Police in Waterbury, Conn., allege the man's stepmother locked him in his room with limited food and water for over 20 years, until he started a fire using hand sanitizer, printer paper and a lighter.

The show was regarded as controversial because it featured a man living alone with two single women. In 1976, Murphy performed in the spin-off series, George and Mildred, which aired for five seasons.

A Connecticut man alleged to have been held captive and starved by his stepmother for more than two decades escaped the small room he had been locked away in by setting their house on fire ...

The half-sister of a man who was held captive and starved in a Connecticut house of horrors for decades now wants those responsible for his tragic living conditions to be punished.