Baby Boom is an American sitcom series starring Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson is an American actress, director, and producer, perhaps best known for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels...

. The series is based on the 1987 film Baby Boom

Baby Boom (film)

Baby Boom is a 1987 comedy film starring Diane Keaton. The film also launched a subsequent television show starring Kate Jackson, running from 1988 to 1989. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti and the cinematography was by William A. Fraker....

. The pilot premiered September 10, 1988 on NBC

NBC

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, and the series began on November 2, 1988.

Cast

• Kate Jackson
  Kate Jackson
  Kate Jackson is an American actress, director, and producer, perhaps best known for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels...
  
   as J. C. Wiatt
• Sam Wanamaker
  Sam Wanamaker
  Samuel Wanamaker was an American film director and actor and is credited as the person most responsible for the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London...
  
   as Fritz Curtis
• Michelle and Kristina Kennedy as Elizabeth
• Daniel Bardol as Ken Arrenberg
• Joy Behar
  Joy Behar
  Josephina Victoria "Joy" Behar is an American comedian, writer, actress, and a co-host of the talk show The View. Behar has a commentary program, entitled The Joy Behar Show, on CNN's sister network, HLN...
  
   as Helga Von Haupt
• Susie Essman
  Susie Essman
  Susan "Susie" Essman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television producer, and voice artist. She is best known for her role as Susie Greene on the HBO television sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm...
  
   as Charlotte Elkman
• Robyn Peterson as Arlene Mandell
• Jane Elliot
  Jane Elliot
  Jane Elliot is an American actress, known for her role as Tracy Quartermaine, a role she has played on General Hospital and The City ....
  
   as Julie
• Robin Thomas
  Robin Thomas
  Robin Thomas is an American film and television actor.He was born Robin Thomas Grossman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His best-known television roles are as Mark Singleton in the soap opera Another World , and as Geoffrey Wells on the 1980s series Who's the Boss?...
  
   as Rob Marks

Production

At the insistence of series creators Nancy Meyers

Nancy Meyers

Nancy Jane Meyers is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She is the writer, producer and director of several big-screen successes, including The Parent Trap , Something's Gotta Give , The Holiday , and It's Complicated...

 and Charles Shyer

Charles Shyer

Charles Richard Shyer is an American film director, writer and producer. Shyer's films are predominantly comedies, often with a romantic-comedy overtone...

, the show is made without a laugh track

Laugh track

A laugh track is a separate soundtrack invented by Charles "Charley" Douglass, with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television programming of comedy shows and sitcoms.The term "laugh track" does not apply to the genuine audience laughter on shows that shoot in...

. In December 1988, NBC announced that the series would go on hiatus after the December 21 episode. The network had planned on bring the show back after making certain "creative changes".

Episodes

Eight episodes are registered with the United States Copyright Office

United States Copyright Office

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