What's Happening!!: Charge

What's Happening!!: Charge
ABC
November 23, 1978
Sitcom
DVD
C+

While it's nice to see Shirley again giving a commonsense speech to one of the guys, as well as to see furniture so tacky that they even knew it in '78, it's hard for me to get past Rerun's foolish behavior over the credit cards.  And Dwayne doing false bids to drive prices up was old when Chico Marx was doing it on Broadway fifty years earlier, so that part needs something to freshen it up.  Note that the VCR that Rerun buys is a little more modern than the one Henry Winkler got on The Bob Newhart Show four or five years before.

Leland Smith returns as The Snake, now with a brand-new job and apartment.  I don't think I have any other TV shows with Roger Bowen, who plays Robert Glover at the finance company, but I will note that he was Colonel Blake in the movie version of MASH. This is the 600th ABC program I've reviewed so far, with many more to come.