Suddenly Susan Lambert M Surhone

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In the show's original pilot, written by Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore which was based on a dramatic script by Clyde Phillips, Susan worked at a publishing house editing children's books. After breaking up with her live-in boyfriend Ted (Brian McNamara), Susan finds herself "single" for the first time in years. Concurrently, Susan faces even greater challenges at work when her boss Eric (Philip Casnoff) assigns her the task of working as an editor with Charlotte (Elizabeth Ashley), a hugely successful and highly opinionated romance novelist. Thankfully, always on hand to provide support is Susan's grandmother, Nana (Nancy Marchand), her co-workers, acerbic best friend Marcy (Maggie Wheeler), and Neil (David Krumholtz), who has a crush on Susan. The main office set retained most of its features when it became The Gate in the show; the most noticeable difference was that the elevator was to the right. A cardboard cut-out of Elizabeth Ashley which is featured in the pilot appears throughout the first three seasons of the show - it can be seen briefly behind Susan's desk, near the filing cabinets along the back wall.