[quote name=\'mystery7\' date=\'Jan 26 2005, 06:06 PM\'][quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Jan 26 2005, 05:24 PM\']For all the flack he gets for his ABC decisions, wasn't it the case that Fred had a lot to do with the CBS return to morning games in the 70s? His run there from 1963 to around 1975 included daytime projects.
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But he was also the guy who killed Password while he was at CBS. He wanted desperately to do a soap called "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing". In order to get his wish for the show's success, he chose to put "Thing" on in Password's time slot.
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I don't have the ratings with me, but wasn't "Password" showing its age by then and getting killed by "TNG" over on ABC?