Gimme a Break!
An American sitcom which aired on NBC from October 29, 1981 until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters. The sitcom took place in the fictional Los Angeles, California suburb of Glenlawn. Nellie Ruth "Nell" Harper (Nell Carter) agrees to be a housekeeper for the Kanisky household as a special favor to her late friend, Margaret Kanisky (played in flashback by Sharon Spelman), who was the wife of police chief Carl Kanisky (Dolph Sweet). Nell also served as a confidante to the chief's three daughters, 17-year-old Katie (Kari Michaelsen), 15-year-old Julie (Lauri Hendler), and 13-year-old Samantha (Lara Jill Miller).