The Cancelled Shows you Remember .....

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With the changes at Fox and 21st Century Fox and the TV/Animation division now property of Disney , its hard to believe that the main network has been around 30+ years. The network is entering its biggest change ahead since the days it launched back in 1987. But we have to go back and examine how wild this launch was and I'll run down 2 of the shows time has forgotten.




Nearly 30 years before Netflix did "Orange is the New Black" , this show was produced. This comedy would star a group of women who were behind bars. You had the various characters "Vicki Sprangler " the 80's yuppie who is new to prison. The old prisoner who had been there 10 years "Eve Shipley" , one prisoner was named "Dawn Murphy" who killed her abusive ex-husband and finally the prostitute named "Bonnie Harper".

Fox had high hopes for this series and placed it on its 2 night debut schedule in 1987. The cast also included CCH Pounder (Murphy) , Wendie Jo Sperber (who had been in Back to Future and had a TV/Film career before and after this) and former Saturday Night Live actress Denny Dillon who is remembered for being part of the god awful Saturday Night Live 1980 cast. Overall the series had other character actors/actresses involved but never could find its audience on the young launched network.

After 13 episodes Women in Prison would end . Comically how these women were in jail is more silly. One was in prison for shop lifting and another was in jail for prostitution. A 1st time shop lifter in this case. Which is pretty funny looking back at this.





Fox also aired shows on Saturday at launch then and one show they approved that was more of an attempt to lure the 21 Jump Street crowd was .."The New Adventures of Bean Baxter". The premise of the show was that Bean's father is a secret agent who gets kidnapped by an evil organization. The spy agency Bean's father worked for recruits him to take his place as the series has Bean trying to find his kidnapped father.

The show was created by Savage Steve Holland who wrote and directed many 1980's classic hits like "One Crazy Summer" and "How I got Into College" as well as creating later Eek the Cat . It starred Jonathon Ward who was coming off a few TV stints as a young actor on "Charles in Charge" and the short lived "Heart of Clay" he was signed to do this one. One wild note is that Ward originally wasn't gonna get this role. It was 1st offered to ....David Spade. Spade's agents told him to turn it down as he regretted doing it.

Ward would go on to win an award for Best New Young TV Actor for the role of Beans Baxter as well. So things would seem promising for this series possibly. The cast itself was veterans around Ward as well. Rick Lenz (who played his father) was a veteran TV/Film actor who has worked up til 2012. Elinor Donahue (who played his mother) was a veteran TV actress who had starred as a young girl in Father Knows Best and had been on various TV shows . She would still be seen in guest roles and spots til 2011.

Sadly for the show it would only last 17 episodes and end in 1988. This show would inspire seemingly the Frankie Muniz series of films "Agent Cody Banks" . You can still watch this series on youtube as people have posted some of the episodes.

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I remember the early Fox schedule and the shows weren't too bad. I liked Werewolf, Duet, Second Chance (which later became 'Where The Boys' Are I believe). I remember George C. Scott being in a half hour comedy about being a single President.

[Jim Kelly]

I was watching a thing on youtube that showed what was on the schedule for the whole week in 1961 on ABC, and I was surprised to see how many cartoon shows aired in prime time. Not just THE FLINTSTONES and THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW but other cartoons like TOP CAT. Really, this had to be a paradise for kid friendly entertainment and for the whole family. Lots of family sitcoms like LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and westerns like THE LAWMAN. It seems that Warner Brothes was the main producer of the ABC shows back then.

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TV Shows at times can have the weird intersection of careers. Usually its where an older star is slowly easing out towards retirement or old age while on the other side of this is a young actor/actress who is coming on to bigger things. In both cases I'll run down where this happened in a way. Of course the last show was never cancelled. In fact its still airing even to this day.



Jack Klugman is a TV/Broadway and film legend. His work in the 1960's to 2000's in all mediums is praised a lot. Klugman moved from comedy like The Odd Couple after 5 seasons to starring in a drama series as forensic/medical examiner who uncovered murders in Quincy M.E for 6-7 seasons. Going into the 1980's Klugman really didn't need to do anymore considering he did 2 landmark TV shows and won Emmy Awards (and numerous nominations) for the shows he did.

But NBC and Klugman decided to do a new series that would debut in 1986 (3 years after Quincy M.E ended). This show would bring Klugman back to his comedic roots and be a comedy series. Of course the premise itself was one that looking back really wasn't a good choice character wise. Given that the character in "You Again ?" pretty much writes off his wife and son after she leaves him for another man. Yet a decade later the son returns to disrupt his fathers life.



Now sure You Again ? ran 2 seasons its claimed , but the show only ran a year. It debuted in the mid-season of 1986 and the show was renewed for the fall. It quickly was ended after another 13 episodes that ran til January 1987. But in any way this series ran a year more or less in 1986. The show itself as you can tell featured a young John Stamos. Which really brings up an older star slowly fading out while the younger one is rising as i posted.

What is amazing is this show actually finished #19th for the season (higher than 227 and Facts of Life) . But NBC then decided to start moving it around and pretty much killed the series within 13 episodes. Its claimed they changed the schedule 4 times on this show in the fall of 1986.

You Again also had a unique cast member in Elizabeth Bennett who would fly over from the UK to reprise the same role she was doing on the British version of this series. The British version actually was more popular and ran 4 series in the 1980's. Unlike this one which was cancelled within a year.

This would be Klugman's last TV series he would do. He would do TV , Films and Broadway the rest of his life even after beating throat cancer (which cost him his trademark voice , leaving him with a scratchy vocals) . Klugman would pass away in 2012 , a legend til the end as many will always remember him as Oscar Madison. Meanwhile John Stamos was just getting started in his long career in TV. Stamos the same year of 1987 would be cast as Uncle Jesse and would have many women go insane the next decade....Have Mercy.

Now the next show wasn't cancelled. It nearly was by NBC after a terrible season and as Lorne Michaels would joke its the closest he came to it. Saturday Night Live struggled in the early 1980's and only survived due to Eddie Murphy. His magic made the show survive and as Lorne Michaels returned to head the ship he faced a problem. He needed to recruit a whole new cast and do it quick. The 1984 cast had all departed as the stars (Short , Crystal etc) departed back to do films. So Lorne recruited the 1985 cast which would feature a future mega star.




The season had Lorne recruit the following actors/actresses for the 1985 new cast. The mix of young and experienced actors/actresses was a blessing and curse. Robert Downey Jr , Anthony Michael Hall , Joan Cusack , Nora Dunn , Randy Quaid , Dennis Miller , Damon Wayans and Jon Lovitz is just a few who were cast in this season. The series quickly had issues as Hall , Downey and Cusack had never really done sketch comedy before and the writers struggled with how to use this cast.

Things quickly became worse as the show struggled through a terrible year as Lorne had to beg the NBC President to give him a chance to bring in comedic actors to do the show he needed. Only Dunn , Lovitz , Miller and A. Whitney Brown was kept from the cast. And yes Robert Downey Jr. was let go from Saturday Night Live . A fact its joked now that a mega star like him was let go after 1 terrible season.

I'm sure Downey isn't hurting over that right now given he's just starred in what could be the all-time top earning film in history soon.

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With the sad news of the demise of Mad Magazine, we have to look back at the original series in a brief way and how it actually survived a challenge early to become a long time staple on Fox TV. Mad TV would debut in 1995 and quickly force Saturday Night Live to step up and find stars like Will Ferrell , Cheri Oteri and others for the next few years. But the show nearly didn't get a 2nd season after its 19 episode run ended. In fact that final episode didn't air til June of 1996.

So how did the show almost not get a 2nd season ? Fox itself was debating on how to compete against Saturday Night Live. They had wanted to beat the venerable old variety show and saw that 1994 was a terrible year for it. They sensed blood in the water and approved Mad TV but really they didn't know how good the series would work out. Given that all of the cast was unknowns and had little guest stars beyond Whoopi Goldberg , United States of America (band) and LL Cool J as name guests that 1st season. The rest were from Fox network at times mixed with older ones like Adam West.

So Fox decided to pause Mad a few weeks in 1996 and order a sketch comedy show with more known actors. They also wanted a permanent host and they decided to approach...Roseanne Barr.



The idea was with Barr's name they could attract better guests and supporting cast. And they started off doing that by getting Kathy Griffin and Jennifer Cooliage. They also even brought in actress Laura Kightlinger who was slowly building her career and had actually been on Saturday Night Live back in 1994/1995. The others were unknowns who had brief roles in sitcoms like Warren Hutcherson and Heath Hyche.

Of course beyond the 3 women and Hutcherson as a producer ; the rest of the cast hasn't done much so need to mention them here. Either way Fox knew Roseanne's name would allow them to attract better guests to take on SNL. In fact it seemed like Mad TV had everything against them as this was the guest lineup for all 6 episodes.

Bush (band)
Melissa Etheridge
Sharon Stone
Eric Idle
Ben Stiller
Alice in Chains
D'Angelo
Coolio
Nicole Eggert
Garbage
John Goodman
Sarah Silverman
Fugees
Lauren Hill
Tupac Shakur
Ice-T
Rosie Perez
Yasmine Bleeth
Radiohead
Smothers Brothers
Janeane Garofalo
Harvey Keitel
Green Day
Queen Latifah
Jenny McCarthy
Patti Smith

This was the name guests the show had in 6 episodes. Also as a way to try and lure people Fox came up with an idea to call their show "The Saturday Night Special" . Which they were sure folks who were flipping dials would get confused and tune in possibly at 11pm. To add another guest weekly it was Carmen Electra who led the "Skintight Dancers".



With all this star power and musical guests how could Mad TV hope to get renewed a 2nd season ? Given what Fox was seemingly paying for 6 episodes of this and who they had booked as acts. Its just amazing to see what they spent to get so many "name musical acts" in such a short run. Given that SNL has weeks where they will go with lower caliber musical guests at times. Here was a show throwing the Fugees out one week , then Alice in Chains ...then Queen Latifah. Its just an amazing feat to see.

But something happened here. The show died after 6 episodes. In fact its mostly a forgotten sketch show and beyond musical clips on youtube its hard to hunt down sketch clips. One is so bad I couldn't post it next to Tupac and Ice T spot of them doing a song.


In fact its very weird to see Fox act like the series never existed or tried a 2nd season. Perhaps it was the cost which had to run into thousands of thousands of dollars to book name stars each episode. Meanwhile the cheaper ran show was more wise and allowed its sketch performers to grow and carry the series next to the rare guests they had that were big names.

Mad TV would go on to a 14 season run on Fox (only undone as new management cut the budget so extreme at the end it led to numerous stars leaving). Where its fondly remembered. Saturday Night Special has faded from memory...beyond musical clips you see online.

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Its closing in on the year 2020 and Pro Wrestling is nearly EVERYWHERE now. From cable channels (major and minor) like USA Network , Pursuit , and soon TNT again. To minor ones like BeIN sports network and AXS TV airing even New Japan wrestling. Pro Wrestling is being streamed now on Netflix to various other stream sites as well . Not counting WWE Network. This isn't even counting the syndicated market as ROH is ran by Sinclair.

Its almost like were living in the old territory days where a pro wrestling program was nearly in every TV market locally. As my uncle would tell me during the week there was like 3-4 pro wrestling shows that would air from Monday to Sunday on various TV channels. And this was way before cable TV emerged to really spearhead a movement from the big 3 networks (CBS , ABC , NBC). Its just insane to think how far things have went since the dark days as Vince McMahon bought his competition and got one from bankruptcy court (ECW).

Way before this current era were in , the 2000's was not a good time as I mentioned. Pro wrestling programming while highly rated was terrible at getting the prime advertiser dollars many networks wanted. Even though during the Monday Night Wars when WCW and WWF was HOT in 1998 (at its peak) , doing over 10.0+ cable ratings combined...advertisers wasn't strong then. So as WCW and ECW went by the wayside not many was jumping to air a pro wrestling show in 2000's. A fact NWA-TNA had to do a weekly PPV concept to start and then later pay for a spot for a year on FSN. To show they could work on a cable network.

Once TNA did well on Spike TV at taking a dead time slot and making it work on Saturday nights ; others in Viacom noticed this. Viacom owned Spike , MTV and VH1 as networks so they noticed this success. Another man who noticed this was Kevin Kleinrock who would approach MTV with a new concept. MTV was desperate for new concepts and quickly approved a new idea by Kleinrock that would mix pro wrestling and music.




Kleinrock had experience working in pro wrestling and actually was part of XPW during its run. For those who don't remember Xtreme Pro Wrestling was ran by Rob Black and Kleinrock worked for that company during its run. At the end once XPW folded Kleinrock would become a producer. MTV would approve the pitch for a few episodes and finally do a full season of 10 episodes to air in 2006.

For wrestling fans this was a weird , unique thing to see. TNA at times was a mixed bag , ROH wasn't owned by Sinclair yet and didn't air in many markets yet and WWE was basically the only show in town at this point. So when MTV promoted Wrestling Society X as this new alternative many were excited for the actual product. And its not like Kleinrock didn't get lots of new young stars. He would get Jimmy Jacobs , Matt Sydal , and Tyler Black (aka Seth Rollins) to appear. Mixed in with old favorites like Vampiro ...this seemed like a new era starting.

The show itself filmed over a 5 day period and would air the winter of 2006. Its then MTV realized with musical guests like Black Label Society , Three 6 Mafia and Good Charlotte this show was really way out there for what they had became. In fact many would question how Kleinrock convinced MTV to air this since by this stage MTV was now airing shows about pregnant teenage girls and other reality TV trash shows.



The show booked and ran by Vampiro , Kleinrock and Cody Michaels in the back and as you can tell was a very slick TV made product. Mixed with wild death matches and more the show seemingly was way ahead of its time. So far ahead MTV got scared and pulled an episode from airing when a wrestler named Ricky Bandaras threw a fireball in Vampiro's face . The episode would later be edited down and air but MTV at this point got scared at what they had approved it seemed.

They would air episodes 5-9 in March over 2 days and never air the 10th episode. Those behind WSX never realized that the network would cancel the show so quick and had even shot things for season #2 . Those would air on the DVD box set they would release a few years later. But by 2007 WSX was sadly gone just as quick.

This should end the story right ? Well not exactly ; sometimes a promotion can inspire something else and lay the ground work for something later that emerges down the line. Be it movies or music ; sometimes in entertainment something really seems to lay a ground work for something else. In the mid 2010's Robert Rodriguez and Mark Burnett came up with Lucha Underground that would air on Rodriquez's El Ray Network. It was considered a big gamble by Rodriguez given what it was and many debated if it would actually last long on El Ray. It quickly has became the networks best rated show and airs on netflix streaming !

Lucha Underground as some joke seems to be what WSX could have been with some wilder elements toned down given its mix of music and movie type production. You can see a lot of winks at WSX as the company name for its arena is called "The Temple" while WSX called their arena "The Bunker".

But again its not fully over as Big Vision Entertainment that owned Wrestling Society X and ....XPW's tape library actually are now the property of WWE. Yes the WWE in 2010's came in and bought the tape libraries and many have debated if XPW will ever air on the network. Getting the library for XPW was a story of itself and how they handled both parts of what they worked on there. But the WWE now owns Wrestling Society X and XPW. Which is just...so fucking odd to think of.

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SABLE - tv series based on Mike Grell’s Jon Sable, Freelance. I remember the ads only. Local channel pre emoted every damned episode.

HUMAN TARGET - the original tv series with Rick Springfield. Much truer to comic version. Why is t this on DC UNIVERSE? It was by the same producers of the first Flash tv series.

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One series I have recently discovered is Barnaby Jones and the weird move of taking Buddy Ebsen known for 1 iconic role and letting him remake himself as a sweet old PI. For those who don't remember the role that Ebsen was 1st famous for that has stood for over 50+ years . He was Jed Clampett.



Ebsen will forever live on as Uncle Jed and his family hitting black gold , Texas tea from in the hills is something we all have heard or dreamed of. The series made Ebsen a star and a couple years after it ended Ebsen to his credit as an actor ...transformed himself into the kind Barnaby Jones in the 1970's. Buddy Ebsen was in his 60's at this point but was showing an old man could play a nice PI character. One who drank milk and really treated his daughter-In-Law (or ex after his son died in pilot) still as his daughter.




But before Ebsen got 2 huge roles on TV he did have a struggle awhile as a couple shows he did were cancelled after a single season. Lucky for us though he got to play Uncle Jed and we all were better for it.


Ebsen had been in Hollywood since the 1930's and transitioned to TV after World War II when he served. The transition had him do guest roles until 1958 when MGM rolled the dice on doing a TV series of Northwest Passage. The original 1940's film starred Spencer Tracy and Walter Brennon. This one would star Ebsen , Keith Larson and Don Burnett. All 3 took roles over made famous a decade earlier.




The series as you can tell was one of the 1st to air in color at the time on NBC.

What doomed Northwest Passage was the schedule. It aired at 7:30 on Sunday's against the more popular Maverick. The show didn't stand a chance with that plus the production cost likely doomed it as well. After 26 episodes Northwest Passage would fade away and barely anyone remembers there was a TV series. And one that starred a younger Buddy Ebsen.


Before this one Ebsen in 1956 would star in Corky & White Shadow which seemed to be a Saturday morning 15 minute series that ran only 17-18 episodes inside the overall Mickey Mouse Club series . Not many remember this one given how early in TV's era it ran or that it made much impact. In fact if you look at Ebsen's wikipedia page its not even listed. You can find clips on youtube. That series starred Darlene Gillespie as his daughter and she was in fact a former Mouseketeer.

Either way Ebsen gets credit for staying the course and landing his iconic role after trying awhile in the mid 1950's to finally landing Jed Clampett. In the end even though Ebsen was a staunch conservative a lot of former cast members detailed what a nice fatherly presence he was to them. From Donna Douglas to Lee Meriwether ; both detailed what a nice fatherly type he was to them. Buddy Ebsen would retire in the 1990's after playing Barnaby Jones in the Beverly Hillbillies film and pass away at age 95 in 2003.

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In 2019 after 12 seasons the Big Bang Theory ended after a run of being the top rated sitcom (and show) on TV. CBS and Warner Bros. that made the series never wanted it to end and in fact wanted to give it another 2 year renewal. The show only ended after Jim Parsons decided it was time to end the series after a long run as TV's most famous socially inept genius ...Sheldon Cooper.

But what If I told you CBS had tried this concept before a decade earlier ? With a cast that included actor Corey Fieldman , Peter Scolari (Newhart) and Farrah Forke (Wings) involved. It also focused nearly on the same type of aspect of a socially inept nerd (Scolari) who has feelings for the down to Earth girl (Forke) who shows up to work at his software company ? Which echoes the whole Penny/Leonard situation a decade later.




CBS seemed to have high hopes for this series in 1995 and why not. With Corey Fieldman and Scolari who was coming off a long run as everyone's favorite yuppie Michael ; the series seemed destined to work. But this came along at a time when CBS was facing major problems and the network overall suffered for it.

The network was busy trying to reboot itself in a younger direction. They had moved an older favorite (Murder She Wrote) and a lot of the 1995 CBS lineup of new shows tried to focus on a younger cast. Those shows went straight into the crapper. Dweebs itself was right there. Featuring a young comedy cast the series didn't have a chance and within 10 episodes it was gone. The series only ran from September 1995 to November !

Today little can be found of the show. In fact I tried finding the opening on Youtube and its not there. In fact beyond this clipped down 10 minutes on Youtube , I can't find the series at all.

[Mider2009]

I wish Hannibal and Channel Zero we’re still going

As a kid I saw stuff like...she wolf of London, American gothic, etc

[Jackalope89]

Everyone knows about Power Rangers/Super Sentai and its 100 spinoffs over the years, but one I watched when I was a kid, was this;



Took its own direction, and you can easily see the influences, and yet still was able to do its own thing.

[skyvolt2000]

I got one for you...

Kid & Play-had a cartoon series inspired by House Party movies. In fact Marvel did a comic book series that same year. 9 issue long and the final issue had the X-Men in it.

Kid & Play also had a failed pilot on ABC that aired as a tv movie called Bodyguards in 1993.

Another tv movie meant to be pilot was Moe's World with Deon Richmond (Cosby Show) and Tisha Campbell- Martin. Bud (Deon) played a boy who was killed and comes back as a ghost. Think a TAMER Beetlejuice with some animation.

And did you know we saw EARLY Milestone toys on tv in 1993-94? Yes we saw Icon himself in a tv movie/pilot. I can NOT remember the name of it but the boy was named Ernest Green and he thought he was going to die. He had his Icon figure taken or stolen and spent some of the pilot trying to get it back.
It aired with Moe's World on the same night during the summer of 1994. My local tv guide mentioned both being failed pilots. I have to find that clipping.

TV shows that if they lasted would have caused others to look different.

Tall Hopes-who got a front page photo on the local tv guide. It starred Kenny Blank and some guy named Lucious Lyon (Terrance Howard) as brothers with Dee from Wayan Brothers & George Wallace as their parents. I want to say it lasted 4 episodes (I think I taped 3 of them).

I want to say this show was at least 6-13 months before Kenny went to play Michael Peterson on Parent Hood with a then unknown Scott Menville (Titans Go!) & TNA/WWE guy Matt Morgan.

Thea-which had ratings but still got axed. Along with Steve Harvey's Me & The Boys (Marge Sinclair's LAST tv series). It was about a widow mother raising 4 kids. Thea (AKA Shelton Benjamin's MOM) was the lead. Adam Jefferies (now in the Army), Jason (Lion King) Weaver and someone girl named BRANDY played the kids.

Moesha was beginning production when Thea got axed. Hard to do that show with out Brandy (and the late Yvette Wilson) and meaning No Parkers tv show and where would Monique be?
Sliders-Cleavant Derricks (who played Thea's brother in law) would not have been available.

Nick Freno License teacher-Mitch Mullany was the lead. Along with someone close to Ellen-Portia de Rossi. If she was not axed from the show along with Arjay Smith and the show lasted a 3rd season.
No Portia for Ally McBeal
Journey of Allen Strange would have looks different without Arjay Smith (who got the role within WEEKS of being fired from Nick Freno). In fact the network wanted a white kid for Allen Strange.
And no Mila Kunis for That's 70 Show or Family Guy.

Finally South Central on Fox that have us JLO as an actress. If it lasted No Lamont Bentley for Moesha and ONE of it's co-creators might have pitched his most famous show to Fox instead of CBS. That show was King of Queens.

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On facebook people have started sharing the intro to the classic 80s TV sitcom "My Two Dads". The series where a young girl (Staci Keanan) is some how allowed to live with 2 men who could be her potential father. The 2 older men (Paul Reiser , Greg Evigan) are forced to raise Keanan's character as father figures. Both men are vastly different as the Evigan character is a free spirited artist. While Reiser's is the more straight laced lawyer type.

The series would be a start for Staci Keanan who would then go onto a long run as Dana Foster on Step by Step. But Keanan herself had a mid stumble after My Two Dads wrapped after 3 seasons. Her next project would be a show that would star a variety of 80's actors and a sex symbol in Heather Locklear. In fact the series was called "Going Places" and had a big history behind the scenes leading to it debuting in 1990.



ABC was just starting to flex its powerful TGIF lineup and was looking to add another Millar/Boyett show to the schedule for a 2 hour block. They also wanted a show to capture a more adult type audience like Perfect Strangers had been doing at 9pm block. So they wanted a series to follow it. The producers pitched "Going Places" about a series featuring 4 TV writers fresh to LA who had to handle a TV actress on a series as well as their private lives.

As shown it would feature 80's stars like Alan Ruck (Cameron from Ferris Bueller film) , Jeffrey Irvine (Stiles from Teen Wolf) , Hallie Todd (Brothers on Showtime Network) as well as Locklear and Keanan all starred in this series. It was amazing to see such an experienced cast come together for this and watch it literally start to fail. And it quickly did as ratings weren't good.

But ABC and producers wanted the series to work and expanded Keanan's role as the know it all neighbor to the 4 writers living in a beach house. They soon added another kid role to the series and refocused the show towards a younger audience. They then removed a cast member (Holland Taylor who played Dawn on series). Taylor comically exited the series as the group lived at her beach house saying she'd be by once a month to get rent. She was never seen again for the rest of the series. This reboot of the series occurred halfway through season 1.

The shows ratings started to move upwards and climbed to 34th as ABC decided to put the show on hiatus and air Baby Talk as planned. It was said ABC was wanting to move on owning Tuesday nights and was gonna move Family Matters to 8pm on Tuesdays to lead off the comedy block there. But in a surprise move ; the critically derided Baby Talk performed a lot better than ABC believed in its short run that spring of 1991. This had ABC decide to move Full House instead and keep Baby Talk for fall.

The move pretty much spelled the end of Going Places and the series returned and ran off some episodes that summer of 1991. Keanan would move onto her next big role the next season on Step by Step ; which she'd star for 7-8 seasons...on ABC and TGIF. Today Keanan has retired from acting and in 2013 is actually a lawyer in LA.

[CellarDweller]

Nothing Sacred starred Kevin Anderson as a priest. It was criticized by some who saw its portrayal of church issues in the post Second Vatican Council era as favoring those with a more liberal view of the Council at the expense of those with a more conservative one. The show and its sponsors were targeted for boycotts by the Catholic League.

Despite promises that the show would air for at least one full season, after the failure of the program, ABC canceled its order for the final four episodes, and then canceled the series entirely after the March 14, 1998 episode (with four completed episodes left unaired).

The show won the Peabody Award, being described as "an honest portrayal of the complexity of faith in the modern era." It also won the 1998 Humanitas Prize for a sixty-minute television series as well as the Founder's Award from Viewers For Quality Television.

[caj]

The Powers That Be - lasted for one season. A hilarious show that was created by Norman Lear and starred John Forsythe, Holland Taylor, David Hyde Pierce, and Valerie Mahaffey.