‘Three’s a Crowd’ was an attempt to capitalize on the ‘Three’s Company’ franchise success. The 1979 game show, ‘Three’s a Crowd,’ featured a male participant that had to discover who knew him best: his wife or his secretary. And honestly, we’re shocked that someone ever saw potential in a premise like this.
The show caused problems in viewers’ marriages and was a flop in general. There was no choice but cancel it after just a few episodes.
Carter Country
ABC's 1977 sitcom, 'Carter Country,' lasted for an impressive two years and 44 episodes. However, it's still not a success story since audiences still had their issues with the culturally sensitive show.
Starring Victor French, Kene Holliday, Vernee Watson, Richard Paul, Harvey Vernon, and Barbara Cason, 'Carter Country' followed the lives of different police officers that came from different backgrounds and cultures and how they overcame their differences. Although it sounded great on paper, the show eventually got canceled due to low ratings.
Chopper One
'Chopper One' was born in January of 1974. The show was about a police helicopter team in California, focusing on two chopper pilots called Don Burdick (Jim McMullan) and Gil Foley (Dirk Benefict).
Even though producers and network execs spent about $140,000 to film each episode, the show tanked and was pulled off the air after 13 episodes in April of 1974.
Me and the Chimp
Produced by Thomas Miller and Garry Marshall, 'Me and the Chimp' was a comedy sitcom that aired on CBS in 1972. Even though the series' plot was quite original, since it followed a dentist whose daughter brings home a chimpanzee one day, it didn't become a hit show like its producers' other projects, such as 'Laverne and Shirley' and 'Happy Days.'
Just 13 episodes were ever aired, and the dentist's relationship with Buttons the chimpanzee was very short-lived.
Mr. T and Tina
Pat Morita and Susan Blanchard were the stars of the 1976 TV show, 'Mr. T and Tina'. ABC wanted to make a spin-off from one of the characters of 'Welcome Back, Kotter,' but it didn't go as planned, and the network had to cancel after just nine episodes.
It was one of the lowest-rated shows of the 1970s, and it followed the story of a Japanese inventor called Taro Takahashi, who lived with an American nanny called Tina Kelly. Unfortunately, the show's comedy was often criticized as too offensive and stereotypical, which is what eventually got it canceled.