Stir Crazy is a situation comedy aired in the United States on CBS as part of its 1985 fall lineup. Stir Crazy was based on the 1980 film of the same name. The theme song was "Stir It Up" by Patti LaBelle.It tells the story of two bumbling friends, Harry Fletcher (Larry Riley) and Skip Harrington (Joseph Guzaldo), who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 132 years in prison. While working on a chain gang they escaped and set out after Crawford (Marc Silver), the man who had actually committed the crime for which they had been sentenced. Pursuing them was the tough, relentless, and humorless Captain Betty Phillips (Jeannie Wilson), a female prison guard. "Captain Betty" was an amalgam of "Warden Beatty", the prison guard character played by Barry Corbin in the feature film, whom the boys were on the run from (the movie character's name, in itself, being a spoof of Warren Beatty).
Harry and Skip land in jail on a trumped-up murder charge, so they break out to find the real killer. Harry and Skip learn that driving around with a corpse is a good way to land in jail, and that breaking out and locating "the tattooed man" may be the only way to clear themselves of murder
Skip and Harry pose as candy vendors when they travel to the nation's capital in search of the Tattooed Man. Dressed as bunnies to escape the pursuing Capt. Betty (now played by Jeannie Wilson), Skip and Harry slip into a pingpong factory.
Skip and Harry (Joseph Guzaldo and Larry Riley) enter a bicycle race that's to terminate in Canada, and thereby they hope to escape for good the on-rushing Capt. Betty and Deputy Crawford.
A nearly bankrupt used-car-lot owner hires Skip and Harry as repossessors. Harry and Skip continue their run from the law (Jeannie Wilson) and manage to land jobs as repossessors. But what's this? There's a body in the trunk of one of the cars.
Harry hopes his photographic memory will win him enough money at blackjack to cover his brother`s gambling debts. Gamblers try to force Harry's twin brother, a football star, to throw an important game.
Skip and Harry take jobs as hired hands on an Ohio farm. Skip tends a racehorse. Harry and Skip, those two guys on the run, hire on as ranch hands in Ohio where Skip flips over a race horse. Ah, but the foreman is administering small amounts of poison to the animal — just before a big race. Harry and Skip find jobs as ranch hands in Ohio, where Skip grows attached to a racehorse named Neon Dancer.
Harry and Skip devise an elaborate plan to get out of the Army. Harry and Skip accidental join the army and are quickly recognized. To avoid capture, the buddies steal a tank and barrel their way to temporary safety, or so they think so..
Harry is suspicious when the gorgeous co-owner (Claudia Cron) of a cannery seduces Skip (Joe Guzaldo), and Skip's uncle, the other co-owner, is almost killed in an "accident."
Skip and Harry hold a winning lottery ticket but they have a hard time finding an honest soul to help them collect their jackpot.
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