A COMEDY PILOT FOR PBS
Mother's Little Network
Arnie Reisman as “François, the Fly-Catching Frenchman”
Mother’s Little Network was a collaboration of twenty-somethings, including Arnie Reisman, Ernie Fosselius, director Dick Bartlet and animator Derek Lamb, and me on a comedy series for PBS.
At the time, public television was under the influence of English programming on the BBC. We wanted to do something with a distinctly American flavor. We never got funding for the series, but the pilot for WGBH-TV held up pretty well.
“MOTHER’S LITTLE NEWORK! The only show on PBS with no English host!”