TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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9801

Censorship! examples either of movies censored for TV, or TV shows that were censored

  1. When Eddie and the Cruisers* was edited for TV, you couldn’t say “Hell” at a certain time of day, so to make the print safe at any time, they edited out the word “Hell” with silence. Including all the 100, or whatever, times the group’s album, A Season in Hell was mentioned.
  2. In The Big Lebowski, John Goodman’s line “See what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass” was changed for TV to the head-scratchingly odd “See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.”
  3. In Happy Gilmore Shooter McGavin tries to intimidate Happy by saying, “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast”, to which Happy mimics with his reply— here’s it altered for TV— “You eat pieces of crud for breakfast?”
  4. Four episodes of the original Star Trek – “Miri,” “Plato’s Stepchildren,” “Whom Gods Destroy,” and “The Empath” – were pulled from airing by the BBC due to their “adult” content (torture, sexuality, insanity, etc.), through the 1970s and 1980s, as the BBC felt that the content was inappropriate for juvenile viewers of the series.
  5. When Blazing Saddles was first shown on broadcast television, the sound of whinnying horses was played over the campfire “beans” scene.
  6. The ST:TNG episode “The High Ground” (1990) was either censored or not broadcast for years on British or Irish TV due to a reference to Irish Unification brought about, at least in part, by terrorism.

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Censorship! examples either of movies censored for TV, or TV shows that were censored

  1. When Eddie and the Cruisers* was edited for TV, you couldn’t say “Hell” at a certain time of day, so to make the print safe at any time, they edited out the word “Hell” with silence. Including all the 100, or whatever, times the group’s album, A Season in Hell was mentioned.
  2. In The Big Lebowski, John Goodman’s line “See what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass” was changed for TV to the head-scratchingly odd “See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.”
  3. In Happy Gilmore Shooter McGavin tries to intimidate Happy by saying, “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast”, to which Happy mimics with his reply— here’s it altered for TV— “You eat pieces of crud for breakfast?”
  4. Four episodes of the original Star Trek – “Miri,” “Plato’s Stepchildren,” “Whom Gods Destroy,” and “The Empath” – were pulled from airing by the BBC due to their “adult” content (torture, sexuality, insanity, etc.), through the 1970s and 1980s, as the BBC felt that the content was inappropriate for juvenile viewers of the series.
  5. When Blazing Saddles was first shown on broadcast television, the sound of whinnying horses was played over the campfire “beans” scene.
  6. The ST:TNG episode “The High Ground” (1990) was either censored or not broadcast for years on British or Irish TV due to a reference to Irish Unification brought about, at least in part, by terrorism.
  7. The last time I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights on TNT about 10 years ago, it was so heavily edited it wasn’t even sensible. One example: “You changed your name to Latrine? “Yeah. Used to be Shithouse.” It’s a good change.” The spoiler text was completely skipped over.
9803

Censorship! examples either of movies censored for TV, or TV shows that were censored

  1. When Eddie and the Cruisers* was edited for TV, you couldn’t say “Hell” at a certain time of day, so to make the print safe at any time, they edited out the word “Hell” with silence. Including all the 100, or whatever, times the group’s album, A Season in Hell was mentioned.
  2. In The Big Lebowski, John Goodman’s line “See what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass” was changed for TV to the head-scratchingly odd “See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.”
  3. In Happy Gilmore Shooter McGavin tries to intimidate Happy by saying, “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast”, to which Happy mimics with his reply— here’s it altered for TV— “You eat pieces of crud for breakfast?”
  4. Four episodes of the original Star Trek – “Miri,” “Plato’s Stepchildren,” “Whom Gods Destroy,” and “The Empath” – were pulled from airing by the BBC due to their “adult” content (torture, sexuality, insanity, etc.), through the 1970s and 1980s, as the BBC felt that the content was inappropriate for juvenile viewers of the series.
  5. When Blazing Saddles was first shown on broadcast television, the sound of whinnying horses was played over the campfire “beans” scene.
  6. The ST:TNG episode “The High Ground” (1990) was either censored or not broadcast for years on British or Irish TV due to a reference to Irish Unification brought about, at least in part, by terrorism.
  7. The last time I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights on TNT about 10 years ago, it was so heavily edited it wasn’t even sensible. One example: “You changed your name to Latrine? “Yeah. Used to be Shithouse.” It’s a good change.” The spoiler text was completely skipped over.
  8. Repo Man: “I call bullshit on that” was replaced with “I call No Way on that.”
9804
  1. When Eddie and the Cruisers* was edited for TV, you couldn’t say “Hell” at a certain time of day, so to make the print safe at any time, they edited out the word “Hell” with silence. Including all the 100, or whatever, times the group’s album, A Season in Hell was mentioned.
  2. In The Big Lebowski, John Goodman’s line “See what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass” was changed for TV to the head-scratchingly odd “See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.”
  3. In Happy Gilmore Shooter McGavin tries to intimidate Happy by saying, “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast”, to which Happy mimics with his reply— here’s it altered for TV— “You eat pieces of crud for breakfast?”
  4. Four episodes of the original Star Trek – “Miri,” “Plato’s Stepchildren,” “Whom Gods Destroy,” and “The Empath” – were pulled from airing by the BBC due to their “adult” content (torture, sexuality, insanity, etc.), through the 1970s and 1980s, as the BBC felt that the content was inappropriate for juvenile viewers of the series.
  5. When Blazing Saddles was first shown on broadcast television, the sound of whinnying horses was played over the campfire “beans” scene.
  6. The ST:TNG episode “The High Ground” (1990) was either censored or not broadcast for years on British or Irish TV due to a reference to Irish Unification brought about, at least in part, by terrorism.
  7. The last time I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights on TNT about 10 years ago, it was so heavily edited it wasn’t even sensible. One example: “You changed your name to Latrine? “Yeah. Used to be Shithouse.” It’s a good change.” The spoiler text was completely skipped over.
  8. Repo Man: “I call bullshit on that” was replaced with “I call No Way on that.”
  9. A kind of touching episode of All in the Family that had a scene censored out, which I wonder if it would be allowed today or not, was the episode where Archie changes his grandson’s diaper. It’s done in real time, with Archie talking to himself and the baby, and IIRC, God a bit. The whole episode is just Carroll O’Connor and a bassinet. Anyway, when he does change the baby, they show his (the baby’s) bare butt for all of a second, but it got cut.
9805
  1. When Eddie and the Cruisers* was edited for TV, you couldn’t say “Hell” at a certain time of day, so to make the print safe at any time, they edited out the word “Hell” with silence. Including all the 100, or whatever, times the group’s album, A Season in Hell was mentioned.
  2. In The Big Lebowski, John Goodman’s line “See what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass” was changed for TV to the head-scratchingly odd “See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.”
  3. In Happy Gilmore Shooter McGavin tries to intimidate Happy by saying, “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast”, to which Happy mimics with his reply— here’s it altered for TV— “You eat pieces of crud for breakfast?”
  4. Four episodes of the original Star Trek – “Miri,” “Plato’s Stepchildren,” “Whom Gods Destroy,” and “The Empath” – were pulled from airing by the BBC due to their “adult” content (torture, sexuality, insanity, etc.), through the 1970s and 1980s, as the BBC felt that the content was inappropriate for juvenile viewers of the series.
  5. When Blazing Saddles was first shown on broadcast television, the sound of whinnying horses was played over the campfire “beans” scene.
  6. The ST:TNG episode “The High Ground” (1990) was either censored or not broadcast for years on British or Irish TV due to a reference to Irish Unification brought about, at least in part, by terrorism.
  7. The last time I saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights on TNT about 10 years ago, it was so heavily edited it wasn’t even sensible. One example: “You changed your name to Latrine? “Yeah. Used to be Shithouse.” It’s a good change.” The spoiler text was completely skipped over.
  8. Repo Man: “I call bullshit on that” was replaced with “I call No Way on that.”
  9. A kind of touching episode of All in the Family that had a scene censored out, which I wonder if it would be allowed today or not, was the episode where Archie changes his grandson’s diaper. It’s done in real time, with Archie talking to himself and the baby, and IIRC, God a bit. The whole episode is just Carroll O’Connor and a bassinet. Anyway, when he does change the baby, they show his (the baby’s) bare butt for all of a second, but it got cut.
  10. One of the funniest dubs, Smokey and the Bandit subs out “scum bum” for “sumbitch” from Sheriff Buford T. Justice, which he says like a hundred thousand times during the movie. :blush:

Pass

9806

TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final three seasons
9807

TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final three seasons.

  2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.

9808

TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final three seasons.
  2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  3. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
9809

TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final three seasons.
  2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  3. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  4. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
9810
  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final three seasons.
  2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  3. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  4. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
  5. Monk - Bitty Schram thought they couldn’t get along without her, and dug her heels in during contract disputes. They let her go, replacing Sharona with Natalie (Traylor Howard). Some fans think the show improved.
9811
  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final 2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  2. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  3. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
  4. Monk - Bitty Schram thought they couldn’t get along without her, and dug her heels in during contract disputes. They let her go, replacing Sharona with Natalie (Traylor Howard). Some fans think the show improved.
  5. This may not count, and if it doesn’t, don’t paste it into the next one, but when Lucy Lawless broke her pelvis, Xena had to get along without her for awhile. They changed the ending of an episode already filmed where she was body switched with another character, so she wasn’t switched back, then had that actress play Xena for an entire episode. It was followed by a couple of odd episodes with very little fighting or any gymnastics, and Gabrielle more prominent. Then we got back to normal after five weeks.
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[quote=“RivkahChaya, post:9811, topic:972711, full:true”]

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final 2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  2. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  3. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
  4. Monk - Bitty Schram thought they couldn’t get along without her, and dug her heels in during contract disputes. They let her go, replacing Sharona with Natalie (Traylor Howard). Some fans think the show improved.
  5. This may not count, and if it doesn’t, don’t paste it into the next one, but when Lucy Lawless broke her pelvis, Xena had to get along without her for awhile. They changed the ending of an episode already filmed where she was body switched with another character, so she wasn’t switched back, then had that actress play Xena for an entire episode. It was followed by a couple of odd episodes with very little fighting or any gymnastics, and Gabrielle more prominent. Then we got back to normal after five weeks.
  6. Road to Avonlea - this Canadian series, set in early 20th-Century rural Prince Edward Island, originally centered around Sara Stanley, played by Sarah Polley, when it debuted in 1990. Later seasons focused more on Sara’s cousins, aunts, and uncles. In 1994, Sara was put on a bus, more literally on a ship, to go to study in Europe (she made a guest appearance in the series finale in 1996). This was because Polley hated being in the show and wanted out of her contract.
9813

TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final 2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  2. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  3. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
  4. Monk - Bitty Schram thought they couldn’t get along without her, and dug her heels in during contract disputes. They let her go, replacing Sharona with Natalie (Traylor Howard). Some fans think the show improved.
  5. This may not count, and if it doesn’t, don’t paste it into the next one, but when Lucy Lawless broke her pelvis, Xena had to get along without her for awhile. They changed the ending of an episode already filmed where she was body switched with another character, so she wasn’t switched back, then had that actress play Xena for an entire episode. It was followed by a couple of odd episodes with very little fighting or any gymnastics, and Gabrielle more prominent. Then we got back to normal after five weeks.
  6. Road to Avonlea - this Canadian series, set in early 20th-Century rural Prince Edward Island, originally centered around Sara Stanley, played by Sarah Polley, when it debuted in 1990. Later seasons focused more on Sara’s cousins, aunts, and uncles. In 1994, Sara was put on a bus, more literally on a ship, to go to study in Europe (she made a guest appearance in the series finale in 1996). This was because Polley hated being in the show and wanted out of her contract.
  7. M * A * S * H – Several examples. Maclean Stephenson wanted out, so his character (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) was writtien out by being rotated home (and then being killed off en-route), to be replaced by Col Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan). And both of Hawkeye’s tentmates – ‘Trapper John’ MacIntyre and Frank Burns – also were written out and replaced. And finally, the company clerk, Walter ‘Radar’ O’Reilly (played by Gary Burghoff) was written off by being granted a hardship discharge, with his place being taken by Cpl. Max Klinger – who wasn’t even intended to be,much more than a one-time ‘walk-on’ role/

-“BB”-

9814

TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final
  2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  3. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  4. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
  5. Monk - Bitty Schram thought they couldn’t get along without her, and dug her heels in during contract disputes. They let her go, replacing Sharona with Natalie (Traylor Howard). Some fans think the show improved.
  6. This may not count, and if it doesn’t, don’t paste it into the next one, but when Lucy Lawless broke her pelvis, Xena had to get along without her for awhile. They changed the ending of an episode already filmed where she was body switched with another character, so she wasn’t switched back, then had that actress play Xena for an entire episode. It was followed by a couple of odd episodes with very little fighting or any gymnastics, and Gabrielle more prominent. Then we got back to normal after five weeks.
  7. Road to Avonlea - this Canadian series, set in early 20th-Century rural Prince Edward Island, originally centered around Sara Stanley, played by Sarah Polley, when it debuted in 1990. Later seasons focused more on Sara’s cousins, aunts, and uncles. In 1994, Sara was put on a bus, more literally on a ship, to go to study in Europe (she made a guest appearance in the series finale in 1996). This was because Polley hated being in the show and wanted out of her contract.
  8. M * A * S * H – Several examples. Maclean Stephenson wanted out, so his character (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) was writtien out by being rotated home (and then being killed off en-route), to be replaced by Col Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan). And both of Hawkeye’s tentmates – ‘Trapper John’ MacIntyre and Frank Burns – also were written out and replaced. And finally, the company clerk, Walter ‘Radar’ O’Reilly (played by Gary Burghoff) was written off by being granted a hardship discharge, with his place being taken by Cpl. Max Klinger – who wasn’t even intended to be,much more than a one-time ‘walk-on’ role

(Housekeeping; entries 1 and 2 had gotten stuck together)

9815

TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final
  2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  3. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  4. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
  5. Monk - Bitty Schram thought they couldn’t get along without her, and dug her heels in during contract disputes. They let her go, replacing Sharona with Natalie (Traylor Howard). Some fans think the show improved.
  6. This may not count, and if it doesn’t, don’t paste it into the next one, but when Lucy Lawless broke her pelvis, Xena had to get along without her for awhile. They changed the ending of an episode already filmed where she was body switched with another character, so she wasn’t switched back, then had that actress play Xena for an entire episode. It was followed by a couple of odd episodes with very little fighting or any gymnastics, and Gabrielle more prominent. Then we got back to normal after five weeks.
  7. Road to Avonlea - this Canadian series, set in early 20th-Century rural Prince Edward Island, originally centered around Sara Stanley, played by Sarah Polley, when it debuted in 1990. Later seasons focused more on Sara’s cousins, aunts, and uncles. In 1994, Sara was put on a bus, more literally on a ship, to go to study in Europe (she made a guest appearance in the series finale in 1996). This was because Polley hated being in the show and wanted out of her contract.
  8. M * A * S * H – Several examples. Maclean Stephenson wanted out, so his character (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) was writtien out by being rotated home (and then being killed off en-route), to be replaced by Col Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan). And both of Hawkeye’s tentmates – ‘Trapper John’ MacIntyre and Frank Burns – also were written out and replaced. And finally, the company clerk, Walter ‘Radar’ O’Reilly (played by Gary Burghoff) was written off by being granted a hardship discharge, with his place being taken by Cpl. Max Klinger – who wasn’t even intended to be,much more than a one-time ‘walk-on’ role
  9. Happy Days - Older brother Chuck is put on a bus after season 2 and is never heard from again. Fonzie had become the breakout character and established in the big brother role for Richie.
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[quote=“Intergalactic_Gladiator, post:9815, topic:972711”]
TV Series Which Continued After the Departure of a Main Actor

  1. Bewitched – when Dick York (Darrin) was forced to leave the series due to poor health, he was replaced by Dick Sargent as Darrin for the show’s final
  2. The Conners - when Roseanne Barr was canceled following racist posts on X, as well as just being a general hateful MAGAt.
  3. Cheers - After Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) died during the third season, Woody Harrelson joined the cast for the fourth season and remained with the show through the rest of its eleven-season run.
  4. Star Trek: Voyager - The show briefly had both Jennifer Lien as Kes and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, but eventually Kes’s telepathic powers surge out of control and she leaves in a shuttle craft to save the ship as she transforms into a higher state of being. As a parting gesture, she transports Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth, bypassing a large section of Borg space. Behind the scenes, they cut her character for budgetary reasons and the idea that Kes had reached a creative dead-end. Lien was also experiencing mental health issues.
  5. Monk - Bitty Schram thought they couldn’t get along without her, and dug her heels in during contract disputes. They let her go, replacing Sharona with Natalie (Traylor Howard). Some fans think the show improved.
    • This may not count, and if it doesn’t, don’t paste it into the next one, but when Lucy Lawless broke her pelvis, Xena had to get along without her for awhile. They changed the ending of an episode already filmed where she was body switched with another character, so she wasn’t switched back, then had that actress play Xena for an entire episode. It was followed by a couple of odd episodes with very little fighting or any gymnastics, and Gabrielle more prominent. Then we got back to normal after five weeks.
  • Road to Avonlea - this Canadian series, set in early 20th-Century rural Prince Edward Island, originally centered around Sara Stanley, played by Sarah Polley, when it debuted in 1990. Later seasons focused more on Sara’s cousins, aunts, and uncles. In 1994, Sara was put on a bus, more literally on a ship, to go to study in Europe (she made a guest appearance in the series finale in 1996). This was because Polley hated being in the show and wanted out of her contract.
  • M * A * S * H – Several examples. Maclean Stephenson wanted out, so his character (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) was writtien out by being rotated home (and then being killed off en-route), to be replaced by Col Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan). And both of Hawkeye’s tentmates – ‘Trapper John’ MacIntyre and Frank Burns – also were written out and replaced. And finally, the company clerk, Walter ‘Radar’ O’Reilly (played by Gary Burghoff) was written off by being granted a hardship discharge, with his place being taken by Cpl. Max Klinger – who wasn’t even intended to be,much more than a one-time ‘walk-on’ role
  • Happy Days - Older brother Chuck is put on a bus after season 2 and is never heard from again. Fonzie had become the breakout character and established in the big brother role for Richie.
  • Two and a Half Men - Charlie Sheen left the show to enter into drug rehab and was replaced by a less funny Ashton Kutcher.
9817

I really effed the formatting with my reply.

I think there’s one more entry available.

9818

Actually, no, yours was #10.

9819

OK, thanks.

Best of PBS: Shows you enjoyed on public television

  1. Monty Python’s Flying Circus

I watched the full series on late night PBS.

9820

Best of PBS: Shows you enjoyed on public television

  1. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  2. Doctor Who

My introduction to the series was watching old episodes featuring Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee on the PBS station in my college town.