I did the Norman Lear memorial, but I felt bad I didn't do something better.
So, this is that.
I'll retro link this one to that post when I'm done.
I think those are about in the right order.
Maude was the first Archie spinoff, then Jeffersons, then "Good Times" spun off of Maude.
Then "Archie Bunker's Place" was just a rename of the last seasons of "Family" so I tack it on right after. Then "704 Houser" came long after.
I de-canon "Gloria" because it was an abortion.
So, here's the trivia for those in that order....
All In The Family.
James Cromwell was Stretch Cunningham.
Sally Struthers was on Carol Burnett.
Rob Reiner went on to direct "This Is Spinal Tap", "Princess Bride", "Stand By Me", "Misery", and "Delores Claiborne".
Archie Bunker's Place.
Bill Quinn, the wise blind man, was in Star Trek 5, and "Greatest American Hero".
Barry Gordon guest starred on Hulk, was Donatello in 80's/90's TMNT, and was in the film "A Thousand Clowns".
Maude.
Bea Arthur was in "The Star Wars Holiday Special" with Harvey Corman from Carol Burnett.
Bea Arthur was also in "Mame" with Bruce Davison (that's my TIL!!).
Rue McClanahan was in "Dreamer Of Oz" starring John Ritter, written by Richard Matheson (TIL two!)
Adrienne Barbeau was in Swamp Thing, Creepshow, Escape From New York, The Fog, was a Romulan chick on DS9, and was on "The George Carlin Show"!
James Cromwell guest starred as two different characters.
Ope! Canon violation in the Bunker-verse! James from "Good Times" is called Henry on "Maude"! Now either Henry started going by his middle name, James started and stopped going by his middle name, or Florida dumped Henry for his twin brother, and the kids all played along.
Hot Take: "Maude" is better than "Golden Girls". There, I said it. Sorry, Betty White.
The Jeffersons.
Sherman Hemsley was in Hulk.
Isabel Sanford was on Carol Burnett.
Melinda Dillon from "A Christmas Story" guest starred.
Good Times.
Esther Rolle was in Hulk.
John Amos was also in "Beastmaster" as the bo-staff guy, and "Coming To America" as the McDowells guy, and was elder-Kunta in "Roots".
Speaking of Jon Amos....
704 Houser.
Within the Archie-verse John Amos morphs from Henry Evans, to James Evans, to Ernie Cumberbatch (704 Hauser). I'm thinking they were triplets, and Ernie got adopted out.
The white chick from "News Radio" was on this before "News Radio".
I could go down a rabbit hole of human tragedy surrounding that show, but I won't.
Currently: "All In The Family" is on MeTV; "Jeffersons" and "Good Times" are on Grio; "Maude" "Archie Bunker's Place" and "704 Houser" are nowhere.
In fact, ABP was last on a channel that went to a cowboy format, confirming my life-cycle theory (see Little House).
Last I knew, the aired episodes of "704 Houser" were up on Youtube, but I dunno if they're still there.
"Good Times" got rebooted as a horrible cartoon with nothing to do with the original.
The less said, the better.
Aaand...that's all that!
THE END!
2 comments:
I'm going to guess that Maude being unavailable may have something to do with some conservative attempt to bury it because of Bea Arthur/Maude's liberal politics, particularly the famous abortion episode.
I have not seen that but I did look up the episode of AITF where the creep goes after Edith and good lord the studio audience. Between that and "Pretty Baby" something was pretty messed up with people in the late 1970s.
AITF is based off a British show called Til Death Do Us Part but I haven't seen that
Actually, Maude and "One Day At A time" were on that channel that went cowboy/rodeo. Been trying to find a way to tackle ODAAT. I looked around, and Maude is on streaming. If you want the abortion episode, it's paywalled. (Cartoon Edward G. Robinson) Myah, see!?!? Myah!! You're gonna fork it over, see!?!? Myaahh!!
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