Comments on: TV Legends Revealed #9

By: Imelda Heyn

Imelda Heyn — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:07:43 +0000

Dexter is the best series ever I can’t wait till is realesed season 5

By: mary warner

mary warner — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:09:29 +0000

The ‘Dregs Of Humanity’ episode of ‘It’s Your Move’ was brilliant. So was the episode about Eli catching a soccer ball. But for the most part, it wasn’t that great. It just had two fantastic actors who kept it interesting even when the scripts were weak.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:58:46 +0000

John - there’s a difference between rumors and misquotes.

By: Chris Stansfield

Chris Stansfield — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:33:09 +0000

Derek, where did you get that idea? The story I’ve always heard was that Harper was fired for salary demands- not because of Bateman. in fact, she won her lawsuit against the production company, so that seems a bit ublikely.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:40:16 +0000

I think it’s funny that Bateman’s popularity caused a jealous Valerie Harper to quit Valerie (or be fired after she made demands to curtail Bateman’s scenes and role), which then became Valerie’s Family (briefly) before settling on Hogan Family.

Damn that Jason Bateman!

By: Porkspam

Porkspam — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:54:23 +0000

and Chief Daryl Gates went on to later help sierra online create the popular video game series police quest

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:50:14 +0000

What I perhaps should have made clearer, Dan, is the fact that I’m totally leaving open the chance that Schroder DID want him off the show and ask for as much. I think Ricky Schroder’s sister has even said so (his fourteen-year-old sister, Dawn, is THE source for this whole thing). My point is that when Actor A says, “I want Actor B gone,” if the producers then give Actor B a spin-off, I don’t see that as really capitulating to Actor A. Capitulating would be getting rid of Actor B period. From the fact that they liked Bateman enough to give him his own show, I don’t see them getting rid of him just because Schroder said so.

By giving him the show, though, it makes it look like Schroder’s alleged demands worked, but I think that’s just an after-effect of the producers’ decision to give him his own show. To wit, if the producers were not ready to give him his own show, I don’t think we’d ever hear about Schroder having him fired.

So basically, when I say it is false that he was fired, I’m mostly saying that what I think happened wasn’t him being “fired” (and that’s even depending on Schroder’s sister being correct, period). I think that it is an important distinction, but I can certainly see how one would disagree and think it more a semantic point.

By: DanDude

DanDude — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:28:01 +0000

Your reasoning is a bit weak on the Silver Spoons section. I guess you don’t have the sources to actually seek answers to this stuff like you do with the comic book legends.

Isn’t it equally possible they took Bateman off of Silver Spoons because he indeed was taking away too much attention from Ricky Schroder, but not wanting to waste his popularity, they gave him his own show?

And your anecdotal evidence merely means Schroder had a good publicist. It doesn’t mean the public was actually clamoring for that stuff.

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:27:07 +0000

As a follow-up to the Dragnet legend, is there any truth to the rumor that none of the characters actually said the famous line “Just the facts, ma’am?”
Didn’t the characters say “Just give us the facts, ma’am” or something similar, which has turned into the shortened version which everyone *swears* is true?

In a related rumor, I’m 99% positive the quote “Beam me up, Scotty” was never said in episode of a Star Trek. Basically, if Kirk was on a planet, he would tell Spock to beam them up. But if Scotty was doing the transporting, then Kirk would say “Beam *us* up.”

And in the movie Casablanca, does Rick (Humphrey Bogart) ever say “Play it again, Sam” or is the actual quote something like “Play that song again for me, Sam”?

How about doing an entire Legends Revealed page on how famous quotes aren’t actually spoken by the characters in the TV series or movies that they’re famous for?

By: Oogabooga

Oogabooga — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:04:40 +0000

We didn’t deserve It’s Your Move yet. That show was ahead of its time, and that’s why it only lasted one season. Ferris Beuler, Parker Lewis, and every smart-ass teenager on tv since then owe a debt of gratitude to that show.