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** Judy was played by a different actress, Valerie Jones, in the pilot.
* [[Recycled Script]]: As with all Miller-Boyett sitcoms, the producers weren't shy about recycling ideas from other sitcoms. The Season 2 opener, where Steve burns down the [[Local Hangout]] and it's rebuilt as the cooler "Rachel's Place", was virtually identical to a story involving Arnold's on ''[[Happy Days]]'', which several of the writers had worked on.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: After ratings dropped during the sixth, seventh and eighth seasons, ABC was almost ready to cancel the series, before CBS silently picked it up for one last season. Ratings during the final season were so bad that CBS didn't even air the final seven (six, if you count the two-part finale as a single episode) episodes until the mid-Summer of 1998! And the series finale (Lost In Space Parts 1 and 2) was given little promotion or hype.
** Family Matters is also an example of an ''actor/actress'' being screwed by the network. Jaimee Foxworth was given very little screen time and, after Season 4, her character was inexplicably written off the show. It was later revealed that this was due to Foxworth demanding more money and a bigger role in the series, which the producers would have none of. [[Crushed Childhood Memories|We all know what happened to her afterwards...]]
* [[Typecasting]]: When ''hasn't'' Reginald VelJohnson been cast as a police officer?
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