23 hours ago, I Am A Swede said:

Mr Edwards and Miss Beadle is bad enough, but the thought of Etta Plum(!) and Mr Edwards doing the nasty is.... nasty! 😱

I usually avoid the final season like the plague (while still committing to finishing the whole series), but I finally saw a big chunk of an episode where he has this big romance with a blind 19-year-old. VOMIT.

Miss Beadle should have been Walnut Grove's casually loose woman that was mysteriously accepted and encouraged by her contemporaries in the 1870s-1880s. Bring her back to have an affair with John Carter.

14 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

The Betty White Show where she played a Sue Ann Nivens like character and it showed that she couldn't lead a show playing such a vile character.

Man, I just get so frustrated when I think of what they decided to do as her post-MTM comeback. A show within a show where 55-year-old Betty plays an actress who plays a TV action star, and the whole thing is shot on videotape!?!?! Just foolish. I maintain that they should have just spun Sue Ann, softened the character, and made her the executive chef of a Stratford Inn type of country house in the Midwest or New England. It might not have endured as long as the MTM Show did, but it would have been a better showcase of Betty's comedic talent, plus you know there would have been a great ensemble. Betty White Show was just her, John Hillerman, and Georgia Engel. All three TV greats, but stuffed together in such a dumb premise?

11 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Rue also had a thankless role on Mama's Family for two seasons, which she did well with. I've sometimes wondered if there was any spite toward her for not returning when the show went into syndication, based on the way they killed Aunt Fran off.

It's possible there was some spite, but it would have been pretty silly on the producers part since Mama's Family was off a full two years before syndication revived it and Rue was starting the second season of The Golden Girls by then. Rue was asked about Mama's Family in an interview and she sort of waved off the question in a "don't remind me" sort of way. A check is a check, but from a creative standpoint Fran was such a pathetic, whiny character that Rue probably was not happy with playing.