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Mom P.I. (1990)

Mom P.I. poster
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Length
2 seasons, 26 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A widowed mother of two works as a waitress and talks her way into being the assistant to a grumpy private eye. The show is a comedy drama about her balancing family and her new job with a reluctant partner.

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What happens

Mom P.I. is a 1990–92 Canadian television comedy-drama series starring Rosemary Dunsmore, Stuart Margolin, Emily Perkins, and Shane Meier. Dunsmore plays eternal optimist Sally Sullivan, a recently widowed mother of two supporting her family as a waitress in a working-class diner, who talks her way into a job as assistant to grumpy, cynical private eye Bernie Fox (Margolin). The head writer for the show was Chris Haddock, who later created the much grittier Da Vinci's Inquest and Intelligence, also for the CBC. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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