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''It's Your Move'' was a short-lived NBC Sitcom starring Jason Bateman (before '' The Hogan Family '' and '' Arrested Development ''), Tricia Cast (who was later on '' The Young And The Restless ''), Caren Kaye , Ernie Sabella ( The Lion King 's Pumbaa ), and David Garrison (who would later play Steve Rhoades on '' Married... With Children '' from 1987-1990.) The show centered on Matthew Burton (Bateman), a teenage scam artist who lived in a Van Nuys, California apartment with his older sister Julie (Cast) and widowed mother Eileen (Kaye). Matt ran various underhanded dealings with his high school friends (chiefly his sidekick Eli ( Adam Sadowsky )) such as term paper sales, exam answer keys, and blackmail. The status quo of Matthew's world changed forever in the series' pilot, when Norman Lamb (Garrison) moved into the apartment across the hall. A quick-witted but perpetually impoverished writer from Chicago, Norman struck up a friendship with Eileen and the two were soon dating. Dismayed that his mother had chosen someone so far beneath her, Matt set upon sabotaging their relationship, but found he had met his match -- Norman reveals himself to be cut from the same cloth as Matthew, and foils plot after plot (all in the first episode!). Matt and Norman's cat and mouse game continued and escalated for thirteen episodes, fighting relentlessly while shielding the aggressively gullible Eileen from one another's true nature. On episode fourteen, the series was retooled via the plot of Eileen finally catching Matthew red-handed during a scheme. In the remaining five episodes of the series, Matthew no longer took part in criminal schemes. However, the changes did not improve the ratings, and the series was cancelled. Producers/creators Ron Leavitt and Michael Moye would go on to create Married... With Children . It was produced by Embassy Television . The show aired from September 26 , 1984 , until August 10 , 1985 . OTHER USES ''It's Your Move'' was also the title of a long-running Canadian Game Show which ran on CTV from 1964 to 1978. '' Click Here To Learn About It. '' |
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