I loved Saved by the Bell: The College Years. My little brother loved watching the Thunder in Paradise reruns on TNT. I never would have guessed it only had one season.
Kept seeing the Saved By The Bell: College Years on constant rotation on TBS, had no idea it had just 1 season. Assumed it went on longer, like Sabrina The Teenaged Witch’s college arc…
You just made me have to go back to listen to it.... I can't relate, ha I was looking at it as if it had 3 heads thinking "What on earth does Heywheatbread see in it?" Buuuut to each their own, I say.
As for 'In Living Color' being cancelled that season, the Wayans had all left the show due to creative differences with Fox, leaving a HUGE hole in its roster and a lot of forgettable replacement actors who never gained the traction needed to keep the show alive.
Wow. Saved by the bell college years was only 1 season?! I watched it but forgot soooo much about the last few episodes!!! 🤯 thanks for the reminders of these shows 🤗
SBTB The College Years wasn't that bad. The main problem was they couldn't decide if they wanted it to be a more mature Beverly Hills 90210 type show or something that still appealed to kids. So it was a weird mix.
You really are just explaining why it was bad that doesn't make it not bad. I know I had hopes for it to. There are a few tv shows and movies you can say that about.
I can see that! I would have liked it better than 90210, I couldn't really get into it cause it felt too mature for me I was 8 when it started, then when I got older I MIGHT have started watching it, I only remember a few moments on the show, but I watched the heck out of Saved by the bell!
I remember ROC, Fox tried multiple times to save the show. It even went live its last few episodes. But I always believed Thunder in Paradise was just a way to ease Hulk Hogan into WCW.
Blunder in Paradise had nothing to do with WCW or Turner (except that 2 years later it was rebroadcast on TNT) Filming for it already started when Hogan still had a valid contract with the WWF (in fact it started immediately after Wrestlemania, hence why Hogan has the black eye in the pilot)
@@z0m813 Yeah, Bischoff tells a lot of crap, what else is new? It's pretty well known that it was Ric Flair who orchestrated the whole thing because he started the talks with Hogan and negotiated.
There's so many shows brought up in these videos that I vaguely remember and have vivid pictures in my head of certain sets that people have no idea what I'm talking about. The garage doors in front of the Phenom opening is one of them.
What I want to know is: Why is it that when Judith Light is mentioned in videos like this her work on soaps is always mentioned and Who’s the Boss is forgotten?
I loved Saved by the Bell: The College Years. I had been watching the show since the very early Saved by the Bell episodes before Kelly Kapowski and A.C. Slater were on there, the kids were still in middle school and Hayley Mills starred as Miss Carrie Bliss as their teacher. Obviously I was sad to see it end after watching for so many years. I tried watching The New Class but it just wasn’t the same.
The new class was pretty terrible. Strangley, it seemed to get better at the end of its run, maybe because they replaced half the cast in between each season
the 1994-1995 season had so many one-season series; some of the one's I remember most fondly are Models Inc; My So-Called Life, Wild Oats and The 5 Mrs Buchanans
I remember really liking Thunder in Paradise. Entertaining 80/90s action and aesthetics, and with a catchy tune. The only thing I remember reading about the show in media back in the day was that it was apparently really expensive to make, at about a million dollars per episode. Although that might just have been PR nonsense. Ahh, I miss the fun, sexy and colorful action of the 80s and 90s.
I quite liked the show. Cheesy, lame acting on Hogan's part, but fun. I can see it costing a million an episode. I remember Miami vice costing that back in the mid 80s.
I grew up in the early 2000s and TBS Superstation showed Saved By the Bell and I enjoyed The College Years more than the orginal. Zach had character development and despite being only 19 episodes it had better continuity than the orginal.
Yeah, it was aimed at an older audience being in prime time. I enjoyed it but as a kid, I even understood why it was cancelled as it was good enough for a saturday morning show, but not primetime.
I want to say I remember that show...what happened in the finale? I remember there was some melrose place/90210 knockoff that I enjoyed and had a cool series finale in the mid 90s.
I definitely remember watching The Sinbad Show. It’s odd hearing Judith Light referred to as a soap opera star like she wasn’t on Who’s the Boss for eight years.
@@nicktaylor2657 thats because they were. i have a buddy that builds TV/film sets and he told me a lot of times studios will reuse older sets to save on the costs of building new ones
I miss a time when one season gives you 20-22 episodes. Now, we're lucky to get 10 episodes a season. The golden era is over.. Thanks for the memories here
Production costs have gone up and more of the advertising revenue goes to execs and shareholders. Each season is like making 2-3 movies and so there’s budgetary limitations
I made a similar comment on a UA-cam channel that was showing cancelled TV shows from the 80s. They called them failures when they had one season of 24 episodes, and I said that nowadays, that would be 2-1/2 seasons. The problem with the schedules today is that you really don't have time for character development nor can you get into back stories if you needed to, unlike the 24 episode seasons from before 2000.
@@MattRNewcombSo, in other words, put a production out there, get as much money out of it as you can in the first year, and don't bother reinvesting in the production. Sounds about par for the course in television production for the 21st century.
21:48 - Lol, so a 90s version of Knight Rider, but with a boat. Huh, in an episode of The Simpsons, they discuss a new TV show called Night Boat, nicknamed the crime-solving boat. I wonder if this series was specifically parodied in the Simpsons episode.
As a kid i LOVED Phenom. Probably because i had a crush on the main character. As a side note, i'm kind of impressed you did an entire piece on that show and didn't once mention William Devane!
Like the New Generation Project Podcast said when they did two episodes on it, initial ratings for Thunder in Paradise were actually pretty good, and shortly after it began airing on TV in March 1994, it was rumoured that the show was up for renewal, and the good folks at Berk/Schwartz/Bonann Productions were looking at filming 30 more episodes in 1995. Surprisingly, despite rumours of a second season or a series of TV movies, Thunder in Paradise only lasted one season of 22 episodes, before being cancelled in November 1994. At the time it was circling the drain, Hogan apparently began floating the idea of either re-branding the show, or launching a new show starring himself, fellow WWE Hall of Famers Sting and Mr. T, and a female martial artist (possibly Cynthia Rothrock) as the main cast. Perhaps Thunder in Paradise's biggest contribution to pro wrestling was entirely through its filming location, Disney's Hollywood Studios, where WCW was then taping episodes of its shows Saturday Night and WorldWide. During production, Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff met with Hogan and successfully convinced him to sign with WCW in 1994. And that helped start the domino effect which created both the New World Order and the Attitude Era. Anyways, I remember watching Thunder in Paradise on ITV in the UK around early to mid 1995 while waiting for Gladiators to come on. One more thing of note, there was never really much in the way of actual threat or peril during any of Spencer and Bru's adventures. For example, oh, it's Tuesday: Jessica's been kidnapped and we've got to save her; that's cool, as long as we get it wrapped up before the end of Wednesday, because Thursday, Kelly's being kidnapped and will need rescuing. And then Friday, a face from our past will show up to settle the score with us, but it will all be wrapped up in 45 minutes, and the final shot will be of us drinking at the Scuttlebutt, laughing, or both. That's it, that's the formula of Thunder in Paradise.
Thunder in Paradise wasn’t a failure. Hogan missed Pro Wrestling and ended the show. He was the main star so without him there wasn’t a need for the show anymore
I watched Phenom and liked it, though I was a kid at the time so I have no idea if it aged well. I saw the debut of Saved By the Bell: The College Years, but I don’t even think I finished watching that first episode.
i remember Viper! It was a Knight Rider knock off. That's kind of funny, since this video's description of the Cobra main character getting a new face after being shot also sounds like a copy of the first episode of Knight Rider.
Viper was a televised commercial for Dodge at the time, and of course the star of the show was the new model at that time the viper with the cylinder motor
Carol Alt was on _Later with Greg Kinnear_ promoting the show and mentioned that in an upcoming episode Sting would be guest starring. Kinnear was impressed that they got Sting. However it was very obvious that he thought that Alt was talking about Sting, but instead she was talking about Sting. And no it wasn't a "bit," Kinnear genuinely didn't understand.
My family still has some episodes of Second Chances on VHS taped off the TV. I can't count the amount of times over the years that my mom has referred to Jennifer Lopez as "You know... Melinda from that mystery show we liked." We will both admit, however, that the plot moved too slowly. It felt more like the speed of a daily soap opera than a weekly drama.
Hey, I liked Phenom. I thought it was funny and odd. If I remember, the son's running gag was that he was a loser and a former drug addict - also, this is when AIDS was in the spotlight and the guy looked kinda sickly (I don't remember his sexuality ever coming up). You don't see characters written like that in a sitcom. Also, Judith Light was more known for her stint on Who's the Boss? as she completely shed her soap opera past.
Thunder in Paradise had an awesome theme song, but it was such a cheesy show.......i kind of miss shows like that. dumb fun. Saved by the Bell the College Years also had a great theme song. And the new characters were really good. I wasn't a big fan of the original series, but I actually really liked the College Years. I remember NBC aired in prime time for some reason, that was a big mistake. If they kept it in the Saturday morning lineup , it would've lasted longer. Maybe they were hoping it would fill a void from A Different World?
Was Hart's in the West filmed at the same farm as Signs? I love how Beau's brother Jeff was in a film with Andy Griffith called "Hearts of the West" back in the 70s.
I watched Phenom, but only for Angela Goethals. Judith Light who played the mother wasn’t a daytime soup star. She starred with Tony Danza in Who’s the Boss for eight seasons, 1984-1992.
@@Ray_Wood_1984, Yes, she did, but that was before Who’s the Boss. When Phenom came on she wasn’t “a daytime soap star” anymore, she had just finished a hit primetime show.
I remember all except Hart of the West, Missing Persons and Second Chances. The theme song for Phenom has been stuck in my head for nearly 3 decades. Angela Goethals would later appear as a recurring character in "24," the same time as her Phenom co-star William Devane, who, for reasons inexplicable, went completed uncredited in the former series. You may wish to be aware that there was a Thunder in Paradise live-action Phillips CD-i video game with new footage shot around the time of the series finale for the game... serving as a final reprieve.
Sinbad was a hit with audiences co starring in A Different Worlds later season and a couple movies for kids that were solid. The basis for his own show was bc he was good on camera.
It's still crazy Jason Mamoa married the girl from a different world. I always thought she was pretty she just had really long arm hair for some reason.
I remember watching Thunder In Paradise when I was a kid and loving it because Hogan was in it. I always remembered it as a movie though and not a tv show.
I remember Phenom and I did like it. When I watched it, I liked the main character, but thought the supporting characters, the mother, the coach and especially the sister, were more interesting. I was under the impression that it did get a second (but abbreviated) season.
At the time Phenom was airing I believe this was one of the critiques floating around. That the supporting cast were the real draw instead of the more straight laced main character. The main character was fine, but did not have any quirks to make her stand out, other than her struggles with being a tennis prodigy. Her family members had more relatable issues, and in my opinion were more fleshed out as characters.
Believe it or not, 'Thunder in Paradise' was appointment-viewing in my house for many years! I used to think it was supposed to be connected to Hogan's 'Rocky' character, Thunderlips! XD
I loved The Sinbad Show as a kid. I was very disappointed that didn't get a second season. I also remember Harts in the West, but I never really got into it. Now that I think about it, I did see an episode or two of Phenom, but it didn't really leave an impression so I didn't care for it much. I did not watch Saved by the Bell the College Years because that show stopped being cool after High School. The movie of Zack and Kelly getting married did end it nicely.
Beau and Lloyd Bridges were in a show where one character was named after John Wayne. Then Jeff Bridges would go on to play John Wayne's character in True Grit years later.
SBTB: The College Years is actually my absolute favorite show out of the entire franchise. It's just really well done & so entertaining. I like almost everything about it. I used to watch it whenever it was on TV back in the early 90's. I also remember ordering the 1st & only season of it on DVD way back in the early 2000's when I saw it was finally available & then even more recently I bought the digital copy of it a few years back when I saw it show up on Google TV. I still watch it from time to time. It definitely deserved to run for more than just 1 season!
It's funny how different shows handled the Earthquake. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine used a damaged area as excase to actually build stuffl the writer's wanted on the set all along. The weirder thing... Armin Shimmerman made in news on Entertainment Tonight because he drove home to check on his family without taking off his Quark makeup.
@@Rob-z7k It's been more than 25 years and I'm still mad about something. I was 15 so, I went to a local con on the cheaper day so I got to meet Nana Visitor (and have an amazing story there) and Robert Duncan McNeil, who was pretty cool. Alas, Shimmerman was Friday and Saturday only.
I said I'd comment when you did the 94s, as a young hulkamaniac, I of course was all over Thunder in paradise. Loved Saved by th Bell as a kid so watched the college years too. I remember Sinbad airing, but did not have Fox at that time
Can't help but wonder if Cobra was ever called a Slacker on that show. And having Cobra there, I'll probably be waiting to hear "YO JOE!" 😉😂🤣 Most of these, I've never heard of before. Thunder in Paradise, or Blunder in Paradise which can't remember who called it that, think it was someone Hogan was feuding with, but mostly know of because of my dad getting me into Old School Wrestling, that's how I'm familiar with that one, as well as seen a few episodes on tape, and think I've hear of The College Years being mentioned on UA-cam before. The rest, I'm totally not familiar with at all, though lots of them do indeed sound interesting at least. I do have several sources, some not quite legal sources I could check out, see if I could find some of them. In any event, thank you for this video, did enjoy it.
I remember coming home from school and immediately turning on the tv to watch Saved by the Bell on TBS. I was alway sooooo disappointed if it was an episode of The College Years
I actually liked saved by the bell the college years i thought it was decent and should've lasted longer. I also loved roc but for some reason it just never caught on with some people
Michael Dudikoff was a blessing to mankind, in the 90s. Don't believe my word. Watch his movies. So much fun. Thunder in paradise is as good as a stupid action show from the 90s, produced by Disney, can be. To sum it up, it's basically a best of 80s action movies, done for a PG-13 audience. They literally have episodes where they copy Predator and First Blood in one episode and mix RoboCop with Universal Soldier. And it's so stupid and PG-13, it's fucking awesome. Swearing is a big no no. Sex is an even bigger no no. But showing our two ultra buff, macho, manly heroes firing heavy arms, blowing shit up sky high, while not even hurting anyone is ok. And damn me is the action and the bad acting fun. And Hulk Hogan's outfits are as trashy as they get. So, fun for the entire family. XD
I really liked Cobra and Thunder in Paradise. These series were airing in polish tv "Polsat" as far as I remeber :) I've even made my Thunder boat out of Lego bricks xD
Dang, all these shows looked SOOOOOOOOO bad...though I completely forgot about "Saved By The Bell: The College Years", thanks for the reminder! Don't remember it being very good either unfortunately.
1.) I actually loved this show - though mainly because of the then-futuristic-but-now-seemingly-archaic boat, as it was almost like a boat version of Knight Rider's K.I.T.T. I don't remember Hulk Hogan wearing an eyepatch in it, though. That's kind of freaky. 2.) I didn't know about this show, & probably wouldn't have watched it back then since I wouldn't have known who Jennifer Lopez was. I would now, though, if only to see what her acting chops were like 29 years ago. 3.) This, I remember. I don't remember seeing the whole season, but I remember the show. I actually remember it more than I do the original, to be honest, though I don't know why. 4.) I was about to say I'd never seen this, then I saw the wife & remembered I HAD seen the pilot, but after that I don't remember anything of the rest of the series. 5.) I think I MIGHT have seen ONE OR TWO episodes of this, but I can't completely remember. As for Steve Cannel, the only thing I know about him was that he was a semi-recurring guest on Castle until he passed away, & then they showed his empty chair at their poker table as a memoriam to the guy after he died. 6.) So THAT'S why I don't remember this show, but definitely watched both Full House & Roseanne! I don't know what was on while this was I would've watched instead - possibly, in that year, The Simpsons, Step-By-Step, or Family Matters - but I do know I would've changed the channel. (Possibly the Cosby Show.) 7.) Didn't see this, but anything that starts with somebody moving OUT of Chicago - my hometown - is not of interest to me in the slightest. (Even though I moved out of there over a decade ago, now.) (...Wait. Golden Girls created a spinoff that then created its OWN spinoff!? When the H did THAT happen!? Can we get a video about THAT, please!?) 8.) Never saw this, & it seems like a prototype for Friends. 9.) Now THIS I remember...but not fondly. 10.) Wait. If THIS show was originally to be named "Viper," what would the ACTUAL "Viper" show - which featured a Dodge Viper that had deployable hexagonal armor plating, weapons (Most of which were nonlethal, like the low-powered EMP meant to stop cars.), holographic camouflage, & a drone that popped out of the not-really-a-sunroof (Which I could definitely use, driving for DoorDash.) & definitely seemed to be in the same vein, if not a direct competitor to, Knight Rider - have been called? And no, I don't remember this show, but if I can find it on Hulu, Tubi, or Netflix, I'd probably like to see it now. Even if it does seem a little A-Team-meets-Running-Man-ish.
Do you remember any of these?
i remember SBTB college years, and even as a 8 year old knowing it was baaaad
We have the Thunder in Paradise movies. Got them out of nostalgia.
nice
College years was better than most of those spinoffs but still bad. Loved the Sinbad show though lol.
I was 10 and watched Saved By the Bell College Years
I loved Saved by the Bell: The College Years. My little brother loved watching the Thunder in Paradise reruns on TNT. I never would have guessed it only had one season.
In actually thought the collage years went on longer
@@sean9923 Me too especially because the s at the end of year. They did have a movie maybe 2 though so it did kinda extend it more.
I liked saved by the bell the college years myself
@@sean9923Sort of. It was bookended by two tv movies, which were included in syndication.
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Kept seeing the Saved By The Bell: College Years on constant rotation on TBS, had no idea it had just 1 season. Assumed it went on longer, like Sabrina The Teenaged Witch’s college arc…
Same here, I would have guessed 2 or 3 seasons, I also watched the tbs rotation could have swore there more then 19 different episodes.
I'm weirdly nostalgic for Saved By The Bell: The College Years. That intro and theme song are still stuck in my head to this day!
The College Years’ song copied the ending from Defenders of the…
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Had no idea it was only one season. Would of sworn it went at least two.
Freevee runs them all back to back movies and New Class included
You just made me have to go back to listen to it.... I can't relate, ha I was looking at it as if it had 3 heads thinking "What on earth does Heywheatbread see in it?" Buuuut to each their own, I say.
@@rm1042 I thought there were more to be honest.
The boat from Thunder in Paradise was part of the MGM backlot tour until they stopped running it which was still years after the show was cancelled
Interesting thanks
As for 'In Living Color' being cancelled that season, the Wayans had all left the show due to creative differences with Fox, leaving a HUGE hole in its roster and a lot of forgettable replacement actors who never gained the traction needed to keep the show alive.
In living color was my shit growing up. Not MAD or SNL. They were my go to "let me show ya something"
David Zucker should have taken over and made it funnier like with scary movie. The reboot on tru tv was sad.
ILC was amazing. Much better than SNL and Mad TV by a long shot. Too bad it ended too early. Not the first time Fox has ruined something awesome.
@@alexandersalazar9750 You watch "In Living Color". You don't watch Mad TV because "Homie don't play that game".
In living color had more than one season. The Wayans siblings didn't leave the show until the third season.
Wow. Saved by the bell college years was only 1 season?! I watched it but forgot soooo much about the last few episodes!!! 🤯 thanks for the reminders of these shows 🤗
SBTB The College Years wasn't that bad. The main problem was they couldn't decide if they wanted it to be a more mature Beverly Hills 90210 type show or something that still appealed to kids. So it was a weird mix.
Wasn't bad? It was completely awful. I knew for the first episode that they wouldn't make it to graduation
You really are just explaining why it was bad that doesn't make it not bad. I know I had hopes for it to. There are a few tv shows and movies you can say that about.
It failed because they tried to put it on prime time television. Would have lasted if they just kept it on Saturday mornings/afternoons
I can see that! I would have liked it better than 90210, I couldn't really get into it cause it felt too mature for me I was 8 when it started, then when I got older I MIGHT have started watching it, I only remember a few moments on the show, but I watched the heck out of Saved by the bell!
Zack morris is trash 😂
When you did 91, 92, and 93, I barely remembered any of those shows. What a difference a year makes, I remember all of these.
I remember ROC, Fox tried multiple times to save the show. It even went live its last few episodes.
But I always believed Thunder in Paradise was just a way to ease Hulk Hogan into WCW.
I remember Roc live, hadn't thought about that in 30 years man.
Blunder in Paradise had nothing to do with WCW or Turner (except that 2 years later it was rebroadcast on TNT)
Filming for it already started when Hogan still had a valid contract with the WWF (in fact it started immediately after Wrestlemania, hence why Hogan has the black eye in the pilot)
@@RemoWilliams1227 My dad loved Roc those live episodes stick out to me the most
@@ShadowAngel606 IIRC Bischoff said he went to the set to try and talk Hogan into going to WCW
@@z0m813 Yeah, Bischoff tells a lot of crap, what else is new? It's pretty well known that it was Ric Flair who orchestrated the whole thing because he started the talks with Hogan and negotiated.
I loved Phenom. For the longest time, I thought the show was a movie and I dreamed it up.
There's so many shows brought up in these videos that I vaguely remember and have vivid pictures in my head of certain sets that people have no idea what I'm talking about. The garage doors in front of the Phenom opening is one of them.
I thought Phenom was awful , I watched maybe 3 episodes and could not believe anyone over the age of 10 enjoying it
I remember phenom especially William devane coach Lou delarosa and I also vaguely remember the theme song
@@markelijio6012 Yeah, 9:47. And of course when a show is cancelled and not made anymore, nobody is going to be working on it anymore, either.
I liked it *a lot*, but I was a kid. I remember seeing the brother pop up a few years later in the 2000 John Cusack movie High Fidelity.
I know Judith Light had started on daytime soaps but by 1994 Light was more famous for Who’s The Boss? than her soap work.
What I want to know is: Why is it that when Judith Light is mentioned in videos like this her work on soaps is always mentioned and Who’s the Boss is forgotten?
Agree totally. Judith Light is known for her amazing performance on Who's The Boss. I've never seen one of her soaps.
Totally. From mid 80s thru 1992 or 1993 IIRC. Who's the Boss was a major hit.
And lifetime movie/ made for tv movies
I loved Saved by the Bell: The College Years. I had been watching the show since the very early Saved by the Bell episodes before Kelly Kapowski and A.C. Slater were on there, the kids were still in middle school and Hayley Mills starred as Miss Carrie Bliss as their teacher. Obviously I was sad to see it end after watching for so many years. I tried watching The New Class but it just wasn’t the same.
It was high school but point taken. I remember Mikey and that other chick.
The new class was pretty terrible. Strangley, it seemed to get better at the end of its run, maybe because they replaced half the cast in between each season
@geneeverett7855 pretty sure it was middle school in the series without Kelly.
the 1994-1995 season had so many one-season series; some of the one's I remember most fondly are Models Inc; My So-Called Life, Wild Oats and The 5 Mrs Buchanans
My so called life was awesome. Every girl around my age loved that show. It deserved more seasons
I loved my so called life!
Wow forgot about those thanks
Damn! Have not thought of Models Inc in decades! Thanks for breaking out long lost memories.
My so called life was only 1 season? Wasn't it endlessly rerun on MTV?
I remember really liking Thunder in Paradise. Entertaining 80/90s action and aesthetics, and with a catchy tune. The only thing I remember reading about the show in media back in the day was that it was apparently really expensive to make, at about a million dollars per episode. Although that might just have been PR nonsense.
Ahh, I miss the fun, sexy and colorful action of the 80s and 90s.
I quite liked the show. Cheesy, lame acting on Hogan's part, but fun.
I can see it costing a million an episode.
I remember Miami vice costing that back in the mid 80s.
I did not know the other guy was Jack Lemmon's son but now I see it!
Jack U. Lemmon had so much grief over his name, he did no name his son Jack U. Lemmon IV or V. Maybe VI.@@Mokkari77
Check Andy Sidaris..Silk Stalkings.. Come die with me Mike Hammer..really cheesy funny stuff too.
didnt really like the show. only watched it cause i thought thunder was awsome
I grew up in the early 2000s and TBS Superstation showed Saved By the Bell and I enjoyed The College Years more than the orginal. Zach had character development and despite being only 19 episodes it had better continuity than the orginal.
Yeah, it was aimed at an older audience being in prime time. I enjoyed it but as a kid, I even understood why it was cancelled as it was good enough for a saturday morning show, but not primetime.
I remember watching Save By The Bell: The College Years when I was a kid and I wish that a second season would happen. 😀👍
We did get the made for tv spin-off movie, at least.
@@AndyJay1985 That is true. 😀👍
Other than the audience hoopin’ & hollerin’, I thought the show was good. I wanted more too.
I'm curious if Models, Inc. will make the cut for 1995.
I still remember scenes from the series finale to this day.
I want to say I remember that show...what happened in the finale? I remember there was some melrose place/90210 knockoff that I enjoyed and had a cool series finale in the mid 90s.
I loved the Simbad show when I was a kid. There are so many great shows from my childhood back in the 90s. What a time. 😊
Well at least he will always have Zhazam!!
Syndicated tv was wild back in the 90's. There were so many random, weird, bad shows.
Sinbad may have missed out on the silver screen but he will forever be remembered for his zany antics on “Jingle all the way”
Just a sick world we’re living in with sick people!
And first kid 😂😂
Thanks for reminding me of First Kid. I had been thinking of that movie for awhile but couldn’t remember the name.
He also stared in one of my childhood favorite movies "Houseguest" with the late Phil Hartman.
And of course _Shazaam._
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I saw at least a bit of several of these shows. And I was a huge fan of the original Saved by the Bell, so I watched most of The College Years
Why did it feel like Saved By The Bell The College Years was on for more than one season? Loved that show.
I liked Saved By the Bell The College Years. I even have the series on DVD.
I do remember watching George too.
I didn't even know they did a ' college ' version.
I definitely remember watching The Sinbad Show. It’s odd hearing Judith Light referred to as a soap opera star like she wasn’t on Who’s the Boss for eight years.
You beat me to it, I was gonna write the same thing.
Thanks for more nostalgic classics 🎉
No problem, thanks for watching
I liked Sinbad and his comedy but he was better as a side character, like he was on a Different World.
The Sinbad Show should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍
That was a horrible show another black comedian dancing around like a foo
Noticed the front door looked like Married With Children door but kitchen looked like Cosby show
@@nicktaylor2657 thats because they were. i have a buddy that builds TV/film sets and he told me a lot of times studios will reuse older sets to save on the costs of building new ones
Dope show facts
Never should of been made
I used to love Thunder in Paradise. I think it scratched that Knight Rider itch, but it was more like Viper than Knight Rider.
Sinbad should've stayed on A Different World. Sondra from the Cosby Show made a one time guest appearance on Sinbad's show
I JUST said that...giggle.
ADR was already off the air here.
Yeah it was off the air before the Sinbad Show evwr aired.
I miss a time when one season gives you 20-22 episodes. Now, we're lucky to get 10 episodes a season. The golden era is over.. Thanks for the memories here
Facts!
Unless u are a franchise. Like FBI, Law and order, Greys anatomy etc. They still get 22-26 episodes
Production costs have gone up and more of the advertising revenue goes to execs and shareholders. Each season is like making 2-3 movies and so there’s budgetary limitations
I made a similar comment on a UA-cam channel that was showing cancelled TV shows from the 80s. They called them failures when they had one season of 24 episodes, and I said that nowadays, that would be 2-1/2 seasons.
The problem with the schedules today is that you really don't have time for character development nor can you get into back stories if you needed to, unlike the 24 episode seasons from before 2000.
@@MattRNewcombSo, in other words, put a production out there, get as much money out of it as you can in the first year, and don't bother reinvesting in the production.
Sounds about par for the course in television production for the 21st century.
You had me at "Scandal Jackson, Jr."
Yes!!
Love how this guy goes incredibly deep into long-forgotten shows but doesn’t point out that Salma Hayek was on The Sinbad Show.😂
Or that the young boy was a very young ray j
I thought that was her
The idea of surviving a bullet to the face only to come out of it 10 times as handsome is hilarious
It happened to Michael Knight first, plastic surgery was in its Golden Age in the 90's
thanks its been a tough day and this helped take my mind off things
that's awesome glad we could help.
Same, i cant get no sleep.
Hogan left thunder in paradise because Eric bischoff unloaded a brinks truck at hulkster’s house to get him to wrestle for wcw.
Courtesy of Billionaire Ted
Omg I totally remember Cobra and Thunder In Paradise!!!
I liked Thunder in Paradise, The Sinbad show and Saved by the Bell the College Years oh the nostalgia 😢
21:48 - Lol, so a 90s version of Knight Rider, but with a boat.
Huh, in an episode of The Simpsons, they discuss a new TV show called Night Boat, nicknamed the crime-solving boat.
I wonder if this series was specifically parodied in the Simpsons episode.
I remember the Sinbad Show, Thunder in Paradise, and Saved By The Bell: The College Years
As a kid i LOVED Phenom. Probably because i had a crush on the main character. As a side note, i'm kind of impressed you did an entire piece on that show and didn't once mention William Devane!
Like the New Generation Project Podcast said when they did two episodes on it, initial ratings for Thunder in Paradise were actually pretty good, and shortly after it began airing on TV in March 1994, it was rumoured that the show was up for renewal, and the good folks at Berk/Schwartz/Bonann Productions were looking at filming 30 more episodes in 1995.
Surprisingly, despite rumours of a second season or a series of TV movies, Thunder in Paradise only lasted one season of 22 episodes, before being cancelled in November 1994.
At the time it was circling the drain, Hogan apparently began floating the idea of either re-branding the show, or launching a new show starring himself, fellow WWE Hall of Famers Sting and Mr. T, and a female martial artist (possibly Cynthia Rothrock) as the main cast.
Perhaps Thunder in Paradise's biggest contribution to pro wrestling was entirely through its filming location, Disney's Hollywood Studios, where WCW was then taping episodes of its shows Saturday Night and WorldWide. During production, Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff met with Hogan and successfully convinced him to sign with WCW in 1994.
And that helped start the domino effect which created both the New World Order and the Attitude Era.
Anyways, I remember watching Thunder in Paradise on ITV in the UK around early to mid 1995 while waiting for Gladiators to come on.
One more thing of note, there was never really much in the way of actual threat or peril during any of Spencer and Bru's adventures.
For example, oh, it's Tuesday: Jessica's been kidnapped and we've got to save her; that's cool, as long as we get it wrapped up before the end of Wednesday, because Thursday, Kelly's being kidnapped and will need rescuing. And then Friday, a face from our past will show up to settle the score with us, but it will all be wrapped up in 45 minutes, and the final shot will be of us drinking at the Scuttlebutt, laughing, or both.
That's it, that's the formula of Thunder in Paradise.
Thunder in Paradise wasn’t a failure. Hogan missed Pro Wrestling and ended the show. He was the main star so without him there wasn’t a need for the show anymore
Note that Hogan also tried to venture into films with mediocre results like “Suburban Commando”.
@@keithtorgersen9664 Suburban Commando is such an awesome stupid movie. i love it.
Absolutely not true
Lol, that's an interesting way of coping
@@Robinripley Bug off
I watched Phenom and liked it, though I was a kid at the time so I have no idea if it aged well. I saw the debut of Saved By the Bell: The College Years, but I don’t even think I finished watching that first episode.
Thunder in Paradise was a great show. Loved it
Me 2. I actually liked that show
Really enjoyed it too. Much like Baywatch it knew what it was and ran with it. I always imagined they both shared the same tv universe.
Loved Thunder in Paradise as a kid! It was the lead-in show to WCW Monday Nitro in '95
I remember a lot of these shows browsing for something good until I discovered early X-Files
Yes X-Files was awesome 👌
I don't think the show Cobra was ever called Viper. Viper was a different show.
i remember Viper! It was a Knight Rider knock off. That's kind of funny, since this video's description of the Cobra main character getting a new face after being shot also sounds like a copy of the first episode of Knight Rider.
@@Jason_Bryant They were all ripping off Knight Rider
Loved Vipee
Viper was a televised commercial for Dodge at the time, and of course the star of the show was the new model at that time the viper with the cylinder motor
I never heard of that show and before watching that part of the video thought it was a tv version of Stallone's Cobra.
Actually dug Thunder in Paradise, especially when Sting was on.
Did you see who he was arm wrestling?
@@TheReviewStudios yessir lol
Carol Alt was on _Later with Greg Kinnear_ promoting the show and mentioned that in an upcoming episode Sting would be guest starring. Kinnear was impressed that they got Sting. However it was very obvious that he thought that Alt was talking about Sting, but instead she was talking about Sting. And no it wasn't a "bit," Kinnear genuinely didn't understand.
Thunder in Paradise was actually quite cool. Yes, it had its cringeworthy moments... but that was almost par for the course in the 90s.
No mention of a young Salma Hayek in those Sinbad clips??
My penis noticed
❤ Easter Egg! 🤙
There's a young Ray J on the Sinbad show 😂
Or Ray J pre 1 Wish 🤣😂
This is really well done. Thanks!
My family still has some episodes of Second Chances on VHS taped off the TV. I can't count the amount of times over the years that my mom has referred to Jennifer Lopez as "You know... Melinda from that mystery show we liked." We will both admit, however, that the plot moved too slowly. It felt more like the speed of a daily soap opera than a weekly drama.
I don't remember any of these shows except Sinbad, College Years and Thunder.... and I definitely don't miss any of them....
Hey, I liked Phenom. I thought it was funny and odd. If I remember, the son's running gag was that he was a loser and a former drug addict - also, this is when AIDS was in the spotlight and the guy looked kinda sickly (I don't remember his sexuality ever coming up). You don't see characters written like that in a sitcom. Also, Judith Light was more known for her stint on Who's the Boss? as she completely shed her soap opera past.
As soon as I saw the intro to Phenom the memories came back and from what I can remember my family liked it.
SBTB College Years failed because it aired on Tuesday nights up against Full House which was HUGE at the time.
Thunder in Paradise had an awesome theme song, but it was such a cheesy show.......i kind of miss shows like that. dumb fun.
Saved by the Bell the College Years also had a great theme song. And the new characters were really good. I wasn't a big fan of the original series, but I actually really liked the College Years. I remember NBC aired in prime time for some reason, that was a big mistake. If they kept it in the Saturday morning lineup , it would've lasted longer. Maybe they were hoping it would fill a void from A Different World?
Thanks for sharing 👍
Yeah the theme song is dope, the show is a mix between Baywatch and Knight Rider. I wish the show would have last at least 5 seasons instead of one.
Was Hart's in the West filmed at the same farm as Signs? I love how Beau's brother Jeff was in a film with Andy Griffith called "Hearts of the West" back in the 70s.
I watched Phenom, but only for Angela Goethals. Judith Light who played the mother wasn’t a daytime soup star. She starred with Tony Danza in Who’s the Boss for eight seasons, 1984-1992.
Right but to be sure everyone understands, she definitely held a lead role on ABC'S One Life to Live prior.
@@Ray_Wood_1984, Yes, she did, but that was before Who’s the Boss. When Phenom came on she wasn’t “a daytime soap star” anymore, she had just finished a hit primetime show.
thank you 👍
I remember all except Hart of the West, Missing Persons and Second Chances.
The theme song for Phenom has been stuck in my head for nearly 3 decades. Angela Goethals would later appear as a recurring character in "24," the same time as her Phenom co-star William Devane, who, for reasons inexplicable, went completed uncredited in the former series.
You may wish to be aware that there was a Thunder in Paradise live-action Phillips CD-i video game with new footage shot around the time of the series finale for the game... serving as a final reprieve.
Sinbad was a hit with audiences co starring in A Different Worlds later season and a couple movies for kids that were solid. The basis for his own show was bc he was good on camera.
It's still crazy Jason Mamoa married the girl from a different world. I always thought she was pretty she just had really long arm hair for some reason.
I remember watching Thunder In Paradise when I was a kid and loving it because Hogan was in it. I always remembered it as a movie though and not a tv show.
I remember Phenom and I did like it. When I watched it, I liked the main character, but thought the supporting characters, the mother, the coach and especially the sister, were more interesting. I was under the impression that it did get a second (but abbreviated) season.
I liked the balding brother on "Phenom"!
At the time Phenom was airing I believe this was one of the critiques floating around. That the supporting cast were the real draw instead of the more straight laced main character. The main character was fine, but did not have any quirks to make her stand out, other than her struggles with being a tennis prodigy. Her family members had more relatable issues, and in my opinion were more fleshed out as characters.
I remember Cafe American!! My brother and I watched it. I wanna say it was on Saturday's.
Those shows are lot better than majority of what we are seeing today
Those shows all sucked and no we definitely have better shows now.
Believe it or not, 'Thunder in Paradise' was appointment-viewing in my house for many years! I used to think it was supposed to be connected to Hogan's 'Rocky' character, Thunderlips! XD
=)
I loved The Sinbad Show as a kid. I was very disappointed that didn't get a second season. I also remember Harts in the West, but I never really got into it.
Now that I think about it, I did see an episode or two of Phenom, but it didn't really leave an impression so I didn't care for it much.
I did not watch Saved by the Bell the College Years because that show stopped being cool after High School. The movie of Zack and Kelly getting married did end it nicely.
I remember wattching Sinbad, phenom , Saved By The Bell College Years
Who thought "Phenom" was a good name for a sitcom?
not me. sounds like a title used for a action based move or TV show
I remember cobra, sinbad, George, save by the bell collage years, and Thunder in paradise.
Beau and Lloyd Bridges were in a show where one character was named after John Wayne. Then Jeff Bridges would go on to play John Wayne's character in True Grit years later.
SBTB: The College Years is actually my absolute favorite show out of the entire franchise. It's just really well done & so entertaining. I like almost everything about it. I used to watch it whenever it was on TV back in the early 90's. I also remember ordering the 1st & only season of it on DVD way back in the early 2000's when I saw it was finally available & then even more recently I bought the digital copy of it a few years back when I saw it show up on Google TV. I still watch it from time to time. It definitely deserved to run for more than just 1 season!
It's funny how different shows handled the Earthquake. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine used a damaged area as excase to actually build stuffl the writer's wanted on the set all along. The weirder thing... Armin Shimmerman made in news on Entertainment Tonight because he drove home to check on his family without taking off his Quark makeup.
I met Armin..he was nice! Quark was my favorite character
@@Rob-z7k It's been more than 25 years and I'm still mad about something. I was 15 so, I went to a local con on the cheaper day so I got to meet Nana Visitor (and have an amazing story there) and Robert Duncan McNeil, who was pretty cool. Alas, Shimmerman was Friday and Saturday only.
@@jessewilley531 so why were u mad? Did he blow u off??
Totally remember Sinbad and holy crap Phenom!!!
Dudikoff was also in a short lived series in 82 or so called , “Star Of The Family”. One episode is on UA-cam. Loved SINBAD.
I LOVED his TV Show Cobra too as well okay @TheMaskedheel.
I said I'd comment when you did the 94s, as a young hulkamaniac, I of course was all over Thunder in paradise. Loved Saved by th Bell as a kid so watched the college years too. I remember Sinbad airing, but did not have Fox at that time
I loved Thunder in Paradise
I watched “Sinbad” and “The College Years” back then and am rewatching the latter right now.
Thunder in paradise kicked ass
The Sinbad show was my shit. I can't believe it was only 1 season. I remember watching it for years.
Can't help but wonder if Cobra was ever called a Slacker on that show. And having Cobra there, I'll probably be waiting to hear "YO JOE!" 😉😂🤣 Most of these, I've never heard of before. Thunder in Paradise, or Blunder in Paradise which can't remember who called it that, think it was someone Hogan was feuding with, but mostly know of because of my dad getting me into Old School Wrestling, that's how I'm familiar with that one, as well as seen a few episodes on tape, and think I've hear of The College Years being mentioned on UA-cam before. The rest, I'm totally not familiar with at all, though lots of them do indeed sound interesting at least. I do have several sources, some not quite legal sources I could check out, see if I could find some of them. In any event, thank you for this video, did enjoy it.
Thanks for watching and sharing
I was a big fan of Thunder in Paradise when I was a kid. I was sad that there wasn’t more.
I have been waiting for this for thunder in paradise I was a WCW fan so I could watch the show and wcw then Hogan ended up in WCW rasslin lol
I remember coming home from school and immediately turning on the tv to watch Saved by the Bell on TBS. I was alway sooooo disappointed if it was an episode of The College Years
Cobra was awesome!
I never heard of it but, I loved him in the American Ninja movies.
You do a great job with your channel
Oh thank you!!! And thanks for checking us out!
So am I the only one that likes Save by the Bell the college years
no. people did. but even it wasnt hard to see it lasted for one season
I remember seeing Sinbad and a commercial for George, as well as thirst-watching the College Years for Tiffany Amber Thiessen.
Accomplished comedian Sinbad has announced he’s filing for bankruptcy for the 2nd time. Sounds like things have gone from Sinbad, to Sinworst.
BADA BUM TISH!!
Are you here all week ?
Grew up watching thunder in paradise and some saved by the bell college years. Thunder in paradise was often aired on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
I actually liked saved by the bell the college years i thought it was decent and should've lasted longer. I also loved roc but for some reason it just never caught on with some people
Roc went live and Fox made the excuse that they couldn't advertise for a show without clips.
*- Cobra sounds like Knight Rider right down to the new face.*
I remember most of these. Some were fun but I get how tv viewers might not be impressed. What year did Drexl's class run?
Michael Dudikoff was a blessing to mankind, in the 90s. Don't believe my word. Watch his movies. So much fun.
Thunder in paradise is as good as a stupid action show from the 90s, produced by Disney, can be. To sum it up, it's basically a best of 80s action movies, done for a PG-13 audience. They literally have episodes where they copy Predator and First Blood in one episode and mix RoboCop with Universal Soldier. And it's so stupid and PG-13, it's fucking awesome. Swearing is a big no no. Sex is an even bigger no no. But showing our two ultra buff, macho, manly heroes firing heavy arms, blowing shit up sky high, while not even hurting anyone is ok. And damn me is the action and the bad acting fun. And Hulk Hogan's outfits are as trashy as they get. So, fun for the entire family. XD
I really liked Cobra and Thunder in Paradise. These series were airing in polish tv "Polsat" as far as I remeber :)
I've even made my Thunder boat out of Lego bricks xD
I loved Cobra..
I loved Thunder in Paradise and always wondered what happened to it. I could of sworn it had a movie too.
Dang, all these shows looked SOOOOOOOOO bad...though I completely forgot about "Saved By The Bell: The College Years", thanks for the reminder! Don't remember it being very good either unfortunately.
Thanks for watching
To be fair other shows around that time looked the same.
I mean look at something like La Brea, 2021 show, with CGI and plot holes of a 1990's show.
Was I alive in 1994? I was 24 years old but I remember one of those shows. SBTB College years and that’s it.
1.) I actually loved this show - though mainly because of the then-futuristic-but-now-seemingly-archaic boat, as it was almost like a boat version of Knight Rider's K.I.T.T. I don't remember Hulk Hogan wearing an eyepatch in it, though. That's kind of freaky.
2.) I didn't know about this show, & probably wouldn't have watched it back then since I wouldn't have known who Jennifer Lopez was. I would now, though, if only to see what her acting chops were like 29 years ago.
3.) This, I remember. I don't remember seeing the whole season, but I remember the show. I actually remember it more than I do the original, to be honest, though I don't know why.
4.) I was about to say I'd never seen this, then I saw the wife & remembered I HAD seen the pilot, but after that I don't remember anything of the rest of the series.
5.) I think I MIGHT have seen ONE OR TWO episodes of this, but I can't completely remember. As for Steve Cannel, the only thing I know about him was that he was a semi-recurring guest on Castle until he passed away, & then they showed his empty chair at their poker table as a memoriam to the guy after he died.
6.) So THAT'S why I don't remember this show, but definitely watched both Full House & Roseanne! I don't know what was on while this was I would've watched instead - possibly, in that year, The Simpsons, Step-By-Step, or Family Matters - but I do know I would've changed the channel. (Possibly the Cosby Show.)
7.) Didn't see this, but anything that starts with somebody moving OUT of Chicago - my hometown - is not of interest to me in the slightest. (Even though I moved out of there over a decade ago, now.)
(...Wait. Golden Girls created a spinoff that then created its OWN spinoff!? When the H did THAT happen!? Can we get a video about THAT, please!?)
8.) Never saw this, & it seems like a prototype for Friends.
9.) Now THIS I remember...but not fondly.
10.) Wait. If THIS show was originally to be named "Viper," what would the ACTUAL "Viper" show - which featured a Dodge Viper that had deployable hexagonal armor plating, weapons (Most of which were nonlethal, like the low-powered EMP meant to stop cars.), holographic camouflage, & a drone that popped out of the not-really-a-sunroof (Which I could definitely use, driving for DoorDash.) & definitely seemed to be in the same vein, if not a direct competitor to, Knight Rider - have been called? And no, I don't remember this show, but if I can find it on Hulu, Tubi, or Netflix, I'd probably like to see it now. Even if it does seem a little A-Team-meets-Running-Man-ish.
Living Single was the prototype for Friends, i.e. they completely ripped off LS to make Friends
I thought I remembered Cobra...then I realized I was thinking of Viper, which lasted 4 seasons.