We ran across this on Facebook today. This ad ran in TV Guide’s southern Texas editions, and has a fictitious quote from Inspector Lewis Erskine concerning The Tammy Grimes Show. It surprises us if J. Edgar Hoover didn’t raise a flap about this. The Tammy Grimes Show was pulled after four episodes because it was absolutely terrible. I saw it in 2010, and reported my views on this on IMDB.com:
Tammy Grimes and the other performers in “The Tammy Grimes Show” are perfectly capable actors, but I saw this on YouTube, and I can see why ABC pulled the plug on this show. This show makes “Shotgun Slade” look like something right out of the BBC by comparison!
The show makes no sense at all!
By contrast, Phyllis Diller should have had her show kept on the schedule; that was funny, and by mid-1967 was a sort-of de facto third season of “The Addams Family.” Her sitcom had substance.
But not this one.
No wonder why ABC did not want to deal so readily with William Dozier, who produced this. This show may have been why “The Green Hornet” and “Batman” were gone by June 1968! Unfortunate.
The Dating Game replaced The Tammy Grimes Show. And of course, The FBI would continue its run until this month in 1974.