Bob hat in dem Interview dass ich vor kurzem gepostet habe, ganz gut erklärt, warum die Serie es so schwer hatte. Hier nochmal der Auszug:
We know your first TV series was "Vegas," was it not?
Robert Urich: No. It was not. My first series was a half-hour comedy based on the successful motion picture, "Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice," and I played Bob. It was for ABC and we did 13 episodes early on. I was with Ann Archer - who's become a movie star - and David Spielberg and Anita Gillette. The network sort of got cold feet and diluted the whole idea.
I remember being very naive about ratings and what all they meant. The first night that we were on we were up against "Sonny & Cher" in their prime. It was a big hit at the time. On the other channel was John Wayne -"Salute to America," and John Wayne hosted this special with Bob Hope and had the President at the time, Richard Nixon on and Lucille Ball. And so we got buried. We got like a 12-share, and I said "Wow! Great! What's that mean?" and my agent said, "Well, a 35 would have been fine."
That's why I had never heard of it.
Robert Urich: [Laughing] You're probably not the only one who's never heard of it!
Sonny & Cher, John Wayne, Nixon und der damals sehr populäre Bob Hope - kein Wunder dass die Quoten nicht so toll waren, bei der Konkurrenz.
Würde mich nicht wundern wenn es bei den anderen 2 Mini Sitcoms "Emeril" und "It Had to Be You" ähnlich war.
Robert Urich Biographie - An Extraordinary Life - ab 30.08.2019
