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The Pruitts of Southampton(TV show/series, 1966-1967)

30min per episode

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 30 episodes

The Pruitts of SouthamptonRating: 2.7/5 (with 2 votes)
The Pruitts of Southampton is an American situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Party (1954) by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedienne very much in the style of Lucille Ball. Child actress Lisa Loring formerly of TV's The Addams Family also had a small role on the show as Phyllis's daughter Suzy Pruitt. The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of The Beverly Hillbillies. The show's producers originally sought comic actress Beatrice Lillie in the Diller role. Exteriors of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina were used as the locale. In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 20 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list. ()
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The Pruitts of Southampton is a situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Party by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's futile attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedienne very much in the style of Lucille Ball. The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of The Beverly Hillbillies. The show's producers originally sought comic actress Beatrice Lillie in the Diller role. The premise was that the Pruitts, a supposedly incredibly wealthy family living on Long Island in the Hamptons, were approached by the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes. An audit revealed that the Pruitts were in fact broke; rather than reveal this fact publicly and cause the economic depression which would presumably result from this revelation, an improbably charitable IRS allowed them to continue living in their mansion and maintaining the pretensions of great wealth, which was difficult given their reduced circumstances. By mid-season, in order to raise more money, Phyllis had opened the mansion to boarders, attracting a "nutty" collection of tenants as well, a group that included Paul Lynde as her hopeless brother, John Astin as her brother-in-law, and Marty Ingels as a handyman.

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The Pruitts of Southampton Seasons and Episodes

09/06/1966Season 1 - 30 episodes
#1 | 09/06/1966Phyllis Goes Broke
During a party, an IRS agent arrives to inform the Pruitts that they are $10 million in debt and that their possessions now belong to the United States government. But they are going to allow the Pruitts to maintain the illusion that they are wealthy, rather than risk a stock-market collapse with the news that they are bankrupt. Phyllis is forced to let the entire staff go and stand by as her priceless art is taken from their home. It isn't long before Phyllis comes up with a scheme to pay off the IRS – by marrying a wealthy general who's been pursuing her for years. The General is overjoyed, but in the end, of course, her plan backfires.
#2 | 09/13/1966Phyllis, the Milkmaid
#3 | 09/20/1966Phyllis Beats the Rap
#4 | 09/27/1966Phyllis Takes a Letter
#5 | 10/04/1966Phyllis, the Cookie Tycoon
#6 | 10/11/1966Phyllis Fires the Butler
#7 | 10/18/1966Phyllis Saves the Day
#8 | 10/25/1966Phyllis Goes Commercial
#9 | 11/01/1966Phyllis Entertains Royalty
#10 | 11/15/1966Phyllis, the Upstairs Girl
#11 | 11/22/1966Phyllis, the General Stealer
#12 | 11/29/1966Phyllis, the Dress Maker
#13 | 12/06/1966Phyllis Goes Arty
#14 | 12/13/1966Santa Was a Lady
#15 | 12/20/1966The Hubcap Caper
Phyllis turns private eye to lift a curse from the house of Pruitt. Someone has stolen the family good-luck charms: the Rolls Royce hubcaps.
#16 | 12/27/1966Phyllis, Queen of the Road
#17 | 01/03/1967My Brother Harvey
#18 | 01/13/1967Little Miss Fixit
#19 | 01/20/1967Learn to Be a Millonaire
#20 | 01/27/1967The Ghost of Pruitt Mansion
#21 | 02/03/1967Portrait of Krump
#22 | 02/10/1967How to Rob a Millionaire
An Internal Revenue agent helps Phyllis locate a secret room in the Pruitt mansion, where they're soon awash in a tide of champagne, romance, and burglars.
#23 | 02/17/1967Nobody Here But Us Chickens
#24 | 02/24/1967Phyllis the Bat Girl
#25 | 03/03/1967Marry a Million
#26 | 03/10/1967Goddess of Love
#27 | 03/17/1967My Sister-in-Law Phyllis
#28 | 03/24/1967Krump, the Playboy
#29 | 03/31/1967Phyllis, the Beauty Queen
#30 | 04/07/1967The House is Not a Zoo

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 2 languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/06/1966
Last episode released on: 04/07/1967
Creator: David H. Levy
Composer: Vic Mizzy

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