Sometimes shows make major changes and a certain season or seasons is so different it is like you are watching a different show. Here are some examples.

Newhart (season 1 and 2 though season 1 is very different from season 2)

A Different World (season 1)

Facts of Life (season 1)

Cheers (season 1-5, 6-11)

Drew Carrey this season is like a totally new show.

Family Matters(Before and after Urkel)

Originally posted by tvje
Sometimes shows make major changes and a certain season or seasons is so different it is like you are watching a different show. Here are some examples.

Newhart (season 1 and 2 though season 1 is very different from season 2)

A Different World (season 1)

Facts of Life (season 1)

Cheers (season 1-5, 6-11)

The only show ican thik of is the Jeffersons. Season 1 of the Jeffersons was like no other season. Season 1 was the best.

Originally posted by SOLOMON


The only show ican thik of is the Jeffersons. Season 1 of the Jeffersons was like no other season. Season 1 was the best.

All over these boards, you keep stating that Season 1 is so much different. Personally, I don't think so. The series slowly evolved. There certainly were never any major changes. PREMISE wise, there was just the Mike/Damon Evans swap and the mellowing of George. Nothing major and nothing that would constitute a single season being different from the rest.

The Facts of Life and The Doris Day Show are probably two of the best examples.

Originally posted by boechsner


All over these boards, you keep stating that Season 1 is so much different. Personally, I don't think so. The series slowly evolved. There certainly were never any major changes. PREMISE wise, there was just the Mike/Damon Evans swap and the mellowing of George. Nothing major and nothing that would constitute a single season being different from the rest.

The Facts of Life and The Doris Day Show are probably two of the best examples.


Well there are the two reasons which made the Jeffersons 1st season the best. A mellow George and a new lionel killed the show-it was just starting to get hot and those two changes did something to the show. So that why I say the 1st season of the Jeffersons is like no other season.

1. The last two seasons of The Waltons were very different from the first seven without the presence of Michael Learned (Olivia)--and soon Ralph Waite (John).

2. The last two seasons of The Wonder Years were different from the first three--er, 3-1/2 (it started during the winter of 1988) after the gang entered high school. I personally like the first 3-1/2 better.

Actually Facts of Life changes a lot during it's run. You had Season 1 wth the eastland dorm and the 7 girls with Mrs. Garrett. Then you have Seasons 2 - 4 with the four of them living above the cafeteria, then they had Edna's Edibles in Seasons 5 and 6, and then you got Over Our Heads in Seasons 7 - 9. They made 4 changes yet still manage to stay pretty funny! Well in my opinion anyway...

The last season of Roseanne was different from all the rest since it ended up being a dream.

Season 5 of NewsRadio was different because of Phil Hartman's death and Jon Lovitz joining the cast.

Season 5 of Petticoat Junction marked the beginning of the end when the star found out she was dying and was out in several episodes. Those episodes seemed empty without her. The breaking point came in season 6 when Bea Benaderet passed away and carried on the show without her replacing her with June Lockhart. She was far from a replacement for Benaderet. The dynamics died with Bea.

Season three of the New Dick Van Dyke Show having him and his family moved from Arizona to Hollywood to star in a soap opera. I did not like the new cast and there was not chemistry there. It was better with Van Dyke, Hope Lange, Fannie Flagg, Marty Brill and the wonderful Nancy Dussault. The style of comedy they had Van Dyke doing in the third season wasn't him.

Seasons 8 and 9 of One Day At A Time got away from the original premises with the youngest daughter getting married, oldest daughter having a child and moving back to Indianapolis, Ann falls in love with her son-in-law's father and ends up marrying him. The show just never was the same with all that going on.

The Cosby Show in the last two seasons was not the same as in the previous seasons with a ton of relatives moving in. Actually the show began caving in at the fourth season and lost it in the sixth season.

Family Ties midway through the third season to the last season of the show was different from the first two and a half seasons. Those first two and a half seasons was truly Family Ties and dealing with the Keaton's as a family and how parents grew up in a different generation and coping with raising kids in a generation that do not share their ideas on the world. Midway through the third until the end it became the Michael J. Fox sitcom.

Too Close for Comfort got away from original concept when Murial became pregnant in her mid-40's. I heard that one came when Nancy Dussault complained that her character was not developed enough and would like more to do. To me the show was not quite the same after the baby was born. Way too much Monroe and he was annoying.