Too Close for Comfort/Trivia

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  • Channel Hop: From ABC to first-run syndication.
  • The Danza: Lisa in the final season.
  • Dawson Casting: Deborah Van Valkenburgh started playing Jackie Rush (a 21-year-old at the start of the series) when she was 27 (she was 28 when the series first premiered).
    • Surprisingly averted with Lydia Cornell, who started playing Sara Rush (who was 18 years old at the start of the series) when she was 17 (she was 18 when the series first premiered).
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: Ted Knight is probably most recognizable as ego-centric Small Name, Big Ego news anchor on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
  • Name's the Same: After The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended, Knight starred in an unrelated short lived The Ted Knight Show in which he starred as the owner/operator of an escort service.
  • Real Life Relative: "The Runaway" guest stars Ted Knight's real life daughter Elyse Knight as Sam, a runaway girl from Florida who Monroe lets stay in his apartment to help with the rent. Elyse Knight also appears in the episode "Freddy Loves It, We Love It, You're Cancelled", as another character.
  • Screwed by the Network: Perhaps an unintentional screwing by ABC. For the 1982-83 season, the Alphabet Network moved the series to Thursday nights, paired alongside sitcom bombs like Joanie Loves Chachi, Star of the Family, and It Takes Two; ratings for the show plummeted as a result of the move and the show got canceled by ABC at the end of the season.
  • The Show Died With Him: Ted Knight died from colon cancer in August 1986, effectively ending the show's run without a proper series finale.
  • Uncancelled: Metromedia Producers Corporation, a television syndication division of Metromedia (which was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1986 to use its stations to form the original O&O group for the FOX network), decided to pick up the series for a fourth season and began producing first-run episodes for broadcast syndication in 1984 (Don Taffner's DLT Entertainment continues to hold the syndication rights); the show lasted three additional seasons as a syndie series.
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