Old TV Shows and when to call it Quits

15 years ago

Remember watching your favorite tv shows and thinking back to when they seemed to get dumb?

What were some of your favorite shows and when did you think they should have "called it quits"?

Mine areÃ¯Â¿Â½..

The Cosby Show when they brought in Cousin Pam and Olivia

CharlieÃ¯Â¿Â½s Angels when they brought on Shelly Hack and Tanya Roberts

Mork & Mindy when they brought on Jonathan Winters

ThreeÃ¯Â¿Â½s Company when they brought on Don Knotts.

Happy DayÃ¯Â¿Â½s when they focused more on Jonnie & Chacci

SamKaren

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maire_cate
15 years ago
That's what's known as "jumping the shark" which refers to a Happy Days episode when the Fonz was water skiing and jumped a shark. The show had already started to lose ratings before that.

I watched all of LOST and at least once a season we'd declare that "it had jumped the shark."

Here is a link that might be useful: Jumping the Shark
samkaren
Original Author
15 years ago
I just read an article in the paper about when the Fonz jumped the shark. I'll have to check the link you posted as well.

SamKaren
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molly109
15 years ago
I liked Don Knotts - and the show was only about 3
years old when he was brought on, and it went many
more.

I thought Suzanne Somers ruined the show, and the
girl after her made it even worse.

I agree with you on Happy Days -- tried to revive
a dying show when people outgrew it, I think.
cynic
15 years ago
AFAIC most of these "reality" and "competition" shows along with "talk" shows have toothbites in them already. They should have been dumped before going on the air.
dotmom
15 years ago
The same with All In the Family, after Mike & Gloria left. They brought in a little girl who I thought was annoying and then took in a roomer, a gal, who I thought had some funny exchanges with Archie, but just no the same as the original cast. That little girl, Olivia they brought in to have a younger kid, Rudy got older on the Cosby show, was also irritating, and I quit watching about that time.
matti5
15 years ago
I liked Don Knotts too and thought he was a great addition to the show. I never cared for Suzanne Sommers or any of her replacements.

Happy days was a great show, but they dragged it out for way too long. I always thought it was funny how Ritchie's brother Chuck disappeared on episode two.

My favorite show was/is Seinfeld and while I was devastated when the show ended, I thought the timing was right and that they left on a high note. Same for Mary Tyler Moore and Everybody Loves Raymond.
patti43
15 years ago
I agree with the one's on SamKaren's list and All in the Family.

But some that ended way to early in my mind are:

Northern Exposure
M*A*S*H
NYPD Blue
Murphy Brown
Laugh-In

I loved those shows!
cynic
15 years ago
When they change the name of the show you know it's gone too long. Archie Bunker's Place had no place on TV. After Edith died, the show died. The kid wasn't Edith. M*A*S*H had 1/2 the cast leave so they became AfterM*A*S*H and all the doctors couldn't revive it. All the talk shows, fake doctors giving advice and such have gone too long too. And really, how many trailer courts are there in the hills to supply the Springer show?
jannie
15 years ago
Then there are shows that went out while still on Top-Gunsmoke, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett. They rewmained popular to the end-no sharks.

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