List of stations that aired "Too Close for Comfort" in 1st run syndication (1984-87)

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City Station

• Albany WXXA 23
• Albuquerque KNAT 23
• Anchorage KIMO 13
• Atlanta WANX 46[5][6]
• Baltimore WBFF 45[7]
• Barrie CKVR 3[8]
• Bellingham KVOS 12[9][10]
• Birmingham WTTO 21
• Boston WCVB 5
• Buffalo WUTV 29[11][12]
• Charleston WCBD 14
• Chicago WFLD 32[13]
• Cincinnati WXIX 19
• Cleveland WEWS 5[14]
• Columbus WTTE 28[15]
• Denver KDVR 31
• Detroit WJBK 2[16][17]
• Edmonton CBXT 5[18]
• Fort Wayne WPTA 21
• Fresno KMPH 26
• Glenwood Springs KCWS 32
• Grand Rapids WZZM 13
• Greensboro WGGT 48[19]
• Houston KRIV 26[20]
• Indianapolis WPDS 59
• Jacksonville WAWS 30[21]
• Kansas City KMBC 9[22]
• La Crosse WXOW 19
• Lancaster WGAL 8[23]
• Lawton KSWO 7[24]
• Las Vegas KVVU 5[25]
• Little Rock KLRT 16
• Los Angeles KTTV 11[26][27][28]
• Louisville WDRB 41[29]
• Madison WMSN 47
• Miami WBFS 33[30]
• Milwaukee WCGV 24
• Minneapolis KMSP 9
• Mobile WALA 10
• Nashville WZTV 17
• New Orleans WGNO 26[31]
• New York WNEW 5[32][33]
• Oakland KTVU 2[34]
• Oklahoma City KGMC 34
• Orlando WOFL 35[35]
• Ottawa CJOH 13[36]
• Philadelphia WPHL 17
• WTAF 29[37]
• Phoenix KPHO 5
• Pittsburgh WPGH 53[38]
• Portland OR KPDX 49
• Portsmouth WYAH 27[39]
• Rapid City KNBN 21[40]
• Rochester WUHF 31[41]
• Sacramento KRBK 31
• Salt Lake City KSTU 13
• San Antonio KRRT 35
• San Diego KFMB 8
• San Francisco KBHK 44[42][43]
• Savannah WSAV 3[44]
• Sioux City KTIV 4
• Springfield KSPR 33
• St. Louis KPLR 11[45]
• WCEE 13[46]
• St. Petersburg WTOG 44
• Terre Haute WBAK 38
• Toledo WUPW 36[47]
• Toronto CFTO 9[48]
• Tucson KZAZ 11
• Washington, D.C. WTTG 5[49]
• Wausau WAOW 9
• West Palm Beach WPEC 12
• Wilkes-Barre WBRE 28[50]
• Wichita KSAS 24[51]

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Had Ted Knight not succumbed to cancer in the summer of 1986, how many more seasons do you think that we could've gotten out of what was now, The Ted Knight Show? I'm assuming that The Ted Knight Show was originally thought of as being a separate show from Too Close for Comfort. You know, kind of like how The Connors is technically, supposed to be a separate show from Roseanne or Archie Bunker's Place is meant to be separate from All in the Family.

I say this because, when Too Close for Comfort moved over from ABC to first-run syndication, it was produced with the aid of Metromedia. In fact, if you ever look at the closing credits and it says at the very end in yellow text "A D.L. Taffner Production In Association with Metromedia Producers Corporation", that's a clear indicator that you're watching a show from the first-run syndicated period (1984-87).

It was around this time that Rupert Murdoch bought Metromedia's stations to help set up the Fox network. What would this have meant for a straight to syndication show like Too Close for Comfort/The Ted Knight Show, since there now would've naturally have been fewer timeslots with Fox producing their own?

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Originally Posted by TMC

Had Ted Knight not succumbed to cancer in the summer of 1986, how many more seasons do you think that we could've gotten out of what was now, The Ted Knight Show? I'm assuming that The Ted Knight Show was originally thought of as being a separate show from Too Close for Comfort. You know, kind of like how The Connors is technically, supposed to be a separate show from Roseanne or Archie Bunker's Place is meant to be separate from All in the Family.

I say this because, when Too Close for Comfort moved over from ABC to first-run syndication, it was produced with the aid of Metromedia. In fact, if you ever look at the closing credits and it says at the very end in yellow text "A D.L. Taffner Production In Association with Metromedia Producers Corporation", that's a clear indicator that you're watching a show from the first-run syndicated period (1984-87).

It was around this time that Rupert Murdoch bought Metromedia's stations to help set up the Fox network. What would this have meant for a straight to syndication show like Too Close for Comfort/The Ted Knight Show, since there now would've naturally have been fewer timeslots with Fox producing their own?

I went back and looked at the Season 6 episodes on Tubi. I'm guessing that they're organized in production order instead of the original broadcast order. For example, the final episode to be aired was "Lisa Goes Lottery Loco" (which was originally broadcast on February 7, 1987). But on Tubi, it's listed as the 15th episode out of the 22 from that season.

"Presenting Buddy Ficus", which was the 21st episode to be broadcast (on January 31, 1987) but is listed as the 19th episode on Tubi, was the first one on Tubi to end with the credit "A D.L. Taffner Production In Association with The FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC." It was also at that point, listed in the credits that it was video taped at Fox Television Center, Hollywood, whereas earlier in the season, "Facilities by METROTAPE" was listed in the closing credits.

Rupert Murdoch officially purchased Metromedia on May 7, 1985, which would've been three days after the Season 5 episode of Too Close for Comfort, "And Baby Makes Two" was originally broadcast. And the Fox network or Fox Broadcasting Company as it was initially known, launched on October 9, 1986, which would've been two days prior to the "Cyrano Henry" episode being first broadcast. It was around October 1985, when it was first announced that Rupert Murdoch would be consolidating the six Metromedia stations that he purchased under the Fox name.

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Originally Posted by TMC

City Station

• Albany WXXA 23
• Albuquerque KNAT 23
• Anchorage KIMO 13
• Atlanta WANX 46[5][6]
• Baltimore WBFF 45[7]
• Barrie CKVR 3[8]
• Bellingham KVOS 12[9][10]
• Birmingham WTTO 21
• Boston WCVB 5
• Buffalo WUTV 29[11][12]
• Charleston WCBD 14
• Chicago WFLD 32[13]
• Cincinnati WXIX 19
• Cleveland WEWS 5[14]
• Columbus WTTE 28[15]
• Denver KDVR 31
• Detroit WJBK 2[16][17]
• Edmonton CBXT 5[18]
• Fort Wayne WPTA 21
• Fresno KMPH 26
• Glenwood Springs KCWS 32
• Grand Rapids WZZM 13
• Greensboro WGGT 48[19]
• Houston KRIV 26[20]
• Indianapolis WPDS 59
• Jacksonville WAWS 30[21]
• Kansas City KMBC 9[22]
• La Crosse WXOW 19
• Lancaster WGAL 8[23]
• Lawton KSWO 7[24]
• Las Vegas KVVU 5[25]
• Little Rock KLRT 16
• Los Angeles KTTV 11[26][27][28]
• Louisville WDRB 41[29]
• Madison WMSN 47
• Miami WBFS 33[30]
• Milwaukee WCGV 24
• Minneapolis KMSP 9
• Mobile WALA 10
• Nashville WZTV 17
• New Orleans WGNO 26[31]
• New York WNEW 5[32][33]
• Oakland KTVU 2[34]
• Oklahoma City KGMC 34
• Orlando WOFL 35[35]
• Ottawa CJOH 13[36]
• Philadelphia WPHL 17
• WTAF 29[37]
• Phoenix KPHO 5
• Pittsburgh WPGH 53[38]
• Portland OR KPDX 49
• Portsmouth WYAH 27[39]
• Rapid City KNBN 21[40]
• Rochester WUHF 31[41]
• Sacramento KRBK 31
• Salt Lake City KSTU 13
• San Antonio KRRT 35
• San Diego KFMB 8
• San Francisco KBHK 44[42][43]
• Savannah WSAV 3[44]
• Sioux City KTIV 4
• Springfield KSPR 33
• St. Louis KPLR 11[45]
• WCEE 13[46]
• St. Petersburg WTOG 44
• Terre Haute WBAK 38
• Toledo WUPW 36[47]
• Toronto CFTO 9[48]
• Tucson KZAZ 11
• Washington, D.C. WTTG 5[49]
• Wausau WAOW 9
• West Palm Beach WPEC 12
• Wilkes-Barre WBRE 28[50]
• Wichita KSAS 24[51]

A list of stations that carried Season 6 in 1986, when it was originally aired as The Ted Knight Show:

• 44 - KBHK (Ind), San Francisco
  
• KGCT Channel 41, Tulsa
  
• 5 WCVB (ABC), Boston
  
• 21 WPTA ABC, Fort Wayne
  
• WXXA Channel 23, Albany

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Originally Posted by TMC

A list of stations that carried Season 6 in 1986, when it was originally aired as The Ted Knight Show:

• 44 - KBHK (Ind), San Francisco
  
• KGCT Channel 41, Tulsa
  
• 5 WCVB (ABC), Boston
  
• 21 WPTA ABC, Fort Wayne
  
• WXXA Channel 23, Albany

This is the only commercial on YouTube that I can find thus far that advertises first-run episodes for The Ted Knight Show:

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Originally Posted by TMC

Had Ted Knight not succumbed to cancer in the summer of 1986, how many more seasons do you think that we could've gotten out of what was now, The Ted Knight Show? I'm assuming that The Ted Knight Show was originally thought of as being a separate show from Too Close for Comfort. You know, kind of like how The Connors is technically, supposed to be a separate show from Roseanne or Archie Bunker's Place is meant to be separate from All in the Family.

I say this because, when Too Close for Comfort moved over from ABC to first-run syndication, it was produced with the aid of Metromedia. In fact, if you ever look at the closing credits and it says at the very end in yellow text "A D.L. Taffner Production In Association with Metromedia Producers Corporation", that's a clear indicator that you're watching a show from the first-run syndicated period (1984-87).

It was around this time that Rupert Murdoch bought Metromedia's stations to help set up the Fox network. What would this have meant for a straight to syndication show like Too Close for Comfort/The Ted Knight Show, since there now would've naturally have been fewer timeslots with Fox producing their own?

Just a guess on my part but I think they could've gotten another 2-3 seasons out of The Ted Knight show if he hadn't passed in '86. "It's a Living" ran until 1989 so that might be a fair comparison. As mentioned Fox was beginning to air their own shows by the late 80's so the available timeslots on many stations would've been shrinking around that point.

"Mama's Family" always had very good ratings and it's last show aired in February, 1990.