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Producers can “consider” any name they can think of. But in reality, Elizabeth Montgomery wasn’t interested in another weekly series. God knows ABC tried for years to get her to do another sitcom. She just wanted to do her occasional TV movies and live the good life.

I would watch that. Maybe a sitcom. They could go to work at the Peach Pit as waitresses, and it would be kind of like the old “Alice” show.

Beware of the post-Brenda seasons, where Kelly is promoted to female lead and starts frequently talking in a baby voice.

Pam would have had cat fights with Sue Ellen and Jenna, and she would have run off because of a brain tumor instead of her face getting burned off.

It never had its own identity apart from Dynasty. They cloned some of the characters/situations, intertwined the show with characters crossing over frequently, and even used the same graphics and fonts in the intro. Most people weren’t really thinking, “Hey, let’s check out that pale new Dynasty spinoff.”

“Chelsea” was one of those trendy names in the late 80s/early 90s. Girls weren’t being named “Chelsea” in the early 1960s.

Lana and Mr Angelino in the same clip. Too bad Mrs Roper isn’t in this footage.

Sorry if I’m asking a question that has already been answered. Does Decades have the all the episodes? Or does it have the traditional broadcast syndication package that starts with Barnabas coming out of the coffin and doesn’t include the last year or two.

1975. (Sorry - posted this before I saw your response, Paul)

I wonder what really happened. You don’t got the expense of moving a production to the opposite coast and then cancel it less than two years later. That smacks of someone else coming in and changing directions. I wonder if there was an exec above Frons who made that call - someone who wasn’t there when they made the call to move the show to L.A.

Wasn’t Angela played by Carol Lawrence? I know she was a big Broadway star, but I never liked her in any TV role - she had a showy acting style that seemed too big for the small screen.

I think you could do a fun FOL limited series - maybe single cam - that shows where the women are now and how their friendship has evolved. But you’d have to have the whole quartet: Blair and Jo’s friendship was so critical to the series. and Nancy McKeon likely wouldn’t do it.

A 20% drop over two seasons is actually not bad at all, considering how far linear TV viewing in general has dropped over the past two years. And a 0.9 demo rating is very good. I bet we’ll see another one of these (Kimmel’s initial deal was for three specials, and Facts/DS was the third).

The original Facts cast had wonderful screen presence and chemistry which helped mask script problems. The new cast obviously didn’t have that. I found the re-creations embarrassing and corny, but I didn’t particularly care for the two other specials either.

I thought Robert and Anna were simply too much alike. I thought they had great chemistry but it wasn’t romantic chemistry. They were good friends who had a lot in common. Part of what made Robert and Holly such a great couple is that they were different and they brought different things to the relationship. And Robert and Katherine were headed in the same direction.

I remember when Gloria Monty was criticized at the time for the mass exodus, she said something along the lines of, “Well, everyone’s deal was up at once, so it made sense do it it all together.” Lame. She just didn’t take any time too see what had been done in her absence. She just decided that she wanted to get rid of most of it - frankly, a rookie mistake.

She had proposed to ABC a new soap opera centering on a blue collar family. When they passed on the new series, they rehired her on GH, and she implemented some of the ideas for her new series there. I thought Joe Hardy had done a decent job with the show - certainly better than Wes Kenney. I thought getting rid of Katherine - one of GH’s freshest faces in years- to push Robert and Anna back together was a huge mistake.

Julia provided one of the great nighttime soap cliffhangers with season 2. After that, she was unnecessary. I’m rewatching season 4 and have really come to appreciate Richard more, but I wish he had been written as Angela’s (estranged) son from the beginning, instead of that nonsense of how Jacqueline and Douglas stole him at birth. That was ridiculous. But that was Jeff Frielich. Cole annoys me, tbh. Way too much of a hothead and I thought William R Moses was a little wooden. But compared to Dan Fixx, Cole is fantastic. Ana Alicia has hardly aged. It’s incredible. Susan has aged very gracefully, as has Lorenzo Lamas. Warner Bros is restoring/remastering Dallas in HD, presumably to stream on HBO Max (I can’t imagine them doing a Blu-ray, but it would be great if they did). And I imagine that if it does well, then KL and FC would follow.

Lol. I had no idea that Little Lord Fauntleroy became a soap producer.

Boy do those clips bring back memories. I caught glimpses of the first two adult Lizas - Meg Bennett and Hope Busby - in the Christmas videos. I also saw Peter Simon as Scott (he was surprisingly handsome in his younger years), beautiful Courtney Sherman as Kathy, and Millee Taggart - later a writer - as Liza’s way-too-young mother Janet.

Well put. And there was such a dichotomy between the gentle, romantic theme and the on-screen clips.

Judi Evans is a fine performer. I don’t blame her for the Beth characterization or how poor Beth was blind and helpless or how she was overly-infatuated with Lujack, There’s a clip from one of the intros above that starts with an explosion and a blinded Beth looking helpless and calling out for Lujack. That’s pretty much Beth in a nutshell.

Yeah - Mary Kay Adams’ India was a great soap troublemaker, but a nuanced one. Adams had a lot of screen presence/charisma, too. She was a lot more interesting than that dull, perpetual victim Beth!

I loved Margaret Colin. She should have been a primetime star and CBS tried, but it never really happened for her. Hillary Bailey Smith and Ellen Dolan were worthy successors (I have a slight preference for Dolan). Glynis O’Connor was the only real dud.

This is an unpopular opinion but I liked John Bolger as Phillip. But I was never much of a fan of Grant Aleksander’s. Note to Alexandra and Beth: if you don’t want to talk to a reporter, just keep walking and don’t engage. It’s silly if you tell them you don’t want to answer questions, and then just stand there and let them ask you questions.