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TVFactFan · 07-02-2012, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian Damage

Who said that?

I think that is BS personally. LOL

Someone on youtube. Well brian it lasted until 1977 with colby so i guess they figured it could last until 1980/81 with Colby

Brian Damage · 07-02-2012, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Someone on youtube. Well brian it lasted until 1977 with colby so i guess they figured it could last until 1980/81 with Colby

Hmmm, I suppose so, but no disrespect to Barbara Colby, but I found her characters annoying.

Mr. Television · 07-02-2012, 11:47 AM

I just don't think the set up of the show was very good. The best members of the cast were 2 people already in their 80's and they weren't even members of the cast when the show started.lol

TVFactFan · 07-02-2012, 06:54 PM

I found out one of my retro crushes was in this show and she was always so DAMM HOT!!!!!!!!! Liz Torres

she played a housekeeper on All in the Family

she also starred in the spinoff Checking In

Retro4Life · 07-02-2012, 07:29 PM

I personally liked Phyliis, but it wasn't really "appointment TV". It just had a very low key type of impact...if you missed an episode you didn't feel that badly.

It was neat to have a show with no kids, but honestly, that show's demographic had to be quite old. I was about 12 or so when the show aired, but I didn't know anybody my age who watched it. They really needed some younger blood to put it over the top.

As to having Phyllis have a love interest, maybe. She was surrounded by so much oddity that her own vanity was almost lost in the shuffle. Maybe dating would have brought that back. Like Rhoda, Phyllis kind of lost herself once she got her own show.

TVFactFan · 07-02-2012, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Retro4Life

I personally liked Phyliis, but it wasn't really "appointment TV". It just had a very low key type of impact...if you missed an episode you didn't feel that badly.

It was neat to have a show with no kids, but honestly, that show's demographic had to be quite old. I was about 12 or so when the show aired, but I didn't know anybody my age who watched it. They really needed some younger blood to put it over the top.

As to having Phyllis have a love interest, maybe. She was surrounded by so much oddity that her own vanity was almost lost in the shuffle. Maybe dating would have brought that back. Like Rhoda, Phyllis kind of lost herself once she got her own show.

Bess was young and on the show wasn't she or did she have a limited role?

Retro4Life · 07-02-2012, 08:04 PM

^ She was on the show, yes, but she was the only young person and no, her role wasn't that big. She did get married in the last season...maybe if the show had continued there might have been some nice subplots with her and her hubby. The problem with Bess was that she was usually the 'straight man' to her mom's antics and I think the comedy opportunities with her would have been pretty limited, unless you changed her character, which I wouldn't have wanted.

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Retro4Life Accept No Substitutes Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 04, 2009 Location: IL Posts: 6,708	I personally liked Phyliis, but it wasn't really "appointment TV". It just had a very low key type of impact...if you missed an episode you didn't feel that badly. It was neat to have a show with no kids, but honestly, that show's demographic had to be quite old. I was about 12 or so when the show aired, but I didn't know anybody my age who watched it. They really needed some younger blood to put it over the top. As to having Phyllis have a love interest, maybe. She was surrounded by so much oddity that her own vanity was almost lost in the shuffle. Maybe dating would have brought that back. Like Rhoda, Phyllis kind of lost herself once she got her own show.
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TVFactFan Member Forum Junkie Join Date: Aug 17, 2002 Posts: 99,152	I found out one of my retro crushes was in this show and she was always so DAMM HOT!!!!!!!!! Liz Torres she played a housekeeper on All in the Family she also starred in the spinoff Checking In

07-02-2012, 08:04 PM	#22
Retro4Life Accept No Substitutes Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 04, 2009 Location: IL Posts: 6,708	^ She was on the show, yes, but she was the only young person and no, her role wasn't that big. She did get married in the last season...maybe if the show had continued there might have been some nice subplots with her and her hubby. The problem with Bess was that she was usually the 'straight man' to her mom's antics and I think the comedy opportunities with her would have been pretty limited, unless you changed her character, which I wouldn't have wanted.