YouTube Spotlight: A Double Shot of My David Groh

You can sing "A Double Shot of My David Groh" to the tune of "A Double Shot (of My Baby's Love)" by The Medallions since we're looking at two clips from the Rhoda video playlist that feature David "Joe" Grogh.

Or you could not do that. There are two problems with that.

1) Only one of these sitcom opening sequences actually includes David Groh.

2) Once you see that clip and hear the Paul Williams theme song, you aren't gonna have the original "Double Shot" in your head the way I did for some reason the other day.

Here is the opening to the James Komack CBS sitcom Another Day:

The uploader here says the "godawful" pilot consists of Groh and (Joan) Hackett's characters arguing loudly for the entire episode." Well, I kind of want to see this! Not many did see it in its original run, which lasted only 4 episodes in April 1979. I think Komack had about 4 or 5 failed sitcoms in a two-year span there.

Next up, a sitcom without David Groh but with Nancy Walker. Mama's Boy aired a whopping 6 episodes on a sporadic schedule on NBC, apparently filling in here and there until they just pulled the plug.

Bruce Weitz is a newspaperman whose mother moves in with him after his father dies. Want to bet she's a domineering mother? 

This looks hopelessly old-fashioned even taking into account there is irony intended with the use of a doo wop arrangement of "M-O-T-H-E-R" as the theme song. Even for 1987, I think this all feels out of place, like the show should have come out 5-10 years earlier.

In 1987, Weitz was coming off a scene-stealing role as Belker on Hill Street Blues, while NBC was finding success with The Golden Girls (The same producers created this show). This combination didn't work for the network, though, and the series ended its odd run in August of 1988.