Diff'rent Strokes or Taxi? I'm asking this because I just found out that

[TVFactFan]

Different Strokes helped Taxi get knocked off the air. Taxi could not compete with DS in the 80-81 season on Wednesdays Nights. I was a little surprised by that. BTW i would pick Different Strokes too-lol

[Dean Winchester]

Taxi is the better show, but Diff'rent Strokes is the one I liked better.

[barwars]

I like both series a lot, but Taxi was better IMO.

[Adamantium]

Taxi is definately better in my opinion.

[EmoJoe]

Taxi, defiantley.

[AKA]

Taxi. It never jumped the shark.

It's kind of funny how Taxi began on ABC, but ended up on NBC, and Diff'rent Strokes started out on NBC and moved to ABC.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by AKA
Taxi. It never jumped the shark.

It's kind of funny how Taxi began on ABC, but ended up on NBC, and Diff'rent Strokes started out on NBC and moved to ABC.

I never understood that switching networks. If a show is bad on one network why would it change on another network? Then once Taxi moved to NBC it couldn't compete with Simon and Simon

[AKA]

It doesn't have to do with a show being bad - it has to do with the first network cancelling the show (usually due the bad ratings), and the second network believing the show can perform well with them.

Off the top of my head, I can think of three shows that have done well after switching networks:

JAG (NBC to CBS)
Leave It To Beaver (CBS to ABC)
Grounded For Life (Fox to WB)

[barwars]

I read somewhere that they had commercials for when Taxi moved to NBC with Danny Devito saying "Same Time, Same Night, Better Network"

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by TVShow Analyzer
I never understood that switching networks. If a show is bad on one network why would it change on another network? Then once Taxi moved to NBC it couldn't compete with Simon and Simon

some shows might be costing too much for one network to make, while another network sees "this show still has life in it" and snatches it up. When NBC snatched up Taxi in 1982, the only sitcoms they had were Facts Of Life, Diff'rent Strokes and Gimme A Break, and at the best, those were 20's and 30's, whereas ABC still had a top 10 hit with Three's Company, and shows like Happy Days were still in the top 20, so NBC probably figured Taxi would be a more sizable hit for NBC standards than for ABC... even tho the show fell to the 70's that season and was cancelled. The reason NBC cancelled Diff'rent Strokes in 1985 was because now that they had smash hit shows like Cosby, Family Ties, Cheers and Night Court (all of these shows exploded in popularity over the 1984-1985 season, DS was old hat, so ABC, which had lost all it's hit comedies, and Who's The Boss hadn't taken off yet (it eventually went top 10 in the 1985-1986 season), probably felt that DS would be beneficial to the network, however, most DS fans didn't switch to ABC and the show died.

There have been a few instances where a show changed networks and did well. JAG is a bigger hit on CBS than it ever was on NBC, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer's first season on UPN was bigger than the last two seasons on WB.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by barwars
I read somewhere that they had commercials for when Taxi moved to NBC with Danny Devito saying "Same Time, Same Night, Better Network"

Well it did no better because it was yanked after 82-83. Waste of Time

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by TVShow Analyzer
Well it did no better because it was yanked after 82-83. Waste of Time

Taxi is still regarded as one of the greatest sitcoms ever, the final season was actually one of the best.

[Dean Winchester]

I actually read something that HBO (keep in mind, this was 20 years ago, before Sopranos and Sex And The City) actually almost negotiated a 1983-1984 season of Taxi, but Judd Hirsch was getting tired of doing the show, so the sixth CABLE season never happened, plus, Andy Kaufman got ill and died (well, according to some) towards the end of that season anyways.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
some shows might be costing too much for one network to make, while another network sees "this show still has life in it" and snatches it up. When NBC snatched up Taxi in 1982, the only sitcoms they had were Facts Of Life, Diff'rent Strokes and Gimme A Break, and at the best, those were 20's and 30's, whereas ABC still had a top 10 hit with Three's Company, and shows like Happy Days were still in the top 20, so NBC probably figured Taxi would be a more sizable hit for NBC standards than for ABC... even tho the show fell to the 70's that season and was cancelled. The reason NBC cancelled Diff'rent Strokes in 1985 was because now that they had smash hit shows like Cosby, Family Ties, Cheers and Night Court (all of these shows exploded in popularity over the 1984-1985 season, DS was old hat, so ABC, which had lost all it's hit comedies, and Who's The Boss hadn't taken off yet (it eventually went top 10 in the 1985-1986 season), probably felt that DS would be beneficial to the network, however, most DS fans didn't switch to ABC and the show died.

There have been a few instances where a show changed networks and did well. JAG is a bigger hit on CBS than it ever was on NBC, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer's first season on UPN was bigger than the last two seasons on WB.

Probably because kimberly and Willis was replaced by Sam and Maggie-lol

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by TVShow Analyzer
Probably because kimberly and Willis was replaced by Sam and Maggie-lol

I think DS could've done 10 seasons had it not been for hellspawn Sam, as well as NBC giving it better schedules.