>Philip,
>As I understand it, the studio offered Keye Luke a pay >cut to continue in the series after Oland died. He >didn't want to continue for less money so Fox was able >to start with a different son for Sidney Toler's Chan.
That makes sense. I mean it makes sense that that was the reason, though it seems like Fox would want to keep the other part of the team to keep the continutity. Maybe they were unsure if the Toler movies would go over (were the budgets smaller?) so wanted to hedge their bets, or pehaps they just saw the opportunity to save a few bucks.
