It seems to be the common opinion that the termination of the three girls was a big mistake for this series. The move to New York just added insult to injury! Well, I will have to agree that the final season of this show was, more or less, a joke in its own time! Well all of this took place twenty-six years ago. I am now starting this thread to commemorate the twenty-six views of the last thread that I started on this page!

It seems to be the common opinion that the termination of the three girls was a big mistake for this series. The move to New York just added insult to injury! Well, I will have to agree that the final season of this show was, more or less, a joke in its own time! Well all of this took place twenty-six years ago. I am now starting this thread to commemorate the twenty-six views of the last thread that I started on this page!



It was like a whole new show. Season 5 was pretty similar to season 3 when the Chief was away in London for those few shows. But season 5 was far worse than season 4. 3 and 4 were amazing. 1 and 2 are also very well put together, except the music could have sounded more 1980s with the opening/closing and music during some scenes sounded like something out of the late 1970s.


The New York episodes were a complete waste. There was no closure after Nell moved to NY. They opened up a whole new cast, most that couldn't bring in viewers. There were a small handful of episodes I enjoyed watching, such as Christmas In New York, Joey The Gambler, Harry The Hampster, Joey's Teacher and Save The Church. Even the last show, Mama's Date was pretty promising of what the series might have had in store for a season 7. Ernie most likely would have been on the show more than just that 1 show. However, the show ended with Nell out of work, since McDillon and Loud was sold several episodes before the season finale. There was no mention if they kept the company in running, but from the looks of the future episodes, even with the out of order Someday My Prince airing as the 2nd last show, Nell indeed was out of a job. Nell being in publishing was not something that she would normally be doing after college. She would have been better as a school psychologist or a child psychologist. That's what I think the writers wanted to see happen had they kept the show in Glenlawn, but when they moved the show to NY, they totally dismissed the idea of Nell going to college for child psychology.

It was like a whole new show. Season 5 was pretty similar to season 3 when the Chief was away in London for those few shows. But season 5 was far worse than season 4. 3 and 4 were amazing. 1 and 2 are also very well put together, except the music could have sounded more 1980s with the opening/closing and music during some scenes sounded like something out of the late 1970s.


The New York episodes were a complete waste. There was no closure after Nell moved to NY. They opened up a whole new cast, most that couldn't bring in viewers. There were a small handful of episodes I enjoyed watching, such as Christmas In New York, Joey The Gambler, Harry The Hampster, Joey's Teacher and Save The Church. Even the last show, Mama's Date was pretty promising of what the series might have had in store for a season 7. Ernie most likely would have been on the show more than just that 1 show. However, the show ended with Nell out of work, since McDillon and Loud was sold several episodes before the season finale. There was no mention if they kept the company in running, but from the looks of the future episodes, even with the out of order Someday My Prince airing as the 2nd last show, Nell indeed was out of a job. Nell being in publishing was not something that she would normally be doing after college. She would have been better as a school psychologist or a child psychologist. That's what I think the writers wanted to see happen had they kept the show in Glenlawn, but when they moved the show to NY, they totally dismissed the idea of Nell going to college for child psychology.


The first thing that I would like to do is agree with you that the New York season was a waisted season! I think that I described it best in my innitial post when I referred to it as a joke in its own time! At this stage in the game, the only regular member of the original cast who was still around was Nell. Kind of like the only member of the original cast from "All in the Family" who was around for "Archie's Bunker's Place" was Archie. However, that spin-off did okay! I guess it is just the luck of the draw whether the network will be successful or not. In any event, I am once again, very happy to have finally thought up a topic for a thread that generated a reply! The times that this happens are few and far between!