Do You Think the Ill Fated Spin-off "704 Hauser Street" Would've Worked If....

[Brian Damage]

.....Archie Bunker was cast as the lead instead of the John Amos character??? I guess Norman Lear thought he would be cute and cast an all black family in the old Bunker Household, but if he really wanted viewers to tune in, shouldn't SOMEONE from the Bunker legacy live in that house?

[Hughsgirl]

Wow Brian I don't recall this show at all. But yes how weird for that particular house to be used in that way. It seems like a practical joke.

[Brian Damage]

Wow Brian I don't recall this show at all. But yes how weird for that particular house to be used in that way. It seems like a practical joke.

Yeah, this was really a show, it didn't last very long for a variety of reasons. A grown up Joey Stivic even visited the house in an episode. lol

[comedyfreak]

I wished I could have gotten to see that show.

[70s show watcher]

I wished I could have gotten to see that show. i saw it and imho it was so so at best

[Hughsgirl]

You know looking at the house, I have always found it strange that when they show the porch on the house in an episode there's a full porch, but in the credits, they just have the steps. Weird!

[OOliver]

You know looking at the house, I have always found it strange that when they show the porch on the house in an episode there's a full porch, but in the credits, they just have the steps. Weird!


Believe it or not, that has always bothered me as well!

As for the spin-off, it's pilot aired back in April, 1994. It was then cancelled....promptly cancelled.

[treky]

You know looking at the house, I have always found it strange that when they show the porch on the house in an episode there's a full porch, but in the credits, they just have the steps. Weird!
yea, back when the show first aired (on CBS in various time slots, but mostly saturday nights at 8) I used to always wonder about that. You'd think that SOMEONE would have noticed it!!!

[treky]

I remember back when "704 HOUSER STREET" was on, my sister watched it once and when I asked her how it is, she said "It's just 'ALL IN THE FAMILY' with a black cast, that's all".

[Retro4Life]

I liked 704 Hauser Street, and I don't think it was given a proper chance to survive. As for casting Archie, well, I imagine the whole point was that the former cast wasn't really available or viable anymore. I think if Lear COULD have gotten them, he might have. But the characters had moved on; Mike and Gloria had moved, Edith had died, and with just an older Archie there it wouldn't have been the same (as much as I love Archie).

[Jude The Obscure]

Actually Carrol O'connor wanted to revive the Archie character in a new show (this was after In the Heat of the Night had finished it's long successful run) but Norman Lear said no. A shame considering we never got a proper goodbye for Archie.

Also I think it would have been funny if the John Amos character revealed to someone in this series "really I have a past life I can't talk about. I'm in the witness relocation program. But some people used to know me as........(in hushed tones)... James Evans" :lol: