There were some other late 70s sitcom shows that didn’t make it either. m.ua-cam.com/video/gafI33FeJHg/v-deo.html Co-Ed Fever being the worst one that lasted only one episode out of the other 5 episodes. They aired the rest in Canada though until they ended for good Lolol
This show was pretty much a victim of bad timing. If it had been released a year earlier, it most likely would've had at least 1 full season. Instead, ABC gave it the green light when the Disco backlash had already started. And most Disco fans were at the clubs on Friday nights. I've gotta admit, we Americans sure know how to run a fad into the ground.
I imagine that was pretty much the pitch. "American Graffiti" had spawned "Happy Days", so someone thought "Saturday Night Fever" should spawn this, LOL. It didn't work, and this was off the air after only 6 episodes. Naughton was also doing a slew on Dr. Pepper ads in those days, too. Plus, of course, he did this song. Eventually, he would land what would become his signature role, though, and we know what that was....
lot of people tend to trash this.. and yeah it may have only aired like 9 episodes... but for nearly 40 years it seemed to be rather remembered for a show that did not last long.
Makin' It aired between February-March 1979 on ABC for 9 episodes. It was created by Garry Marshall and Robert Stigwood (best known as producer of Saturday Night Fever). David Naughton is the brother of actor James Naughton (Knots Landing), David starred in My Sister Sam with Pam Dawber from 1986-88, Ellen Travolta (older sister of John), went onto another Garry Marshall series, Joanie Loves Chachi. Denise Miller was on a couple of seasons on Archie Bunker's Place. Greg Antonacci was married to actress Annie Potts from 1978-80, he passed away in 2017 at age 70.
There's a time there when everyone got wild with the whipped cream in the opening credits to a sitcom. Also, a spinning chair or turn to the camera in a circle. Still awesome. I'm proud to be a 70s kid!
J.P. Wing I remember when this came on. my friend Martin who was an iraq veteran would sing this cheesy disco song he was a good friend father husband son brother soldier. we miss him every day RIP
Correct! who ever created the show would have had a better sitcom by following ppl to disco's and just filming them dance and talking and listening to the music...that would have been a way better storyline!
I wish that I could go back to 1978 seeing how that’s when I was born and with my eyes today, relive the world at that time. There’s something about this song that makes me melancholy about the days past. Simpler days, simpler times, what in the hell has happened to the world today?!
I remember David Naughton from all of the Dr. Pepper commercials from back in the 70s & 80s. Plus he played on two short lived shows, one of being a show based off of a hit song of his in the 70s called Making It....sort of a cross between Happy Days and Saturday Night Fever, and in 1983 to 1984, another show called At Ease!...which was a short lived military sitcom. Great talented actor that never got a big break in the business. Last time I seen him on TV...he was on an episode of Seinfeld, playing a drunken heckler to Jerry Seinfeld, who finally sobers up in the end.
I'll bet it's not on DVD due to the use of Bee Gees songs as background music during the dance sequences, given the show's obvious connection with _Saturday Night Fever_.
Just like Police Squad! I watched all 9 episodes when it originally aired on ABC. Funny that I knew the song already hearing it in the local San Francisco disco's at the time.
As a kid I saw the cool opening credits to these type of sitcoms, and remember wishing I lived in the cities where they were set. I was sad because there were no sitcoms set in Connecticut
That cast intro seems like Happy Days set in the present. Happy Days simply just had the cast members just standing there and smiling, while this had them spinning around, except for Denise Miller.
Great point! It goes a bit beyond that though. "Makin' It" was essentially the "Happy Days" formula applied to the contemporary pop culture of the day. Billy's relationship with his parents was similar to Richie's interactions with Marion and Howard and his group of cronies could've been ripped right from the pages of a "Happy Days" script. In fact that whipped cream scene seem in the intro seems to have been written for Potsie and Ralph.
I was an elementary school teacher. When my school would have a dance during the school day, each grade would go out to the Gym during the Specials Time (Art, Music, PE, etc.). I was my school's Science Lab Teacher, which made me a Specials Teacher. That meant that I'd be out in the Gym to help monitor the dance. One of the PE coaches would set up a laptop and projector to show dance videos he'd find online on one of the Gym's walls. The kids would dance to the music. David Naughton sang this song and made a music video from it. I thought the kids would like an old retro dance tune, so I had the coach pull it up. The kids did like it... at first. But then they saw that David was a white guy, and they all stopped dancing and milled around in discontent. You see, I taught at a school that was 99.99% black. Since I was white and the kids liked me (my Science Lab was very popular), I thought they wouldn't care that the singer of this song was white. My mistake. Sigh.
At nearly two minutes long (!), this had to be the longest TV sitcom intro of its time. (Of course, a long intro ensures that the show itself was that much shorter...)
There's something so charming about this. It reminds me of my carefree days growing up in California suburbia in the 70's and 80's. Also: Gary Prendergast is in an Mystery Science 3000 movie. Look up: Being From Another Planet.
David Naughton starred in this show and sang the theme song, he was in American Werewolf in London. Feb 1 - March 23 only 9 shows were made. I never saw this show and don't really think I want to . It looks really dumb.
I assume the girl at 0:52 is an extra, but she’s the best actor in the whole thing. You really feel that eyeroll and that “I have to pretend to like these people and it’s killing my soul” mood
@@alandale2182 I don't believe so. The actors as was customary of this period of weekly episodic sitcoms were playing characters slightly younger than they actually were. But no I don't think they were supposed to be the contemporaries of the "teenagers" on "Welcome Back Kotter" for example who weren't exactly teenagers either of course.
hell the song was the AT40 charts longer than the tv show was on the air, the song was in top 40 for 16 weeks peaking at #5, the tv show aired just 6 episodes and is #12 on the top 50 worst tv shows of all time. But I loved the song!
It did started out as a theme of a short lived TV show, but by the time it got released as a single, it was put in the soundtrack in the movie Meatballs. Either way, the song was a true pop and Disco classic, and a big hit.
It did, but not for long! Only 9 episodes and 8 weeks. It was also ironic that the series happened to air at a time when people were no longer enjoying disco music.
Never seen the show but I do remember the song featured in the movie Meatballs in 1979 when it reached no. 5 on the hot 100 charts. It was recorded by the star David Naughton, who went on to bigger things.
I need to know why Denise Miller didn't do the patented over the shoulder twist that everyone else in the cast did. It's pretty obvious that it's used to show her character is the anti-christ.
the other problem was it was 1979...the disco backlash had begun. but the show was at the full market overkill of disco. disco toys, commercials, make up, and more. still a great 12 inch dance version.
Yeah! Disco backlash began once the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive"-era stuff started showing up on the radio every 5 minutes in the late '70s. People were just sick of the overkill.
Disco especially hit overkill when KISS decided to release "I Was Made For Lovin' You" as the first single from their 1979 Dynasty album. Those were tough times. LOL!
The producers of this show did a lot of the other comedies from that time on ABC. Clearly, they liked the same opening. Compare this opening to the one from another show of theirs - Angie. Both have stars not being able to handle dairy products well (no, I'm suggesting lactose intolerance), and they both have the ubiquitous sight of most of the stars having their backs to the camera and then spinning around.
Similar to the arms folded across chest, head rise-up to the camera that we see today on the openings of many reality shows like Pawn Stars, etc. It's desirable to have movement in short clips like that. It draws the eye to the subject quickly and keeps a rhythm. By contrast, imagine if all the actors just stood there smiling. It was appear very creepy. ;) Action shows would just use clips of the stars in action and freeze (or not) on that, displaying a graphic of their name. Think any cop show like Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, etc.
Every time I see the opening credits to these type of classic sitcoms especially short lived ones, when the cast members were being introduced, they smiled and showed their personalities, which to me is still really cool 😎 to this day.
This brings back some great memories. I couldn't get this song out of my head when it was on the charts. I miss the days when opening credits lasted longer than 15 seconds.
I remember this show only for the scene where he jumps over the couch. Mind you I was only 3 at the time! Gotta love those 70s and 80s theme songs where the cast were introduced like, "hey what are you doing here camera?" That and each scene has action and then it's like the characters freeze!
I know the song was on the Meatballs soundtrack, but did this sitcom appear before or after the song? I probably know this, thankfully my memory has misplaced it deep in the recesses to prevent sanity loss.
It was a terrible TV show, but a huge hit record. The song was also featured in the movie Meatballs and in a funny scene in the 1999 movie Detroit Rock City.
This series aired AFTER Disco Demolition Night.... disco was dead as a dodo bird... if this show had started say in 76 or 77, it probably would have been on a few years
bad sitcom but denise miller did go on to do archie bunkers place and it is the best disco song ever and was aslo featured in the movie meat balls with bill murry
The show should have been called Fakin' It......not enough disco music, too much of a carpon copy of the same old comedy sitcoms and the big disco movie.. when a show is suppose to have a theme of Disco, then ppl better Boogie....no Boogie here. .
ACETYGRA It happened in July 1979 where they did the whole "Disco Demolition Night" at Komisky Park in Chicago where they forced to cancelled the second game of a White Sox double header and went to a brawl. Before that, a lot of fans destroyed all of the disco records and blowing them up one by one. And that brought disco music to a complete halt. They went to different direction towards mainstream audience. New Wave got its start, and hip-hop started to appeared on the music scene.
It seems that popular movies beget equally unpopular TV versions whether directly descended or rip-off. This was not exactly a real spin-off, but close enough. "MAKIN' IT" was pleasant and entertaining. David Naughton, the self-proclaimed Pepper, was a likeable lead. However, in the long list of disco sitcoms, personally I liked "JOE & VALERIE" even more.
Ironically enough, it didn't make it.
You're right. It was yanked after 9 episodes, even as the theme song by David Naughton was a Top 40 hit.
@@Scarletspeedster68 I actually know the song more from it's appearance in Meatballs than the TV show.
There were some other late 70s sitcom shows that didn’t make it either.
m.ua-cam.com/video/gafI33FeJHg/v-deo.html
Co-Ed Fever being the worst one that lasted only one episode out of the other 5 episodes. They aired the rest in Canada though until they ended for good Lolol
I literally laughed outloud at this.
Pity
This show was pretty much a victim of bad timing. If it had been released a year earlier, it most likely would've had at least 1 full season. Instead, ABC gave it the green light when the Disco backlash had already started. And most Disco fans were at the clubs on Friday nights.
I've gotta admit, we Americans sure know how to run a fad into the ground.
It was a victim of being a stupid show.
...and then resurrect it 20 years later.
Happy Days meets Saturday Night Fever. Stupid.
I imagine that was pretty much the pitch. "American Graffiti" had spawned "Happy Days", so someone thought "Saturday Night Fever" should spawn this, LOL. It didn't work, and this was off the air after only 6 episodes. Naughton was also doing a slew on Dr. Pepper ads in those days, too. Plus, of course, he did this song. Eventually, he would land what would become his signature role, though, and we know what that was....
@@dkelly26666 There is NO PERIOD in "Dr Pepper"...
@@igorschmidlapp6987 LOL, thanks.
ABC execs: "hey, it's 1979, that's the perfect time for a sitcom to jump on the popularity of Saturday Night Fever!"
lot of people tend to trash this.. and yeah it may have only aired like 9 episodes... but for nearly 40 years it seemed to be rather remembered for a show that did not last long.
It's remembered for the theme song which hit number 5 in 1979
Lates 1970s was the best era for music especially disco ❤❤
This song became my anthem!!
Me too. I'm 65 now
Underrated among the better tv themes ever.
When you can't get John Travolta -- there's Ellen Travolta.
And when you can't get Ellen, there's Joey Travolta.
@@johnny5805And when you can't get Joey Travolta, there's Tom Fridley.😅
😂😂😂😂😂
The best times ❤
Wow. This is one long intro. You don't see that anymore. Gotta jam in more commercials now. Reminds me of how slower paced things were back then.
This was only because they were selling the theme song as a single.
Makin' It By David Naughton
Makin' It aired between February-March 1979 on ABC for 9 episodes. It was created by Garry Marshall and Robert Stigwood (best known as producer of Saturday Night Fever). David Naughton is the brother of actor James Naughton (Knots Landing), David starred in My Sister Sam with Pam Dawber from 1986-88, Ellen Travolta (older sister of John), went onto another Garry Marshall series, Joanie Loves Chachi. Denise Miller was on a couple of seasons on Archie Bunker's Place. Greg Antonacci was married to actress Annie Potts from 1978-80, he passed away in 2017 at age 70.
There's a time there when everyone got wild with the whipped cream in the opening credits to a sitcom. Also, a spinning chair or turn to the camera in a circle. Still awesome. I'm proud to be a 70s kid!
So reminiscent of the Angie opening credits especially with the whipped cream, LOL
J.P. Wing I remember when this came on. my friend Martin who was an iraq veteran would sing this cheesy disco song he was a good friend father husband son brother soldier. we miss him every day RIP
Me too. Being a kid in the 1970s was awesome. Best time of my life.
me too
J.P. Wing And having the stars’ faces in a framed circle - we can thank “The Love Boat” for that.
I don't get why they tried to do this series in late 79 (was it?) when SNF was big in 77.
As a disco DJ at the time, I hate to say all true disco lovers were out Fri nights!!!
Correct! who ever created the show would have had a better sitcom by following ppl to disco's and just filming them dance and talking and listening to the music...that would have been a way better storyline!
Truth! I remember this airing on Friday nights. Who would be home to watch it?
@@drewstar412 That's not a sitcom.
I wish that I could go back to 1978 seeing how that’s when I was born and with my eyes today, relive the world at that time. There’s something about this song that makes me melancholy about the days past. Simpler days, simpler times, what in the hell has happened to the world today?!
They were for MIAMI VICE in 1984.@@karenbrunson4244
I remember David Naughton from all of the Dr. Pepper commercials from back in the 70s & 80s. Plus he played on two short lived shows, one of being a show based off of a hit song of his in the 70s called Making It....sort of a cross between Happy Days and Saturday Night Fever, and in 1983 to 1984, another show called At Ease!...which was a short lived military sitcom. Great talented actor that never got a big break in the business. Last time I seen him on TV...he was on an episode of Seinfeld, playing a drunken heckler to Jerry Seinfeld, who finally sobers up in the end.
Don't forget "An American Werewolf in London"... his biggest break...
There is NO PERIOD in "Dr Pepper"...
He was in scavenger hunt too.....drove the orange 4x4 van
@@timpriddy349 Also 'Hot Dog...The Movie'
He also starred in My Sister Sam for two seasons with Pam Dawber and the late Rebecca Schaeffer
Suddenly I feel like playing with those clacker balls
I met David Naughton. He is actually very nice.
Never met him, but seems like a talented and appealing actor. Did a lot of TV (including "My Sister Sam") and movies, but should have done even more.
He was arrested for domestic violence a few years ago. I guess he isn't nice all the time. :-(
alot of people get arrested for domestic violence - sometimes theyre bogus charges.
@@TheNyteScrybe You must be the world's first perfect human being.
@@TheNyteScrybe Who is nice all the time? Lmao.
'Makin' It' - the theme song to a TV series that didn't!
This show fell victim, at least in part, to the anti-disco sentiment at the turn of the decade.
This show fell victim to bad writing, obvious plagiarism of Saturday Night Fever, and A mediocre cast.
The guy who played Tony sucked.@@prezakid9
I remember this! I didn't know they had an actual Travola in the cast! Lol!
I'll bet it's not on DVD due to the use of Bee Gees songs as background music during the dance sequences, given the show's obvious connection with _Saturday Night Fever_.
Just like Police Squad! I watched all 9 episodes when it originally aired on ABC. Funny that I knew the song already hearing it in the local San Francisco disco's at the time.
Un temazo musical de la música disco, uno de los menores.
Unjustly forgotten classic!
As a kid I saw the cool opening credits to these type of sitcoms, and remember wishing I lived in the cities where they were set.
I was sad because there were no sitcoms set in Connecticut
I'm sure you know that a Connecticut-set sitcom came along in 1984 - "Who's the Boss?".
That cast intro seems like Happy Days set in the present. Happy Days simply just had the cast members just standing there and smiling, while this had them spinning around, except for Denise Miller.
Great point! It goes a bit beyond that though. "Makin' It" was essentially the "Happy Days" formula applied to the contemporary pop culture of the day. Billy's relationship with his parents was similar to Richie's interactions with Marion and Howard and his group of cronies could've been ripped right from the pages of a "Happy Days" script. In fact that whipped cream scene seem in the intro seems to have been written for Potsie and Ralph.
I actually remember this... I'm 43 now..
It would be awesome if he turned into the wolf lmao
The very best profile of David Naughton
I was an elementary school teacher. When my school would have a dance during the school day, each grade would go out to the Gym during the Specials Time (Art, Music, PE, etc.). I was my school's Science Lab Teacher, which made me a Specials Teacher. That meant that I'd be out in the Gym to help monitor the dance. One of the PE coaches would set up a laptop and projector to show dance videos he'd find online on one of the Gym's walls. The kids would dance to the music.
David Naughton sang this song and made a music video from it. I thought the kids would like an old retro dance tune, so I had the coach pull it up. The kids did like it... at first. But then they saw that David was a white guy, and they all stopped dancing and milled around in discontent. You see, I taught at a school that was 99.99% black. Since I was white and the kids liked me (my Science Lab was very popular), I thought they wouldn't care that the singer of this song was white.
My mistake. Sigh.
this would have probably been big in the early 70s.. its a shame it came out when disco was crashing.
Ahh... the days of polyester and glittering tube tops... good times...
At nearly two minutes long (!), this had to be the longest TV sitcom intro of its time. (Of course, a long intro ensures that the show itself was that much shorter...)
The 1970s really tried to make Ellen Travolta a star.
Ellen Travolta gave us a little extra sass in her turn ‘n smile credit.
If you liked music, going out, dancing, Disco, then you were gonna like the show... I watched it, and loved the song...
There's something so charming about this. It reminds me of my carefree days growing up in California suburbia in the 70's and 80's. Also: Gary Prendergast is in an Mystery Science 3000 movie. Look up: Being From Another Planet.
David Naughton starred in this show and sang the theme song, he was in American Werewolf in London. Feb 1 - March 23 only 9 shows were made. I never saw this show and don't really think I want to . It looks really dumb.
I assume the girl at 0:52 is an extra, but she’s the best actor in the whole thing. You really feel that eyeroll and that “I have to pretend to like these people and it’s killing my soul” mood
Was this show about a bunch of 25+ year Olds still in high school?😄
@@alandale2182 I don't believe so. The actors as was customary of this period of weekly episodic sitcoms were playing characters slightly younger than they actually were. But no I don't think they were supposed to be the contemporaries of the "teenagers" on "Welcome Back Kotter" for example who weren't exactly teenagers either of course.
This is the way I felt after I moved from dishwasher to janitor,Im makin it
I totally remember this!
hell the song was the AT40 charts longer than the tv show was on the air, the song was in top 40 for 16 weeks peaking at #5, the tv show aired just 6 episodes and is #12 on the top 50 worst tv shows of all time. But I loved the song!
The song was the shit! The show -- just shit!
The song was in the movie Detroit Rock City. I forgot all about it till I saw that movie.
i think the writer got his idea whilst at lunch in a diner and wrote the first script on the back of a serviette ...
It did started out as a theme of a short lived TV show, but by the time it got released as a single, it was put in the soundtrack in the movie Meatballs. Either way, the song was a true pop and Disco classic, and a big hit.
DANG YHIS IS SO COOL LOL I LOVE IT my favorite was the scoop of food on his book💀
It did make into my heart … the song anyway
...takes place in my hometown! PASSAIC NJ!!!!
If it looks like HAPPY DAYS, that's because it's also a Paramount Show from Garry Marshall, Mark Rothman and Lowell Ganz.
I love old skool music
david naughton, mark Hamill, jimmy mcnichol= one of my 70's trifectas.
This brings back so many great memories!
This show didn't make it.......did it?
kingovharts 9 fucking louzy Episodes!!!!
It did, but not for long! Only 9 episodes and 8 weeks. It was also ironic that the series happened to air at a time when people were no longer enjoying disco music.
Never seen the show but I do remember the song featured in the movie Meatballs in 1979 when it reached no. 5 on the hot 100 charts. It was recorded by the star David Naughton, who went on to bigger things.
Did commercials have so little value then that shows could afford to eat up 3 minutes on intros instead of selling ad space.
I need to know why Denise Miller didn't do the patented over the shoulder twist that everyone else in the cast did. It's pretty obvious that it's used to show her character is the anti-christ.
lol
She did do a very slight opposite direction turn.
I guess she just wanted to follow her own path.lol
Greg then moved to New York and hooked up with Phil after he got out of jail
This guy was so handsome
absolutely correct!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The set of that disco in the opening credits reminds me of the one in Airplane.
Both were about the same time, and the disco scene in "Airplane" was filmed at Paramount, as well this series. So it's entirely possible.
The 70s were so tacky lmao but I love that song
Everyone on the show was so awkward. lol
the other problem was it was 1979...the disco backlash had begun. but the show was at the full market overkill of disco. disco toys, commercials, make up, and more. still a great 12 inch dance version.
+trha2222 You're kidding, right?
Yeah! Disco backlash began once the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive"-era stuff started showing up on the radio every 5 minutes in the late '70s. People were just sick of the overkill.
Sounds like a good read..although I highly doubt he'd tell you that disco backlash began in 1996, lol.
I was mainly thinking of the U.S., and its life on our Billboard charts. Good point about Tijuana and the like!
Disco especially hit overkill when KISS decided to release "I Was Made For Lovin' You" as the first single from their 1979 Dynasty album. Those were tough times. LOL!
The producers of this show did a lot of the other comedies from that time on ABC. Clearly, they liked the same opening. Compare this opening to the one from another show of theirs - Angie. Both have stars not being able to handle dairy products well (no, I'm suggesting lactose intolerance), and they both have the ubiquitous sight of most of the stars having their backs to the camera and then spinning around.
im a pepper
she's a pepper
This was before "That 70s Show"
Unholy Periodza “Sherlock” Peridoza
Duh
What was it with the cast doing a half-turn during the opening credits? Was it a 70's thing?
Hardtechnoboy That was pretty much a staple of all Miller-Boyet-Milkis TV show intros back then. And a few Gary Marshal shows as well.
Similar to the arms folded across chest, head rise-up to the camera that we see today on the openings of many reality shows like Pawn Stars, etc.
It's desirable to have movement in short clips like that. It draws the eye to the subject quickly and keeps a rhythm.
By contrast, imagine if all the actors just stood there smiling. It was appear very creepy. ;)
Action shows would just use clips of the stars in action and freeze (or not) on that, displaying a graphic of their name. Think any cop show like Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, etc.
Ah yes the "Maggie Spin" I loved it! and Susan Sullivan as Maggie.
This one's new to me. I love the dance floor scenes though. We thought we looked really cool dressing like that back then. Oh dear.💃🕺
I had a crush on David and later also his brother, James 😊
me too
Me too!!
Every time I see the opening credits to these type of classic sitcoms especially short lived ones, when the cast members were being introduced, they smiled and showed their personalities, which to me is still really cool 😎 to this day.
they don't make shows like that anymore.
In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 40 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.
Someone just gave me a 45 in vinyl for this song. 😂😂😂
This brings back some great memories. I couldn't get this song out of my head when it was on the charts. I miss the days when opening credits lasted longer than 15 seconds.
in some cases opening credits lasted longer than the shows ...
Awesome. I was four so I don't remember the series.
I sure wish this would be on DVD
I remember this show only for the scene where he jumps over the couch. Mind you I was only 3 at the time! Gotta love those 70s and 80s theme songs where the cast were introduced like, "hey what are you doing here camera?" That and each scene has action and then it's like the characters freeze!
Pivot Ellen! PIVOT!
I know the song was on the Meatballs soundtrack, but did this sitcom appear before or after the song? I probably know this, thankfully my memory has misplaced it deep in the recesses to prevent sanity loss.
It was a terrible TV show, but a huge hit record. The song was also featured in the movie Meatballs and in a funny scene in the 1999 movie Detroit Rock City.
This series aired AFTER Disco Demolition Night.... disco was dead as a dodo bird... if this show had started say in 76 or 77, it probably would have been on a few years
Makes me long for the good 'ole days - the 70's. Where have the years gone? Don't tell me - I do not wish to know!
A big hit single 4 David Naughton. Short lived series.
Disco was as already on the way out if I recall!
It killed the show.
Same dance floor as SNF...makes sense since it was filmed at Paramount studios...
I love those TV intros where the cast members do the little spin with their real names. Like Beverly Hills 90210.
I just shed a tear....in a good way.
I love this song so much it makes me cry. Have you noticed the bass? WOW
Chronologically, this was way before Butchie OK'ed the hit on Phil Leotardo, but way after the Johnny Torrio era.
bad sitcom but denise miller did go on to do archie bunkers place and it is the best disco song ever and was aslo featured in the movie meat balls with bill murry
'the best disco song ever' ? ... There's about 2 million disco songs you haven't heard yet.
@@booth2710 40 years later it still sounds good .
The show should have been called Fakin' It......not enough disco music, too much of a carpon copy of the same old comedy sitcoms and the big disco movie.. when a show is suppose to have a theme of Disco, then ppl better Boogie....no Boogie here. .
"Makin' It" ~ SInger - David Naughton
--- Makin' it, oo makin' it
I'm solid gold
I've got the goods
They stand when I walk
Through the neighborhoods
I'm makin' it
I've got the chance, I'm takin' it
No more, no more, Fakin' it
This time in life, I'm makin' it (ooo)
Makin' it
Hello uptown, goodbye poverty
The top of the ladder is waiting for me
I'm makin' it,
I've got the chance, I'm takin' it
No more, no more fakin' it
This time in life, I'm makin' it (ooo)
Makin' it, makin' it
Listen everyone here
This coming year's gonna be my year
I'm as bad as they come
Number two to no one
I've got looks, I've got brains
And I'm breakin' these chains
Make some room now
Dig what you see
Success is mine
'Cause I've got the key
I'm makin' it
(repeat chorus)
---
Writer: DINO FEKARIS, FREDERICK J. PERREN
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Makin' it...and almost all of the cast thereafter disappeared without a trace into the Hollywood Bermuda Triangle
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There just had to be the one lady who didn't do the turn around in a circle and smile in a Miller Milkin Boyett sitcom intro.
Whenever you see Ellen Travolta you know it was stupid. LOL.
The made a sitcom out of a song. So I knew it was stupid LOOOOOOONG before they got to Ellen Travolta.
and that it was DOOMED.
LOL/ Imagine if they made a sitcom out of every song!
The show was already doomed from the getgo. Disco would be dead in a year!
ACETYGRA It happened in July 1979 where they did the whole "Disco Demolition Night" at Komisky Park in Chicago where they forced to cancelled the second game of a White Sox double header and went to a brawl. Before that, a lot of fans destroyed all of the disco records and blowing them up one by one. And that brought disco music to a complete halt. They went to different direction towards mainstream audience. New Wave got its start, and hip-hop started to appeared on the music scene.
Dear god, that was cringey on another level.
I forgot about this show! But still knew the song! Weird... Thanks for the post!
The show would've worked if they had a more diversified cast.
i had no idea this tune came from a failed sitcom! at least the song was a hit
Jumped on the disco trend, a year later disco was dead...
This has to be the longest intro ever
I sure wish this would air on Antenna TV
It seems that popular movies beget equally unpopular TV versions whether directly descended or rip-off. This was not exactly a real spin-off, but close enough.
"MAKIN' IT" was pleasant and entertaining. David Naughton, the self-proclaimed Pepper, was a likeable lead. However, in the long list of disco sitcoms, personally I liked "JOE & VALERIE" even more.
In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 40 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.