Why no big name guest stars during the shows run?

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by TVLegend

Wow, I thought Three’s Company was the only sitcom he appeared on.

Also, he appeared on the first couple years of The Young and The Restless.

Yeah, The Young & the Restless and B&B intertwine in the soap universe. When John McCook was on Alice, he was in an episode where he played a game show host and then in another episode, he was engaged to Jolene before she dumped him for being shallow! He always plays the shallow guy!

[TVLegend]

Originally Posted by Wawwie

Yeah, The Young & the Restless and B&B intertwine in the soap universe. When John McCook was on Alice, he was in an episode where he played a game show host and then in another episode, he was engaged to Jolene before she dumped him for being shallow! He always plays the shallow guy!

Maybe because he’s so convincing at it.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by TVLegend

Maybe because he’s so convincing at it.

You should have seen him in the episodes of Alice. He was hysterical as the shallow game show host who was in love with himself! Very convincing!

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Wawwie

Yeah, The Young & the Restless and B&B intertwine in the soap universe. When John McCook was on Alice, he was in an episode where he played a game show host and then in another episode, he was engaged to Jolene before she dumped him for being shallow! He always plays the shallow guy!

I think he was on MTM too

[Mace Dolex]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

As Janet Date and the audience probably didnt recognize him because I heard no applause

LOL yeah in fact the only "guest stars" to receive an applause were Mr. And Mrs. Roper in season 5.

Even Richard Kline as Larry got no applause when he popped up on Three's A Crowd.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Mace Dolex

LOL yeah in fact the only "guest stars" to receive an applause were Mr. And Mrs. Roper in season 5.

Even Richard Kline as Larry got no applause when he popped up on Three's A Crowd.

He didnt get an applause on Three;s a crowd

[Mace Dolex]

^ yeah that's what I said.

[DEH55]

The producers of the show were too cheap.

[MikeLutton]

dont mean to be off topic but when a special guest star was on Gimme a Break they always appeard in the opening credits as a special guest star. i think that is the only show to do that

[SledgeBarone]

I saw the episode with Barry Williams in it (the famous extended dance sequence where Jack is loopy from drinking after taking a sleep or anxiety drug), but I didn't make the connection to Greg from the Brady Bunch until I read about it later.

Originally Posted by DEH55

The producers of the show were too cheap.

This is definitely one of the big reasons. If the ratings had been lower throughout its run, the producers might have been compelled to bring in some big names to goose the ratings, though.

[SledgeBarone]

Originally Posted by Mace Dolex

Diff'rent Strokes at one time boasted appearances by Muhammad Ali; Kareem Abdul Jabar; Nancy Reagan and Mr. T, can you imagine Mr. T scaring the crap out of Mr. Furley?

Mr. T being a star of a show on the same night on a competing network might've been a problem.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by MikeLutton

dont mean to be off topic but when a special guest star was on Gimme a Break they always appeard in the opening credits as a special guest star. i think that is the only show to do that

On the show Alice, before the show began, they announced a special guest star like George Burns, Telly Sevalis, Art Carney & Eve Arden.
There might have been others like Debbie Reynolds, Adam West, Jerry Reed and Florence Henderson...

[Mace Dolex]

In a season 2 episode 'Jack In The Flower Shop' we also caught a quick guest spot by Natalie Schafer who was of course Mrs. Howell from Gilligan's Island but yet no reaction from the audience and I'm assuming reruns of Gilligan's Island were at their peak in the 70's.

[BuffaloBill]

Surprisingly no one mentioned Jeffrey Tambor or Buffalo’s own
the late Dick Shawn, who played Jack’s dad. Ironically died in San Diego in 1987
Jack’s hometown.

[Mace Dolex]

Originally Posted by BuffaloBill

Surprisingly no one mentioned Jeffrey Tambor or Buffalo’s own
the late Dick Shawn, who played Jack’s dad. Ironically died in San Diego in 1987
Jack’s hometown.

In the case of Jeffrey Tambor while certainly very prolific in movies and TV he is more of a character actor rather than being identified in one single role.