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<blockquote data-quote="AndyB2008" data-source="post: 309504" data-attributes="member: 26097">LA Law, which aired on NBC too, outlived The Golden Girls show by two years, ending in 1994.Although by 1992, the series was on last legs. ITV dropped the show, with Sky One airing the last 2 seasons, and Jimmy Smits, Susan Dey and Harry Hamlin were gone.Not to mention it did a Knots Landing midway for Season 7 - Mark Tinker and John Masius came in as new showrunners, and made it similar to their own St Elsewhere. The first episode of S7 featured Dan Castellaneta, dressed and voiced as Homer Simpson (yes really), juxtaposed with the LA Riots where Stuart Markowitz was injured.Anyway, the ratings were so bad for S7 that production was shut down midway (gather NBC saw the ratings and ordered 20th Television to make changes), Tinker and Masius were gone and in came William M Finklestein, who returned the show to the original premise. And the ratings recovered for NBC to give it a 8th and final season.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AndyB2008, post: 309504, member: 26097"] LA Law, which aired on NBC too, outlived The Golden Girls show by two years, ending in 1994. Although by 1992, the series was on last legs. ITV dropped the show, with Sky One airing the last 2 seasons, and Jimmy Smits, Susan Dey and Harry Hamlin were gone. Not to mention it did a Knots Landing midway for Season 7 - Mark Tinker and John Masius came in as new showrunners, and made it similar to their own St Elsewhere. The first episode of S7 featured Dan Castellaneta, dressed and voiced as Homer Simpson (yes really), juxtaposed with the LA Riots where Stuart Markowitz was injured. Anyway, the ratings were so bad for S7 that production was shut down midway (gather NBC saw the ratings and ordered 20th Television to make changes), Tinker and Masius were gone and in came William M Finklestein, who returned the show to the original premise. And the ratings recovered for NBC to give it a 8th and final season. [/QUOTE]

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