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Never done a 30 day meme before but thought that this was one I could actually do, y'know?
So, Day 1, A show that should never have been canceled.
Why, Thunderbirds, of course.
For those of you who don't know about the background on this, the show was cancelled six episodes into the second series (or season, as we Yanks tend to say). The reason: Sir Lew Grade, who was the ultimate money man of the show (under the production company, ITC), went over to the US to try and get the three networks (yeah, there were only three back then) to bid on the show for the American market. They really needed the US market to keep the show going; it was expensive to produce for its day. He got two of them, then the third wanted in. There's speculation that he may have priced the show too high, and when one of the networks dropped out, the other two did as well. So Thunderbirds, which was a BIG, BIG, BIG hit in its day, was cancelled.
Only God, and Gerry Anderson, know what might have been accomplished had it been kept alive.
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So, Day 1, A show that should never have been canceled.
Why, Thunderbirds, of course.
For those of you who don't know about the background on this, the show was cancelled six episodes into the second series (or season, as we Yanks tend to say). The reason: Sir Lew Grade, who was the ultimate money man of the show (under the production company, ITC), went over to the US to try and get the three networks (yeah, there were only three back then) to bid on the show for the American market. They really needed the US market to keep the show going; it was expensive to produce for its day. He got two of them, then the third wanted in. There's speculation that he may have priced the show too high, and when one of the networks dropped out, the other two did as well. So Thunderbirds, which was a BIG, BIG, BIG hit in its day, was cancelled.
Only God, and Gerry Anderson, know what might have been accomplished had it been kept alive.
( The rest of the list )
