Off The Rack was a comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 television series set in the Los Angeles garment industry that aired on ABC

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 between 1984 and 1985. The series starred Ed Asner

Ed Asner

Edward Asner , commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant...

 and Eileen Brennan

Eileen Brennan

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 and was originally directed by Noam Pitlik

Noam Pitlik

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. Its taping location was the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California

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It was canceled after 6 regular episodes and 1 half-hour pilot, which aired as a special in December 1984. Off the Rack premiered as a regular series in the middle of the 1984-1985 television season as a mid-season replacement on ABC on the same day as Mr. Belvedere

Mr. Belvedere

Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from March 15, 1985, until July 8, 1990. The series was based on the Lynn Aloysius Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere, which was later adapted into the 1948 film Sitting Pretty...

. Writer Lissa Levin and director Noam Pitlik would go on to work for that series, following Off the Rack's cancellation.

Pilot (1984)

Pilot: "Off the Rack"

Teleplay By: Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall

Story By: Bob Randall, Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall

• Broadcast: 12/7/84

Season 1 (1985)

1. "A Date With Kate" (01)

Written By: Steve Marshall & Dan Gutzelman

• Broadcast: 3/22/85

2. "Partners" (02)

Written By: Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall

• Broadcast: 3/15/85

3. "Who Do You Trust?" (03)

Written By: Lissa Levin

• Broadcast: 4/5/85

4. "Here Comes the Bribe" (04)

Written By: Dan Guntzelman & Steve Marshall

• Broadcast: 3/29/85

5. "The Letter" (05)

Written By: Timothy James

• Broadcast: 4/12/85

6. "Immigration Man" (06)

Written By: Larry Balmagia

• Broadcast: 4/19/85