Maybe This Time (TV series)

{{Infobox television

| image =

| caption =

| genre = Sitcom

| creator = Michael Jacobs
Susan Estelle Jansen
Bob Young

| writer = Amy Engelberg
Wendy Engelberg
Michael Jacobs
Susan Estelle Jansen
Chip Keyes
Heather MacGillvray
Linda Mathious
Peggy Nicoll
Rick Singer
Bob Young
Steve Young

| director = David Trainer

| starring = Marie Osmond
Betty White
Ashley Johnson
Amy Hill
Craig Ferguson

| composer = Ray Colcord

| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 18

| executive_producer = Michael Jacobs
Bob Young

| producer = Mitchell Bank
Brian J. Cowan
Michael Poryes
David Trainer

| cinematography = Walter Glover

| camera = Multi-camera

| runtime = 22–24 minutes

| company = Michael Jacobs Productions
Touchstone Television

| channel = ABC

| first_aired = {{Start date|1995|09|15}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1996|02|17}}

}}

Maybe This Time is an American sitcom television series created by Michael Jacobs and Bob Young{{cite book |last1=Cotter |first1=Bill |title=The Wonderful World of Disney Television |date=1997 |publisher=Hyperion Books |isbn=0-7868-6359-5 |pages=471–472}} for ABC. It premiered on September 15, 1995, and ended on February 17, 1996, with a total of 18 episodes over the course of 1 season.

The series stars Marie Osmond as a mother and recent divorcee running the family bakery with her mother (Betty White) while raising her 11-year-old daughter (Ashley Johnson). The show's supporting cast includes Amy Hill, Craig Ferguson and Dane Cook, who joined the cast midway through its run.

Synopsis

The series revolved around two elements, the relationships between three generations of women and the bakery which the elder two owned and operated in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Thirtysomething Julia Wallace (Osmond), recovering from a divorce, puts her work running the bakery with her mother Shirley (White) and raising her daughter Gracie (Johnson) over trying to find romance once again. Julia's take comes much to the objection to the man-obsessed Shirley (a variation of White's Sue Ann Nivens from The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and the pre-adolescent Gracie who was waiting for her first kiss at the series outset. Outside of the opposite sex, the dynamics of the relationships between the three characters are explored.

Julia and Shirley were helped at the bakery by Scottish émigré Logan McDonough (Ferguson) whose views complemented those of his bosses. The most frequently seen customer on the series was Kay Ohara (Hill), owner of the pawn shop down the street from the bakery. Assorted other townspeople also came in and out of the bakery as well.

=Additions=

Midway through the run, two other characters were added. Kyle (Cook), the quarterback of the football team at an unnamed local college, came in to help out at the bakery while Gracie gained an on-again, off-again boyfriend in the streetwise Nicky (Ross Malinger). The introduction of Nicky coincided with Julia dating his father, Nick Sr. (Robert Cicchini) though their date did not progress any further unlike their children.

Cast and characters

Marie Osmond as Julia Wallace
Betty White as Shirley Wallace
Ashley Johnson as Gracie Wallace
Amy Hill as Kay Ohara
Craig Ferguson as Logan McDonough
Ross Malinger as Nicky
Robert Cicchini as Nick Sr.
Dane Cook as Kyle

Episodes

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|EpisodeNumber = 1

|Title = Please Re-Lease Me

|DirectedBy = David Trainer

|WrittenBy = Susan Estelle Jansen

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|9|15}}

|Viewers = 18.0{{cite news|title=A scrambling CBS slips behind Fox|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=September 20, 1995|author=Graham, Jefferson}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 2

|Title = Maybe This Time

|DirectedBy = David Trainer

|WrittenBy = Michael Jacobs & Bob Young & Susan Estelle Jansen

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|9|16}}

|Viewers = 12.9

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 3

|Title = Gracie Under Fire

|DirectedBy = David Trainer

|WrittenBy = Peggy Nicoll

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|9|23}}

|Viewers = 11.7{{cite news|title=NBC Sunday starters stumble|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=September 27, 1995|author=Graham, Jefferson}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 4

|Title = Out, Out, Damn Radio Spot!

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|9|30}}

|Viewers = 11.0{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=October 4, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 5

|Title = Snitch Doggy-Dogg

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|10|14}}

|Viewers = 9.8{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=October 18, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 6

|Title = Beasy Body

|DirectedBy = David Trainer

|WrittenBy = Susan Estelle Jansen

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|10|28}}

|Viewers = 9.4{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=November 1, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 7

|Title = Julia's Day Off

|DirectedBy = David Trainer

|WrittenBy = Amy Engleberg & Wendy Engleberg

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|11|4}}

|Viewers = 10.8{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=November 8, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 8

|Title = Coach Julia

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|11|11}}

|Viewers = 11.6{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=November 15, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 9

|Title = The Other Mother

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|11|25}}

|Viewers = 8.4{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=November 29, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 10

|Title = The Catch

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|12|16}}

|Viewers = 8.2{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=December 20, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 11

|Title = Judgement Day

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|12|23}}

|Viewers = 9.7{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=December 27, 1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 12

|Title = Nick at Night

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|1|6}}

|Viewers = 10.3{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=January 10, 1996}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 13

|Title = Break a Leg

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|1|13}}

|Viewers = 8.9{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=January 17, 1996}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 14

|Title = Lucky Puck

|DirectedBy = David Trainer

|WrittenBy = Steve Young

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|1|20}}

|Viewers = 11.0{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=January 24, 1996}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 15

|Title = Acting Out

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|1|26}}

|Viewers = 16.1{{cite news|title=Super Bowl, 'Friends' lead to NBC blowout|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=January 31, 1996|author=DeRosa, Robin}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 16

|Title = Stand Up Your Man

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|2|3}}

|Viewers = 9.9{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=February 7, 1996}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 17

|Title = St. Valentine's Day Massacre

|DirectedBy = David Trainer

|WrittenBy = Rick Singer & Andrew Green

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|2|10}}

|Viewers = 7.2{{cite news|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=February 14, 1996}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 18

|Title = Whose Life is it Anyway?

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1996|2|17}}

|Viewers = 7.5{{cite news|title=Powerhouse Thursday propels NBC|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|date=February 21, 1996|author=DeRosa, Robin}}

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Production

=''Boy Meets World'' connection=

The episode "Acting Out" featured Ben Savage, Rider Strong and William Daniels making cameo appearances as Cory Matthews, Shawn Hunter and George Feeny, their characters from Michael Jacobs's other ABC sitcom Boy Meets World. However, the two series do not exist in the same fictional universe as they appeared in the form of television characters in a fictional episode of Boy Meets World being watched by Gracie, who later had a waking dream about them.

=Cancellation=

The series initially entered the Top 20 with the debut of its preview episode on September 15, 1995, but later ranked #47 in its Saturday night timeslot.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/10/arts/the-annotated-calendar-television.html|title=The Annotated Calendar; Television|last=Carter|first=Bill|date=September 10, 1995|work=The New York Times|access-date=2009-04-15}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,298938,00.html|title=The Ratings – How the 'West' Was Lost |magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=September 29, 1995|access-date=2009-04-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070326060850/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,298938,00.html|archive-date=2007-03-26}} ABC canceled the series after 18 episodes.

Awards and nominations

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Year ! Award ! Category ! Recipient ! Result
rowspan=2\|1996 \| rowspan=2\|Young Artist Awards \| Best Performance by a Young Actress - TV Comedy Series \| Ashley Johnson \| {{Nominated}}
Best Performance by a Young Actor - Guest Starring Role TV Series \| Chris J. Miller \| {{Nominated}}

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Year

! Award

! Category

! Recipient

! Result

rowspan=2|1996

| rowspan=2|Young Artist Awards

| Best Performance by a Young Actress - TV Comedy Series

| Ashley Johnson

| {{Nominated}}

Best Performance by a Young Actor - Guest Starring Role TV Series