Picks and Pans Review: Good Time Harry

UPDATED 07/21/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 07/21/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (10-11 p.m. ET)

Ted Bessell, once Mario Thomas' befuddled boyfriend in That Girl, returns in this series pilot as a brilliant but helplessly libidinous sportswriter preoccupied with scoring. Marcia (Welcome Back, Kotter) Strassman is fine as a reporter, and the show is often better than its irritating laugh track.

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