Goodbye, Charlie began as a Broadway play by George Axelrod, then adapted into a feature film with an all-star cast that included Debbie Reynolds, Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis, & Pat Boone.
Some 20-odd years after the movie, 20th Century Fox decided to reboot it as a prospective ABC sitcom. And I do mean reboot.
Suzanne Somers (ex-Three's Company) takes over the title role, essayed in the movie by Reynolds, only this time, Charlie has been reincarnated into a woman (Somers) after drowning in a hang gliding accident. Charlie'd been murdered in the movie, and, presumably, the play. John Davidson assumes the role played by Curtis, except that he's now in the television business. Had this succeeded, Davidson probably doesn't get to do Hollywood Squares the next year.
We all know what happened next. Somers rebounded two years later with She's The Sheriff, and, as we know, Davidson got three years out of hosting Squares.
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