“It” has a special place in my memory as it helped bring my wife and I together. We were in college working at the library when it aired, and she knew I had recorded it on my VCR- I meticulously edited out the commercials in a sophisticated method known as “keeping my thumb over the pause button”. She asked to borrow it because she was working the night the second half aired. It was one of our first interactions as she worked in reference and I was in circulation (bada bing). We completely forgot about it until years after we married and were moving out of state when she found the tape and saw her handwriting on the label from where she wrote my number on it so she could return it to me. We all float, indeed.
The only reason it wasn’t is because I didn’t want two Stephen king movies in the top 10. So I picked one, and put the others in the honorable mention section. Honestly, his miniseries deserve their own video with a tier list. 😊
I literally clicked this to make sure that The Temptations was on this list. I was 6 going on 7 when it came out, and it’s a core memory, watching it with my dad. Still my favorite movie. Accuracy leaves a lot to be desired, but that’s to be expected when it’s based on Otis’s book and narrated by Otis. And SO QUOTABLE. “Ain’t nobody comin to see you, Otis!” It’s a Thanksgiving tradition for me now.
1000% my mom and I had to stop and watch it no matter at what part it is on. Ms. Baxter had feelings about the second movie. In the 1st she said she felt sorry and with the second movie her feelings changed
They were very good. I still watch them, but but they were told from the viewpoint of making Dan and Linda seem less evil. Dirty John made Dan and Linda out to be the real people that I think they actually were. This was very sympathetic to Dan and Linda.
Queen is also a part of the 70's mini series Roots. Queen first appeared in Roots the Next Generations. She was Alex Haley's grandmother on her father's side whereas Kunta, Kizzy, Chicken George and so on were on his mothers side. At least so the story goes.
My sister and I was raised by a our single hard working mother. Some of my fondest memories are of us watching mini-series. They were a event in our home, we would get so excited the closer the big night got. I remember the conversations we all would have after each episode and the excitement of waiting for what seemed like forever for the next episode to air. We sometimes had it rough because like I said we was raised primarily by a single hard working woman. That said I wouldn't change a second of it,I've got so many awesome memories because of that upbringing we Cherished every special moment. This video brought so many of those memories back so thank you for your hard work in bringing it to us. Thank you mom for always putting us first in your life love you. Lastly "Storm of the Century was and is my favorite mini-series of all-time." "Born in sin come on in. Born in lust turn to dust". Stephen King.
There was one miniseries from 1999, entitled The '60s, which was a two part miniseries centering around the lives of two families, one white and one black, set during the events of the 1960s.
YES!! “Y’all ain’t nothin without David Ruffin! You WISH you could work it like I do. But you can’t. Because there’s only one David Ruffin. And without him, Tempts ain’t nothin but a group IN SEARCH of a David Ruffin!”
These videos are performing very well and growing my channel…but I’m gonna do some more nutritional content very soon. 😊 it’s definitely nostalgic junk food, but I love the idea of being a pop culture historian and preserving some of these things before they get lost in the internet.
The 1990's had more tv channels. We got a lot of tv shows and miniseries. Stephen King's It, The Stand and The Shining to name a few. We're some of the best. Still holds a special place in my heart. Being a 90's kid was great.
I love the '97 version of The Shining. Steven Weber did a great job of playing the descent into madness. In the scene where Jack hears his dead father's voice coming out of the CB radio and his nose starts bleeding, that wasn't a makeup effect. Steven Weber's nose actually started bleeding and Mick Garris decided to use that take because he felt it added to the intensity of the scene.
I loved all, but I have the fondest memories of watching the A&E / BBC1 Pride & Prejudice (the only screen adaptation of the novel that matters) with my family, a clan of literary nerds, the first time it aired in the US in 1996 and one of the last good memories we shared together. I was in my freshman year of college (for English Lit) and still home on winter break. We had our holiday decorations up, a fire roaring, hot cocoa, and shortbread. The memories from the three nights P&P aired still bring me such joy. It is still my comfort “movie”. Whether physical illness or feeling down/depressed, I’ve watched the series through hundreds of times. Every detail, from casting, locations, and score to the screenplay, truthful adaptation, and costume design, it brings to life one of the most beloved works of fiction. Thank you for including P&P on the list of other excellent miniseries (that also have wonderful memories attached).
I couldn't afford HBO when this series came out, but ads for it were all over the place and I thought that it looked interesting. Later, I got married, later still had a kid, then, when the Kid was 2 1/2, we went with my family to Kennedy Space Station. The Kid LOVED IT! We got him a stuffed Space Monkey Ham, which we still have though Ham's silver suit is now worn down to the white fabric and the Kid is now almost through college. My pre-schooler wanted MORE Space Monkey Ham content!! I knew that there were scenes with Ham in "The Right Stuff", but that involved putting in the DVD, fast-forwarding it to the first scene with Ham, skipping over the WAY INAPPROPRIATE scenes for a toddler, and then finding the second scene with Ham, then putting in the second DVD and fast-forwarding it to the third scene of Ham coming back to Earth, then stopping the DVD. It was time consuming. So I found our copy of "Apollo 13," which didn't have any Space Monkey Ham content, but it kept the Kid interested. He watched "Jim Lovel Goes to the Moon" over and over and over again on a daily basis, until I was getting sick of it, and it's one of my favorite movies. Incidentally, I was roughly the same age that the Kid was by this time back in 1970 when Jim Lovel actually went to the moon on Apollo 13. It wasn't until I saw the movie for the first time in 1995 and a news feed scrolls past a screen in Time Square reading "Pope asks for prayers for the Astronauts," that it clicked what my grandmother was talking about in 1970 when I heard her say in a serious and worried voice that the pope wanted us to pray for the astronauts going to the moon. My grandfather worked for NASA at the time. We always watched the Apollo launches and landings. I knew that the Apollo 13 moon launch had happened but I was too young to understand what the problem was or that they didn't land on the moon that time. Anyhow, back to 2009, I spotted a copy of "From the Earth To The Moon" at Borders, on sale and about ten years after the series had run on HBO. I bought it and watched it first by myself to make sure that it wasn't another "Right Stuff." I then let Kid watch "Can We Do This," "Spider," "That's All There Is" or "Al Bean Goes To the Moon" as my son called it, "For Miles and Miles," and "Galileo Was Right." Even though we have all seen those episodes many times, with that many in rotation with "Apollo 13," it was much harder to get tired of any one of them. There were also the special features which were almost equally interesting. The actors and writers kept referring to Andrew Chaikin's book, "A Man on the Moon," which I then read and so I became an Apollo enthusiast. The Kid and I spent so much time at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, that he came to call the Cessna there "his plane" and had to be gently but firmly reminded that other people wanted to play in the plane as well. We also enjoyed the Udvar Hazy Center where he could see the Space Shuttle, and Godard Space Center where he could play in the mockup of the space capsule, and run off his energy in the Rocket Garden. It was a wonderful time with my little boy. He started elementary school and found other interests. I have stayed interested in the Apollo program and still love to read astronaut biographies. It connects my fond memories of my grandparents to a very special time in my life with my son. My grandfather was so proud of all that they had done in the space program. I could take my little boy to the museum and show him my grandfather's Lunar Ranging Retro Reflector and tell him my grandfather's stories about the laser that they built that shot to the moon.
Seeing The Temptations on here brought back a great memory from the 90s. I had gotten fathers day weekend off work so I could take my Dad to see the Cardinals together for the first time (big baseball fans, we'd each gone to see them but never together) So here we are, Fathers day and when we get to the stadium, we go to the merch shop and there is my dad's all time favorite manager and announcer, Whitey Herzog and Jack Buck, signing autographs for Jack's book. I buy one for him and we both get to meet them and get autographs. Now we're going to our seats (3rd row down the 3rd base line) and we run into Mike Shannon, a former cardinal and now an announcer, he gives my dad an autograph and a few minutes of chat then we're off to our seats. No sooner do we get to them and get settled in, the PA announcer comes on says there's to be a small performance before the national anthem. Everyone is thinking it's going to be like the local high school band or something when they announce The Temptations. It was just a really cool series of events that made it a really memorable Father's day for my dad and something I'm glad I could do for him. (Although when we got home from the six hour drive from St. Louis, the manager was mad because people called in but I was nowhere near to come in. I asked if I had come in, would they have reimbursed me for the tickets to the game I wouldn't be able to use, they said no and I said, so you wanted me to come in and make less than the tickets I bought Cost me. Yeah, I wasn't with them much longer lol)
I have both the VHS and DVD copies of Pride & Prejudice because it is the best. We were studying P&P in AP English Lit at the same time it came out so it was perfect timing. Of course the lake scene with Colin Firth didn’t hurt my love for this version.😅
While it's a TV movie rather than a miniseries, The Legacy of Hilltop Drive was FANTASTIC. I saw it as a child and it stuck with me for decades after that. I was thrilled when I found it on UA-cam. It's a great paranormal movie based on a true story of a street that was built on top of an old cemetery, and creepy things started happening until they got truly dangerous. It's a fantastic watch and still absolutely holds up. I can't recommend it enough!
I was just thinking that I need to watch # 1 on this list for the umpteenth time. SO. DAMN. GOOD. Iconic does not begin to describe it. And the restored version is exquisite. Who knew the sisters' dresses weren't just white? Fun fact: Anna Chancellor (Caroline Bingley) is descended from Austen's family (though not from Jane directly, obviously).
I'm so happy The Jackson's made this list, it is SO GOOD. I would like to add 'Small Sacrifices' with Farrah Fawcett serving Diane Downs in the most frightening, haunting way.
"IT" was so well done for its time. I remember my older sibling taping it so we could watch the series again. I thought it was creepy as heck but awesome. "The Stand" with Gary Sinise in it is my favorite adaption of that book so far. It had Molly Ringwald in it too, I saw a lot of her movies when I was growing up.
Even though the 1995 adaptation is my favorite, I did enjoy the 2005 adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice". I would have included two other UK imports - 1994's "Middlemarch", an adaptation of George Eliot's novel, and the Charles Dickens miniseries from 1998, "Our Mutual Friend".
You did not mention any of the actors that was in the Jacksons an American Dream Terrence Howard Angela Bassett the singer of all the songs in Lion King Jason Weaver the singing voice of Simba as a cub.
So many great ones, but The Langoliers was amazing. I had no idea what it was, I started watching a few minutes after the start. At first I just wanted to know what in the hell was going on. The actors were just a bonus. Balki losing his mind will never not crack me up. The monsters were laughable but I didn’t care. It was a good ride. Ironically I don’t read King much or at all, aside from The Running Man, but there are dozens of adaptations of his work that I love.
The shining remake is good. Don’t get me wrong, it just seems weird seeing Steven Webber from wings playing with Jack Torrance role. I love these videos of yours. I can’t wait to work with you in the future.
They all seem awesome, Thankyou for sharing, something I notice is that a lot of these series include physcological drama, and are not afraid of exploring the human psyque and feelings, which I love and rarely see in the series and movies these days.
I've paused 10 sec in to write this, so idk if these films will mentioned yet, but i hope 4 of my favourite 90s made for tv films will appear. But they weren't miniseries. The two films based on sarah flanagan books: *_sudie and simpson_* with lou gossett jr and darlene from roseanne. And *_wildflower_* , diane keaton's directing debut, starring reese witherspoon, patricia arquette and beau bridges. *_a cry for help: the tracy thurman story_* starring jo from the facts of life. Nancy mckeon And *_the face on the milk carton_* starring becca from life goes on. kelli martin
I do love the Pride & Prejudice mini series but my favourite is the 1980 miniseries, there actually have been a few. I also think you do Keira Knightley and Matthew McFadyen and the cast of the movie a disservice, the movie was a love adaptation, again there have been a few film adaptations. I love Olivier as Darcy in a very early film of the same! I think each version of a Jane Austen miniseries or film/s are beloved by the generations that first saw them, I have watched a many different versions as possible and enjoyed all of them. Frankly, you can't go wrong with any of them.
The 1980 was truer to the book but the sexual tension between Lizzy and Darcy made the 1995 much better. Lol, though it may have had Jane Austen truing in her grave! People like to say Darcy was too stiff and boring in the 1980 not a man who would attract women for himself but that IS how Austen wrote him. Colin Firth was just too likable as Darcy. so, although I like the 1995 the best, I know Jane Austen would have preferred the 1980.
if you thought Pennywise from the IT was creepy well he ain't nothing compared to Zeebo the clown from the show are you afraid of the dark. now there is a true terrifying clown.
Some really good ones on there! Another you might have missed was Lucky Chances & Lady Boss. "Lucky Chances" was based on 2 books by Jackie Collins, "Lucky" & "Chances". Lady Boss was the follow-up mini-series based on the book of the same name.
Meridith Baxter was nominated for an Emmy for her protrayal of Betty Broderick, she should of won, and Blind Faith are great ones. Missing on your honorable mentions, Seduced By Madness The Diane Borchardt Story staring Ann-Margret, she plays the over the top Diane, teachers aide that put her students up to murdering her husband who wanted a divorce, in love with another woman, aird in 1996. And Murder In New Hampshire, the Pamela Smart Story played by Helen Hunt, and another students put up to murdering her husband. Both actress' in a rare villainess role.
I almost turned the video off when I saw that The Stand was a freakin' honorable mention!!! I haven't finished the video and I am now not sure if I want to.
You forgot the Buccaneers. Anyone a fan of The Gilded Age needs to watch that. I have Pride and Prejudice, Queen, and The Buccaneers on DVD. If you want a great 2000's miniseries that is funny and hilarious, watch Lost in Austen where a young woman goes back in time to the Bennet home in Meryton. It was really a TV series that did not get a season 2.
It’s much sillier than most of the stories on your list, but at least I’m pretty sure The 10th Kingdom at least sneaks in before the 1990s end. Kimberley Williams and her dad, John Larroquette, fall into a fairytale kingdom where a half man, half big bad wolf guy played by Scott Cohen is supposed to bring the young woman to the evil queen but takes one look at her (one sniff probably, tbh) and doesn’t wanna. Sometimes it’s dumb fun and sometimes it’s iconic. The multiple haircuts, the Bo Peep village, the singing ring who tells it like he sees it, the puppet mushrooms in the witch bog, and the chemistry between the leads, which maybe feels a little transgressive in 2024 when “I don’t know if I want to love her or eat her” doesn’t play as well anymore. To say nothing of the opening credits, where New York explodes into a fairytale kingdom, and which, allowing for the CGI of the period, slaps SO HARD it almost sets a standard the show itself cannot live up to. Oh, and as a fan of all the best stuff from the eighties, you might enjoy Dianne Wiest - though some of her jewelry confuses me. I’m pretty sure The 10th Kingdom was fall 1999 - the very end of the decade - bc it was by accidentally watching this miniseries on the same dorm tv that I ended up making a very unlikely friend. ❤
Update: the internet insists this miniseries aired Spring of 2000 but this timeline makes no sense! The night of y2k I was scared that if the world crashed I wouldn’t get to go on a study trip to England. I roomed with the friend I had made watching The 10th Kingdom on that trip… How can this be possible if we didn’t become friends until February 2000? I cannot make sense of this lol
When the newer version of IT came out, I bought a DVD of the old one for old time sake😉 I also have the BBC's Pride and Prejudice on DVD from a while back. I agree that it's much better than the newer ones 😊
Got a new series for ya -- the Danielle Steel movies splurge! I've seen clips here and there. Finding the movies are difficult especially the older ones.
I tried to upload the mini series of The Shining some time ago, but it was blocked worldwide. A shame, because most of Stephen King's shows aren't a problem. I forgot to mention on my other post on the 80's mini series, that I have a couple of later mini series by Mr King on my channel - "Rose Red" from 2002, and "Storm Of The Century" from the early nineties. Interesting list anyway, but which one was taken down by the BBC from the original upload?
I got a copyright claim on the original upload of this video for using a 35 second clip of the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice. They usually only let 10-15 seconds to be used at a time to get through checks.
@@mysocalledgenxlife Yeah sorry, I just read that fact on your community tab. I really should look around fully before posting already answered questions.😟
So since you last upload of this I decided to watch Pride and Prejudice series. It was pretty good. See why you like it. I would put From the Earth to the Moon on the top of my list though. As for the Pride and Prejudice film. I like that one too. It’s is one thing that doesn’t take anything away from the series.
One thing someone pointed out to me about the 2005 movie is that they make Charlotte out to be helpless instead of her marriage to Collins being a little more tactical on her part.
Here's some Meredith Baxter Bernie trivia: The show One Day at a Time from the 1970s was executive produced by I believe a husband and wife team, of which the wife who ran the show was on her second marriage with I think three daughters in her case. Well, the show was based on their own experience after their mother divorced their dad, ya know? Mother and daughters living on their own. Meredith Baxter Bernie was one of the daughters of the showrunner to One Day at a Time. Her real life inspired that show. EDIT: It doesn't mention this on her Wikipedia page, but it clearly explains it on the One Day at a Time (1975) Wikipedia page: _The series was created by Whitney Blake and Allan Manings, a husband-and-wife writing duo who had both been actors in the 1950s and 1960s. The series was based on Whitney Blake's own life as a single mother raising her three children (including future actress Meredith Baxter) after her divorce from her first husband._
Ok. I never seen that scene from Jewels. Was that a deleted scene? I know the scene where they are at the Tower of London but not the one Sarah and her parents at the hotel.
From the earth to the moon, in 90's fashion nicely neglected to mention the human computers like the ADOS Woman Katherine Johnson that made the mission impossible without their mathematical contributions.
My favorite miniseries was easily ROSE RED, which I think was based on something from Stephen King… might be wrong there. Anyway, it was an awesome haunted house story with plenty of time for character development and special effects.
The reason these got better was the crossover of actors/actresses at the time. Previous to then, people either did movies or TV. Movies were seen as top notch; TV was a step below. Occasionally one would make the jump from TV to movies, like Michael J. Fox, but never the other way around. It was career suicide only for those at the end of a failing movie career.
Love, love your videos!!!! But I might have to start playing a drinking game when I hear the waaaaaaaaay overused word in this video and seemingly everywhere: ICONIC.
You’re not wrong, my friend. I went through my videos this week and the words “iconic” and “journey” were way overused. I will be using my thesaurus a lot more in my next video.
I also was a fan of A Season in Purgatory. Especially since this was loosely based on the Kennedy family members and I loved Patrick Dempsey before he ever blew up!
Stephen King's book are so long that most of them can't be movies. I'm glad he had them made into miniseries. He was not happy with Kubrick's adaptation of _The Shining_.
The Stand Steven Kings awesome version not the one from Amazon that one was complete garbage...Gary Sinese, Rob Lowe watched that one with my Mom amazing times..
I loved The Shinning mini series, better that I like the movie. I thought it was so much better. Say what you want about Kubrick, but he didn't shine as a director for me in that movie.
“It” has a special place in my memory as it helped bring my wife and I together. We were in college working at the library when it aired, and she knew I had recorded it on my VCR- I meticulously edited out the commercials in a sophisticated method known as “keeping my thumb over the pause button”. She asked to borrow it because she was working the night the second half aired. It was one of our first interactions as she worked in reference and I was in circulation (bada bing). We completely forgot about it until years after we married and were moving out of state when she found the tape and saw her handwriting on the label from where she wrote my number on it so she could return it to me. We all float, indeed.
This is incredible. What a great story. ❤️
Oh, the PAUSE BUTTON. Those were the days...
What a wonderful story!
Brought together by an evil supernatural clown who would have thought of it 😆
That’s cool😎🎃☠️
I feel like there was a Danielle Steele or Stephen King miniseries every few months in the 90s. What a fun decade that was lol.
The stand was phenomenal and deserved top 5
The only reason it wasn’t is because I didn’t want two Stephen king movies in the top 10. So I picked one, and put the others in the honorable mention section. Honestly, his miniseries deserve their own video with a tier list. 😊
@@mysocalledgenxlifeGreat idea!
@@thundernelsIIIII don't think so.
Agreed. It didn't deserve an " honorable mention".
The Stand was far more of an event than The Shining MS.
I literally clicked this to make sure that The Temptations was on this list. I was 6 going on 7 when it came out, and it’s a core memory, watching it with my dad.
Still my favorite movie. Accuracy leaves a lot to be desired, but that’s to be expected when it’s based on Otis’s book and narrated by Otis.
And SO QUOTABLE. “Ain’t nobody comin to see you, Otis!” It’s a Thanksgiving tradition for me now.
Meredith Baxter gave one helluva performance in the Betty Broderick movies. Absolutely flawless. My favorite, along with IT.
1000% my mom and I had to stop and watch it no matter at what part it is on. Ms. Baxter had feelings about the second movie. In the 1st she said she felt sorry and with the second movie her feelings changed
They were very good. I still watch them, but but they were told from the viewpoint of making Dan and Linda seem less evil. Dirty John made Dan and Linda out to be the real people that I think they actually were. This was very sympathetic to Dan and Linda.
Omg I was obsessed with the Jackson’s an American dream
Queen is also a part of the 70's mini series Roots. Queen first appeared in Roots the Next Generations. She was Alex Haley's grandmother on her father's side whereas Kunta, Kizzy, Chicken George and so on were on his mothers side. At least so the story goes.
Scarlett and Merlin are two of my favorite 90s miniseries! I do agree with you that Pride and Prejudice is the GOAT of tv miniseries!
My sister and I was raised by a our single hard working mother. Some of my fondest memories are of us watching mini-series. They were a event in our home, we would get so excited the closer the big night got. I remember the conversations we all would have after each episode and the excitement of waiting for what seemed like forever for the next episode to air. We sometimes had it rough because like I said we was raised primarily by a single hard working woman. That said I wouldn't change a second of it,I've got so many awesome memories because of that upbringing we Cherished every special moment. This video brought so many of those memories back so thank you for your hard work in bringing it to us. Thank you mom for always putting us first in your life love you. Lastly "Storm of the Century was and is my favorite mini-series of all-time." "Born in sin come on in. Born in lust turn to dust". Stephen King.
Completely forgot this was a mini series. Good call!! It was amazing.
Pride and prejudice. Ageed 100%. I had the VHS, the DVD. YES! YES!!
There was one miniseries from 1999, entitled The '60s, which was a two part miniseries centering around the lives of two families, one white and one black, set during the events of the 1960s.
I think they did a 70s one too
Yes! I loved that one
That sounds so familiar. 🤔
I remember that one! 😊
@@thechickapedia1175I have the 70s one on DVD but I can't seem to find the 60s
Every Christmas and Thanksgiving my family is watching and quoting either The Temptations or The Jacksons whether it’s in person or via text!
YES!! “Y’all ain’t nothin without David Ruffin! You WISH you could work it like I do. But you can’t. Because there’s only one David Ruffin. And without him, Tempts ain’t nothin but a group IN SEARCH of a David Ruffin!”
@@ItsVictoriaG Ain’t nobody coming to see you Otis! 😂😂
I love, love, LOVE this version of Pride and Prejudice ❤
So nice you uploaded it twice. This might not be the most nutritional content, but it's darn good nostalgic junk food
These videos are performing very well and growing my channel…but I’m gonna do some more nutritional content very soon. 😊 it’s definitely nostalgic junk food, but I love the idea of being a pop culture historian and preserving some of these things before they get lost in the internet.
The 1990's had more tv channels. We got a lot of tv shows and miniseries. Stephen King's It, The Stand and The Shining to name a few. We're some of the best. Still holds a special place in my heart. Being a 90's kid was great.
The langoliers. Bronson pinchot🤣🤣🤣 mr toomey. Remember him 30 years later.
"Stay away from mr toomey." Iykyk
I love the '97 version of The Shining. Steven Weber did a great job of playing the descent into madness. In the scene where Jack hears his dead father's voice coming out of the CB radio and his nose starts bleeding, that wasn't a makeup effect. Steven Weber's nose actually started bleeding and Mick Garris decided to use that take because he felt it added to the intensity of the scene.
I loved all, but I have the fondest memories of watching the A&E / BBC1 Pride & Prejudice (the only screen adaptation of the novel that matters) with my family, a clan of literary nerds, the first time it aired in the US in 1996 and one of the last good memories we shared together. I was in my freshman year of college (for English Lit) and still home on winter break. We had our holiday decorations up, a fire roaring, hot cocoa, and shortbread. The memories from the three nights P&P aired still bring me such joy.
It is still my comfort “movie”. Whether physical illness or feeling down/depressed, I’ve watched the series through hundreds of times.
Every detail, from casting, locations, and score to the screenplay, truthful adaptation, and costume design, it brings to life one of the most beloved works of fiction. Thank you for including P&P on the list of other excellent miniseries (that also have wonderful memories attached).
Thanks for including From the Earth to the Moon. I feel it often gets overlooked. It has its issues but I would rate it 2nd only to P&P.
I couldn't afford HBO when this series came out, but ads for it were all over the place and I thought that it looked interesting. Later, I got married, later still had a kid, then, when the Kid was 2 1/2, we went with my family to Kennedy Space Station. The Kid LOVED IT! We got him a stuffed Space Monkey Ham, which we still have though Ham's silver suit is now worn down to the white fabric and the Kid is now almost through college. My pre-schooler wanted MORE Space Monkey Ham content!! I knew that there were scenes with Ham in "The Right Stuff", but that involved putting in the DVD, fast-forwarding it to the first scene with Ham, skipping over the WAY INAPPROPRIATE scenes for a toddler, and then finding the second scene with Ham, then putting in the second DVD and fast-forwarding it to the third scene of Ham coming back to Earth, then stopping the DVD. It was time consuming. So I found our copy of "Apollo 13," which didn't have any Space Monkey Ham content, but it kept the Kid interested. He watched "Jim Lovel Goes to the Moon" over and over and over again on a daily basis, until I was getting sick of it, and it's one of my favorite movies. Incidentally, I was roughly the same age that the Kid was by this time back in 1970 when Jim Lovel actually went to the moon on Apollo 13. It wasn't until I saw the movie for the first time in 1995 and a news feed scrolls past a screen in Time Square reading "Pope asks for prayers for the Astronauts," that it clicked what my grandmother was talking about in 1970 when I heard her say in a serious and worried voice that the pope wanted us to pray for the astronauts going to the moon. My grandfather worked for NASA at the time. We always watched the Apollo launches and landings. I knew that the Apollo 13 moon launch had happened but I was too young to understand what the problem was or that they didn't land on the moon that time. Anyhow, back to 2009, I spotted a copy of "From the Earth To The Moon" at Borders, on sale and about ten years after the series had run on HBO. I bought it and watched it first by myself to make sure that it wasn't another "Right Stuff." I then let Kid watch "Can We Do This," "Spider," "That's All There Is" or "Al Bean Goes To the Moon" as my son called it, "For Miles and Miles," and "Galileo Was Right." Even though we have all seen those episodes many times, with that many in rotation with "Apollo 13," it was much harder to get tired of any one of them. There were also the special features which were almost equally interesting. The actors and writers kept referring to Andrew Chaikin's book, "A Man on the Moon," which I then read and so I became an Apollo enthusiast. The Kid and I spent so much time at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, that he came to call the Cessna there "his plane" and had to be gently but firmly reminded that other people wanted to play in the plane as well. We also enjoyed the Udvar Hazy Center where he could see the Space Shuttle, and Godard Space Center where he could play in the mockup of the space capsule, and run off his energy in the Rocket Garden. It was a wonderful time with my little boy. He started elementary school and found other interests. I have stayed interested in the Apollo program and still love to read astronaut biographies. It connects my fond memories of my grandparents to a very special time in my life with my son. My grandfather was so proud of all that they had done in the space program. I could take my little boy to the museum and show him my grandfather's Lunar Ranging Retro Reflector and tell him my grandfather's stories about the laser that they built that shot to the moon.
Seeing The Temptations on here brought back a great memory from the 90s. I had gotten fathers day weekend off work so I could take my Dad to see the Cardinals together for the first time (big baseball fans, we'd each gone to see them but never together) So here we are, Fathers day and when we get to the stadium, we go to the merch shop and there is my dad's all time favorite manager and announcer, Whitey Herzog and Jack Buck, signing autographs for Jack's book. I buy one for him and we both get to meet them and get autographs. Now we're going to our seats (3rd row down the 3rd base line) and we run into Mike Shannon, a former cardinal and now an announcer, he gives my dad an autograph and a few minutes of chat then we're off to our seats. No sooner do we get to them and get settled in, the PA announcer comes on says there's to be a small performance before the national anthem. Everyone is thinking it's going to be like the local high school band or something when they announce The Temptations. It was just a really cool series of events that made it a really memorable Father's day for my dad and something I'm glad I could do for him. (Although when we got home from the six hour drive from St. Louis, the manager was mad because people called in but I was nowhere near to come in. I asked if I had come in, would they have reimbursed me for the tickets to the game I wouldn't be able to use, they said no and I said, so you wanted me to come in and make less than the tickets I bought Cost me. Yeah, I wasn't with them much longer lol)
I have both the VHS and DVD copies of Pride & Prejudice because it is the best. We were studying P&P in AP English Lit at the same time it came out so it was perfect timing. Of course the lake scene with Colin Firth didn’t hurt my love for this version.😅
My faves were Queen and The Jacksons. I also loved It, Mama Floras Family, and The Langoliers
When you were talking about pride and prejudice, I was given you a standing ovation.😂
While it's a TV movie rather than a miniseries, The Legacy of Hilltop Drive was FANTASTIC. I saw it as a child and it stuck with me for decades after that. I was thrilled when I found it on UA-cam.
It's a great paranormal movie based on a true story of a street that was built on top of an old cemetery, and creepy things started happening until they got truly dangerous.
It's a fantastic watch and still absolutely holds up. I can't recommend it enough!
I was just thinking that I need to watch # 1 on this list for the umpteenth time. SO. DAMN. GOOD. Iconic does not begin to describe it. And the restored version is exquisite. Who knew the sisters' dresses weren't just white?
Fun fact: Anna Chancellor (Caroline Bingley) is descended from Austen's family (though not from Jane directly, obviously).
I'm so happy The Jackson's made this list, it is SO GOOD. I would like to add 'Small Sacrifices' with Farrah Fawcett serving Diane Downs in the most frightening, haunting way.
Love what you say about Pride & Prejudice.
"IT" was so well done for its time. I remember my older sibling taping it so we could watch the series again. I thought it was creepy as heck but awesome.
"The Stand" with Gary Sinise in it is my favorite adaption of that book so far. It had Molly Ringwald in it too, I saw a lot of her movies when I was growing up.
This was a very good list. Unlike the lists you did of the 80’s mini series; I have seen and loved almost all of these mini series.
Just FYI When you paste links you can take off everything after the question mark. That's all just unnecessary UA-cam tracking information.
I didn’t know that! Thanks so much for the tip.
So you let someone's opinion decide your joy or disappointment in life?
Oh Kate. Just enjoy the compilation.
Merlin was another amazing mini series. It aired in 99 I believe.
Even though the 1995 adaptation is my favorite, I did enjoy the 2005 adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice". I would have included two other UK imports - 1994's "Middlemarch", an adaptation of George Eliot's novel, and the Charles Dickens miniseries from 1998, "Our Mutual Friend".
North and South w/ Patrick Swayze was my fave
#1 P&P ... YES! Absolutely. And there was no need (2005 travesty).
You did not mention any of the actors that was in the Jacksons an American Dream Terrence Howard Angela Bassett the singer of all the songs in Lion King Jason Weaver the singing voice of Simba as a cub.
I thought the same
Meredith Baxter as Betty Broderick was so good I still can only watch it if it’s early enough in the day. She was crazy af!
1:25 I love that you have Goodbye Horses playing in the background 👍👍
You are the first person to catch that!
So many great ones, but The Langoliers was amazing. I had no idea what it was, I started watching a few minutes after the start. At first I just wanted to know what in the hell was going on.
The actors were just a bonus. Balki losing his mind will never not crack me up. The monsters were laughable but I didn’t care. It was a good ride.
Ironically I don’t read King much or at all, aside from The Running Man, but there are dozens of adaptations of his work that I love.
I can’t believe I forgot that one.
The shining remake is good. Don’t get me wrong, it just seems weird seeing Steven Webber from wings playing with Jack Torrance role.
I love these videos of yours. I can’t wait to work with you in the future.
Adaptions aren’t remakes
Hands down Pride and Prejudice is a phenomenon! And decades later with streaming platforms, one can watch it ever year ❤😊
I've watched both Alex Haley's Queen in 1993 and A Woman of Independent Means in 1995, and they're both worth watching.
They all seem awesome, Thankyou for sharing, something I notice is that a lot of these series include physcological drama, and are not afraid of exploring the human psyque and feelings, which I love and rarely see in the series and movies these days.
I've paused 10 sec in to write this, so idk if these films will mentioned yet, but i hope 4 of my favourite 90s made for tv films will appear. But they weren't miniseries.
The two films based on sarah flanagan books: *_sudie and simpson_* with lou gossett jr and darlene from roseanne. And *_wildflower_* , diane keaton's directing debut, starring reese witherspoon, patricia arquette and beau bridges.
*_a cry for help: the tracy thurman story_* starring jo from the facts of life. Nancy mckeon
And *_the face on the milk carton_* starring becca from life goes on. kelli martin
Those are made for TV movies, not miniseries. And I have all of them on a 90s made for tv movie list for a future video. 😊 thanks for your comment!
I'll gladly watch this again to up your views!
Pride and Prejudice...Prejudice and Pride...IN THE HALL!
Storm of the Century anyone???!!
For some strange reason, this one freaked me out more than IT. No idea why but the guy me the creeps!
I do love the Pride & Prejudice mini series but my favourite is the 1980 miniseries, there actually have been a few. I also think you do Keira Knightley and Matthew McFadyen and the cast of the movie a disservice, the movie was a love adaptation, again there have been a few film adaptations. I love Olivier as Darcy in a very early film of the same! I think each version of a Jane Austen miniseries or film/s are beloved by the generations that first saw them, I have watched a many different versions as possible and enjoyed all of them. Frankly, you can't go wrong with any of them.
The 1980 was truer to the book but the sexual tension between Lizzy and Darcy made the 1995 much better. Lol, though it may have had Jane Austen truing in her grave! People like to say Darcy was too stiff and boring in the 1980 not a man who would attract women for himself but that IS how Austen wrote him. Colin Firth was just too likable as Darcy. so, although I like the 1995 the best, I know Jane Austen would have preferred the 1980.
The Stand was huge in my life probably because it came out when I was like 13 or so. I remember everyone in my school watching it.
I always forget that IT was a tv miniseries
Pride & Prejudice really was the epitome of miniseries!
I remember more from your list of honorable mentions more than you top ten.
Temptations was good!
I refuse to acknowledge the existence of the P&P film. Watching the miniseries is like watching the book come to life and is perfect is every way.
if you thought Pennywise from the IT was creepy well he ain't nothing compared to Zeebo the clown from the show are you afraid of the dark. now there is a true terrifying clown.
😂 frickin' Zeebo was scary
it's the most fun in the park when you're laughing in the dark.
The 80's were awesome for mini series too Just look at North and South and it's ilk.
This one is one of my favorites, along with Wuthering Heights ❤
So fun 🎉. Thank you
Some really good ones on there! Another you might have missed was Lucky Chances & Lady Boss. "Lucky Chances" was based on 2 books by Jackie Collins, "Lucky" & "Chances". Lady Boss was the follow-up mini-series based on the book of the same name.
Meridith Baxter was nominated for an Emmy for her protrayal of Betty Broderick, she should of won, and Blind Faith are great ones. Missing on your honorable mentions, Seduced By Madness The Diane Borchardt Story staring Ann-Margret, she plays the over the top Diane, teachers aide that put her students up to murdering her husband who wanted a divorce, in love with another woman, aird in 1996. And Murder In New Hampshire, the Pamela Smart Story played by Helen Hunt, and another students put up to murdering her husband. Both actress' in a rare villainess role.
I almost turned the video off when I saw that The Stand was a freakin' honorable mention!!! I haven't finished the video and I am now not sure if I want to.
I made a rule for myself to only include one Stephen King series in the top 10, and I chose It instead of The Stand. But it was a hard choice!
You forgot the Buccaneers. Anyone a fan of The Gilded Age needs to watch that. I have Pride and Prejudice, Queen, and The Buccaneers on DVD. If you want a great 2000's miniseries that is funny and hilarious, watch Lost in Austen where a young woman goes back in time to the Bennet home in Meryton. It was really a TV series that did not get a season 2.
The Shining, It, The Stand, and The Temptations should have been the top 4. The Temptations actually won an Emmy.
It’s much sillier than most of the stories on your list, but at least I’m pretty sure The 10th Kingdom at least sneaks in before the 1990s end. Kimberley Williams and her dad, John Larroquette, fall into a fairytale kingdom where a half man, half big bad wolf guy played by Scott Cohen is supposed to bring the young woman to the evil queen but takes one look at her (one sniff probably, tbh) and doesn’t wanna. Sometimes it’s dumb fun and sometimes it’s iconic. The multiple haircuts, the Bo Peep village, the singing ring who tells it like he sees it, the puppet mushrooms in the witch bog, and the chemistry between the leads, which maybe feels a little transgressive in 2024 when “I don’t know if I want to love her or eat her” doesn’t play as well anymore. To say nothing of the opening credits, where New York explodes into a fairytale kingdom, and which, allowing for the CGI of the period, slaps SO HARD it almost sets a standard the show itself cannot live up to. Oh, and as a fan of all the best stuff from the eighties, you might enjoy Dianne Wiest - though some of her jewelry confuses me.
I’m pretty sure The 10th Kingdom was fall 1999 - the very end of the decade - bc it was by accidentally watching this miniseries on the same dorm tv that I ended up making a very unlikely friend. ❤
Update: the internet insists this miniseries aired Spring of 2000 but this timeline makes no sense! The night of y2k I was scared that if the world crashed I wouldn’t get to go on a study trip to England. I roomed with the friend I had made watching The 10th Kingdom on that trip… How can this be possible if we didn’t become friends until February 2000? I cannot make sense of this lol
1998's "Merlin" all the way. A common childhood watch, that I still watch in my thirties to this day.
God IT was the BEST! My kids wanted to watch the new version and I insisted they watch the original first it's such a classic. Tim curry is goat
I still watch The Temptations every year.
When the newer version of IT came out, I bought a DVD of the old one for old time sake😉
I also have the BBC's Pride and Prejudice on DVD from a while back. I agree that it's much better than the newer ones 😊
Got a new series for ya -- the Danielle Steel movies splurge! I've seen clips here and there. Finding the movies are difficult especially the older ones.
When I met Chris Sarandon a few years ago I thanked him for No Greater Love
Classic mini series i love this great video
I tried to upload the mini series of The Shining some time ago, but it was blocked worldwide.
A shame, because most of Stephen King's shows aren't a problem.
I forgot to mention on my other post on the 80's mini series, that I have a couple of later mini series by Mr King on my channel - "Rose Red" from 2002, and "Storm Of The Century" from the early nineties.
Interesting list anyway, but which one was taken down by the BBC from the original upload?
I got a copyright claim on the original upload of this video for using a 35 second clip of the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice. They usually only let 10-15 seconds to be used at a time to get through checks.
@@mysocalledgenxlife Yeah sorry, I just read that fact on your community tab.
I really should look around fully before posting already answered questions.😟
So since you last upload of this I decided to watch Pride and Prejudice series. It was pretty good. See why you like it. I would put From the Earth to the Moon on the top of my list though.
As for the Pride and Prejudice film. I like that one too. It’s is one thing that doesn’t take anything away from the series.
One thing someone pointed out to me about the 2005 movie is that they make Charlotte out to be helpless instead of her marriage to Collins being a little more tactical on her part.
Hard to believe one so young could have such understanding about mini series & good taste! I hope American Gothic is on the list! 🎉
Lmao! We got to watch It in seventh grade! 😅 Those were the days.
Here's some Meredith Baxter Bernie trivia:
The show One Day at a Time from the 1970s was executive produced by I believe a husband and wife team, of which the wife who ran the show was on her second marriage with I think three daughters in her case. Well, the show was based on their own experience after their mother divorced their dad, ya know? Mother and daughters living on their own. Meredith Baxter Bernie was one of the daughters of the showrunner to One Day at a Time. Her real life inspired that show.
EDIT: It doesn't mention this on her Wikipedia page, but it clearly explains it on the One Day at a Time (1975) Wikipedia page:
_The series was created by Whitney Blake and Allan Manings, a husband-and-wife writing duo who had both been actors in the 1950s and 1960s. The series was based on Whitney Blake's own life as a single mother raising her three children (including future actress Meredith Baxter) after her divorce from her first husband._
I didn’t know this! Thanks for sharing.
BTW, she dropped the Birney name and went back to Meredith Baxter when she divorced him
@@sandrafaith Thanks.
Nor did I.
The 10th Kingdom was my favourite. Sooo good.
Loved this one!
I was about to say the 10th Kingdom but i realize now its from 2000 lol. A very solid list.
Was about the same. Awesome series
If you get back to the 1970’s, include “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.”
Ok. I never seen that scene from Jewels. Was that a deleted scene? I know the scene where they are at the Tower of London but not the one Sarah and her parents at the hotel.
The Temptations, as influential as they were, all they got was a TV mini series??
Did anyone else watch The Great Los Angeles Earthquake.. Scared me to death when i was 12 😂
Betty Broderick story, but my favorite Danielle Steele was "Star". even though I don't know the year.
From the earth to the moon, in 90's fashion nicely neglected to mention the human computers like the ADOS Woman Katherine Johnson that made the mission impossible without their mathematical contributions.
Belch’s death is still terrifying
Thank you
My favorite miniseries was easily ROSE RED, which I think was based on something from Stephen King… might be wrong there. Anyway, it was an awesome haunted house story with plenty of time for character development and special effects.
The reason these got better was the crossover of actors/actresses at the time. Previous to then, people either did movies or TV. Movies were seen as top notch; TV was a step below. Occasionally one would make the jump from TV to movies, like Michael J. Fox, but never the other way around. It was career suicide only for those at the end of a failing movie career.
I'm pretty surprised that The Stand didn't make it into the top 10
Love, love your videos!!!! But I might have to start playing a drinking game when I hear the waaaaaaaaay overused word in this video and seemingly everywhere: ICONIC.
You’re not wrong, my friend. I went through my videos this week and the words “iconic” and “journey” were way overused. I will be using my thesaurus a lot more in my next video.
@@mysocalledgenxlife No worries!! 🤣🤣Keep the videos coming!!! Langoliers was great as well....but horrible production values.
Wanna know something wacky? I went to high school with Jennifer Ehle. Before you ask, no, I doubt she remembers me.
I also was a fan of A Season in Purgatory. Especially since this was loosely based on the Kennedy family members and I loved Patrick Dempsey before he ever blew up!
Tim Curry is great in whatever he does. He's got a long list of excellent credits, and it all started with _Rocky Horror_.
It was great.
I loved The Thorn Birds & the Sullivan Entertainment original Anne of Green Gables series
GREAT work, may i suggest deadly matrimony starring brian dennehy. ( Forgive the possible mis spelling) It's really worth a look.
No Lonesome Dove?
80’s ..
Stephen King's book are so long that most of them can't be movies. I'm glad he had them made into miniseries. He was not happy with Kubrick's adaptation of _The Shining_.
You forgot about Paul Whitfield in the movie Queen he played Jasmine Guys father in Martin Sheen's first indentured worker
The Stand Steven Kings awesome version not the one from Amazon that one was complete garbage...Gary Sinese, Rob Lowe watched that one with my Mom amazing times..
I agree that adaptation that came out a few years ago was total garbage🗑️🗑️
I loved The Shinning mini series, better that I like the movie. I thought it was so much better. Say what you want about Kubrick, but he didn't shine as a director for me in that movie.
While the list was good, my favourite wasn't on it. Stephen King's Rose Red was the one I watched multiple times and recorded back in the vcr days.
Anyone who would rank IT above The Stand and only give the latter an "honorable mention" isn't to be trusted on any matter of taste. 👎
lol. I’m not a Stephen King expert. I went off of others’ comments, ratings, and cultural influence. You can still buy It clown masks for Halloween.
I agree.. or choosing something by Danielle Steele over The Stand
I know its 90s but.... wheres roots? I NEED MY ROOTS!😲
You know Roots is 70s! lol. I’m actually considering doing an entire video on just that one topic.