The Spin Off Thread

[soapfan770]

Stephanie Hodge? Lord I mostly remember her from that strange and creepy WB sitcom Unhappily Ever After which started off as a Married with Children rip-off until the husband had a psychotic break and started talking to a rabbit doll every episode. It was surreal to say the least lol. I don’t know what she has done since. 
 

I forgot Warfield was even on Empty Nest; her character was pointless too.

[Vee]

That show was weird as hell. I just remember that's where Justin Berfield from Malcolm in the Middle first turned up, along with IIRC Nikki Cox.

[soapfan770]

Cox was indeed on it along with Berfield. Like Hodge, I have no idea what they’re up to either. I don’t think any of the Malcolm kids act anymore and haven’t seen Cox in anything since Las Vegas ended.

[Vee]

Berfield has a kid but is very private re: any family, though I have heard he is in fact allegedly married to a woman and not gay as was rumored for aeons.

But yes, Unhappily Ever After - so creepy.

Edited April 16, 2022 by Vee

[Soaplovers]

I actually liked Unhappily After...it made Married with Children seem conventional

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[DRW50]

The last  I heard of Cox was a messy breakup with Jay  Mohr...that and her plastic surgery issues.

[Khan]

IIRC, Stephanie Hodge's character on "Unhappily Ever After" was killed off at one point, then brought back as a ghost, then retconned into not being dead after all, then written out altogether.

It was a strange little show.

I'll admit that I suffered through all three seasons of "Nurses," largely hoping that it would finally -- FINALLY -- get its' you-know-what together.  Alas.

[allmc2008]

I know so little about 'Unhappily..." but I know "Married..." better than I know myself.

Wasn't the former the "Night Gallery" to "Married...'s" "Twilight Zone"?

[soapfan770]

Lol I think I remember reading about now but didn’t pay attention to it as they were two washed up has beens a by that point, especially Mohr. 

 

Maybe early on, but once the husband went batshit crazy the show I think the comparison stopped there. 
 

 

[Khan]

You know your career's going nowhere when you land a role on a series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.  (Which is why I STILL nominate her former, on-screen husband, David Conrad, for a Phillip Chancellor recast on Y&R, lol.)

UEA was like DARK SHADOWS: the longer it went on, the more bizarre it became.

[allmc2008]

When was that?

[kalbir]

A CBS midseason pickup of a cancelled NBC show eventually lead to an entire franchise.

NBC cancelled JAG in May 1996 after one season and CBS picked it up as a midseason replacement in January 1997. NCIS was spun off in September 2003, and the rest is history. 

[Marco Dane]

The Colby's could've lasted longer if they kept it after Dynasty on Wednesday's. Sable was a powerhouse. Her sister was weakling.... I dont see how Charlton Heston left Sable for that thing...

[soapfan770]

Good point. I was thinking more along the lines of In the Heat of the Night, Unsolved Mysteries, Family Matters, Step by Step, Hogan Family etc. Not to mention other failed spin-offs ie Golden Palace, 704 Hauser, Bob, and that Delta Burke show.

 

I think there was another show CBS did pick up too from anther network and some success with it as well but for the life of me I can’t remember at the moment what show it was.

[soapfan770]

Pretty sure it was late in the first season, by season 2 the dad had gone completely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs and living in the basement talking to his son’s evil rabbit doll.