In the latest in a feature spotlighting backdoor pilots, Brian shows how Facts of Life decided to try to basically spin Jo off into her own show, only keeping Jo on The Facts of...
Brian Cronin
It's the Pop Culture References Advent Calendar! This year's theme is Classic 1970s TV Christmas, and Brian will count down his favorite Christmas episodes from the 1970s. Here's Day 13!
In the latest in a feature spotlighting backdoor pilots, Brian shows how The Facts of Life figured that if a girls school was popular, why not a BOYS school?
It's the Pop Culture References Advent Calendar! This year's theme is Classic 1970s TV Christmas, and Brian will count down his favorite Christmas episodes from the 1970s. Here's Day 12!
In the latest in a feature spotlighting backdoor pilots, Brian shows how MacGyver might not have starred Richard Dean Anderson had his Facts of Life spinoff about an interracial couple been picked up
It's the Pop Culture References Advent Calendar! This year's theme is Classic 1970s TV Christmas, and Brian will count down his favorite Christmas episodes from the 1970s.
Brian spotlights a classic 1970s TV Hanukkah episode, "The Messiah on Mott Street," from Night Galley, in 1971
In the latest in a feature spotlighting backdoor pilots, Brian shows how Diff'rent Strokes spun off its Mrs. Garrett character for The Facts of Life very quickly.
It's the Pop Culture References Advent Calendar! This year's theme is Classic 1970s TV Christmas, and Brian will count down his favorite Christmas episodes from the 1970s.
In the latest in a feature spotlighting backdoor pilots, Brian looks at how Jake and the Fatman, itself a backdoor pilot spinoff of Matlock, then spun off Diagnosis: Murder through a backdoor pilot.