RetroTVNitekatt
10-19-2017, 04:23 PM
As we all know know, Howard Hesseman joined ODAAT shortly after the cancellation of WKRP...
...But CBS actually tried to un-cancel WKRP after the tail end (following the cancellation) of it's final season got great ratings, however several cast members and production team had signed on to other projects and it proved impossible to get the show back together as everyone had been released from contract.
...BUT what if CBS was able to save WKRP? Howard wouldn't have been free to play Sam...
...WHO would have been cast as Sam instead? Would they have still gone with a known television actor who had been a lead/co-lead in a previous TV series, or would they have gone with someone who was a known guest player but never in their own series.
If he wasn't tied up with "It Takes Two" (Same season as ODAAT season 8), Richard Crenna might have been good in the part of Sam - yeh, he's was in his mid 50's (14 years older than Howard), but could pass for mid-40's (Heck, he was playing a teenager on "Our Miss Brooks" on TV when he was in his late 20's!) He also was a stronger, better actor.
But that aside, I wonder in this "What if" scenario who might have been cast.
...But CBS actually tried to un-cancel WKRP after the tail end (following the cancellation) of it's final season got great ratings, however several cast members and production team had signed on to other projects and it proved impossible to get the show back together as everyone had been released from contract.
...BUT what if CBS was able to save WKRP? Howard wouldn't have been free to play Sam...
...WHO would have been cast as Sam instead? Would they have still gone with a known television actor who had been a lead/co-lead in a previous TV series, or would they have gone with someone who was a known guest player but never in their own series.
If he wasn't tied up with "It Takes Two" (Same season as ODAAT season 8), Richard Crenna might have been good in the part of Sam - yeh, he's was in his mid 50's (14 years older than Howard), but could pass for mid-40's (Heck, he was playing a teenager on "Our Miss Brooks" on TV when he was in his late 20's!) He also was a stronger, better actor.
But that aside, I wonder in this "What if" scenario who might have been cast.