Has any of the cast talked/seen to Suzanne??

[Chrissy Snow]

Allright I had this topic in he Reunion but I decided to post a seperate topic on it

I have seen and read lots of things about TC how Joyce hasn't seen her in 20 years since Suzanne left but it never says that Suzanne hasn't seen John can anyone tell me if she has

[Chrissy Snow]

I heard John saw Suzanne, I think at a play or something she was starring in about 5-6 years ago. He tapped her and said something like, 'hey beautiful' or something like that. I know I did hear something similar to that. Anyone else? I know it was on a talk show. I think on Leeza when both her and Cindy Williams were on it.
I know he saw her at a party years before that and walked out of the room to avoid her.

Adam

That was from a post on the reunion topic^

[hch]

Actually, the cast never talked to her for nearly 15 years after she left the show in 1981. It's no wonder: She tried to DESTROY THE SHOW! According to the book "Come and Knock on Our Door", Chrissy (Suzanne Somers) thought that she would get more because she was the most popular woman on TV. Even when her contract in 1980-1981, the fifth season, stated that she would get $30,000 per episode, she wanted more money. Talk about greedy! So they agreed to raise her salary $5,000 more and no future profits. Alan Hamel got into it by requesting that they have 10% ownership of the show and $150,000 to boot. The creators said no way because it would be unfair to John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt, having one actor's salary raised while the others stayed the same. That's when they started to hate her guts. That was when some episodes were written without Chrissy, having her "visit her sick mother in Fresno". Actually, Suzanne claimed to have injured her back while performing on the Tonight Show and missed a few tapings. She did only two episodes- #79: Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs and #81: A Hundred Dollars a What? - that season. She missed many tapings that one episode had to be totally cancelled due to her foolishness. She appeared for the last time on Episode 81, and while they were doing that episode, John and Joyce were mad at Suzanne and were not talking to her at the time. This was the last time that she would ever speak to the two castmembers. After that episode, Suzanne asked to be excused from rehearsals to "attend her son's soccer game" with the promise to learn her lines the next day. Next day, no Suzanne. They had had enough and they wrote her out of the next show. The creators wanted Suzanne fired, but since the show was a big success, they thought of a way to keep her on a few shows and away from the other castmembers: You guessed it, the phone-in scenes! These scenes were shot in a separate room away from the studio. That was when Cindy came in, but only as a temporary blonde until the lovely Terry came on in the 1981-1982 season. By 1981, Suzanne was totally insulted by the way they had reduced her character's life on the show and she and Alan sued the creators of the show. She lost and she was "the weakest link, goodbye!" And John and Joyce never spoke to her since.
Suzanne Somers had it coming when she made those demands, and i'm not saying that she deserved it or anything. Don't get me wrong, but ego gets you in trouble and comes with a price. Unfortunately, Suzanne's cost her the number one spot as "the dumb blonde".

[This message has been edited by hch (edited 07-27-2001).]

[davy's niece]

Originally posted by hch:
Actually, the cast never talked to her for nearly 15 years after she left the show in 1981. It's no wonder: She tried to DESTROY THE SHOW! According to the book "Come and Knock on Our Door", Chrissy (Suzanne Somers) thought that she would get more because she was the most popular woman on TV. Even when her contract in 1980-1981, the fifth season, stated that she would get $30,000 per episode, she wanted more money. Talk about greedy! So they agreed to raise her salary $5,000 more and no future profits. Alan Hamel got into it by requesting that they have 10% ownership of the show and $150,000 to boot. The creators said no way because it would be unfair to John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt, having one actor's salary raised while the others stayed the same. That's when they started to hate her guts. That was when some episodes were written without Chrissy, having her "visit her sick mother in Fresno". Actually, Suzanne claimed to have injured her back while performing on the Tonight Show and missed a few tapings. She did only two episodes- #79: Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs and #81: A Hundred Dollars a What? - that season. She missed many tapings that one episode had to be totally cancelled due to her foolishness. She appeared for the last time on Episode 81, and while they were doing that episode, John and Joyce were mad at Suzanne and were not talking to her at the time. This was the last time that she would ever speak to the two castmembers. After that episode, Suzanne asked to be excused from rehearsals to "attend her son's soccer game" with the promise to learn her lines the next day. Next day, no Suzanne. They had had enough and they wrote her out of the next show. The creators wanted Suzanne fired, but since the show was a big success, they thought of a way to keep her on a few shows and away from the other castmembers: You guessed it, the phone-in scenes! These scenes were shot in a separate room away from the studio. That was when Cindy came in, but only as a temporary blonde until the lovely Terry came on in the 1981-1982 season. By 1981, Suzanne was totally insulted by the way they had reduced her character's life on the show and she and Alan sued the creators of the show. She lost and she was "the weakest link, goodbye!" And John and Joyce never spoke to her since.
Suzanne Somers had it coming when she made those demands, and i'm not saying that she deserved it or anything. Don't get me wrong, but ego gets you in trouble and comes with a price. Unfortunately, Suzanne's cost her the number one spot as "the dumb blonde".

[This message has been edited by hch (edited 07-27-2001).]

ok you know what that is all wrong non of that happened cause i met her and asked why she left and she said she felt that no one really wanted her there and that no one cared if she left. By the time she found out (by john ritter) she was wanted she had moved on to other things. That is exactly what happened. None of that not enough money nonsense. I'll see ya bye!



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[TV Guy]

John and Suzanne reconciled a few years ago. Joyce and Suzanne have not seen or spoken to each other in over 20 years.

In principal, it was not unreasonable for Suzanne to ask for a piece of the profits -- the producers make boatloads of money on syndicated reruns, and it is commonplace today for major cast members to receive small percentages. But the amount she was asking for (10%) was unreasonable, and the fact that she was trying to negotiate in the middle of the season was bad protocol.

[Sean Snow]

And they made hugggge loads of cash off her (But prob. spent it all in the battle) with the card sets with 10 Chrissy cards and the Chrissy Snow doll that beared HER likeness. She did not make ONE cent off these. THat's just wrong!

[Austin Tripper]

when suzanne was on howard stern she said.. she talked to John Ritter.. he called her and said he was sorry.. and that he didn't know she had cancer.