{"title":"The Bad News Bears","dateDebut":"1976","dateEnd":"1978","description":"\r\n\r\n When he wrecks a customer's swimming pool..because\r\n\r\nthe fink woint pay him for his services as a pool cleaner.\r\n\r\n\r\n \"Morris Buttermaker\"(Played by Jack Warden)is sentenced\r\n\r\nto work as a baseball coach at a school for troubled kids\r\n\r\nby the judge at civic court.\r\n\r\n\r\n The kids are impossible types who can't play the game\r\n\r\nproperly..let alone stay out of trouble.\r\n\r\n\r\n In order to help the boys play the game properly\r\n\r\nand to aide in his finishing his sentence?\r\n\r\n\r\n \"Buttermaker\"has the principal of the school\r\n\r\n\"Dr.Catherine Rappant\"(played by Catherine Hicks)\r\n\r\nreassign a tough but brilliant little tomboy\"Amanda\r\n\r\nWhiritzer\"to play on the team and to try and improve\r\n\r\nher education.\r\n\r\n\r\n Stories depic \"Buttermaker's\"efforts to try and improve\r\n\r\nthe\"Bears'baseball skills,keep the kids out of trouble and \r\n\r\nfinish his sentence..so that he can return to his career as\r\n\r\na not too successful swimming pool cleaner.\r\n\r\n\r\n This tv version of the popular movie comedy starring\r\n\r\nWalter Matthau,Joyce Van Patten,Vic Morrow,Brandon\r\n\r\nCruiz and Tatum O'Neil was not as popular as it's cinematic\r\n\r\ncounterpart.\r\n\r\n\r\n It was on the air for only two seasons..before it was\r\n\r\nabruptly cancelled in 1978.","leadImageMedUrl":null}