Top 10 Worst TV Spin-Offs
Private Practice, the ABC spin-off of the hit hospital drama Grey's Anatomy, is back for a second season. Not all spin-offs are so fortunate, however: TIME looks back at the most absurd, ill-planned and disastrous TV-show spawn of the past few decades.
AfterMASH, 1983-84
The Korean War had ended, but the creators of the hit show M*A*S*H, one of the most successful television shows of all time, just couldn't walk away. Like the Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice — whose second season premieres tonight — AfterMASH took a main character out of a high-pressure medical situation and placed that person into ... a significantly less vital setting. Yanked from the cauldron of war, Colonel Potter, Sergeant Klinger and Father Mulcahy end up at a veterans' hospital. Scintillating. A well-received first season was followed by a disastrous second one when AfterMASH was placed against The A-Team. Then it was canceled.
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