Lenny (TV series)

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Lenny was a situation comedy aired in the United States by CBS as part of its 1990-91 prime time schedule.

Lenny starred long-time Boston stand-up comedian Lenny Clarke as Lenny Callahan, a working-class Bostonian who held down two jobs, a daytime one as laborer for the local electric utility and an evening one as a doorman at a posh hotel. His wife, Shelley (Lee Garlington) was a fulltime homemaker and the couple had three children (presumably the reason Lenny needed to keep two jobs). Other characters included Lenny's brother Eddie (Peter Dobson), a get-rich-quick schemer, and their parents, Pat (Eugene Roche) and Mary (Alice Drummond).

Initially scheduled against two established programs, The Wonder Years on ABC and Unsolved Mysteries on NBC, Lenny was a Nielsen ratings disaster and put on hiatus in October. It was brought back in a new time slot in December, but cancelled permanently in March 1991.