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Post by mattperiolat on Dec 22, 2018 20:10:25 GMT -5
Given most cartoons run two years at best, the runs of Scooby-Doo, Super Friends and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are breathtaking. To be fair, Superfriends would label each season as a brand new show: 1973: Superfriends 1977: All New Superfriends Hour 1978: Challenge of the Superfriends 1979: Worlds Greatest Superfriends 1984: Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show 1985: Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians As well as the 1980-82 stuff, but I dont know where to put them (some of those didnt even air in the US). If you argue that each season of Super Friends is unique, then the same is true for Scooby-Doo. And that just... no. Same voice actors, same characters, same series. Oh and it’s: 1973 - Super Friends 1977 - All New Super-Friends Hour 1978 - Super Friends/Challenge of the Super Friends 1979 - World’s Greatest Super Friends 1980 and 1981 - Super Friends 1982 and 1983 were the lost years. The show was still in production, but cancelled on US Saturday mornings so not to compete with the syndie block. Only overseas in Australia and elsewhere got it uninterrupted. 1984 - Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show 1985 - Super Friends - The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2018 23:11:38 GMT -5
As did that material that covered her midriff when they moved to the CW. You mean The WB? CW wasn't around at the time What you said. Although my neck of the woods didn't have an affiliate of either when they changed from ABC. By the time I actually saw the show, it was on a CW affiliate a few years later. So forgive me for thinking it was on CW. It was when I saw it almost 10 years later. (And it was terrible.)
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 22, 2018 23:46:44 GMT -5
The Jeffersons (11) and The Facts of Life (9) are spin-offs that lasted longer than the show from which it was first created. (All In The Family and Diff'rent Strokes both had 8 seasons each.) In that time, it was quite the feat. I read this as The Jetsons. An Archie Bunker/George Jetson meeting is what the '70's needed.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 15, 2019 12:01:19 GMT -5
Empty Nest, the Golden Girls spin-off ran for 7 seasons.
It’s kind of crazy that including the related shows, the Golden Girls universe included like 400 episodes!
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 15, 2019 14:48:49 GMT -5
Things that weren't as long as you think? Gilligan's Island. The original Jetsons was just one season
Things that really were longer than you thought? Recently I was reminded that Kids Incorporated went into the mid 90s.
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Post by cabbageboy on Feb 15, 2019 15:28:34 GMT -5
I looked up Andy Griffith and was kind of surprised that Don Knotts was only on 152 episodes out of about 249. I thought Barney was on pretty much every episode, but he was maybe a guest star in a couple of episodes from seasons 6-8. What's stunning is that him not being there didn't cause any particular ratings downturn and was actually the #1 rated TV show in the last year, which is basically unheard of aside from Seinfeld quitting at its peak.
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Post by CMPunkyBrewster on Feb 15, 2019 15:39:15 GMT -5
Baywatch ran for 10 years until 2000, felt like peaked 5 years earlier with me I'm on the complete opposite side. I had absolutely no idea that Baywatch started in 89. I thought it was closer to like, 94 or 95.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 15, 2019 15:48:30 GMT -5
The original Lassie lasted nearly twenty years, with 19 seasons. Timmy didn't show up until season four and tapped out after season ten. Awhile back I was shocked to discover that The Andy Griffith Show lasted long enough to have color episodes and actually went three more seasons after Don Knotts left. Not mine, but a friend of mine was surprised when I showed him how many episodes AFTER the Shark Jump Happy Days lasted for. The shark jump was always overrated in terms of Happy Days turning point. How can you argue that that was when the show starting crashing when Chachi hadn't even debuted yet? No, the real "shark jumping" point was season eight when Ron Howard and Donny Most left. And even then the show managed to limp along for four more seasons. Shark jump doesnt mean it died immediately it's the start of the slump and the show starting to go into events and stunts that are so outside the norm of the series. The shark jump is a pretty decent point of that since what the f*** does that have to do with a 50s family sitcom.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 15, 2019 15:56:32 GMT -5
The original Lassie lasted nearly twenty years, with 19 seasons. Timmy didn't show up until season four and tapped out after season ten. Awhile back I was shocked to discover that The Andy Griffith Show lasted long enough to have color episodes and actually went three more seasons after Don Knotts left. The shark jump was always overrated in terms of Happy Days turning point. How can you argue that that was when the show starting crashing when Chachi hadn't even debuted yet? No, the real "shark jumping" point was season eight when Ron Howard and Donny Most left. And even then the show managed to limp along for four more seasons. Shark jump doesnt mean it died immediately it's the start of the slump and the show starting to go into events and stunts that are so outside the norm of the series. The shark jump is a pretty decent point of that since what the f*** does that have to do with a 50s family sitcom. I understand that, but I'd still argue that the shark jump was nowhere near the start of the shows slide off. Was it a low point? Yes. But it was more of an anomaly at that point in the series then the start of a trend. I mean, like I said, Chachi hadn't shown up yet, Al wasn't even considered a regular by this point, the show barely hit its stride by then.
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 15, 2019 16:37:17 GMT -5
Ditto on overrating the shark jump Yes it made the show sillier from then on and maybe that's the original point. But it did go on strong for more seasons afterwards.
I'd agree that Richie and Ralph leaving made it less engaging. Kind of like how Burbank didn't kill Laverne and Shirley, but having no Cindy Williams sure did.
On a similar note, can we kinda include there being more Scrappy-Doo seasons of the original Scooby runs than one might think, especially if you believe everyone who says the character killed the franchise? All the series of the 80s barring Pup Named... had Scrappy in it!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 15, 2019 17:13:45 GMT -5
Ditto on overrating the shark jump Yes it made the show sillier from then on and maybe that's the original point. But it did go on strong for more seasons afterwards. I'd agree that Richie and Ralph leaving made it less engaging. Kind of like how Burbank didn't kill Laverne and Shirley, but having no Cindy Williams sure did. On a similar note, can we kinda include there being more Scrappy-Doo seasons of the original Scooby runs than one might think, especially if you believe everyone who says the character killed the franchise? All the series of the 80s barring Pup Named... had Scrappy in it! Scrappy actually saved the show not killed it.
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 15, 2019 17:47:23 GMT -5
Ditto on overrating the shark jump Yes it made the show sillier from then on and maybe that's the original point. But it did go on strong for more seasons afterwards. I'd agree that Richie and Ralph leaving made it less engaging. Kind of like how Burbank didn't kill Laverne and Shirley, but having no Cindy Williams sure did. On a similar note, can we kinda include there being more Scrappy-Doo seasons of the original Scooby runs than one might think, especially if you believe everyone who says the character killed the franchise? All the series of the 80s barring Pup Named... had Scrappy in it! Scrappy actually saved the show not killed it. NOOOOOO! I NO LIKE IT SO IT ARE NO GOOD! AND BY I NO LIKE IT I MEAN THE INTERWEBS TOLD ME NOT TO!!!!!! ;-)
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 15, 2019 17:57:22 GMT -5
The original Dark Shadows. I always assumed it was just a cult show that only lasted a couple of seasons at best. It actually had 6 seasons. Also, Diffrent Strokes had 8 seasons and the last season actually was on a different network (ABC). What's even crazier was that Dark Shadows wasn't a regular hour long show, it was a damn soap opera, so it was on daily on ABC, and there are over 12 HUNDRED episodes! I remember when it was first released on DVD, and I think there was something like 30 collections of it, lol! I'm always fascinated by popular shows that move networks.
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 15, 2019 18:00:30 GMT -5
Ditto on overrating the shark jump Yes it made the show sillier from then on and maybe that's the original point. But it did go on strong for more seasons afterwards. I'd agree that Richie and Ralph leaving made it less engaging. Kind of like how Burbank didn't kill Laverne and Shirley, but having no Cindy Williams sure did. On a similar note, can we kinda include there being more Scrappy-Doo seasons of the original Scooby runs than one might think, especially if you believe everyone who says the character killed the franchise? All the series of the 80s barring Pup Named... had Scrappy in it! Scrappy actually saved the show not killed it. That may be true, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Feb 15, 2019 18:06:47 GMT -5
it's a show I liked (haven't seen it a long time though) but Just Shoot Me always surprises me lasted 7 seasons, same as Becker with 6 seasons
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Post by jimwilliams on Feb 15, 2019 20:01:01 GMT -5
The granddaddy of them all, Gunsmoke ran 20 seasons from 1955-75.
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 15, 2019 20:38:35 GMT -5
I somehow got it in my head that Small Wonder was a one season bit of fluff that was never renewed.
It lasted 4 seasons; they somehow got close to 100 episodes out of this premise.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 15, 2019 20:50:04 GMT -5
I somehow got it in my head that Small Wonder was a one season bit of fluff that was never renewed. It lasted 4 seasons; they somehow got close to 100 episodes out of this premise. It had the same number of seasons and almost the same number of episodes as its contemporary, ALF, yet ALF has gone on to be considered an iconic part of 80's pop culture and Small Wonder has been pretty much forgotten about.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 16, 2019 6:26:33 GMT -5
I f***ing love Small Wonder. Thanks YouTube.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Feb 16, 2019 6:45:48 GMT -5
The granddaddy of them all, Gunsmoke ran 20 seasons from 1955-75. The Simpsons has passed it, so I’d say it’s the Grandaddy.
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