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The Best Episodes of The Famous Teddy Z Season 1

Every episode of The Famous Teddy Z Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Famous Teddy Z Season 1!

The Best Episodes of The Famous Teddy Z Season 1

A mailroom clerk becomes a top agent at a Hollywood talent agency after he impresses a notoriously self-centered client. The series was inspired by an...

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  1. Background image for Pilot
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Teddy goes to the airport a mail room clerk and winds up becoming a Hollywood agent for a big star, when he refuses to take any grief from that star.

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    Director:Hugh Wilson
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    #2 - What's an Agent to Do?

    S1:E2

    Teddy tells his grandmother about his new job at the agency, he also fires Laurie when she resents him bringing her along to be his secretary. He rehires her as he begins to learn what an agent's job calls for.

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    Director:Richard Dubin
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    #3 - Bobby the Chimp

    S1:E3

    Fearing there is not much for him to do, Abe gives Teddy a client from a retiring agent. While appearing on Entertainment Tonight Teddy makes an appeal for this new client, Bobby the Chimp, who's been fired by Landon Tarmac.

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    Director:Hugh Wilson
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    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Teddy Goes to Malibu

    S1:E4

    The entire family joins Teddy when he must check the dog and plants at the home of one of Al's clients. Disaster abounds at the house when the bathroom overflows, the dog escapes, the neighbor comes over; you get the idea.

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    Director:Max Tash
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    #5 - Teddy Makes $50,000 ... in One Day

    S1:E5

    Teddy meets his first studio head and stands to make $50,000 for Harland's latest movie deal, Dark Closet, that is until Harland decides that ""acting is dumb"" because of the position of Pluto.

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    #6 - Teddy Gets Fired

    S1:E6

    Al gives Teddy a script to read, unknown to both, it is a slightly modified version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington which Al's client is passing to all the top agents for an article he is writing on Hollywood agents. Teddy takes the script to a studio to try to get it made and is fired by Abe, until...

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    Director:Max Tash
    Writer:N/A
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    #7 - Teddy Falls in Love

    S1:E7

    Teddy meets newly separated movie star, Esther Luna, who takes him home with her and together they really ""cook,"" much to Al's disbelief.

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    #8 - Teddy Sells His House

    S1:E8

    After someone bids on a price that he was just fishing with, Teddy tries to save the family house. Al who claims to never makes mistakes cuts the deal of the lifetime for a client who is dead.

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    Director:Max Tash
    Writer:N/A
  10. Background image for A Case of Murder
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #9 - A Case of Murder

    S1:E9

    Teddy gets Harland to join his other client, Bobby the Chimp, in Bobby's first film. There is trouble on the set when Harland discovers that Bobby's trailer is much bigger than his, that doesn't bother him a much as the monkey does. Someone tries to murder Bobby on the set.

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    Director:Frank Bonner
    Writer:N/A
  11. Background image for Teddy Gets a House Guest
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    #10 - Teddy Gets a House Guest

    S1:E10

    A method actor moves in with the Zakalokis family to become prepared for his next role as a Greek-American who has an affair with an older relative.

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    Director:Max Tash
    Writer:N/A
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    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Season's Greetings From Al Floss

    S1:E11

    Al is haunted by the ghost of his former boss, in the style of ""A Christmas Carol,"" after he makes Teddy and Laurie work for him on Christmas Day.

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    Director:Max Tash
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    #12 - Grandma Goes to Work

    S1:E12

    To help alleviate her fears, Teddy invites his grandmother to come down to the agency to see what he does. Once she understands what is going on, she has some ideas to make him a bigger player.

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    Director:Hugh Wilson
    Writer:N/A
  14. Background image for Teddy Meets His Hero
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Teddy Meets His Hero

    S1:E13

    Teddy is excited when he meets his favorite childhood TV host and then he crusades to bring him to an all new generation. The gap between generations is big but there may be

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    Director:Max Tash
    Writer:N/A
  15. Background image for Teddy Gets a Better Offer
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    #14 - Teddy Gets a Better Offer

    S1:E14

    Harland sends Teddy to talk to another talent agency where he gets a better offer which him in a precarious position.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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    #15 - Agent of the Year

    S1:E15

    Al considers his nomination for ""Agent of the Year"" the death knell for his career. He discovers the nomination was engineered by his rival, Eileen Meisner.

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    Director:Max Tash
    Writer:N/A
  17. Background image for Teddy Goes to the Awards
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    #16 - Teddy Goes to the Awards

    S1:E16

    Harland, nominated for Best Actor, is out in the jungles of New Guinea and directs Teddy to accept an award in his absence, should he win. Harland turns up before the awards and shows a nervous Teddy how to deliver his acceptance speech that features a can of beans.

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    Director:Max Tash
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    #17 - How to Make a Television Show

    S1:E17

    Two writers, one a friend of Laurie's, pitch an idea for a television series featuring a white and a Hispanic CIA agent in Nicaragua. Teddy learns the ins and outs of trying to launch a pilot for television series, when the network turns the show into a half hour comedy, featuring two female FBI agents with three kids and one the kids has an invisible friend who's an angel.

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    Director:Frank Bonner
    Writer:N/A
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    #18 - Al Tells the Truth

    S1:E18

    Al and Teddy are at lunch where they are witness to a big shot producer slapping a man who bumped into him. When the man turns around and sues this big shot, the producer wants Al to lie in his favor, Teddy is in favor of the truth.

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    Director:Max Tash
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    #19 - Teddy's Big Date

    S1:E19

    Teddy plans to take Laurie to a movie screening and when he picks her up, he meets her mother. He invites her to join them for dinner where she drinks too much, passes out and makes for a memorable evening.

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    Director:Max Tash
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    #20 - Teddy Gets a Guru

    S1:E20

    Teddy gets an opportunity to sign Donna Gates, a star who's spiritual in the Shirley MacLaine sense of the word. Al tries to get her by faking levitation.

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    Director:Max Tash
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "The Famous Teddy Z" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Hugh Wilson and written by Hugh Wilson, it aired on 9/18/1989. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "What's an Agent to Do?".