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TVFactFan · 07-01-2006, 11:30 PM

one of the highest rated in broadcast history. Read that in the TC Book and Then ABC moves it to Saturdays, AS A LEAD IN-lol The dumbest move in Broadcast History. Maybe if they had kept the TC/Ropers Hour Block we would have seen Helen and Stanley at Janet's Wedding-lol

Mr. Television · 07-02-2006, 12:20 AM

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one of the highest rated in broadcast history. Read that in the TC Book and Then ABC moves it to Saturdays, AS A LEAD IN-lol The dumbest move in Broadcast History. Maybe if they had kept the TC/Ropers Hour Block we would have seen Helen and Stanley at Janet's Wedding-lol

ABC started to make some boneheaded moves around that time. That's when CBS passed it in the ratings.

You don't move a young show to a dead timeslot. I know ABC had hits with Love Boat and Fantasy Island on Saturdays but they were having an awful time getting an 8:00 hit back then. And it was going up against NBC's hit show CHIPS.

TVFactFan · 07-02-2006, 12:27 AM

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ABC started to make some boneheaded moves around that time. That's when CBS passed it in the ratings.

You don't move a young show to a dead timeslot. I know ABC had hits with Love Boat and Fantasy Island on Saturdays but they were having an awful time getting an 8:00 hit back then. And it was going up against NBC's hit show CHIPS.

And the dumb thing was when they started moving the show around, it was never moved the Ropers BACK to the timeslot after Three's Company-lol It's like they wanted to see the show sink

Mr. Television · 07-02-2006, 12:32 AM

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And the dumb thing was when they started moving the show around, it was never moved the Ropers BACK to the timeslot after Three's Company-lol It's like they wanted to see the show sink

Yea. I think Taxi aired after TC that year. I guess they didn't want to move it but I think The Ropers would have done better. I was never a big Taxi fan until I watched it in syndication. Back then a lot of times I would go to bed after TC was over.

TVFactFan · 07-02-2006, 12:36 AM

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Yea. I think Taxi aired after TC that year. I guess they didn't want to move it but I think The Ropers would have done better. I was never a big Taxi fan until I watched it in syndication. Back then a lot of times I would go to bed after TC was over.

They should have just mainted 2 hours of a Parent Show/spinoff that follows. Happy Days followed by Laverne and Shirley and then Three's Company followed by The Ropers. Taxi did not belong on Tuesday Nights

Mr. Television · 07-02-2006, 12:40 AM

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They should have just mainted 2 hours of a Parent Show/spinoff that follows. Happy Days followed by Laverne and Shirley and then Three's Company followed by The Ropers. Taxi did not belong on Tuesday Nights

That would have been a good lineup. Plus since L&S's ratings started to fall after they moved to California, The Ropers could have been used to plop up the night after it established itself.

TVFactFan · 07-02-2006, 12:42 AM

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That would have been a good lineup. Plus since L&S's ratings started to fall after they moved to California, The Ropers could have been used to plop up the night after it established itself.

Until I came to SitcomsOnline, I thought the Tuesday Night Lineup was HD, L&S, TC and Mork and Mindy-lol

Mr. Television · 07-02-2006, 12:47 AM

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Until I came to SitcomsOnline, I thought the Tuesday Night Lineup was HD, L&S, TC and Mork and Mindy-lol

TVFactFan · 07-02-2006, 12:50 AM

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Then I realized, "OH M&M was on Thursdays"_lol

Mr. Television · 07-02-2006, 12:56 AM

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Then I realized, "OH M&M was on Thursdays"_lol

Yea I couldn't watch Mork all the time because my Mom was a big Waltons fan and we only had one tv then.

TVFactFan · 07-02-2006, 01:01 AM

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Yea I couldn't watch Mork all the time because my Mom was a big Waltons fan and we only had one tv then.

So your mom helped knock M&M off the air?-lol

Mr. Television · 07-02-2006, 01:31 AM

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So your mom helped knock M&M off the air?-lol

I think she did.

gilligan fanatic · 07-02-2006, 09:57 AM

Who knows, maybe we would have seen the Ropers go on till the late 80's.

TVFactFan · 07-02-2006, 01:15 PM

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Who knows, maybe we would have seen the Ropers go on till the late 80's.

And maybe the Ropers would have went into Jack's Bistro-lol

Mr. Television · 07-02-2006, 01:25 PM

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And maybe the Ropers would have went into Jack's Bistro-lol

I wonder why they didn't have them do a guest appearance on TAC? That would have been a hoot.

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