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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 406803" data-attributes="member: 23">Oh great. It&#039;ll be good to see her again. Oh my. That sounds very much like what happened with Dorothy on The Golden Girls originally being written as a &quot;Bea Arthur type&quot;. I&#039;m guessing the &quot;Betty White type&quot; at this time would have been the &quot;on-screen&quot; version of Sue Ann, as opposed to the more critical and difficult person Sue Ann became once the cameras stopped rolling. That&#039;s really nice. I had no idea. I&#039;d thought this might be the case given the huge gap between her first and second appearances. In that case I share your sentiment that we were lucky to have her for on the series for this long. As well as a sign of the series&#039; success, could the spinoff also be a sign of the times? When I think of some bigger hits of later decades (The Golden Girls, Friends, Will &amp; Grace), the main ensembles remained all the way through and there were no spinoffs during their original runs. It seemed to be recognised that there was strength in not spreading things too thin.I strongly suspect I&#039;ll end up feeling the same way. For that very reason I probably wouldn&#039;t have even registered her absence in the last couple of episodes of Season Four. Oh yipes. I must confess Gordie&#039;s absence hadn&#039;t actually registered with me until I read this. John Amos was off filming Good Times, no doubt. Now I think of it, this explains why one of the other regular newsroom background characters was upgraded to a speaking part in occasional S4 episodes (I forget his name, but he&#039;s got shoulder-length blonde-ish hair and looks not unlike Foggy from the Daredevil series).Good point. And I suppose it&#039;s good that there was no attempt to force in another Rhoda type. Since you&#039;ve persuaded me to watch the wedding episodes, I think it will be worth watching at least all the Rhoda episodes up to that point. Nine or ten episodes will be plenty to give me a feel for the series, so anything beyond that will depend on how much I enjoy the series and on the quality of the uploads. I&#039;m minded to do batches to save flipping between formats, and also because I&#039;m sure alternating between nicely mastered MTM DVDs and less-than-first-class uploads of Rhoda could be quite jarring, but I&#039;ll take your advice and go by transmission dates with the first episodes of each series and the episodes that might reference the wedding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 406803, member: 23"] Oh great. It'll be good to see her again. Oh my. That sounds very much like what happened with Dorothy on The Golden Girls originally being written as a "Bea Arthur type". I'm guessing the "Betty White type" at this time would have been the "on-screen" version of Sue Ann, as opposed to the more critical and difficult person Sue Ann became once the cameras stopped rolling. That's really nice. I had no idea. I'd thought this might be the case given the huge gap between her first and second appearances. In that case I share your sentiment that we were lucky to have her for on the series for this long. As well as a sign of the series' success, could the spinoff also be a sign of the times? When I think of some bigger hits of later decades ([I]The Golden Girls, Friends, Will & Grace[/I]), the main ensembles remained all the way through and there were no spinoffs during their original runs. It seemed to be recognised that there was strength in not spreading things too thin. I strongly suspect I'll end up feeling the same way. For that very reason I probably wouldn't have even registered her absence in the last couple of episodes of Season Four. Oh yipes. I must confess Gordie's absence hadn't actually registered with me until I read this. John Amos was off filming[I] Good Times[/I], no doubt. Now I think of it, this explains why one of the other regular newsroom background characters was upgraded to a speaking part in occasional S4 episodes (I forget his name, but he's got shoulder-length blonde-ish hair and looks not unlike Foggy from the [I]Daredevil[/I] series). Good point. And I suppose it's good that there was no attempt to force in another Rhoda type. Since you've persuaded me to watch the wedding episodes, I think it will be worth watching at least all the [I]Rhoda[/I] episodes up to that point. Nine or ten episodes will be plenty to give me a feel for the series, so anything beyond that will depend on how much I enjoy the series and on the quality of the uploads. I'm minded to do batches to save flipping between formats, and also because I'm sure alternating between nicely mastered [I]MTM[/I] DVDs and less-than-first-class uploads of [I]Rhoda[/I] could be quite jarring, but I'll take your advice and go by transmission dates with the first episodes of each series and the episodes that might reference the wedding. [/QUOTE]

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