The Five Mrs. Buchanans

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The 5 Mrs. Buchanans

Genre	Sitcom
Creator(s)	Marc Cherry and Jamie Wooten
Starring	Judith Ivey Beth Broderick Harriet Sansom Harris Charlotte Ross Eileen Heckart
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	17
Production
Running time	approx. 0:22 (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 24, 1994 – March 25, 1995

The Five Mrs. Buchanans was a U.S. television sitcom that centered around the various small-town misadventures of four disparate women from wildly different backgrounds able to reach consensus on one topic only: the monstrousness of their meddling mother-in-law, who was unanimously declared both an enemy and a bitch. It aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995.

1 Main Cast
2 Recurring Cast
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Main Cast

Judith Ivey as Alexandria "Alex" Isaacson Buchanan
Beth Broderick as Delilah Buchanan
Harriet Sansom Harris as Vivian Buchanan
Charlotte Ross as Bree Larson Buchanan
Eileen Heckart as Mother Emma Buchanan

[edit] Recurring Cast

John Getz as Roy Buchanan
Mark Moses as Rev. Charles Buchanan
Richard Poe as Ed Buchanan
Tommy Hinkley as Jesse Buchanan (ep. 2-15)

[edit] Trivia

Shortly after its premiere, CBS announced it had given the series a 5 episode pick-up, in addition to the standard 13 initially ordered. However, only 17 episodes were aired and are known to have been produced.

Eileen Heckart stated in an interview at the time that CBS had picked up more episodes of the show with the intention of moving it from Saturday nights, where it was faltering, to Mondays following Murphy Brown. The network ultimately changed its mind after ordering Cybill as a mid-season replacement, though the seventh episode of The Five Mrs. Buchanans did air once in this timeslot as a "special preview" on 31 October 1994.