Apple's Way

"Apple's Way" was a mid-season replacement for "The New Perry Mason." The series did not gain the ratings CBS had hoped for, partly because it had to compete with NBC's long-running Top 20 hit "The Wonderful World of Disney" and ABC's popular crime drama "The F.B.I." The concept was "re-booted" in the second season to focus on plots that dealt more with such issues (such as freedom of speech, drug use, terminal illness) as opposed to the more rural-specific plots of the first season. The second season was produced by successful veteran producer-writer John Furia Jr, who hired Worley Thorne as story editor. The series was canceled during its second season and replaced with "Cher."