What an amazingly honest and refreshing look behind the scenes. Michael went through hell. But his and Mackenzie's friendship prevailed through all of that. I have always thought that he was a very good addition to the cast. I am so happy he was able to come back, and deliver such amazing performances. Wonderful interview.
“One Day At A Time” was one of the best sitcoms of the ‘70’s. The gritty realities this show portrayed, are what made it so believable. Michael Lembeck was so handsome as “Max.” Mackenzie Phillips went through hell and back. I am so happy she survived. Many others didn’t.
I loved her in the 70s. I was one of those people that always thought, Mackenzie's going to make it, and she did. You can tell she was an awesome person despite her inner demons. I love her AGAIN on the new "ONE DAY AT A TIME" show.
@@josephadiaz8343 My Husband lived in LA in the late 70s it was sad that the Police picked her up out of the gutter on Hollywood blvd but knowing Her story as a child was very sad but she is doing good now.
@@cindysue5474 yah as a child and throughout her teens, she went through a lot of sadness. I'm proud of her today, she didn't give up on herself 🤗♥️♥️♥️🙏✌️😎.
@@josephadiaz8343 She said Mick Jagger had sex with her when she was 18 but what was disturbing was Mick said he has wanted to have sex with her for years.
Dear Michael Lembeck, I hope you read all of these comments. You had a huge following back in the day...and even now! You were the crush of many a teenager, both girls and boys (present company included!). Thank you for all of your great work. 😎
Totally with you, sister. I was SO into him, first as Kaptain Kool and then as Max. He and Paul Michael Glaser were the objects of my first fantasies 😍
Yes you’re right. I’ve been watching happy days lately and it honestly jumped the shark before fonzie actually jumped the shark. Those first 2 seasons were so good
You would think with him being in the industry for so long and being a director of episodic TV shows that he would know the definition. 🤔 I was surprised he said that then mentioned the show being in the top 5. I heard the ratings were still good enough at the end of the show's run. That is why they tried the Schneider spin off.
Loved One Day At A Time. The show was ingenious in mixing comedy with serious topics without being preachy. Some of those episodes that featured Michael/Max were actually Emmy worthy. Would have been nice if Michael was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Michael is right, MacKenzie is a lovely woman who has survived very many difficulties. She is an inspiration to anyone going through drug recovery. I had the pleasure to meet her at her book signing a few years ago. She immediately felt like a friend.
72 !!! Always a very handsome guy ...looks great now. He aged the way Hollywood would take an actor playing a young part , his age , and then aging them forty years.....
I liked Michael’s appearance on a first-season episode of Barney Miller where he played the detective with the beard and who ultimately got a gunshot wound in the behind.
Amazing how MacKenzie survived let alone became clean and healthy and awesome after 30+ years of drug use (as recent as 2008 was caught w heroin and coke at an airport) Just incredible the abuse some human bodies can take.
Had a HUGE crush on MICHAEL LEMBECK back in the early 80s. Only watched the show when he was on. Sorry he gave up acting afterwards but he is a successful television director now so I'm happy he found his calling. CALL ME MICHAEL!! lolz
Im glad she was able to recover. By most accounts that was a very tough period. Back then , I always thought the Julie character was flaky (completely aside from MacKenzie addiction issues). Her character was always so erratic. In more modern times, I think she would have been bipolar.
I remember when he was Captain Kool on THE KROFFT SUPERSHOW. He later became a tv director and won an Emmy directing the highest-ever rated episode of FRIENDS, "The One after the Super Bowl".
That "Dear Max" episode is also one of my favorites from ODAAT. Lembeck's performance was top notch. He's come a long way from his Kaptain Kool and the Kongs days (when I first was familiar with him). And damn, was he cute during his ODAAT run! What a hot looking man! He's still easy on the eyes.
MacKenzie Phillips wrote in her autobiography how her parents were into drugs. Her father sexually abused her for many years. It all makes sense why she got into the drug culture. It was self-medication to ease the pain of trauma.
@@harperstacey9604 Michelle Phillips divorced him and took Chynna away when, as a baby, she picked up a drug pill off the floor of the home and almost ate it. Chynna said she also found drawers full of syringes when she visited her father as a child. Chynna also became addicted during her teen years and ended up in the hospital with five bleeding ulcers before she got sober.
@@harperstacey9604 Mackenzie's father was John Phillips from the Mamas and the Papas. Sad to think he could perform such lovely witty songs, and be so vile at the same time.
I always thought Julie left because she suffered from severe post-partum depression. Without understanding what she was feeling, the character thought it best to leave. That's how I saw it.
Great insight. Back then there wasn’t awareness of the debilitating and sometimes tragic effects of severe post-party’s depression. It was just called “baby blues”.
Michael Lembeck became a great addition to the cast. It was Heartbreaking he was let go at the end of the 1979-80 Season. I'm happy him and MacKenzie got to return. I too like The Dear John Episode.
It's so sad that she became addicted. But, lots of people do. I had an acquaintance who died young due to a drug overdose. It was so sudden and shocking.
So sorry. My Father died from a drug and alcohol addiction. I didn’t understand as a child why he wasn’t there it was only as an adult that I understood it wasn’t my fault and that there was nothing I could have done. Addiction is a terrible thing.
I see the family resemblance.. His dad, Harvey Lembeck from the Beach Blanket movies, and Helaine Lembeck, his sister from Welcome back Kotter, Judy.....
They are airing the series on AntennaTV - Season 5.....the first four shows had my favorite opening with the Indianapolis city shots, redone by episode 5 when Michael was added - Max and Julie marry on a whim. Episode 12 Mackenzie was ordered off the show for six weeks (the first show was the 1979 retirement home show - character is in Houston), Max appears in a few shows alone. Episode 18-19 she returns for the two-part retrospective in 1980 and appears in episode 20 as well Episode 21 Perils of Plastic - Julie and Max overspend their credit cards - she was fired after that show. The opening credits redone again to remove her, and a section added at the end where Bonnie and Valerie get mail and Michael slips on Pat's mopped wet floor. Season 6 - both characters written out and not mentioned much at all. Season 7 - Episodes 4-5 "Julie shows up" character announces she is pregnant. (November 1981) Episodes 21-23: Barbara and Mark in Las Vegas - Julie and Max appear and in the third/final retirement show. Season 8 - they go back to regular characters (opening credits in shows they appear in). Things begin to look normal - Julie has Annie in episode 8-9. Season 9 - She is the first four episodes, opening credits and all. Her final episode was "The Bedtime Story" Episode 11 was the Dear Max episode - airing January 8, 1984 - he was alone in the next 10 shows Then the finale spinoff show attempt for Pat.
I ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS felt sorry for MacKenzie Phillips!!!! I mean, look at her father!!!! To have sexual relations with your child, I mean, how do you LIVE WITH THAT?! I'm sooooooo HAPPY that MacKenzie is at peace now, she truly deserves it!!!!
She knows the truth and I believe her. Two of my older brothers were raped when they were little (from age 3 to 8 years old), and didn't admit it until their 50s. They both never knew about each others trama. It almost happened to a third brother by the same people, but he got away, he was eight. In those days you were not to speak of such things.🧐🙄😠
I thought michael lembeck was such a cutie . His father was also an actor harvey lembeck was in the frankie avalon anette funicello beach movies was the leader of motorcycle gang ...was also on all in the family.
I think you are mistaking Harvey Lembeck with the actor that played one of the bowery boys......his name was Billy Halop......he was the one that showed up a few times on All in the Family.
His Dad Harvey, helped Kong co-star Michael McMeel get into acting. Mick dated Michael's sister Helene, for a awhile. I know, because Mick is a personal friend of mine.
Considering her upbringing, I would have been surprised if Ms Phillips DIDN'T eventually become addicted to drugs. Unfortunately, the show could not have veered into reality about the situation without running into legal problems. If they had been able to, the show might not have turned into such a " hot mess ". Ironically, in my experience, it's usually the younger daughter that is the rebel, always in and out of trouble. I am curious tho, as to why the producers didn't re-cast the part after the very first, or even second time, Ms Phillips was fired. BTW, it is kind of a shame that Mr Lembeck walked into this career killing situation. He definitely wasn't the comedic talent(?) his father was, but had he started in/stayed in mostly dramatic roles he might still be in front of the cameras.
he has had a fine career behind the camera her sob of a father fed her drugs when she was a kid she also had an eating disorder it's amazing she survived
The audience liked MacKenzie. There already was a relationship. You can't replace that. That's why she kept being re-hired. The show might as well had ended if they had replaced the Julie character. It would not have lasted
If one of my co-workers walked into my office and found me doing several lines of coke, I guarantee you my boss would also know I was doing that, and I would be fired on the spot and not given another chance. They wouldn't wait for me to mess up and then fire me, and then hire me back, and then fire me again, over and over. But then, it was just too awkward to write her character out that they put up with it for so long? That isn't how the real world works. Maybe she wouldn't have been so far gone if they had fired her right off the bat and not tolerated such flagrant drug use on the set.
don't be such a nazi. have some compassion.. which is ultimately.. what they were showing Mackenzie. Every addict deserves that compassion... as does Humanity itself.
...FIRST, lemme say ...LOVED Max! (Michael) ...funny, SEXY, handsome, had the **BEARD OF LIFE**, and, was CLEARLY talented, due to his MEGA success as a Producer / Director!! He MUST be lauded, one day!! ...NOW, The 'Julie's Gone' plot-line : ... Sorry, Michael, but... Julie did NOT come off well in that Episode, AT ALL; His own Acting was STELLAR, in those scenes, but, what REALLY teed me off (THEN), was Ann Romano's exasperated dismissive-ness of what Julie did...... (cont.) ...We ALL know Bonnie Franklin was NOT fond of MacKenzie's unprofessional-ism, but she CLEARLY washed her hands of MacKenzie (..AND, 'Julie') in that Episode; she acted out what she supposed to...but that's your DAUGHTER!! ....Even then, in 1984(?), we KNEW 'Julie' was 'addicted'... a TERRIBLE situation for 'Max' (and Michael) to be put through, for a 'new' character....My two cents......
He used the phrase “jumping the shark” to mean that it became more popular.I thought jumping the shark is from happy days having a bad episode and signaling the end of the show.
That's what I thought too. The jumping the shark episode of happy days was unintentionally laughable. Gonzo tries to jump a shark on his motorcycle like evelyn knievel. The show had run out of fresh ideas. I thought the phrase meant an episode that signified the beginning of the end for a tv show
Not for nothing but how do you reach the conclusion that yes, the character of my wife has to be written off the show, but I think my character will be fine. Some actors seem to lose a sense of reality and common sense.
What a genuinely classy guy.
What an amazingly honest and refreshing look behind the scenes. Michael went through hell. But his and Mackenzie's friendship prevailed through all of that. I have always thought that he was a very good addition to the cast. I am so happy he was able to come back, and deliver such amazing performances. Wonderful interview.
“One Day At A Time” was one of the best sitcoms of the ‘70’s. The gritty realities this show portrayed, are what made it so believable. Michael Lembeck was so handsome as “Max.” Mackenzie Phillips went through hell and back. I am so happy she survived. Many others didn’t.
She made it to the other side, when so many people don't. She lives in grace.
Yes, well said...❤
I loved her in the 70s. I was one of those people that always thought, Mackenzie's going to make it, and she did. You can tell she was an awesome person despite her inner demons. I love her AGAIN on the new "ONE DAY AT A TIME" show.
@@josephadiaz8343 My Husband lived in LA in the late 70s it was sad that the Police picked her up out of the gutter on Hollywood blvd but knowing Her story as a child was very sad but she is doing good now.
@@cindysue5474 yah as a child and throughout her teens, she went through a lot of sadness. I'm proud of her today, she didn't give up on herself 🤗♥️♥️♥️🙏✌️😎.
@@josephadiaz8343 She said Mick Jagger had sex with her when she was 18 but what was disturbing was Mick said he has wanted to have sex with her for years.
This was quite ahead of its time to show that life doesn't always work out the way you plan. Especially for a 70's-80's sitcom.
Dear Michael Lembeck, I hope you read all of these comments. You had a huge following back in the day...and even now! You were the crush of many a teenager, both girls and boys (present company included!). Thank you for all of your great work. 😎
Mr. Serlin speaks for me too!
He was sooo cute
@@davidserlin8097 I second that emotion!
He was one of the biggest crushes I ever had for an actor growing up🤗
Totally with you, sister. I was SO into him, first as Kaptain Kool and then as Max. He and Paul Michael Glaser were the objects of my first fantasies 😍
@@davidserlin8097 my biggest crush too
@@davidserlin8097EXACTLY the same!
@@QueenOfTheNorth65 yaaaas queen of the north
@@pavelthedog6939He was so much more cuter with the beard
I am so happy she sober now
“ Jump the Shark “ doesn’t mean it was going up , it means it was going down . Comes from when “ Fonzie “ jumped the shark on Happy Days .
Yeah, I caught that too.
Jump the shark is like throwing a Hail Mary attempt to save ratings
Yes you’re right. I’ve been watching happy days lately and it honestly jumped the shark before fonzie actually jumped the shark. Those first 2 seasons were so good
You would think with him being in the industry for so long and being a director of episodic TV shows that he would know the definition. 🤔
I was surprised he said that then mentioned the show being in the top 5. I heard the ratings were still good enough at the end of the show's run. That is why they tried the Schneider spin off.
I was just going to say the same thing, and i scrolled down to see if anyone commented. You beat me to it.
So great to see Michael Lembeck all these years later, I had such a crush on him, and he still looks amazing! He also had a very cool actor Dad too!
He was easy to crush on......that beard.......
The Dear Max episode played last week on Antenna TV. He should of won an Emmy for that one. I'm amazed he didn't become a bigger star after show.
i just watched it a few hours ago. Very good.
But he did become a great director in both TV and feature films.
Loved One Day At A Time. The show was ingenious in mixing comedy with serious topics without being preachy. Some of those episodes that featured Michael/Max were actually Emmy worthy. Would have been nice if Michael was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Loved him on Captain Kool and the Kongs
Throwback!
My crush 😍😍😍 especially when he was bearded
This man is in his early 70s. Dang!
He has great genes.
Michael is right, MacKenzie is a lovely woman who has survived very many difficulties. She is an inspiration to anyone going through drug recovery. I had the pleasure to meet her at her book signing a few years ago. She immediately felt like a friend.
Handsome silver daddy 😍
He even looks better now than he did then. He’s a respected director now. Very talented.
Totally, DAJ. Thanks for watching! Best, David
DAJ,
I know right?!
FTR, Michael’s 72 as of the upload date, but looks about 52 here.
Wow he does not look 72
I'll take the young version.
Always thought he was so cute, more handsome today.
I want him and I am a guy
I always has a crush on him too
@@lesliebrooks3567 a lot of men want other men... it’s called « homosexuality »
@@judethaddeus9856
Yes it is...and thank the Goddess for it!!
72 !!! Always a very handsome guy ...looks great now. He aged the way Hollywood would take an actor playing a young part , his age , and then aging them forty years.....
Son of a great character actor, Harvey Lembeck
It was my favorite show so it’s nice to see how they are family in real life as well. Unconditional regard and love.
Used to love his dad in the old beach blanket movies.
Baron von Zipper, wasn't it ?
@@davidgibbs381 Baron Erick Von Zipper I believe
Also his dad was in Stalag 17 with William Holden
I liked Michael’s appearance on a first-season episode of Barney Miller where he played the detective with the beard and who ultimately got a gunshot wound in the behind.
I just saw that episode the other day ....
Barney Miller had the coolest theme of all time ....IMO
I had a mad crush on him. Hes still so good looking
I cried when he shave off his beard back in the day. He had the best beard and stache in show business back then.
Me too. Thought he was the cutest white boy ever ☺️
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Yes yes yes yes yes!!
I had such a crush on Michael Lembeck! He still looks wonderful.
You can tell he's the son of Harvey Lembeck. There's the resemblance and he also has his father's mannerisms and way of speaking.
Love these interviews
If you came from a broken home back then, it was so relatable.
Amazing how MacKenzie survived let alone became clean and healthy and awesome after 30+ years of drug use (as recent as 2008 was caught w heroin and coke at an airport) Just incredible the abuse some human bodies can take.
Had a HUGE crush on MICHAEL LEMBECK back in the early 80s. Only watched the show when he was on. Sorry he gave up acting afterwards but he is a successful television director now so I'm happy he found his calling. CALL ME MICHAEL!! lolz
Lol 😂 ☎📞📱📠🤳
Im glad she was able to recover. By most accounts that was a very tough period. Back then , I always thought the Julie character was flaky (completely aside from MacKenzie addiction issues). Her character was always so erratic. In more modern times, I think she would have been bipolar.
I always thought Michael Lembeck was so dammed sexy - still handsome
MacKenzie Phillips's father is the Main reason her life was so Fkd up....
@@rextrekShe helped. 20 years she kept this up.
Great interview.
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I remember when he was Captain Kool on THE KROFFT SUPERSHOW. He later became a tv director and won an Emmy directing the highest-ever rated episode of FRIENDS, "The One after the Super Bowl".
Hey kids, Im Captain Kool (NYC accent)
I loved him on Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman, MARY HARTMAN 😂
That "Dear Max" episode is also one of my favorites from ODAAT. Lembeck's performance was top notch. He's come a long way from his Kaptain Kool and the Kongs days (when I first was familiar with him). And damn, was he cute during his ODAAT run! What a hot looking man! He's still easy on the eyes.
MacKenzie Phillips wrote in her autobiography how her parents were into drugs. Her father sexually abused her for many years. It all makes sense why she got into the drug culture. It was self-medication to ease the pain of trauma.
Mackenzie's father was a terrible parent. He gave her drugs when she was a teenager.
@@harperstacey9604 Michelle Phillips divorced him and took Chynna away when, as a baby, she picked up a drug pill off the floor of the home and almost ate it. Chynna said she also found drawers full of syringes when she visited her father as a child. Chynna also became addicted during her teen years and ended up in the hospital with five bleeding ulcers before she got sober.
@@harperstacey9604 Mackenzie's father was John Phillips from the Mamas and the Papas. Sad to think he could perform such lovely witty songs, and be so vile at the same time.
That was awesome
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I always thought Julie left because she suffered from severe post-partum depression. Without understanding what she was feeling, the character thought it best to leave. That's how I saw it.
Great insight. Back then there wasn’t awareness of the debilitating and sometimes tragic effects of severe post-party’s depression. It was just called “baby blues”.
i’d venture to say Julie was bipolar during a time no one knew what bipolar really was or how it can make you act
I remember when this happened in the show. He was too good lookin' and normal for her.
Michael Lembeck became a great addition to the cast. It was Heartbreaking he was let go at the end of the 1979-80 Season. I'm happy him and MacKenzie got to return. I too like The Dear John Episode.
It's so sad that she became addicted. But, lots of people do. I had an acquaintance who died young due to a drug overdose. It was so sudden and shocking.
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So sorry. My Father died from a drug and alcohol addiction. I didn’t understand as a child why he
wasn’t there it was only as an adult that I understood it wasn’t my fault and that there was nothing
I could have done. Addiction is a terrible thing.
glad she is better. but that celebrity rehab show was terrible!
I always thought Michael was so handsome, glad to see he still is.
GREAT interview! 😊
I see the family resemblance.. His dad, Harvey Lembeck from the Beach Blanket movies, and Helaine Lembeck, his sister from Welcome back Kotter, Judy.....
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he was also in bilko and the classic movie stalag 17 as well as tons of other shows.
Talented guy like his Dad. Remember them saying "she was finding herself:
Michael's dad, Harvey lembeck starred in a string of beach party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette funicello.
@@harperstacey9604 He was a acting teacher too
Erich Von Zipper, Jr.?
They are airing the series on AntennaTV -
Season 5.....the first four shows had my favorite opening with the Indianapolis city shots, redone by episode 5 when Michael was added - Max and Julie marry on a whim.
Episode 12 Mackenzie was ordered off the show for six weeks (the first show was the 1979 retirement home show - character is in Houston), Max appears in a few shows alone.
Episode 18-19 she returns for the two-part retrospective in 1980 and appears in episode 20 as well
Episode 21 Perils of Plastic - Julie and Max overspend their credit cards - she was fired after that show. The opening credits redone again to remove her, and a section added at the end where Bonnie and Valerie get mail and Michael slips on Pat's mopped wet floor.
Season 6 - both characters written out and not mentioned much at all.
Season 7 - Episodes 4-5 "Julie shows up" character announces she is pregnant. (November 1981)
Episodes 21-23: Barbara and Mark in Las Vegas - Julie and Max appear and in the third/final retirement show.
Season 8 - they go back to regular characters (opening credits in shows they appear in). Things begin to look normal - Julie has Annie in episode 8-9.
Season 9 - She is the first four episodes, opening credits and all. Her final episode was "The Bedtime Story"
Episode 11 was the Dear Max episode - airing January 8, 1984 - he was alone in the next 10 shows
Then the finale spinoff show attempt for Pat.
They are on Pluto Tv. I catch them on real early in the morning.
The show really tried to keep Julie on the show, but it just was too difficult.
High on arrival is her book, go read it. It is the best book I've ever read in my whole life.
So many years later...
he looks great!😏
I loved him in " On the Right Track ".
I ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS felt sorry for MacKenzie Phillips!!!! I mean, look at her father!!!! To have sexual relations with your child, I mean, how do you LIVE WITH THAT?! I'm sooooooo HAPPY that MacKenzie is at peace now, she truly deserves it!!!!
If she is telling the truth.
She could be lying just to sell her book. She wouldn't dare say that if he was still alive.
She knows the truth and I believe her. Two of my older brothers were raped when they were little (from age 3 to 8 years old), and didn't admit it until their 50s. They both never knew about each others trama. It almost happened to a third brother by the same people, but he got away, he was eight. In those days you were not to speak of such things.🧐🙄😠
@@harperstacey9604 you’re gross for saying this.
@@cocoaorange1 how ignorant.
I’ve always liked him
Loved him on love boat as joey with Lisa Hartman the high school reunion episode
It’s Captain Kool from Kool and the Kongs...1976 Krofft Supershow check it out.
I had such a crush on him! Still so handsome.
I thought michael lembeck was such a cutie . His father was also an actor harvey lembeck was in the frankie avalon anette funicello beach movies was the leader of motorcycle gang ...was also on all in the family.
Oh wow I thought it was his older brother lol.
I think you are mistaking Harvey Lembeck with the actor that played one of the bowery boys......his name was Billy Halop......he was the one that showed up a few times on All in the Family.
In his scenes from the show he is quite reminiscent of a young Scott Bakula.
One day at a time! 1970s i was a teenager then! Lol 😂 now i feel old!👵👴👶
He was the guy when I was a kid: He was in everything.
Kaptain Kool and the Kongs
@@evamastrianni4744 THANK YOU! I was trying to remember that name. Purple jumpsuit flittered hair.
Still a handsome dude.
❤ Michael is kind man.
I'd rather hear more about Michael, I loved him as Kaptain Kool and the movie "Gorp" he was hilarious!
He is a sweet man.
Really likable guy And role, grew up with this show.
His Dad Harvey, helped Kong co-star Michael McMeel get into acting. Mick dated Michael's sister Helene, for a awhile. I know, because Mick is a personal friend of mine.
He auditioned for the fonz. Nearly got it. Perfect guy
I never like fonz
he's ridiculously handsome. still.
he is 72
when they made back to the beach, they shouldve cast him as eric von zipper's son
his father died way too soon
Totally loved his Dad and “the Finger”! 🤣😂😅🥰🥰
@@christienelson1437 before the fonz....before mr spock and the vulcan death grip....there was eric von zipper and the finger.
he is still so handsome
Never realized his dad was Eric Von Zipper until right now.
Hard to believe he was once the lead singer of Kaptain Kool and the Kongs.
Wow, he's still pretty cute !
Very good looking talented guy.
He was a stud muffin
Is
Try to imagine your father doing this... it has too be the most horrible thing in your life... I feel for her.
He was so good looking! I'd have married him for real. Still handsome 😍
I love both husbands!
And Michael Lembeck was so cute….with or without a beard
Considering her upbringing, I would have been surprised if Ms Phillips DIDN'T eventually become addicted to drugs.
Unfortunately, the show could not have veered into reality about the situation without running into legal problems. If they had been able to, the show might not have turned into such a " hot mess ".
Ironically, in my experience, it's usually the younger daughter that is the rebel, always in and out of trouble.
I am curious tho, as to why the producers didn't re-cast the part after the very first, or even second time, Ms Phillips was fired.
BTW, it is kind of a shame that Mr Lembeck walked into this career killing situation. He definitely wasn't the comedic talent(?) his father was, but had he started in/stayed in mostly dramatic roles he might still be in front of the cameras.
he has had a fine career behind the camera
her sob of a father fed her drugs when she was a kid
she also had an eating disorder
it's amazing she survived
The audience liked MacKenzie. There already was a relationship. You can't replace that. That's why she kept being re-hired. The show might as well had ended if they had replaced the Julie character. It would not have lasted
If one of my co-workers walked into my office and found me doing several lines of coke, I guarantee you my boss would also know I was doing that, and I would be fired on the spot and not given another chance. They wouldn't wait for me to mess up and then fire me, and then hire me back, and then fire me again, over and over. But then, it was just too awkward to write her character out that they put up with it for so long? That isn't how the real world works. Maybe she wouldn't have been so far gone if they had fired her right off the bat and not tolerated such flagrant drug use on the set.
don't be such a nazi. have some compassion.. which is ultimately.. what they were showing Mackenzie. Every addict deserves that compassion... as does Humanity itself.
@@keetahbrough Don't throw the word nazi around to casually. I hardly think it fits here. They were enabling her, not showing compassion.
@@celladora31 Monica Murphy; Exactly.
I missed Michael as Kaptain Kool from the Krofft Supershow.
Michael Lembeck was sexy AF on the show, and still sexy today. Nice guy too.
Never forget Pat Harrington.
I loved his portrayal of Schneider.
I keep getting up to change the channel on this TV set, but nothing is happening. I think I need a TV repairman.
🤣🤣🤣
In the remake of this show, instead of having Phillips’ play a character named Pam the social worker, I would have had it be Julie.
I never seen the remake and never will. I hate when they remake shows and movies. Just leave them alone.
I had a huge crush on him...WOOF!
Kaptain Kool and the Kongs!
I, for one, had a crush...............
He looked a LOT like the guy that played Jedidiah on Barnaby Jones and that was on SWAT.
That was actor mark shera.
...FIRST, lemme say ...LOVED Max! (Michael) ...funny, SEXY, handsome, had the **BEARD OF LIFE**, and, was CLEARLY talented, due to his MEGA success as a Producer / Director!! He MUST be lauded, one day!! ...NOW, The 'Julie's Gone' plot-line : ... Sorry, Michael, but... Julie did NOT come off well in that Episode, AT ALL; His own Acting was STELLAR, in those scenes, but, what REALLY teed me off (THEN), was Ann Romano's exasperated dismissive-ness of what Julie did...... (cont.)
...We ALL know Bonnie Franklin was NOT fond of MacKenzie's unprofessional-ism, but she CLEARLY washed her hands of MacKenzie (..AND, 'Julie') in that Episode; she acted out what she supposed to...but that's your DAUGHTER!! ....Even then, in 1984(?), we KNEW 'Julie' was 'addicted'... a TERRIBLE situation for 'Max' (and Michael) to be put through, for a 'new' character....My two cents......
He used the phrase “jumping the shark” to mean that it became more popular.I thought jumping the shark is from happy days having a bad episode and signaling the end of the show.
That's what I thought too. The jumping the shark episode of happy days was unintentionally laughable.
Gonzo tries to jump a shark on his motorcycle like evelyn knievel. The show had run out of fresh ideas. I thought the phrase meant an episode that signified the beginning of the end for a tv show
Yes, that’s what it means. He got it wrong.
That poor girl had a life of torment.
Not for nothing but how do you reach the conclusion that yes, the character of my wife has to be written off the show, but I think my character will be fine. Some actors seem to lose a sense of reality and common sense.
Michael Lembeck appeared on Barney Miller.
He's left-handed!!
He's a southpaw. A term for people who are left handed.
Kap'n Kool.
Kaptain Kool, from The Krofft Supershow.
Kaptain Kool!