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"The Lisa Whelchel Show," a sequel to the Facts of Life in which Blair Warner is headmistress of the now-coed Eastland Academy, was all set to air on NBC, but she got married and decided to be a wife and mother instead so what was to be a two-part backdoor pilot for a new show turned into a finale.

Likewise, Pat Harrington, Jr. was supposed to get a sequel to the original One Day at a Time where Schneider took care of his dead brother's children.

And after the reboot of What's Happening!! took off, there was also talk in the 1980s of bringing back That's My Mama!; Clifton Davis had already committed to Amen so he was unavailable, but Ted Lange, fresh off The Love Boat, came back. It never got past the pilot stage.

And here's the kicker: the two Simpsons spinoffs we could have gotten but didn't. One was a live-action Krusty the Klown show, the other a show that would have been basically vignettes of the supporting characters with the Simpsons themselves as background characters.