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To: buccaneer81

I would guess the Gerry/Sylvia divorce or Lew Grade pulled the plug on it?


70 posted on 10/23/2011 7:10:44 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: wally_bert
It was Lew Grade. But the show was turning a profit and as I said, all the pieces were in place. Then came a movie script...one that Grade fell in love with and was convinced would make bundles of money.

Unfortunately, this major motion picture was budgeted at $36 million...twice the budget for an entire season of Space:1999. He wanted it badly though, so it was the end of Alpha and the gang.

Lew Grade's pride and joy opened in the summer of 1980 and made a whopping....$7 million. The title of this debacle?

Raise The Titanic.

74 posted on 10/23/2011 7:24:32 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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