I have to, respectfully, disagree with the comment that the book was virtually unknown before the movie. The book JAWS was a really big deal before it was a movie. It was on The New York Times bestseller list for 44 weeks and in it's first year of publication JAWS sold 5.5 million copies (that's more books than there are people in Finland). Most of my friends had read the book before the movie was announced. I remember The Godfather being a similar scenario.
Yes, and the 15th Series would've also had The Clodfather if it hadn't been pulled.
According to lostwackys.com, it was pulled because of outrage from the Italian-Americans over Run Tony from the 2nd Series and also because of concern that kids weren't familiar with the book version of
The Godfather. But, from what I've been told about Rusty's site from some of you, this should be taken with a whole mine of salt. Anyway, it's all there in the site's Lost Wackys section under Original Series Lost Wackys if anyone wants to look.