Mind boggling that this show was canceled after one season…
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Mincom — 14 years ago(September 01, 2011 10:04 PM)
I so agree with the original post. After purchasing and viewing this series on DVD, I can't believe the show would have been cancelled after one season.
It should have lasted for several seasons, it's certainly much better than 'Murder She Wrote'. -
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Jimmy-128 — 12 years ago(November 29, 2013 12:49 PM)
Agreed. David Wayne was one of my favorite character actors.
I tend to lean toward the "ratings/production costs" argument rather than the one citing Jim Hutton's health. "Wonder Woman" had gotten cancelled, too, because of the high production costs of a series set in the 1940s (the series only survived by moving to another network and moving the setting up to the 1970s). -
FlushingCaps — 12 years ago(March 07, 2014 11:30 AM)
I agree with all you wrote (long ago) Flaxy. This show was brilliant and should have been the long-running hit that Murder She Wrote was. I liked the recurring characters of Simon Brimmer and Frank Flannigan and they got some good laughs in particular from Flannigan with his "predictions" for the future that we, years later, knew were totally off the mark.
As for the Thursday/Sunday argument, The Complete Directory of Prime Time TV Shows lists this being on Thursday from September to December 1975 at 9 p.m. EST and then moving to Sunday nights at 8 from January 1976 until it left the air in September 1976.
On a Detective DVD set I got a while ago, there was 1 episode of the old Ellery Queenthe one that was on from 1950-52. That episode had THE cheapest set I ever saw. Queen was supposed to be investigating a killing at a circus. We essentially saw a couple of different curtains (supposed to be the back wall of tents) for virtually every scene. They had a few of the usual circus people but all we saw was the inside of a couple of their tents.
I'd love to see another incarnation of this seriesI know we don't have Jim Hutton, but, well, we don't. But something else set up like this series, put on in a good time slot could easily be a successful show. Maybe on a USA type channel, it could run like Monk did. But it would be good to NOT have it set in present day, with all the DNA and scientific investigating, it would get lost amidst those types of shows. The late 40s was a great time for the settingI would go there again.