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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 399763" data-attributes="member: 57984">Yes, that was a seemingly vile situation. Harper had a clause in her contract that allowed her to negotiate a raise a year or two into the series. But Lorimar had been taken over by cheapy Telepictures and they tried to deny her that raise. (I&#039;m sure there were other details).It got nasty. But what was most notable was that after Harper won her suit over VALERIE, the brass had their publicists spin the story in the press -- largely successfully -- to make it sound like she lost.&nbsp; Another strange situation. ABC wanted a MARY &amp; RHODA in the late-&#039;90s and they actually shot several episodes. Mary, whose sitcoms standards are fairly high, thought the episodes were acceptable, but ABC wanted every episode to be as good as the best of THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW.So they re-worked the project and started over with the MARY &amp; RHODA movie. It was wrong-headed and wasn&#039;t good, but it did fairly well in the ratings and ABC was again up for a Moore-Harper series, but Mary was so disgusted with the byzantine development process they&#039;d undergone with the network that she pulled away from it (although Valerie was still up for it).<img src="https://programminginsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/maryrhoda.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 767px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 399763, member: 57984"] Yes, that was a seemingly vile situation. Harper had a clause in her contract that allowed her to negotiate a raise a year or two into the series. But Lorimar had been taken over by cheapy Telepictures and they tried to deny her that raise. (I'm sure there were other details). It got nasty. But what was most notable was that after Harper [B]won [/B]her suit over VALERIE, the brass had their publicists spin the story in the press -- largely successfully -- to make it sound like she lost. Another strange situation. ABC wanted a MARY & RHODA in the late-'90s and they actually shot several episodes. Mary, whose sitcoms standards are fairly high, thought the episodes were acceptable, but ABC wanted every episode to be as good as the best of THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW. So they re-worked the project and started over with the MARY & RHODA movie. It was wrong-headed and wasn't good, but it did fairly well in the ratings and ABC was again up for a Moore-Harper series, but Mary was so disgusted with the byzantine development process they'd undergone with the network that she pulled away from it (although Valerie was still up for it). [IMG width="767px"]https://programminginsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/maryrhoda.jpeg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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