What a Dummy (series)
- User score: 4.5
- Production country: US
- Production companies: The Arthur Company, MCA Television
- Release date: 9/29/1990
- Release date of last episode: 5/26/1991
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 24
- Run time: 30 min.
Series description
What a Dummy is a syndicated television sitcom that lasted for one season in 1990. The premise of the show was that the Brannigan family of Secaucus, New Jersey was getting advice from a talking, thinking ventriloquist’s dummy named Buzz, who had been locked in a trunk for fifty years before being discovered by the family. Kaye Ballard played the family’s next-door neighbor, Mrs. Treva Travalony.