It's a Living is an American sitcom set in a restaurant at the top of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. The show aired on ABC from October 30, 1980 until June 11, 1982. After the series was cancelled, new episodes aired in first-run syndication from September 28, 1985 to April 8, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver, Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions, later in association with Golden West Television and Lorimar-Telepictures.
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Dot and Sonny are both feeling lonely, so thet stay late at the restaurant to cry on each other's shoulder.
Jan goes into premature labor and with her life and the baby's life in danger, she has a dream about being visited by a strange Angel of Death.
Phil sets Sonny up with a new singing partner while Dot employs a marriage broker.
Sonny finds a little black book that leads him to intrigue and a red-hot lady.
Nancy is in favor of the new hotel manager's ideas that is until she's replaced with Dot.
Amy and Ginger decide to have a double wedding at the restaurant.
Amy anguishes over what she should do with her Valentine's Day present from Bobby Lee, the key to his hotel room.
Sonny is ecstatic when his sexy hairdresser agrees to move in with him. However, getting to first base gets a bit hard when his father shows up for a visit. Meanwhile, Jan discovers that someone in her home has been dialing 900 numbers.
Sonny feels threatened when a temporary replacement turns out to be a success.
Ginger's successful career oriented mother comes for a visit and Ginger is reluctant to discuss her career as a waitress with her.
Dot has been cast in a slasher movie and she studies up by watching a batch of slasher films. This leads her to have a scary dream that takes place at the restaurant.
Dot accepts a job as a casting assistant and has a difficult task of auditioning a friend.
Amy dates a man who wants to take her on the road to salvation. Meanwhile, Howard unknowingly buys Nancy some hot merchandise.
Jan tries to ward off a developer's plans to build a mini-mall in her neighborhood and Ginger uses a book of voodoo spells to conjure up a perfect date.
Dot's habit of neighbor watching entangles her in what appears to be a woman's murder.
Ginger encounters the unexpected when she telephones a wedding photographer for a date. Meanwhile, Sonny's agent buys him an hour's worth of TV time.
Louie throws Sonny a surprise 40th birthday party that ages Howard a few years.
Richie's aspiration to move to North Dakota is put to a halt by Jan who announces she's pregnant.
Nancy and Howard's marriage is put to the test when Nancy falls for Howard's old navy buddy.
Roomates, Ginger and Amy, may be no more after Ginger discovers Amy keeps a gun, something Ginger refuses to have in the apartment.
It's a Living is an American sitcom set in a restaurant at the top of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. The show aired on ABC from October 30, 1980 until June 11, 1982. After the series was cancelled, new episodes aired in first-run syndication from September 28, 1985 to April 8, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver, Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions, later in association with Golden West Television and Lorimar-Telepictures.
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