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Why do the writers of all books. put the He before the She (HE/SHE)? they do it in By Laws and Constitutional Documents Why?

I was also a kid when this show aired but I thought then and I do now think that it was one of the most sophisticated, hilarous shows on television. I would pay any price for a DVD of this show's only season!!

I was a teen when this was on, but it was my favorite TV sitcom. Paula Prentiss was one of my favorite stars (she was excellent in Man's Favorite Sport). Jack Cassidy and the rest of the crew were good too. Richard Benjamin was ok too. Have seen them in person on a couple of occasions, once on a class trip to see 2001 A Space Odysee (NYC). Sat a few rows away from them and got their autographs. Paula Prentiss was just how you'd expect ... warm and funny. Benjamin was a bit chilly. Love to see the show on DVD. Later on, thought Paula was excellent in the original Stepford Wives.

I was 11 years old when this show began - I loved it!! The humor and warmth between Paula Prentiss and Dick Benjamin did something amazing for my spirit. I was in a broken and hostile home, and I can't begin to describe the effect that the positive, supportive, and funny relationship between the husband and wife had on me... what must be done to get this produced on DVD?

Why oh why can't Tvland show programs like this. A very urbane well done look into the late 60's. Prentis and Benjamin are great. Jack Cassidy was terrific. Does any cable station show programs such as this?
WATCH THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!

He & She was one of the first American sitcoms I can remember watching in the UK (yes, it made it over here) and I always wondered what happened to it. So much so that on one of my first visits to the US in the 70's I made a point of visiting New York's Museum of Broadcasting where I was delighted to find it in their archives. I spent a very happy hour of so getting reacquainted with a show that, as many have said, was ahead of it's time. I always remember Kenneth Mars' character entering an leaving the Hollister's apartment via a gangplank from the next door firehouse. Wonderful TV comedy that demand a DVD revival.

As the other posters have said, one of the first of the really adult situation comedies. Both Dick Benjamin and Paula Prentiss were great actors, neither of whom really got their proper showcases. And I always thought Paula was really hot, I like brunettes and Oh that great low sexy Glynis Johns-Joan Greenwood-Tallulah Bankhead voice of hers! I was about 12 when the show was on but I still remember one exchange. Dick and Paula were talking about the possibility of his dying and her marrying again (not an uncommon sitcom notion.) At first Paula says she will never remarry, but Dick says she should go on with her life. Then Paula says, OK I'll remarry but I'll marry one of your friends so it will be someone you would have liked. Dick points out that most of them friends are already married. This stumps Paula at first then she remembers that Harry the fireman (played by the great Kenneth Mars, another neglected character actor) who worked in the firehouse across the airshaft from them and used to visit them by putting a wooden plank between their two windows is single. Dick is disgusted at this notion, while he thinks Harry is a nice guy, he is also an idiot, and Dick walks off in a huff. Harry happens to come over just then and notices Paula is upset. What's the matter, he asks? Oh, says Paula, Dick objects to you and me getting married! Great writing!

I'm so pleased to see HE & SHE on this site. I remember watching this show when I was a kid. For a sitcom that was originally on in the 1960's, this was a very smart and sophisticated show that was consistently amusing. Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss were one of the few real-life married couples who actually had onscreen chemistry too and Jack Cassidy was a riot as Oscar North. The show didn't get a chance to jump the shark because it was only on 1 season, but I never missed it. Funny, funny show.

So glad this program was added to the list! I looked for it a while back and was sorry to see it wasn't there. I haven't had cable for eight months now (economy reasons) so I didn't know that TV Land had been rerunning it. I myself am praying for a DVD release--hell, it's only one season! Anyway, I was only eight when this show originally appeared and it was on late so I didn't get to watch many episodes (or fully understand how terrific they were). But I always remembered the show's opening with the balloons and I caught up with the sitcom years ago when USA reran it. Paula Prentiss is my ideal woman--tall, a bit lanky, beautiful, witty, a little zany, and OF COURSE that husky Texas voice! Makes this guy go wild. She was such a marvelous comedienne. It breaks my heart that she had spells of depression, etc., not only for her sake but because it robbed us of so many years of her talent when she was away from the screen. Along with "Where the Boys Are" and "Man's Favorite Sport", "He & She" is Prentiss's major comic showcase, and she is truly a gem. Lucille Ball is my all-time favorite, but I wish that the Emmy she won in 1968 had gone to Prentiss instead, for it would have served as a reminder how great she and "He & She" were. I also think Jack Cassidy should have won the Best Supporting Comedy Actor Emmy that year. And I know that this is probably going to get a lot of criticism, but I wish that Prentiss's frequent movie co-star, Jim Hutton, had been her co-star in the series instead of Richard Benjamin (yes, I know she and Benjamin were married in real-life). Maybe the series would have done better. Prentiss and Hutton were just more appealing than Prentiss and Benjamin. But Benjamin is a good second choice, I guess. In closing, I want to say again that I hope this show comes out on DVD (who has the rights?). I would love to see the Emmy-winning episode "The Coming-Out Party" and the nominated "The Old Man and the She" (love those titles!) and all of the other ones. And Paula, if you ever happen to read this, know that I wish you (and Richard) all the best. You will always be one of my favorites.

This show never did Jump The Shark ! Why ? Because I must have been in my early `teens when I watched it in the U.K. and I still remember it now (2004). I remember the fire man walking the plank (The Plank.that was a good British movie. )and coming in the window. There was another guy who was obviously gay and I remember some gag about a hair drier. Anyway it was good !

I loved the show. Prentiss and Benjamin were great and the stories were fresh and funny. Cassidy as the vain neighbour Oscar was priceless (talk about art imitating life). I still remember a scene where Oscar brings over a housewarming present to them. They unwrap it and it's a huge framed photograph of himself (Oscar) with that leering smile on his face that Cassidy did so well. I still laugh when I think about it.

This show was a winner all the way. I especially liked Hamilton Camp as Andrew, the super and Kenneth Mars as the fireman, I think, from next door. One of those odd funny shows that slipped through the cracks and never returned again. So sad.

It was ahead of its time. "He and she " should have been saved for the early seventies when TV audiences finally matured. Instead, it was buried in the '60's mire of Baby Boom pap. I want to see it again - even if I have to buy it on video.

This terrific show may have only been a summer fill in, but it was one of the smartest and classiest comedies of its day.

I'm not sure what "jump the shark" means, but it sounds bad. He and She never, ever, ever, EVER jumped the shark. Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin were brilliant in that show, as were the writers and everyone else connected with it. He and She was waaaay ahead of its time and totally out of place amidst the other 'stock' comedy fare presented on TV during the 60s. Great show! Hope the series gets put on DVD one of these days. I'll be the first in line to buy it.