Which shows had way too many seasons and by the end they were scraping the bottom of the barrel?

Roseanne probably should have ended after Season 7, or maybe at the end of Season 8. The final season was a trainwreck of epic proportions, and it was so bad it was written out of existence when the series was rebooted.

The Facts of Life probably should have ended one season earlier; that final season (Season 9), the series felt like it had lost focus: Blair starts off the season in law school, but by the end of the season, she's not even taking classes anymore. Jo gets married, but we see her husband just once after they are wed. Natalie even phones in her final episode. Don't even get me started on the mess that was Pippa.

The Simpsons should have ended after Season 8.

Gimme a Break's final season was soul-crushingly bad. I don't know why they even bothered with that final season: it had only one original cast member left.

Game of Thrones' final season got completely messed up when the producers decided to make up their own storylines, ignoring the careful foreshadowing that had been etched in for the previous seven seasons.

Little House on the Prairie probably should have ended after the first four seasons. That show got so far from its roots that it felt like the producers were on drugs. By the time they had mimes raping girls, the show was a shadow of its former self.

Let's not overlook 'Happy Days' ! Even fans of the Screaming at the Studio Audience Super Fonz and Cha-Wah-Wah-Wachi Years had to conclude it was running on fumes for the last few years .

Let's not overlook 'Happy Days' ! Even fans of the Screaming at the Studio Audience Super Fonz and Cha-Wah-Wah-Wachi Years had to conclude it was running on fumes for the last few years .

Oh yes. The last few years of Happy Days were not good years.

Let's not forget the final season of Laverne and Shirley, which I call "Laverne and".

MASH's later seasons were also unbearable.

Family Guy should have ended after Season 7

Family Matters would’ve gone off the air 25 years ago if it weren’t for CBS. Realistically the 9th Season of Family Matters is the only season that turn the show into a complete shell of its former self.

Home Improvement would’ve left the airwaves once Season 7 ended

Married With Children would’ve been axed after Season 6

My Three Sons should have ended a bit sooner. They were running out of sons.

As for more recent shows, The Office and Two and a Half Men.

Seinfeld should have given it up a few years earlier. I don't care for zany unthinking comedy.

Seinfeld should have given it up a few years earlier. I don't care for zany unthinking comedy.

Agree- but, heresy of heresies, I ALSO wish 'Friends' had gotten cancelled at least four years before it had its overhyped, overpraised end!

Agree- but, heresy of heresies, I ALSO wish 'Friends' had gotten cancelled at least four years before it had its overhyped, overpraised end!

It probably should have ended sooner, but four years earlier would have meant it would have ended after the sixth season. We would have missed Phoebe's grandmother's cookie recipe, Joey and Ross on the fire escape, and Monica and Ross' cousin, all of which are classic memories for me.

DEFINITELY MASH should have been cancelled after season 7; 99.9% of those season 8-11 "post Radar" episodes are just painful to watch

One Day at a Time

Antenna TV just finished showing the final season and wow it was a hot mess. It felt like a spin-off. The show lost it's focus and didn't know what it wanted to be. Barbara and Julie move into a house with their husbands and shifting the focus to the new location. But Ann was back in the old apartment with her new husband. Then Mackenzie Phillips get fired again for the second time due to drugs issues and were left with her husband and baby. Then the writers give give a awful explaination way by saying ran out on her husband and newborn child? Then to fill the void they have Grandma Romano move in the house. Valerie Bertinelli is sleepwalking her lines at this point and clearly over the show. They're giving a finale to wrap up everybody's storyline, but then proceed to have the last episode be that crappy backdoor pilot. The only positive is that the producers dropped the Alex character who I hated. His addition to the show was unncessary and they should have dropped his character along with his father.

ODAAT, Alice and The Jeffersons.

Drew Carey Show

Two kinds of shows, shows that take place in a high school or a military environment. I think The Facts of Life was mentioned, the four girls went from high school to college to adult life and never moved away from each other. That's not realistic, even with people with lifelong friends, people move on and have other friends and experiences.

Welcome Back Kotter was sort of doomed because the students were obviously too old to be high school students, except ironically Ron Pallilo who played Horseshack who was the oldest one. Having twenty five year old ninth graders just doesnt work after a time. Sort of good Gabe Kaplan and John Travolta by leaving killed it off early, what was the show going to do if it was a massive hit for years and years?

I never saw it, but Head of the Class probably had a similar issue, kids who were already too old to logically be in high school, in high school. Again，I never saw this show either but at least the kids at Saved by the Bell were kids.

Military shows. MASH had to suspend a lot of belief. The main issue is that in the real military, personell are moved in and out all the time, while most of the players here just stayed in one place, the MASH unit. in real life, a doctor would do a few months and go somewhere else, not stay for years and years. MASH had I believe four Christmas episodes, which isnt right since the war was only three years and again, the staff wouldnt have stayed there that long.

Gomer Pyle is another example. Again, people in the military move from post to post, place to place and even country to country. Even in the Gomer Pyle universe where it is peacetime. Gomer would not have stayed at one post for several years, with the same Gunnery Sargeant (and this is another annoying thing, Carter was not a Sargeant, he was a Gunnery Sargeant or a "Gunny" for short). Gomer Pyle should have moved from post to post and should have at least have been an E-3 (Sargeant), and Carter a distant memory.

Since Gomer was such a talented singer, he should have been in the USO, where he met the Carol Burnett character and was even a Sargeant to other entertainers in the unit. Gunnery Sargeant Carter could have had his own show, again, travelling from post to post, yelling at knuckleheads and going to exotic places like 1960's Japan.

On One Day at a Time, the Julie character should have been written out as a drug addict, she got on drugs and ran away. Julie was a bit of a trouble maker in that way and there was even an episode earlier where she did run away.

ODAAT was very much a "dramedy" and an occasional tragedy. I remember as a child crying when Barbara thought her parents were going to reconcile and they didnt and how upset she was. The Bonnie Franklin character herself was a soap opera of ups and downs. It was very much real life of a single parent struggling with two teenage daughters in the 1970's.

What is difficult for shows is to change with the times when characters and especially child characters get older. A show like ODAAT starts with a 16 year old daughter but how do you write for her seven years later when she is 23 and still living at home. I think that is the one struggle of long term shows, kids who grow up。

Has anybody forgotten The Big Bang Theory?

Two kinds of shows, shows that take place in a high school or a military environment. I think The Facts of Life was mentioned, the four girls went from high school to college to adult life and never moved away from each other. That's not realistic, even with people with lifelong friends, people move on and have other friends and experiences.

Welcome Back Kotter was sort of doomed because the students were obviously too old to be high school students, except ironically Ron Pallilo who played Horseshack who was the oldest one. Having twenty five year old ninth graders just doesnt work after a time. Sort of good Gabe Kaplan and John Travolta by leaving killed it off early, what was the show going to do if it was a massive hit for years and years?

I never saw it, but Head of the Class probably had a similar issue, kids who were already too old to logically be in high school, in high school. Again，I never saw this show either but at least the kids at Saved by the Bell were kids.

Military shows. MASH had to suspend a lot of belief. The main issue is that in the real military, personell are moved in and out all the time, while most of the players here just stayed in one place, the MASH unit. in real life, a doctor would do a few months and go somewhere else, not stay for years and years. MASH had I believe four Christmas episodes, which isnt right since the war was only three years and again, the staff wouldnt have stayed there that long.

Gomer Pyle is another example. Again, people in the military move from post to post, place to place and even country to country. Even in the Gomer Pyle universe where it is peacetime. Gomer would not have stayed at one post for several years, with the same Gunnery Sargeant (and this is another annoying thing, Carter was not a Sargeant, he was a Gunnery Sargeant or a "Gunny" for short). Gomer Pyle should have moved from post to post and should have at least have been an E-3 (Sargeant), and Carter a distant memory.

Since Gomer was such a talented singer, he should have been in the USO, where he met the Carol Burnett character and was even a Sargeant to other entertainers in the unit. Gunnery Sargeant Carter could have had his own show, again, travelling from post to post, yelling at knuckleheads and going to exotic places like 1960's Japan.
Brillant observations on both. The Sweathogs should have gone to college or go to trade school and meet new people. I agree with you on MASH and Gomer Pyle. Gomer should have moved on and advanced on his military career and move up in the ranks.

Laverne & Shirley

Modern Family

The Goldbergs

Laverne & Shirley

Modern Family

The Goldbergs


Do.not follow the first two shows butThe Goldbergs very much so. IMO, they should have hung it up this past season. It was Adam F. Goldberg's vision for the show to conclude after Adam graduated high school. And especially with George Segal and Jeff Garlin gone.

Grey's Anatomy

LA Law

CHiPs started getting silly after Larry Wilcox left. The show ran out of freeways to patrol so they started pulling beach patrol, harbor patrol and looking for pick pocketers terrorizing people at carnivals ~lol

Brillant observations on both. The Sweathogs should have gone to college or go to trade school and meet new people. I agree with you on MASH and Gomer Pyle. Gomer should have moved on and advanced on his military career and move up in the ranks.

Gabe Kaplan suggested that they have the sweathogs graduate and enroll in a community college where Kotter winds up being their teacher again; then the show could go on for 4 more years and still be believable. But ABC decided not to.

http://www.tvparty.com/1-season-too-many.html

As we all know, often with TV shows it’s not IF they jump the shark, but WHEN. Even the best shows, if they are on the air long enough, eventually grow a little tired near the end as jokes become repetitive and characters become stagnant. Thankfully, most shows end themselves before a total “off the rails” moment happens. Some shows though don’t know when to quit and go on just that one season too long, often without key actors and with contrived developments that turn off viewers and leave a bad taste in the mouths of even their most devoted fans.

Here’s my list of a few shows that really should have quit while they were (mostly) ahead:

WELCOME BACK, KOTTER: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125256/http://www.jumptheshark.com/w/welcomebackkotter.htm)
When it debuted in 1975, “Kotter” was a hit and was the launching pad for John Travolta’s film superstardom. Not surprisingly, after Travolta hit big in “Saturday Night Fever,” he decided to curtail his work on the small screen. He made only a few appearances in “Kotter’s” fourth and final season and was billed as a “guest star.” Handsome actor Stephen Shortridge was brought in as a Southern-born Sweathog to round out the ensemble. But, as if that wasn’t enough, series star Gabe Kaplan also truncated his appearances on the show’s final season due to disagreements with the show’s producers. To fill that void, Kotter’s on-air wife, Julie (played by Marcia Strassman), who had previously only been seen in the show’s opening and closing minutes and never really interacted with the Sweathogs, got bumped up in her screen time by becoming the school’s secretary, effectively taking the place of her TV husband on the show. “Kotter” largely without Kotter got cancelled shortly thereafter in its 1978-1979 season.

LAVERNE & SHIRLEY: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031124428/http://www.jumptheshark.com/l/laverneandshirley.htm)
Here’s an odd one. Remember “Laverne & Shirley” without Shirley? Well, it happened. After being a monster ABC hit and even surviving a rather far-fetched development which saw most of the original cast pick up and move from Milwaukee to Hollywood, “L&S” reached a major stumbling block in its final season when series co-star Cindy Williams left the series after two episodes due to a conflict with the show’s producers. So, hence, Laverne (Penny Marshall) had to go it alone. Though the program was still called “Laverne & Shirley,” Williams was removed from the opening credits in both name and image. And though such talented actresses as Carrie Fisher and Laraine Newman were brought in for a few episodes to give Marshall a comic partner, the show wasn’t the same without Shirl. It ended shortly thereafter.

CHARLIE’S ANGELS: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125247/http://www.jumptheshark.com/c/charliesangels.htm)
Sometimes it’s not just actors leaving a series that can foretell doom, sometimes it’s when they are added. (I mean we all remember Cousin Oliver, right?) “Charlie’s Angels” was such a phenom when it began that it survived the departure of Farrah Fawcett. But when the next Angel, Kate Jackson, flew away, it was pretty much game over. First, classy Shelley Hack came in but though beautiful, she was rather bland. Hack though did, at least, fit in and interact with the other two Angels still on the series (Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd) and was depicted as a trained, former police woman. But after Hack was let go, the show’s producers recruited the late Tanya Roberts as the show’s final Angel. Though also gorgeous, Roberts’ addition didn’t seemed that thought out. First, she was not a trained police officer but was introduced as a grad of a “top modeling school.” Huh? Additionally, because both Smith and Ladd wanted to lessen their work hours, Roberts wasn’t given much time interacting with the other Angels and the teamwork aspect of the show that made it work before completely disappeared. Further still, Roberts’ character—Julie Rogers—was shown as capable a detective as both her co-workers. She could even be a little bossy. But shouldn’t the former model had deferred some to the original Angels? It all seemed weird. The Roberts season would be “Charlie’s” final season. The fault does not lie with Roberts, or with Hack, though. I maintain that by the time Kate Jackson departed the series, the bloom was decidedly off the “Angels’” rose by then; they could have hired Meryl Streep for the series and it wouldn’t have made a difference.

THE MAN FROM UNCLE: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125239/http://www.jumptheshark.com/m/manfromuncle.htm)
“UNCLE” began in 1964 as a sophisticated TV espionage series staring, as debonair agents, Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. Its combination of great spy stories, great gadgets and wonderful guest stars made it a hit. The series even won a Golden Globe in 1966 in the category of Best TV Show. But then the camp aesthetic came to TV (best embodied by the 1966 “Batman” TV series) and, for some reason, “UNCLE” producers decided that the show needed more humor and over-the-top elements. Suddenly, circa the 1966 season, the show’s characters—Solo and Kuryakin—began facing cartoonish villains and even more ridiculous situations. A case in point: one episode of the series in the ’66 season revolved around a giant “stink bomb” about to be dropped on Las Vegas. The camp approach (which also crippled the show’s spinoff “The Girl from UNCLE,” which also launched in 1966) was despised by the show’s original fans and ratings nosedived. Though the show came back for a season after the show’s comedy pivot, the series was axed halfway through 1968.

ROSEANNE: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125331/http://www.jumptheshark.com/r/roseanne.htm)
The final season of the original “Roseanne” (ending in 1997) seems like a textbook example of “One Season Too Many.” Star Roseanne Barr (or Arnold or whatever) had long fought with her TV bosses but, together, they managed to make a very effective sitcom for many seasons. But then Roseanne really exercised her power and in the show’s concluding season decided that her TV family, the Connors, should win the lottery. Suddenly, the relatable tale of a low-income family using humor to survive and strive got upended and all of the show’s situations became far-fetched and farcical. (If the family really were millionaires, would they still live in that same cramped, dingy home?) Also not helping was the fact that actor John Goodman, who played Roseanne’s steadfast husband, Dan, decided to limit his appearances. The show’s equilibrium was off. Then, to make it all the more ridiculous, in the show’s final episode, it was revealed that “Roseanne’s” final season had all been pretend, a story dreamed up by Roseanne. Hmmm. No wonder, then, that when the show was revived in 2018 (first as “Roseanne” and then as “The Connors”) almost all these latter-day story elements were jettisoned. Yeah, I’d like to forget that final season too.

MOONLIGHTING: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125239/http://www.jumptheshark.com/m/moonlighting.htm)
No real cast shake-ups here but certainly a sad last season…or two. “Moonlighting” was simply great when it began in 1985. It was a witty, fast-paced detective show completely reminiscent of such classic film fare as “My Girl Friday” and “The Thin Man.” Cybill Shepherd showed a previously unknown flair for comedy and newcomer Bruce Willis was the debut of a major new talent. Despite productions delays and rumors of behind-the-scenes conflicts, this story about this unlikely detective duo was effervescent fun. But then, its two lead characters, after long toying with romantic tension, decided to sleep together and faster than you can say “Sam and Diane,” “Moonlighting” morphed into soap opera. Gone were the quirky mysteries and rapid-fire repartee. Instead we got an unfortunate Mark Harmon as Shepherd’s new love interest and more introspective navel gazing than a season of “The Bachelor.” “Moonlighting,” after its amazing debut and start, limped along, on fumes, until it was finally put out of its misery in 1989.

Some other shows that went on a tad too long:

THAT 70s SHOW: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125202/http://www.jumptheshark.com/t/that70sshow.htm) Again, by the final season, most of the original cast had left, leaving only a few newbies and the show’s parents to carry on to a forgettable end.

BABYLON 5: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125231/http://www.jumptheshark.com/b/babylon5.htm) At the end of its fourth season, the show’s star Claudia Christian left “Babylon” and everyone expected the show to be cancelled. But it wasn’t. Instead it came back for one more year with Tracy Scoggins having to bat clean-up.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125344/http://www.jumptheshark.com/n/northernexposure.htm) In its final season, series star Rob Morrow departed and John Corbett got elevated to lead, a promotion even the actor didn’t want at the time.

GRACE UNDER FIRE: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125158/http://www.jumptheshark.com/g/graceunderfire.htm) In “Grace’s” last season, the erratic, off-screen and on-set behavior of series star Brett Butler drove off many of her show’s original co-stars. Even one of the actors playing one of her on-screen kids chose to bow out. The exodus required a variety of new characters to be hastily added to the series, including, briefly, actress Julia Duffy. It proved too much for views and Butler proved too much for the network. The show got axed halfway through its fifth season.

DYNASTY: (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125223/http://www.jumptheshark.com/d/dynasty.htm) To save costs in the primetime soap’s final year, Joan Collins was reduced to only a handful of appearances. The same with series co-star Linda Evans. The wonderful Stephanie Beacham from “The Colbys” came in take up the slack but even she couldn’t do much. And “Dynasty” without Alexis and Krystal? Why bother?

The original Law and Order and SVU

Married ... with Children: Right after that woman from Michigan led protests against the show, that should have been the end.

The Waltons: after Olivia left. It wasn't the same with the Burton family, aka the 3-headed Cousin Oliver :D, taking her place.

NCIS And the Simpsons

My Three Sons should have ended a bit sooner. They were running out of sons.

Could have been easily retitled My Three Daughters. So many of the later episodes were focused of Katie, Polly, and Dottie.

Let's not overlook 'Happy Days' ! Even fans of the Screaming at the Studio Audience Super Fonz and Cha-Wah-Wah-Wachi Years had to conclude it was running on fumes for the last few years .

For me Happy Days lost its identity when it switched to a live audience. Soon the hair and
clothing looked out of place for the '50's. Really too bad. I think even Gary Marshall said he sold out when the show went to a live audience.

Hazel - last season switching networks, dropping main characters. Lost its identity

McHale’s Navy- the last season in Italy didn't work as well as the previous in the Pacific Islands

The Real McCoys- last season switching networks. Losing half the family and reinventing Luke as a bachelor didn't work.

Andy Griffith show. Loosing Barney and turning into a soft comedy didn't work. Proof is that mostly the black and white episodes are shown now.

All in the Family. When Mike and Gloria moved to California it shut out the antagonistic that Archie needed.

I Dream of Jeannie- Jeannie and Tony married really messed things up.

Bewitched- Loosing Dick York was a major blow. Even though Dick Sargent was originally cast as Darrin he never had the personality to play the part as well as Dick York.

The Carol Burnett Show. As much as I like Dick Van Dyke the episodes he was a cast member of were not as good as the ones without him. It's hard to have a major star as an added cast member of another major star.

Dennis the Menace- as Dennis grew up the premise of the show was lost. It would have been nice to have had Seymour be part of a spin-off when Dennis the Menace ended. He was more devious than Dennis. Actually he was more like the original idea of Dennis as seen in the pilot episode.

I Dream of Jeannie- Jeannie and Tony married really messed things up.I disagree. Season 5 was still great, it would have been nice to get a season 6.

Diff'rent Strokes should have ended with Mr. Drummond getting married. The show became a mess with Sam, a 2nd Maggie, no Kimberly and a handful of Willis episodes. Not to mention that Arnold was going thru puberty and Gary was tired of doing the show.

I disagree. Season 5 was still great, it would have been nice to get a season 6.


Fair enough but I don't think it wasn't as good as the previous seasons.

Hazel - last season switching networks, dropping main characters. Lost its identity

McHale’s Navy- the last season in Italy didn't work as well as the previous in the Pacific Islands

The Real McCoys- last season switching networks. Losing half the family and reinventing Luke as a bachelor didn't work.

Andy Griffith show. Loosing Barney and turning into a soft comedy didn't work. Proof is that mostly the black and white episodes are shown now.

All in the Family. When Mike and Gloria moved to California it shut out the antagonistic that Archie needed.

I Dream of Jeannie- Jeannie and Tony married really messed things up.

Bewitched- Loosing Dick York was a major blow. Even though Dick Sargent was originally cast as Darrin he never had the personality to play the part as well as Dick York.

The Carol Burnett Show. As much as I like Dick Van Dyke the episodes he was a cast member of were not as good as the ones without him. It's hard to have a major star as an added cast member of another major star.

Dennis the Menace- as Dennis grew up the premise of the show was lost. It would have been nice to have had Seymour be part of a spin-off when Dennis the Menace ended. He was more devious than Dennis. Actually he was more like the original idea of Dennis as seen in the pilot episode.

You picked it all right out of my mind. I completely agree.

You picked it all right out of my mind. I completely agree.

Ouch, that gotta hurt. Sorry:lol:

Chico and the Man - The moment Freddie Prinze Jr. committed suicide, NBC should have pulled the plug on the show immediately after Season 3 ended. That fourth season was absolute garbage replacing Chico with a cute 11 year old kid? That was plain stupid. The show was called Chico and the Man, not The Kid and the Man. The producers got even more desperate towards the end of the season and added an 18 year old teenage runaway girl who Ed also adopts. The show's ratings declined badly after Prinze's death and never recovered and for good reason. The show was over the minute Prinze died.

1. The Simpsons should've ended after Season 8. Up until then, the show was a solid cult classic. Now, it's gone on so long that they keep retconning Marge and Homer's childhoods and how they fell in love. Last time I heard, they were GenX kids, which makes no sense because GenX grew up watching the show knowing them as Boomers.

2. Married with Children should've also ended season 8, or if not, when the show retired Buck the dog. It was really running on empty when David Faustino and Christina Applegate became too old to play their parts and when Amanda Bearse became less interested in playing Marcy and wanted to play herself.

3. South Park should've ended at around the 8 year mark as well. Afterwards, it became way too preachy and smug about political issues. They also started ripping off other content for material when they ran out of ideas.

4. Whatever season Little House on the Prairie brought Albert on. That was the moment that they ran out of ideas and became bored with keeping the show wholesome. As soon as he was added, LHOP relied more on shock value and sensationalism.

5. ER should've quit after the last of the original cast left. It ran on empty for so long afterwards that practically no one remembers it, yet it was the hottest show of the 1990s.

6. The X Files, after Mulder and Scully left. By then, it was obvious that Chris Carter had no idea where he was going with the show and was just winging it.

For me Happy Days lost its identity when it switched to a live audience. Soon the hair and
clothing looked out of place for the '50's. Really too bad. I think even Gary Marshall said he sold out when the show went to a live audience.

I don't have all of the anachronisms (https://www.google.com/search?q=ancronistic+happy+days&oq=ancronistic+happy+days&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160l3j33i299.904418j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) of Happy Days right in front of me, but Scott Baio (https://www.google.com/search?q=happy+days+scott+baio&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjvgsrr7rWAAxX7q4QIHQl8DssQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=happy+days+scott+baio&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIGCAAQCBAeMgcIABAYEIAEOgQIIxAnOgcIIxDqAhAnOgcIABCKBRBDOgoIABCKBRCxAxBDOggIABCABBCxAzoJCAAQGBCABBAKUIwMWNLFA2DDxgNoAnAAeACAAboFiAH5MJIBCTItMS4yLjQuNpgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nsAEKwAEB&sclient=img&ei=hwvGZK-jN_vXkvQPifi52Aw&bih=789&biw=1600) (Chachi) always looked way too contemporary for a show that was presumably set in the 1950s-60s. I wasn't around during that time period, but I know for a fact that young men in America didn't sport longish, feathery, over the ears hairstyles like Scott Baio did. He basically, looked like a Taxi-era (https://www.google.com/search?q=taxi+tony+danza&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjCiqSn77WAAxWDfTABHT1VBD4Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=taxi+tony+danza&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQ6BAgjECc6BggAEAgQHjoHCAAQGBCABDoHCCMQ6gIQJzoKCAAQigUQsQMQQzoLCAAQgAQQsQMQgwE6CAgAELEDEIMBOggIABCABBCxAzoHCAAQigUQQzoECAAQHlDrBVi1IGDeImgBcAB4AIAB6QSIAfcqkgEJMi0yLjAuMS44mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWewAQrAAQE&sclient=img&ei=BQzGZIL0BoP7wbkPvaqR8AM&bih=789&biw=1600) Tony Danza on a purported period piece sitcom.

Erin Moran (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/103723597650431900/) (Joanie) also during the later years of the show, I think looked too contemporary with her choice of hairstyle.

One Day at a Time

Antenna TV just finished showing the final season and wow it was a hot mess. It felt like a spin-off. The show lost it's focus and didn't know what it wanted to be. Barbara and Julie move into a house with their husbands and shifting the focus to the new location. But Ann was back in the old apartment with her new husband. Then Mackenzie Phillips get fired again for the second time due to drugs issues and were left with her husband and baby. Then the writers give give a awful explaination way by saying ran out on her husband and newborn child? Then to fill the void they have Grandma Romano move in the house. Valerie Bertinelli is sleepwalking her lines at this point and clearly over the show. They're giving a finale to wrap up everybody's storyline, but then proceed to have the last episode be that crappy backdoor pilot. The only positive is that the producers dropped the Alex character who I hated. His addition to the show was unncessary and they should have dropped his character along with his father.

The website Pop Culture Reference also suggested (https://popculturereferences.com/when-did-one-day-at-a-time-jump-the-shark/) that ODAAT may have run a season too long.

Happy Days - When Ritchie and Ralph left the show it was done. It became the Joanie and Chachi show with jenny piccalo, roger, melvin belvin etc. The show was pointless without Ritchie.

Welcome Back Kotter - It's hilarious they continued the show without John Travolta and Gabe Kaplin. Gabe was Kotter! Welcome back to the guy who is never there???

Mash - This show went on at least 4 years too long. Just awful. Don't even get me started on this.

Cheers - I am watching the final 2 seasons and the magic was gone.

Laverne and Shirley - It was already in decline but without Shirley there was no point

SNL quit being funny years ago and the format of the show seems kinda.... tired?


Grey's Anatomy is well past its prime. Been on so long, that every original cast member sans Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. has left. Time to end it already

10 Great Shows That Went on a Season Too Long (https://www.cbr.com/great-shows-one-season-too-long/)

From How I Met Your Mother to Chuck some TV shows would have been perfect, but they unfortunately had an underwhelming last season.

SNL quit being funny years ago and the format of the show seems kinda.... tired?

It should've ended the season Norm MacDonald made this legendary monologue in 1999, when he completely roasted the show and said what everyone was thinking and felt at the time:

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On MASH, they should have focused on other camps. The 4077 wasn't the only camp during the Korean War. On one episode, Hawkeye went to another camp for a week. The episode focused on the visitors to the 4077 and we never saw Hawkeye at the other camp he was visiting. It wouldn't have hurted what the other camp was like.

Melrose Place after Season 5 kind of died for me with the abrupt departure of most of the core cast I'd grown to love over the previous 5 years.

Season 6 was dullsville and Season 7 was beyond ridiculous with history re-written several times. eg: Matt and Amanda were never the closest of friends, yet we're led to believe he'd leave his diary/journal with "explosive secrets" about everyone with her of all people?

Jane returns from Chicago and immediately back into Michael's arms after all the crap he'd put her through previously? When she left the show the first time in Season 5 her character hadn't had anything to do with him for months.