Editing Fridays (TV series) (section)

==Episodes==
{{main|List of Fridays episodes}}
{{:List of Fridays episodes}}

===Andy Kaufman incident===
On the February 20, 1981, episode, [[Andy Kaufman]] was the host. During a sketch about couples at dinner sneaking away to the bathroom to smoke marijuana, Kaufman, who was known for causing trouble on [[live television]], broke character and refused to read his lines (saying "I can't play stoned"). Michael Richards got up from the table, grabbed the cue cards and threw them down on the table in front of Kaufman, who responded by splashing a glass of water on Richards' face. Some of the show's cast and crew members (including Richards and Burns) became angry and a small brawl broke out on stage. Since the show was broadcast live, home viewers were able to see most of these events transpire until the network cut the cameras off. Kaufman returned the following week in a taped apology to home viewers. The incident was planned by Kaufman, who concocted it with his sidekick [[Bob Zmuda]], and was meant as a prank. The only individuals aware of the plan were producer/director Moffitt, producer/announcer Burns, and the three comedians acting in the sketch along with Kaufman: Richards, Chartoff and Burrell.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.tvparty.com/80fridays4.html|website= TVparty|title= Fridays Andy Kaufman Incident|access-date= 6 April 2016|first= L. Wayne|last= Hicks|archive-date= 13 April 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160413133304/http://www.tvparty.com/80fridays4.html|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.aish.com/j/f/48954246.html|first= Melanie|last= Chartoff|title= An Andy Kaufman Story|website= aish.com|date= 28 July 2007|access-date= 6 April 2016|archive-date= 16 April 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160416012334/http://www.aish.com/j/f/48954246.html|url-status= live}}</ref> This incident was reenacted in the film ''[[Man on the Moon (film)|Man on the Moon]]'' ([[1999 in film|1999]]), starring [[Jim Carrey]] as Kaufman, Zmuda as Burns, [[Norm Macdonald]] as Richards, [[Caroline Rhea]] as Chartoff and [[Mary Lynn Rajskub]] as Burrell.

===Cancellation===
The series ended in [[1982 in American television|1982]] following ABC's decision to expand ''[[Nightline]]'' to five nights a week, which moved ''Fridays'' to air at midnight instead of 11:30pm.  This lasted from January through April 1982, after which the show was dropped from ABC's schedule.

One final attempt was made by ABC to revive the show by putting it on in [[prime time]], about a month after its final late-night broadcast. The sole prime-time episode of ''Fridays'' (broadcast on April 23, 1982) was scheduled against ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]'', which did nothing to help the show's moribund ratings. The series was promptly canceled.