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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season… It’s impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

Aaron Spelling

Right now I’m doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it’s a lot of good work. It’s fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
AARON SPELLING

Cutting Doing Four Fun Now Outline Right Script Show Time Trying
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it’s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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Finish Patience Show Thinking Thought Tougher Year
One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.
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Bad Care Much One Thing Too Much Wife
You can’t predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can’t predict if a show is going to work or not until it’s on the air.
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Air Going Predict Show Work
I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
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Anything Deserve Everything Wife
We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season… It’s impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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End Episode Foreign Impossible Market Ninth Season
It’s been a straight strip, I must tell you, I’ve enjoyed it all the way. If I’m saying things to make it sound like it’s hard, hard work, it’s not. It’s beautiful work. It’s fun work. It’s everything you’d ever want to do.
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Beautiful Fun Hard Like Saying Sound Work
Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn’t have television? Do you know how much happiness I’ve brought to people who couldn’t get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?
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Happiness House People Rate Suicide Television
I don’t remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
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Couple Drama Fun Remember Shown TV
It’s OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can’t kiss another person because he’s a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I’m from Dallas, Texas.
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Another Color Cute Different Kissing OK Person Remember Turtle
I must tell you, I haven’t done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It’s a hard show to do, but I think it’s going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it’s a pretty strong show.
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Border Drug Hard People Problem Strong Thinking
I’ll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology, you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don’t have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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Anthology Arthlogies Division Love Missing Story
But, I don’t know, the violence, I can’t even talk about. We don’t do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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Silence Started Talk Television Violent Act
Now I’ve even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I’m trying to gather fans, frankly. They’re very, very nice people – they really understand. It’s fun talking to them.
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Bus Fun House Nice Pass People Running
I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it’s really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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Audience Depict Family Like Thinking Two Way
I don’t travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.
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Airplane Boat Kid Mean Travel Trzin Wife

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season… It’s impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

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