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Busting Loose aired from January until November 1977 on CBS.
After graduating from engineering school young 24 year old Lenny Markowitz ( Adam Arkin)decided it was time to find his own place , away from his overprotective parents Sam and Pearl ( Jack Kruschen, Pat Carroll). He secretly moved into a run-down apartment building and set up housekeeping. Since he could not even afford to cover up the ducks on the wallpaper left by the previous tenant , it was not exactly a swinger's pad. It did have compensations, however, most notably his next-door neighbor Melody ( Barbara Rhoades) , a beautiful young woman who worked for an escort service. To make money on a temporary basis, until he could find more suitable employment, Lenny went to work as a salesman at Mr. Cabell's ( Paul B. Price's) shoe store, where he worked with a " hip" black named Raymond ( Ralph Wilcox). Lenny's buddies, Lester, Allan, Vinnie, and Woody ( Danny Goldman, Steve Nathan, Greg Antonacci, Paul Sylvian), were frequent visitors to his place and partners in mischief, as when they left the New York setting of the series to hunt girls at a fashionable Catskills resort. In the fall of 1977, Lenny found a regular girlfriend in a curvaceous young beauty named " Jackie Gleason" ( no relation to the famous tv comedian. She was played by Louise Williams).
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