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.

The Law and Harry McGraw, 1987-88

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This was sort of a dry run for Jerry Orbach. Years before appearing as Law and Order's Lennie Briscoe, Orbach starred as the titular private detective in this Boston-set Murder She Wrote spin-off. He was gruff and hard-edged (but with a soft center), yet a brilliant private eye. Nothing we hadn't seen before.

The title rhymes, though.

So that's cool.

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