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While Mayim Bialik\u00a0re-entered the world of stardom with her role on “The Big Bang Theory,” and short-lived time as the host of Jeopardy!<\/a>, most Gen-Xers remember her as “Blossom” \u2014 the high energy teenager who danced to a killer theme song<\/a> and had weekly adventures with her family and best friend, Six. But “Blossom” likely wouldn’t be the show fans remember today unless another show had failed a year earlier. Before Bialik would be cast in the titular role on “Blossom,” she was set to star in a completely different sitcom as the title character, “Molloy.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The show followed Bialik’s character as she moved from New York to Los Angeles to live with her father and stepsister, played by another future star: Jennifer Aniston. The show never got off the ground and was canceled after just seven episodes. In a\u00a0Washington Post<\/a> interview from 1991, Bialik said that was fine by her. “Basically, there were a lot of changes done in the show that we didn’t necessarily agree with,” she said.\u00a0“When ‘Blossom’ came along, it was what I wanted to do and I was really committed to doing it.” Bialik said if push came to shove, she would have left “Molloy” for “Blossom,” but it’s unclear if contractually that would have been allowed. Thankfully for Bialik and her career, it didn’t come to that.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Mayim Bialik wasn’t the only cast member who came from a failed sitcom<\/p>\n
Ron Davis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Once “Molloy” was officially canceled, “Blossom” producers moved to secure Mayim Bialik as the star. Creator Don Reo told Yahoo News<\/a> that without Bialik, the show wouldn’t have worked. “I never considered anyone else,” Reo said. “There was never any doubt in my mind, from the moment I first laid eyes on her, that she was the character. Same thing is true of Jenna von O\u00ff.”<\/p>\n Ironically, Jenna von O\u00ff almost missed out on “Blossom” as well. Von O\u00ff was starring in a sitcom of her own, “Lenny,” when her offer came in. “I started doing\u00a0‘Lenny’ and about halfway through the first season I got a phone call,” she said in the same interview with Yahoo.\u00a0“[Blossom producers said] ‘We realize you’re on this other show but we tried to recast it and we just can’t get our heads beyond this Six we already had.'” Soon after that call, “Lenny” was canceled and\u00a0von O\u00ff joined the “Blossom” team.<\/p>\n
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