Overview
The Comedy Factory (no known affiliation with the comedy club of the same name) was a live-action, scripted comedy series that ran during the summers of 1985 and 1986 on ABC in the United States and CTV in Canada (who also oversaw production). The show revolved around comedians and actors acting out scenes from television pilots that had been passed on previously by ABC. Further information on the show is scarce and nearly every episode of the show is presumed lost; only the premiere episode, "Honey, It's the Mayor," is known to survive in its entirety (uploaded to YouTube).
Cast
Geoffrey Bowes
8 episodes
Derek McGrath
7 episodes
Mary Long
5 episodes
Mary Ann McDonald
4 episodes
Brian George
2 episodes
Dawn Greenhalgh
2 episodes
Lynne Griffin
2 episodes
Denis Simpson
2 episodes
Kevin Scannell
2 episodes
George Wyner
2 episodes
Charles Lane
1 episodes
Charles Durning
1 episodes
Ron Leibman
1 episodes
Katherine Helmond
1 episodes
Caren Kaye
1 episodes
Joseph Mascolo
1 episodes
Justin Lord
1 episodes
Dick Balduzzi
1 episodes
Max Gail
1 episodes
Danny Kohn
1 episodes
Lisa Coristine
1 episodes
Keram Malicki-Sánchez
1 episodes
Patricia Idlette
1 episodes
Pat Harrington, Jr.
1 episodes
Helen Hughes
1 episodes
Jeff Pustil
1 episodes
Judy Landers
1 episodes
Eric Keenleyside
1 episodes
Richard Kline
1 episodes
Beth Howland
1 episodes
Jan Smithers
1 episodes
Joanna Schellenberg
1 episodes
Sean Thompson
1 episodes
Avery Schreiber
1 episodes
Keanu Reeves
1 episodes
Roberta Weiss
1 episodes
Michael Riley
1 episodes
Bill Daily
1 episodes
Susan Hogan
1 episodes
Caroline McWilliams
1 episodes
William Windom
1 episodes
Ilya Baskin
1 episodes
Barrie Ingham
1 episodes
Nancy Lane
1 episodes
Dennis Drake
1 episodes
James Newell
1 episodes
Charles Robinson
1 episodes
Michael Zaslow
1 episodes
Annie Potts
1 episodes
Matt Craven
1 episodes
Tracy Nelson
1 episodes
Gregory Salata
1 episodes
Harold Sylvester
1 episodes
Richard Stahl
1 episodes
Jamil Howell
1 episodes
Gary Clarke
1 episodes
Marina Ferrier
1 episodes
Donald Craig
1 episodes
Jerry Potter
1 episodes
Blair Brown
1 episodes
Richard McKenzie
1 episodes
Allyn Ann McLerie
1 episodes
Richard Lawson
1 episodes
Jason Bernard
1 episodes
Albert Macklin
1 episodes
Max Wright
1 episodes
Megan Follows
1 episodes
Ted Bessell
1 episodes
Teresa Ganzel
1 episodes
Jimmy Briscoe
1 episodes
Mario López
1 episodes
Lou Jacobi
1 episodes
H.B. Haggerty
1 episodes
Jay S. York
1 episodes
Linda Thompson
1 episodes
Alan Blumenfeld
1 episodes
Jack Armstrong
1 episodes
Magic Schwarz
1 episodes
Gustav Vintas
1 episodes
Patrick Stack
1 episodes
Madeline Kahn
1 episodes
Nina Foch
1 episodes
Frederick Coffin
1 episodes
Taliesin Jaffe
1 episodes
Henry Jones
1 episodes
Priscilla Morrill
1 episodes
Hamilton Camp
1 episodes
Beverly Archer
1 episodes
Mary Ann Pascal
1 episodes
Phil Rubenstein
1 episodes
Kitty Swink
1 episodes
Kenneth Danziger
1 episodes
Michael McCabe
1 episodes
F. William Parker
1 episodes
Frederick Arnold
1 episodes
Bruce Dobos
1 episodes
Jonathan Salinger
1 episodes
Daniel Stern
1 episodes
Jayne Modean
1 episodes
Tom Henschel
1 episodes
Karlene Crockett
1 episodes
Toni Kalem
1 episodes
Sam Whipple
1 episodes
Dominic Hoffman
1 episodes
Michael Fox
1 episodes
Al Sapienza
1 episodes
Robert Klein
1 episodes
Frances Lee McCain
1 episodes
Royana Black
1 episodes
Josh Blake
1 episodes
Robert Sean Leonard
1 episodes