Fay (TV series)

• Lee Grant as Fay Stewart • Audra Lindley as Lillian • Joe Silver as Jack Stewart • Margaret Willock as Linda Stewart Baines • Stewart Moss as Dr. Elliot Baines • Bill Gerber as Danny Messina • Norman Alden as Al Cassidy • Lillian Lehman as Letty Gilmore ==Plot==

Fay Stewart is a 43-year-old woman in San Francisco who divorces her philandering husband, attorney Jack Stewart, after 25 years of marriage. She takes a job as a secretary in a law firm run by two eccentric attorneys, her boss Danny Messina and his partner Al Cassidy, where she befriends another secretary, Letty Gilmore. She then moves into her own apartment and begins dating, leading the life of a swinging single and getting involved in rather risqué situations. Jack keeps trying to win her back, and her conservative daughter Linda and stuffy son-in-law Elliot disapprove of her new lifestyle. In contrast, her tactless, unhappily married neighbor and friend Lillian lives vicariously through Fay's romantic adventures. ==Production==

Susan Harris created Fay, Paul Junger Witt was its executive producer, and Jerry Mayer was it producer. At the 28th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1976, Grant was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Fay but lost out to Mary Tyler Moore for Moore's performance in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ==Broadcast history==

Fay first aired on September 4, 1975, and ran for eight episodes at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursdays before it was pulled from NBC's lineup after the episode of October 23, 1975 (along with The Montefuscos, which aired in the time slot immediately before Fay). It returned for two more episodes on May 12 and June 2, 1976, both on Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time, for a total of ten episodes. ==Man Trouble==

Four episodes of Fay ("Jack Remarries", "Mr. Wonderful", "Danny Falls In Love", and "Not Another Mother's Day") eventually were re-edited into an overseas theatrical feature, Man Trouble. Man Trouble later was included in a syndicated package of other MCA/Universal "movies" stitched together from episodes of various short-lived television series. ==Episodes==