FanFiltration said:

I hope it does not come down to this for anyone!

"ST.PAUL, Minn. Aug. 25, 1979 (AP) -- The parents of a 15-year-old boy who jumped 200 feet to his death from a bridge after Battlestar Galactica was canceled say the boy's whole life was wrapped up in the television space show.

"I hope we never ever see it on TV again, because it would just crush us," Dawn Seidel, the boy's stepmother, said Saturday."

I doubt it. At least I hope so. It's a lot easier for someone to reach out for help than in the 70's. It was not a great era for people acknowledging that their kid had a serious problem and not simply "growing pains".

We'll probably never know what else was going on in that kid's family at the time. "Television made them do it" was an easy accusation to make in the press, overlooking the deeper more complex issues involved.