David Leisure

David Leisure plays Charley Dietz on Empty Nest, the neighbor leer inside Richard Mulligan’s widowed-pediatrician sitcom next door to the Golden Girls. Miami as a shared universe, adult daughters moving home, Dinah Manoff as the chaos agent. Leisure is the gauntlet — a Dietz who makes crossovers and cheesecake continuum feel like a joke the block cannot escape.

The 1988–1995 window is the assignment. Empty Nest on NBC still photographs as that run. Crossovers kept the cheesecake continuum alive. David does not decorate the hour. Charley Dietz is the job.

TV Flash files him first through s01e01. The Pilot is widowed pediatrician, adult daughters home, Manoff as chaos agent: the neighbor-spinoff contract, cheesecake continuum implied. s01e04 keeps the temperature. Fatal Attraction borrows a movie title: grouch charm as the seven-season engine, Blanche not required in every scene. Use s02e01 as a later pin on Empty Nest, not as homework.

Proof a neighbor-spinoff can run seven seasons on grouch charm still needed a creep with timing. On TV Flash Leisure is 1980s sitcom craft: Charley as the reason the cul-de-sac photographs as a dare, not only a parent-show souvenir. The argument is the hour he actually played: Charley Dietz on Empty Nest, 1988–1995, NBC. His temperature is why a rewatch still has a hole without him. The magazine keeps the credit honest: Charley Dietz on Empty Nest, 1988–1995. Empty Nest still needs Charley Dietz to look like a job, not a footnote. David remains legible in a single sitting if you give him a real hour.