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TVFactFan
07-29-2015, 09:08 PM
All in the family and the Jeffersons had one right after the summer of 1977 and was wondering did any other sitcom based in NYC have one

I guess it was written into the script because NYC just experience a blackout the summer before the 1977-78 season.

What about Barney Miller? Welcome Back Kotter? Rhoda?
treky
07-30-2015, 12:41 AM
ALL IN THE FAMILY did-not for the entire episode though.
tenter
07-31-2015, 02:06 PM
"Blackout episode" during the 1977-78 season?

I guess it was written into the script because NYC just experience a blackout the summer before the 1977-78 season.

What about Barney Miller? Welcome Back Kotter? Rhoda?

You know maybe you could edit the title a little bit, and write something more about what it's about.
TVFactFan
08-01-2015, 12:35 AM
You know maybe you could edit the title a little bit, and write something more about what it's about.


Just made the edit
tenter
08-01-2015, 02:33 PM
Just made the edit
Thanks, that's much better. Easier to read.
Ohio8
08-01-2015, 10:05 PM
No.
opus
08-01-2015, 10:13 PM
NBC did a whole night of blackout sitcoms in '94, except for SEINFELD, which wouldn't play along.

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a30592/revisiting-blackout-thursday/
TVFactFan
08-01-2015, 10:26 PM
NBC did a whole night of blackout sitcoms in '94, except for SEINFELD, which wouldn't play along.

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a30592/revisiting-blackout-thursday/


Seemed kind of foolish since it wasn't connected to anything. Atleast viewers knew why there was a blackout ep on the Jeffersons and All in the Family
Ohio8
08-02-2015, 12:01 AM
All in the family and the Jeffersons had one right after the summer of 1977 and was wondering did any other sitcom based in NYC have one

I guess it was written into the script because NYC just experience a blackout the summer before the 1977-78 season.

What about Barney Miller? Welcome Back Kotter? Rhoda?

Neither one of these three sitcoms had an episode about the 1977 NYC blackout.
treky
08-02-2015, 12:27 AM
NBC did a whole night of blackout sitcoms in '94, except for SEINFELD, which wouldn't play along.

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a30592/revisiting-blackout-thursday/
I remember that, it was their entire Thursday night lineup which at the time was FRIENDS,MAD ABOUT YOU, SIENFELD and something else-I forget what.
opus
08-02-2015, 01:10 AM
I remember that, it was their entire Thursday night lineup which at the time was FRIENDS,MAD ABOUT YOU, SIENFELD and something else-I forget what.

Madman of the People (Dabney Coleman).