1970 (1970-11-07) | E-102 |
| 9 | 9 | "Why Spy?" | Don Richardson | Unknown | November 14, 1970 (1970-11-14) | E-113 |
| 10 | 10 | "For Whom the Whistle Blows" | Don Richardson | Unknown | November 21, 1970 (1970-11-21) | E-112 |
| 11 | 11 | "One Strike and You're Out" | Gary Nelson | Unknown | November 28, 1970 (1970-11-28) | E-111 |
| 12 | 12 | "Sell Mates" | Don Richardson | Unknown | December 5, 1970 (1970-12-05) | E-103 |
| 13 | 13 | "Let Them Eat Cookies" | Gary Nelson | Bruce Howard | December 12, 1970 (1970-12-12) | E-109 |
| 14 | 14 | "To Buy or Not to Buy?" | Don Richardson | Unknown | December 19, 1970 (1970-12-19) | E-114 |
| 15 | 15 | "Second Honeymoon" | Alan Rafkin | Unknown | January 2, 1971 (1971-01-02) | E-115 |
| 16 | 16 | "You Can't Lose for Winning" | Coby Ruskin | Unknown | January 9, 1971 (1971-01-09) | E-116 |
| 17 | 17 | "Hello, Holly" | Allen Baron | Unknown | January 16, 1971 (1971-01-16) | E-117 |
| 18 | 18 | "Father Meets Daughter" | Don Richardson | Richard Baer | January 23, 1971 (1971-01-23) | E-118 |
| 19 | 19 | "Stand Up for Julius" | Russ Mayberry | Unknown | January 30, 1971 (1971-01-30) | E-120 |
| 20 | 20 | "Citizen Pain" | Bruce Bilson | Unknown | February 6, 1971 (1971-02-06) | E-119 |
| 21 | 21 | "Feud for Thought" | Jay Sandrich | Unknown | February 13, 1971 (1971-02-13) | E-122 |
| 22 | 22 | "Strangeness in the Night" | Russ Mayberry | Unknown | February 20, 1971 (1971-02-20) | E-121 |
| 23 | 23 | "My Sister's Keeper" | John Erman | Unknown | February 27, 1971 (1971-02-27) | E-123 |
| 24 | 24 | "No Harmony in Trying" | Richard Kinon | Unknown | March 6, 1971 (1971-03-06) | E-124 |

### Season 2: 1971–72

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
| 25 | 1 | "Nuvo Riche" | Don Richardson | Art Baer, Ben Joelson | September 13, 1971 (1971-09-13) | F-302 |
| 26 | 2 | "Well, There Goes the Neighborhood" | Don Richardson | Unknown | September 20, 1971 (1971-09-20) | F-303 |
| 27 | 3 | "Honey, I'm Sorry, But..." | David Swift | Unknown | September 27, 1971 (1971-09-27) | F-301 |
| 28 | 4 | "The Maid" | Bruce Bilson | Unknown | October 4, 1971 (1971-10-04) | F-307 |
| 29 | 5 | "Welcome to the Club" | Bruce Bilson | Unknown | October 18, 1971 (1971-10-18) | F-309 |
| 30 | 6 | "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blew" | Allen Baron | Unknown | October 25, 1971 (1971-10-25) | F-304 |
| 31 | 7 | "A Poem from 'Guess Who'" | Bruce Bilson | Unknown | November 1, 1971 (1971-11-01) | F-308 |
| 32 | 8 | "The Return of 'Fingers' Ferguson" | Don Richardson | Unknown | November 8, 1971 (1971-11-08) | F-310 |
| 33 | 9 | "Et Tu, Arnie" | Don Richardson | Unknown | November 15, 1971 (1971-11-15) | F-311 |
| 34 | 10 | "Pushing Pinky Out of the Treehouse" | Don Richardson | Unknown | November 22, 1971 (1971-11-22) | F-306 |
| 35 | 11 | "This Land Is My Land" | Roger Duchowny | Unknown | November 29, 1971 (1971-11-29) | F-312 |
| 36 | 12 | "Let Ham Put You in the Driver's Seat" | Roger Duchowny | Unknown | December 6, 1971 (1971-12-06) | F-313 |
| 37 | 13 | "The Gift of the Majors" | Don Richardson | Art Baer, Ben Joelson | December 18, 1971 (1971-12-18) | F-314 |
| 38 | 14 | "Boom or Bust" | Allen Baron | Unknown | January 1, 1972 (1972-01-01) | F-305 |
| 39 | 15 | "The Only Way to Go" | Don Richardson | Unknown | January 8, 1972 (1972-01-08) | F-315 |
| 40 | 16 | "Guess Who's Coming to Our House?" | Roger Duchowny | Unknown | January 15, 1972 (1972-01-15) | F-316 |
| 41 | 17 | "What's Up, Doc?" | Don Richardson | Unknown | January 22, 1972 (1972-01-22) | F-317 |
| 42 | 18 | "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth" | Roger Duchowny | Unknown | January 29, 1972 (1972-01-29) | F-318 |
| 43 | 19 | "Room at the Top" | Don Richardson | Unknown | February 5, 1972 (1972-02-05) | F-319 |
| 44 | 20 | "Surprise, Surprise" | Roger Duchowny | Unknown | February 12, 1972 (1972-02-12) | F-320 |
| 45 | 21 | "Uncle Nikko" | Don Richardson | Unknown | February 19, 1972 (1972-02-19) | F-321 |
| 46 | 22 | "Wilson Tastes Good Like a Candidate Should" | Don Appell | Unknown | February 26, 1972 (1972-02-26) | F-322 |
| 47 | 23 | "Now You Take Teddy Roosevelt" | Don Richardson | Unknown | March 4, 1972 (1972-03-04) | F-323 |
| 48 | 24 | "Star Trekking" | Roger Duchowny | Unknown | March 11, 1972 (1972-03-11) | F-324 |