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''It Takes Two'' is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from October 14, 1982 until April 28, 1983. It was created by Susan Harris, who had previously created the sitcom ''Soap'' and its spin-off ''Benson'', both for ABC, the latter of which was in the midst of its run when this series premiered. The series starred Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin as a modern, dual career couple whose personal lives were largely impacted by their professional. Harris, her husband Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas executive produced the series, under the group's Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions company. ==Synopsis== Dr. Sam Quinn (Crenna) was a successful surgeon in Chicago, who for many years had the comfort of coming home to his devoted wife Molly (Astin) after long hours at the local hospital. Within time, Sam would be in for a rude awakening when Molly, bored with being a housewife and yearning to make even more out of her life, enrolled in law school. As the series began, Molly was now an assistant D.A., and before either of them knew it, the passion in their marriage, and quality time for each other, had quickly started to slip from their grasp. Sam missed being able to come home to warm dinners and clean laundry, and lovemaking opportunities were few and far between—not to mention fruitless (Molly's long hours caused her to fall asleep right away when the two retired for the night). Fortunately, Sam and Molly were master communicators, and the two tried their best to compromise, in order to bring that spark back into their marriage. When they came to each other for support over highly emotional career-related matters, it was clear that there was still plenty of love to be shared. The one aspect of their marriage that did change upon Molly's entrance into the legal system was political points of view. Molly had always seemed to agree with Sam's liberal leanings, which he continued to maintain. Eventually, Molly's time in the D.A.'s office had made her more hard-line and conservative, which became the cause of many debates in their household. In the end, it was Sam's knack for witty, no-holds-barred but warm reasoning that kept sensitive Molly from wanting to chuck her career when her cases became too much to bear. Sam and Molly had two teenaged children, carefree and sometimes smart-alecky daughter Lisa (Helen Hunt), who was in high school, and all-around cool customer Andy (Anthony Edwards), an aspiring rock musician who, at 18, was privileged enough to be moving into his own apartment. However, like many young adults in TV series who were attempting to break away from their parents, Andy would still find a reason to drop by so that Sam and Molly would help with his responsibilities. Completing the household in the Quinn's luxurious high-rise apartment was Molly's salty mother (Billie Bird), only known as "Mama", whose blunt and often spontaneous comments added to the comic relief. Also featured were Sam's jovial colleague at the hospital, Dr. Walter Chaiken (Richard McKenzie), and Judge Caroline Phillips (Della Reese), who presided over many of the cases that Molly was hired for. The original proposed title for the series was ''For Better or Worse''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It Takes Two (sitcom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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