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Happy Days new episodes aired after finale

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chris12

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I was doing research about how Happy Days aired leftover episodes after the Passages finale. The finale aired May 8, 1984 and according to the online episode guide So How Was Your weekend aired June 28, Low Notes on July 5 and School Dazed on July 12 which I looked up on microfilm tv guides and verified. However, things differ from there as the list had Good News Bad News airing July 19 and Fonzie's Spots on September 24, a Monday, which the microfilm listings I saw don't list it airing those nights and also the Brooks and Marsh prime time history book lists the last telecast as July 12. So, is it possible those two episodes didn't air on ABC and never aired until syndication or did it air at some point another night? The episde guide is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Happy_Days_episodes#Season_11_.281983.E2.80.931984.29
 
I don't think "Fonzie's Spots" aired in September. It wouldn't make sense would it? ??? The only one that I remember was "Good News Bad News". Mind you, I was watching these in Canada, and the CBC might have broadcast them in sequence, but it's been almost 30 years, so I may have a Fuzzy Memory ;). I think these episodes were network preemptions' in the States.
 
Nevertheless, I find it bizarre that new episodes of a television series was broadcast after the series finale.

Any other series showed new episodes after its finale?
 
chris12 said:
I was doing research about how Happy Days aired leftover episodes after the Passages finale. The finale aired May 8, 1984 and according to the online episode guide So How Was Your weekend aired June 28, Low Notes on July 5 and School Dazed on July 12 which I looked up on microfilm tv guides and verified. However, things differ from there as the list had Good News Bad News airing July 19 and Fonzie's Spots on September 24, a Monday, which the microfilm listings I saw don't list it airing those nights and also the Brooks and Marsh prime time history book lists the last telecast as July 12. So, is it possible those two episodes didn't air on ABC and never aired until syndication or did it air at some point another night? The episde guide is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Happy_Days_episodes#Season_11_.281983.E2.80.931984.29
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There was one more episode, scheduled on July 19, titled "Good News, Bad News"(about Chachi being diagnosed with diabetes), which would make Brooks and Marsh incorrect, if it actually aired on that date. I remember that batch of episodes airing that summer; I know I watched "So, How Was Your Weekend?" the night it aired.

Wikipedia also shows a September 24(Monday) date for "Fonzie's Spots", but I didn't see that one, or the others, until they aired on The Hub last year.
I wonder if that episode aired only on the West Coast, after 'MNF' and 'Call to Glory'?
 
azumanga said:
Nevertheless, I find it bizarre that new episodes of a television series was broadcast after the series finale.

Any other series showed new episodes after its finale?
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Well, I guess technically you could list M*A*SH*. A a few episodes were filmed after filming their finale, when the Network asked them to fill out the schedule a bit. The episode with the time capsule was the last episode filmed. It was filmed on a sound-stage as the "4077" had been burned to the ground in a wildfire, ironically enough while filming the finale, that unintended action, became a plot point in the episode itself.
 
visaman said:
azumanga said:
Nevertheless, I find it bizarre that new episodes of a television series was broadcast after the series finale.

Any other series showed new episodes after its finale?
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Well, I guess technically you could list M*A*SH*. A a few episodes were filmed after filming their finale, when the Network asked them to fill out the schedule a bit. The episode with the time capsule was the last episode filmed. It was filmed on a sound-stage as the "4077" had been burned to the ground in a wildfire, ironically enough while filming the finale, that unintended action, became a plot point in the episode itself.
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I think the finale was filmed before any of the other episodes. However, no new episodes were broadcast after 'Goodbye, Farewll and Amen'; only 16 episodes aired in that final season, and in fact, only 10 of those were produced that year; six others had been made during season 10, but it was decided to hold them back after it was agreed that there would be an abbreviated 11th season.(Similarly, season 10 and opened with three episodes produced for season 9).
CBS reran most, if not all, of the final season, including the last episode, through the summer of '83, and even aired the finale ome more time in the summer of '84, supposedly an instance of a network actually re-broadcasting something 'by popular demand'.
 
azumanga said:
Nevertheless, I find it bizarre that new episodes of a television series was broadcast after the series finale.

Any other series showed new episodes after its finale?
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Emergency! aired 2 movies set in San Fransisco after the movie "Greatest Rescue of Emergency!" ("whats a nice girl like you...", and "the convention"). the 6 movies that aired after season 6 is often referred by some as Emergency! season 7. Greatest rescue was a clip movie where newly promoted captains Gage and Desoto talk about some of the past rescues they worked.
 
The Nanny aired its finale in May of 1999. The show went on hiatus in the spring. The final 6 episodes aired in the summer of 1999. Didnt really make any sense but I think CBS pulled the show due to low ratings.
 
cwf1701 said:
azumanga said:
Nevertheless, I find it bizarre that new episodes of a television series was broadcast after the series finale.

Any other series showed new episodes after its finale?
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Emergency! aired 2 movies set in San Fransisco after the movie "Greatest Rescue of Emergency!" ("whats a nice girl like you...", and "the convention"). the 6 movies that aired after season 6 is often referred by some as Emergency! season 7. Greatest rescue was a clip movie where newly promoted captains Gage and Desoto talk about some of the past rescues they worked.
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Of course, we were talking in terms of the series finale having closure, then unseen episodes surfacing as a way to burn them off.
 
A Different World had some episodes of the final season aired in the summer, and some unaired episodes weren't seen until their syndicated runs

The final filmed episode of Step by Step aired before the last aired new episode on CBS in the summer of 98

An episode of MST3K (Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders) was aired after the final episode due to rights issues
 
Then there was a show that took this concept further: ABC's 1980s sitcom "Sledge Hammer!"-a spoof of 'Dirty Harry'- was ratings-challenged on Fridays in 1986-87, but the producers put in a twist ending in what was expected to be the final episode-a nuclear explosion! ABC aired that episode on a Tuesday, after 'Who's the Boss?', and the ratings bump got the show renewed. Two problems...they had to set the second season episodes one year in the past...and the show got moved to an even tougher slot..opposite 'The Cosby Show'. So long, Sledge.
 
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