renew the program's time slots before any other producers could book them and thereby disrupt The Lone Shark’s production and broadcast schedules. Due to Haffner's attentiveness to these duties, the new producers could not book the 9 p.m. Monday time slot that they wanted and which The Lone Shark occupied. When the new producers complained to the WFAC-TV station management that they could not schedule their programs for the time slots that they wanted, the station management (which had been in conflict with Sharky and Haffner on numerous occasions over the previous years) suddenly changed its program scheduling policy. Instead of being able to schedule studio and broadcast times for a period of 13 episodes, programs would now only be allowed to schedule seven episodes at a time. Producers would not be allowed to renew their scheduled broadcast time slots until all seven episodes of their program had been broadcast. These changes in policy gave the new producers a window of opportunity in which they could try to schedule their programs in The Lone Shark’s 9 p.m. Monday time slot. Sharky and Haffner's solution was to create a new program. This new program would be broadcast on alternating weeks, with The Lone Shark filling in the broadcast dates when the new program was not scheduled to broadcast. When one program finished broadcasting its scheduled seven episodes, the alternate program would still break up the schedule for any producers hoping to schedule their program in the time slot. The new producers wanted to have their programs broadcast on consecutive weeks, so Sharky and Haffner's alternate-week scheduling of both of their programs not only allowed them to now schedule 14 weeks of episodes (instead of the original 13 weeks), it also made the intermittent unscheduled 9 p.m. Monday time slots unattractive to the other producers. The WFAC-TV station management notified The Lone Shark’s producers that they could not produce The Lone Shark, then just give it a different name and call it a new program. The station management assumed that Sharky and Haffner were a “one-trick pony” who would not be able to produce a program which had a different format from The Lone Shark. The station management believed that this stipulation would prevent Sharky and Haffner from producing their “new program”. However, Executive Producer Jim Sharky figured out how to create a new program that would be familiar enough to The