According to Carver, "...the characters of John Burns and Tony Banta were too similar...Some of the lines were almost interchangeable...," so he was dropped after the first season, without explanation.
Хотя шоу было любимо критиками, и достигло рейтинговых успехов в первые два сезона, на более позднем периоде рейтинги начали падать, и ABC пришлось закрыть сериал весной 1982 года.