The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)

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The Odd Couple
Title card with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman
Based on	The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
Developed by	Garry Marshall Jerry Belson
Starring	Tony Randall Jack Klugman
Theme music composer	Neal Hefti
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	114 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Garry Marshall
Running time	25–26 minutes (excluding commercials)
Production company	Paramount Television
Original release
Network	ABC[1][2]
Release	September 24, 1970 (1970-09-24) – March 7, 1975 (1975-03-07)
Related
The Odd Couple (film) The Oddball Couple The New Odd Couple The Odd Couple II (film) The Odd Couple (2015)
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The Odd Couple (titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple) is an American sitcom television series broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC. The show, which stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, was the first of several sitcoms developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television. The series is based on the 1965 play, The Odd Couple, written by Neil Simon, which was also adapted into the 1968 film, The Odd Couple. The story examines two divorced men, Oscar and Felix, who share Oscar's Manhattan apartment, and whose contrasting personalities inevitably lead to conflict and laughter.

In 1997, the episodes, "Password" and "The Fat Farm", were ranked numbers 5 and 58, respectively, on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.^[3] The show received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.