September 22, 1987 - January 6, 1988
ABC Situation Comedy 13 Episodes
Cast:
Dora Calderon:
Elizabeth Pena
Peter Farrell:
Daniel Hugh-Kelly
Marisol Calderon:
Evelyn Guerrero
Kate Farrell:
Juliette Lewis
Will Farrell:
Jason Horst
Hughes Whitney Lennox:
Henry J ones
Dolf Menninger:
Sanford Jensen
This short-lived sitcom wins the Trivia Award both for the
most outrageous premise of 1987, and for the most bizarre
final episode. The idea, you see, was that busy Los Angeles
architect and single dad Peter Farrell was faced with the loss
of his efficient young housekeeper, a Central American refugee
named Dora. The feds had discovered that she was an illegal
alien and were about to deport her. So Peter, ever the practical
type, married her--so that she could continue to be his maid. A
feisty young woman, Dora, who assumed she would be shot
if she were sent back to her native country, went along.