Living Dolls

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Living Dolls
Genre	Situation comedy
Running time	30 minutes (with commercials)
Creator(s)	Ross Brown
Developer(s)	Embassy Television and ABC
Starring	Michael Learned, Leah Remini, Deborah Tucker, Alison Elliott, Halle Berry
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	ABC
Original run	Sept. 26, 1989^[1]–Dec. 30, 1989^[1]
No. of episodes	12^[1]
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TV.com summary

Living Dolls was a short-lived situation comedy featured on the fall 1989 schedule of American Broadcasting Company (ABC). It was a spin-off created by a writer from Who's the Boss? and featuring characters introduced during an episode of that show^[2]. Both Who's the Boss? and Living Dolls were produced by Embassy Television and ABC.

The show featured Charlie Briscoe (Leah Remini), a friend of Samantha Micelli (the Who's the Boss? character played by Alyssa Milano). Charlie was befriended by Trish Carlin (Michael Learned from The Waltons), the owner of a modeling agency for teenaged girls.

Living Dolls was almost universally derided by critics; it was the only series to earn an "F" by People magazine in their 1989 fall preview issue.

[edit] Cast

Michael Learned as Miss Patricia "Trish" Carlin
Leah Remini as Charlene "Charlie" Briscoe
Deborah Tucker as Caroline Weldon
Alison Elliott as Martha Lambert
Halle Berry as Emily Franklin
David Moscow as Eric "Rick" Carlin

[edit] Trivia

Berry did not appear in the Who's the Boss? episode ("Living Dolls") episode^[2]^[3] produced to introduce Living Dolls as a spin-off.
Berry discovered she had Type 1 diabetes after passing out on the set of Living Dolls and spending a week in a diabetic coma^[4]^[5].