I'm a little confused on how a show can be a top ten showit's first season and horrible in the ratigs the following season-What was so different about the show the second season? Was it the time slot?

The Ropers was moved from it's first season Tuesday slot to Saturdays at 8pm. At the time, CHiPs was killing it's competition in that slot. The Ropers were no different.

Originally posted by Sean Snow
The Ropers was moved from it's first season Tuesday slot to Saturdays at 8pm. At the time, CHiPs was killing it's competition in that slot. The Ropers were no different.

The Ropers should have came on right after Three's Company on Tuesdays night and had more crossovers with it's parent show-Three's Company. Usually when a spinoff comes on right after it's parent show-it does well in the ratings because it a hour long connection between two shows-for example Laverne and Shirley came on after Happy Days and A Different World came on after the Cosby Show and looked what happen-both shows were rated 5 or higher

what in the world was ABC thinking? you have a Top-10 show right off the bat with "The Ropers" and the next thing you know they're on a new night! what is their logic? it wasn't fair putting them up against "CHiPs". tell me what 10 year old boy, or even a 16 year old is going to watch "The Ropers" over "CHiPs"? did the networks care about the 18-39 demographics that they seem to covet now? it sure looks like they did even back then! ABC knew that nobody had a chance against "CHiPs"...CBS pulled this same stunt in 1995 when they placed their 11 year old "Murder, She Wrote" opposite NBC's "Friends"! you know what happened! after 12 years, 1984-1996, "Murder, She Wrote" was bye-bye because it couldn't compete with "Friends. but tell me, did "Murder, She Wrote" really ever command a young audience like "Friends"? NO! like "The Ropers", Lansbury's show was forced off the air by low ratings. what's wrong with shows finding their audience and staying on one night and time? despite popular opinion, audiences don't always follow their show to a new time or night because it might interefere with family or work.

Originally posted by jerry allen
what in the world was ABC thinking? you have a Top-10 show right off the bat with "The Ropers" and the next thing you know they're on a new night! what is their logic? it wasn't fair putting them up against "CHiPs". tell me what 10 year old boy, or even a 16 year old is going to watch "The Ropers" over "CHiPs"? did the networks care about the 18-39 demographics that they seem to covet now? it sure looks like they did even back then! ABC knew that nobody had a chance against "CHiPs"...CBS pulled this same stunt in 1995 when they placed their 11 year old "Murder, She Wrote" opposite NBC's "Friends"! you know what happened! after 12 years, 1984-1996, "Murder, She Wrote" was bye-bye because it couldn't compete with "Friends. but tell me, did "Murder, She Wrote" really ever command a young audience like "Friends"? NO! like "The Ropers", Lansbury's show was forced off the air by low ratings. what's wrong with shows finding their audience and staying on one night and time? despite popular opinion, audiences don't always follow their show to a new time or night because it might interefere with family or work.

Norman Fell even said _they're killing us" When he found out they were in a Saturday night slot-It should have came on right after Three'sCompany