Classic Television - Prime TIme

The Super

Original Network

ABC

Original run

June 21, 1972 – August 23, 1972

Cast

Richard S. Castellano

Ardell Sheridan

Margaret Castellano

Bruno Kirby

Phil Mishkin

Ed Peck

Virginia Vincent

Janet Brandt

Louis Basile

The Super is a 1972 United States comedic television series starring Richard S. Castellano which centers around the superintendent of an apartment building in New York City. The show aired between June 21, 1972, and August 23, 1972.

Joe Girelli, the Italian-American superintendent (or "super") of an apartment building in a lower-middle-class section of New York City, is a big man (260 pounds; 118 kg) who prefers to be left alone so that he can drink beer while watching television. However, he rarely gets left alone. His family – wife Francesca, daughter Joanne, son Anthony, and brother Frankie, a big-shot lawyer – continually bothers him, the building's tenants are constantly banging on the pipes and complaining about him and one another, and city officials always are trying to condemn his building. His children are disrespectful toward him, and an endless series of ethnic and cultural disputes break out among the tenants, which include political revolutionaries, homosexuals, social workers, and police officers, and Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jewish Americans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans.