Danny Thomas was never able to duplicate another long running series after Make Room for Daddy/aka...The Danny Thomas Show (1953-1964). He followed up with:

The Danny Thomas Hour (1967)

Make Room for Grandaddy (1970-1971)

The Practice (1976-1977)

I'm A Big Girl Now (1980-1981)

One Big Family (1986-1987)

Make Room for Grandaddy is now available on youtube and Tubi. As with the old series it relied too much on Guest Star of the week plots (as Here's Lucy did during this time). 26 year old Diana Ross even played a teen in an episode which was cringy. There were also too many plots of Danny trying to be hip and with it for the 1970's. Probably the best episode was Linda (Angela Cartwright) learning to drive. Of course, Danny had the latest model land yacht convertible in the garage.

John Forsythe chalked up a long successful career in TV.

Bachelor Father 57-62 that show started on CBS, moved to NBC and then finished on ABC .Did any other show appear on all 3 networks?

John Forsythe Show 65-66 CBS. That show changed formats mid season from a sitcom to an espionage format!

Has any other show had such a drastic revamp?

To Rome With Love CBS 69-71 Supposedly set in Rome but filmed in Hollywood.

Charlie's Angels ABC 1976-81. The easiest gig of his career, providing voiceovers that took a few hours each to record for each episode.

Dynasty ABC 1981-89.

That Powers That Be NBC 1992-93

2 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

Charlie's Angels ABC 1976-81. The easiest gig of his career, providing voiceovers that took a few hours each to record for each episode.

Nowadays, Charlie would be communicating with Bosley and the ladies via text messaging, lol.

Suzanne Pleshette had a number of misses after being on "The Bob Newhart Show". Her first was the sitcom "Maggie Briggs" (also known as "Suzanne Pleshette is Maggie Briggs") and then she tried dramas "Bridges To Cross" and "Nightengales" before later trying another sitcom called "The Boys Are Back" with Hal Linden. Her last regular series role was in the first season of "Good Morning, Miami".

"Bridges to Cross" also featured Eva Gabor in what was her only other series regular role other that "Green Acres".

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17 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

Suzanne Pleshette had a number of misses after being on "The Bob Newhart Show". Her first was the sitcom "Maggie Briggs" (also known as "Suzanne Pleshette is Maggie Briggs") and then she tried dramas "Bridges To Cross" and "Nightengales" before later trying another sitcom called "The Boys Are Back" with Hal Linden. Her last regular series role was in the first season of "Good Morning, Miami".

"Bridges to Cross" also featured Eva Gabor in what was her only other series regular role other that "Green Acres".

The Bridges cast looks much more interesting than the show probably was. Jose Ferrer, Nick Surovy, Nancy Cartwright, Roddy McDowall.

Lucille Ball was the TV queen for 3 decades.

I Love Lucy (1951-1957)

The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960)

The Lucy Show (1962-1968)

Here's Lucy (1968-1974).

Life With Lucy (1986) her last sitcom was considered one of the worst shows and was cancelled after 13 episodes. The audience felt that Lucy and Gale Gordon still doing pratfalls at their age was an accident waiting to happen. Lucy felt she was rejected by America and never got over it.

48 minutes ago, SoapDope78 said:

Lucy felt she was rejected by America and never got over it.

Which is sad, because, if anything, America felt the rest of the show (minus Gale Gordon) let her down. Lucy was television royalty. She deserved so much better than a show that was written and produced by a team who were out-of-touch with the times.

14 minutes ago, Khan said:

Which is sad, because, if anything, America felt the rest of the show (minus Gale Gordon) let her down. Lucy was television royalty. She deserved so much better than a show that was written and produced by a team who were out-of-touch with the times.

Wasn't it her own elderly writing team she brought out of retirement? I don't think it was all Lucy's fault, but I know she brought in a lot of her own people.

14 hours ago, ReddFoxx said:

Rita Moreno was on "The Electric Company", then the network seasons of "9 to 5", "Oz" on HBO and the revival of "One Day At a Time". The one season flops she had were "The Cosby Mysteries" (which was a big wtf is this series) and "Cane" which debuted during a writers strike.

"The Cosby Mysteries" made sense for the time, IMO. His sitcom had just ended, he still had a huge following with older audiences, and between Andy Griffith, Carroll O'Conner, Tom Bosley, and Dick Van Dyke, it was all the rage for former sitcom stars to become crimefighters (which you could even say stretched as far back as Buddy Ebsen as my boy Barnaby Jones).

29 minutes ago, SoapDope78 said:

Lucille Ball was the TV queen for 3 decades.

I Love Lucy (1951-1957)

The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960)

The Lucy Show (1962-1968)

Here's Lucy (1968-1974).

Life With Lucy (1986) her last sitcom was considered one of the worst shows and was cancelled after 13 episodes. The audience felt that Lucy and Gale Gordon still doing pratfalls at their age was an accident waiting to happen. Lucy felt she was rejected by America and never got over it.

And then there's "Life with Lucy" lol The whole thing makes me sad because you watch the opening credits, and it's all this stuff about living life to the fullest, aging with dignity and grace, keeping that fighting spirit, staying open to new ideas and experiences, etc. and you can tell Lucy was really ready to be "back." The show flops hard, and people were not very kind about it, plus Desi dies just a few weeks after it's cancelled. It's no wonder she just wanted to be left alone at that point.

I've read that they were trying to get her to do something more like Golden Girls, and while I hope it wasn't a complete rip-off, I think it could have been a different story for her final series. Back when they were developing "Here's Lucy," it was a conscious decision to go in a new direction by having it be Lucy as the mother of teenagers, and I personally think that worked very well for the most part. Lucy as a grandmother, not so much, which is why I guess they leaned once again on "Lucy pisses Gale Gordon off" as the basic premise.

I'm not sure what would have been a good set-up for her in 1986. Maybe something like "Waiting for God," with her and Gale finally working together in cahoots to piss other people off. That way, the whole idea of them being too old for the slapstick but still getting into trouble anyway would be part of the plot.

Somebody at CBS in the 1980s and 1990s clearly liked Gerald McRaney. Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Central Park West, Promised Land.