Original title
The New Odd Couple
Released
10/29/1982
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy
Production companies
Paramount Television, Henderson Productions
Status
Cancelled
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
18
The New Odd Couple is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1982–1983, and was an updated version of the 1970s television series The Odd Couple. The New Odd Couple was the second attempt to remake a series of one of Neil Simon's plays with a primarily African-American cast. The first was Barefoot in the Park.
A distraught Felix is summoned to the IRS office for what turns out to be a minor concern, but ends up accidentally convincing them to audit Oscar.
Felix asks Oscar to help him raise money for his theater group. And what they do is have a Casino night. Oscar wins all of the money and intends to use it to play in a pool game with a guy he played with earlier. He promises to donate the winnings to the group. Thing is when he goes to play him, he discovers that the guy is great player who tricked him and he doesn't know if he can beat him.
When Oscar wins a new car with Felix supplying the answers, they are persuaded to share it, but find themselves squabbling over it.
When Felix tries to give away a spare concert ticket, he and Oscar are charged with ticket scalping for which Felix wants to fight in court.
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