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<blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 401490" data-attributes="member: 57984">Oh, yes, it&#039;s a shift. But the Season 1 version of the opening theme is so very cusp-of-the-&#039;60s-and-&#039;70s. And I guess they didn&#039;t want to overdo it -- and, now a hit, they proclaim &quot;you&#039;re gonna make it after all!&quot; (I always want him to sing, &quot;Looks like you&#039;ve made it after all!&quot; for the seventh and final season -- but it only happens inside my head).&nbsp;Spoiler alert: he never reappears. Nor is he referred to again. There&#039;s a rumor that Jack Cassidy was offered the role of Ted Baxter but turned it down. I don&#039;t know if that&#039;s ever been verified. (As we&#039;ve mention, Jennifer Aniston&#039;s dad was in the running for Ted at one point, and they shifted the concept of the character once Knight came in). At the time, we made comparisons between Jack Cassidy and Ted Baxter, and then -- kapow! -- there was Cassidy. So this was a show that listened to nature. (Cassidy died in a housefire -- which he may or may not have caused himself -- in 1976. Odd, because seemalike actor, Dennis Patrick, who played DALLAS&#039; Vaughn Leland, died the same way).I don&#039;t know if this has been mentioned, but Richard Schaal was married to Valerie Harper at the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spooky Owl!, post: 401490, member: 57984"] Oh, yes, it's a shift. But the Season 1 version of the opening theme is so very cusp-of-the-'60s-and-'70s. And I guess they didn't want to overdo it -- and, now a hit, they proclaim "you're [B]gonna [/B]make it after all!" (I always want him to sing, "[B]Looks like [/B]you've made it after all!" for the seventh and final season -- but it only happens inside my head). Spoiler alert: he never reappears. Nor is he referred to again. There's a rumor that Jack Cassidy was offered the role of Ted Baxter but turned it down. I don't know if that's ever been verified. (As we've mention, Jennifer Aniston's dad was in the running for Ted at one point, and they shifted the concept of the character once Knight came in). At the time, we made comparisons between Jack Cassidy and Ted Baxter, and then -- [I][B]kapow![/B][/I] -- there was Cassidy. So this was a show that listened to nature. (Cassidy died in a housefire -- which he may or may not have caused himself -- in 1976. Odd, because seemalike actor, Dennis Patrick, who played DALLAS' Vaughn Leland, died the same way). I don't know if this has been mentioned, but Richard Schaal was married to Valerie Harper at the time. [/QUOTE]

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