I think “Daddy Dearest” was the only episode I actually saw during its short-lived run in 1989, because with only eight of them, it probably wasn’t ever syndicated afterward. (Then again.) And after all these years, serial killers several times a week, this first experiment in primetime profiling still came to a jarring end.
My favorite of the lot, however, was the mysteriously-titled “And They Swam Right over the Dam”, where a couple of pediatricians set out to liberate their patients from overindulgent parents. Richard Kind (Larry’s cousin Andy one DVD ago on Curb Your Enthusiasm), the all-White team’s gopher, takes them down without so much as a fight, and reminds us how much stranger things were back then.
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