How Was This Not A Hit?

I told that cunt to go back to Ilandia!

Kinda thought Lawrence Pressman was a hot daddy back in the day.

You forgot Eddie (the not Boner friend of Mike Seaver from "Growing Pains")

The words "tragic plane crash" in the opening credits doomed this before it even got out of the gate.

My god, OP by the end of that trailer I was bawling my eyes out. I've never heard such a depressing story for a sitcom. 2 bathrooms for 9 people!

R5: 2 bathrooms for 9 people? Pikers.

r2 But he cheated on Lou Grant's daughter!

It looks like the Partridge Family house. This is '77? It looks and sounds more like '72 or '73.

What’s your point r7 dear?

There had to be at least four bathrooms in the Brady house. The kids' bathroom was the only one we saw but the master bedroom probably had a full bath, plus a powder room somewhere on the first floor and one in Alice's room. It's just idiotic to think there was just the one.

Little Tracey, never attractive seemed to go out of her way to be butch here.

Of course if they replaced that old tart with Susan Richardson it would've easily been a hit.

I had no idea that Suzanne Crough ever had another role in show business after playing the comatose Tracy Partridge.

My God, Julie Anne Haddock was on freakin' EVERYTHING back then, but no one on earth could name her if shown her photo. It's kind of sad, really. She sure gave it her all.

I thought that Julie Ann had that Baby Jane/Nellie Olsen thing down pat.

After the opening credits I'm exhausted. I'm sure the husband loved having all those extra people in the house.

Lory Walsh is a whore. That was supposed to be my part, but she gave me a hamburger laced with LCD the day of our final callbacks. That part was promised to me and I even did anal on the floor of the executive washroom. I would have made this show a hit and we would have won multiple Emmys. Look what I did for EIGHT

[quote]I had no idea that Suzanne Crough ever had another role in show business after playing the comatose Tracy Partridge.

And she had what basically amouted to a cameo in DAWN: PORTRAIT OF A TEENAGE RUNAWAY (starring DL fave Eve Plumb).

I was so confused by the family tree dialogue that by the end I just wanted to shut it off.

It was the lowest-rated series of the ‘77-‘78 season, yanked after 6 episodes.

Looks dreadful...more OP

[quote]I had no idea that Suzanne Crough ever had another role in show business after playing the comatose Tracy Partridge.

Yeah, who'd thunk she'd get another part in a TV series

R13 it’s so funny the kind of look casting directors wanted in those days - that farm girl look. If you were a child actor with that look you had it made, you would book everything.

Of course those kind of looks don’t bode well for an adult career - unless you’re Sissy Spacek.

na na the vegetable. na na the vegetable. na na the vegetable. GO EAT YOURSELF A BOWL OF VEGETABLE SOUP!

r23

I take it you've seen it. What I hated about this is, the dead in-laws were about to adopt the Viet-Cong girl. So the tv parents got stuck with her? Why not send her back? It's not like she bonded with them.

So, Lory Walsh passed away in 2000 at 54 years old, anyone know what happened? Susan? Were you behind this?

It wasn't a hit because Julie Anne Haddock was in it.

How believable is it that there was a hot teenager named Polly circa 1977?

I have never wanted to see a station wagon reduced to a bloody splash at the bottom of the Grand Canyon more than I do right now.

Julie Anne was in every failure she could be cast in.

I plead the 5th, R25/K Callan. You might want to check out Barbra Streisand or Steven Spielberg’s alibis. They have dead bodies and ruined careers galore in the wake of their ruthlessness.

So Lory Walsh plays an orphan and then repeats the same character (from Hawaii yet) in another mini-series.

Cancelled before they could introduce Papa Mulligan’s secret gay lover!

Johnny Doran was no Vince Van Patten or Lance Kerwin.

Hey, Julie Piekarski-Probst, R26, at least I have 'The Great Santini' to my name...you've got, what? A Taco Bell commercial? You couldn't even get a cheap Scott Baio/Willie Ames teen sex comedy like Felice.

Stupid Title

Uh, Julie Ann, I had that club de Mickey Mouse. and the front burner story of our reunion episode in '86. Not to mention I auditioned for the fucking Outsiders.

Was that blond middle girl in episodes of Facts of Life, she looked familiar?

How did Shirley the series not become a hit? It had Shirley Jones as a widow with 5 kids moving to Lake Tahoe. The only difference from the Partridge Family was (mercifully) they didn't sing. Peter Barton got the David Cassidy role and if I recall Rosanna Arquette was to be the new Susan Dey?

R38 Shows with "Shirley" in the title were flops until I can around.