TV Series · 1981

Gimme a Break!

30 min · Comedy, Family · Ended

Composite

3.2

IMDb

6.5 / 10

4,177 votes

TMDB

6.7 / 10

31 votes

Local

— / 10

No votes

Synopsis

Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.

Streaming availability

The Roku Channel

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Cast

Nell Carter

Nell Harper

John Hoyt

Stanley Kanisky

Joey Lawrence

Joey Donovan

Telma Hopkins

Addy Wilson

Lara Jill Miller

Sam Kanisky

Matthew Lawrence

Matthew Donovan

Paul Sand

Marty

Rosie O'Donnell

Maggie O'Brien

Rosetta LeNoire

Maybelle Harper

Crew

Production

Rod Parker Producer
Morton Lachman Producer

Seasons & episodes

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Season 6 (1 ep)

25. Mama's Date

May 12, 1987 · 30 min

When Grandpa comes to get the boys' pajamas, since they are sleeping in his apartment because Addy is sick in bed, he tells Nell that her mother has a date. Nell wonders why her mother would have a date, and when her mother shows up, she meets her date, Ernie, a man from her past. It turns out that he was a jazz musician that knew her mother before she married Nell's father. When they were young, he took her to a dance contest, and asked her to go on the road with him, but she refused. Nell can't believe that this is true. In the end, as Ernie waits outside for Maybelle, Nell asks her mother if the two of them ever had sex, and Mama Maybelle tells her that Nell should know the answer to that question, and tells her she has a lot of growing up to do, and that she must realize that her mother is a woman, just like herself.