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That seemed to carry over to some degree in the show. I had always thought Jack and Janet could have made a nice romantic couple when the show was coming to an end.

He was a bit better known for two reasons: 1) He was the son of Tex Ritter, who was a movie cowboy star in the 30s and 40s so he had some 2nd generation connections in Hollywood. 2) He had paid his dues doing small parts in other TV shows before Three's Company like, M*A*S*H, The original Hawaii 5-0, and The Waltons (he was a semi regular for a while as a pastor). However Three's Company definitely put him on the map as a comic actor. Joyce Dewitt wasn't well known and Suzanne at the time was best known for being the "Girl in Convertible" in American Graffiti. In a different passage, the WB Ranch (formerly known as The Columbia Ranch) home of famous house facades for tons of TV and films is being demolished. The studio is making room for new studio space.

More like they just needed to put their split season allowance somewhere - rather than an actual renewal. I'll give the show credit for making even the toughest YT reviewers nearly cry while watching this show.

Poor Erica Kane on All My Children got that treatment too!

Not to mention how ramshackle it was! He STILL loved it despite the condition it was in or the constant repairs.

A couple for October: Methinks this has to do with the death of Julian Sands, but who could the other actor be? What did he do afterwards?

THIS! I haven't seen GG in forever (didn't even make it to the bitter end) but that plot development should not have happened! I thought it might have been nice that Lorelei and Christopher finally got together as adults.

A few for the end of September: Reboot of what exactly? Beyonce? Obviously Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce! I figured as much since the "relationship" seemed to come out of nowhere and seemed like a publicity stunt from the beginning. Could this be the Snow White actress? Rachel Zegler. Ouch! At least the hookup was nice enough to take him to a doctor. And for the piece de resistance: Not only who, but why?

With everyone else dead, he was the only living link and they couldn't prove anything (supposedly) that he had anything to do it. SWAT raided his house over a month ago, and apparently someone found evidence of some kind after all this time sitting on the case. Last word was they have evidence he gave the gun to the shooter who killed Tupac.

Unfortunately those were decisions made by people long since dead so we can only speculate. They may have been restricted to using singers contracted by the studio as opposed to hiring anyone from the outside, but that's just a guess. The Modernaires sang the show's title tune during the closing credits during the first season, but maybe they weren't available to sing anything further.

Was the location of the hometown ever established? I know the exteriors were shot at Columbia Ranch in LA (where the Bewitched House and Leave it to Beaver house are) but I don't think the town even had a name much less a location. It easily could have been a Philly suburb, Connecticut, Long Island or Westchester. [Snip] Actually, depending on where one lived (and in some cases when), it would not necessarily be out of place. In fact, many of the immigrants in the show were from Europe because prior to 1965, they had priority. I suppose if the show had limped along into 1970 they might have had a black maid appear.

I caught an episode of Hazel called "How to Lure and Epicure" (1962). In the episode, a new Italian restaurant opens up in town and the owner desperately wants a fancy food critic (the kind who makes or breaks places) to give him a good review. He tries a meal there and didn't seem impressed. Hazel and her friends go to work, cooking or reworking many of the dishes and succeed and getting the critic's attention. Something goes wrong and he ends up not giving the good rating after all and leaves. Then, the owner's worried about closing, but when the Baxter family go for one last meal at the place (expecting it to close soon), the see a line out the door! The owner informs them that a local critic wrote up about the restaurant in the local paper so rather than focusing on tourists, he'll focus on local clientele. Now, it just doesn't make sense to advertise for tourists when as far as we've seen, the town the series takes place in is not a touristy sort of place (it was shot at the Columbia Ranch street where you'll find the house from Bewitched and Leave it to Beaver among many other familiar exteriors). It's essentially a suburb, not a tourist trap, it would make sense to seek out locals to eat out at the restaurant not reach out to tourists from out of town!!

It's been an unusual day for me today at the office. First, I come in today and naturally, one of the top stories is the recap of the Life is Beautiful music festival. It's the 10th anniversary of some big named musical acts performing in open staging areas with plenty of fans crowding in to watch. It began on Friday night and ran through Saturday. I was looking for video, but to my surprise I found none. How? Why? I asked the producer, who tole me we were unable to film any of this even because we don't bother sending photogs on nights we do not have a 10pm show (which was this Saturday since for the duration, we'll be all football games during the afternoon and evenings). So, rather than send a photog to film some new broll of this big event, even if they weren't going to use it until Sunday night or Monday morning, they chose to not cover it at all. Instead we used mostly still photos from various Twitter pages. If I had been management I would have screamed! Of course if I HAD been management, I wouldn't have let this happen. This gave me flashbacks to when I first started working there, we didn't even have people sitting at the news desk listening to the scanners on weekends and often didn't cover things like parades and people would ask why we didn't have any video of these things. Well, now you know. Then while editing a story about Kelly Clarkson (who sang on the Strip - with a karoke machine) I downloaded the link given to me (it came from her twitter account). We use various downloading websites to get YT vids and FB vids, etc. to edit them into stories. Naturally I used the same one we've been using for a while. When I searched for the video I thought I downloaded, I found something, how shall I put it... NSFW! I was shocked and don't know how this happened since I opened the link in the computer and it was the video I wanted not the NSFW one. I tried another download and fortunately, the correct video came in this time. I contacted my supervisor immediately, explained what happened and said he'd have our tech guys delete from the system immediately. He knows I don't download anything without permission and I certainly do not surf unsuitable material either at work or at home. It's still a mystery.

I don't know if a specific pilot was made, the episode we saw may have been it - a backdoor pilot. Whether or not it would have taken place in the past is a toss up since many other spinoffs from HD took place in the (then) present. Laverne and Shirley I think was the only one to take place in the same time frame as HD.

I'd always thought Gilligan and Mary Ann had couple potential (not to mention they were good friends in real life). Then again, Gilligan was kind of like that eternal child who didn't know how to deal with girls. I remember Nick at Nite used to have a promo based on the Ton Loc song, "Wild Thing" in which one of the lines was, "Gilligan is such a screw up, I think they'll probably kill him!"

It's not acceptable! In fact there's a word for it: "Crazymaking". Some might also use the term, gaslighting but the former term is just as fitting. Only a complete psychotic must have written that script.

Now, for my umpteenth rant about my immediate supervisor who does not listen to a thing I or my edit partner tell him! He comes into work right as we're starting to get a last minute edit rush. He says he got the word from "up high" about our shift that there's too much video looping. We both explained to him that there is a reason why this may happen: because there is limited video to begin with! You see there's video that our photogs film (in house) and stuff that comes from FOX (we're an affiliate) or CNN (we have access to national stories they run). Now, whatever the big networks send us, that's all we have. maybe it's a package that we "bust" (break down into a simple VO or a SOT/SOTVO). We have to edit based on script as close as possible, but sometimes, talky anchors do't know how to shut up and before you know it, the video we initially cut is too short and we have to cut it longer (also orders from "on high"). That means it's inevitable that some of the same video will be see onscreen again. If the video is raw video our people shot, we may have more leeway, but there are still only so many useable shots. For example, our local little league team went to the LLWS, unfortunately they lost and came back home a few days ago. I was given a source for the raw video of their return to the airport to greet their families. I used every useable shot possible (many shots were pointed at the floor, shaky cam, etc.) but I still had to loop it after about 30 sec or so of footage. Since this was a story the anchors would drone on about, we hat to cut at least a minute - preferably a minute 30 seconds. I explain this to supervisor who apparently has all the answers: "Just let the producers know and let them decide to continue as is." Really? My partner and I do NOT have time to constantly question every darn story in the rundown. Sure we contact the producer when there are questions or problems of one kind or another but this is insane! We get quick instruction in the scripts what to do and do it. Sometimes we have no choice but to use what is available to us. What does supervisor say? THE SAME THING! It's like he's really not listening! He's just repeating what someone else said (who is NOT in our edit bays dealing with our issues and they never even bothered to invite us to meetings and have us tell them straight up what we have to do to get through the day). Sometimes I think he wants us to rage quit or something.

So sad to hear about both Bob Barker and Arleen Sorkin! Bob Barker I grew up with - as a kid watching The Price is Right when I was home from school! When he turned up in his hilarious role as himself in Happy Gilmore, he developed a new generation of fans. Watching those TPIR shows in which college aged guys would appear, they'd be afraid to come too close to Bob, and they'd say, it was because they'd seen what he could do on Happy Gilmore! Bob must have gotten a kick out of that!! Sorkin I knew more by name as I wasn't watching much of soaps, but I remember her better as the voice behind Harley Quinn on Batman: The Animated Series. RIP to both!

Perhaps, but it's not good for anyone to constantly be taken advantage of, especially for their money. The last thing I want to see for anyone is to have their illness exploited, stolen and devoured by so called family while the victim is left in the streets. Heaven knows we have enough of that now.

I actually had heard of it! It was a radio program at first, then transitioned to TV. It seemed so exploitative to me - airing sad stories to a national audience to win an appliance. It seems to have continued on reality shows though. Of course in my statement was more of a person goes into a contest and tells his/her competitors their [made up] sob story in order to get them to throw the contest. No. She had the reputation as the best baker in town, and purposely threw the contest. She was baking a cake and sabotaged herself on purpose by reducing the heat in the oven during the baking process which caused the cake to go flat. A mistake Hazel would never make otherwise. By episode's end, she bakes the exact same cake that evening for the family perfectly fine. In retrospect, yes, she was. Although her main fault was being a buttinski - even if it was done with love. However, I always admired that the character never let who she was stop her from trying something new (a good lesson to us today!). In one episode it was mentioned she had to drop out of school to support her family after her mother died, so she couldn't continue her education formally, but in many episodes you see her reading a lot and learning new vocabulary words. It was good to see someone keep herself active and never thought of herself as beneath anyone just because she was "the maid".

Here's a wacky story (and it's rather long) just posted to Entertainment Lawyer. Short version: two super geek fans of a TV show got married but the groom is a mama's boy of the highest order to his wealthy mother, and the bride was willing to stay with him but the MIL is doing everything she can to make her look bad and get her to divorce her boy. What show was it and any idea who this couple is?

THIS! Sometimes I think it's one part a reflection of the writer's lives (unhappy ands dysfunctional) and the lack of being able to write drama that didn't involve tragedy. Just once I want to see grown adults in a dramatic series that had a good relationship with their families.* * I did see an episode of Emergency in which we see the father of Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller) being admitted to the hospital for a serious condition. Later, Brackett stops by his dad's room and chats with him about the surgery he'll need and his guilt over not being home as much as he'd like and suggesting they plan a fishing trip together. I remember thinking that if this show were made now, there would be all sots of drama about how irascible dad would be and how distant he and Dr. Brackett would be! It was so refreshing to see a normal father [adult] son relationship!!

I LOVE THIS! Yes, I have a weird sense of humor. I'm now imagining people who compete in various contests and give a sob story expecting their competitors to purposely lose to her out of guilt!! Sure, I knew he wouldn't literally forget him (the boy looked about 10 or so and I imagine he has a strong image of Dad in his mind as well as the relationship he would have had), just that that's how the mother put it. If anything (and I've been in this situation myself, as many of us have) he would have been saying things like, "Dad would have loved to see this!", etc. . My parents were at that fair (in fact, my father worked in construction at that time and built many of the pavillions). It was considered the highlight of a lifetime to go. The last time the fair was held in NY was 1939 (My grandparents went to that one, but my dad was still a baby!). Anyone who could afford to travel and get admission would have wanted to see what was there as for many it was a once in a lifetime experience. I think Hazel wanted to go because Harold wanted to go. Of course Harold's father could have just agreed to make it a family outing from the outset.

On to a vintage of anger inducement: On Hazel, in the episode, Just Me, Harold and the Unisphere (1964) Hazel enters a contest in which the first prize is two tickets to the World's Fair (which at the time was being held in Flushing Meadow, Queens, NY). Hazel is a natural shoe in to win, but of course, there's a complication: her competitor is the mother of a friend of Harold's (the son of Hazel's employers and a sort of grandson to her) and of course she had a sob story. She's a widow and really needs to win to make her and her son's dreams come true. In her words, she hopes that winning the contest and going to the fair will help him forget about his father's passing 6 months earlier. Being the good sport, Hazel feels badly and sabotages herself to let her competitor win. ARRGH! OK, so she has a sob story. Forget his father's death? That won't happen. Not that maybe the boy wouldn't have a thrill after dealing with a big loss like that, but ultimately, you still wake up knowing that your loved one is still gone and nothing will ever change that. Purposely lose to every person you need to compete against just because they're possibly in a worse spot than you? What does that teach us? Nothing wrong with having empathy and if you're able, to help them in another way, but one shouldn't sabotage one's own efforts either. Or is it me being heartless and cynical? Of course the episode ends with her employer telling her and the family that he was taking them all to the World's Fair as a family.

THIS! He's been enriching himself in one way or another using her money once her earlier conservatorship was dissolved. Either she got a clue or someone in her family finally got through to her about what a thieving heel he is.