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TMC
10-05-2013, 04:10 AM
http://www.bonethefish.com/viewtopics.php?2565

One Day at a Time is an American situation comedy on the CBS network that aired from December 16, 1975 to May 28, 1984. It portrayed Ann Romano, a divorced mother, played by Bonnie Franklin, her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper (Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli) and Schneider, their building superintendent (Pat Harrington). The show was created by Whitney Blake and Allan Manings, a husband-and-wife writing duo who were both actors in the 1950s and 1960s. The show was based on Whitney Blake's own life as a single mother, raising her child, future actress Meredith Baxter.

Retro4Life
10-05-2013, 01:40 PM
When Mac left for good, the show lost a lot of its spark and magic. Barbara was too conservative to hold the show on her own, and Ann's romances really couldn't do it either.

I really stopped watching this show at least four years before it ended.

Mr. Television
10-05-2013, 02:01 PM
When Mac left the first time it started to feel like a different show. And then they brought Alex in and it wasn't the same. I like Howard Hesseman but he was awful on ODAAT so I'll say at about that time the show totally JTS. I stayed with it practically to the end though because of Barbara. :D

Kasey
10-06-2013, 11:45 AM
When Mac left the first time it started to feel like a different show.
This. By Season Five they began using Nanette Fabray too much and it just wasn't the same without Mac.

Dr. Thong
10-06-2013, 12:56 PM
That annoying kid Alex.

And in typical TV-defying logic, Alex stayed on with Ann after his Dad passed away, rather than going with an actual relative, like an Aunt, Uncle or Grandmother.

McGillicuddy
10-09-2013, 10:24 AM
Yeah, when Alex joined the show was a jump the bone moment. He WAS annoying, and unnecessary.

Dr. Thong
10-09-2013, 05:32 PM
Yeah, when Alex joined the show was a jump the bone moment. He WAS annoying, and unnecessary.

Again, why wasn't he sent off to live with an actual blood relative instead of living with Ann and Barbara?

Babalu
07-04-2014, 12:31 PM
Again, why wasn't he sent off to live with an actual blood relative instead of living with Ann and Barbara?

Because they didn't have a TV show.

Dr. Thong
07-06-2014, 04:23 PM
Because they didn't have a TV show.

:D