Henry Jones

Henry Jones is Judge Jonathan Dexter on Phyllis, the 1970s MTM spin-off that sent Cloris Leachman west to San Francisco and let the neurosis lead. A supporting comic carrying a series on timing alone; physical comedy as contact sport, vanity included. Dexter is the San Francisco in-law temperature: a judge in the household, a man who makes the vanity act look like it still has a family to crash into. No Mary Richards safety net. Jones supplies the dry wood the farce needs.

Keep Phyllis on the 1970s shelf where CBS left it (1975–1977). Henry Jones sits there as Judge Jonathan Dexter. s01e01 — The pilot bets a supporting comic can carry a series. Leachman takes Mary's most self-absorbed neighbor to San Francisco; neurosis leads, no Mary Richards safety net in sight. s01e02 — Bess, Is You a Woman Now? is the daughter hour as a title dare. Physical comedy as contact sport, vanity included: MTM timing without the WJM newsroom to hide behind. That pairing is the sample.

TV Flash files him as spin-off craft with a gavel. On this desk Jones is 1970s sitcom voltage: a Jonathan who photographs as the straight man and plays as the reason Phyllis still had a house, not only a whirlwind in a new city.

When the question is which hour still bites, the answer is s01e16. The $17,623,419.53 Man is a precise-dollar title on a vanity sitcom. Leachman still the whole instrument: spin-off craft that lives on a take, not a catchphrase. Jones as Judge Jonathan Dexter, CBS's Phyllis, 1970s heat without a lore tax.