You're right....it was Arnold Stang. "Grandpa" Al Lewis took on most any project that came his way in his later years, so it didn't surprise me that he would agree to be in the remake. But as with Nispey's Officer / Captain Anderson character, Peter Falk in the second Columbo series, and...
There's nothing more I can add about this sitcom, except that the late Nipsey Russell was the only regular to return in the disasterous feature film remake in 1994. Nipsey's presense was the only way it could be considered a "sequel" -- his Officer Dave Anderson character had since been...