It's A Living aired from October 1980 until September 1982 and from September 1985 until September 1989 on ABC and in first run syndication.
This sexy comedy was about five pretty waitresses working at a posh Los Angeles restaurant ( so posh that in one scene, an enraged customer received a bill for $540.00 for six people!!!).
Nancy ( Marian Mercer)was the disciplinarian supervisor trying to get a days work out of Lois ( Susan Sullivan), Dot ( Gail Edwards), Vicki ( Wendy Schaal), Cassie ( Ann Jillian)who was the outspoken one ,Jan ( Barrie Youngfellow) and Sonny ( Paul Kreppel) , the self-absorbed lounge pianist.Along with battling customers and chatting about their home life , the girls all giggled alot, paraded around in skimpy outfits and made jokes about who had "done it" the previous night .
ABC evidently had a lot of faith in the show. Despite a shakey first season, it was renewed and given a new name, Making A Living, and two new cast members were added, Maggie ( Louise Lasser) who replaced Lois ( Susan Sullivan had moved over to Falcon Crest) and a cool named Mario ( Bert Remsen) It didn't help.
Three years after leaving ABC, with its original title and most of the original cast, It's A Living returned with new episodes produced for the syndicated market. Added to the cast were: Amy ( Crystal Bernard), a naive new young waitress; a new chef named Howard( Richard Stahl), who was the constant and disinterested object of Nancy's amorous advances and the infrequently seen Richie Gray( played by Richard Kline), an electrician who eventually married Jan.
In the fall of 1986, an outspoken, sexy black waitress named Ginger ( Sheryl Lee Ralph) joined the other waitresses at 'Above The Top'. Late in 1987, Howard finally started dating Nancy and, to the surprise of everybody on the staff including himself, the two of them got married in Las Vegas.
During the 1988-1989 season, there were two more marriages: Ginger to successful physician Reggie St. Thomas ( Julius Carry) and her roommate Amy to Bobby Lee Lord ( Jay Baker), a devout young preacher. As the series came to an end, Dot was still looking for her big break as an actress, Sonny was as obnoxious as ever, Jan and Richie were expecting their first baby and, most surprising, Howard and Nancy were still married!
Here is Richard Stahl's Obituary
Actor Richard Stahl dies at 74
Updated June 22, 2006
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Stahl, an actor whose more than 40-year career stretched from New York theater to film and television comedies such as Laverne and Shirley, has died. He was 74.
Stahl died Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's health center in Woodland Hills after a 10-year battle with Parkinson's disease, his wife, actress Kathryn Ish, said Wednesday.
"He had been declining for some time now," she said.
Born in Detroit, Stahl did magic tricks as a boy and moved to California as a performer at age 15, Ish said. He served in the Army during the Korean War, later graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
Ish and Stahl were both off Broadway theater actors when they met in 1959. They married later that year.
In the 1960s, the pair moved to San Francisco and joined improv comedy group The Committee, Ish said. They settled in Santa Barbara in 1975.
Stahl's film credits include 1979's Five Easy Pieces, Mel Brooks' 1977 spoof High Anxiety, 1980's 9 to 5 and 1996's Ghosts of Mississippi.
He appeared on such TV shows as Laverne and Shirley, The Odd Couple, and Barney Miller, and held a regular stint on 1980s sitcom It's A Living.
"He was a funny guy, he worked in comedy all his life," Ish said.
Stahl is survived by Ish, their daughter Allegra and son Oliver.
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