Shows that had lousy final seasons

[mstewart]

The Cosby Show - Not all the Huxtable kids were not in every episode and Denise was gone. Lisa Bonet was the heart and soul of the show.

The Jeffersons - The show was showing its age in that season in a very bad way.

Alice - The show got so bad that they shortened the final season episodes. Had the potential of going down as a classic show of the 70s.

Three's Company - The misunderstanding gag wore its welcome out and the show began to look tired and stale.

One Day At A Time - After MacKenzie Phillips went back on drugs the show was no good after that. They ran out of storylines and as Bonnie Franklin stated that season everyone was tired and wanting to move on. You can see it in their acting that year.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - That particular wasn't bad but it wasn't the best. If the show had gone on one more season it would had been a lame one. Moore was smart to pull the plug and not let it drag on.

Happy Days - The show was never the same after the heart and soul of it was gone, Ron Howard, and it was showing its age. The hairstyles was more current and the clothes as well.

Laverne and Shirley - No Shirley and Cindy Williams was the backbone of the show.

Petticoat Junction - The plug should had been pulled after Bea Benaderet passed away. They dragged the show on by not addressing her death at all given she was the star of the show. They acted as though she never existed. June Lockhart, good as an actress she is, was not a good replacement for Bea.

Facts of Life - With no Mrs. Garrett the show was no good.

All In the Family - They should had ended after Mike and Gloria moved. After Stephanie moved in the show had a different feel altogether even though it was still All In the Family.

Bewitched - We all knew what happened in the final season

Coach - That show had all the potential of going down as a classic. The quality and scripts were not the same. That was a show that stayed on one season too long.

Full House - A great family show should had known when to pull the plug. The final season was not funny to watch. It was a bad as the first season.

The Carol Burnett Show - After Harvey Korman left Carol should had pulled the plug. Dragging the show on and replacing Harvey with Dick Van Dyke was a bad move. It was a slap in the face to him and his fans. He lasted about six shows, if that many.

[spunkygirl]

Full House

Family Matters

Cheers

Seinfeld

The Cosby Show

[Superstar]

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by mstewart
Facts of Life - With no Mrs. Garrett the show was no good.

I disagree with that personally. Tho I didn't like season 9.

I thought Cloris joining the cast in season eight breathed new life into the series, which IMO had slipped a bit in seasons six and seven, although by all means the show should've wrapped at the end of season eight when Blair and Jo finished college.

[Dean Winchester]

Cosby Show - not enough Huxtables, too much Olivia (why didn't she leave when Denise did?) and Pam

Ally McBeal - the show started it's downward spiral about 75% into season three when the character of Billy suddenly died. Season four was decent enough to keep the show watchable but it was all shot to hell in season 5 (the final season). First Lucy Liu left, then Julianne Nicholson joined as a "mini-me" Ally type, and then James Marsden and another actor came in, expecting to replace the voids left by Robert Downey Jr. But even then it was still tolerable... but it hit the fan when suddenly out of nowhere came... ALLY'S DAUGHTER!!! We were supposed to buy this strange situation that 11 years earlier Ally donated eggs to a sperm doner or something... but she never was pregnant. This was where I stopped the bus and left... and less than 2 months later, Fox cancelled it.

[James]

The Waltons - Ralph Waite/John left the show as Michael Learned/Olivia did the previous year, leaving the Walton children without both (biological) parents.

The Wonder Years - The emergence of new friends of Kevin's (namely Chuck Coleman and Ricky Holsenbach) pushed Paul Pfeiffer out of the picture. Plus, Episode #99, "White Lies," took Kevin's relationship with Winnie in a never seen before direction. If the show had returned for a seventh season it would have rebounded bigtime; I believe the writers left to do the Roseanne spinoff The Jackie Thomas Show. TJTS was canceled after its one season in 1993, just like TWY, and I think with the original writers could have pushed TWY to #1 in the Neilsens had ABC had their thinking cap on and renewed it so we could see Kevin and his friends graduate. (Didn't Coach go from like #95 to #20 in one season?) Now ABC often finds itself behind Fox in the ratings, which serves them right. :rolleyes:

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by James
The Wonder Years - The emergence of new friends of Kevin's (namely Chuck Coleman and Ricky Holsenbach) pushed Paul Pfeiffer out of the picture. Plus, Episode #99, "White Lies," took Kevin's relationship with Winnie in a never seen before direction. If the show had returned for a seventh season it would have rebounded bigtime; I believe the writers left to do the Roseanne spinoff The Jackie Thomas Show. TJTS was canceled after its one season in 1993, just like TWY, and I think with the original writers could have pushed TWY to #1 in the Neilsens had ABC had their thinking cap on and renewed it so we could see Kevin and his friends graduate. Now ABC often finds itself behind Fox in the ratings. :rolleyes:

you've said this a lot of times... but why would ABC have renewed it for another season? The show didn't end because the cast was ready to move on to other projects, it was cancelled because it was ranking in the 50's and 60's when it was a top 10 series a few years earlier.

[Superstar]

I'll also add Friends to that, alot of season 10 didn't have the same charm and humor as the last 9

[Brian Damage]

What's Happening- The 3rd and final season was not that good. Too many changes hurt the dynamic of the show.

[I am Roboto]

Roseanne - It just wasn't the type of season you want one of your favorite shows to end on. Whether you like it or not, it's not at all in line with the rest of the series.

Archie Bunker's Place - Horrible way to send off a veteran show of that age.

[EmoJoe]

The Facts of Life
Full House (The final season wasnt that bad, but it wasnt the best either)
The Cosby Show
I Love Lucy
Bewitched
Happy Days

[combsisthebest]

The Facts of Life
Family Matters

[barwars]

Originally posted by Angela Micelli
Cheers

Which is ironic.... because Season 11 was the best of the series IMO.

[snl fan]

night court the last season was just plain stupid also empty nest

[vashti1999]

Boy Meets World

[gOoSe]

Originally posted by vashti1999
Boy Meets World

yes and no,IMO, it began pretty awful but once they got married it really gave them a closing and i think THAT was the season that showed they were really becoming adults.. but that's just my opinion

[Classic TV Fanatic]

The Andy Griffith Show
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley (i.e. Laverne)

[storrs19]

My Three Sons - the last season was just awful (remember the
Laird McDouglas farce??)

Petticoat Junction - should have ended after Bea Benaderet died.

Bewitched - should have ended when Dick York left.

All In The Family - The last season with Stephanie was just awful.

Sanford & Son - The last season just wasn't that funny and Lamont was stoned on cocaine most of the time and just seemed to stand there and look stupid with those sunglasses on in the house. Plus, the Hawaiian caper and Lamont's engagement to Janet were really boring.

What's Happening - without Mabel King it just wasn't as funny.

Different Stokes - Didn't like the addition of Sam or Maggie, but the last season really was lame. I mean, Maggie was supposed to be from the south (her ex husband was played by Hoyt Axton) and Mary Anne Mobley just didn't fit that image.

Facts Of Life - should have ended when Charlotte McRae left.
(should be Charlotte Rae, but for some reason I had Merideth McRae from Petticoat Junction on my mind and the two crossed over) :lol:

227 - With Jackee Harry in only 7 out of 24 episodes, it just wasn't that funny anymore, plus the other 3 regulars they added (Stoney Jackson, Barry Sodel, Tookie Smith) were just not funny.

Not a sitcom, I know, but the Twilight Zone - went downhill after season 3 when they went to hour long episodes and just wasn't as good in season 5 (the last one) even back at 1/2 hour ones

[spunkygirl]

Originally posted by barwars
Which is ironic.... because Season 11 was the best of the series IMO.

Really? I don't get what all the hype was about Season 11, I watched it and there was nothing really special about it. Same old, same old as usual. The Series finale was the best of Season 11 though :)

[barwars]

Originally posted by Angela Micelli
Really? I don't get what all the hype was about Season 11, I watched it and there was nothing really special about it. Same old, same old as usual. The Series finale was the best of Season 11 though :)

I loved the whole Frasier/Lilith breakup storyline.... and the bar burning down.
And to add to it all, the cast seemed perfectly comfortable with eachother. I mean -- the chemistry was great throughout it all, but I found it to be top notch in Season 11. They knew it was the end, and I thought they made it the funniest.
Just something about it worked perfectly.
The best of the best, IMO.

[Brian]

Chico and the Man had a horrific final season. They should have just ended it after Freddie Prinze's suicide. The kid wasn't all that great and Charo got a little tiring with all her shaking of her hips and saying, "cuchi-cuchi." :barf: I like to pretend that the 4th season never existed, even though in reality that is not the case.

[dawsongirl]

I Love Lucy. Connecticut...boring. Plus Lucy and Desi's marriage woes were starting to show on screen.

Full House. All Michelle, All the Time!! GAG. No wonder John Stamos looked like he didn't want to be there half the time.

Saved by the Bell. Jessie and Kelly mysteriously disappear and Tori comes! Yay....not. Thankfully, Jessie and Kelly came back in time for graduation.

Route 66. No Buz. He was a great character and he and Tod were a great pair. Linc, his replacement, was boring.

[treky]

Ellen-when she "came out of the closet" and almost EVERY SINGLE EPISODE was about the fact that she's gay. I mean, C'MON! Being gay isn't somebodys religon!

[treky]

MASH-by that time,it was always "Oh, we're doctors; and we're so good; and so this-that-and-the-other; and death is such a bummer!"

[Moonlight Lady]

Welcome Back Kotter: No Barbarino, No Kotter, Horshack married, Beau DeLeBarre.

Laverne and Shirley: No Shirley, No Lenny

[Rene]

buffy-that was such a good show until the last season there are too many problems to list so ill just say 5

1.KENNEDY
2.POTENTIAL SLAYERS
3.SPIKE BEING MR.CUDDLY NICE BEAR
4.THE LAST EPISODE
5.THE WRITING

sorry for writing in caps im not yelling! :)

[APPLEI]

DIFFERENT STROKES(should never have happen)
LAVERNE AND "SHIRLEY"(should never have happen)
happy days(jumped the shark when ron howard quit,but the last season was especially bad)
roseanne(one of the worst mistakes ever made on a sitcom)
chico and the man(should never have happen)
head of the class(not the same without howard hesseman)
facts of life(jumped the shark when ednas edibles burned down)
one day at a time(a downer)
alice(a few seasons too many)
sanford and son(one season too many)
welcome back kotter(new producers ruined the show)
the wonder years(by that time the show had lost all its charm that
made the earlier episodes classics)
growing pains(the humor was gone,the boredom was in)

for the record i enjoyed the last season of I LOVE LUCY!
the worst season of i love lucy is the third season(1953-54)