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[Rezny@gmail.com]

The characters Louie and Angie Palucci?Because I remember seeing the Angie character in a season 4 episode,but not Louie.Beginning in season four I thought that Bernie Kopell(Louie)and Kaye Ballard(Angie)were dropped from the series.Did the characters get a divorce?What happened?

[treky]

I haven't seen the show in YEARS since it first aired on CBS in the late 60s/early to mid 70s; but from what I recall they just stopped showing them and never mentioned what happened to the characters.

[rcbrad]

Angie and Louie just vanished along with Billy and Toby :lol: (the format changed once again with no explanations given)

[McGillicuddy]

At the start of season 4, Billy & Toby, and the dog were gone, as well as Buck, the grandfather, Myrna, Mr. Nicholson and Ron Harvey, never refered to again. Only the neighbors, the Palluccis and Mr. Jarvis were still around and appeared occasionally.

[LittleRickyII]

At the start of season 4, Billy & Toby, and the dog were gone, as well as Buck, the grandfather, Myrna, Mr. Nicholson and Ron Harvey, never refered to again. Only the neighbors, the Palluccis and Mr. Jarvis were still around and appeared occasionally.

This was part of the weirdness of the show: Myrna, Mr. Nicholson, Ron Harvey, Billy & Toby, the dog, Buck were all gone and never referred to again, as if they had never existed. And Doris was now referred to as Miss (instead of Mrs.) Doris Martin, implying she was single and had never been married, rather being a widow. And in one episode, there was a reference to her mother still being alive, and it was implied that it was her father who was deceased. So on the surface, it would appear that the single, childless Miss Doris Martin from the 4th and 5th seasons (with a living mother and a deceased father) was not the same Doris as Mrs. Doris, mother, from the first three seasons (with a living father and a deceased mother). Yet there were these links between the "new" Doris and the "old" Doris: The new Doris also worked at Today's World magazine, though in an entirely different (and much more prestigious) position. And she lived in the same apartment as the old Doris, with the same landlords (the Palluccis) and Mr. Jarvis as her neighbor. But at this point, the Palluccis and Mr. Jarvis, who had intimately known the widowed Doris Martin with the two kids seemed to have amnesia and did not bat an eye when neighbor Mrs. Doris Martin, secretary and mother of two, in a flash, transitioned into Miss Doris Martin, childless single woman and big shot magazine writer. It's no wonder this show confused me as a kid.

[TV_on_the_Porch]

Confusing, yes, but evidently not off-putting as the audience figures were virtually unchanged from the previous season (in fact were up a couple tenths of a point IIRC).

[LittleRickyII]

Confusing, yes, but evidently not off-putting as the audience figures were virtually unchanged from the previous season (in fact were up a couple tenths of a point IIRC).

The increase in ratings in the fourth season may have been due to having a stronger lead-in. During the third season, The Doris Day Show followed Mayberry RFD, which was ranked 15th and had an average audience of 13,402,300. Then during the fourth season, it followed Here's Lucy, which was tied for 10th place that season and had an average audience of 14,717,700 -- that's 10% more viewers than Mayberry RFD had the season before. And in spite of 10% more viewers for its lead-in, ratings for The Doris Day Show increased only 6% between the 3rd and 4th season (during both seasons, it had fewer viewers than its lead-in, and the competition on the other networks was the same). And by the fifth season, as these articles reveal, the ratings took a dive and Fred Silverman decided to cancel the show:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ob8MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JmADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3740,4204135&dq=ratings+doris-day&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NUohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AoEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1214,229897&dq=ratings+doris-day&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=85scAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sWYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7644,678091&dq=ratings+doris-day&hl=en

I don't think all the changes served the show well in the long run and was a hindrance in syndication. IMO, they should have stayed with the format from the third season, maybe built upon it, but not turn her into a different character living in the same apartment.

[old grouch]

All of the missing characters from 'The Doris Day Show' are in the Bermuda Triangle, along with Chuck Cunningham, Judy Winslow, and Tiger and Fluffy from 'The Brady Bunch'.

[Coffeecup]

I haven't see the show in 40 yrs and as a child probably didn't picked up on all the changes. I remember Dad and kids were gone but other changes weren't aware of.