- Creator Backlash: Paul Shaffer often expressed his embarrassment over the show, but he also got some good comedic mileage from it, turning his dead-on impression of executive producer Don Kirshner into a Running Gag on Saturday Night Live.
- The Danza: Paul and Greg.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: The show is now impossible to find, legally or otherwise.
- Stillborn Franchise: This show was result of an unlikely collaboration between Norman Lear and Don Kirshner, former music director of The Monkees and a big name in The '70s as the mogul behind the series Don Kirshner's Rock Concert and Kirshner Records (home of Kansas). The expectation was that it would be a huge hit and launch Evigan and Shaffer into a Monkees-like music career, and an album was released alongside the show's debut, but both the show and the album bombed.
- The Shelf of Movie Languishment: According to this article
, the show was filmed in 1974 but didn't air until 1977. In the meantime, Evigan had to turn down a role in Welcome Back, Kotter because he was contractually tied to A Year at the Top.
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