| Fay | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Susan Harris |
| Directed by | Alan Arkin James Burrows |
| Starring | Lee Grant Joe Silver Audra Lindley Margaret Willock Stewart Moss Bill Gerber Norman Alden Lillian Lehman |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Paul Junger Witt Tony Thomas |
| Producer(s) | Jerry Mayer |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Witt-Thomas Productions, in association with Universal Television |
| Distributor | MCA Television |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Picture format | Color Videotape |
| Audio format | mono |
| Original run | 4 September 1975 – 2 June 1976 |
Fay is a TV series starring Lee Grant as Fay Stewart, a woman in her 40s who after 25 years of marriage to attorney Jack Stewart started a new job and begin dating.
The show first aired on NBC-TV on September 4, 1975 and was pulled after the October 23 airing. It returned for 2 more episodes on May 12 and June 2, 1976. 10 episodes were produced. Four of them (the pilot, "Jack Remarries", "Mr. Not-So-Wonderful", and "Danny Falls In Love") were eventually re-edited into an overseas theatrical feature, Man Trouble, later included in a syndicated package of other MCA/Universal "movies" stitched together from their various short-lived TV series.
Grant was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series after the series was cancelled.
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | "Fay" (pilot) | September 4, 1975 |
| 1-2 | "Jack Remarries" | September 11, 1975 |
| 1-3 | "Mom's Realization" | September 18, 1975 |
| 1-4 | "Mr. Not-So-Wonderful" | September 25, 1975 |
| 1-5 | "Jack's Heart Attack" | October 2, 1975 |
| 1-6 | "Not With My Partner, You Don't" | October 9, 1975 |
| 1-7 | "Lillian's Separation" | October 16, 1975 |
| 1-8 | "Danny Falls in Love" | October 23, 1975 |
| 1-9 | "Fay and the Doctor" | May 12, 1976 |
| 1-10 | "Not Another Mother's Day" | June 2, 1976 |
Fay at the Internet Movie Database