| abstract | - Snow White married Prince Charming and started a family. The evil witch-queen sent them to enchanted sleep until present-day America. She and a dwarf named Luther get sent forward the same way. Result? A Fish Out of Temporal Water Sitcom. This was not a good show - the writers didn't have the inspiration to realize the true potential of the material; little happened here that couldn't happen in a normal Sitcom. The producers had a visibly low budget, so there was little magic, and what magic there was was sometimes Special Effect Failure. Having to work around concepts that Disney believes it owns likely didn't help, either. (No, Disney had nothing to do with this.) Nevertheless, its first season brought in high Ratings -- high enough that the actress who played Snow White got replaced in the second season, since the first actress demanded more money based on her demonstrated drawing power. Its second season bombed, partly for the reasons already mentioned, and partly because ABC showed NO faith in it whatsoever (they moved it up against The Cosby Show, where it got slaughtered).
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