Did you know that CBS pulled Alice off the air in season 7 because of the

[TVFactFan]

In regards to 2023, I will one of these things will happen soon

Alice moved to Primetime on Antenna TV

Alice available on Streaming

[grundle]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

In regards to 2023, I will one of these things will happen soon

Alice moved to Primetime on Antenna TV

Alice available on Streaming

Free streaming and free download of every episode:

https://archive.org/details/alice_202311

[grundle]

Originally Posted by James28

Hey, I've been wanting to talk about Alice's topsy-turvy ratings during its seventh season for some time now. At this pointt's impossible to find out what the average rating for Alice's season seven was.

Alice was pulled from the CBS schedule after the sixth episode of its seventh season because of that huge ratings drop after its move from Sundays to Wednesdays. For example, one airing ("Alice at the Palace", on October 27, 1982) had an 11.5 rating and 18 share. It was narrowly beaten by its lead-out, Filthy Rich (11.9/19), and its lead-in, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (the TV series) (14.7/24). (Ratings info according to the November 8, 1982 edition of Broadcasting magazine.

There were two special Sunday airings of Alice on January 9 and 16 of 1983, and it recovered big time. CBS had a late-afternoon NFL game on the 9th (32.4/52), and Alice (with "Carrie on the Rebound") had a 25.3/38. On the 17th, there was another late afternoon NFL playoff (39.9/62), and Alice (with "Jolene's Brother Jonas") scored a 23.3/36. Alice's biggest rating of season seven came when it was the lead-in for M*A*S*H's blockbuster series finale (60.3/77); "Alice Sees the Light" scored a 30.7/41! Astounding figures for a series that had been dwelling in the mid-to-lower 10s earlier in the season.

Alice would remain on Mondays, in M*A*S*H's former timeslot (with the original One Day at a Time having moved from Sundays to be its lead out, swapping nights with freshman Newhart), until April 24, and was then moved back to Sundays after May 1 to finish out its seventh season.

So it was all a matter of the programmers at CBS (B. Donald Grant and Harvey Shephard) wanting to bury Alice, and then trying their hardest to save Alice.

I was born in 1971. My introduction to being a regular prime time TV viewer was the Sunday night CBS lineup that ran consistently from the fall of 1979 through the spring of 1982. When they eventually started moving some of those shows to other days of the week, it seemed so strange to me as a child. I did not at all understand why they did that. Even today as a 53-year-old, I still don't understand why they ruined such a great and wonderful thing that they had going.

This was the Sunday night CBS schedule for those 3 TV seasons:

Archie Bunker's Place

One Day At A Time

Alice

The Jeffersons

Trapper John M.D.

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Originally Posted by grundle

Free streaming and free download of every episode:

https://archive.org/details/alice_202311

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[biffbronson]

That was an extremely strong lineup. And it made sense to place Trapper John last because I think generally primetime dramas drew from an older demographic that stayed up later at night still watching.

[TVFactFan]

I will be watching Alice all weekend. Thanks again grundy

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Originally Posted by TVFactFan

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I'm glad to help out.

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Originally Posted by grundle

I'm glad to help out.

halfway through season one and Im annoyed by Andy and Vera