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Gung Ho

  • 1986 – 1987
  • Ended
  • Comedy
  • ~30m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 7.0/10

Short-lived sitcom based on the critically acclaimed movie. Hunt Stevenson is the laid-back American employee liaison of a Japanese car company in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania. Clashes abound as Hunt and Kaz looked for ways to bridge the gap between one another with funny results. Many of the Japanese actors from the movie reprised their roles for the series.

Latest: Season 1 · 1986

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  1. E1. Pilot

    Dec 5, 1986 · 30m

    Hunt, acting as labor's liaison to management, tries to restore the job of a fellow worker who brashly expressed his opinion of a new employee rule book.

  2. E2. Line of Credit

    Dec 12, 1986 · 30m

    Hunt uses a new company credit card to entertain a date, an action that lands him back on the assembly line. The factory floor workers find themselves taken for a ride when they sneak spare parts out to help a supposedly struggling mobile snack vendor with engine trouble.

  3. E3. Talk of the Town

    Dec 26, 1986 · 30m

    Hunt invites Kaz to a civic meeting, where Kaz's straight talk is a hit with the crowd after Hunt's ramblings strike out. When his wife's car keeps breaking down, Kaz becomes convinced she's having an affair with the tow-truck mechanic who comes to her aid each time.

  4. E4. Sick and Tired

    Jan 2, 1987 · 30m

    The flu puts Kaz in bed, leaving Saito in charge, just as a reporter arrives to do a story on cooperation between the Americans and the Japanese. On the factory floor, the guys enter Randi, who lacks confidence in her looks, into a beauty contest without her knowledge.

  5. E5. Love Me Tender

    Jan 9, 1987 · 30m

    Hunt proclaims himself a one-woman man, but Kaz and Umeki have evidence that his girl friend isn't similarly inclined. Meanwhile, a friendly bet leads to Googie running a book on the factory floor - which soon gets out of hand, and attracts unwanted attentions.

  6. E6. Help Wanted

    Jan 16, 1987 · 30m

    Hunt encourages Umeki to get a job selling TVs and stereos, but Kaz is outraged by the idea of his wife working. After boasting about the company's high-tech new computerized system, an embarrassed Kaz secretly starts taking computer night-courses when he struggles to use it himself - and is discovered by Yukiko, who is moonlighting as a cleaner at the college.

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