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==Production==
[[Bill Persky]] and [[Sam Denoff]] created the series<ref name="sss" /> and were ''Big Eddie'''s executive producers and writers. [[Hy Averback]] was the producer and director. It had three "sneak preview" broadcasts (August 23 - September 6, 1975) from 8:30 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturdays. Ratings decreased after it was moved to 8 - 8:30
Episodes were recorded on videotape in front of a live audience using facilities at [[KTLA|KTLA-TV]].<ref name="sss">{{cite book |last1=Leszczak |first1=Bob |title=Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979: A Complete Guide |date=November 16, 2012 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-6812-6 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvE6snvtSesC
==Critical response==
John J. O'Connor, in a review distributed by the New York Times Service, commented, ". . . to know ''Big Eddie'' is to loath it."<ref name="mn">{{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=John J. |title='Big Eddie' is depressing |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-news-big-eddie-tv-show/125658682/ |access-date=June 1, 2023 |work=The Morning News |date=August 23, 1975 |location=Delaware, Wilmington |page=23|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The review implied that Eddie married Honey as a means of obtaining custody of his granddaughter, "who, for purposes of uncomplicated plotting, is conveniently orphaned."<ref name="mn" /> O'Connor commented that Eddie often shouted and that his speech was filled with pronunciations such as "'dat' for that, or 'foist' for first" and he added, "His black assistant (Ralph Wilcox) jive talks hysterically."<ref name="mn" />
After watching four episodes, Lee Winfrey wrote in ''[[The Baltimore Sun|The Evening Sun]]'', "The only thing large about ''Big Eddie'' is growing wonder as to why it is still on the air."<ref name="es">{{cite news |last1=Winfrey |first1=Lee |title='Eddie': Big Or Dull? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-sun-big-eddie-tv-show/125659615/ |access-date=June 1, 2023 |work=The Evening Sun |agency=KNI |date=October 16, 1975 |location=Maryland, Baltimore |page=22|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The review added that "each week the plots grow more surpassingly stupid, the guest stars less interesting, and the whole show steadily more arthritic in pace."<ref name="es" /> The title character was called "as dull as a reformed drunk" and the family's home life was summarized as "dull domesticity, just another unbelievable sitcom family, wrestling with piffling problems and pennywhistle crises."<ref name="es" />
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[[Category:1975 American television series debuts]]
[[Category:1975 American television series endings]]
[[Category:1970s American multi-camera sitcoms]]
[[Category:American English-language television shows]]
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[[Category:Television shows set in New York City]]
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