{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television |image = |caption = |creator = Robert Blees |genre = Sitcom |director = Nick Havinga |starring = Shelley Fabares<br>Stephen McHattie<br>Eugenie Ross-Leming<br>Gerald Gordon<br>Audrey Landers |narrator = Peter Lawford |composer = Bob Alberti |open_theme = "Highcliffe Manor" by Frank De Vol |country = United States |language = English |num_seasons = 1 |num_episodes = 6 (2 unaired) |producer = Eugenie Ross-Leming<br>Brad Buckner |runtime = 30 minutes |channel = NBC |company = Alan Landsburg Productions<br>T.A.T. Communications Company |first_aired = {{Start date|1979|04|12}} |last_aired = {{End date|1979|05|03}} }}
'''''Highcliffe Manor''''' is an American sitcom with a gothic horror background focused on the events in a mansion with crazy scientists and strange figures. The series starred Shelley Fabares and aired on NBC from April 12 to May 3, 1979.
==Summary== The plot concerned the goings on at Highcliffe Manor, a creepy old mansion on a desolate island in New England. Helen Blacke, an attractive but flaky widow, is the owner of the mansion that was home to the Blacke Foundation, a scientific research institute with a houseful of sinister characters which included Frances, a mad scientist; Bram Shelley, a bionic man; Ian Glenville, a womanizing preacher; Cheng, a huge Korean assistant; Wendy Sparkles, a sexy secretary; Rebecca, a creepy housekeeper and evil doctors Lester and Sanchez. Each episode featured voice-over narration by Peter Lawford.
==Cast== *Shelley Fabares as Helen Blacke (widow of the foundation's founder) *Stephen McHattie as Reverend Ian Glenville *Eugenie Ross-Leming as Dr. Frances Kisgadden *Gerald Gordon as Dr. Felix Morger (former assistant to the late Berkeley Blacke) *Audrey Landers as Wendy Sparkles (secretary to the late Mr. Blacke) *Jenny O'Hara as Rebecca (the housekeeper) *Christian Marlowe as Bram Shelley (the bionic man) *David Byrd as Dr. Lester *Luis Avalos as Dr. Sanchez *Ernie Hudson as Smythe (valet to the late Mr. Blacke) *Harold Sakata as Cheng
==Episodes== {{Episode table |background=#3399ff |overall=5 |title=14 |director=12 |writer=25 |airdate=12 |episodes=
{{Episode list |Title=The Blacke Death |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|4|12}} |EpisodeNumber=1 |DirectedBy= Nick Havinga |WrittenBy= Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner |ShortSummary= Helen is oblivious to her tenants' designs toward her. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |Title=Berkeley Cheats the Grave |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|4|19}} |EpisodeNumber=2 |DirectedBy= Nick Havinga |WrittenBy= Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner |ShortSummary= Felix persists in his unrequited passion for Helen and the villagers make a ghastly discovery at the crypt. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |Title=The Evil from Within |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|4|26}} |EpisodeNumber=3 |DirectedBy= Nick Havinga |WrittenBy= Earle Doud |ShortSummary= A plot by Helen's evil enemies is short-circuited by Rev. Ian Glenville. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |Title=Love Blooms |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|5|3}} |EpisodeNumber=4 |DirectedBy= Nick Havinga |WrittenBy= Rick Orloff |ShortSummary= Dr. Kisgadden's abduction jolts her amnesiac bionic man to the realization that he is the presumed-dead. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |Title=Sex & Violence |OriginalAirDate=Unaired |EpisodeNumber=5 |DirectedBy= Nick Havinga |WrittenBy= Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner |ShortSummary= Rebecca and Smythe find each other during a heart-to-heart chat and Helen's mother (Inga Swenson) visits. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |Title=Stark Terror |OriginalAirDate=Unaired |EpisodeNumber=6 |DirectedBy= Nick Havinga |WrittenBy= Carmen Finestra & John Surgal |ShortSummary= Helen suspects Smythe is more than a valet and sinister vapors from a coffee maker claims two victims. |LineColor=3399ff }} }}
==References== *Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle. ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present''. Eight Edition. New York: Ballantine, 2003.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0078624|Highcliffe Manor}}
Category:1979 American television series debuts Category:1979 American television series endings Category:1970s American sitcoms Category:English-language American television shows Category:Television series by Alan Landsburg Productions Category:Television series by Sony Pictures Television Category:Television shows set in Philadelphia Category:NBC sitcoms