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Originally this series was about seven people facing the challenges of life.

By the end of the first season, it was becoming a soap opera. By the end of the last season, only one of the original cast members was still on the show, which by then was well known for two stars that were not remotely part of the original plan.

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Without counting, I'm going with "MELROSE PLACE."   When it started, it wasn't really a soap opera. I was one of a tiny minority watching it.  That a tiny minority was watching a primetime show was why they soap opera'd it.

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The first-season show was apparently targeted for me and maybe a dozen people. At the time, it was relevant to me and my interests. I enjoyed it. When they gained mass appeal, they slowly disinterested me.  Oh, well.  

I vaguely remember scheduling committee meetings for when we could all make them- which meant I couldn't get home in time to see the show any more, even if I was losing interest.  We also wondered if anyone was reading our minutes. So, our minutes slowly got more and more interesting.   One set of minutes had a note at the end.  It pointed out we had our meetings during "Melrose Place" and asked if anyone reading the minutes could catch us up on Billy and Allison.  (Although people did read the minutes and laughed, I never did get that update.)

IIRC, some magazine I read at the time ("Rolling Stone"?)  addressed the show, and the changes. While some of us found it relatable, it didn't have mass appeal in season one. What the public wanted was "conflict." So, that started when they added Heather Locklear's character to the cast. "What we needed was a cat among the pigeons."   I lost track of the show, and eventually it went really soap opera, and once a season someone got thrown into the pool or fell into it or something. I heard, when the show ended, they'd given little vials of water to the cast and crew- the pool, emptied for the final time.

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"Can you feel that?"      "Who ordered this?"

 

"It's a magical place."

 

Dr Franklin Hall and student Donny Gill both ended up in custody, Hall with some sort

of connection to gravity, and Gill with some sort of connection to cold?

Dangerous planet to be a scientist, this Earth....

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This show featured two policemen, badge numbers 744 and 2430.

An actual police dispatcher provided the voice of the dispatcher on the show.  She would lie on the floor in the back of the police car so that she could give "dispatches" in real time.

One of the actors portrayed a policeman by the same character name on Dragnet!, a year prior to this show.

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This show featured two policemen, badge numbers 744 and 2430.

An actual police dispatcher provided the voice of the dispatcher on the show.  She would lie on the floor in the back of the police car so that she could give "dispatches" in real time.

One of the actors portrayed a policeman by the same character name on Dragnet!, a year prior to this show.

In keeping with the reputation of the producer's series being scrupulously accurate about police procedures, selected episodes of this series were used in police academies as instructional films.

The paramedics from Emergency! sometimes crossed paths with the cops at Rampart Hospital.

George

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This show featured two policemen, badge numbers 744 and 2430.

An actual police dispatcher provided the voice of the dispatcher on the show.  She would lie on the floor in the back of the police car so that she could give "dispatches" in real time.

One of the actors portrayed a policeman by the same character name on Dragnet!, a year prior to this show.

In keeping with the reputation of the producer's series being scrupulously accurate about police procedures, selected episodes of this series were used in police academies as instructional films.

The paramedics from Emergency! sometimes crossed paths with the cops at Rampart Hospital. (The LAPD station building where the show was based was the Rampart Division, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.)

A "New" version of the show appeared in 1990 and ran two seasons.

George

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