Gone is the original’s stellar recurring cast: Mel Brooks, Carroll O’Connor and Cyndi Lauper among them, along with a slew of notable guest stars: Ellen DeGeneres, Yoko Ono and Carl Reiner, to name a few.Īlso gone is their thick-headed collie mix Murray, replaced by a lanky mixed breed dog they decide to call Walter.Ī half-hour comedy intended as friendly fare then and now, with no politics or plots tackling out-on-a-limb issues of the day. “I looked at Paul and went, ‘Did we just take a three-month break? What’s happening?’” “It was totally weird until four hours in, when it was weird that it wasn’t weird,” Hunt said of stepping on to the new set. Paul and Jamie’s apartment is redecorated and expanded with some of the same basic bones. ![]() Reiser, Hunt and others in the original cast, including Richard Kind, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay and Cynthia Harris, picked up from a main set that’s about eight miles from where the original was shot in Hollywood. Its 45-minute extended series-ending finale featuring Garofalo drew an audience of nearly 20 million households. ![]() Crazy but worth the risk? The original series and various cast members won a Peabody, four Golden Globes and 12 Primetime Emmys, Hunt included.
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