Twenty Good Years was an NBC

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 situation comedy

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 starring Jeffrey Tambor

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, John Lithgow

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, Heather Burns

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 and Jake Sandvig

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 that ran from October 11, 2006 until November 1, 2006. The series had also been slated to air on CTV

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 in Canada

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John Lithgow played John Mason, a surgeon forced into semi-retirement, while Jeffrey Tambor was Jeffrey Pyne, a judge. The comedy show was about two old friends that appeared to be polar opposites in many situations. One thing they agreed upon, however, is that life is short and both men vowed to live every day like it is their last, since they figured at their age, they only had "twenty good years" to live.

On May 14, 2007, the series was officially canceled by NBC.

Ratings and reception

Since the series debut, Twenty Good Years had been plagued by schedule changes before the season began, as well as receiving mixed-to-negative reviews. They had also placed fourth in its Wednesday time period and continued to slip since the first episode. On October 25, 2006, NBC announced that it was replacing the Wednesday night comedy block with specials, pulling Twenty Good Years from the schedule with no plans for a return.

Episodes

Ep #	Episode	Air date	Overview
1	Pilot	October 11, 2006	Meet John and Jeffrey, two complete opposites who can only agree on one thing - they only have twenty good years left to live. In spite of the differences between the two, they vow to live each day as if it were their last - without looking back and without any regrets.
2	"Big Love"	October 18, 2006	John and Jeffrey go to a rock music club. To their surprise, the club’s sexy owner (Jane Leeves Jane Leeves Jane Leeves is an English film, stage, and television actress, comedienne and dancer.Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in the 1983 popular British comedy television show The Benny Hill Show. Leeves moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles until she secured a... ) flirts with them and invites them to an after-party. John and Jeffrey end up dating her at the same time and she offers a challenge that may be too much for them to handle.
3	"The Elbow Incident"	October 25, 2006	When Jeffrey hurts his elbow in a basketball game against two younger players he refuses to let John operate because he is afraid of hospitals. This does not sit well with John because he wants a rematch against the younger players.
4	"Jeffrey's Choice"	November 1, 2006	John does not like it when Jeffrey's ex-girlfriend Gina shows up again. He is afraid it will ruin the plans he has for him and Jeffrey.
5	"Sorry, Wrong Ship"	Unaired	Hugh reluctantly invites John and Jeffrey to a yacht party with Hugh’s model friends; however John and Jeffrey accidentally board the wrong yacht which is populated with mourners on their way to spread their friends’ ashes at sea.
6	"The Bong Show"	Unaired	When Jeffrey accidentally buys a bong thinking it is a vase, John sneaks it into the background of a formal photo being taken of Jeffrey to be hung in the courthouse in honour of twenty years of service as a judge.
7	"Murder He Thought"	Unaired	Gina claims to have gone into therapy and changed her behaviour. However, John refuses to believe her, but Jeffrey allows Gina to come along on a spelunking expedition where she falls and breaks her leg.
8	"Between Brock and a Hard Place"	Unaired	When Jeffrey and John's neighbor, Brock Manley, invites them to apply for membership in "The Magellan Adventure Club," an exclusive, all male club, it leads the two friends into an initiation process they didn't bargain for.
9	"They Shoot Turkeys, Don't They?"	Unaired	As they prepare for Thanksgiving, Jeffrey struggles to teach Hugh how to make the perfect pie and John makes plans to hunt for his turkey dinner. Meanwhile, John finds out about Stella's relationship with the doctor hired to replace him.
10	"Remember the Alimony"	Unaired	When John’s ex-wife, Kate announces that she is engaged, John is ecstatic because he won’t be paying alimony to her anymore. Jeffrey suspects that Kate’s fiancé is gay after admitting that he’s ‘living a lie’.
11	"John's Old Lady"	Unaired	Jeffrey notices that John’s constant bickering with their attractive middle-aged next door neighbour is just thinly-veiled flirtation. Meanwhile a sexy law student flirts with Jeffrey; however they do not have much in common with each other.
12	"The Crying Game"	Unaired	When John’s date accuses him of being unemotional, John pretends to cry, however she sees through him. Meanwhile, Jeffrey cooks in a smoky kitchen because his building manager always ignores his pleas to fix the broken vent and a stuck window.
13	"Come Fly with Me"	Unaired	Jeffrey finds the woman that he wants to spend the rest of his life with and, as always, John’s not happy about it. Feeling rejected, John goes to Las Vegas and returns the next day with a new wife, a Korean blackjack dealer.

International Broadcasts

Country	Broadcaster	Timeslot	Notes
Australia	Nine HD Nine HD Nine HD was an Australian television channel, owned by Nine Entertainment Co., that launched on 17 March 2008. The channel was available to high definition digital television viewers in metropolitan and regional areas through a number of owned-and-operated and affiliate stations...		The entire series has been broadcast.
Belgium	VT4 VT4 VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...	15:40 (UTC+1 UTC+1 UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as .This time is used in:*Central European Time*West Africa Time*Western European Summer Time**British Summer Time**Irish Standard Time... )
Brazil	SBT
Bulgaria	Novvva Television
Denmark	6'eren 6'eren 6'eren is a Danish subscription television channel operated by SBS TV A/S, part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. It replaced SBS net on January 1, 2009....
Slovenia	Kanal A Kanal A Kanal A is the first commercial television station in Slovenia. The television program, which has been operating within PRO PLUS d.o.o., has national coverage. In its primary target group of viewers , Kanal A is the second most watched TV programme in Slovenia...	Midnight (UTC+1 UTC+1 UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as .This time is used in:*Central European Time*West Africa Time*Western European Summer Time**British Summer Time**Irish Standard Time... )	The entire series has been broadcast.
New Zealand	TV2
Finland	MTV3 MTV3 MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...
Russia	NTV		The entire series has been broadcast.
Macedonia	A2 TV
Cyprus	Nimonia
Ukraine	Novyi Kanal Novyi Kanal Novyi Kanal is a Ukrainian television channel.- History :The channel was launched on August 15, 1998. At first, it was broadcast only in Kiev, but since 1999, it has extended its range to six other regions of Ukraine, and from 2000, is received in more than 17 major cities...