Picks and Pans Review: Why Us?

UPDATED 08/24/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 08/24/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (8:30-9 p.m. ET)

From the mix-and-match school of TV sitcoms comes this pilot about the marriage of a college professor and an auto mechanic. The twist: John Lawlor plays the prof, Joanna Gleason the grease monkey. Why not? But considering the show's predictability, why bother?

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