ep dont rock the boat
Was that suppose to be a spin off it seemed like it.
shareIn a manner of speaking, Yes.
The last two episodes of season 3, "Don't Rock The Boat" (with Dick Van Patten) and "Family Business" (with Lanie Kazan), are "backdoor pilots". That's when they slip the pilot for a new series into a pre-existing one in the hopes that people will like it and it will then become its own series. Sometimes it works ("Empty Nest" came out of "Golden Girls", and the short-lived "Living Dolls" with Leah Remini came out of "Who's The Boss"), but most of the time it doesn't. So then we're left with an odd episode of a series that mainly centers on completely different characters.
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Paul R.
http://www.spookcentral.tk
Green Acres did this too. The last two episodes produced (and shown in syndication) are barely about Lisa and Oliver and the Hooterville Saga at all. One of them is about a girl and her father who run a hotel in Hawaii, the other one is about a former secretary of Oliver's who works as a secretary in Los Angeles. Both episodes struck me as very lame backdoor pilots... It may have been cheaper to rework these as episodes of an existing series than try to produce them independently. They're very odd to watch in syndication.
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