This is just my opinion but I think that the writers of FOL are not credit enough. I mean, they ARE the ones who wrote the scripts and without the writers, there wouldn't BE any episodes at all.(although it IS the girls who brings the show to life.) What do you think?

There's a real story behing the writers of the scripts. In the 1979-1980 season [the 1st one] they had really, really bad writers, that wrote some really lousy scripts, but they changed the writers in the 1980-1981 season, and they kept the writers throughout the series. I think that the girl brought the scripts to life though.

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Andrew Carden

They should get major credit. Especially Linda Marsh and Margie Peters. They came in after the 1st season and 'saved' the show. And when they left ( after the 6th season) they show went simply downhill.
Credit to Deidre Fay and Stuart Wolpert as well.

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"It was just like Saturday Night Fever, only it was a Friday."

lol

You gotta give the writers their credit. They came up with all209 episodes we know and enjoy.

Linda Marsh and Margie Peters left "FOL" to product the superior first season of "Valerie", which ended up morphing into the mediocre "Hogan Family", in which they had no involvement. I agree that Deidre Fay and Stuart Wolpert, who replaced Marsh and Peters as executive producers/head writers, were able hands as well. But once Fay and Wolpert left in the middle of season 7, it was all downhill.

There was quite a bit of turnover during the latter half of season 7 and the first few episodes of season 8, with the show going through a few more producers (Paul Haggis, who did "Due South", was there for a while). The team that took over for the last two seasons was one of the weakest, in my opinion.

Hey, 'The Hogan Family' was not and isn't that bad....

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"It was just like Saturday Night Fever, only it was a Friday."