The Jacket (Seinfeld) The Jacket (Seinfeld) "The Jacket" is the third episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld" and the show's eighth episode overall. In the episode, protagonist Jerry Seinfeld buys an expensive suede jacket and has dinner with the father of his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes. Elaine's father Alton (Lawrence Tierney), a war veteran and writer, makes Jerry and his friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander) very uncomfortable. Elaine is delayed and Jerry and George are stuck with Alton waiting for her at the hotel. The episode was written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and was directed by Tom Cherones.
The Seinfeld Chronicles television history), Castle Rock failed to find any other buyers when it tried to sell the show to other networks, and accepted the order. About a year later the first season would premiere, with the show renamed "Seinfeld" to avoid confusion with ABC's "The Marshall Chronicles". To lead in the first official season of "Seinfeld", the pilot episode was repeated on June 28, 1990; it received a Nielsen rating of 13.9/26. The Seinfeld Chronicles "The Seinfeld Chronicles" (also known as "Good News, Bad News" or "Pilot") is the pilot episode of the American sitcom "Seinfeld", which first aired on NBC