Was 'Too Close For Comfort' Underrated Or Easily Forgotten?

[king of comedy]

It was both forgotten and underrated.

[robyrob]

i think it was underrated and completely disrespected by the network after moving it to Thursdays with Joanie Loves Chachi - how could ANY show survive that?

I've been re-watching episodes on Antenna TV lately; I love the early episodes, but it really started to decline in the final season after the girls left.

[SitcomsHeydayfan]

This is the best show that most people have NEVER heard of!

Eventhough it declined in later years it was still very funny at the end. Wish Ted Knight lived for seasons 7 & 8 because I bet it would have continued as long as he lived!

[Fallon97]

It's a great show but very underrated.

[Babalu]

I remember three things about it:

1) The gorgeous daughter
2) Ted Knight would wear a different sweatshirt every show
3) The gay guy was annoying

[SitcomsHeydayfan]

Originally Posted by Babalu

I remember three things about it:

1) The gorgeous daughter
2) Ted Knight would wear a different sweatshirt every show
3) The gay guy was annoying

Ted Knight's best acting performance & Nancy Dussault did an excellent job as Muriel.

She didn't get the credit she deserved & neither did the show in general!

[michelala]

I liked this show better than Three's Company when I was a kid. The earlier episodes centered more on the girls were my favorites.

In later years they focused more on zany Monroe than on Sara/Jackie which was a little annoying. Monroe was funny in small doses but the premise of the show was supposed to focus on uptight Henry and the two daughters that lived in the apartment below.

[TMC]

10 Hit '80s Sitcoms Nobody Talks About Anymore

Too Close for Comfort



As various '80s movie hits that haven't aged well can attest, some cultural staples of this decade are borderline incoherent to modern audiences. An interesting example of this is the sitcom "Too Close for Comfort." This program starred Ted Knight as Henry Rush, who worked as a cartoonist on "Cosmic Cow," a newspaper comic strip. While these still exist today, they're a lot more rare and don't hold anywhere near as much cultural clout as they did back in the day.

That fact that it focuses on a newspaper cartoonist alone makes "Too Close for Comfort" an odd relic in the 2020s. However, there are more factors that have led to "Too Close to Comfort" dwelling in obscurity in the modern era. Despite being the seventh most-watched show of the 1981-1982 TV season with an estimated audience of 18.4 million, half of the program's six-season run would transpire in the realm of syndication. That alone led to it being erased from many people's minds, despite the show still producing 66 additional episodes after being jettisoned from ABC.

There's also the unfortunate reality that its modern-day reruns have been relegated to obscure daytime TV slots rather than being front-and-center on major streaming platforms. All of these elements have combined to make "Too Close for Comfort," despite its immense amount of episodes, largely forgotten. Some fixtures of the '80s just weren't meant to last forever, and this is one of them.