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Daddy Dearest
Season 1
Not Rated
7%
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A single father's angry and cynical father moves in with him. Hilarity ensues.
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13 Episodes
(pilot)
E1
Episode 1
(pilot)
An abrasive used car salesman moves in with his son, a divorced shrink.
Raging Bully
E2
Episode 2
Raging Bully
Steven is not happy with the advice that his father gives to his son on handling a bully.
Private Lives
E3
Episode 3
Private Lives
Driven batty by Daddy's invasion of his privacy, Steven seeks counsel from his partner Christine.
Al vs. DMV
E4
Episode 4
Al vs. DMV
Al meets the DMV clerk from hell (Kaye Ballard) when he goes to renew his driver's license.
You Bet Your Life
E5
Episode 5
You Bet Your Life
In Atlantic City, Al hits the jackpot with a woman whose mobster boyfriend doesn't want him in the game.
Mother Love
E6
Episode 6
Mother Love
Angie Dickinson guest stars as Christine's mother who tries to lure Steven to her hotel room.
Mount St. Helen's
E7
Episode 7
Mount St. Helen's
The Tortoise and the Scare
E8
Episode 8
The Tortoise and the Scare
Coming home from a Halloween Party, Al and Steven accidentally bring the wrong kid home.
American We
E9
Episode 9
American We
Al and Steven Mitchell end up in jail after Steven attacks a man he thinks robbed him earlier in the day.
Thanks, But No Thanks
E10
Episode 10
Thanks, But No Thanks
Steven and Al are not thankful at Thanksgiving dinner when their exes bring dates.
Offensive Care
E11
Episode 11
Offensive Care
Al Mitchell ends up in the hospital with chest pains after lifting a cast-iron statue at his son Steven's behest.
Jaws, Too
E12
Episode 12
Jaws, Too
Minimum Rage
E13
Episode 13
Minimum Rage
Cast of Season 1
Barney Martin
Pete Peters
Richard Lewis
Steven Mitchell
Don Rickles
Al Mitchell
Sydney Walsh
Christine Winters
Alice Carter
Lisa
Carey Eidel
Larry Mitchell
Renée Taylor
Helen Mitchell
Season 1 Reviews
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Steven Cole Smith
On paper, it must have looked funny to pair comedian Richard Lewis with Don Rickles... But the pilot is loud and only occasionally funny.
Variety
Tony Scott
Richard Lewis and Don Rickles as Steven Mitchell and father Al Mitchell might have looked OK in the blueprint, but the initial full-blown script is broad and full of woe.
Seattle Times
John Voorhees
This annoying sitcom pairs Don Rickles with Richard Lewis, each stand-up comic doing what he does best: Rickles insults Lewis, who alternates between guilt and anguish.
Orlando Sentinel
Greg Dawson
Daddy Dearest is long on volume and insults and short on real humor.
Chicago Tribune
Rick Kogan
Pairing Richard Lewis, that arm-waving neurotic, with Don Rickles, the insult-spouting goof, might have made for some satisfying sparks, had anyone thought to provide a plot with wit. Here the mix is an unpleasant dud.
Los Angeles Times
Howard Rosenberg
The writers of "Daddy Dearest" deserve to be whipped with a wire hanger.
Entertainment Weekly
Ken Tucker
Sitcoms don't get any more abusive than Daddy Dearest.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
Don Rickles and Richard Lewis in the same sitcom sounds like too much of a good thing. But it turns out to be much too much of a bad one.
Hartford Courant
James Endrst
"Daddy Dearest" may be the most unlikeable show of the 1993-94 television season -- a prime-time series so loudly, so relentlessly in-your-face rude, obnoxious and irritating, it almost qualifies as a sadistic act of genius.
People Magazine
David Hiltbrand
The show's humor is labored. The timing and delivery of the entire cast is inappropriate and amateurish. Everyone talks too loud and walks around in a curious hunched posture, gesticulating madly.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Scott D. Pierce
Fox's new sitcom is so bad - so utterly unredeemable - that it's difficult to know where to begin with a description of it.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Tom Jicha
Don Rickles likes to boast that he was doing Archie Bunker before Archie Bunker was cool. Problem is, he's still doing Archie Bunker long after it ceased being cool.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Michael Gaither
Enjoying Daddy Dearest really comes down to how you feel about Don Rickles -- I've always liked him.
Miami Herald
Hal Boedeker
Well, it sounded like a good idea. This is among the loudest, nastiest series this fall.
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