Perfect Strangers (TV series)
- Bronson Pinchot as Balki Bartokomous
- Mark Linn -Baker as Larry Appleton
- Melanie Wilson as Jennifer
- Rebeca Arthur as Mary Anne
- Jo Marie Payton -Noble as Harriette Winslow
A Greek conquered Chicago ( Original Title: Perfect Strangers ) is an American comedy series that was last aired in Germany in 1996 on Super RTL. On March 25, 1986, the first of 150 episodes was first broadcast in the USA. It was developed by screenwriter Dale McRaven. Between 1986 and 1993 created eight seasons.
Differences from the U.S. version
In American original Balki ( Bronson Pinchot ) comes from the Mediterranean island of Mypos that does not exist in reality. The German translator seemed to deem it appropriate to let him come from Greece and declared Mypos to the Greek island. This is only partly been in Bulgaria the case in any other emitting country. Also speaks Balki in the German version German accent high, and his linguistic shortcomings are mainly illustrated by malapropisms. In the original version, he has a very strong accent.
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In the first episode his cousin Larry reached the country bumpkin and a shepherd Balki, who left his native village to come to America, after a long journey (Mark Linn - Baker) in Chicago. This lives alone in an apartment for the first time, but the two decide at the end of the episode for the time being to live together. Between the two quickly developed a close friendship. With its naive and essentially honest nature and not least because of its mediocre language skills Balki brings his cousin often in absurd situations. Partly it is the possibility to almost acrobatic slapstick.
Season 1 (1986 )
The first season comprises only six episodes. After Larry and Balki have decided to live together, helps Larry to get him a job at the discounter in her house, where he also works. Your boss is the nasty Mr. Twinkacetti (played by Ernie Sabella ), whose name Balki way not pronounce permanently wrong in the original. This season, the neighbor Susan is a platonic friend Larry.
Season 2 (1986-1987)
Susan is ruled out at the beginning of the second season. Instead, the two begin to Jennifer Lyons ( Melanie Wilson) and Mary Anne Spencer ( Rebeca Arthur) to be taken. In the following, it turns out that the two stewardesses are living in the same house as Larry and Balki.
Seasons 3-6 (1987-1991)
At the beginning of the third season, the boys find a new, larger apartment again. From now on, Balki has a private room and no longer have to sleep on the sofa in the living room. Interestingly, this move is not addressed. The two neighbors Jennifer and Mary Anne are still seen as counterparts of the two with the game. Larry can reach a position at the fictional newspaper Chicago Chronicle and manages to get a job in the mail room Balki.
Balkis immediate supervisor Sam Gorpley ( Sam Anderson) not to be understood with this and plans to permanently ways to fire him. Lydia Markham, advice columnist of the Chronicles, is played by Belita Moreno, who played in the first two seasons Edwina Twinkacetti. Larry comes in season four to investigative reporter Duo " Marshall & Walpole ," supports this but further from the editors of. Even Larry's relationship with Jennifer 'll always get the ball rolling, in the sixth season grasping both their wedding in the eye.
As a leader elevator works in Chicago Chronicle Harriette Winslow ( Jo Marie Payton -France, later Payton - Noble). Her husband Carl Winslow ( Reginald VelJohnson ) is introduced in an episode of the fourth season. Finally, pull the two in the home of Larry and Balki. After two seasons, 1989, Harriette Winslow was given her own spin -off series: Family Matters ( All under one roof ). In A Greek Chicago conquered not stepped on it, but you could learn in an early episode of Family Matters that she was fired as elevator guide, to be set only to subsequently as head of security of the Chronicles again.
Season 7 (1991-1992)
After the wedding of Larry and Jennifer was clear that the series would take a new direction. When the two a large Victorian house fed lie down, they realize that they themselves can not afford without roommates. So pull Balki and Mary Anne to them. In the middle of the season Balki leaves the Chronicle, as he is asked, his own comic, on his fabric sheep Dimitri draw based. Gorpley and Lydia might appear occasionally in the series, but leave it to the end of the season. With the now- married couple, the series focuses on the now, the ambiguous relationship between Balki and Mary Anne. In the last episodes of the season Mary Anne listens to see Balki and pulls out of the house. But in the season finale to reconcile the two and get married too. At the end of this episode, when the other two are on their way to the honeymoon after Mypos, reports Jennifer Larry that she is pregnant.
Season 8 (1993 )
The eighth season is, like the first, only six episodes. These represent the final finale of the series represents the first episode takes place some months after the last season, and Jennifer is visibly pregnant. Balki and his newly wedded wife return home from Mypos and reveal that Mary Anne is also pregnant. The Chronicle storylines run this season from it and it is reported exclusively from the family life of the actors. The series ends with consecutive sequences in which Larry, Balki and Jennifer stand out with a hot air balloon, to induce labor at her after Mary Anne has already become a mother. If both babies in the world are, the program ends with a montage of memorable scenes from the series set to music with the song Somewhere In The World by Houko Kuwashima. Lastly, it is shown how the performers bow one last time in front of the studio audience.
Occupation
Lydia Markham (Season 3-7)
All under one roof
The character of Harriette Winslow and her husband Carl, who is introduced in the fourth season, formed the basis for the spinoff Family Matters ( Original title: Family Matters ).
On 5 February 2008, Warner Home Video made the seasons 1 and 2 in a box out as RC1 DVDs in the U.S.. This has since been published as a German box with additional German soundtrack.