There are many caches paying homage to the best of us, sports, heros, friend, achivements etc. Over the years there have been many shows on TV that you just could not miss and schedules were set to be there to watch. This however is not one of them.
This is a TV show, short lived and bad. It took a good actor from a great and maybe one of the best ever tv shows and gave him a vechile that died quickly. So to drege up all those bad memories from bad tv I give you Hello Larry. If you missed it be thankful.
The series, created by Dick Bensfield and Perry Grant (veteran writers with a résumé going back to The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and The Andy Griffith Show), consisted of 35 episodes. Bensfield and Grant had also worked on One Day at a Time. The show was produced by Woody Kling and directed by Doug Rogers.
Hello, Larry is sometimes referred to as a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes. In actuality, it was conceived as a show in its own right. After struggling to gather ratings, NBC rescheduled it to appear immediately following Diff'rent Strokes and had it written in that Larry and Phillip Drummond were old Army friends (with Drummond's company becoming the new owners of Larry's radio station), thereby allowing several crossover episodes on both programs in the hope of raising Hello, Larry's popularity.
Hello, Larry aired on NBC at a time when that network was at its nadir in the ratings. The show was greeted by viewers who had high expectations based on Stevenson'sM*A*S*H association, but quickly gained an extremely bad reputation as a weakly written, unfunny sitcom. The show was not helped by frequent ridicule from Johnny Carson in his The Tonight Show monologues. Indicative of NBC's struggles at the time, Hello, Larry—despite its extremely poor reception—lasted 35 episodes and was renewed for a second season.
TV Guide ranked the series number 12 on their "50 Worst Shows of All Time" list in 2002