Gimme a Break!
198130m / epComedy · Family
First aired
October 29, 1981
TMDB Score
67% match · 31 votes
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As the chief is preparing a speech for an awards banquet, Nell accidently sits on his cap, which ticks him off. As the two fight, Samantha comes home, complaining that a girl called her a dumb Pollak, but Nell and the cheif are too busy arguing. To get their attention, she tells Nell ""how would you like it if somebody caled you a niggar?"" The chief gets her attention, goes on a rampage, and she locks herself in the bathroom, only to escape through the bathroom window, steal her fathers squad car, and take off to the police station, where she meets a drunkard named Bill, who is out of his cell, drunk in the cheif's office. In the end, the chief and Nell show up at the police station, and all is forgiven, as Nell tells Samantha that they should have listened to her in the first place, instead of fighting over a stupid squashed police cap.
About the Series

Synopsis
Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.
CreatorsMorton Lachman, Sy Rosen
- First aired
- October 29, 1981
- Last aired
- May 12, 1987
- Seasons
- 6 seasons · 137 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Original language
- English
- Network
- NBC
Top Billed Cast
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