Me and the Chimp [SEP] original network
Me and the Chimp
Me and the Chimp is an American sitcom which aired for one season during 1972 on CBS. It was created by Garry Marshall and Thomas L. Miller and produced by Alan Rafkin for Paramount Television.
Premise.
Mike Reynolds (Ted Bessell) is a dentist who lives with his wife (Anita Gillette), two children (Scott Kolden and Kami Cotler), and a chimp named Buttons, a washout from the space program (though unknown to Mike and his family until an old army sergeant
exclusively to Cartoon Network. (Many of these series also later became the core of a new channel devoted to classic cartoons, Boomerang, which launched in April 2000.) In 1999, TBS also refocused its original program offerings, removing documentaries and "National Geographic" specials – which were shifted over to CNN – in favor of carrying original made-for-TV movies and weekly series such as the reality show "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" and the short-lived comedy series "The Chimp Channel"