| Bagdad Cafe | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Situation comedy |
| Created by | Percy Adlon |
| Directed by | Paul Bogart |
| Starring | Whoopi Goldberg Jean Stapleton |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Zev Braun Mort Lachman Thad Mumford Sy Rosen |
| Producer(s) | Michael Mount |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | March 30, 1990 – July 27, 1991 |
Bagdad Cafe is an American television sitcom starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jean Stapleton. The series premiered March 30, 1990 on CBS.[1][2] The show is based on the 1987 Percy Adlon film Bagdad Cafe.
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Insiders say that production of the series ended on November 16, 1990, after a dispute between Goldberg and the show's co-executive producer, Thad Mumford.[3] Executive producer Kenneth Kaufman was told that Goldberg called CBS president Jeff Sagansky in late November to say that she was quitting the show.[4] With no time to recast Goldberg's role, CBS ended the series and pulled the remaining episodes from the broadcast schedule.[4]
Fifteen episodes are registered with the United States Copyright Office.
| # | Title | Original airdate | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pilot | March 30, 1990 | 101 |
| 2 | "When You're Hot, You're Hot" | April 6, 1990 | 103 |
| 3 | "You Say It's Your Birthday" | April 13, 1990 | 102 |
| 4 | "Too Many Cooks" | April 27, 1990 | 106 |
| 5 | "Breakdown" | May 4, 1990 | 105 |
| 6 | "Art" | May 11, 1990 | 104 |
| 7 | "This Bird Has Flown" | September 28, 1990 | 204 |
| 8 | "Not Enough Cooks" | October 5, 1990 | 201 |
| 9 | "City on a Hill" | October 26, 1990 | 202 |
| 10 | "Sixteen Candles" | November 2, 1990 | 205 |
| 11 | "I Got a Crush on You" | November 9, 1990 | 206 |
| 12 | "Rainy Days and Mondays" | November 16, 1990 | 207 |
| 13 | "Hell Hath No Fury" | November 23, 1990 | 203 |
| 14 | "Over My Dead Body" | July 27, 1991 | 208 |
| 15 | "Prisoner of Love" | July 27, 1991 | 209 |
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly rated the series a C, saying that "rarely has a bad sitcom been better acted". Despite being impressed with the acting from Stapleton and Little, Tucker was disappointed that the producers did not hire better writers, to match the quality of the movie on which the series is based.[5]