Private Benjamin (TV series)

Like the movie, the series is about a spoiled young socialite named Judy Benjamin adjusting to life in the army. She's popular among her fellow enlisted personnel (with the exception of Pvt. Carol Winter), but not with her superiors. Most of the humor in the series is derived from Benjamin and her friends' attempts to evade the watchful eye of their sergeant.

Although some of the actors from the film play the same characters on the TV show, (notably Eileen Brennan and Hal Williams, in their roles of Captain Doreen Lewis and Sgt. L.C. Ross respectively) the title role is acted by Lorna Patterson instead of Goldie Hawn.

While the series was initially shot on film and featured many outdoor scenes, later episodes were more like a standard sitcom, shot on video on soundstages and complete with a laugh track.

In the fall of 1982, Robert Mandan joined the cast as Colonel Lawrence Fielding, the pompous, well-meaning, but ineffectual, head of the camp. In late 1982, Eileen Brennan was struck by a car and Polly Holliday was brought in as Captain Amanda Allen, intended as a temporary replacement for Brennan's Captain Lewis character, but the show was cancelled shortly thereafter.

• Lorna Patterson as Pvt. Judith "Judy" Benjamin
• Eileen Brennan as Cpt. Doreen Lewis
• Joyce Little as Pvt. Rayleen White
• Robert Mandan as Col. Lawrence Fielding
• Ann Ryerson as Pvt. Carol Winter
• Wendie Jo Sperber as Pvt. Stacy Kouchalakas
• Lucy Webb as Pvt. Luanne Hubble
• Hal Williams as Sgt. Ted Ross
• Lisa Raggio as Pvt. Maria Gianelli
• Damita Jo Freeman as Pvt. Jackie Sims
• Polly Holliday as Cpt. Amanda Allen

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