May 5, 1997
The final episode of The Jeff Foxworthy Show aired.
The first series aired on ABC during
the 1995-1996 season, but was cancelled after one season. NBC picked up the show for the following season, but it
was again cancelled after one season. In the first series, thinking his routine
was "too Southern" for
a national network, they based his sitcom in Bloomington, Indiana.
Jay Mohr and Bob Saget made regular or cameo appearances, as did country
singers Tim McGraw and Travis
Tritt.
When the show moved to NBC, in addition to the
casting changes, the show's production changed. In the first series, the show
was recorded on tape; the second season was shot on film. In the second series,
the show was set in a fictitious town in Georgia, based on his hometown in the
South, and the series was given a redesigned opening and theme.
Haley
Joel Osment was the only other actor besides
Foxworthy to make the move to NBC with the series, and Jeff's wife Karen was
the only character that carried over with Jeff and Matt. Jonathan
Lipnicki was added to the cast as the
Foxworthys' other son Justin.
May 7, 1947
Kraft
Television Theater
premiered on NBC.
Initially produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising
agency, the live hour-long series offered television plays with new stories and
new characters each week, in addition to adaptations of such classics
as A Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland.
The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza,
currently the home of Saturday Night Live.
Beginning October 1953, ABC added
a separate series (also titled Kraft Television Theatre), created
to promote Kraft's new Cheez Whiz product. This series ran for sixteen months, telecast
on Thursday evenings at 9:30pm, until January 1955. After Kraft cancelled the
second show, the second show changed its sponsor to become Pond's
Theatre on ABC-TV from March 1955, while the
original Kraft Theatre continued on NBC-TV.
May 7, 1987
Shelly Long, as Diane Chambers, made her
last appearance as a regular on the TV show Cheers.
In December
1986, Long decided to leave Cheers for a movie career and
family; she said that she and Danson had "done some really terrific work
at Cheers". Her decision was so surprising that it became
national news and greatly worried the show's cast and crew, who believed that
the Sam-Diane relationship was fundamental to Cheers'success.
In February 1987, the creators
decided to find a female lead replacement who did not resemble Shelley
Long. During production of "I Do, Adieu," the producers
developed ideas to separate Sam and Diane. Many ideas of writing out Diane were
attempted, but they decided she would leave Boston for a writing career. James
Burrows said they intended Cheers to be a comedy about comedy
set in the bar, but the "Sam and Diane" romance predominated the show
for five years and would have made the bar a minor role and less relevant if
Long had not left the show in 1987. When Long decided to leave Cheers,
producers made plans to revise the show without losing its initial premise;
they credited Long's departure for saving the series from cancellation.
May 5, 1997
The final episode of The Jeff Foxworthy Show aired.
The first series aired on ABC during the 1995-1996 season, but was cancelled after one season. NBC picked up the show for the following season, but it was again cancelled after one season. In the first series, thinking his routine was "too Southern" for a national network, they based his sitcom in Bloomington, Indiana.
Jay Mohr and Bob Saget made regular or cameo appearances, as did country
singers Tim McGraw and Travis
Tritt.
When the show moved to NBC, in addition to the
casting changes, the show's production changed. In the first series, the show
was recorded on tape; the second season was shot on film. In the second series,
the show was set in a fictitious town in Georgia, based on his hometown in the
South, and the series was given a redesigned opening and theme.
May 7, 1947
Kraft Television Theater premiered on NBC.
Initially produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, the live hour-long series offered television plays with new stories and new characters each week, in addition to adaptations of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland. The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, currently the home of Saturday Night Live.
Beginning October 1953, ABC added
a separate series (also titled Kraft Television Theatre), created
to promote Kraft's new Cheez Whiz product. This series ran for sixteen months, telecast
on Thursday evenings at 9:30pm, until January 1955. After Kraft cancelled the
second show, the second show changed its sponsor to become Pond's
Theatre on ABC-TV from March 1955, while the
original Kraft Theatre continued on NBC-TV.
Shelly Long, as Diane Chambers, made her
last appearance as a regular on the TV show Cheers.
In December 1986, Long decided to leave Cheers for a movie career and family; she said that she and Danson had "done some really terrific work at Cheers". Her decision was so surprising that it became national news and greatly worried the show's cast and crew, who believed that the Sam-Diane relationship was fundamental to Cheers'success.
In February 1987, the creators
decided to find a female lead replacement who did not resemble Shelley
Long. During production of "I Do, Adieu," the producers
developed ideas to separate Sam and Diane. Many ideas of writing out Diane were
attempted, but they decided she would leave Boston for a writing career. James
Burrows said they intended Cheers to be a comedy about comedy
set in the bar, but the "Sam and Diane" romance predominated the show
for five years and would have made the bar a minor role and less relevant if
Long had not left the show in 1987. When Long decided to leave Cheers,
producers made plans to revise the show without losing its initial premise;
they credited Long's departure for saving the series from cancellation.
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Tony Figueroa
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