Fay was a TV series starring Lee Grant

Lee Grant

Lee Grant is an American stage, film and television actress, and film director. She was blacklisted for 12 years from film work beginning in the mid-1950s, but worked in the theatre, and would eventually win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Carp in the...

 as Fay Stewart, a woman in her 40s who after 25 years of marriage to attorney Jack Stewart started a new job and begin dating.

The show first aired on NBC-TV on September 4, 1975 and was pulled after the October 23 airing. It returned for 2 more episodes on May 12 and June 2, 1976. 10 episodes were produced. Four of them (the pilot, "Jack Remarries", "Mr. Not-So-Wonderful", and "Danny Falls In Love") were eventually re-edited into an overseas theatrical feature, Man Trouble, later included in a syndicated package of other MCA/Universal "movies" stitched together from their various short-lived TV series.

Grant was nominated for an Emmy

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series after the series was cancelled.

Episode list

Episode #	Episode title	Original airdate
1-1	"Fay" (pilot)	September 4, 1975
1-2	"Jack Remarries"	September 11, 1975
1-3	"Mom's Realization"	September 18, 1975
1-4	"Mr. Not-So-Wonderful"	September 25, 1975
1-5	"Jack's Heart Attack"	October 2, 1975
1-6	"Not With My Partner, You Don't"	October 9, 1975
1-7	"Lillian's Separation"	October 16, 1975
1-8	"Danny Falls in Love"	October 23, 1975
1-9	"Fay and the Doctor"	May 12, 1976
1-10	"Not Another Mother's Day"	June 2, 1976