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Valerie Harper fought with Lorimar producers over creative directions of Valerie the TV show and got fired; she was replaced by Sandy Duncan shortly thereafter. Similarly, Roseanne Barr fought with her producer Matt Williams about the direction of her show, just a year later. The difference being Matt Williams wound up getting let go, not Roseanne. As a joke, during the whole kerfuffle, Roseanne changed the name on her door to Sandy Duncan.
Many sets used in scenes inside the house were also used in Eine starke Familie (1991) and Alle unter einem Dach (1989).
Because of casting changes the name of the show was changed twice during its run. It was originally simply called "Valerie," to capitalize on the fact Valerie Harper was the star of the show. After she left at the end of the second season, the title was changed to, "Valerie's Family," even though Harper was no longer on the show, due in part to the hope she might return. For the fourth season through the end of the sixth, it was called, "The Hogan Family".
Brandon Tartikoff wrote that when Valerie Harper left the show and the title was changed to "The Hogan Family", the staff privately called it "Throw Momma from the Series". According to the scriptwriters, Valerie's character lost her life in an automobile wreck.
Lorimar producers wanted to keep the name as "Valerie" even after Valerie got fired; but Valerie Harper would not let them. She sued them and blocked this through the courts.
Even though Jeremy Licht and Luis Daniel Ponce played twins, Jeremy is actually 20 months older than Luis.
Though Josh Taylor was a regular on the show, the first two seasons only had him as an occasional character, appearing in only two or three scenes on each episode. When Sandy Duncan took over Valerie Harper's role in the third season, the producers decided to change Taylor's character to be home more often.
Edie McClurg and Judith Kahan co-starred in the Valerie years as her neighbors. Coincidentally, both played Grace the secretary in different incarnation of Ferris Bueller's Day Off: McClurg in the original 1986 movie, and Kahan in the short-lived NBC series in 1990.
Edie McClurg played a character named Mrs. Poole in "Valerie" and also in "7th Heaven".
According to Valerie Harper's biography, Carol Kane, who played Simka Gravas on Taxi and was a friend of Valerie, was having lunch with Valerie Harper after she got fired. A mutual friend of theirs stopped by and said hello. Harper at that point told the friend that she had gotten fired from her TV show. Kane told her she didn't have to tell people she got fired; she could just tell them she left. Harper responded that "it's better to be honest."
Valerie Harper fought with Lorimar producers over creative directions of Valerie the TV show and got fired; she was replaced by Sandy Duncan shortly thereafter. Similarly, Roseanne fought with Roseanne producer Matt Williams about the direction of her show, just a year later. The difference being Matt Williams got let go, not Roseanne. As a joke, during the whole kerfuffle, Roseanne changed the name on her door to Sandy Duncan. This is also ironic because years later; during the Roseanne reboot; Roseanne went on a racist twitter spree and then the show was promptly cancelled. There was then speculation in the media if the show could be resurrected the same way Valerie Harper's show was; by killing off Valerie Harper's character, who had also been fired, and having the show continue as "The Hogan Family". Valerie Harper's show continued for several seasons as "The Hogan Family" (and even cracked the top 30 ratings list one year) after Harper had been fired. The network brass at ABC pondered whether it would be possible to continue Roseanne without it's star; as "The Connner Family". Eventually ABC did greenlight "The Conners", an official spinoff to Roseanne. This is very similar to the situation with Valerie Harper getting fired in 1987 and her sitcom being renamed "The Hogan Family" afterwords. And industry insiders are predicting a similar result; that the sitcom will run without it's titular head for a couple years, and then get cancelled.
Jeremy Licht played the villainous, telekinetic and monstrous Anthony in "The Twilight Zone Movie" before he starred in Valerie.
Edie McClurg's most famous role before "Valerie" was the villainous Helen Shyers in Carrie (1976).
Sandy Duncan's most famous role is Peter Pan in the long running Broadway Musical.
Edie Mclurg concurrently appeared on both Small Wonder and Valerie/The Hogan Family throughout the late 80s.
The show's theme song, "Together Through the Years", was sung by Roberta Flack with music by Charles Fox. 13 years earlier, Fox had written the music to Roberta's Grammy winning #1 hit "Killing Me Softly With His Song".
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| Complete series cast summary: | |||
| Jason Bateman | - | David Hogan 110 episodes, 1986-1991 | |
| Jeremy Licht | - | Mark Hogan 110 episodes, 1986-1991 | |
| Luis Daniel Ponce | - | Willie Hogan 110 episodes, 1986-1991 | |
| Josh Taylor | - | Michael Hogan 110 episodes, 1986-1991 | |
| Edie McClurg | - | Mrs. Patty Poole 88 episodes, 1986-1991 | |
| Sandy Duncan | - | Sandy Hogan 78 episodes, 1987-1991 | |
| Steve Witting | - | Burt 52 episodes, 1987-1991 | |
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