stars who really hate their past tv shows

[bb]

Jay North has said many of times how much he hates Dennis the Menace while Billy Gray has said in the past that he is not a fan of Fathers Knows Best even though for years he played Bud on the show. And according to a book I have in my collection Sally Field gets
"very upset" whenever some brings up The Flying Nun and Gidget to her.

any other stars that now hate their own past tv shows?

[sitcomsrule]

Patty Duke (the patty duke show)

Tina Louise (gilligan's island)

Gary Coleman (diff'rent strokes)

Suzanne Somers (three's company)

Priscilla Barnes (three's company)

[sitcomsrule]

i think i'm wrong about suzanne somers, but on the E true hollywood story, priscilla barnes said that she has very little good memories of the show.

[Sean Snow]

Suzanne Somers loved TC, she went into a minidepression I think for a week after she was fired. Some More:
Joyce DeWitt (Three's Company)

[LucyFan]

Vivian Vance (from I Love Lucy)
Read "The Other Side of Ethel Mertz" that explains it.

[LucyCompanyPhan]

Vivian Vance didnt HATE her job, she hated Fred! they didnt get along. Joyce DeWitt did enjoy the show and MOST of the people ( she was upset when she was fired) but she didnt like suzanna and the way she was treated.Priscilla Hated being Famous and wanted to quit but couldnt because she was under contract. Tina Louise thought she was the star and tried to take over Gillians island just like suzanna somers. Gary Coleman hated his character. Most stars on the Brady Bunch hated the show as well.

[D&R]

I think a good indicator that determines if an actor/actress appreciates his/her tv work is whether he/she is willing to do a reunion special or appear on a talk show that is doing a tribute.

My nominees:

Larry Hagman
Andy Griffith
Nancy McKeon

[LucyFan]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by LucyCompanyPhan:
[B]Vivian Vance didnt HATE her job, she hated Fred

I can tell that you haven't read "The Other Side of Ethel Mertz" because it says clearly in the book she didn't like playing Ethel. She loved acting, but HATED her role. She didn't like acting with WILLIAM FRAWLEY because he was mean to her and called her names.

[DJM77]

Max Baer (Beverly Hillbillies)

[Rob]

Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian)

Andy Kaufman (Taxi)

Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched)

Robert Reed (The Brady Bunch)

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[TV Guy]

Gotta disagree about Elizabeth Montgomery -- by the accounts I read she really enjoyed doing "Bewitched". I think there's a difference between someone genuinely disliking working on a sitcom, like Robert Reed, and those who won't do reunions because they feel that you can't go home again and top what you've already done, like Montgomery. And both Robert Reed and Patty Duke, who hated doing their respective sitcoms, partcipated in reunion shows. So go figure.

[ThomasE]

Eve Plumb- The Brady Bunch

[bb]

..and Robert Reed did that infamous Brady Bunch variety show as well.

Elizabeth Montgomery: There was book I bought by Sam Frank about how to find your favorite shows on video. Ok book but a lot of his strange opinions. Anyway he says pretty much that Montgomery hated Bewitched.
He also went on to say thats why Montgomery did many adult tv movies later in career, like the one where she was raped, to get away from Bewitched. But there was a lot of other miss info in that book so who really knows for sure.

Vivian Vance: I read the book about her. One must understand that she was going through serious problems with her mariage to Phil Ober and of course she didnt get along with Fred and from what I read about Lucy can be quite tough to work with too. But..she respected and admired Desi and I dont recall ever hearing her say point black she hated I Love Lucy though.

I also heard that Bette Midler hated her recent sitcom so much she would not allow her own child to watch it. Interesting the large number of tv/music stars that wont allow their kids to watch tv, listen to radio, or even listen to music. For example I read on the AP once that Madonna wont allow her kids to listen to rock or country music, not even her own. Just classical.
Strange!!

..but of all the stars there are I dont think one can top Jay North when it comes to hating his own series. Never forgot the NBC special he was on 10 years ago saying that the sight of Dennis the Menace makes him vomi and that how much he loved his wife because she hated Dennis the Menace. If I can remember he even slammed NICK for even airing its reruns. Nick must got the message because the reruns stopped on that channel soon after.

...and Dennis the Menace wasnt that bad a show. At least the first few seasons.

[Rose]

David Cassidy has had a love hate thing going with The Partridge Family for years.He used to refuse to even talk about it but in the last few years he has redone some of the songs from the show.

[Krisalicious]

I gotta disagree with the Joyce DeWitt thing....she liked doing the show but she didn't like the producers. But i can't understand about Priscilla Barnes! She looked like she was having so much fun!

[TMC]

Originally posted by ThomasE:
Eve Plumb- The Brady Bunch

It's sort of hard to say (for me at least) if this is truely the case. If Plumb really didn't like her experience on The Brady Bunch then why exactly did she appear in virtually every reunion project (i.e. The Bradys, The Brady Brides, A Very Brady Christmas, and more recently, the Weakest Link)? She even made a cameo in the black exploitation movie spoof I'm Gonna Git You Sucka in which the theme from the Brady Bunch is obviously played in the background.

[TMC]

Originally posted by Rob:
Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian)

Andy Kaufman (Taxi)

Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched)

Robert Reed (The Brady Bunch)

I could be wrong, but I think that in the case for Reed he really didn't like the direction that the writing wanted to take rather than simply the show in general per se. Its been noted that Reed wished that the show take a more realistic approach rather than simply rely on by-the-numbers slapstick.

[TMC]

*Ed O'Neil (Married With Children)-O'Neil didn't necessarily hate his experience at working on the show. It's just that he has given the impression that he's very bitter at the way that Fox treated the show towards the end of its run. To put it in another way, O'Neil practically laughs at the idea of doing a reunion since he feels that the show wasn't given a proper wrap-up episode.

*John Amos & Ester Rolle (Good Times)-You may recall that the two parents on the show left in protest. Basically, they figured that the originally intended socially concious sitcom was transforming into the more cartoonish Jimmie "Dino-mite" Walker Show. Rolle was gone from the show for about a year while Amos' character was killed off. This soon (if I'm not mistaken) spurned the phase "Damn, damn, damn!"

[Lucylover22]

I dont know about this one but how about Bob Saget from Full house? I dont think he hated the show but just his character. Because once i think on ET he said he thought his character was gay and stupid. I dont think so but i guess he did.

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[iwannabeanExstead/McKeon]

Originally posted by D&R:
I think a good indicator that determines if an actor/actress appreciates his/her tv work is whether he/she is willing to do a reunion special or appear on a talk show that is doing a tribute.

My nominees:

Larry Hagman
Andy Griffith
Nancy McKeon

well...i for 1, am gonna defend Nancy here!! since i am a loyal fan! She doesn't "hate" Facts of Life, the only reasons she isn't doing the reunion is because she doesn't want to be known as "Jo Polniaczek", she wants to be known as herself,Nancy McKeon and the second reason is, she's doing a series called The Division on Lifetime, in which, it's going into is *2ND SEASON* and she has no time to be doing a reunion for FOL

get your facts straight b4 u post something.... http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/wave.gif

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[DJM77]

Susan Dey (Partridge Family)

[James]

I believe Cindy Williams resented having been cast as Shirley on "Laverne & Shirley", especially when I consider her having left the show in the middle of the final season.

[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by James:
I believe Cindy Williams resented having been cast as Shirley on "Laverne & Shirley", especially when I consider her having left the show in the middle of the final season.

She Loves Laverne & Shirley! She Didn't Want to Do the Show at First, But She Did. And she left because she was pregnent and she didn't feel the producers were letting her have enough off time. And it was at the end of the 7th season/beginning of the 8th

[D-Dey]

Jaleel White hates "Steven Q. Urkel" so much, that he (jokingly?)suggested assisted suicide if the subject ever comes up again.

[factsoflife]

Delta Burke hates being reminded of Suzanne Sugarbaker and Desining Women.

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