Phyllis S1E4 The First Day

[@kloebl10]

This was a really great show! Superb writing, acting, directing, characters, etc. I don't understand why it only lasted 2 seasons.

[@ddiamondr1]

I do wish they could have made LIz Torres Julie's sister or cousin or something and had Julie go off with a billionaire or win a lottery and move to Tahiti. Barbara Colby's murder was heartbreaking.

[@Texaslawhorn]

I agree.

[@ChetLindsay]

This is a wonderful show and I love all the actors and actresses. Barbara and Liz were perfection!

[@TheIntimacyGram]

I loved this show! So glad to see it so many years later on TH-cam!

[@derickennedy6278]

Loving the pauses when Mary reads Phyllis’ letter

[@Youngstown529]

A really nice touch. Wonder what the audience thought?

[@Texaslawhorn]

@@Youngstown529 I wonder if they even actually filmed that scene in front of an audience.

[@Youngstown529]

@@Texaslawhorn Yeah, it does sound like a laugh track.

[@KJTV67]

Jack Elam as the drunk! Perfection!

[@vintagehippie3647]

tragic what happened to Barbara and her friend, James Kiernan. Their murders have never been solved. I guess this episode was how they brought her replacement in and have it be like Liz was originally in the part of Julie. This must have been a very difficult show especially being comedy.

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

Losing cast members and keeping the show going must be tough as well as maintaining good chemistry

[@jusssayin480]

Soap operas recast actors in roles previously played by another actor all the time. It's not as big a deal as you're imagining.

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

@@jusssayin480 I see that in soaps. Meg Ryan knows first hand

[@Texaslawhorn]

@@jusssayin480 True, but it's a little different when the cast member was senselessly murdered.

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

@@jusssayin480 Not all recasts are successful, however. Case in point: Michael Zaslow, who played GL's Roger Thorpe for many years and was perhaps the key player on the show.

[@fintan3563]

That was a quick turnaround. I wonder if Liz Torres had originally been their second pick for the character. I remember hearing about the murder. So sad it is still unsolved. 😢😢😢

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Notice the Barcelona font used, typical of so many sitcoms in the 1970s.

[@m1k3ywestley7]

R.I.P Barbara Colby, welcum Liz Torres. It's a shame how it's like Barbara nvr existed.
There's no way I'd drink after a bum in the park, eek.

[@cayetanotirado5907]

Yeah, I never liked Liz Torres, she was such a bitch! Barbara Colby was very good in that role in the pilot episode, kinder than la Torrez.

[@jusssayin480]

What did you expect the show to do after Barbara was murdered? She was only in a few episodes so they recast the character.

[@cayetanotirado5907]

@@jusssayin480: Excuse me? I didn't expect anything! I was just commenting about two different approaches to the character, two different women personalities.

[@Selectrolux]

@@cayetanotirado5907 Barbara Colby's character "Julie" offered Phyllis a job in the pilot episode and it was clear that she wanted to help her as a newly widowed woman. The new "Julie" has a completely different persona and attitude toward Phyllis, and there's no transition to it, which is strange. It wouldn't work in today's TV world. It's much like when Diana Hyland died six episodes into the show, "Eight is Enough" and they immediately replaced her with Betty Buckley.

[@tjames9698]

@@Selectrolux Yeah, but they were did characters. They had no choice but to recast Julie or somehow figure out a reason why Julie wasn’t there and someone else was (maybe a sister?). LT’s Julie wasn’t really a bitch, IMHO. We never saw BC’s Julie in more to an three episodes, so we don’t know how BC would take an approach to the scripts already written before she was killed.

[@jad8123]

#RIP Cloris

[@kennethlindsey8357]

PHYLLIS could type on a episode of MTM show

[@violetshamrock]

"Who makes the fog surrounding the Golden Gate simply disappear?
Phyllis... Phyllis...
Who makes the warning bells on the cable cars play, "The Gang's All Here"?
Phyllis... Phyllis...
Who charms the crabs on Fisherman's Wharf right out of their shells?
Who lights the lamps of Chinatown just by walking in view? Who?
Phyllis! Phyllis! Phyllis......it sure isn't you."
Dick DeBenedictis conducted the music but STAN DANIELS wrote the lyrics. Here he is warming up the audience on the Mary Tyler Moore show th-cam.com/video/eUPWMBZIU0w/w-d-xo.html

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Thank you. I was wondering. My friends and I used to sing it in high school, the humor was just perfect for us. All these talented people created such a beautiful world for us to grow up into. Too bad it turned out to be fiction.

[@EricaVargas.Extravaganza]

☝️ Well, for starters, I love the Sitcoms.of the ( 1970s )like The Mary Taylor More show Phyllis ,,& Rhoda and the Betty Wright show Which was very brief. As I remember.
she was an f. B. I agent maybe that's why the show didn't do good. I don't know. May they all rest in peace.🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯📺

[@JhomasE]

I think that Liz Torres was a great replacement for Barbara Colby. She had Colby isms down. Barbara Colby was a GREAT actress and she did so well in the role. It was so horrible that she was murdered.

[@jusssayin480]

Is it just me or when they changed Phyllis' hairstyle did it seem like another character?

[@Youngstown529]

This feels like a relaunch of the show. Was it delayed much after Corby's death?

[@Texaslawhorn]

I liked Phyllis' original hairstyle better.

[@guyinnyc1]

@@Youngstown529 I was wondering the same thing, or if they any sort of announcement or in memoriam in the credits but did not see it

[@julienielsen4462]

I like this show but Phyllis character doesn’t like to do work lol.

[@brockreynolds870]

To be honest, Phyllis is too much of a "Karen" to carry her own show. The character is fun, but maddening... and best used as a supporting player and not a lead.

[@jusssayin480]

That's why it only lasted two seasons.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

@@jusssayin480 No. It was fine, we loved her, we loved Cloris. Too many of the characters died, that's why it ended.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Tend to agree. Her character got old fast. Superficial. Maybe they should have put her in a large office with more activity.

[@jackmcdonnell8505]

4:33 typing’s fun

[@CoachDarren]

Cloris was a good looking woman she started this show at 49 years old and co started on Mary Tyler Moore show at 44 years old.

[@Youngstown529]

Jack Elam - what a treasure!

[@kc0lif]

jack elam

[@angelthman1659]

The casting of Liz Torres doesn't make sense. Julie was supposed to be the woman Lars proposed to before Phyllis. Liz was like 28 years old here. Even Barbara Colby was too young for this storyline, but definitely Liz.

[@SK-nd7db]

I liked Barbara Colby better than Liz Torres!

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

It's a little sad seeing the good humor of MTM turn just a little nasty in this series, a precursor of what's to come in tv humor, sad to say. By the 1980s, thanks to Reagan, all the niceness and wonder was crushed.

[@toffeenut1336]

Yeah the change in television humor is all the government’s fault. Clearly Dick Tracey can sleep tonight.