The Betty White Show

Infobox Television
show_name = The Betty White Show


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genre = Sitcom
director = James Burrows
Harvey Medlinsky
Noam Pitlik
Doug Rogers
starring = Betty White
John Hillerman
Georgia Engel
composer = Dick DeBenedictis
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 14
executive_producer = Stan Daniels
Ed. Weinberger
producer = Bob Ellison
Dale McRaven
runtime = 30 mins.
channel = CBS
first_aired = September 12, 1977
last_aired = January 2, 1978 "The Betty White Show" is a short lived American sitcom which aired on CBS during the 1977-78 season. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises.

Synopsis

Betty White starred as Joyce Whitman, a middle-aged actress, who was starring as a female detective in a fictitious police drama, "Undercover Woman" (ostensibly based on Angie Dickinson's "Police Woman"). Much of the humor stemmed from the fact that the show's producer was Whitman's ex-husband, John Whitman (played by John Hillerman), as well as the fact that White and her sidekick on "Undercover Woman", a beautiful and much younger actress (played by Caren Kaye), did not like one another and missed no opportunity to trade insults. Also appearing was White's former "Mary Tyler Moore Show" costar, Georgia Engel. The series was scheduled opposite ABC's "Monday Night Football" and "The NBC Monday Movie" and failed to generate viewers. The show was quickly canceled after fourteen episodes. [cite web|url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/bettywhite.htm|title=TV Greats and Unsung Heroes: Betty White|last=Spadoni|first=Mike |date=2004-08|publisher=televisionheaven.co.uk|accessdate=2008-08-06] A contemporary article in "TV Guide" stated that Miss White was quite the science fiction reader, and that her original preference for the show-within-the-show was a parody of "" rather than "Police Woman"

The series was briefly rerun on Nick at Nite and TV Land in the 1990s.

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