The exploits of a clueless American senator and the eccentric, morally corrupt people who are closest to him.The exploits of a clueless American senator and the eccentric, morally corrupt people who are closest to him.The exploits of a clueless American senator and the eccentric, morally corrupt people who are closest to him.
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- TriviaCasting director Sheila Guthrie recommended that the creators of Frasier (1993) should invent a part for David Hyde Pierce in part because of his physical resemblance to Kelsey Grammer. She left them with tapes of this series, and they were so dazzled by his performance that they devised the role of Niles Crane explicitly for him.
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Sen. William Franklin Powers: Politics is 30 percent hard work, 30 percent persuasion, and 90 percent communication.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Radar Secret Service (1993)
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WONDERFULLY HUMOROUS SIT-COM
This was a wonderfully humorous (laugh out loud stuff) sit-com about a senator, his large smart/crazy family, his mistress, his "in" with the new administration---unfortunately being stuck on early Saturday primetime and going insufficiently viewed (I guess), so prematurely cancelled after around 12-15 episodes--check the great cast: JOHN FORSYTH, HOLLAND TAYLOR, DAVID HYDE PIERCE, VALERIE MAFAFFEY, ELIZABETH BERRIDGE, ETC. By all means see it if the opportunity presents itself.
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- Jan 17, 1999
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![Robin Bartlett, John Forsythe, David Hyde Pierce, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Valerie Mahaffey, and Holland Taylor in The Powers That Be (1992)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDc4MWNhZDQtZTI5MC00ZDljLTkzNzItMmRkY2RjZTcyZGU2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTEwODg2MDY@._V1_QL75_UX90_CR0,1,90,133_.jpg)