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Redd Foxx also had a short lived variety show on ABC following his departure from Sanford & Son. ABC spent big $$$ to grab him, more as away of destroying NBCs Friday night line up than a desire to have Redd on the schedule. It worked and NBC Friday was hobbled. Kate Jackson The Rookies 4 seasons led to Charlie's Angels in which she appeared on 3 of the 5 seasons. Then 4 seasons of Scarecrow and Mrs King. Only one flop the sitcom Baby Boom. I wonder if Charlies angels would have gone longer if the original 3 Angels had stayed the course?

This chat has inspired me to start a primetime thread on TV stars hits and misses.

After MTMS ended, Mary unwisely went with a variety show 'Mary' that lasted half a season. CBS gave it the plum Sun @8 slot and it tanked immediately. Maybe if had aired Sun @10 it might have had a chance to build. Anyway it was revamped into a sitcom/variety hybrid 'Mary Tyler Moore Hour' and returned later in the season to bad reviews and ratings. So a few years later she tried another sitcom 'Mary' which failed. They put her in a magazine workplace setting but it paled in comparison to the original MTM. Finally there was Annie McGuire where she was a wife and mother, newly married and dealing with a blended family. Paired with another Dick Van Dyke revival in a deadly timeslot it was quickly yanked and that was it for MTM. James Garner Following the hit Maverick 1957-60,he branched into movies before returning to television with the quirky 'Nicols' on NBC that lasted a season-1971/72 But then it was back to a hit series with Rockford Files 1974-80 A Maverick revival "Bret Maverick' was next 1981/82 and despite passable ratings it was cancelled after one season. He tried a sitcom 'Man of the People' 1991 but it flopped up against Murder She Wrote. Next up was shortlived animated series on NBC 'God, the Devil and Bob' 2000 4 episodes and the Supreme Court drama First Monday on CBS 2002 13 episodes.

Can anyone recall why Bill and not Mickey was Don's best man? I thought Mickey was closer to Don than Bill?

Who are some primetime stars from successful series that couldn't follow through with their subsequent efforts? Who managed several hits over the years? Who kept plugging away and managed mini comebacks along the way? Let's examine the trajectory of some of TV's most well known stars. James Arness. After a 20 year run on Gunsmoke, he came back a few seasons later with How the West was Won. It was a sort of mini series and did well. But in 1981 he was lured back to NBC for McClain's Law and it bombed against Dallas before being shuffled around to no ratings improvement. That was it for Jim. Angie Dickinson Policewoman was a 4 season hit but her alone series follow up Cassie& Co was a dud. Who can you add to the list?

I guess Robert Urich must have had good TV Q scores BITD. Viewers liked him but not necessarily the shows he was in.

Josh seems to be doubling down on Phyllis' worst traits. She had already made a fool of herself with her childish taunts at the engagement party . Having her grandstand at the wedding was totally not needed. Why Cane would want anything to do with her beggars belief. It just makes him look more idiotic. Unless they're planning Who killed Phyllis they need to back down on the crazy. No secret that I'm not a fan of Ms Stafford's 'acting' choices but she deliberately goes broad in just about every scene. But she's got her fans who adore her...

Nicole's house needs some color and texture, and a bigger sofa. Everything is too neutral.

Victoria Wyndham claims to have written story at AW but was never credited or elaborated exactly what she was responsible for.

He had a very short lived CBS series Hagen in 1980.

OK so let's go nitpickers... for starters let's get rid of the bright green walls at Uptown, and restyle that cafeteria set. Anything else?

I thought Dr Elbee should have been the culprit. After listening to Sue Ellen's treatment at the hands of JR, he snapped and decided putting a bullet in JR was the best therapy.

Today on the The Young and the Recurring... The opening credits featuring Lauralee, Beth, Tracey etc It says something when the guest list was basically recurring players. To think that might be the last time we see Tricia. But she nailed it giving Cane what he deserved. Just wish she's go with a more flattering hair color-that dark brown is too harsh. Patty/Gina still looks good. Why was Diane there? A throwback to her and Cricket being Jabot models? Phyllis was even more intolerable than usual-she just comes across as pathetic. And poor Billy Flynn looking like 'this isn't what I signed up for' No Lucy-is the actress unavailable?

Under the name CC Matthews, I believe. What about Randy Holland? Was he writing Y&R at the time he appeared as Rick Daros?

Gail Kobe was on many primetime shows in the 60's including Peyton Place. On daytime she appeared on Bright Promise before transitioning into BTS work on Edge of Night, Guiding Light, Texas and B&B.

Gail Kobe was another.

What is with Y&R featuring wedding and party planners for (non) events. Why would you need a planner when the venue is somewhere all the guests go to anyway, that has maybe a few extra decorations and a minuscule guest list? But somehow an actor is hired when we don't see scores of other day player roles that are needed eg servants, nannies, business associates etc.

Did Edward Mallory direct a few Days episodes when he was appearing as Bill? Or was that after he left? Or maybe not at all?

Yes, tapping away at a keyboard and shuffling through papers seemed to be the extent of the nurses work. I'm not expecting a documentary but a little realism would help and could be used to advance character and story. I just watched a great Swiss movie called Night Shift depicting just that and the various dramas and challenges this woman dealt with. It would be good to see Ashley and Shanice dealing with a difficult patient, an emergency, an unexpected death etc.

Meg Bennett wrote for Y&R while appearing as Julia.

That's just going to make the latest wedding look all the more threadbare.

Yes, that out of the blue return was odd. Maybe GG found a forgotten clause in the contract he signed when he was wooed to ABC and they were forced to take him back! Like George Reinholt he talked about the contract that promised him primetime roles. But it was loaded in the networks favor. I think it was Gloria Loring that re-signed at Days on the promise of primetime opportunities, but that was all it was- she was put up for guest spots and TV movies but not necessarily guaranteed that she get the role.

Week ending March 5 1978 Second season shows are tested CBS finishes first week in March with stronger than usual 1 9.5, but not enough to beat ABC The prime -time ratings pattern continued to hold steady for the week ended March 5, and attention increasingly turns to second season entries as the networks probe one another's weaknesses or cover their own. As usual, ABC -TV won the week, scoring a 20.5 average rating. But CBS -TV was closer than usual with a 19.5 average garnered with the help of several strong specials and movies in addition to some of its dependable series regulars. NBC followed its habit of plummeting when its "évent "entries failed. In this case it was the miniseries, Loose Change, which scored only 24 and 22 shares on Monday and Tuesday, leaving the network with a 16.9 average rating for the week. Looking at new series and new time slots, ABC's Six Million Dollar Man on Monday (8 -9 p.m. NYT) continued to falter with a 22 share, while What's Happening, in its new slot on Saturday (8 -9 p.m.), also remained shaky with a 23 share. Starsky and Hutch is still healthy with a 38 share in its new slot following Charlie's Angels on Wednesday, and How the West Was Won also had a 38 on Sunday (8 -9 p.m.). Against West CBS's Rhoda and On Our Own came in poorly for the second week in a row of face to face competition, with each pulling 25 shares after a 41 share lead in from 60 Minutes. ABC's special two -hour presentation of the upcoming series tryout, Having Babies, scored a 27 share on Friday (9 -11 p.m.) against strong competition from both the other networks (the movie "Ski Lift to Death" on CBS and Rockford Files and Quincy on NBC). For CBS, its new Monday night leadoffs, Good Times and Baby I'm Back, scored so -so 27 and 28 shares respectively. But the second half of the night had its best performance since the new line -up came in- M *A*S *Hwith a 45, One Day at a Time with a 41 and Lou Grant with a 36. Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes and Shields and Yarnell showed no signs of reviving on Tuesday, with 16 shares each, but the new Tuesday movie slot held up with a 41 share from Clint Eastwood's "Magnum Force." The network's entire Saturday line up continued to limp in, as Bob Newhart Tony Randall, The Jeffersons, Maude and Kojak all scored sub 30 shares (with the exception of Newhart's 29, in fact, all scored sub -25 shares). NBC premiered its new Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show on Tuesday (8 -9 p.m.),when it pulled a 24 share. The second episode of Quark had a 27, three points down from its premiere. There might be the temptation to conclude that the 29 share turned in by the National Love, Sex and Marriage Test on Sunday (9:30 -10 p.m.) proves the appetite for "sophisticated" subject matter is not insatiable after all, except that its competition was not only CBS's strong comedy block but also ABC's rerun of "The Way We Were," which pulled a 35 share. Of NBC's other midseason entries -CPO Sharkey, Black Sheep Squadron, James at 16 and Class of '65 -CPO Sharkey turned in the highest score of the week, a 27. *NBC were in dire straits at this point relying on movies and specials which could hit or bomb in equal measure. Fred Silverman had his work cut out for him when he arrived that Summer. He favored sitcoms and series as the schedule's foundation and NBC had no sitcoms to build on and few solid series. He also had a big backlog of specials/mini series that had been committed to air. Also NBC had a long standing relationship with Universal so he was forced to work with that studio. He struggled to get quality producers on board as they were either tied into deals with ABC/CBS or were wary of having their shows on the 3rd rated network. He still felt variety had a place on the schedule however and that lead to duds like Susan Anton, The Big Show and Pink Lady and Jeff.