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Pick: How would you have ended these classic TV shows?
Would you have the castaways get off the island?
Not every TV show had a planned finale. In fact, a series finale wasn't even a concept until Howdy Doody said goodbye in 1960. It would not truly turn into a widespread practice until the 1970s, when Mary Richards flicked off the lights.
A handful of Sixties series had a planned ending — The Fugitive, Leave It to Beaver and The Dick Van Dyke Show come to mind — but for the most part, popular shows just… stopped. Most series were episodic, not long narratives, so the series finale was often just another episode. Take "Gilligan, the Goddess" for example. It's no knock on the shows — that was merely showbiz back then.
But let's say you could go back in time as a studio executive and give some iconic series a big farewell finale. What would happen on the show? We've come up with some plot idea. You pick your favorite. Have a better one? We'd love to hear it in the comments!
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Gilligan's Island
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I Love Lucy
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The Andy Griffith Show
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Star Trek
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Lost in Space
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The Brady Bunch
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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Perry Mason
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Wonder Woman
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Hogan's Heroes
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* My ending for Gilligan's Island would have Maynard G. Krebs waking up from a dream. Hey! It worked when Newhart ended!
It seems fair on how they should have ended
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(78%) For the Brady Bunch, why would Mike want to build a bigger house when the kids were starting to grow up and leave?
[1] Maynard G Krebs awakes from dream of being Gilligan. [2]Will Robinson wishes Dr Smith into the cornfield. [3] Bradys disappear never to be seen or heard from again in MFTV mvies or reboots but Kellys get a spin-off series. ☺
Gilligan's Island Finale: The cast of the Minnow learn that they died during the storm and the island is hell and Gilligan is the devil that keeps them there.
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The first option for #2 wouldn't work as written. Back then, Lucy wouldn't know that she was pregnant with a "little Lucy." The ending would have to be that she gives birth, and it turns out to be a little Lucy.
#8 Perry looses a case already happened. There was an episode were he lost.
* B-b-but then won appeals/retrial!
Darren outs his mother-in-law Endora to the authorities as a witch, and they burn her at the stake while he watches.
The Chief of CONTROL retires, Maxwell Smart steps in as his replacement, and promptly loses the agency to KAOS in a game of dominoes.
The Monkees finally get a record company contract but they have to tour as the opening act for the Partridge Family.
Gomer Pyle gets sent to Vietnam.
The Chief of CONTROL retires, Maxwell Smart steps in as his replacement, and promptly loses the agency to KAOS in a game of dominoes.
The Monkees finally get a record company contract but they have to tour as the opening act for the Partridge Family.
Gomer Pyle gets sent to Vietnam.
Your Monkees suggestion made me LOL. However, your Gomer Pyle idea is a bit of a downer for a final episode.
* Only action Gomer ever saw were them thar Godziller movies! ☺
Jupiter 2 time warps to the 24 century to the Alpha Quadrant and encounters the Enterprise D and Will Robinson and Wesley Crusher meets.
The Andy Griffith Show. Didn`t Andy and Helen get married in the final season in 1968?? In the colour episodes that MeTv never shows??
MeTV does show the color TAGS! What you're refering to is Mayberry RFD, which has been shown in limited markets but never on the full MeTV network!
You know what got me about Andy and Helen? In the second season of Mayberry RFD, Andy and Helen returned to Mayberry for a visit and to show off their new baby, Andy Jr. However, in the Return to Mayberry reunion movie, which MeTV does show from time to time, Andy Jr. is not mentioned at all. Opie is an adult and married and his wife was set to give birth at any time. I guess Andy was so excited about being a grandpa that he forgot he had another kid?
* Andy Junior, Andelina and silent Sam's son Andy never seen beyond infancy! ♣
The Andy Griffith Show. Didn`t Andy and Helen get married in the final season in 1968?? In the colour episodes that MeTv never shows??
Andy and Helen got married on the first episode of "Mayberry R.F.D."
The start of the movies in 1979 tell us that the Starfleet careers of our gallant crew of the Enterprise went on. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I declined to answer #7 (Clampetts) because I didn't like any of the scenarios.
Well, my answer for #7 was the first one. Sure, Jed is unqualified to be president, but is he any worse than what we've got right now?
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Actually, Jethro did get elected...LOL!!!
This is my idea for #7: The Clampetts move to Hooterville and buy the Shady Rest Hotel and the Hooterville Cannonball to save it from bankruptcy. Elly May becomes a critter doctor and Jed is the new mayor.
I would vote for Miss Hathaway.