TV Facts

[TVFactFan]

Show made its debut on CBS on Sept 14, 1974 and aired in between All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore

The show competed with New Land on ABC and Emergency on NBC.

The show ranked higher than both New Land and Emergency and was cancelled. The show ranked #25 while Emergency was ranked #31 and New Land was ranked as the worst show of the season at #81

The show also ranked higher than two other CBS shows, Carol Burnett and Tony Orlando and Dawn and both were renewed

Penny Marshall from Laverne and Shirley was a cast member on the show

Henry Winkler guest starred in the first episode

Gordon Jump from WKRP appeared in episode 9

The show was replaced with the Jeffersons two weeks after last episode


Good Reviews by Critics

William Florence from the Times Herald, "Should be a popular situation comedy

Lawrence Laurent from the Morning News, "A Certain Hit"



Morning News, 9/21/74
The Times Herald, 9/30/74
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[Duster76]

This is another example of when it comes to ratings the devil is in the detail. All in the Family was the number 1 show in the country, Mary Tyler Moore was the number 7 and number 9 show in the country the prior two seasons. Talk about valuable TV real estate. When you look at it like that number 25 is not that impressive. The series was losing a big chunk of the lead-in audience and the network felt it was hurting Mary Tyler Moore at 9pm. On top of that the All in the Family spin-off (The Jeffersons) was ready to go, and by definition was a better fit right behind the mother series. That would have been enough to spell doom in and of itself, but there's more, there was a feeling at the network level and at the production end that the show was not working. Penny Marshall knew and James Brooks came to realize that Penny should have been the female lead. There was also a sense that the talents of Sand did not match the series structure, in other words he was not well positioned talentwise to be a straight man, that wasn't his skill set.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Duster76

This is another example of when it comes to ratings the devil is in the detail. All in the Family was the number 1 show in the country, Mary Tyler Moore was the number 7 and number 9 show in the country the prior two seasons. Talk about valuable TV real estate. When you look at it like that number 25 is not that impressive. The series was losing a big chunk of the lead-in audience and the network felt it was hurting Mary Tyler Moore at 9pm. On top of that the All in the Family spin-off (The Jeffersons) was ready to go, and by definition was a better fit right behind the mother series. That would have been enough to spell doom in and of itself, but there's more, there was a feeling at the network level and at the production end that the show was not working. Penny Marshall knew and James Brooks came to realize that Penny should have been the female lead. There was also a sense that the talents of Sand did not match the series structure, in other words he was not well positioned talentwise to be a straight man, that wasn't his skill set.

Yeah normally 14th ranked after first episode is pretty good but not after All in the Family. lol