In the late 80s and early 90s, Full House dominated the airwaves. The household sitcom was a scores success and its syndication bundle introduced in extra viewers. Nonetheless, by 1995, ABC was not feeling the love. Whereas the scores had been nonetheless sturdy, manufacturing prices had been rising, and tv viewers had been shifting away from family-oriented sitcoms in favor of edgier exhibits like Seinfeld. That’s why ABC opted to not renew Full House after its eighth season.
Nonetheless, there was nonetheless hope for the Tanners: The WB was serious about selecting up the sitcom for two extra seasons. Sadly, negotiations fell aside at the final minute, ending Full House for good. The plans modified so late in the sport that the writers didn’t have time to plan a correct sequence finale.
“It was laborious,” Jodie Sweetin says throughout a panel at 90s Con 2024. “We didn’t actually have quite a lot of time to say goodbye. It was solely a few weeks that we discovered that we weren’t going to be going to [the WB].”
“We had been engaged on a two-year pickup with the WB at the finish of Full House,” Coulier says. “It simply didn’t work out that approach. I feel [producers] Bob Boyett and Tom Miller, they needed to go to New York and begin producing performs on Broadway. And that’s what they did, and that’s what they nonetheless do.”
“Is the final episode the one the place Michelle fell off the horse and misplaced her reminiscence?” Candace Cameron asks. “That’s the one which aired, and the one with Andrew Keegan is the one which we shot. That was the final episode we recorded,” Sweetin solutions.
Sweetin is referring to ‘All Stood Up,’ an episode the place Andrew Keegan visitor stars as a love curiosity for Stephanie. The episode was the final one the forged filmed, nevertheless it aired as the penultimate episode. ‘Michelle Rides Once more’ was a two-parter which aired as the sequence finale, although it had been filmed earlier.
Whereas the sequence finale didn’t give the forged the closure they needed, it did comprise the shock return of Scott Weigner as Steve Hale, who exhibits as much as take DJ to promenade.
“Was promenade in that final episode? As a result of Scott shocked me,” Cameron says. “I assumed it was the promenade one too, as a result of we needed to maintain Scott backstage and a secret from you,” Andrea Barber says.
“Yeah, that was actually a shock that day in that episode,” Cameron says. “I had no concept Scott was going to be at the door. We thought it was going to be Joey Lawrence. They had been similar to, ‘It’s going to be a shock visitor.’ We stored attempting to be like, ‘Who’s it going to be? Who’s it going to be?’ My guess was Joey, however then it was Scott.”
Whereas the forged want issues had gone in a different way, they notice that the sequence had in all probability run its course.
“I feel at that time we type of felt collectively that, I might’ve liked to do two more seasons, however collectively the thought was, what number of more tales can we inform? And that’s what I type of heard. That’s why we didn’t transfer to the WB for two more seasons,” Coulier says.