Was there an episode of a TC show that made you stop watching for a while? Me, I remember when I was 10 watching a rerun of LA Law on Lifetime and the episode "Lie Harder" where Abby represents the couple who wish to return their adopted son I renember the first time I watched it and the last goodbye between the parents and the child and the child having to be physically separated from the parents it freaked me out so bad and I was traumatized that I stopped watching reruns of the show for seven years. Flash forward to the Fall of 2004 and I was 18 and the episode was rerun Thanksgiving week (the first time was joined in progress) and I watched the episode all the way through and understand why they gave him back. However, it was still heartbreaking.
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Was there an episode of a TV show that made you stop watching the show for a while?
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TV is much worse today.
There was an episode of Dark Shadows that gave me nightmares (I was probably 8 years old). Didn’t watch it anymore until it was rerun years later. When I saw the episode as an adult that gave me nightmares I laughed as the special effects were so chintzy (fit within DS budget!) but could see how it would be scary to someone very young
Yep. Perfect replica of a 1938 B&W movie serial.
Dark Shadows when Josette was screaming as she fell from the cliff in Widows Hill.
I can’t specifically say but do remember when “All In The Family” started to go down hill. I would say this was around ‘76 to ‘78. The show had run its course but CBS couldn’t let go of the series. They added odd characters and got far off the original premise. Personally I couldn’t watch it after about ‘76. The ratings started to drop a bit around this time, but the show still kept in the top 20 before ending in 1979. Of course CBS milked it for a sequel “Archie’s Bunker’s Place”. And they killed off Edith. No wonder why that show didn’t last long.
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Could've ended the show with the Stivics moving to CA.
CBS and most networks would run their sitcoms into the ground before canceling. The one exception was “The Mary Tyler Moore” show which knew when it was time to end. It ended on top and that is how you do it. Though surprised this sitcom in nowhere to be found in reruns. Must be some contractual issues.
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They still do now. ABC is running The Goldberg's into the ground when they should have hung it up a season or two ago.
It's like Happy Days when Fonzie jumped a shark and that's when they gave the term to a show when a show jumped the shark where a show stayed on longer than expected but the show went down hill. There's alot of shows that ended to soon and then others that kept going or still keep going that should of ended. The Goldbergs now in its 10th or 11th season is one that should of ended a few years ago. Everything about that show is 1980 something when there's even 1990 references in the show. Then you have shows like modern Family and the big bang theory that lasted along time that stayed pretty much funny the whole time.
There were 90s references when Adam F. Goldberg was producing.
Remember it was MTM that decided the show. had run it’s course and to end it, not the network. I think in later interviews she said she should have continued the show for another year.
They show reruns of MTM show on Decades and it is available to stream on Hulu and Amazon Prime
Thanks! But I don’t subscribe to any of those.
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The original Star Trek episode 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?' freaked me out when I saw it at age 5(in reruns, around 1978). That episode had Kirk being captured and strapped to a giant centrifuge, as his personality was used for an android copy, which was formed from a blob-like mass in a mould next to Kirk.
The centrifuge spun with a piercing, grating, whining motor sound effect.
The centrifuge spun with a piercing, grating, whining motor sound effect.
80s. There are still 80s references but the stories are no longer true. He left after Season 6 and they stopped doing the home movies and dedications after Season 8 and now his name isn’t even on the opening credits as of this season. They don’t even want his input. The last episode he wrote was in Season 8. He has said he even regrets doing the show now which I think is taking it a little too far because at one time it was a lot better. But I still want ABC to announce a final season ahead of time.
I didn't like the episode of Breaking Bad where they killed the young boy in the desert simply because he saw what they were up to. I did watch the rest of the series, but that was where Walter White crossed the line into being a special kind of evil.
The "fly" episode was virtually unwatchable.
This said, I binge-watched the entire series, sometimes spending several hours a day until I'd finished it all. We were beginning homeschool in a few weeks, and I wanted to get the entire series in before we started. And I'm not one to binge-watch anything. I'd heard of the show, but didn't know what it was about until I learned of it, of all places, in church one Sunday when the pastor talked about it, as an example of how someone can go from being a basically good person to becoming an evil one.
The "fly" episode was virtually unwatchable.
This said, I binge-watched the entire series, sometimes spending several hours a day until I'd finished it all. We were beginning homeschool in a few weeks, and I wanted to get the entire series in before we started. And I'm not one to binge-watch anything. I'd heard of the show, but didn't know what it was about until I learned of it, of all places, in church one Sunday when the pastor talked about it, as an example of how someone can go from being a basically good person to becoming an evil one.
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