Disney should've saved Small & Frye and made it into a cartoon, not a live-action sitcom.
Small was a spring replacement series for CBS in 1983, bringing Darren McGavin back to series television after nearly 10 years (miniseries don't count). McGavin (ex-Kolchak: The Night Stalker) was cast as private eye Nick Small, whose partner, Chip Frye (Jack Blessing), was the victim of a lab accident that results in his shrinking, then reverting to normal size, at the most inopportune times. As McGavin explains in the intro, a police scientist (Bill Daily, ex-I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show) was able to help Frye control his size changes, but Frye's #1 fan, as shown in this clip, is Small's daughter, Phoebe, the duo's secretary.
McGavin, of course, would bounce back with the holiday classic film, "A Christmas Story", a few months later, and that is now a perennial staple on cable, while Small & Frye ended up locked in Disney's vaults.
No rating. Just a public service.
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