The show was the best with Rorke and Tattoo - not so without Tattoo

I disliked the show when Tattoo started getting phased out in the early 80's because what made the show good was Mr Rorke and Tattoo playing off each other. In 81 they brought in an annoying girl named Julie who sometimes replaced Tattoo as Rorke's assistant - I hated Wendy Schaal(She can't act and only reason she got roles was because her Dad was an actor) When Villechaize got fired in 83 for supposedly being difficult and demanding the same money as Montalban , they brought in the character of Lawrence who dressed in black which was the opposite of Rorke- this definitely pissed off people even more(me included) and IMO they should have cancelled it after Villechaize got fired because Rorke without Tattoo was like a cake without frosting ,dry and bland - Montalban's Rorke was not the same without Tattoo and it showed - he became more stiff and wooden and the fun of his and Tatoo's repotoire was gone forever. As for Lawrence, his character was even more annoying and boring than Julie's. He was like this gay closeted English butler who Rorke probably banged when he got tired of all the floozies in skirts. I think the 83-84 season with Lawrence(Christopher Hewitt) was the worst - the last gasp of what was once a hit show.