"Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams" book, Chapter Eleven

This chapter mainly focuses on the male co-stars.  (Perhaps the book was mostly written before Betty Garrett joined the cast.)

• Phil Foster
• "The place, which [Frank] DeFazio owns, is frequented by hardhats--real Archie Bunker types--and servicemen, along with its share of bimbos and greasers."
• "I play a typical Italian father of the 1950s.  The Italian fathers were the last to lose the kids in those days.  They had a pretty strong hold on the family."
• Phil helping Garry's career fifteen years earlier is mentioned.
• Phil got into show biz as a kid in Brooklyn, and he was a comic in the 1930s.  He moved on to television in the '40s.
• He didn't even know what his L & S salary was his first three weeks.
• He said of Penny and Cindy, "On this show, I find myself working with two kids who were never exposed to comedy the way I was, but they do things that make great teams.  I watch them with my mouth hanging open."
• Michael McKean
• His basic biography, born in Manhattan but raised in Sea Cliff, account executive father and librarian mother.  
• He was "bitten by the acting bug at fifteen."
• When he "came out to Hollywood in 1970, he immediately got in touch with his close friend David Lander."  He joined the Credibility Gap.
• "Michael is quite a handsome-looking blond and blue-eyed six-footer when he's not in that leather jacket and greased-back hair."
• "He and his wife Susan have a son, Colin Russell, born on February 16, 1976."
• "Besides acting, Michael is an accomplished songwriter and guitarist."
• He had many pets, including turtles and dogs.
• His favorite reading matter was science fiction.
• David L. Lander
• He grew up in Brooklyn and his brother Robert became an opera singer.
• He went to the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan and met Michael at Carnegie Tech.
• Before finding success as an actor, he was a sportswriter and worked for an answering service, the latter indirectly leading to work on the radio.
• He lived in Hollywood with his wife Thea.
• He was a devoted fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates (as we would see in "Lenny's Crush").
• Michael and David
• They "make a perfect Mutt and Jeff pair..., as Mike's six feet tower considerably over David's five-feet six."  Actually, I think David is 5'3".  Also, who calls Michael McKean "Mike"?
• Lenny and Squiggy were already very popular at this point and there was talk of a spin-off, but with the boys still living in the apartment building.  (Bizarrely described as "actually a run-down house, broken up into flats.")
• Cindy was glad they wouldn't be spun-off any time soon, since she felt it would result in two weak shows, "because we depend upon each other," although she did feel that the guys deserved their own show.
• Eddie Mekka
• Poor Eddie only gets one paragraph, and there's no information about him as a person, just a brief description of Carmine.  "Their romance is a lukewarm one," well, yes, for the first season and a half, I guess that's true.

Also of note in the chapter is the description of how Penny and Cindy redecorated the apartment set to better reflect the girls' financial struggles, rather than, as Penny put it, "the China lamps, wall-to-wall carpeting, beautiful drapes, paper flowers, exquisite little ornaments on the tables, embossed wallpaper, a large, luxurious sofa."

And there are three Season One episodes mentioned: "Dog Day Blind Dates," "A Nun's Story," and whatever episode it is with the "You vo-dee-oh" exchange.