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It's Garry Shandling's Show

Season 4

19 listed hours · 1986–1990 · Showtime

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How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

This is the theme to Garry's show — and he will tell you so, then walk through the wall. Showtime's meta-sitcom treats the studio audience, the theme song, and the fourth wall as props. Neurotic cable comedy that invents the self-aware sitcom grammar The Larry Sanders Show would later weaponize. Short, strange, and still ahead.

TV Flash files Season 4 of It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986–1990) on Showtime as the last listed season of 4 — 19 listed hours, 1989-11-10–1990-05-25 from “First Show of the Fourth Season” (S04E01) to “Driving Miss Garry” (S04E19). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S04E01 First Show of the Fourth Season

    First Show of the Fourth Season makes the title the bit: still ahead, still short, still strange.

  2. S04E19 Driving Miss Garry

    Driving Miss Garry is the closer's pun: four seasons of wall-walking, signed off. Sanders is the later weapon; this is the invention.

  1. S04E01

    First Show of the Fourth Season

    First Show of the Fourth Season — Season 4, Episode 1 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1989-11-10. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  2. S04E02

    Take My Wife, for Example

    Take My Wife, for Example — Season 4, Episode 2 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1989-11-17. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  3. S04E03

    Nathan's Sheer Madness

    Nathan's Sheer Madness — Season 4, Episode 3 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1989-12-24. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  4. S04E04

    SuperGrant

    SuperGrant — Season 4, Episode 4 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1989-12-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  5. S04E05

    Dinner at Eddy King's House

    Dinner at Eddy King's House — Season 4, Episode 5 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1989-12-08. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  6. S04E06

    The Proposal

    The Proposal — Season 4, Episode 6 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1989-01-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  7. S04E07

    Firehose

    Firehose — Season 4, Episode 7 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-01-19. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  8. S04E08

    The Day Howard Moved In

    The Day Howard Moved In — Season 4, Episode 8 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-01-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  9. S04E09

    The Wedding Show

    The Wedding Show — Season 4, Episode 9 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-02-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  10. S04E10

    The Honeymoon Show

    The Honeymoon Show — Season 4, Episode 10 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-02-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  11. S04E11

    Shandling vs. Mull

    Shandling vs. Mull — Season 4, Episode 11 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-03-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  12. S04E12

    Leonard Gets Metaphysical

    Leonard Gets Metaphysical — Season 4, Episode 12 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-03-23. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  13. S04E13

    Chester Gets a Show

    Chester Gets a Show — Season 4, Episode 13 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-03-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  14. S04E14

    My Mother the Wife

    My Mother the Wife — Season 4, Episode 14 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-04-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  15. S04E15

    Family Man

    Family Man — Season 4, Episode 15 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-04-13. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  16. S04E16

    Mad at Brad

    Mad at Brad — Season 4, Episode 16 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-05-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  17. S04E17

    The Last Show

    The Last Show — Season 4, Episode 17 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-05-11. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  18. S04E18

    The Talent Show

    The Talent Show — Season 4, Episode 18 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-05-18. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  19. S04E19

    Driving Miss Garry

    Driving Miss Garry — Season 4, Episode 19 of It's Garry Shandling's Show. Aired 1990-05-25. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

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