• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

STARS WHO EMBARRASSED THEIR SHOW AND THEMSELVES (ARRESTS, DRUGS, ETC.)

That's a bit tame though. We're talking more like Pee Wee Herman. He basically ruined his
career and show with his arrest in the porno theater. But, he has gradually shown up in a
few projects over the past few years. Pee Wee's Playhouse was never the same.
 
No turmoil was involved, but the best example I could come up with: The entire cast of "ALF." Not very perky behind the scenes, from what I've heard.
 
gregg75 said:
That's a bit tame though. We're talking more like Pee Wee Herman. He basically ruined his
career and show with his arrest in the porno theater. But, he has gradually shown up in a
few projects over the past few years. Pee Wee's Playhouse was never the same.
Click to expand...

Pee-Wee's Playhouse actually ended before Pee-Wee's big misadventure, CBS yanked the reruns after the incident
 
Suzanne Somers (or more precisely, her husband) and the producers of Three's Company. His unreasonable salary demands got her kicked off the show, although it went on without her. She wouldn't work for ABC again until Step by Step in the '90s, but by then, there had been enough turnover at ABC that her Three's Company shenanigans had been all but forgotten.
 
Brett Butler, who ruined her career on television because of her personal problems that included (I believe) substance abuse.

Even one of her co-stars quit the show because she couldn't deal with Butler's antic anymore.
 
Dana Plato (more after the Diff'rent Strokes timeframe than during) and Mackenzie Phillips (during and after ODAAT) come to mind--neither did themselves or their shows any favors then, although Phillips has largely cleaned up her personal life since...
 
How about networks that embarrassed themselves with their charlie sheen coverage and the winner is ABC! and the runnerups are a tie NBC and CNN.
 
Howard Rollins, most famous for playing Virgil Tibbs in the TV version of In The Heat of the Night. He was fired from the cast in 1993 and was replaced by Carl Weathers, but he did return to the show via 'special guest star' appearances.
 
firepoint525 said:
Suzanne Somers (or more precisely, her husband) and the producers of Three's Company. His unreasonable salary demands got her kicked off the show, although it went on without her. She wouldn't work for ABC again until Step by Step in the '90s, but by then, there had been enough turnover at ABC that her Three's Company shenanigans had been all but forgotten.
Click to expand...

Don't forget her stint on the syndicated She's the Sheriff, which oddly enough was originally supposed to star Priscilla Barnes who dropped out after the pilot.
 
DToTheJ said:
Also, does Lyle Alzado qualify? He starred on an obscure show called "Learning The Ropes":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Alzado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGS5hITnrFo
Click to expand...

I think most would know him much more from his years as an Oakland/LA Raider, so he probably did more to embarrass that team than he ever did to a TV show (even though some might argue Al Davis has done even more to that team than what Alzado ever did but there are likely many opinions on that subject)
 
I'd have to say Jack Paar, not because of an arrest or drug use,
but for walking off "The Tonight Show" in 1960 when NBC censored
a tame-by-today's-standards (and not all that funny to begin with)
joke about a water closet (that's a toilet to you younger folks). He
stayed away about a month, then came back, a bit humiliated (he
thought the show couldn't run without him--this was before he really
did have enough, moved to primetime, and Johnny Carson took over).

After Paar left the stage following his dressing-down of NBC, announcer
Hugh Downs took over the rest of the show. He has admitted it was
one of the most awkward situations he ever found himself in.
 
...didn't Tony Curtis lose a stint as the American Lung Association's anti-smoking TV spokesman when British authorities busted him for possession of marijuana in 1970?...
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom