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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 439302" data-attributes="member: 495">Angela Lansbury was worn out from being the sole lead of an hour-long series (meaning she appeared in almost every scene). She only agreed to continue if they would reduce her schedule, so this is why you have episodes with guest detectives in seasons 6 and 7. But they realized those episodes weren’t as well received as the regular one, so they dropped the idea after season 7.If CBS hadn’t agreed to the guest detective idea, there was talk of shifting to a monthly, two-hour format and moving the show over to ABC, rotating with the Columbo and Kojak revivals.</blockquote>