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Like Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall before him, Robin Williams, 26, did one guest spot on Happy Days and wound up on a spin-off series of his own. As the affable Mork from the planet Ork, Williams has limitless opportunities to display his manic talent. Unaccustomed to the ways of Earth, the alien sits on his head, drinks with his fingers and holds philosophical discussions with eggs...
...changing the channel and see the most popular series back to back. The evening begins with Happy Days, a sitcom about teen-age kids in '50s Milwaukee that is now No. 2 in the Nielsens. Next is TV's highest-rated series: Laverne & Shirley, a Happy Days spin-off about two female beer factory workers who also live in '50s Milwaukee. After that comes Three's Company, No. 3 in the Nielsens, another sitcom about two women roommates-only this time the women share their flat with a single man. The night concludes with Soap...
...mainstream of Southie High. During the spring of 1975, a group of South Boston High School teachers visited Thomson's Island and, apparently inspired by what they saw, returned to Southie to form an alternative "school-within-a-school" for select students. In the two years since, several other spin-off alternative programs have begun at Southie High. November says about half the Thomson Islanders apply for an alternative program when they leave the island, of that number, about 80 per cent are admitted. Hopes for a more comprehensive follow-up program hinge on current efforts to attract the long...
...emphasis is on fi. In NBC's The Man from Atlantis, a fishy survivor from the lost civilization teams up with a comely lady scientist for some underwater heroics. CBS's Logan s Run, a spin-off from the film, zaps into the 24th century. In it a man and woman are on the run from certain death, and each week they seek shelter in a different society...
...like you. I love you all . . . very much," said a tear-choked Mary Tyler Moore to her colleagues in television's most famous fictional newsroom. The occasion: the taping of the 168th and final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, scheduled to air March 19. Even such spin-off graduates as Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman were written into the farewell show. How to end it? New management fires everyone but Anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). At a post-taping, post-mortem dinner, Mary and the rest of the cast sat through the outtakes of lines that were...