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Not sure if this or the Family thread would be a better place (given Gary Frank being on both shows), but I thought it might be better here as the show was seemingly very hard to find and now all the episodes are on Youtube, from the channel that has given us so much. 

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There's a lot of good stuff in this article, including the info that it was based on a pilot called Senior Year, that it was one of the lowest-rated shows of the season when it was canceled, etc.

https://www.tvobscurities.com/2019/10/episode-guide-sons-daughters/

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I guess S&D was CBS' response to the 50's nostalgia craze that spawned Happy Days.

Opposition was That's My Mama on ABC and Little House on the Prairie which was the timeslot winner finishing #13 for the season.

Cancelled and replaced by Tony Orlando & Dawn variety series which was waiting in the wings after a good Summer season. that did way better than S&D finishing #25.

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Tony Orlando and Dawn probably fit in better with what people expected - it doesn't seem like S&D was as much of the peppy false '50s as Happy Days. 

I have seen some of Tony Orlando and Dawn (I am still confused about why the show became known as Rainbow Hour in its last season). Tony is charming but a lot to take. I do enjoy Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson. I think even if his drug problems hadn't destroyed their partnership, it wouldn't have lasted much longer.

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Pretty much ABC all the way.

Project UFO on NBC #15 I think that might have been the first episode. Anyway it played Sunday @8 and finished #19 for the season, a desperately needed hit for NBC.

So they move it to Thurs@8 up against Mork & Mindy where it is pulverized. Odd choice.

King was a disaster for NBC. In the wake of Roots  I guess there was a feeling of awakened interest in Black history. But it showed that hyped 'quality' programming wasn't a guarantee to success.

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