8 TV Shows You Had No Idea Were Rewritten By Real Life Events
1. Peggy's Pregnancy In Married...With Children Turned Out To Be A Dream Because The Actress Miscarried
Married...With Children was an American sitcom that lasted eleven seasons, centring on a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago suburb. Among the show's cast was Katey Sagal, who played Peggy Bundy, wife of Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill).
At the beginning of the sixth season it was revealed in the episode She's Having My Baby: Part 1 that Peggy was pregnant. Much of the season had been written with this in mind in order to accommodate for Katey Sagal's real life pregnancy, but when she had a miscarriage following a stillbirth six weeks early, the show's writers were forced to make serious changes.
In the end, all they could really do was concede that the beginning of the season had been Al's dream, and fortunately for Sagal, her subsequent pregnancy was successful.