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The 1970s was also the last decade for the Television Code, as seen on the end credits of many hit shows.

And that was on during that time period you quoted.

The list of Sunday at 7:00 PM casualties is long and sad and spans over four decades by now, covering practically every genre of scripted TV and even other newsmagazines. It's telling if NBC settled on essentially the same thing with Dateline NBC.

Who's got the last laugh now?

Possibly. They were all over the place with Aaron Spelling, co-producing some of his shows but only syndicating others, but with Witt-Thomas-Harris, they stayed out of the production of Soap* and Benson. But unlike Bud Yorkin, Columbia never bought those other producers' companies out outright...

That reminds me of yet another show I'm surprised wasn't a hit: Crazy Like A Fox. That seemed like it would be the perfect show to follow Murder, She Wrote, but it only got two seasons. They moved it to another night for a movie of the week after all the remaining 1970s sitcom holdovers had...

What was most disappointing about seeing Soap fall apart like that was when they had shown some much better writing when Jodie went to court for custody of Wendy just a year earlier. Columbia still managed to get more mileage out of short- and mid-run shows than other studios. Ironically, The...

They did worse than that to Jodie Dallas.

I wonder what was going to happen with Soap if it got one more year. Would Corrine be allowed back on? Would any of the characters with And what would become of Jodie Dallas? Would he be stuck in his proto-Miracle-Max-from-Princess Bride limbo forever? Considering the way the 1980s played out...

I actually have mixed feelings about this exercise because I actually have gotten a show I wanted back — Futurama — and the results, for the most part, weren't as good. At least they gave closure to the character arcs that made it such a great show to begin with. As for ALF, you get what you...

That was the last year Brandon Tartikoff programmed NBC, and it seemed like he was in a mood for fantasy; that season had a Stephen J. Cannell/Disney collaboration called The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage that never made it past its first season. 60 Minutes Syndrome struck again; that was the...