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Going Places aired from September 1990 until July 1991 on ABC.

This frothy comedy was the ultimate in navel-staring, tv comedy writers writing about the funny world of tv comedy writers. A team of 4 bright young neophytes had been put together to write gags for a Candid Camera-type series called Here's Looking At You: Conservative Chicago ad man Charlie ( Alan Ruck), his frisky insecure brother Jack ( Jerry Levine), sexy and slightly naive Alex from Denver ( Heather Locklear), and abrassive New Yorker Kate ( Hallie Todd). They all lived together and played pranks on one another in a sunny Los Angeles beachhouse-except when they were facing their alternately tyrannical/neorotic producer Dawn ( Holland Taylor), in her plush offices. Lindsay ( Staci Keanan), was the bouncy teenager who lived next door.

All this cheer failed to draw an audience, so in January Going Places was completely revamped. Here's Looking At You was canceled, and the foursome became the production team for a maniacal talk-show host named Dick Roberts( Steve Vinovich), and his frazzled producer Arnie ( Phillip Charles Mackenzie). Dawn Disappeared, but joining the show were Kate's troublemaking nephew Nick ( J.D. Daniels), who came to live with them, and ( towaard the end of the run) Dick's son Sam ( Christoper Castile), who became Nick's pal.

A Review from USA TODAY

TV PREVIEW/BY MATT ROUSH

ABC's 'Going Places' should pack up, move out

Hard to figure ABC. On one hand it brings out Gabriel's Fire and Cop Rock, two of the falls few distinctive dramas. Then it gives us Married People and Going Places, which vanish immediately into that thick bog of sappy sitcoms.

Going Places, which goes nowhere in particular, fills out a two-hour block of inoffensive Friday sitcoms from Miller Boyett Productions ( Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers). They're known as baby sitter shows. Sitters should stand up and demand better than Going Places.

This new crud on the block proves something few needed telling: Behind every lousy TV comedy-in this case , a fictional Candid Camera clone-is a worse one.

As the pilot begins, Two Chicago brothers ( Alan Ruck and Jerry Levine) arrive in Hollywood to write for TV. Right away they got a traffic ticket. Yes. Really. Couldn't you die?

They're teamed with two women, a knockout ( Heather Locklear) and a knockwurst ( Hallie Todd), and they all telegenically share a beach house.

There are mild jokes about sex and virginity, but this Four's Company generates sexual inertia, not tension. As if we needed proof the concept was too thin for words, a seen-it-all teen neighbor was added after the pilot was shot.

At least there's Holland Taylor as their caustic producer, a den mother with fangs. You figured she'd never put a show this tepid on TV. But then she doesn't run a network.

A Review From Entertainment Weekly

GOING PLACES ABC, FRI., SEPT. 28, 9:30-10 P.M.

T.J. Hooker, chews on a pencil in Going Places. Locklear plays a writer for a Candid Camera-style show. She sits around with a legal pad on her lap, nibbling an eraser, and dreams up funny stunts to trick ordinary people. In an only-in-a- sitcom twist, Locklear and the three other writers on the fictitious show (Jerry Levine, Hallie Todd, Alan Ruck) share a big house they all rent. Great concept, isn't it? Talk about viewer identification: You get paid a lot of money to write for a dumb TV show, and you get to work at home with Heather Locklear, oh, 18 hours or so a day. So why is Going Places so drab? Well, Locklear's costars are a dim little trio who alternately overact or throw away their best punch lines. And so far, the series hasn't done much with the TV-show-within-a-TV-show that the writers work for-it's a premise still waiting to happen. The best supporting player by far is Holland Taylor as the show's producer. Taylor, a New York stage actress who graced Bosom Buddies with wit and malice, plays essentially the same role here, and does it every bit as well. C

For more on Going Places go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Places_(TV_series)

For a Webpage dedicated to Alan Ruck go to http://members.tripod.com/~Juliet_15/Alan.html

For a Website dedicated to Heather Locklear go to http://www.heatherdeenlocklear.net/

For Holland Taylor's Official Website go to http://www.hollandtaylor.com/

For a page dedicated to Staci Keanan go to http://www.geocities.com/stacikeananfans/