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I wonder If they Will Have the Non-Rerun DVDs

posted 17 years ago by Smile_U_SOB
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I don't know who's gonna buy the non Rerun DVDs. Look at the DVD cover, it's got ReRun shown predominatly, and the others tucked away in the back.

Rerun is sort of the mascot of the entire series.

I'm really surprised tho that this show - which I recall never being that popular - lasted two more seasons without Rerun, and that it lasted as long as the original.

Because everyone remembers the original, and no one hardly knows about this one.

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[–] sweet1310452 17 years ago

Probably because it was in syndication and the ratings weren't really an issue. Also they probably contracted it for 3 seasons. Ann Marie Johnson went from this show right into In the Heat of the Night so she and everyone else who worked on the series probably knew it was going to only run 3 years. The original show was still doing well in the ratings after 3 seasons but the actors wanted too much money- to me it's just as well that it ended in 1979- the show was starting to look like it was going south- much better that they took a break and came back for a second run- in the end they got 6 full years - I can't imagine what this would have been like if they'd gone straight into 1982.

[–] prettyD2368 13 years ago

The show acutually did pretty well in syndication during it's first season. I believe the ratings were good in the first season, it was just after Small Wonder and before Fame in the ratings for the 1985-86 season. That could be the reason why they let the show go on for three years. Not every show in syndication lasted long, just because they weren't on network TV. Punky Brewster was cancelled a year after it went in to first run syndication. And She's The Sheriff was cancelled after two years, and is way more forgotten about than What's Happening Now. Although South Park made fun of that show.