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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 258506" data-attributes="member: 673"><p style="text-align: center"><strong>Hotel Story - 1977</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://televisionau.com/wp-content/uploads/atv0_hotelstory.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>With <em>Number 96</em> and <em>The Box</em> on their way out, Channel Ten was on the lookout for a replacement soap. None of Cash Harmon's proposed <em>96</em> spinoffs were going anywhere fast, so they turned to Crawford Productions who offered up <em>Hotel Story</em>. It was envisaged as taking over <em>The Box's</em> soon to be vacated timeslot, allowing for continued sex and sin, this time in a luxury hotel. Terence Donovan would play the manager while Carmen Duncan and US actor Richard Lawson (current Mr Tina Knowles, former Mr Dominique Devereaux) were among the regular cast. Guest stars would pop in each week to play out episodic stories that would run alongside the serialised shenanigans of the regular cast. Kind of like a more soapy version of what was to come in <em>The Love Boat</em> and <em>Hotel</em>. A pilot was made in late 1976 but when production on the regular series (due to air twice a week for an initial thirteen weeks) began in May 1977, that was when the proverbial hit the fan. The network decided that the sex angle was out, as were a lot of the guest performers as a result of the change in tone. Actors Equity were making a fuss over the fact that Richard Lawson was getting paid a lot more than the Aussie actors. Even with the changes, the network didn't like what they saw and after only seven episodes were produced and before any made it to air, they pulled the plug with an angry cast initially only finding out about it via the newspapers. The press got further mileage out of it by reporting that gameshow host Graham Kennedy of Ten's hit <em>Blankety Blanks</em> had a hand in it's axing (Ten denied this, although they stated that he was a network consultant). With their axed show getting more column inches by the day, Ten ran full page ads in Melbourne and rushed out what episodes they had in order to capitalise on the coverage of the disaster. While it aired in Melbourne in July, it didn't see the light of day in Sydney until December 1977, when they put out six episodes over two weeks. Unperturbed by the whole car crash, Crawford and Ten later would later revisit the idea when they produced <em>Holiday Island</em> in 1981 (more on this later).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 258506, member: 673"] [CENTER][B]Hotel Story - 1977[/B] [IMG]https://televisionau.com/wp-content/uploads/atv0_hotelstory.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] With [I]Number 96[/I] and [I]The Box[/I] on their way out, Channel Ten was on the lookout for a replacement soap. None of Cash Harmon's proposed [I]96[/I] spinoffs were going anywhere fast, so they turned to Crawford Productions who offered up [I]Hotel Story[/I]. It was envisaged as taking over [I]The Box's[/I] soon to be vacated timeslot, allowing for continued sex and sin, this time in a luxury hotel. Terence Donovan would play the manager while Carmen Duncan and US actor Richard Lawson (current Mr Tina Knowles, former Mr Dominique Devereaux) were among the regular cast. Guest stars would pop in each week to play out episodic stories that would run alongside the serialised shenanigans of the regular cast. Kind of like a more soapy version of what was to come in [I]The Love Boat[/I] and [I]Hotel[/I]. A pilot was made in late 1976 but when production on the regular series (due to air twice a week for an initial thirteen weeks) began in May 1977, that was when the proverbial hit the fan. The network decided that the sex angle was out, as were a lot of the guest performers as a result of the change in tone. Actors Equity were making a fuss over the fact that Richard Lawson was getting paid a lot more than the Aussie actors. Even with the changes, the network didn't like what they saw and after only seven episodes were produced and before any made it to air, they pulled the plug with an angry cast initially only finding out about it via the newspapers. The press got further mileage out of it by reporting that gameshow host Graham Kennedy of Ten's hit [I]Blankety Blanks[/I] had a hand in it's axing (Ten denied this, although they stated that he was a network consultant). With their axed show getting more column inches by the day, Ten ran full page ads in Melbourne and rushed out what episodes they had in order to capitalise on the coverage of the disaster. While it aired in Melbourne in July, it didn't see the light of day in Sydney until December 1977, when they put out six episodes over two weeks. Unperturbed by the whole car crash, Crawford and Ten later would later revisit the idea when they produced [I]Holiday Island[/I] in 1981 (more on this later). [/QUOTE]
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