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Have to agree on M*A*S*H -- I used to like it, and I think the early years were actually pretty good. But when the Alan Alda character started getting all indignant and preachy it jumped the shark.
The Facts of Life made me want to poke my eyes out. What a horrid show! I've raised teenage girls. They ain't all THAT sweet and treacly.
You forgot one! It started in 1977 and ran till '86, so it still counts...
Wasn't Making A Living just a temporary name for the series It's A Living? I recall It's A Living moving from network to first-run syndication and doing several cast changes, and I always believed they had temporarily renamed it, then went back to the original title. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. It was never going to win any awards, but it wasn't awful or anything.
I liked Alice, but its spin-off Flo was not all that good. One thing I notice on this thread is that the 1970s is rife with spin-offs centered around supporting characters who were not really suited to be the lead character in their own show.
Wasn't Making A Living just a temporary name for the series It's A Living? I recall It's A Living moving from network to first-run syndication and doing several cast changes, and I always believed they had temporarily renamed it, then went back to the original title. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. It was never going to win any awards, but it wasn't awful or anything.
I liked Alice, but its spin-off Flo was not all that good. One thing I notice on this thread is that the 1970s is rife with spin-offs centered around supporting characters who were not really suited to be the lead character in their own show.
Not true, the Maude character was spinned off and had a successful run
Well of course there were exceptions...I'm just saying there were more than a few that tanked. For every Maude or Benson, there was a Joanie Loves Chachi, a Flo, a Fish, or Phyllis.
The Partridge Family? 4-5 years, not five months. As I recall it had the same run as the Brady Bunch, which is one of the reasons the two shows are often paired.
Well of course there were exceptions...I'm just saying there were more than a few that tanked. For every Maude or Benson, there was a Joanie Loves Chachi, a Flo, a Fish, or Phyllis.
Plus, the episodes of shows where spin off characters were introduced were often bizarrely bad. The episode of Happy Days in which Mork was introduced, for example, was truly awful.
I remember there was an episode of The Cosby Show where everyone goes to a community rec center (because dontcha know that the Cosbys, in addition to being doctors and law partners and raising 5 kids have time to volunteer as teachers at a community center).
Anyway, the episode was really an excuse to launch a sit com about the a bunch of cliche characters at a community center. And when I say cliche characters, I mean cliche in the worst possible sticky-sweet politically correct 1970s sort of a way. Talk about a clunker of an episode.
Wasn't there a scene in the premier episode where some igor-like character walks in and says "I've been struck by lightning!"? I can see it vividly in my mind's eye.
The Partridge Family? 4-5 years, not five months. As I recall it had the same run as the Brady Bunch, which is one of the reasons the two shows are often paired.
I was talking about the spinoff "Getting Together"
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