For a long time, you can say how successfully the TV show on the spin-off number that inspired them was based. That concept is correct now as it was decades ago, with which with The huge amount of spin-off "NCIS" and SEC Wolf that lays the Airways network year by year. But while spin-off can be an easy sign of whether the series is popular or not, spin-offs themselves are not always successful, even when it comes to procedures like policemen and mysteries. Indeed, just because viewers will always gather in criminal plays, does not mean that each of these shows is guaranteed to be a hit. If you need an example, just look at the short-lived spin-off on one of the most beloved TV series of all time.

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One of all time great mysterious TV shows, Columbus has turned Peter Folk from an immensely talented actor into an immensely talented actor And Worldwide ves. Columbus was brilliant as a TV series for many reasons, not only how it increased the traditional sub-genre of crime drama. Here, while the performance itself focused on an overly intelligent detective at the Los Angeles Police Department and his ability to understand who killed someone else, the series structure was a "Haucachem" in which the audience always knew in the first 15 minutes. But although Columbus was a huge hit in Nielsen's rating, the spin-off that inspired him, "Mrs. Columbus", was enough of Flop that tried to phases Columbus himself out of her existence.

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A constant aspect of Columbus was the man himself, as he would wear a spoiled coat and stumbled through a given scene of the crime as a way to throw out his eventual quarry. Folk was in every episode, but the only other details that would echo through more episodes were things that Columbus mentioned to his various suspects. Out of that, Columbus kind of self; The Columbus show was not the type of program to give its audience a lot of personal information about the character. Although viewers with an eagle may have noticed that his first name was sincere because of the well -placed view of his police badge, Columbus had never treated his name. And while Columbus often referred to his wife, we never knew her name or met her within any episode of Columbus.

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That has changed with "Ms Columbus", which introduced us not only with Kate Columbus (Kate Mulgru) But also Columbus' daughter, Enen (Lily Haydn). Kate is a news rapporteur who raises her daughter, while solving crimes in her extraordinary time. The show premiered in February 1979, which was, interestingly, just months after Columbus stopped broadcasting new episodes of Ann -Bi. (Although Columbus was revived in the late 1980s and new episodes were aired by 2003, he did so at ABC.) If the spin-off premium seems a little insecure to you, know that you are not alone. In fact, Columbus's creators, writers Richard Levinson and William Link, felt the same way.

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As it were, Levinson and Link were against spin-offs (as well as casting at then 24-year-old Mulgru to play Columbus's wife, who would be 52 years old when the show began). However, NBC directors chose to move forward. Levinson and Link had the right notion, though: The replacement of the middle season only five episodes was broadcast with very low evaluation in the spring of 1979. So, when that fall returned, Kate is no longer called Mrs. Columbus and instead used her obvious girl's name of Kalahan. Meanwhile, the play itself was renamed twice, starting with "Kate Detective", and then "Kate wants a mystery". It is not a shock that the series lasted only eight more episodes (13 in total) before it quickly disappeared from air waves.

For every successful spin-off as "Frasier", there are 10 of them as "Mrs. Columbus". When, for example, "Frasier" got out of the 11-season cheers comedy, it was a risk, but the Sitom in Boston Seth at least created so many memorable characters that they spun "Cheers". There would be no feeling for the new show to give up what the old series did, and even less what he did so special.

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On the other hand, turning to Columbus, it made no sense aside from the executives of the 70s era who wanted to use known intellectual property after stopping new episodes. Columbus wasn't a show with a rich or huge ensemble; The title implied what is obvious, that this is essentially a series of one man. Folk wasn't, to be fair, the only special part of the procedural old school; The setup was also characteristic, and the amount of guest stars was really impressive. (Directors could also be; An early episode used the young Steven Spielberg.) But the audience was excited about Colonel Columbus himself, so making spin-off for an unprecedented character was, at best, calculated cube.

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At worst, the result is what we got with "Ms Columbus". It is a show so unprepared to stand up to her initial premise that not only renamed her heroine, but also pretended to have never existed in Kate's past. Mrs. Columbus himself sounds, frankly, as a parody title of a bad TV spin-off, so the fact that there was actually-and tried not to laugh at the Columbus hole no less-as wild as it was funny. Columbus himself, as mentioned earlier, will eventually get another crack in things with ABC revival years later, ensuring that the audience in turn more or less memory hole "Mrs. Columbus" in return.