Despite the relatively large number of "old guard" variety shows canceled in the purge, Silverman actually continued to create new variety shows to replace the ones he had canceled; one of the first was "The Sonny & Cher Show", which debuted in February 1971 and would last until Sonny and Cher divorced in 1974 (Silverman then retained Cher's services, signing her to her own show in 1976, after which she agreed to reunite professionally with Sonny for its last year on air, before it ended in 1977). Silverman would later commission "Donny & Marie" for ABC five years later. He would also, with little success, commission "The Brady Bunch Hour" for ABC in 1976 and "Pink Lady and Jeff" and "The Susan Anton Show" for NBC in 1980, all three of which were received extremely poorly.