Black Tie Affair

Black Tie Affair 162h6z

1993
Black Tie Affair
Black Tie Affair

Black Tie Affair 162h6z

7.1 | NR | en | Comedy

Black Tie Affair is an American crime drama spoof that aired from May 29 until June 19, 1993.

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EP1  One
May. 29,1993
One

The episode (as does every episode) begins with the voice of Dave Brodsky (Bradley Whitford), who narrarates each episode, explaining the situation to the audience. He is a private investigator, who has been hired by Margo Cody (Kate Capshaw) to find out whether her husband, Christopher Cody, is having an affair and with whom. They are attending a testimonial dinner at San Francisco's Fleetwood Hotel in honor of Christopher who has been selected as Man of the Year. To keep a low profile, Dave is dressed as a bellboy who works at the hotel. When Christopher slips out of the dinner, Dave follows him and pretends to be an avid fan of his clothing line, for which he is famous. After frantically trying to shake free from Dave, he slips into the elevator and up to the 12th floor. Meanwhile at the dinner, Margo is approached by (a slimy) Hal Kempner (Bruce McGill) who wishes to get his ""amazing multi-purpose"" line of ""Toads"" shoes into the Cody Man catalogue. Dave interupts just in time to gi

EP2  Two
May. 29,1993
Two

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EP3  Three
Jun. 05,1993
Three

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EP4  Four
Jun. 12,1993
Four

Cody goes to see if a hotel maid (Eva La Rue) has his glasses; Brodsky tells Margo he thinks Cody's a killer. Fat Cannibal: Kevin Michael Richardson. Hal: Bruce McGill. Cookie: Maggie Han. Eve: Alison Elliott. Brodsky: Bradley Whitford.

EP5  Five
Jun. 19,1993
Five

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EP6  Six
Dec. 31,1969
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EP7  Seven
Dec. 31,1969
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EP8  Eight
Dec. 31,1969
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EP9  Nine
Dec. 31,1969
Nine

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EP10  Ten
Dec. 31,1969
Ten

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EP11  Eleven
Dec. 31,1969
Eleven

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EP12  Twelve
Dec. 31,1969
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EP13  Thirteen
Dec. 31,1969
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7.1 | NR | en | Crime | More Info
Released: 1993-05-29 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Black Tie Affair is an American crime drama spoof that aired from May 29 until June 19, 1993.

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Crime

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John Cothran

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Jay Tarses

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Black Tie Affair Audience Reviews y6h2s

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Kaelum I worked on the show too, all 13 episodes that were shot. Unfortunately, there was a major blunder during the first 2 days of shooting and a feud between Jay Tarsus and NBC. This resulted in the show airing after the options on all of the primary characters contract's has expired, which meant there was no possible way to continue the series.There shooting blunder was that the first two days of shooting were over exposed by about 2-3 f-stops. What this translates to is that the image is washed out and extremely bright. Since reshooting the first 2 days was not an option, the first 4 episodes (4 weeks of shooting) all had to be shot at the same exposure setting. I'm sure that this is the reason why NBC wanted to not even air the show, but I think that Jay took it personally.Anywho, I the boom operator (another one of these comments) and I helping her out on a few episodes. BTW, I stood in for John Calvin, who seems to have disappeared after 1995. The worst day of shooting was at the hotel where I had this squab sitting in front of me for 2 days. On the second day, I think that they sprayed it with Lysol to help cover the rotting smell.
gcm3 I worked this show as the boom operator and I have to say it was one of the smartest, funniest scripts I have ever read. Jay Tarses was a fabulous man to work for and put everything he had into it - great fun and at least one giant laugh every day. The cast were all great folks (Brad Whitford, Maggie Han and Kate Capshaw come especially to mind) and the we crew had our bits of fun too. It was such a shame that the "suits" at NBC had no sense of what I call intellectual low-brow humor - Not only did they change the name from Smouldering Lust (very funny), they only aired 5 episodes, the whole while shifting time slots so as to drown it out. It is a period of my life that I with great fondness.
Charles Herold (cherold) I think about this show every once in awhile, although I only saw a couple of episodes. The problem was that my eyes would go right over "black tie affair" in the TV guide. It was such a boring, meaningless title. I knew it was a great show but my eyes just couldn't see it. Originally it was supposed to be called Smoldering Lust, and the network chickened out, which is a shame, because I'm sure that would have just jumped out at me. I mean, you can't really ignore something called "Smoldering Lust." It is perhaps one of the odder things I'm irked about, that some stupid networks made me miss most of the few episodes of something because they gave it a stupid, meaningless title that my brain just could not , but it sure was a dumb move.
mikeonfilm This series lasted briefly (under six episodes?) in the early nineties and it's no wonder. Though the storyline of a Sam Spade like private dick (Bradley Whitford) and his super-competent gal Friday, Cookie was well written and a lot of fun for fans of film noir there was little chance this show would last.There was no laugh track and the jokes weren't delivered with the heavy handed style television audiences have come to expect. Perhaps viewers tuned in and had no idea what they were supposed to be watching. Who knows.With a continuing storyline featuring Kate Capshaw as an older, Bacall/Stanwyck type mystery woman this show managed to pay homage to the hard boiled detective genre without lapsing too heavily into parody. Another treasure swallowed up before it had a chance to find its audience.