By 1971, the show's ratings had plummeted.

According to the show's producer, Sam Lovullo, the ratings showed improvement with these classic reruns ; however, the series was finally canceled in 1993 at the conclusion of its 25th season.

Midway throughout the show's run, it was competing against another highly rated sitcom, Frasier, which slightly dropped the ratings.

Producers argued for its cancellation because of its falling ratings, afraid that the show's legacy might be damaged if it were renewed for another season.

Class of ' 74 was renamed Class of ' 75 and also added more slapstick comedy for its second year, but the revamped show's ratings dwindled and it was cancelled in mid-1975.

Meanwhile in 1977 Number 96 would re-introduce nudity, with several much-publicised full-frontal nude scenes featured in an attempt to boost the show's plummeting ratings.

The show's future was not to be, however, because John Doggett's presence gave only a small ratings boost to the show's eighth season.

The show's ratings significantly decreased in the early 1990s, resulting from changes in children's viewing habits and in the television marketplace.

Her performance is generally credited as one factor in the fledgling show's subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings to a hit rivaling Dallas.

Neither actor's presence in the cast helped the show's flagging ratings and this series, too, was not renewed and was replaced permanently by Happy Days.

The show's ratings reached its peak in mid-1984, unsurprisingly after Michael Larson's run against the Big Board.

The show's ratings declined after Prinze's death, and the show was canceled at the end of the fourth season.

Scrappy-Doo was added to the cast of Scooby-Doo to save the show's ratings, which by 1979 had begun to sink to the point of cancellation threats from ABC.

The duo had appeared in the US on The Ed Sullivan Show and hoped to become stars there, but negotiations for a longer run broke down when the show's ratings were strong in Canada but weak in the US.

During the interview, Chung poked fun at her show's low ratings, referring to the musical number as a " private joke for our two viewers.

Within six months, the show's ratings dropped from 7. 3 to 5. 3.

The network changed the show's title to James Garner as Nichols during its second month in a vain attempt to rally the sagging ratings.

Actually, the program finished in the Top 20 its first season, but ABC determined that the show was losing too much of its lead-in, suggesting low appeal if the show were moved ( a suggestion that came to be realized, as the show's ratings dropped dramatically after a move to another time slot in its second season ).

A time switch from a concrete Saturday schedule to a revolving Friday timeslot caused the show's ratings to dip even more, and it was eventually canceled after one season.

At the end of the 1970 – 71 season ( the show's eleventh year ), My Three Sons was still garnering healthy ratings.

The show's ratings solidified, and it regularly landed in the top 20 rankings .< ref name =" DW ">

The show's rapid rise to popularity led it to top the ratings consistently on RTÉ for forty years.

CBS and the show's producers had hoped that the new look would help reinvent the show and raise ratings, making the longest-running program in daytime history a model for the future of daytime, but the plan was ultimately unsuccessful.

The show's popularity eventually declined and it was moved to the 6. 30 p. m. slot in 1992, yet the series retains consistent viewing figures in Australia and is still running today, making it Australia's longest-running soap opera.

Although some feel the show's quality declined over the years, Last of the Summer Wine continued to receive large audiences for the BBC and was praised for its positive portrayal of older people and family-friendly humour.

SCTV was offered a slot on early Sunday evenings by NBC, but because they would have had to alter the show's content to appeal to " family " audiences ( per a 1975 amendment to the Prime Time Access Rule ) as well as face CBS ' dominant 60 Minutes, the producers declined.

Coca-Cola's archrival PepsiCo declined to sponsor American Idol at the show's start.

Airing on CBS, initial ratings were high, marking the best sitcom debut for the network in more than five years, but viewers percentage soon declined, resulting into the show's cancellation in early 2001.

The show's dominance was challenged by another PBS television show for preschoolers, Barney & Friends, and Sesame Street's ratings declined.

The show's ratings declined in the 1999 – 2000 season.

By that time, though, the show's popularity had irreversibly declined, and no more seasons were produced.

In the 1988 – 89 TV season, the show's ratings declined precipitously.

However, after the initial coming out frenzy, the show's ratings declined and ABC began feeling the pain of an organized backlash from conservative groups regarding the " gay content " being exhibited.

The show's first series averaged 9. 27 million viewers, but apart from a rise in its fifth series, ratings declined year-on-year until 2009, with the eleventh series averaging 5. 44 million viewers.

In 2012, Johnny Dee of The Guardian wrote that many fans regard the panda rape scene as " a low in the show's history " and suggested the phrase " raped by a panda " should replace " jumped the shark " to imply that a popular series has declined in quality and is beyond recovery.

The character of Coco Hernandez appeared on the show, played by Erica Gimpel and not Irene Cara, who was offered the role by the show's producers, but politely declined as she wanted to focus on developing her budding singing career.

" In 2007, Vanity Fair named it the sixth best episode in the show's history, describing it as " a classic satire of network influence, obsessed TV fans, and programs that survive long after the shark has been jumped, the episode is a meta-celebration, a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to everyone who claimed that the quality of The Simpsons had declined over the years.

was watched by more than 3 million viewers for the opening hour, afterwards towards the end of the show, the viewership declined to 2. 2 million viewers, this was the highest viewership in the show's history ; Raw was watched by 5. 6 million viewers, the most since August 2009.

She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

Also seen throughout the show's run were many different brands of cereal, e. g. Cheerios.

Producer Jim Hirschfeld took over as director following Birch's heart attack in 1980 and continued directing, as well as producing throughout the rest of the show's run, including the new segments inserted into the PBS reruns, until it went off the air in 1993.

Paul Lynde, in addition to his recurring role as " Uncle Arthur " on Bewitched, had his greatest fame as the featured ( and, in tic-tac-toe, tactically important ) " center square " throughout most of the original show's run.

In addition to those departures, regular panelist Caroline Rhea also left the program in order to host her short-lived successor program to The Rosie O ' Donnell Show and Bruce Vilanch, who was also one of the show's writers, left with Goldberg ( who had hired him ) and made several infrequent appearances throughout the rest of the series.

For example, Floren was the band's assistant conductor throughout the show's run.

Factory and Sony BMG Music Entertainment, released a DVD boxed set on February 7, 2006, called The Best of the Electric Company that included 20 uncut episodes from throughout the show's run, including the first and last episodes, plus outtakes and introductions and commentary by Rita Moreno and June Angela.

New games are created throughout the show's run.

The " corner of 14th and Oak " in downtown Wistful Vista was routinely given as a location for various homes, places of business and government buildings throughout the show's run.

The Olsens continued to portray Michelle throughout the show's run, which concluded in 1995.

Tim Russ portrayed Tuvok throughout the show's run, from 1995 to 2001.

Most of the underwriters throughout the show's tenure included: Martin Marietta, Lockheed ( soon to merge long after stopping their share of funding ), Prudential Securities ( and its precursor, Prudential-Bache Securities ), Primerica Financial Services, Hilton Hotels Corporation ( and its subsidiary, Conrad International Hotels ), Sperry Corporation, CSX, Enron Corporation, Enron Foundation, Hanson Trust, Unisys, Travelers Insurance, Ameritech ( before the big switch to SBC, which merged AT & T ), MFS Investment Management, Oppenheimer Funds, A. G. Edwards, The Kaufmann Fund, Deloitte and Touche, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and all local PBS affiliates and their viewers / contributors.

Among the show's main child characters, Cartman is distinguished as " the fat kid ", and his obesity is a continuing subject of insults and ridicule from other characters throughout the show's run.

However, throughout the show's run, the network's initially negative attitude prevailed.

She ultimately placed only fourth in the competition, which was a shock to the judges, viewers, studio audience, and other contestants that considered her one of the show's frontrunners throughout the entire competition.

A new episode has been produced every week throughout the show's history, with no reruns.

There has been numerous comedic segments throughout the show's run.

However, his voice was heard once again announcing the show's 35th season premiere, and he continued providing the voice-overs throughout the season.

Frank Adamo, who served as Van Dyke's stand-in, also played small roles on several episodes throughout the show's five years.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ ( see below ) was used to play the show's theme song, " Changing Keys ", throughout each episode, except at the end.

Two cast members died within two months of each other in 1998: Mary Millar, who played Rose from 1991 to 1995, on 10 November 1998 due to ovarian cancer ; and George Webb, who played Daddy throughout the show's run, on 30 December 1998, of natural causes.

Although Don Fedderson gets the credit, My Three Sons was created by George Tibbles and produced by Don Fedderson Productions throughout the show's run, with MCA Television co-distributing the series during its 1960 – 65 ABC airing.