I think I mentioned in an old comment that Rex Stout's last Nero Wolfe novel, A Family Affair, which was published shortly before his death, had a surprise finish that led some to believe that Stout intended it to be Wolfe's "finale". It took some time for me to recognize Kindly Grandma as Family Affair's Kathy Garver, who is now 77 years old (and who has aged very well indeed).*īack in 1958, Fred Dannay and Manny Lee actually tried to "retite" the character of Ellery Queen, in a novel called "The Finishing Stroke" which would have marked the 30th anniversary of the character.įred and Manny weren't able to do that, mainly for economic reasons the story's been written up extensively elsewhere.* *Sidebar: Not long ago I saw a commercial for a captioning device for home telephones, featuring kindly grandparents happily using the gizmo. Situation comedies were a different story, especially those with children: those shows had to be in some kind of order, and were planned out as such. That's true of many long-running drama series over the years they weren't doing "continuing stories", so the shows could run in whatever order was convenient. In the case of Perry Mason, they couldn't conclude the series, because as you observed, Erle Stanley Gardner was still writing the books (the last two novels were published posthumously). (If you stick with Sam Benedict, you'll see a textbook example of this.)
This whole "series finale" nonsense is a comparatively recent phenomenon, pretty much limited to series television in recent years, it's become ridiculous.īack In The Day*tm*, TV series episodes were self-contained there was no "continuity" as such, and it didn't matter in what order the episodes ran.
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