I found out in the 1974 issue of Ebony Magazine that Good Times is not a spinoff - Page 2 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TVFactFan · 05-02-2003, 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by ThomasE
Well it still is up for debate if you ask me. We have two different sources saying two different things. It still appears spinoffish. Overall it is, anyone could see that. Anyway, SOLOMON, why are you so insistent on this topic anyway? Just wondering.

I guess i can't believe so many people still see Good Times as a spinoff. I just wanted to show that Good Times was a show that was not apart of Maude's reality. Florida Evans on a Maude was a woman who worked as a maid to support her family, Florida Evans on Good Times was a housewife in CHICAGO. The producers just forgot to change the name.

ThomasE · 05-02-2003, 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by SOLOMON

I guess i can't believe so many people still see Good Times as a spinoff. I just wanted to show that Good Times was a show that was not apart of Maude's reality. Florida Evans on a Maude was a woman who worked as a maid to support her family, Florida Evans on Good Times was a housewife in CHICAGO. The producers just forgot to change the name.

Trust me, I believe they kept it that way for some purpose. OS for a moment, do you have the ADW ep entitled "My Dinner With Theo"?

TVFactFan · 05-02-2003, 10:23 PM

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Originally posted by ThomasE

Trust me, I believe they kept it that way for some purpose. OS for a moment, do you have the ADW ep entitled "My Dinner With Theo"?

That's the ADW episode I'm ttying to buy from you. Check the ADW board. Thomas I can see that since the names of the character Florida Evans is consisent but so many other things are not. But i don't know what else I can say because the producer made it clear 28 years ago by saying it wasn't a spinoff

ThomasE · 05-03-2003, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by SOLOMON

That's the ADW episode I'm ttying to buy from you. Check the ADW board. Thomas I can see that since the names of the character Florida Evans is consisent but so many other things are not. But i don't know what else I can say because the producer made it clear 28 years ago by saying it wasn't a spinoff

It still does not gel to me. The writer say one thing but the producer says another. Florida Evans was taken from one world and now is in her own. Spinoff is the word that comes to mind. I have a feeling that this topic will never die. LOL. Anyways, I think I do have "M.D.W.T." in my collection but will tape it from Oxygen for you this upcoming Tuesday. BTW, I was wondering if you had that address from the Ebony archives. I am editing the "Baby I'm Back" board on Tv tome and need pics of the cast. Maybe I will find something from there.

TVFactFan · 05-03-2003, 07:09 PM

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Originally posted by ThomasE

It still does not gel to me. The writer say one thing but the producer says another. Florida Evans was taken from one world and now is in her own. Spinoff is the word that comes to mind. I have a feeling that this topic will never die. LOL. Anyways, I think I do have "M.D.W.T." in my collection but will tape it from Oxygen for you this upcoming Tuesday. BTW, I was wondering if you had that address from the Ebony archives. I am editing the "Baby I'm Back" board on Tv tome and need pics of the cast. Maybe I will find something from there.

Ok i will check back with you about the M.D.W.T episode on wednesday and I think the address is ebony.com I still have not seen Baby I'm Back and I think it started in 1978 but I don't know if that was the fall or spring. I have the Fall preview of 78 Tv guide and Baby I'm Back was not listed as a new show for the 78-79 season so it must was a midseason replacement in spring of 78.

ThomasE · 05-03-2003, 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by SOLOMON

Ok i will check back with you about the M.D.W.T episode on wednesday and I think the address is ebony.com I still have not seen Baby I'm Back and I think it started in 1978 but I don't know if that was the fall or spring. I have the Fall preview of 78 Tv guide and Baby I'm Back was not listed as a new show for the 78-79 season so it must was a midseason replacement in spring of 78.

It started as a midseason show on Jan. 30th, 1978. Canceled and then you saw Kim fields who was on the show on Good Times in her recurring role later on in 1978.

TVFactFan · 05-03-2003, 07:46 PM

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Originally posted by ThomasE

It started as a midseason show on Jan. 30th, 1978. Canceled and then you saw Kim fields who was on the show on Good Times in her recurring role later on in 1978.

Yeah i just saw that it came on Saturday nights on CBS at 8;30pm. I thought it came on Monday night at 8;30pm. I have the tv guide off 78 and the last airing of Baby i'm back on CBS was August 5, 1978.

ThomasE · 05-03-2003, 07:52 PM

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Originally posted by SOLOMON

Yeah i just saw that it came on Saturday nights on CBS at 8;30pm. I thought it came on Monday night at 8;30pm. I have the tv guide off 78 and the last airing of Baby i'm back on CBS was August 5, 1978.

What do you have? Paperback or did you get off the internet?

TVFactFan · 05-03-2003, 08:06 PM

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Originally posted by ThomasE

What do you have? Paperback or did you get off the internet?

The actual paperback TV Guide, Aug 5-11 1978. I ordered the tv guide from ebay.

TVFactFan · 05-03-2003, 09:01 PM

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Originally posted by ThomasE

What do you have? Paperback or did you get off the internet?

Do you know how I can get episodes of Baby, I'm Back? I actually thought it was a good show. Have no idea why it didn't last.

jehobden · 05-04-2003, 04:05 AM

From what I remember about the E! True Hollywood Story of Good Times, co-creator Eric Monte originally created Good Times with Michael Evans back around 1971 or 1972 as a show called The Black Family, about a black family whose last name happened to be Black. CBS and Norman Lear probably took that concept and transferred the Maude character Florida Evans into it. I cannot remember ever seeing the first episode of Good Times, so I do not know how Florida ended up in Chicago instead of New York. Also, while John Amos played Florida's husband in Maude as well as Good Times, his first name in Maude was Henry, not James.

TVFactFan · 05-04-2003, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by jehobden
From what I remember about the E! True Hollywood Story of Good Times, co-creator Eric Monte originally created Good Times with Michael Evans back around 1971 or 1972 as a show called The Black Family, about a black family whose last name happened to be Black. CBS and Norman Lear probably took that concept and transferred the Maude character Florida Evans into it. I cannot remember ever seeing the first episode of Good Times, so I do not know how Florida ended up in Chicago instead of New York. Also, while John Amos played Florida's husband in Maude as well as Good Times, his first name in Maude was Henry, not James.

Well you don't have to figure out how Florida Evans ended up in Chicago because the producer clearly stated that Good Times was not a spinoff. The first episode of Good times has nothing to do with her last appearance on Maude. On the last episode of Maude she doesn't haVE to work because her husband has a job and on the first episode of Good Times Florida and her Family are about to get evicted.

ThomasE · 05-05-2003, 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by SOLOMON

Do you know how I can get episodes of Baby, I'm Back? I actually thought it was a good show. Have no idea why it didn't last.

I have nine episodes. If you are also looking for the ep guide, I did create it on the "tvtome.com" website. How do you remember Baby I'm Back"

TVFactFan · 05-05-2003, 11:32 PM

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Originally posted by ThomasE

I have nine episodes. If you are also looking for the ep guide, I did create it on the "tvtome.com" website. How do you remember Baby I'm Back"

YOU HAVE BABY I"M BACK!!!!!-YES. Please let's work out a deal. I would like to buy all 9 episodes. My email is solomond@webtv.net. I remember the show when it ran on BET in 91. I was only 3 years old when it aired in 78.

ThomasE · 05-05-2003, 11:43 PM

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Originally posted by SOLOMON

YOU HAVE BABY I"M BACK!!!!!-YES. Please let's work out a deal. I would like to buy all 9 episodes. My email is solomond@webtv.net. I remember the show when it ran on BET in 91. I was only 3 years old when it aired in 78.

I'll e-mail you. I taped them back in 1989-1990 and 1992-1993 off BET. BTW, it will be $14 per episode.............LOL. I just wanted get your reaction with that last comment.

05-04-2003, 04:05 AM	#26
jehobden Member Senior Member Join Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: DFW Area, TX Posts: 2,004	From what I remember about the E! True Hollywood Story of Good Times, co-creator Eric Monte originally created Good Times with Michael Evans back around 1971 or 1972 as a show called The Black Family, about a black family whose last name happened to be Black. CBS and Norman Lear probably took that concept and transferred the Maude character Florida Evans into it. I cannot remember ever seeing the first episode of Good Times, so I do not know how Florida ended up in Chicago instead of New York. Also, while John Amos played Florida's husband in Maude as well as Good Times, his first name in Maude was Henry, not James.