Spun from the TV-movie, "Senior Year", Sons & Daughters was placed in a no-win situation in the fall of 1974. It was one of those cases where network suits used a velcro dartboard to determine where a show would be placed, and whether or not it'd stick.
Sons wound up on Wednesdays at 8 (ET), opposite two more freshman series, the sitcom That's My Mama on ABC, and Little House on The Prairie on NBC. Ultimately, Little House would end up the winner, as Sons really wasn't given much chance to succeed.
Looking at the cast, Universal's casting department had built a pretty fair ensemble. Gary Frank would later win an Emmy for ABC's Family. Debralee Scott moved on to first Welcome Back, Kotter, then, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Jan Shutan had finally landed a series gig after a failed pilot for Dick Tracy failed to sell seven years earlier.
CBS would have trouble filling that Wednesday berth for years to come.
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