Caroline in the City - Season 1 [3 DVD]

Excellent condition

Caroline in the City revolves around an artist whose chaotic personal life provides a fount of material.  Caroline is already a success.  She draws the highly popular "witty and carefree" comic strip about a hapless single woman who is not Cathy.  As this inaugural season unfolds, Caroline finds herself increasingly torn between two men.  The first is Del (Eric Lutes), her on-again-off-again boyfriend for whom she creates Caroline merchandise for his dad's greeting card company.  The second is Richard (Malcolm Gets), Caroline's new assistant and a struggling artist with a sardonic wit that's a tonic to the show.  Caroline and Richard don't generate sparks like Sam and Diane or David and Maddie; They are more Ross and Rachel, and the season gets more involving once the romantic tension tightens.  Adding spunk to the series is Annie (Amy Pietz), Caroline's neighbor and best friend, and a Broadway dancer (she's in Cats).  Annie and Richard make fine and funny natural-born enemies (they address each other as "tightass" and "tart").  Helping to get the fledgling series aloft like the Caroline in the City parade balloon in the Thanksgiving episode is a roster of fellow "Must-See" stars (David Hyde Pierce and Jane Leeves from Frasier, Matthew Perry from Friends, and Jonathan Silverman from The Single Guy), as well as future Gilmore Girl Lauren Graham in a recurring role as Richard's flakey and impossible to shake girlfriend, and TV icons Jean Stapleton as Caroline's aunt and Florence Henderson as herself.

Rated 6.2 on IMDB

Running time: 510 minutes (23 episodes; 3 disks)