RON MEYER: We had a lot of clients who were booking episodic television with guest shots. In those days they probably paid $1,500 or $2,500 for a guest shot on a Quinn-Martin show, or The Fugitive, and we depended on a lot of that. When you book something for $2,500, your commission is $250, and even though every penny was always important to us, and the appearances were important to the clients, I realized we should get out of the episodic television business so we could concentrate on the series business and the Movie-of-the-Week business. There was a real robust Movie-of-the-Week business
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