Review of Little Amy

A seven year old pest with a crush on a 16 year old high school athlete. Yep, that's a great pilot for a sitcom that never came to be... thankfully. We already had Beaver and Dennis, so Amy was too little, too late, and you can hear young boys screeching "eew!" In attempting to watch this had it been promoted as the little girl version of those hit shows. Margaret O'Brien of "Meet Me in St. Louis" she's not. Debbie Megowan isn't super annoying and overly cute, but the premise of the pilot is poorly executed. Familiar faces in the adult roles abound, most notably a young Jack Nicholson in a bit (obviously anxious to get through this so he can run over to American International for a few campy horror films) and Jack Albertson, and of course the "uh oh!" lady on the laugh track. Little Amy's sidekick manages to drain any laughs in her scenes away.