Pick the last season for ONE show that was the worst out of all your Favorite Shows

[TVFactFan]

I will have to say the one show that had the most unwatchable last season out of all my favorite shows had to be

Different Strokes. No more Willis, and the addition of Sam was just not watchable to me anymore.

[Classic TV Fanatic]

The Andy Griffith Show. No Barney, New characters ... just didn't mix right. By that point, the show completely jumped the shark (in my eyes).

[Brian Damage]

Good Times

[barwars]

Originally posted by Classic TV Fanatic
The Andy Griffith Show. No Barney, New characters ... just didn't mix right. By that point, the show completely jumped the shark (in my eyes).

and everyone else's eyes
Ive said it before and I'll say it again, TAGS without Barney is trash.

[C Doody]

I'm Usually the type of person that prefers the later seasons of shows. But 2 shows i cannot STAND In their later years is Bewitched and Laverne & Shirley.

Bewitched was just awful in its last 2 seasons or so. It wasnt neccesarily Dick Sargent's fault...He was a good actor, But to fans of the show....Dick York WAS Darrin. To make things worse they kept going on those boring vacations and started remaking old episodes. It was quite clear that they had ran out of ideas.

Laverne & Shirley's last season was a little better than Bewitched's, And is at least somewhat watchable. But the fact that Shirley was gone and Lenny was barely on anymore made the show's quality decrease.

[EmoJoe]

Full House and The Cosby Show had awful last seasons.

[Petrie Malone]

Friends. Bad last season, they should have left earlier on a high note.

[Dragonflies]

The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Full House(too much Michelle!)

[Brian]

Chico and the Man. They should have cancelled it after Freddie Prinze committed suicide. The last season was awful. There was no Chico and he was the heart and soul of the show. Instead there's this kid that isn't funny and is mediocre. And don't get me started on Charo. :barf:

[treky]

"Ellen"-when she "came out of the closet" WHY did they feel that every single episode had to revolve around the fact that she's gay?

"Laverne & Shirley"-without Shirley, the show was just unwatchable.

"Roseanne"-once the Connors came into money, it just took all the humor away from the show. Plus, with John Goodman in only 75% of the last season, it wasn't funny anymore

"Happy Days"-no Ron Howard. "The Fonzie show". Live audience.-that says it all. (even though the last 2 things happened in the 2nd season, and started the downward spiral)

"The Andy Griffith show"-I'm sure everyone can guess what I'm going to say about this!

black & white, Barney Fife. that says it all

[James]

The final season of The Waltons from 1980-81 was the worst season of that great show, for similar reasons as Classic TV Fanatic says for The Andy Griffith Show--Olivia and John (the father) were gone, and there were too many new characters--Rose, Jeffrey, and Serena Burton, as well as Toni Hazelton (Jason's wife) and Cindy (Ben's wife).

[snl75]

night court all the humour of the first 8 seasons was missing from that awful with a capital a final season

[AtlantaBravesFan29]

Mork and Mindy(Jonathan Winters would have been much better in a different role than playing Mork's baby:rolleyes: ):barf:

[AtlantaBravesFan29]

Originally posted by James
The final season of The Waltons from 1980-81 was the worst season of that great show, for similar reasons as Classic TV Fanatic says for The Andy Griffith Show--Olivia and John (the father) were gone, and there were too many new characters--Rose, Jeffrey, and Serena Burton, as well as Toni Hazelton (Jason's wife) and Cindy (Ben's wife). In the last season, Jeffrey and Serena were both gone to go back to live with their father. It was just Rose and she was just seen in a few episodes. Also Toni Hazelton is Jon Walmsley's wife in real life as well. They didn't get married on the show,but in the reunion movie that they did in 1993 they were married. Cindy first appeared in the middle half of the 1978-1979 season(that was when Michael Learned left the show for a brief time due to a contract dispute),and come to find out that Ben and Cindy eloped together which made John quite upset at first. I think since World War 2 was over with,they had to focus on the kids and other things since both Michael Learned and Ralph Waite left the show at the same time. As a matter of fact, The Waltons ranked number 30 in its last season,while in the previous 2 seasons it didn't crack the top 30.

[James]

Originally posted by BravesFan2004
In the last season, Jeffrey and Serena were both gone to go back to live with their father.

BravesFan2004, I had forgotten about Jeffrey and Serena leaving to go back to their father. They seemed to be on the show forever. To me they were right for just one or two episodes and no more.

[EmoJoe]

Also, The Facts of Life

[Ant-Lox]

The Cosby Show

[Sara Micelli]

Originally posted by RurryMicelli
Also, The Facts of Life

It's just not the Facts of Life without Charlotte Rae.

[Rene]

buffy the vampire slayer, roseanne

[Kitt]

All of you made some great points about the shows that you mentioned. I'm going to make it easy on myself and keep my comments to just one (well, one and half) shows like Solomon requested.

I didn't watch Diff'rent Strokes in it's original run, but having watched a lot of it since then, I completely agree with Solomon's take on that. The show was terrible with the missing characters and the addition of some other terrible characters. Except for one thing. I seem to recall Solomon one time saying that Kimberly was his least favorite character. She was my favorite character.:p

A show that I did watch in it's original run was The Waltons. That's the show I'll pick as my most disappointing last season or two of a show that used to be a favorite of mine. The whole idea of that show was that we, the audience, would love the characters as though they were our own family. The new John Boy character was the beginning of the end of all of that. Beyond that, they would have done well to end the show when the family was all but over. Instead, they brought in a bunch of new characters who we couldn't possibly love in the way that we loved the orignal Walton family. That show became almost painful to watch in the end. So, since I'm not a masochist, lol, I stopped watching it.:)

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by RurryMicelli
Full House

Full House was pretty bad. They should have just called it The Michelle Show.

I didn't really like I Love Lucy's last season, but I wouldn't call it unwatchable. Ditto with Saved by the Bell.

I'll say it for Brian...Chico and the Man was horrid.