Bosom Buddies

Bosom Buddies

7.8/10
ABC Ended Comedy

2 Seasons · 37 Episodes · Premiered November 27, 1980 · Ended March 25, 1982

Bosom Buddies follows the adventures of Kip Wilson and Henry Desmond, junior ad-men at Livingston Gentry and Mishkin Advertising Agency. Kip was an illustrator, but aspired to be a painter, and Henry, a copywriter and aspiring novelist. When their building is demolished, they dress as women to stay with co-worker Amy Cassidy in her apartment at the Susan B. Anthony Hotel, where men are forbidden anywhere above the lobby. Kip and Henry decide to invent alter egos Buffy and Hildegarde (their fictional sisters) to move into an empty (and cheap) apartment at the hotel; Henry, to write an expose about the experience, and Kip, to get closer to Amy's beautiful roommate, Sonny Lumet, nurse, and part-time dancer.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

19 episodes
E01
Bosom Buddies
Fri, Nov 28 1980 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Henry Desmond and Kip Wilson are imaginative young admen who solve an acute housing problem by donning wigs and dresses to qualify for residence in the Susan B. Anthony hotel for women.
E02
My Brother, My Sister, Myself
Fri, Dec 5 1980 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
When Kip is discovered in the apartment without his Buffy disguise, Lilly Sinclair, the new manager of the hotel, decides to have the other residents vote on whether Buffy and Hildegarde are evicted or not.
E03
Loathe Thy Neighbor
Fri, Dec 12 1980 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Feuds erupt amongst Amy and Sonny and Kip and Henry.
E04
Macho Man
Fri, Dec 19 1980 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Henry worries that people don't perceive him to be masculine, so he overcompensates.
E05
What Price Glory?
Fri, Jan 2 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
The boys try to out-sleaze a rival ad man to land an account. Meanwhile Isabelle leads a self-defense class.
E06
Kip and Sonny's Date
Fri, Jan 9 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Sonny and a nervous Kip double date with Henry and Ruth's purple haired niece who calls herself Andrea Puss.
E07
Beauty and the Beasts
Fri, Jan 16 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
After experiencing life as an unattractive woman, Henry realizes that he himself has been shallow in only dating women for their looks, so he asks out Amy.
E08
Revenge
Fri, Jan 23 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Amy instigates an elaborate charade with her friends to get back at a snobby congressional aide who dumped her at a costume party.
E09
Amy's Career
Fri, Jan 30 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Amy employs unusual tactics when she pitches an ad for Mountain Pine mouthwash.
E10
Gotta Dance
Fri, Feb 6 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Sonny decides to go home to Michigan, so Kip entices her to stay by getting her a starring role in a TV commercial.
E11
Sonny Boy
Fri, Feb 13 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Kip and Henry (as Buffy and Hildy) subdue two criminals that are robbing the hotel, drawing the attention of the media, and Henry's mother.
E12
How Great Thou Art
Fri, Feb 20 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Kip's artwork inspires Henry to have it displayed in a special showing inside a local art gallery as an original birthday present for him. Some attending patrons though , are not impressed with it.
E13
Kip Quits
Fri, Feb 27 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Kip quits his job rather than change a campaign to please a client and winds up selling hot dogs on a street corner.
E14
Only the Lonely
Fri, Mar 13 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
When Ruth pushes an evening of home entertainment on Kip and Henry, they realize she may not have any friends. Meanwhile Sonny, Amy and Isabelle care for a box full of kittens.
E15
The Rewrite
Fri, Mar 20 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Buffy and Hildy are nearly unmasked, so Henry writes about the incident and keeps trying to improve the story by changing the tone.
E16
The Show Must Go On
Fri, Mar 27 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
The guys take jobs bussing tables to afford Isabelle the opportunity to sing in a night club.
E17
The Hospital
Fri, Apr 3 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
A blind hospital patient who can see right through Kip falls for Sonny. Meanwhile Lily is hospitalized for mono and Buffy and Hildy work at the hospital as candy stripers.
E18
Best Friends
Fri, Apr 10 1981 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Henry becomes jealous of Kip's revived friendship with his childhood friend, now a rock star.
E19
Cahoots
Fri, May 1 1981 12:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Kip and Amy agree to help each other get Sonny and Henry.

Season 2

18 episodes
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks as Kip Wilson (Buffy)
Peter Scolari
Peter Scolari as Henry Desmond (Hildegarde)
Donna Dixon
Donna Dixon as Sonny Lumet
Wendie Jo Sperber
Wendie Jo Sperber as Amy Cassidy
Telma Hopkins
Telma Hopkins as Isabelle Hammond
Holland Taylor
Holland Taylor as Ruth Dunbar
Lucille Benson
Lucille Benson as Lilly Sinclair

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