TV Binge Watch (Part 1)

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Shows with a dog or cat as a cast regular for at least one full season

  1. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch – Salem
  2. Frasier - Eddie
  3. Longstreet - Pax
  4. The Roy Rogers Show - Bullet
  5. The Jetsons - Astro

You didn’t say live action! :wink:

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Shows with a dog or cat as a cast regular for at least one full season

  1. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch – Salem
  2. Frasier - Eddie
  3. Longstreet - Pax
  4. The Roy Rogers Show - Bullet
  5. The Jetsons - Astro
  6. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin - Rin Tin Tin
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Shows with a dog or cat as a cast regular for at least one full season

  1. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch – Salem
  2. Frasier - Eddie
  3. Longstreet - Pax
  4. The Roy Rogers Show - Bullet
  5. The Jetsons - Astro
  6. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin - Rin Tin Tin
  7. The Thin Man - Asta
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Shows with a dog or cat as a cast regular for at least one full season

  1. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch – Salem
  2. Frasier - Eddie
  3. Longstreet - Pax
  4. The Roy Rogers Show - Bullet
  5. The Jetsons - Astro
  6. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin - Rin Tin Tin
  7. The Thin Man - Asta
  8. The Closer - Kitty

Was a recurring “character” since the first season. Eventually had to be killed off on the show because the “actor” was dying IRL. :frowning:

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But was replaced by Joel in one of the most successful subbing-one-actor-for-another in TV history.

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Shows with a dog or cat as a cast regular for at least one full season

  1. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch – Salem
  2. Frasier - Eddie
  3. Longstreet - Pax
  4. The Roy Rogers Show - Bullet
  5. The Jetsons - Astro
  6. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin - Rin Tin Tin
  7. The Thin Man - Asta
  8. The Closer - Kitty
  9. Mom – Gus (Now that season 7 has officially closed)
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BTW: I actually watched the show Frasier for the dog. I would tape it, and fast-forward through any parts the dog wasn’t in. Very occasionally I’d watch other bits just to understand the context of the Eddie plot. But mostly I have no idea what the show was about, except that the dog had to have a sense of humor, because he lived with a cranky old fart, his pompous son, who was aptly cast as an actor with a literally big head, and a British woman who I guess worked there for room and board. Under the table was all I could figure, because she ought to be able to do better. She must have picked up how to do curries and stuff with paneer and lentils. She couldn’t seriously be feeding them a steady diet of authentic British food. But she was young enough to know Indian, and Chinese dishes as well, and how to prepare seafood like the Spanish do, and bread like the French do, which is what food in the UK is evolving toward now.

Oh, and there’s some brother we’re supposed to think of as ne’er do well, but from what I saw had better ethics than Frasier, the radio doc.

Anyway, that’s my take on the show, having FF’d through a good 75% of the run.

Did the dog ever win an Emmy? He should have. In fact, there should be a special TV award called an “Eddie” For best performance by a dog or cat as a (live) show regular.

But no, I did not specify live show for this list.

Come on-- someone do Scooby-doo, and we’re done.

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Shows with a dog or cat as a cast regular for at least one full season

  1. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch – Salem
  2. Frasier - Eddie
  3. Longstreet - Pax
  4. The Roy Rogers Show - Bullet
  5. The Jetsons - Astro
  6. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin - Rin Tin Tin
  7. The Thin Man - Asta
  8. The Closer - Kitty
  9. Mom – Gus
  10. Scooby-doo – Scooby

It had to be done.

Next topic: Shows that have a backdoor pilot in their reruns, because it never got picked up, so instead of being episode one of the new show, it remains s4;e6 of some other show, and stands out like a sore thumb. Also, you can list crossover episodes meant to save a dying series that didn’t work, so the crossover is still a mysterious weird spot in the successful show’s reruns.

**More succinctly: shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work. **

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
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More succinctly: shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”

A backdoor pilot about a private boarding school for unruly young witches.

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More succinctly: shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”
  3. Star Trek: TOS - “Assignment: Earth”
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I just thought of something-- could you note what your contribution is. I don’t recognize the 3rd entry, not having watched ST:TOS.

1 & 2 are backdoor pilots. Was 3 a backdoor pilot for something called Assignment: Earth?

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More succinctly: shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”
  3. Star Trek: TOS - “Assignment: Earth”
  4. Murder, She Wrote - “Goodbye Charlie”

This show did several backdoor pilots, one of which, “Death Takes a Dive,” actually successfully launched the spinoff “The Law and Harry McGraw”

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Shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”
  3. Star Trek: TOS - “Assignment: Earth”
  4. Murder, She Wrote - “Goodbye Charlie”
  5. The Facts of Life - “Brian and Sylvia”

Centered on Tootie’s aunt and uncle, an interracial couple.

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Shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”
  3. Star Trek: TOS - “Assignment: Earth”
  4. Murder, She Wrote - “Goodbye Charlie”
  5. The Facts of Life - “Brian and Sylvia”
  6. Happy Days - “Chachi Sells His Soul”.

Launched Out of the Blue, a very short-lived show about an angel.

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Shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”
  3. Star Trek: TOS - “Assignment: Earth”
  4. Murder, She Wrote - “Goodbye Charlie”
  5. The Facts of Life - “Brian and Sylvia”
  6. Happy Days - “Chachi Sells His Soul”.
  7. CHiPS - “Force 7”

Ponch and Jon bookend the episode but the rest is about another motorcycle cop who is recruited into the secret karate crime stopping team called Force 7.

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Shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”
  3. Star Trek: TOS - “Assignment: Earth”
  4. Murder, She Wrote - “Goodbye Charlie”
  5. The Facts of Life - “Brian and Sylvia”
  6. Happy Days - “Chachi Sells His Soul”.
  7. CHiPS - “Force 7”
  8. The Brady Bunch – “Kelly’s Kids”

Ken Berry and wife adopt a white kid, a Black kid, and an Asian kid. Show doesn’t get picked up. Hard to believe it was actually ahead of its time given the success of the terrible

  1. Diff’rent Strokes – “Hello Larry”

NBC tries to save flagging McLean Stevenson vehicle, where he custodial-parents two daughters (one of whom is played by Kim Richard, from Escape to Witch Mountain). He goes to visit old college buddy Mr. … umm, dad of two black kids, I forget his name. Doesn’t glean viewers, which was too bad, 'cause I kinda liked it. I was about the same age as Kim Richards, so I thought I was the target audience, but its actual problem may have been it couldn’t decide if it was about the problems of single-parenting, or a teenage show. I think it was trying to be the male answer to One Day at a Time, which did actually manage to capture both audiences, but the writing wasn’t there.

**Now someone else can post 10, and pick a new topic!
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Shows with an odd episode that was meant to launch or save another show, but it didn’t work.

  1. Emergency – The Ep about Animal Control with Mark Harmon
  2. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - “Witchright Hall”
  3. Star Trek: TOS - “Assignment: Earth”
  4. Murder, She Wrote - “Goodbye Charlie”
  5. The Facts of Life - “Brian and Sylvia”
  6. Happy Days - “Chachi Sells His Soul”.
  7. CHiPS - “Force 7”
  8. The Brady Bunch – “Kelly’s Kids”
  9. Diff’rent Strokes – “Hello Larry”
  10. The Partridge Family - “Getting Together”

Ultra-cool Bobby Conway (Bobby Sherman) is a talented musician, but cannot write lyrics. Ultra-geeky Lionel Poindexter (Wes Stern) can write lyrics, but cannot play an instrument and doesn’t know how to write or compose music. The Partridge Family arranges a meeting between the two, and everything clicks. (Elton John and Bernie Taupin, anybody?) “Getting Together” was pretty bad, and only lasted one season.

Period shows–that is shows set in the past, before the time when the show was filmed.

  1. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
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Period shows–that is shows set in the past, before the time when the show was filmed.

  1. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  2. Little House on the Prairie
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Period shows–that is shows set in the past, before the time when the show was filmed.

  1. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  2. Little House on the Prairie
  3. Upstairs, Downstairs
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Period shows–that is shows set in the past, before the time when the show was filmed.

  1. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  2. Little House on the Prairie
  3. Upstairs, Downstairs
  4. Wonder Woman