Do you think a Television Show would of lasted longer?

[Merry24]

Do you think the following shows would Of lasted longer or it’s Series Finale would of been different?

If Chrissy Snow & The Ropers were able to stay On Three’s Company?

If the original Mr. Wilson On Dennis the Menace didn’t pass away?

If Barney Fife stayed on The Andy Griffith Show?

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They should have continued Three's Company but had a rotating third roommate. For example, how about a Black woman, maybe Whoopi Goldberg could have been cast?

In reality, from the E! documentary that I saw many years ago, it wasn't a good working environment anymore for Joyce DeWitt and Priscilla Barnes.

Let's say a very different than the environment many years later on Friends where the Friends all ended up friends off set and able to negotiate high and equal salaries together, and not divided between each other.

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Originally Posted by Merry24

Do you think the following shows would Of lasted longer or it’s Series Finale would of been different?

If Chrissy Snow & The Ropers were able to stay On Three’s Company?

If the original Mr. Wilson On Dennis the Menace didn’t pass away?

If Barney Fife stayed on The Andy Griffith Show?

I think Three's Company still would have had it's 8 season run had Chrissy and the Roper's stayed. By the 8th season, the show was getting long in the tooth and back then 8 seasons was the usual run for sitcoms. So I don't think Chrissy staying on would have made the series lasted any longer than it did. By 1984, it was just time to close up shop with that show.

As far as the Roper's is concerned, I think Don Knots as Mr. Furley was one of the few replacements in TV history that was actually better than the characters he replaced. It's only my opinion, but I feel Mr. Furley brought a level of comedy to the show that was even funnier than the Roper's. I laugh much more at Furley scenes than I do with the Roper's scenes.
So if anything, I think Mr. Furley helped extend the life of Three's Company after the Ropers left.

(And I hate to sound nitpicky, but it's "would HAVE" and not "would OF"....I see this all over the internet and I cringe at it all the time. Think about it...does "would OF" even make sense?!)

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by Merry24

Do you think the following shows would Of lasted longer or it’s Series Finale would of been different?

If Chrissy Snow & The Ropers were able to stay On Three’s Company

No. The show's premise was getting outdated (single people "living in sin") and the writing was getting played out. Plus, so much of Three's Company was based on the Sexual Revolution, and that whole era died with AIDs and 1980s Reaganism. The show wouldn't have been able to make jokes about Larry's sex life, have all these storylines of Jack on the prowl or have Chrissy jiggle around with no bra.

Originally Posted by Merry24

If the original Mr. Wilson On Dennis the Menace didn’t pass away?

No. Jay North was getting too old to play Dennis, anyway, by the time Joseph Kearns died.

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TAGS color years would've been a bit more tolerable if Barny had stayed on but not as good with both Andy and Helen beginning to become such bores.

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I liked a show on CBS called The McCarthys. It had Laurie Metcalf who played a mom role, and Tyler Ritter as an openly gay son, and he had some of the charisma like his father, John Ritter.

I thought the show had potential, and the mom and son scenes were strong, but the rest of the cast was terrible, and writing could have been improved. The son (Tyler Ritter) wanted to move to Rhode Island, and I think the family was in Boston. The family made a big deal about him moving that distance, but it's really not that far between the areas.

The Real O'Neals was another show with an openly gay son in a family, with a strong mother figure - Martha Plimpton. It lasted two seasons and I enjoyed many episodes, and even the rest of the cast was fine. It had positive reviews, but apparently the son (Noah Galvin) made some controversial comments off set and there were some jokes (from one episode) weren't taken well. I wonder if those controversial jokes/comments weren't made, if the show would have survived another season.

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I always thought that Early edition should have lasted lot long!! they didn't even gave it seaon finale!! i heard it was at the time reality shows were just getting popular! so they canned Early Edition!! i also liked the Early Edition spinn off marital law!! it didn;t last long!!

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I would not consider Martial Law a spin-off from Early Edition. A character from Martial Law might have crossed over (one of my least favorite Early Edition episodes), but that's it.