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They should put this out on dvd just so we can remember how awful it was,and revel in it!Remember,before there was ted mcginley,there was Mclean stevenson!

I think this show gets overly bad reviews,it was not the worest thing I ever saw on Television. I kind of liked the show. I totaled had a thing for Kim so it was enough to keep me watching I recently saw a few episodes and the formate doesnt seem all that different then most of the sit-coms so I dont know why it was hated. It was never I favorite of mine but it always made me wonder why people hated the show so much.

I always thought of "Hello, Larry" as a gender reversed "One Day at a Time" which was very popular when "HL" premiered. Single dad tries to raise two teenage daughters on his own while dealing with career, romance, etc.

It wasn't that bad. Formulaic, for sure, but Stevenson did a good job of lending a little "oomph" to the soft scripts and I thought the girls were pretty decent actresses. I had a crush on Kim Richards, like any other self respecting 13 year old boy at the time, and Donna Wilkes was good in the "Julie Cooper/hellraiser" role. Her replacement was cute but not as believable.

I guess when the show added Meadowlark and that really annoying kid next door (almost as annoying as Glenn Scarpelli from "One Day at a Time"!) it did jump, but the quality was pretty much the same throughout for me. Nothing earthshattering or gutbusting, for sure, just a breezy, likeable late 70's NBC comedy. As silly as it was, it wasn't any less believable to me than "My Name is Earl" or "The Office" or any of the supposedly "edgy" comedies that are so popular today.

Remember the one where Larry was chosen to emcee a Miss Nude America pageant?

He was nervous about it, so he decided to rehearse. Naturally, he figured he'd better strip down to his boxers in order to better replicate the experience of hosting the pageant.

Then a co-worker walked in.

Komedy!

HELLO, LARRY was a bad show from day 1. Bringing Meadowlark Lemon on as a cast member was a joke since he usually only appeared in the opening credits yet was seldom or never actually seen in the program, much like Richie on the Dick Van Dyke Show.

The shark DROWNED. Period end of statement

I was a young kid when this show was on. It caught my interest, most likely after it appeared in the time slot following Diff'rent Strokes. For some people, Hello, Larry might not have had a lot to offer, but to a kid with a not-great home life who wanted to laugh at silly situations and see really cute gals (Kim Richards in particular <3), this show toed the mark. I wouldn't be surprised if a goal of the producers was to appeal to kids (as well as to adults); note that the show was placed after Strokes. That's a tricky thing to accomplish, as the result can be that some jokes and situations -- while amusing kids -- can appear just hopelessly inane to adults watching. My overall assessment is that, although the show would've benefitted from more thought & planning, I found it utterly charming on account of "Everyman McLean" and adorable, hardworking Kim Richards.

Some of you are pretty generous or have really bad memories. This show was awful. I was about 12 when this aired and even then I knew this was dog crap. Poor McLean (RIP), whatever reason you left MASH, couldn't you find something, anything better?

By the way, I thought I was the only person that remembers TUFF TURF. Yes that's Kim Richards with hair down to her @$$. And that's a young James Spader that banged her in the token love scene.

Goodbye Larry.

I remember there was an episode in which a blind kid tried to seduce one of Larry's girls by using his blindness to illicit her sympathy. It almost worked too, but Larry cock-blocked him in the end.

As bad as television has gotten, Hello Larry has become a missed classic which never lasted long enough to jump sharks. MacLean Stevenson, you are truly missed.

This was nothing more than a poorly conceived vehicle for MS -- I don't know if it was written for him, or if he just fell into it. It featured really poor writing and forced jokes -- in other words, it was no different than 98% of all the other sitcoms on the air at the same time. It was destined to die an unhappy death, which it did very quickly. Consider ourselves lucky for that.

The similarities between Hello, Larry and Frasier are pure coincidence. I really doubt NBC, looking for a hit sitcom in the 1990s would say "Hey, let's remake 'Hello, Larry'. The difference between the two shows is Frasier had superior writing and acting, the absence of children and a more adult orientation. Hello, Larry wasn't really the worst show on TV but it was pretty middling. If justice had been served it probably should have done as well as other middling sitcoms like Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life but Stevenson was the victim of a post-MASH backlash and pile-on ridicule from the media.

Is there an option entitled "BEFORE Day One"? Like the moment that the person who created this abomination was conceived? Dear God in Heaven, what were they thinking? Why? WHY????

I only recently recalled this show, and, as a self pronounced pop culture freak, I can say that the show certainly had it's share of interesting nuances. Certainly the Kim Richards/Paris Hilton connection is something we can't bi-pass, but what I really enjoyed finding out was the character who took place of "Larry's eldest daughter half way through it's life span was also the very smart, and extremely beautiful Krista Errickson of "Little Darlings" fame.

Yes, the sassy little model that stirred up, oh so much trouble at Camp Little Wolf is the same gal who joined the cast half way through it's airing. The "Darrenesque" "stroke" of it all was hardly wasted on any of us but, it took me nearly 30 years now to draw the line between these character's and those Ms. Errickson has since gone to play since.

You can see some of her more grown up examples of her work through out the 80s and 90s in movies like "Jekyll & Hyde, Together Again," but, I choose to think of her for her most recent work behind the camera for the acclaimed documentary concerning the Mysterious Man behind the shroud of Turin.

All recent information about the growth of amazing beauty is that she is far more intelligent than Hollywood ever dared to give her credit for! Shame too. Anyway...kudo's for the flashback.

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I liked this show and both girls on this show I think were hot and so was the producer of larry's show..I liked Mclean on this show best of all his shows..I later got in radio myself and think this was the best tv show based at radio station..
I was also surprised to find out that Kim Richards was paris Hilton's aunt..and was always much better looking than paris;but maybe at times seemed a little snooty..