Man Mr. Belvedere theme song brought back so many memories of watching it as a 9yr old kid! I used to love that show! I miss those days, it went by in a flash! Now, I'm 44yrs old and have 3 kids and busy as anything. I wish I could go back in time to those days, in the 80s.
Crazy Like A Fox was my favorite. Jack Warden & John Rubinstein made such a great team. I could really believe that they were father and son. And even though it wasn't a Stephen J. Cannell production, it had some of that wonderful eccentricity that his shows had. Code Name: Foxfire and Mr. Belvedere were other shows I enjoyed during that time. Oh, and Wildside!
Mr. Belvedere!!! Got to talk briefly with Tracy Wells on Twitter, a few years ago, which was cool because I'd become obsessed with Mr. Belvedere reruns at the time! Shout out to Antenna TV...even though I think know they've stopped airing them.
I'm going through and Scanning my TV Guides...30 years worth! I'm at 1982-1985 now, and seeing some shows that I worked on then...Paper Dolls, The Insiders, Gloria, Boone! It's cool to see the actual Footage though! Thanks!
Out of all the intros, Moonlighting's the classiest and the one that would fit in now. I only remember Mr. Belvedere (from the ads at the time, and I'm from Milwaukee, so Bob Uecker being in a sitcom was a big deal in the local press then) and Moonlighting (which I watched when I had the chance). I knew nothing about these other shows.
wow, feels so weird seeing that intro to Mr. Belvedere, it's one of those shows I know I liked when I was a young kid but remember absolutely nothing about it, seeing the intro is like having something pulled out of a past existence.
I remember the concept of 'Middle Class Family gets a Butler' (no idea what the in Universe reason was for this) and of course stock sitcom Family: Lecherous Teen Boy, Brainy Daughter, Bratty Preteen and the Pre-Teen and Belvedere had 'Dennis/Mr. Wilson type relationship' beyond those 3 points I only know it from a Cameo/Joke on Growing Pains a few seasons later (The Daughter Guest starred, and they actually cite Belvedere with Ben meeting her character and telling someone "She kind of looks like the Girl from Mr. Belvedere." with them following up with "are you sure she doesn't look like Mr. Belvedere."
Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, Dean Martin AND an American Pit Bulldog...HOW DID Half Nelson not make it??
Two GUIDING LIGHT connections here: Robin Johnson (Codename Foxfire) was "Darcy Dekker" in the summer of 1984; Beth Ehlers (The Best Times) was Harley Cooper.
I never watched Mr.Belvedere when it originally aired(too young), but it ran in syndication during the early to mid 90s and really stuck in my memory. Whenever the theme song would come on, my brother and I knew it was 10pm EST -- and time for bed.
Out of all those shows, there were only two that I watched: Otherworld and Street Hawk. I was hoping both shows would be renewed especially Street Hawk because I liked the motorcycle.
"Street Hawk" got decent numbers up against "Dallas"--finishing 47th out of 77 shows for the season which is considerably better than other recent entries against "Dallas" had performed for the network--but ABC clearly didn't have any confidence in the show. They scheduled the final three episodes on Thursday against "Cosby Show" and "Magnum", ensuring horrifically low ratings and its cancellation only weeks later.
@@Mark2756042 I don't even know why the other networks even bothered broadcasting anything on Thursday night at the time. NBC had it locked down tight.
@16:00 Orson Welles should have said, "You know what's even better than solving the crime? Mrs. Pell's Fish Sticks! Ummm, they're even better when your scared!" ("The Critic" animated tv show)☺️.
The original "OFF THE RACK" pilot was seen in December 1984....and it was set in NEW YORK. When ABC decided to "buy" the series as a mid-season replacement, they insisted the locale be changed to LOS ANGELES. It lasted six episodes.
Jonathan Banks ended up becoming pretty famous appearing on a Narco Drama called Breaking Bad- it’s got the same premise as OtherWorld except with Meth
The only episode of Otherworld I remember was one where the kids end up on a world where they essentially "invent" rock-and-roll. A little cringe nowadays but at the time I thought it was clever.
Bob Uecker Was an IronMan Back in the Day ... Doing "Mr. Belvedere" for a Full Season for 6 Seasons ... the Voice of the Brewers for Decades ... as Well as Movies & Commercials Here & There
Joe Pesci and Victoria Jackson working together? I can only imagine those two personality types interacting. Hey, it's Mike's friend Eddie from Growing Pains at 12:32. 14:48 - Bruce Jenner acting? James Earl Jones running? Now there's a show that has it all! 15:55 - It's Jack Tripper's brother Lee! I just can't buy Judd Hirsch as a detective. Moonlighting!
@@censusgary From what I've heard, he can't even "act" his way out of the proverbial paper bag which is that "reality" program, falsely so-called, he's in now, which program he's ostensibly trying to use as some kind of a springboard to run for governor of California in their recall election. (As though he has even a half-chance of winning!) It's been a long and far fall for him since his peak in the Summer Olympics in '76 and '84!
15:55 Yeah! That's John Getz! He was in David Cronenberg's "The Fly" alongside Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, and had a cameo in "The Fly II" (he was the only cast member to return for the sequel). And he played Joanna Cassidy's boyfriend in "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" who puts the moves on Christina Applegate's character. That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but he popped up in a lot of stuff in the '80s and '90s.
That futuristic show reminds me of the future my generation was expecting in the 80s. According to the clock in my Delorian 2021 is supposed to be like Blade Runner. ⏰
I disagree about "Mom"..yes, it may have some moments of crude humor, but it does a great service for Alcoholics Anonymous with its accurate portrayal of that program (many people in and out of the program have hailed the show for this reason). The writing has been on fire lately, too..and Mimi is one of the greatest assets of that cast!
"Half Nelson" That show also had a couple of ex-NFL stars in it, Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith (13:45-14:00), FWIW. Also, Victoria Jackson (I assume the same Victoria Jackson that was later on SNL).
Holy Crap, Meg Ryan was in Wildside?! I know I watched that show because Terry Funk was a wrestler, and I loved wrestling, but not in a million years would I have thought Meg Ryan was there.
@@Mark2756042 , every season has a part that was bad.. and this part of that season was. Dismal may have been hyperbole on my part.. but then if you want to take dismal... look back just two seasons at the NBC 1983-1984 season. Actually, the entire season for all three networks was dismal, and only shows getting renewed were worth watching that year. NBC became a force only because within two years almost all long running shows on ABC were coming to an end.
ABC was more interested in promoting Aaron Spelling's latest cop show, "MacGRUDER & LOUD" (of the "L.S.P. D."). It was originally scheduled before "MOONLIGHTING" in March 1985.....and was cancelled by the end of the season, along with most of his other new series.{"FINDER OF LOST LOVES", "GLITTER"}.
The stars on these shows are so random. Bruce Jenner and James Earl Jones on the same show? Why not? How about Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson and Bubba Smith? Sure sounds good.
william woods Like in how Family Guy gets their plot ideas? It's either that or they borrowed a Bingo tumbler from the local nursing home and wrote the names of actors on the balls. "B4 - Bubba Smith"...."G 23 Ken Wahl"...
william woods I don't know Wildside starring Harold Rollins as Bannister Sparks, Terry Funk as Prometheus Jones and Meg Ryan as Cally Oaks seems promising. Or not.
Mr. Belvedere needed more Bob Euker on it. He seemed to pop in only once in awhile. I guess he was too busy calling all those baseball games to spend more time with his tv family.
I watched that show back in the day. It was... not good. They basically tried to recreate "Soap" in the White House, with the "gimmick" of a female President. The plots were silly, the jokes were stale, and the show just never clicked.
I remember Hail to the Chief. It did have a good cast, I thought. I remember it being billed as "an equal opportunity offender"...and it certainly was that(lol).
8:25 Mr. Belvidere--didn't watch at the time (I think there were better shows on that I watched), but I wound up seeing a lot of it in reruns probably 20 years later.
Now I know why we only saw Jeannie Wilson sporadically on Simon & Simon. Sheryl Lee Ralph was occasionally on Designing Women and moved on to It's a Living.
Really? TAXI didn't do half bad. Granted, DEAR JOHN and NUMBERS didn't last that long but they were pretty good while they were around. His other shows, though...
The theme music for Wildside didn’t match the period it was set in. Ugh 😩 lol. I was a HS junior in the spring of ‘85. Wasn’t into what NBC, ABC and CBS had to offer it was HBO and MTV for me. But I wasn’t watching TV as much because I started working more.
Not a Spin Off, But I would not be shocked if it wasn't "inspired by"... it would seem to fit the sub genre Of 'Actor who was Everywhere 20 years ago now solves crime on TV" (See MSW, Matlock, Father Dowling)
8:24 Because he's my Butler!! This was a show I'd occassionly watch as a kid because that's what you do. I can't say I really enjoyed it but it was probably the best of the worst at any given time slot, judging by what I'm seeing here. The kid me didn't know about the 1950's 'Belvedere', I always assumed I missed the origin episode. Like a backstory that had Belvedere being a court appointed butler for Ueker or something. I really hope this is where Seinfeld got the idea from.
Moonlighting was, and is still, my favorite 80's show.
Yell, yell, opposite offices, slam, slam.
And ms. DiPesto.
So, did Miss DiPesto Dis the Pesto? Just askin.
Terrific, vastly underrated
& important show.
I ADORED ‘Moonlighting.’ The series ended on such a pitiful note. The 1st 2 seasons of it are the best.
@@videodoe
I thought the way they ended it
was hilarious & sincere.
Man Mr. Belvedere theme song brought back so many memories of watching it as a 9yr old kid! I used to love that show! I miss those days, it went by in a flash! Now, I'm 44yrs old and have 3 kids and busy as anything. I wish I could go back in time to those days, in the 80s.
Crazy Like A Fox was my favorite. Jack Warden & John Rubinstein made such a great team. I could really believe that they were father and son. And even though it wasn't a Stephen J. Cannell production, it had some of that wonderful eccentricity that his shows had. Code Name: Foxfire and Mr. Belvedere were other shows I enjoyed during that time. Oh, and Wildside!
Mr. Belvedere!!! Got to talk briefly with Tracy Wells on Twitter, a few years ago, which was cool because I'd become obsessed with Mr. Belvedere reruns at the time! Shout out to Antenna TV...even though I think know they've stopped airing them.
I'm going through and Scanning my TV Guides...30 years worth! I'm at 1982-1985 now, and seeing some shows that I worked on then...Paper Dolls, The Insiders, Gloria, Boone! It's cool to see the actual Footage though! Thanks!
Out of all the intros, Moonlighting's the classiest and the one that would fit in now. I only remember Mr. Belvedere (from the ads at the time, and I'm from Milwaukee, so Bob Uecker being in a sitcom was a big deal in the local press then) and Moonlighting (which I watched when I had the chance). I knew nothing about these other shows.
I definitely need to download the Street Hawk intro for my ride home
If there's a stranger TV show cast than the one of "Half Nelson", I've never heard of it.
Geena Davis, Bill Maher, Alfree Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Bruce Willis , lots of future stars in this years shows.
Think I used to watch the show starring Joe Pesci . 1985 I was mostly at the video arcades in those days.
Moonlighting theme song and show were superb. Excellent chemistry between the cast.
Geena Davis 6:15
wow, feels so weird seeing that intro to Mr. Belvedere, it's one of those shows I know I liked when I was a young kid but remember absolutely nothing about it, seeing the intro is like having something pulled out of a past existence.
I remember the concept of 'Middle Class Family gets a Butler' (no idea what the in Universe reason was for this)
and of course stock sitcom Family: Lecherous Teen Boy, Brainy Daughter, Bratty Preteen
and the Pre-Teen and Belvedere had 'Dennis/Mr. Wilson type relationship'
beyond those 3 points I only know it from a Cameo/Joke on Growing Pains a few seasons later (The Daughter Guest starred, and they actually cite Belvedere with Ben meeting her character and telling someone
"She kind of looks like the Girl from Mr. Belvedere." with them following up with
"are you sure she doesn't look like Mr. Belvedere."
Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, Dean Martin AND an American Pit Bulldog...HOW DID Half Nelson not make it??
Two GUIDING LIGHT connections here: Robin Johnson (Codename Foxfire) was "Darcy Dekker" in the summer of 1984; Beth Ehlers (The Best Times) was Harley Cooper.
I never watched Mr.Belvedere when it originally aired(too young), but it ran in syndication during the early to mid 90s and really stuck in my memory. Whenever the theme song would come on, my brother and I knew it was 10pm EST -- and time for bed.
0:28 "Ok, make it sound like Rod Serling, but not so as anyone can sue..."
So many actors from these shows faded into oblivion.
Otherworld was one of those shows that Jordan Television used to broadcast in the fall of 1986.
I thought I watched a lot TV back then, but aside from "Moonlighting," I only remember a couple of these...
Whoa! Gary Grubbs was in Half Nelson? THE Gary Grubbs? No way!
Who??
Thanks For Sharing!
That "Wildside" looks reasonably well-made....but sadly put up against "Cosby" and "Magnum" and DOA in six weeks.
This has become my favorite UA-cam channel
Otherworld doesn’t ring a bell, but I do like its theme song. I’m a sucker for some good 80s synth.
it lasted eight episodes.
Kay "Granny" Gardella, the TV critic for the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, apporved of it.
William Smith and Terry Funk were in a western together? How did I miss that?
Out of all those shows, there were only two that I watched: Otherworld and Street Hawk. I was hoping both shows would be renewed especially Street Hawk because I liked the motorcycle.
"Street Hawk" got decent numbers up against "Dallas"--finishing 47th out of 77 shows for the season which is considerably better than other recent entries against "Dallas" had performed for the network--but ABC clearly didn't have any confidence in the show. They scheduled the final three episodes on Thursday against "Cosby Show" and "Magnum", ensuring horrifically low ratings and its cancellation only weeks later.
I loved that motorcycle.
@@Mark2756042 I don't even know why the other networks even bothered broadcasting anything on Thursday night at the time. NBC had it locked down tight.
1985 was a good year.
Chubby Checker And The Fat Boyyyyyssss.... Jus doin tha twist!!!
I was 9 years old in 1985, that era of shows are the way they did them back then, much better then today's shows.
You're out of your mind. These shows mostly sucked.
@16:00 Orson Welles should have said, "You know what's even better than solving the crime? Mrs. Pell's Fish Sticks! Ummm, they're even better when your scared!" ("The Critic" animated tv show)☺️.
The original "OFF THE RACK" pilot was seen in December 1984....and it was set in NEW YORK. When ABC decided to "buy" the series as a mid-season replacement, they insisted the locale be changed to LOS ANGELES. It lasted six episodes.
ABC had a terrible track record of micromanaging their shows and badly altering the creators' vision. It almost always ended badly.
Otherworld was a pretty cool show I remember seeing reruns on scifi channel on their scifi series collection. Foxfire looks pretty awesome
I have One episode on video tape! Pathetic resolution, but I managed to at least get it into my Computer!
Jonathan Banks ended up becoming pretty famous appearing on a Narco Drama called Breaking Bad- it’s got the same premise as OtherWorld except with Meth
The Man...The Machine...STREET HAWK
Former NWA Heavyweight champ Terry Funk on Wildside!
Gary Williams no recollection of this show, and I'm ashamed
With Meg Ryan of all people, lol
I will cry if Terry never called anyone on the set an egg sucking dog.
"Otherworld"s theme song is catchy. So is the one for "Foxfire"
Otherworld's theme suspiciously sounds like that one theme in DOOM.
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Kinda reminds me of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
The only episode of Otherworld I remember was one where the kids end up on a world where they essentially "invent" rock-and-roll. A little cringe nowadays but at the time I thought it was clever.
Otherworld was like a Krofft 2.0! seeing Gretchen Corbett with an 80's hairdo was awesome! Jesse Mach is the HERO we deserve, along with Automan.
Bob Uecker Was an IronMan Back in the Day ...
Doing "Mr. Belvedere" for a Full Season for 6 Seasons ... the Voice of the Brewers for Decades ... as Well as Movies & Commercials Here & There
1:04 Jonathan Banks of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
15:28 Did I just hear an underscore from Blockbusters '87?!
Yes, you did! Bill Raferty for the win, LOL! 🤣😂🤣
The theme for Sara, sounds like an commercial for women's pantyhose.
I don’t remember that show even existing, but looking back, it had an all-star cast.
I counted 3 shows set in in San Francisco...nice!
Wow, that cast for Half Nelson, that must have been a really expensive failure, now I'm interested to see what exactly the show was.
i don't know how i remember crazy like a fox
Joe Pesci and Victoria Jackson working together? I can only imagine those two personality types interacting.
Hey, it's Mike's friend Eddie from Growing Pains at 12:32.
14:48 - Bruce Jenner acting? James Earl Jones running? Now there's a show that has it all!
15:55 - It's Jack Tripper's brother Lee!
I just can't buy Judd Hirsch as a detective.
Moonlighting!
Bruce Jenner acting. Who knew?
@@censusgary From what I've heard, he can't even "act" his way out of the proverbial paper bag which is that "reality" program, falsely so-called, he's in now, which program he's ostensibly trying to use as some kind of a springboard to run for governor of California in their recall election. (As though he has even a half-chance of winning!) It's been a long and far fall for him since his peak in the Summer Olympics in '76 and '84!
15:55 Yeah! That's John Getz! He was in David Cronenberg's "The Fly" alongside Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, and had a cameo in "The Fly II" (he was the only cast member to return for the sequel). And he played Joanna Cassidy's boyfriend in "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" who puts the moves on Christina Applegate's character. That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but he popped up in a lot of stuff in the '80s and '90s.
Drop-kick your jacket!
That "Otherworld" DID IT here to Peru!
South America, that is....
It surprises me, looking back, that I had forgotten so many shows, also had forgotten how many shows in the 70s-80s were set in San Francisco.
Other world had Jonna Lee..omg the cutest
"THE LUCIE ARNAZ SHOW"- adapted from a British sitcom, "AGONY"- lasted just six episodes.
Then the show truly was “AGONY”.
...and if Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Jr. were not her parents, the show would not have ever been made at all.
@@dlighted1277 facts
@@dlighted1277 Actually, Desi Arnaz, Jr. is her brother. Their father was Desi Arnaz, Sr.
How did CBS promote it?
"You'll love this Lucie!"
That futuristic show reminds me of the future my generation was expecting in the 80s. According to the clock in my Delorian 2021 is supposed to be like Blade Runner. ⏰
The whole thing looks like an SCTV parody.
Facts
Mimi Kennedy is from my hometown Rochester NY!
She was also featured on Under One Roof (recalled a disaster!)!!
I disagree about "Mom"..yes, it may have some moments of crude humor, but it does a great service for Alcoholics Anonymous with its accurate portrayal of that program (many people in and out of the program have hailed the show for this reason). The writing has been on fire lately, too..and Mimi is one of the greatest assets of that cast!
I don't see how Half Nelson and Me and Mom failed. So much star power in both of those shows but didn't last 15 episodes between them.
So the 2 guys in Blue a Thunder were also in Half Nelson aswell. Same agent?
Hot redhead Joanna Cassidy🥰
It’s vaguely off-putting watching a smiling Joe Pesci drive around Beverly Hills...
"Half Nelson" That show also had a couple of ex-NFL stars in it, Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith (13:45-14:00), FWIW. Also, Victoria Jackson (I assume the same Victoria Jackson that was later on SNL).
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Dick and Bubba had shown up in many shows for a paycheck, even The A-Team.
@@clxmasisland6724 And many, many commercials for Miller Lite.
Better Joe Pesci driving than Caitlyn Jenner driving.
Holy Crap, Meg Ryan was in Wildside?! I know I watched that show because Terry Funk was a wrestler, and I loved wrestling, but not in a million years would I have thought Meg Ryan was there.
Terry looks better today than Meg.
The sad part is, had that not been such a dismal season, Moonlighting would never have gotten the success it did.
The 1984-85 season produced MANY long-running and iconic shows. Very few would refer to it as a "dismal season".
@@Mark2756042 , every season has a part that was bad.. and this part of that season was. Dismal may have been hyperbole on my part.. but then if you want to take dismal... look back just two seasons at the NBC 1983-1984 season. Actually, the entire season for all three networks was dismal, and only shows getting renewed were worth watching that year. NBC became a force only because within two years almost all long running shows on ABC were coming to an end.
All the Emmy awards Moonlighting received indicates it woulda been successful in any season.
@@bottlerocket3218 , maybe.. but considering the controversy and the infighting between its leads... I don't think so.
ABC was more interested in promoting Aaron Spelling's latest cop show, "MacGRUDER & LOUD" (of the "L.S.P. D."). It was originally scheduled before "MOONLIGHTING" in March 1985.....and was cancelled by the end of the season, along with most of his other new series.{"FINDER OF LOST LOVES", "GLITTER"}.
Beth Davenport at 1:25.
Eventually Bruce Jenner would bring all new meaning to the phrase "Me & Mom"
This make me feel so sad, i miss so much that perfect period. And look at the girls...
Perfect in what way? It certainly wasn’t a great era for television.
@@censusgary whaaattt??? 😱
5:47 Sara with an all star cast. Geena Davis for goodness sake. Alfre, Bill Mahar, Mark Hudson, Belkie, Matthew Lawrence
At least success was just a year away for Bronson Pinchot.
Loved Otherworld when I was 12.
I thank God for Bob Uecker
as usual finish with the best
So, Codename: Foxfire was a live action version of Totally Spies?
I remember really liking "Otherworld" when I was a kid. :)
Also, a series where one of the characters was named James Gordon? That amused me.
I liked it too. I once tried to record the theme on tape but my brother messed it up.
James Gordon Cooper was my grandfather’s name. Everyone called him Gordon.
@@censusgary I would have thought either Jim or Coop. :)
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Back before I knew him, some people apparently called him “Blondie.”
@@censusgary :)
Mike Ehrmantraut will get that pesky family!
Geoff Chisholm You mean Frank McPike!
Oh, man I forgot about "Wiseguy"!
@ 16:17
-That's not an horror/terror scream; It sounds more like a howling goat! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That same scream I think was made by Orson during one of the Paul Masson outtakes not saved on film (" _(howling goat)_ the French champagne...")
Mike from Breaking Bad in Otherworld lol!
Is it weird that I like to see some of these shows get rebooted?
No, I was thinking the same thing as I watched this.
'Half Nelson'. Joe Pesci, the great Dino, and 3 has-been football players. Why didn't that one make it?
Mr. Belvedere was the show you didn't let your cool friends know that you really liked
Introducing Tony as Hunk and Dean Martin as Mr. Martin. HUH?
I’m wondering how low Dean Martin’s career had sunk at that point, for him to get last billing (after the dog!) on a tenth-rate TV series.
Last billing often gets reserved for a big star.
The stars on these shows are so random. Bruce Jenner and James Earl Jones on the same show? Why not? How about Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson and Bubba Smith? Sure sounds good.
+ludd911 Do you think a bunch of manatees were moving balls in a tank at the casting office?
william woods Like in how Family Guy gets their plot ideas? It's either that or they borrowed a Bingo tumbler from the local nursing home and wrote the names of actors on the balls. "B4 - Bubba Smith"...."G 23 Ken Wahl"...
Exactly.
These choices can't be deliberate.
william woods
I don't know Wildside starring Harold Rollins as Bannister Sparks, Terry Funk as Prometheus Jones and Meg Ryan as Cally Oaks seems promising. Or not.
I want to see Bruce Jenner and Caitlyn on the same show.
The music DOES have the 80'S DOWN PACKED.
I never heard of Otherworld. That's great! That would've been one for me. Wonder how missed it.
I never knew about it back then (was it in a terrible time slot?), but it looks like fun.
It was on at the same time as Diff’rent Strokes, in a strange cruelty of the 80s.
Mr. Belvedere needed more Bob Euker on it. He seemed to pop in only once in awhile. I guess he was too busy calling all those baseball games to spend more time with his tv family.
And being in the front row lol.
I loved Spencer, unfortunately it lasted about the same length of time as it’s clip in this video.
Otherworld looks like a dream I had while on really strong pain meds...
Bill Maher was on "Sara"??? LOL
He was also on "Murder, She Wrote"
He was in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. Yes, seriously.
"TV's only MARRIED cops"
Patty Duke was the president? And that didn't work??????
And "Donald" was the First Man.
The woman that created SOAP crated that show. Awful!!
Even the show's producers conceded it was horrendous.
I watched that show back in the day. It was... not good. They basically tried to recreate "Soap" in the White House, with the "gimmick" of a female President. The plots were silly, the jokes were stale, and the show just never clicked.
I remember Hail to the Chief. It did have a good cast, I thought. I remember it being billed as "an equal opportunity offender"...and it certainly was that(lol).
How the heck wasn't Half Nelson a bigger deal?!?
try to find what it ran up against during those 6 weeks in Spring of 1985.
"DALLAS". 😏 Brandon Tartikoff was determined to attract young males who didn't watch that.....only it didn't work.
I think only mr.belvedere survived
8:25 Mr. Belvidere--didn't watch at the time (I think there were better shows on that I watched), but I wound up seeing a lot of it in reruns probably 20 years later.
And moonlighting
Half the shows take place in San Francisco.
Half Nelson...a TV show spin off from a music video ( I love LA)
Why didn't Randy Newman do the theme?
@@clxmasisland6724 "L. A. We love it!" It might have helped, especially on a different evening.
Saved the best for last. Oh, and "Sara" was star-filled yet obviously tanked. It's hard to pick winners and losers with pilots.
Now I know why we only saw Jeannie Wilson sporadically on Simon & Simon. Sheryl Lee Ralph was occasionally on Designing Women and moved on to It's a Living.
How has no one mentioned the future Jan Levinson aka Michael Scott’s gf from The Office @ 12:25
Judd Hirsch: Patron saint of canceled shows and unaired pilots.
Really? TAXI didn't do half bad. Granted, DEAR JOHN and NUMBERS didn't last that long but they were pretty good while they were around. His other shows, though...
@@lp-xl9ld Dear John was great if you needed a cheesy laugh.
You'd all be dead if it wasn't for my son David! Sorry, had an Independence Day flashback.;)
Judd Hirsch was in many, many TV shows. Some were good, some were bad, and some were good but cancelled anyway.
California + Mediocre Open Credits = 1980s TV programming
Sara just might have the oddest cast: Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bill Maher(!!!!!), Mark Hudson, and Bronson Pinchot.
The theme music for Wildside didn’t match the period it was set in. Ugh 😩 lol. I was a HS junior in the spring of ‘85. Wasn’t into what NBC, ABC and CBS had to offer it was HBO and MTV for me. But I wasn’t watching TV as much because I started working more.
Wasn't Crazy L A F a spin off of Murder she wrote? It lasted maybe 2 seasons. My parents liked the show. How could Jack go wrong?
Not a Spin Off, But I would not be shocked if it wasn't "inspired by"... it would seem to fit the sub genre Of 'Actor who was Everywhere 20 years ago now solves crime on TV" (See MSW, Matlock, Father Dowling)
8:24 Because he's my Butler!! This was a show I'd occassionly watch as a kid because that's what you do. I can't say I really enjoyed it but it was probably the best of the worst at any given time slot, judging by what I'm seeing here. The kid me didn't know about the 1950's 'Belvedere', I always assumed I missed the origin episode. Like a backstory that had Belvedere being a court appointed butler for Ueker or something. I really hope this is where Seinfeld got the idea from.
Rex smith,the original Daredevil
No "The Colbys"?
That didn't premiere until the *fall* of 1985.
I loved otherworldl then it just disappeared
No wonder I was so depressed at this time
If that show with Holland taylor aired today bruce Jenner would be the mom
In that event, the title would be: "Watch Me Make a Fool of Myself!" The alternate syndication title would be: "Me, Myself and I".
Holland Taylor likes the lady parts.