Good move. ‘Cause everybody knows the only thing anyone had to worry about in the 1940s was Nazis. Organized crime: pfft. Black market profiteers: unpossible. The Japanese: are you kiddin’?
Do you mean “Everybody Loves Raymond,” or was there a spinoff that disappeared?
That doesn’t surprise me. I just didn’t know and was too [del]busy[/del] lazy to research.
I mean “Everybody Loves Raymond”. Apparently, I loved him, but in a half-hearted manner.
I certainly did not love Raymond the character. The best thing one can say about him is that he was less odious than Jim Belushi’s character on According to Jim.
Wasn’t Star Trek: TNG doing well in its last season? I heard that the casts’ salaries were so big that they decided to cancel the show rather than meet their new demands. And also they wanted the movie to get a bigger audience and thought that cancelling the show would do that
James West kicked more ass than James Kirk eagerly tackling 3 or 4 foes at once. Loved it.
The original Star Trek was cancelled after year 2 but there was a big campaign and it was brought back for year 3. Most people say year 3 was very weak with most of the bad episodes.
Turns out that was very important because back then they would not syndicate a show unless it had 3 years of shows. Had ST died after 2 years there probably would be no syndication and maybe there would have been no more shows or movies.
I think the 50s Superman show was still very popular when it was canceled, or, when the star canceled himself.
Seinfeld meets both criteria since it struggled with ratings in its first couple of seasons and was the highest rated show on television when it was cancelled.
Well, It’s a bit more complicated than that. For it’s final couple of seasons the studio would only make 13 episodes a year. Production ended in 1958. In 1959 the studio thought about making two more years of episodes for syndication. This idea was scuttled by George Reeves untimely death. According to Jack Larson (Jimmy Olson) the plan was to make the show “Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olson.” using new footage of Jimmy and Lois with stock footage of George Reeves. Saner heads prevailed.
Didn’t WKRP have shitty results at first? I don’t know how the show ended up in the ratings game, but it is surely a cult phenomenon now, right?
“Badges! We don’t need no steenking badges!”
Burns and Allen was cruising along fine, except Gracie’s heart condition caused her to retire after the 1958 season. George tried another season, except every straight line caused the audience to wait for Gracie’s punchline, which never came.