Benson

Benson

1979
★★★★☆ 7.1/10
📺 7 Seasons
🎬 158 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.

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Seasons

Season 1
1979 • 24 Episodes
In the pilot of this spinoff series of Soap, Benson, the Butler of Jessica Tate helps out her cousin Gene Gatling, who is the Governor of the state. Benson's first escapade lands him into finding a way for a huge company to build their new bridge without killing beavers. His success in this idea seems to land him a ""trial offer"" for this new job.
Season 2
1980 • 22 Episodes
Benson and Kraus are held hostage during a market robbery.
Season 3
1981 • 22 Episodes
The Governor tries to work out the struggles to make Benson the State Budget Director.
Season 4
1982 • 22 Episodes
A yacht cruise becomes a murder mystery when the owner of the boat is stabbed to death.
Season 5
1983 • 22 Episodes
In the 5th season opener, Denise and Pete are about to get married in the woods, but trouble arises when Pete forgets to put gasin the car and him, Benson, Denise and Kraus are are stranded. They then have to find a way to cicilization so they steal the minister's gasoline can and take off.
Season 6
1984 • 24 Episodes
While going undercover, Benson learns that the Lieutenant Governor is accepting bribes from a construction company.
Season 7
1985 • 22 Episodes
While Governor Gatling is away, Benson and Clayton are depended upon to spend an 8 million dollar budget surplus before the next fiscal year, which is only a matter of several hours away. When the surplus was found out by someone, The Governor and Clayton go through political embarassment.

Crew

Producer
Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas

Network

ABC

Keywords

sitcom