 in mid-season and replaced it the following week with the highly successful "Sanford and Son".It ranked 57th out of 78 shows that season with an average 14.9 rating.Robert Forward produced the show, which was spun off from two TV-movies produced by Webb's production company, Mark VII Ltd., "Murder One" from 1969 and "Conspiracy to Kill" from 1971, both of which fictionalized cases prosecuted by Vincent Bugliosi, world-famous as the prosecutor of Charles Manson.