Welcome to Late Night Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Wednesdays, I will be reviewing 1st and Ten, which aired in syndication from 1984 to 1991. The entire series is streaming on Tubi.

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Episode 1.12 “Not Quite Mr. Right”

(Dir by Bruce Seth Green, originally aired on February 10th, 1985)

The Bulls are going to the “Championship Game!”

They should be getting ready for the game but instead, everyone’s distracted.

Wide receiver Mace Petty (Marshall R. Teague) has been cast in a movie where he will be co-starring with his favorite actor, Larry the Wonder Dog.

Diana is distracted when a former lover (Dennis Holohan) shows up and starts acting like he wants to get back together.

Denardo is distracted by the networks wanting to mic him up during the big game.  Everyone agrees that Denardo curses too much to wear a microphone.  Since this episode was edited for syndication, we don’t actually heard Denardo curse but we are assured that he does it.

This episode sucked.  Right when the football part of the show finally starts to get interesting, 1st & Ten does an episode that takes everyone off the field.  Now, I will add one caveat.  On Tubi, it appears that they are largely using episodes that were edited for syndication.  As a result, there was so pretty obvious dubbing (especially where Denardo was concerned) and some pretty abrupt jump cuts.  So, it’s totally possible that the HBO version of this episode might have been a masterpiece.  I doubt it, though.

Next week …. it’s not the Super Bowl.  It’s the Championship Game!