When the Show Went Downhill

[gopyle]

After Kate was off the show.

[liane49]

Originally Posted by jon123

Amazing how PJ and Green Acres were both set in Hooterville and still had some common characters considering how different the shows were in the later years, with PJ getting cornier with the stupid singing and GA going totally surreal.

All 3 of the shows Green Acres, Petticoat Junction and Beverely Hillbillies were conected in some way to each other because Paul Henning crested all 3 shows.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by stanwyckfan07

I feel the same - June was about as good a replacement as one could have hoped for, very different yet still a warm personality.

I have to disagree with all the posters who say the show should have ended after Bea's death. That wouldn't have been fair to the rest of the cast to lose their jobs just because the main lead had passed away. And anyway, Joe and the girls had played the main roles in episodes nearly as often as Bea did.

I personally like the latter episodes best (the Meredith Macrae years) with Bea or June. I was too young to have ever seen any of the Pat Woodell/Jeannine Riley episodes and of course they were never rerun. Watching the dvds I thought neither was as good as Meredith and Lori in these roles, particularly Pat who was no where near as good a comedienne or actress as Lori.

The cast and the crew for that matter, may have also simply been contractually obligated to continue and it wasn't as simple as "just cancel the show right then and there". Otherwise, every single TV show in which the main star suddenly dies in real life (e.g. 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Cover-Up, Chico and the Man, The Royal Family, etc.) would have to go off the air right away, and no questions asked.