Trivia / Too Close for Comfort

• The Cast Showoff: Nancy Dussault (Muriel Rush), who was a Broadway musical regular earlier in her career, is featured singing in at least one episode.
• Channel Hop: From ABC to first-run syndication.
• The Danza: Lisa in the final season.
• Dawson Casting:
  • Deborah Van Valkenburgh started playing Jackie Rush (a 21-year-old at the start of the series) when she was 27 (she was 28 when the series first premiered).
  • Surprisingly averted with Lydia Cornell, who started playing Sara Rush (who was 18 years old at the start of the series) when she was 17 (she was 18 when the series first premiered).
• Out of Order: "For Every Man, There's Two Women", "Finders Keepers" and "These Stupid Things Remind Me of You" were all aired during the fifth season, but were produced for the fourth season.
• Real-Life Relative: "The Runaway" guest stars Ted Knight's real life daughter Elyse Knight as Sam, a runaway girl from Florida who Monroe lets stay in his apartment to help with the rent. Elyse Knight also appears in the episode "Freddy Loves It, We Love It, You're Cancelled", as another character.
• Screwed by the Network: Perhaps an unintentional screwing by ABC. For the 1982-83 season, the Alphabet Network moved the series to Thursday nights, paired alongside sitcom bombs like Joanie Loves Chachi, Star of the Family and It Takes Two; its ratings fell drastically as a result of the move, dropping from 6th the previous season to 38th, and the show got canceled by ABC at the end of the season.
• The Character Died with Him: Ted Knight died from colon cancer in August 1986, effectively ending the show's run without a proper series finale.
• You Look Familiar: Lisa Antille played two different characters, both of whom had a heavy Latin accent and worked as the Rushes' maid: in the season five episode "No Mas, Monroe", Antille plays Evon, a woman from a war-torn Central American country whose work visa is about to expire that Monroe falls in love with, ends up dating, and decides to marry in order for her to stay in the U.S. (they don't get married, and Lisa only accepted his proposal to marry in order to stay in America, and wasn't in love with Monroe). When the series became The Ted Knight Show, Antille played Lisa, who had a mutually flirty relationship with Monroe.

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