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Post by ILoveTheWaltons on Sept 4, 2013 13:42:05 GMT -5
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Post by Steve James on Sept 5, 2013 3:15:08 GMT -5
Thanks for those links. Very interesting read, and a small window into Ralph's life. Now I've got to try to find "On The Nickel" somewhere. |
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Post by thewaltons55 on Jan 20, 2020 11:00:00 GMT -5
I read recently that M.G. on LHOTP was making $750,000 a season during the final years on the show. Keep in mind that she had an agent, attorney, publicist and likely multiple assistants to compensate.
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Post by carol on Jan 20, 2020 14:59:01 GMT -5
I read recently that M.G. on LHOTP was making $750,000 a season during the final years on the show. Keep in mind that she had an agent, attorney, publicist and likely multiple assistants to compensate. Plus she had the starring role, Laura Ingalls. The Waltons survived without John Boy but I doubt Little House would have survived without Laura so I would guess ML and the powers that be bent over backwards to keep her and her "people" happy and keep her on the show. |
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Post by Sussie of Teckelhut Acres on Jan 20, 2020 17:21:10 GMT -5
It seems like I remember once reading about a big blow up involving pay and royalties including Waltons merchandise. Or as I totally wrong on that?
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Post by rickking on Sept 13, 2020 14:25:00 GMT -5
I remember reading an article years ago that stated that Farrah Fawcett was paid $5,000 per episode for her one season (1976-1977) on Charlie's Angels and to keep her on the show the powers that be offered to raise her salary to $8,000 per episode. However, she declined the pay raise and left the show. Boy, had times changed when the cast of Friends was given $1,000,000 per episode due to their popularity. And I think Friends started the current trend, which has led to far more commercials, and far fewer episodes per season.
During the early 60s, Bonanza aired 34 episodes per year. And I have the first episode which, including opening and closing credits, ran for 53 minutes. That means 7 minutes of commercials per hour.
It's very much like sports, where the key players, in fact all of the players, earn ridiculous amounts, making attending the games cost-prohibitive. And so many commercials wherever they can squeeze them in.
I long for the good old days of television!
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Post by carol on Sept 13, 2020 14:41:50 GMT -5
Tom Bower (Curt) left the show due to salary. He didn't want a huge amount just the same as the others were making. I take that to mean he wasn't making much playing Curt.
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Post by nedandres on Sept 14, 2020 0:30:14 GMT -5
I am thinking that Lorimar kept things on a lower scale while "The Waltons" was on the air. I know that they upped the salaries to keep Larry Hagman and some of the others on "Dallas." Tom Wopat and John Schneider left "Dukes of Hazzard" for a while to protest their salaries and were replaced temporarily. That was another Lorimar show, I think.
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Post by patriciaanne on Sept 14, 2020 14:17:33 GMT -5
I am thinking that Lorimar kept things on a lower scale while "The Waltons" was on the air. I know that they upped the salaries to keep Larry Hagman and some of the others on "Dallas." Tom Wopat and John Schneider left "Dukes of Hazzard" for a while to protest their salaries and were replaced temporarily. That was another Lorimar show, I think. I'm pretty sure they took advantage of the fact that these were kids, and most of them were not very experienced in the business yet. I might be able to understand them being low-balled the first season, but they should have been compensated much better after that once the show had established itself as a hit. |
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