DREAM ON/HBO/FOX/1990-96 (Dr. Richard Stone) - A never seen but often
spoken about physician who was considered by his wife Judith (Wendie Malick) to
be the greatest man on Earth. Judith was formerly married to Martin Tupper, a
Manhattan book editor, who still had a thing for his ex-wife and didn't
appreciate hearing about Judith's "wonderful" new husband. During the 1994
season, however, Dr. Stone died. His memory was honored at an "International Day
of Sorrow" sponsored by the United Nations. To add insult to injury, the service
was held on Martin's birthday.
THE TRIALS OF ROSIE O'NEILL/CBS/1990-92 (Rosie's Psychiatrist) - At the
beginning of each episode of this legal drama, the camera focused on the face of
Rosie O'Neill (Sharon Gless), a Beverly Hills lawyer turned public defender who
sat in the high-back leather chair of her psychiatrist's office. Usually dressed
in yellow, she carried on an almost one-way conversation with Dr. Gordon
Kenderson, her unseen psychiatrist (except for the top of his balding head).
Rosie brought all of her personal concerns to his office. Her topics of
discussion included: her job stress, her relationship with her mother and
sister, her dating and single situation, her regrets at never having a child,
her divorce, her smoking habit, etc. (Ad nausem). On the first episode Rosie was
heard saying "I'm thinking maybe of having my tits done. I may not want them any
bigger; they're a nice size already. I just thought maybe I'd have them fluffed
up a bit..." Rosie's unseen doctor was actually the show's producer, Barney
Rosenzweig.
