Oh Baby (1998)

Synopsis of Oh Baby

This TV comedy series on the challenges of single motherhood recounts semi-autobiographical events in the life of the series' executive producer-creator Susan Beavers, who scripted the premiere episode. Software company exec (Cynthia Stevenson) can't get a commitment from her longtime boyfriend Grant (Daniel Hugh Kelly). Minus a mate, she chose to be artificially inseminated. The sitcom set-up here features Tracy employing a remote and a video monitor while she narrates past events leading up to her decision, telling the viewer, "I convinced the network to give me 22 minutes to prove to them that you could care about me and my story." Thus, videotapes recap the advance suggestion of menopause by her gynecologist, the turquoise three-year anniversary ring from Grant, and scenes of her best friend, twice-divorced company shrink Charlotte (Joanna Gleason), also a single mother. Tracy can't fit it all into the necessary 22 minutes, so she tells viewers, "We only have about nine minutes left, so I'm going to just fast-forward right to my nervous breakdown." Filmed in LA, the series premiered August 18, 1998 on Lifetime. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Director(s):

Bob Berlinger

Writer(s):

Susan Beavers

Producer(s):

Dave Amico

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