Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Corner Bar' from 1970-1982:
- Bill Fiore as Phil Bracken (1972-1973)
- J.J. Barry as Fred Costello (1972-1973)
- Shimen Ruskin as Meyer Shapiro (1972-1973)
- Gabriel Dell as Harry Grant (1972)
- Joe Keyes as Joe (1972)
- Langhorn Scruggs as Mary Ann (1972)
- Vincent Schiavelli as Peter Panama (1972)
- Anne Meara as Mae (1973)
- Eugene Roche as Frank Flynn (1973)
- Ron Carey as Donald Hooten (1973)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Corner Bar':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
Gabriel Dell stars in a new comedy series as the bartender of a neighborhood tavern in New York where characters from all walks of life parade through, reflecting life on the contemporary scene. Comic Alan King debuts as a producer with this New York-originated show. In the first one, an attempt to publicize his tavern embroils Dell and his customers in a welter of political turmoil.
Season 1, episode 2
Harry the bartender is asked to fulfill the dying wish of an old customer who passed on: hold a wake in the tavern.
Season 1, episode 3
With Steve DeLucca (Health Official), Betty Walker (Henrietta).
Season 1, episode 4
With Alan King.
Bar owner Harry Grant's "godfather" applies pressure on two small-time hoodlums who try to put the squeeze on Harry's establishment in the form of "protection" money.
Season 1, episode 5
With Lillian Hayman.
The bar's cook has told his mother that he actually owns Grant's Toomb, and he begs Harry to help him with his hoax. Harry agrees, and the two switch places.
Season 1, episode 6
A substitute waitress at the tavern becomes pregnant and bartender Harry and his customers try to find the father.
Season 1, episode 7
Harry Grant tries to help Meyer the waiter and Fred the taxi driver bridge the generation gap with their kids.
Season 1, episode 8
With Anne Meara (Jennifer), Andrew Duncan (Prescott).
Harry meets his match in the form of a new landlady who is smitten with him.
Season 1, episode 9
With Huntz Hall.
Harry the bartender gets to reminiscing about his Navy comrades, when in walks his old buddy Sparky Schnauzer, now a "real estate salesman".
Season 1, episode 10
With Barney Martin (Toohey), Paul Price (Simon).
A strike leads to a crazy form of customer service.
August 3, 1973: Father's Day
Season 2, episode 1
The series returns with two new stars. Anne Meara and Eugene Roche costar as owners of a neighborhood saloon in a big city. In tonight's episode, the tavern's co-owner, Frank Ryan (Roche), is astonished and overjoyed when a young Korean walks in and identifies himself as his son -- the product of a romance during the Korean war.
Season 2, episode 2
With Henderson Forsythe (Engleman).
When Frank doesn't stick to his crash diet, the bar regulars get an actor to play a doctor to scare him back on it.
Season 2, episode 3
D: Peter Baldwin
Mae is fearful that the bar has been chosen as a meeting place for wife swapping.
Season 2, episode 4
When a customer walks off with Phil the lawyer's briefcase instead of his own, Mae and Frank and the bar regulars get involved.
Season 2, episode 5
An aching void enters the lives of the tavern's co-owners and regulars when the bar is stolen and held for $2,000 in ransom.
Season 2, episode 6
With Mae Questel (Aunt Blanche).
Mae's late husband's Aunt Blanche, a woman with a golden heart, an iron will and a tongue of brass, comes to work at the saloon. (Last show of the series.)