My point was that Kurtz never once did his job right, and Lucas' parting with him is more than justified.
As for the PT being overbudget--not so in the least. At one point, yes, it was surmised that perhaps each episode could be made for 60-70 million, this was around 1993 or 1994, after the success of Young Indy. By the time they actually got to production in 1997, that naive projection was no longer relevant--the budget alloted for TPM was 120 million and it was brought in for 115 million. McCallum really is a great producer, its just a shame that he is responsible for the best-made dissapointment of the decade, while a good-for-nothing hack like Kurtz gets kudos up his ass for tagging along while Lucas was at his peak.