Not entirely related, which TV series created the most obscure spin-off?

[Deja Q]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2447190&mesg_id=2447190

I'd say "Sanford and Son" had the most obscure spin-off. Entitled "Grady", it was about Grady - Sanford's wacky friend. And the show was so much a typical bland carbon-copy sitcom that it's no wonder it got cancelled as soon as it had.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-809/

Indeed, "Sanford and Son" had another spinoff: "The Sanford Files". Not to forget the third spinoff "Sanford".

[bluestateguy]

1. "Checking in" from "The Jeffersons"

In 1981, the Jeffersons' hosekeeper, played by Marla Gibbs, left to take a management position at a fancy hotel in New York. The show flopped after like 3 episodes or something like that. She quietly returned to the Jeffersons, only making reference to the hotel by saying that it "burned down".

[Left Is Write]

2. How about these -

The Brady Brides (Brady Bunch)

Checking In (The Jeffersons)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081839/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9Y2hlY2tpbmcgaW4gfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=21

Enos (Dukes Of Hazzard)

Fish (Barney Miller)

Tabitha (Bewitched)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075590/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9VGFiaXRoYXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=59;fm=1

Richie Brockelman, Private Eye (The Rockford Files)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077070/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9cmljaGllIGJyb2NrZWxtYW58aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=2;fm=1

Top Of The Heap (Married With Children)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101222/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9dG9wIG9mIHRoZSBoZWFwfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=2;ft=13;fm=1

The Sanford Arms (Sanford and Son)

[meegbear]

5. I liked Fish

they had the "I wanna talk to you about ... DIAREHHA" guy as the soical worker.

[NoPasaran]

3. 704 Houser

A short-lived sitcom about an Afican-American family living in Archie Bunker's old house

[bluestateguy]

6. I remember that

Rush Limbaugh plugged that show (which lasted six episodes). The father (John Amos) was an auto mechanic and a veteran of the civil rights movement, while his son was a conservative and an MBA student with a white Jewish girlfriend (which his father disapproved of).

[bluestateguy]

4. Models Inc. would be another one

A grandchild--spinoff of a spinoff--of 90210, and spinoff of Melrose Place. It was about the cut throat competitive lives of several bitchy models and their agency's duplicitious owner. The show lasted a full season, before going under. Sex appeal can only take a show so far. Plot lines have to be at least moderately interesting. That's how Baywatch survived, by having plot lines that were just barely interesting enough to hold people's interest. The sex appeal did the rest.

[Rick Myers]

7. M*A*S*H spawned...

AfterMASH! What the Hell we're THEY smokin'???

[Taxloss]

8. "Sanford and Son" was itself a retread of the UK "Steptoe and Son".

Quite possibly the most spun-off and reworked show in history:

Eventually, in 1970, the show reappeared - now in colour - for a further four series, again blessed with some sublime scripts. Commercially, it enjoyed even greater triumphs second time around, inspiring two feature film spin-offs, Steptoe And Son (1972) and Steptoe And Son Ride Again (1974), and, eventually (following a second failed pilot), a successful US version, Sanford And Son (1972-77). This was produced by Norman Lear who had scored heavily with All In The Family a US adaptation of Till Death Us Do Part Lear made the junk dealers black, figuring that an oppressed underclass would be more likely running such a downmarket business, and to allow exploration of many of the same racially controversial topics that had made All In The Family such a hit. Starring Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford and Demond Wilson as his son Lamont, Sanford And Son was an instant ratings smash and remained a popular favourite in the USA for much of its five-year run. (It has never shown on British TV.) Spin-offs included Grady (1975-76), The Sanford Arms (1977) and Sanford (1980-81).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/steptoeandson_7776035.shtml

[Eugene]

9. "The Ropers" from "Three's Company"