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Brian Damage
07-30-2005, 07:48 PM
I noticed that Jimmie Walker was missing from a couple of episodes. Was this planned or did he have some sort of falling out too?

TVFactFan
07-30-2005, 10:17 PM
I noticed that Jimmie Walker was missing from a couple of episodes. Was this planned or did he have some sort of falling out too?



He was only absence from one episode during the john amos era and that episode was "rent party" i know he was missing a lot in season 6

Brian Damage
07-30-2005, 10:32 PM
He was only absence from one episode during the john amos era and that episode was "rent party" i know he was missing a lot in season 6


Do you know why he was missing?

TVFactFan
07-31-2005, 12:16 AM
Do you know why he was missing?


Nope, haven't stumbled across that info yet

Brian Damage
07-31-2005, 12:57 AM
Nope, haven't stumbled across that info yet

There has got to be a valid reason.

Brieannas21
07-31-2005, 02:51 AM
Well he did do two movies while he was on Good Times so that might play a factor as to why he was missing from a few episodes. Also in the 70's he was an stand up comedian. He was a stand up comedian before he was even on Good Times. So he was prob on the road, it's hard to juggle three different jobs at onces.

Ireneparalegal
07-31-2005, 06:58 PM
Maybe he was with that other MIA Boom Boom Belinda.

jamesanthony
08-01-2005, 11:00 AM
None of the actors appeared in all of the year 6 shows. I would guess that they wrote it into their contracts that they would get a certain number of weeks vacation that season. I just rewatched the year 2 dvd and I think Willona is only in about 13 shows, although when I watched these shows as a youngster I never noticed that she wasn't in them.

Brian Damage
08-01-2005, 11:30 AM
Yeah, I just realized Michael wasn't in "My Son, the lover." Thanks to Solomon of course. :D

TVFactFan
08-01-2005, 07:57 PM
Yeah, I just realized Michael wasn't in "My Son, the lover." Thanks to Solomon of course. :D



I think that maybe the only ep he missed

Ireneparalegal
08-01-2005, 08:08 PM
But if you think abt it, maybe it was in their contracts that they may not always be in an episode. Can you imagine always trying to write lines for all the characters for whatever the premise of the episode might be? I don't know. just a thought.

Brian Damage
08-02-2005, 12:36 AM
I didn't envy the writers of that show with all the tension and in fighting that was going on.