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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 430458" data-attributes="member: 57984">As I recall, HERE&#039;S LUCY ended in 1974 because Ball was tired after 23 years of sitcom duties (each of her three shows lasting, by her own choice, six years -- if you don&#039;t count the monthly LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR which extended the I LOVE LUCY franchise for a bit). THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES ended in 1971 after a nine-year run when CBS decided to slash the rural sitcom genre in its entirety, many of those series still pulling in good numbers across middle America but were highly-repetitive and formulaic, and the advertisers were increasingly interested in &quot;more sophisticated&quot; urban fare (cop shows instead of westerns, ALL IN THE FAMILY instead of GREEN ACRES).This &quot;rural purge&quot; is still infamous in some corners, and seen by some as a high-handed act of elitist snobbery. But I&#039;m not sure it was a mistake: most of those rural comedies had gotten pretty tired, their premises laid-out in the opening theme song and replicated endlessly episode after episode.I&#039;m old enough to remember it, but don&#039;t tell anybody.<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n9u8fwnM1sE/maxresdefault.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 852px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 430458, member: 57984"] As I recall, HERE'S LUCY ended in 1974 because Ball was tired after 23 years of sitcom duties (each of her three shows lasting, by her own choice, six years -- if you don't count the monthly LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR which extended the I LOVE LUCY franchise for a bit). THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES ended in 1971 after a nine-year run when CBS decided to slash the rural sitcom genre in its entirety, many of those series still pulling in good numbers across middle America but were highly-repetitive and formulaic, and the advertisers were increasingly interested in "more sophisticated" urban fare (cop shows instead of westerns, ALL IN THE FAMILY instead of GREEN ACRES). This "rural purge" is still infamous in some corners, and seen by some as a high-handed act of elitist snobbery. But I'm not sure it was a mistake: most of those rural comedies had gotten pretty tired, their premises laid-out in the opening theme song and replicated endlessly episode after episode. I'm old enough to remember it, but don't tell anybody. [IMG width="852px"]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n9u8fwnM1sE/maxresdefault.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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