It would've sold if Drew had been CBS's attempt to make Drew Carey as Nancy Drew.

Fox actually wanted two clip shows per season to pad out the episode order, since it was their biggest show and more episodes = more ad money.

After the second clip show, the producers told 'em to forget it.

"A stupid concept the Anime dorks came up with that is misapplied to 99% of what people say it is."

I will say an old clip show actually is filler, because that was its purpose... it filled the slot when time and budgets were tight and an episode was contracted to be delivered.

But that's about it.

That's former Facts of Life castmember George Clooney in 1990!

I prefer to think The UK is just a bunch of charming little towns with a fresh murder every week.

Damn.

Post-mask and post-Woman.

Won't help.

He's wheeled now.

You don't ask for more Tony Danza, you just accept it when offered and hold it closer.

He was born with spina bifida, fell off a bull during a rodeo, and in '51, fell during a hunting trip which started the latest round of back problems that led to his going off the rails with booze and pills in '52 and culminated in his OD on New Year's Eve of '53.

Wrist watch. Crisco.

And Blansky's Beauties.

Two separate shows.

Classic Who was 26 seasons from 1963 to 1989.

The current show finished up season 13 a year or so back, and began in 2005. So maybe technically a spin off itself. But not the same show.

They didn't continue it with season 27 in '05, it was a new show.

None of which have outlived their parent show, which only began in 2005 anyway.

Fair point.

Length of time?

From the beginning of Cheers to the end of Frasier was 22 years.

If you're not counting the Treks and Law and Orders since none of them are true spin-offs as you identify them, just shared universes based on a single show, Cheers and Frasier probably wins that stat.

He may only be Duke Bronze at this point.

The Village People weren't even put together until 1977, so I doubt this is 1976 unless the Leather Guy owned a TARDIS.

Hundreds of hours of "Female executive from a small town who moved to the big city to advance her career comes back to her small town for the first time in years for reasons, meets a charming widower and his precocious tween daughter, and learns that love and family mean more than a successful career" coming soon to The Cock.

One person got a lot of internet points for posting one, now everybody's piling on.

PBS, a non-commercial network, uses edited versions of British shows that cut around 8-10 minutes of content instead of just airing the 58 minute shows.

Explain that.

It would not have went 11 years had she stayed.

The writers have said since that their idea for the show would have been to follow Sam and Diane's married life, focus less on the bar, and add in BAAAAYYYYYBBBBBEEEEEESSSSSS!!!

Sounds like they would've been lucky to make it to season 8.

Hourlong shows in the 50s and 60s were roughly 50 minutes with 10 minutes of commercials. They were cut down to 48 in the 70s. Then 46, then 44, then they landed at the current 40-42 somewhere in the last decade.

It is said that when he died, it was on the set of his new show, he grabbed his chest having a heart attack, and people thought he was just trying to get laughs by doing his Fred Sanford bit.

Shortly after Hammer Pants.

If you're looking at it with modern cerealized pressteege TV sensibilities and expecting every second to inform some grander plot, well, that's not happening. There's no universal threat that will be defeated at season's end or big bad. It's the lives of The Sopranos and their associates. Not everything will be resolved, not everything matters.