We've Got Each Other

{{Lead too short|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = We've Got Each Other title card.png | caption = | genre = Sitcom | runtime = 30 mins. | company = Company Four<br>MTM Enterprises | creator = Jay Tarses<br />Tom Patchett | executive_producer = Jay Tarses<br />Tom Patchett | producer = Jack Burns | camera = Multi-camera | starring = Oliver Clark<br />Beverly Archer | narrator = | country = United States | language = English | network = CBS | first_aired = {{start date|1977|10|1}} | last_aired = {{end date|1978|1|7}} | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 13 }}

'''''We've Got Each Other''''' is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from October 1, 1977, to January 7, 1978.

==Premise== The television series follows the lives of the Hibbard couple as they navigate their neighbors, work, and daily life.<ref name=":0" /> In this series, the roles of housewife and business-man are reversed. Judy is the family's breadwinner.

Stuart Hibbard (Oliver Clark), who works from home and writes for a mail order catalogue ("Herman Gutman Mail Order Catalogs") is married to Judy Hibbard (Beverly Archer) who works as an office manager for forgetful photographer Damon Jerome (Tom Poston).<ref name=":0">{{cite web|author=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075598/plotsummary |title=We've Got Each Other - Plot Summary|publisher=IMDb |access-date=2013-01-14}}</ref> Both Judy and Stuart had a nemesis in their daily lives: self-centered model, Dee Dee Baldwin (Joan Van Ark) was Judy's, and their next door neighbor, Ken Redford (Martin Kove) was Stuart's.

==Cast== *Oliver Clark as Stuart Hibbard *Beverly Archer as Judy Hibbard *Tom Poston as Damon Jerome *Joan Van Ark as Dee Dee *Renn Woods as Donna *Martin Kove as Ken

==Production== The show was created by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses for MTM Enterprises and CBS, it aired Saturdays following ''The Bob Newhart Show'' (also produced by MTM Enterprises), replacing ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. The show did not garner critical or commercial success, with cancellation coming after just 13 episodes. At the time, Tarses was quoted in ''TV Guide'' as saying he wouldn’t have watched it if he’d been a viewer: “I have better things to do with my time.”<ref>{{Cite web|last=WordPress.com|first=Blog at|date=2012-06-27|title=1970s Fun Flops: "The Tony Randall Show" (Part 2)|url=https://thiswastv.com/2012/06/27/1970s-fun-flops-the-tony-randall-show-part-2/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=This Was Television|language=en}}</ref>

==Episodes== {{Episode table|background=#3399ff|overall=5|title=20|DirectedBy=16|WrittenBy=18|airdate=14|episodes=

{{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=1 |Title=Pilot |DirectedBy = James Burrows |WrittenBy = Jay Tarses & Tom Patchett |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|10|1}} |ShortSummary= Judy walks off the job because of an egotistic model. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=2 |Title=The Old-Beau Incident |DirectedBy = George Tyne |WrittenBy = Mary-David Sheiner |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|10|8}} |ShortSummary= Judy goes out to lunch with an old flame. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=3 |Title=The Collector |DirectedBy = Will Mackenzie |WrittenBy = Sy Rosen |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|10|15}} |ShortSummary= Stuart purchases a valuable collector's item for 1 dollar. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=4 |Title=Mother McCree |DirectedBy = Harvey Medlinsky |WrittenBy = Jack Burns |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|10|22}} |ShortSummary= Judy's mother stays with them and Stuart is determined to impress her. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=5 |Title=The 101st Hibbard |DirectedBy = Lee Bernhardi |WrittenBy = Sy Rosen |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|10|29}} |ShortSummary= Stuart finds out that he is responsible for the Hibbards having no children. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=6 |Title=Incomplete Pass |DirectedBy = Asaad Kelada |WrittenBy = Mary-David Sheiner |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|11|12}} |ShortSummary= Damon finds out that his ex-wife is getting married. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=7 |Title=A Space Odyssey |DirectedBy = Will Mackenzie |WrittenBy = Madeline Di Maggio |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|11|19}} |ShortSummary= |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=8 |Title=My Brother's Keeper |DirectedBy = Will Mackenzie |WrittenBy = Jack Burns |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|11|26}} |ShortSummary= Stuart's brother and his bride sleeps over at the Hibbards'. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=9 |Title=Oil Spill |DirectedBy = Tony Mordente |WrittenBy = Madeline Di Maggio |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|12|3}} |ShortSummary= The tomboy daughter of Dee Dee refuses to follow in her mother's glamorous footsteps. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=10 |Title=Miss Wonderful |DirectedBy =Lee Bernhardi |WrittenBy = Sy Rosen |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|12|17}} |ShortSummary= Judy is chosen as the model for a soap ad. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=11 |Title=The Magic Show |DirectedBy = Michael Zinberg |WrittenBy = Sy Rosen |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|12|24}} |ShortSummary= Stuart tries to become a professional magician. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=12 |Title=The Long Vacation |DirectedBy = James Burrows |WrittenBy = Lloyd Garver |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|12|31}} |ShortSummary= Stuart misses out on the Hibbards' Hawaiian vacation because of last-minute work. |LineColor=3399ff }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=13 |Title=Pumping Iron |DirectedBy = Lee Bernhardi |WrittenBy = Jack Burns |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|1|7}} |ShortSummary= Judy wants Stuart to shape up. |LineColor=3399ff }} }}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|75598}} *{{TV Guide show|205394}} *{{epguides|WeveGotEachOther}} *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPwQlQr8bU ''We've Got Each Other'' opening credits on YouTube] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P_w3TtmX4U 1977 CBS promo for ''We've Got Each Other'' on YouTube]

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Category:1977 American television series debuts Category:1978 American television series endings Category:1970s American multi-camera sitcoms Category:English-language American television shows Category:Television shows set in Los Angeles Category:Television series about marriage Category:Television series by MTM Enterprises Category:Television series created by Tom Patchett Category:CBS sitcoms