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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 315725" data-attributes="member: 27">They&#039;d have to play/write it very carefully, though, because such &#039;disasters&#039; can come off as desperation (even if, occasionally, they are).&nbsp; Search for Tomorrow needed a similar shot in the arm in the mid-1980s, so they staged a flood that swept through their fictional town of Henderson.&nbsp; Though it was produced well and gave them a chance to re-set the plotlines of the show, critics jumped on it as a &quot;last-ditch effort to save the show from cancellation,&quot; and in fact it ended up getting the ax.&nbsp; They had not been doing well, but the only thing the Henderson Flood accomplished was getting people to talk....about how the show must be on its last legs.&nbsp; They blew a lot of money on the actual flooding scenes, then spent more to &quot;rebuild the town&quot; (new sets), too.&nbsp; B&amp;B could stage even more of a spectacle since they have so much more money to burn (hehe), and I have this vision of Susan Flannery sitting at home laughing as they stage their homage to her performance in The Towering Inferno.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 315725, member: 27"] They'd have to play/write it very carefully, though, because such 'disasters' can come off as desperation (even if, occasionally, they are). [I]Search for Tomorrow [/I]needed a similar shot in the arm in the mid-1980s, so they staged a flood that swept through their fictional town of Henderson. Though it was produced well and gave them a chance to re-set the plotlines of the show, critics jumped on it as a "last-ditch effort to save the show from cancellation," and in fact it ended up getting the ax. They had not been doing well, but the only thing the Henderson Flood accomplished was getting people to talk...[I].about how the show must be on its last legs[/I]. They blew a lot of money on the actual flooding scenes, then spent more to "rebuild the town" (new sets), too. B&B could stage even more of a spectacle since they have so much more money to burn (hehe), and I have this vision of Susan Flannery sitting at home laughing as they stage their homage to her performance in [I]The Towering Inferno[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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