 This is the SF Productions podcast network Wonderful TV year 1979 from the pop culture bunker. I'm Mindy and I'm Mark You can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife to read comics on iTunes or on our website SF podcast dot com So I've mentioned in the past that I've collected TV guide fall preview issues over the years basically from early teenage years to the point when it became an entertainment weekly clone Yeah, when it got bigger than this. Yes. Yes. So there's the there's the 1979 issue Special issue and thought it would be fun to talk about which shows made it which didn't and which we actually watched Okay, and I again want to give credit to Ken reads TV guidance counselor podcast for this idea The 1979 fall TV preview had a few hits and many failures, which is generally what happens And we begin with Saturday night and working stiffs on CVS You'd think this would be a success because it had Jim Belushi and Michael Keaton in it, right? It's about janitors in an apartment building Four episodes of the nine episodes actually aired. So somewhere out there. There's either a DVD or Or sitting in a ball the other five episodes of working stiffs that never air on YouTube You never know could be or Hulu for for all I know now I think later on there like maybe 20 years later. There was another show called working stiffs Oh, I'm sure there was that's a very generic thing was what I thought of when I saw this one I don't think I ever saw this one. Yeah, it went a hard to catch because it was on for four weeks We also had big shameless little shameless on CBS Which was a casino detective in New Jersey with a son and Brian Dennehy was the lead on I can tell you I would never have watched that in six episodes aired of that One that did slightly better heart-to-heart on ABC Because when they meant it was moita. No, I was a big heart-to-heart fan Of course, this is Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers ran for five seasons. Yes This was a big hit and they ended up doing like TV movies of it later. Yeah, I'm surprised that hasn't been remade I'm really shocked that hasn't been remade at this point. I could see it as a movie with No, yeah Paris on CBS who leads a team of police detectives? James Earl Jones was the lead actually an early Steven Bochko production and it only lasted 13 episodes 13 episodes and then a man called Sloan on NBC about a Freelance spy, so it's like hey he's a spy stuff Robert Conrad was the was the lead on this lasted 12 episodes. So, yeah, no, I didn't watch that Moving to Sunday We have out of the blue on ABC about an angel in training assigned to a family with Jimmy Bergen and Dixie Carter later, of course to be on Designing Women This was kind of a spinoff of happy days And the reason they say kind of is because the same character appeared in an episode the week after the first episode of this aired So it's more of a cross promotion than a spinoff. Okay. Yeah, but it also had a Mork and Mindy crossover, but it only lasted 13 episodes. They really wanted it to work This was gonna work darn it. They were gonna make people watch this and it didn't happen a New kind of family on ABC two single mothers moving together with their kids and Rob Lowe was one of the kids Yeah, oh, he must have been a baby. Yeah Yeah, he probably was a teenager maybe at that point With also Eileen Brennan was one of the mothers the other mother. I didn't even recognize the name Okay, it was 11 episodes. That's all that lasted the associates on ABC a lawyer sitcom with Wilfred Hyde-White who you know as a much older British actor Martin Short before he became Manic yeah, he's acting and Joe Wreckal Buto who would later be on Murphy Brown as the investigative reporter with the balding Okay, James L. Brooks was the creator of this show. It only lasted 13 episodes Mm-hmm Trapper John MD on CBS. This was the mash spinoff that moved it to what was then current times It's an older much older Trapper John right who worked and basically at this hospital. Yeah, and it was nominated for six Emmys Pranell Roberts and Gregory Harrison starred ran for seven seasons Monday 240 Robert on ABC about an emergency rescue team This was not a Jack Webb production Which is what I assumed it was and it's not the spin-off that Mark Harmon appeared in from the emergency Which was the pet rescue right? But it does have a young Mark Harmon and Joanna Cassidy ran for 16 episodes. I have to see if that's available anywhere Oh, I bet it is somewhere Moving to Tuesday California fever on CBS about young adults in Southern California Which included Lorenzo Lemus? That was probably just a little too early for its time. Yeah, yeah ten episodes The misadventures of Sheriff Lobo on NBC a bj and the bear spin-off Yeah, I actually I actually remember that. Yeah Start Claude Akin's ran two seasons. Okay, and there's a reason why I remember that. Yes, okay, because I have a Friend in if this was like yeah in high school. Yeah whose name was Bonnie It must have been Bonnie Jean or something and my name was Mindy Joe. Yeah, we would go by bj and MJ Now she would never do that but then Also, my other nickname was was grizzly or grizzly like the grizzly bear because of my last name Yeah, so bj and the bear was like something that was you know made for you. Yes That's why Moving on to nobody's perfect on ABC about a British detective in a San Francisco is a sitcom It was actually canceled by the time they printed this actually says in there that you know as of As of the printing time of this That's why as we went to press this show had been canceled But it ended up burning it off the next summer for eight episodes. Oh my gosh The Lazarus syndrome on ABC about a doctor fighting hospital bureaucracy with Lewis gossip junior which lasted all of five episodes we have Moving to Wednesday the last resort on CBS college students working in a hotel kitchen with no one you've ever heard of But it was an early Gary David Goldberg production who later went on to produce family ties 15 episodes Struck by lightning on CBS a teacher inherits a spooky in and turns out he's Frankenstein's Descendant with Jack Elam as Frankenstein was this at any point near the young Frankenstein movie maybe or something It's been several years later Well, in any case five episodes of that did not last very long From here to eternity NBC a soap based on the 1979 miniseries based on the 1953 movie With William Devane Kim Basinger and Don Johnson You don't boy that should just take it off 12 episodes Thursday Buck Rogers in the 25th century and NBC Gil Gerrard in the role. He was born to play With of course Aaron Gray and Tim O'Connor 32 episodes actually changed concept in the second season Because it was all on earth and then suddenly they were on a spaceship for the second season They changed a lot of the cast members. I did watch that. Yeah I Want to dance buff and Then we have Benson on ABC, of course the soap spinoff With Robert Guillaume and Renee a version wall and the recently departed James Noble who just passed away like last week as As we tape this of course read for seven season a huge hit for for ABC at the time It really wasn't a lot like soap though. No, it was much more a conventional sitcom. Oh, absolutely Then we move to Friday night and we have Shirley on NBC a Dramedy vehicle for Shirley Jones about a widow with three kids who moves to a small town One of the three kids is Roseanne Arquette And ran for all of 14 episodes and probably only lasted that long because of Shirley. Oh, absolutely Then finally on Friday night. I shied an NBC about a New York police detective with Joe Don Baker Mitchell Yeah, that ran all of 13 episodes So a lot of shows did not make it which is what how it always runs always runs But there were a couple that you know, I actually did watch I mean I watched Benson a little bit hard to heart hard to heart and But Roger, yeah, so there you go. So I mean a few hits out of that. Yeah I Think there's better television now. Well, yeah, we're in the plant of age today Peak TV too much TV. Okay, so if you're not watching TV You can check out our audio podcast how I got my way to read comics on iTunes or on our website SIPidcastnetwork.com from the pop culture bunker and I'm Mark. Thanks for watching