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Jeremy and Candy

posted 15 years ago by ctfan79
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How come they never got married on the show?

[–] ggiroux3 15 years ago

They were about to get married in season 2, but then her parents died and her very young brother & sister came to live with her. She wanted to focus on raising them for awhile before raising her own kids in a marriage.

[–] bjlevine 14 years ago

And that was pretty much the end of the show. Adding in kid characters is nearly always a bad idea.

[–] MadTom 13 years ago

For whatever it's worth, there's a Star Trek novel titled Ishmael by Barbara Hambly which is actually an HCTB crossover (a nod to Mark Lenard who played Spock's father), where Spock ends up time-traveling back to the HCTB universe with amnesia and is taken in by Aaron Stempel. Jeremy and Candy turn up prominently in the novel.

Spoilers for the novel:
Jeremy and Candy get married in the novel, and in the end Aaron and Biddy Cloom get married as well. After Spock regains his memory and returns to the 23rd Century, he learns that through his mother (a human from Seattle, for those unfamiliar with the Trek universe), he is a descendant of Aaron and Biddy.

[–] bjlevine 13 years ago

While I like the weird Aaron Stempel-Spock tie-in, that's the biggest problem with these kind of books. There is no way Aaron and Biddy would ever get married (wasn't she interested in Corky, anyway?).

Personally, I think Ann would be more of Aaron's type anyway. And he was the wealthiest man in town.

[–] PaulJ7460 12 years ago

Wasn't there an episode when Candy's younger brother and sister run away or something? I only saw this episode once in its original airing and I remember they played some sort of "juvenille" music when they were shown. For some reason, it has been sticking in my head all these years! It has to be a season two episode but from the titles without a synopsis, I can't detect it.

[–] maliburide 13 years ago

Because the writers wrote her young siblings into the script and virtually ended the courtship of Jeremy and Candy as we knew it that was loved by the audiences. It changed the whole dynamic that made fun to watch.

[–] nihilistwonder 13 years ago

After the introductory episode, they really didn't even do much with the younger Pruitts. They might as well have written in an aunt or uncle willing to take them out of the story altogether. Whose idea was that, I wonder?

Am I the only one who thinks that Candy/Bridget Hanley and Jason/Robert Brown had better screen chemistry going on than Hanley and Jeremy/Bobby Sherman? IMO, Hanley and Brown interacted more believably and fittingly than Hanley ever did with Sherman, even after the Jeremy character was further developed to have more confidence and less stuttering.

Would make a neat fan-fiction anyway, which I would write myself if I still had the energy for such things.

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[–] bjlevine 13 years ago

Candy was difinitely too old for Jeremy.

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[–] kangaroopawdesigns 13 years ago

They did. I am sure you are aware that the actors that played Candy and Jason were buddies off screen. I think that friendship probably came through when they were playing their roles.
Funny, I would bet that the people who were responsible for this series, as well as many other classic shows, never in their wildest dreams could have imagined the world of dvds and dvrs, where you can watch and re-watch these shows over and over again and actually analyze behaviours, scenes, storylines, etc. When this series originally aired, I saw the original episodes as they aired and then it was off to bed-it was past my bedtime (LOL) but I convinced my parents to let me stay up to watch it! I believed everything that happened was how it was... and now today as I watch the dvd I am picking up on subtle and not-so-subtle things....i.e., the actors cracking up during a scene with Ed Asner in the episode about an arsonist in the community; the hairpieces the actresses wore that were clearly not even the same color as their hair; the obvious stunt double for Bobby Sherman in almost every episode where he fights or falls down or something.
If this series had been filmed in today's world, fan sentiment would have demanded a wedding for Jeremy and Candy as closure to the series. Even if the series would have been cancelled before it could take place, internet demand alone would have most likely forced the producers to make a TV movie that would have put a bow on the whole thing. Or the show would have been sold to another network or cable outlet to breathe new life into it. Back then, I think studios moved on and fans didn't have the outlets they do today.
Overall, it was a charming series with fun and quirky characters, and was well acted with storylines that still resonate in today's world. Of course it's also fun to see actors who went on to bigger careers in guest roles, like Cicely Tyson, Ed Asner, Lynda Day George, Daniel Travanti, etc..
This show is something you can watch with kids and not worry about inappropriate behaviour or language. What a concept! Still love it!