IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW: THE COMPLETE SERIES

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Before the Internet, before reality TV, no one saw what television could be more humorously and with more vision than Garry Shandling. In 1986 Garry Shandling was poised to become a permanent guest host on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. Instead, he took a chance on an offer from feldgling cable network Showtime to create his own television series. No questions asked.; ; A surreal look at the daily life of a young single man who is a comedian, It's Garry Shandling's Show was not a typical sitcom: Shandling would break the 'fourth wall' to include the studio audience and the viewers at home in on the actual making of the show. Experimenting with the sitcom form meant inviting the audience onto the set, playing with the passage of time ('It's now two weeks later') and generally exploding the genre and making art of the debris.; ; Teaming up with Saturday Night Live's Alan Zweibel, Shandling 'put on a fourth-grade play' every week for four seasons. With a crew of talented young writers (including Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Al Jean, Michael Reiss and David Mirkin, who would go on to Seinfeld and The Simpsons, and Ed Solomon, who wrote Men in Black), television history was made. Over the years, guest stars (playing themselves) included Tom Petty, Rob Reiner, Vanna White, Red Buttons, Dan Aykroyd, Martin Mull, Gilda Radner (in her last TV performance), Carl Reiner, Chevy Chase, Red Buttons, Jeff Goldblum, Don Cornelius, The Turtles, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and more.; ; From its unforgettable theme song to its closing credits, It's Garry Shandling's Show was award-winning, mind-bending television for four seasons, and its influence is clearly seen in the best TV comedies through the decades to follow.
• Cast: Garry Shandling, Molly Cheek, Michael Tucci, Scott Nemes, Paul Willson, Bernadette Birkett, Barbara Cason, Ian Buchanan, Jessica Harper, Bruno Kirby, Richard Fancy, Roy Brocksmith, Chi Ngo, Danny Dayton, Geoffrey Blake, Rob Reiner, Tom Petty, Kate Mulligan, Scott Sherk, Paul Feig, Martin Mull, Don Novello, Don Amendolia, Jay Kogen, Todd Baker, Carl Reiner, Shawn Southwick, Blake Clark, Edie Adams, Jason Bernard, Jennifer Tilly, Dave Coulier, Christine Kellogg, Chuck Woolery, Red Buttons, Joy Behar, Bert Convy, Stuart Pankin, Steve Allen, Brandon Crane, Chevy Chase, Dabney Coleman, Dom Irrera, Debrah Farentino, Alan Rafkin, Don Mischer, Thomas Schlamme, David Steinberg, Art Wolff, Roy London, Madeline Cripe, Paul Miller, Alan Zweibel, Renny Temple, Stan Lathan
• Director: Alan Rafkin
• Runtime: 31:00:00
• Company: Shout Factory
• Media Format: Series