I’m so glad other people liked it too! It was a little under the radar but the Dad was so funny! And Jamie Lunar from Melrose Place and Heather Langercamp from Nightmare on Elm Street were in it?💕
@@stacybenjamin8309Me, too. We got it in Australia and it was pretty alternative to the rest of the American sitcoms. It was on late and classified AO (adults only). When we saw AO, we knew it was going to be good!
Melrose Place was a spin off of Beverly Hills 90210 and Model's Inc was a spin off of Melrose Place. Model's Inc. didn't last but one season. Those were the days when I only had air channels in my room so I watched everything on the Fox channel. lmao
@@stacykeller3812 I recently re-watched BH 90210 series and I had a good ol time. When the show was running, I only watched season 3 through 5, so a lot of it was brand new to me. I gotta re-watch Melrose Place.
@@ashlenriopelle274 I watched the first 2 seasons of Melrose Place before I stopped following it. I was 10-11 year-old watching those shows, so once I got a little older, other things started occupying my time and I never finished the series. Hopefully, it will be available soon for streaming.
Who’s the Boss makes me feel a little old. A few months ago I was in the hospital and I was watching Who’s the Boss reruns on TV; and the nurse had never heard of the show. 😶
Ouch, to the young nurse response. But, appropriate to have old age pain while in the hospital. sorry, that is a stretch. Hopefully not a painful stretch; and, damn I did it again.😗😏
@@COMPFUNK2 Mona from Who's The Boss also had a failed backdoor pilot two part episode! Something to do with a Hotel. Not to mention a young Fran Drescher also had a backdoor pilot episode on Who's The Boss?🏨📺📼🙋♀
I feel like Joey deserved a spot on this list even though it got a season on TV. Aside from that, the original back door pilot for Empty Nest, featuring Rita Moreno, also deserved a mention. The explanation from Moreno about how problematic the episode was is fascinating
@@kcbh24 it was an episode of the Golden Girls but it was intended to be a back door pilot for a spin-off about a married couple whose children had grown up and left home, with Moreno as the star. It was very problematic because of a bad script that Susan Harris didn’t have an opportunity to do proper rewrites on and thus didn’t get picked up - but they kept the name and the house and tried again with obviously a different cast and set up and that one was successful
@@LennyT007 more like a season and a half with, if I recall correctly, some significant retooling in the second season to try to reverse the major ratings decline it saw in the first season. Even one of the producers of Friends (who also worked on Joey) said the network and other producers on Joey wouldn’t listen when he tried to say they were destroying everything that made the character likable on Friends. Also, given how heavily NBC promoted Joey at first, it became a pretty high profile flop for the network
And lets not forget Joanie Loves Chachi. Erin Moran I understand didn’t want to leave Happy Days but did the show anyways. The Bill Mahar one had me 😂😂😂.😊
any time there is a popular side character that is comic relief and they give them a show it almost never works because what makes them work is they are used sparingly
also that comic relief has great chemistry with THAT cast. you take that character (ie. joey from friends or pam from martin) and expect the same chemistry with a new group.
I think you did GREAT! I just absolutely LOVE your channel!!! It always brings back to a (in my opinion) happier time in the world. I miss it so much and I would do almost anything to go back again!
Wow, so many "before they were stars". I totally remember that Home Improvement episode but didn't know Dave and Jim back then. Never heard of Buddies though. I also always wondered what was up with that "Kelly's Kids" episode of Brady Bunch. I always thought it was just because they ran out of ideas lol but now I get it. And I definitely remember watching Living Dolls. I watched all the other regular shows too, but never knew about the attempted spin-offs except for maybe Jackee. This was so fun, thanks!
@tobesocourtney Did you know that Todd Lookinland who plays Matt is the real- life brother of Mike Lookinland who plays Bobby Brady? Also Sherwood Swartz did retool Kelly's Kids in the 80's rebranding the show and changing the title to Together We Stand starring Elliot Gould, Dee Wallace Stone and Data from The Goonies. Moving away from The Brady's wasnt bad for a show that premiered over a decade after Kelly's Kids. It lasted longer on it's own accord 19 episodes! 🤗📺📼👍
Actress Leah Remini was in other failed tv shows such as The Man In The Family, First Time Out and Fired Up. Not to mention recurring and guest appearances on Cheers, Friends, Evening Shade, Home Improvement, The Commish, Diagnosis Murder, Renegade, Saved By The Bell, The Hogan Family and Blossom. She is best known for her role Carrie on King Of Queens. 🙋♀📺💃🙏
@@mysocalledgenxlife She was working hard. It was really nice when she finally got her own series, and her series did well. She was Carla's daughter on _Cheers_. She was Taylor's girl friend on _Evening Shade_.
All In The Family amazingly had 5 spin-offs. The Jeffersons, Maude, Archie Bunker's Place, Gloria, and 704 Hauser. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude and Checking In was a spin-off of The Jeffersons so they are connected too.
happy days (which is a spin off itself) had six, if you count the cartoon. mork & mindy laverne & shirley blanksy's Beauties joanie loves chachi out of the blue fonz & the happy days gang.
@@flobrez2470 In Gloria, the Vet doctor was played by Burgess Meredith (aka the Penguin from the 1960's Batman series). As I recall Gloria was cancelled due to low ratings and the fact that Burgess Meredith had become quite ill.
I completely remember it too .I checked IMDb and it shows the Jackee show has a 23 minute TV movie so there must have been a pilot episode that actually aired and not just a backdoor pilot
6-year old me in 1988 got in trouble the night "The Incredible Hulk Returns" premiered and I got sent to bed early. Luckily my mom knew how badly I wanted to see that movie and she ended up letting me watch the movie. I have to watch those movies again, it's been DECADES.
@@mysocalledgenxlife Natalie you forgot to talk about the 80's retool attempt at Kelly's Kids rebranded as "Together We Stand" which lasted 19 episodes! This incarnation of the show starred Elliot Gould, Dee Wallace Stone and Data from The Goonies. 🙋📺📼🕵
Gimme A Break had a backdoor spin-off with Ola Ray. Michael Jackson's girlfriend in the Thriller video. Don't forget Dynasty had a spin-off called The Colbys. It starred the great Barbara Stanwyck and the great Charleton Heston. It only lasted 2 seasons.
Older Gen X here. You probably aren't aware of "The New Monkees" 1987 Fox show. Huge flop, Great music, could have been huge like the original Monkees.
I’m actually making a video about shows from the 60s that were rebooted in the 80s! The New Monkees, the New Munsters, Back to Mayberry, etc..! It was a major trend!
@@mysocalledgenxlife : I never heard of "Back to Mayberry" but there was a reboot called "Mayberry R.F.D." that starred Ken Berry that had a short run. I don't remember too much about it, though.
As a little kid Force 7 episode was friggin awesome it was at the height in ninja craze for boys like me. As a little kid LAPD ninjas fighting ninja terrorist made sense to me... then I saw it as an adult and I cringed so hard. 🤣
The Brady bunch variety hour and living Dolls were part of the 50 worst spin offs ever in TV guide. I viewed the whole living Dolls series right here on UA-cam. They even brought in Marion Ross you know, Mrs C to try to save it I guess but it was probably already doomed. A very good compilation. I guess you could have also included just the ten of us.
227 is awesome and I still watch every now and then, Jackee wasn't terrible but an odd choice of name. Oh and it's never a surprise that Cranston was in an awful backdoor pilot, he was on Seinfeld alot and that show is a cringefest of non humor 😂
Love the fact that you are not using AI voiceovers for your videos. Some real eye-openers here, especially the CHiPs spin-off. CHiPs was one of my favorites growing up and I will still binge these days.
Another is Married with Children had 3 backdoor pilots (Enemies, Top of the Heap, Radio Free Tremaine) Top of the Heap starring Matt Leblanc made it to air 7 episodes then was cancelled.
I LOVE your channel so much 😍 You remember much of what has exited my mind long ago (or simply lives deep down under in a land far, far away) so it’s super cool to be able to revisit my childhood (born in 77!) in a way I *_NEVER_* would have dreamed would’ve been possible, even when I was (say) 15! Happy new year, Natalie 🎉🥳🎊 ETA: makes me respect Chappelle even more than I already have and do. Loved 227 and “jackee” but def didn’t remember Living Dolls so I’ll be questioning my older & younger sisters asap!
In my opinion, The lisp is kinda cool. For some reason, it reminds me of the 80s. Remember how it seemed like movies and shows gave us the impression, at least, that all dental correction devices were like torturous head gear. It seemed to be a common character trait to have some type of lisp due to a sadistic dentist; little shop, technically 80s movie. Nonsequiter: Speaking of weird impressions that we got as kids, besides high school kids looking like they were in their late 20s: Remember the brilliant marketing campaign where many characters it seemed walked around eating from giant party sized bags of potato chips (crisps.) I think Lay's? As a kid, I thought people just did that. Going out to the hole in the wall club, grab a snack. Anyway, Cool lisp.
Emergency! from 1975 tried to spin off 405-WILD, essentially following two animal-control guys instead of two paramedics, and a grumpy, super-duper vet instead of a grumpy super-duper people-doctor.
My whole childhood/life, most of the tv shows i watched were "unconventional family" situations. Orphans, cousins, divorced people finding new love, single parents, widows. Brady bunch, step by step, my two dads, sister kate, punky brewster, diffrent strokes, webster, sabrina the teenage witch, sister sister, full house, major dad, bubba on mama's family, fresh prince, pam and olivia on the cosby show, luke on growing pains, one day at a time, smart guy, me and the boys, some of the ghostwriter kids, thea, the sinbad show, curly sue, life with mikey...sorta...ish. and countless others. I loved growing up with the message that what makes a family isn't always blood relation.
Nice job! I also remember an episode of Facts of Life that had a backdoor pilot episode. It was about some boys military academy near Eastland that Jo's delinquent friend from the hood attended. I vaguely remember that it was about them getting ready for a mixer with Eastland and he desperately wanted to dance with Blair (didn't we all? lol) but he was a working class kid like Jo. It was so clunky and you could tell they were really trying to sell the idea because there were male analogues to the Facts cast.
As you mentioned about Angela Landsbury having some "light" workload or episodes off. In particular recall Wayne Rogers (MASH's Trapper John),& Jerry Orbach (Dirty Dancing & Law & Order's Dt Lenny Briscoe),both filled in as main protagonist for a few episodes each.
I was randomly channel surfing one day and came across this episode. It was the middle of the show so I had no idea what I was watching. It was the weirdest thing. I couldn't figure anything out and thought I had accidentally taken some drugs. When it came to an end I realized I hadn't taken drugs. Whoever put this show together did.
I remember Living Dolls. I never got a chance to see it. And how dare you refer to MacGyver as implausible? I believed in Lassie. Disbelief thoroughly suspended.
38 seconds is all it took for me to subscribe. Don't hate me if it takes another 10secs to hit the like button. PS. Your smile looks more comfortable and confident now. 8:58 HOLD UP! 14:48 Too Many Cooks vibes.
Great shows with many I missed. For a part 2, please note Married With Children had a couple back door pilots - one went to air, one didn't. As well, a favourite spin off as a kid no one remembers, ENOS from Dukes of Hazzard got his own show as a lawman in the big city! Most do not recall that one.
Is there anything more 80s TV than the over the back shot of someone opening a door to reveal a guest in a sitcom? Nobody ever asked who it was or looked through a peep hole. It was always “Oh let me open the door it must be Plot Complications!”
TK Carter was wonderful in the 80’s. He tried so hard. He ended up playing second rate characters. I don’t remember that episode. NBC wanted Sheryl Lee Ralph as Sondra. Marla Gibbs fought for Jackee and won! Oh I forgot Bill Maher was an actor! I remember him from Newhart as well. Chips had another one with Jayne Kennedy and a female partner. It was bad as well.
I don't remember Maher visiting the Vermont Inn? I do remember his part in the serio-comedy movie DC Cab (with Mr T). TK Carter looked like he was on the verge of being a legit tv star (maybe movies). When he had the part in The Thing (1982) it looked like he may be onto something, but, even that really did not give him much to do. He had the boombox, roller skates, and eventually, looked scared because he knew they were in deep do-do because of the alien -- who's been changed -- blood test. Oh, just remembered TK was in one of the Goldie Hawn-Chevy Chase comedies: Seems Like Old Times.
We missed out on 80s ninjas! Not gonna lie, probably would have eaten that up no matter how terrible it was. But then I loved Thor and Daredevil from the Hulk movies, so there ya go 🤣. Great vid, thanks for sharing.
The Remake of McGyver did the same thing with the Coltons. Pretty sure they were trying their hardest to get that series of episodes into a series of it's own.
Holy Cr@p! I remember watching that Chips Ninja fiasco when I was 10 or so. With the Ninja craze of the early 80 (which itself was a "spinoff" of the Kung Fu/Karate craze of the 60s and 70s) 10 year old me was all in. :) Watching the clips now "shutter" not so much. I remember most of the stuff from the 80s and 90s entries. I was a little too young to remember the 70s ones. Did we really watch that much TV back then? I guess with no internet we had to do something to pass the evenings on school nights. I hope the oral surgery went well. I have had my fair share of it myself so I totally get talking funny for a bit afterwards. Great video- thanks for making it.
Omg... "Force Seven" -- so Hunter is a ninja with an eyepatch (ninja pirate?) who has to defeat Gimli with the help of a racist puppeteer? Yeah, bring it on... 😂
_Cheers_ also had the short-lived spinoff _The Tortellis_. This featured Carla's ex-husband Nick Tortelli on his own show. It lasted 13 episodes. This was in 1987. Dan Hedaya played Nick. Nick was married to Loretta, who was played by Jean Kasem (wife of Casey Kasem). Why did this fail? Nick wasn't a likeable character. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortellis
After all these years I'm still asking "who was Bliss Colby?" and why did she matter compared to Charlton Heston & Barbara Stanwyk. Today in pop culture 99% of the world still has no clue why Bliss Colby existed in the first place.
Fenster Hall probably was considered like a similar spinoff the Facts of Life, which had a large cast of girls at first, but then reduced to just four. This is usually the case because too many characters divide viewer interest and lead to weak plot lines as well as poor character development and viewer indifference You can even see this in Saved by the Bell, when it was Goodmorning Mrs. Bliss, as well as Boy Meets World where the cast was trimmed down to just a few main characters rather than the whole class.
I love your ideas about auto calibration. As well as other things. I'm using the Nvidia Shield TV, just to get the AI upscale technology. I'm a huge advocate of having those kinds of technologies built in to our screens to make the process of improving picture quality easier.
Out of all the backdoor pilots you talk about, Force Seven is my favorite. I think it's still on UA-cam. It was so batshit insane and racist, I couldn't stop laughing at this trainwreck.
I actually remember a couple of these! Definitely duds. On another note, my older brother had the ship wallpaper that was in Kelly’s Kids! It went so well with the dark brown paneling on the other wall 😂
When I see who you refer to as 'Mob Boss', I see the Professor from 'Sliders'. Especially when it's played by a Welsh actor also known for appearances in Indiana Jones movies. Great bookending him at the end too.
Hello Natalie. I love this channel. I wanted to add that the Incredible Hulk actually had three spinoff films-Death of the Incredible Hulk was the last, but did not include a marvel character co-star.
Impressive research on these lost backdoor has been offs not but now I have stunt Gramps and need a heartburn pill that really though. I watch all kinds of videos about lost media and what you've done here is nothing short of fantastic. Let's see what else you got.
I worked for Jamie Luner from " Just the 10 of Us " when she and Soleil Moon Frye and Mark Paul Gosselaar were making the movie " Miracle of St. Tammany " they hung out in the Pub I was bouncer for and I was a extra so the studio hired me for their personal security and that started my new career as I went to work for Millennium Studio's in Louisiana and provide security for the sets and the celebrities.
Ah yes… the infamous back door pilots, where an episode would weirdly focus on guest characters for some reason, with the stars of the show appearing fleetingly.
I’m wondering if that Brady spin-off was pitched as a stand-alone and the creators were forced to blanket it under the Brady umbrella cause that would’ve made a pretty dope family drama series.
Speaking of pilots, have you made a video about tv movies that were pilots for potential tv series that failed? I remember seeing a tv movie with Michael York and Linda Purl that was one, the ending was so badly made that I could understand why it failed.
I recently saw the ninja episode of CHIPS on the Get channel. I had gotten home from work and fell asleep during the beginning of the CHIPS episode and thought I had accidentally changed the channel! I religiously watched CHIPS as a kid and do not remember this. I probably was one of the many who had lost interest at this point.
“Just the ten of us” was my favorite spin off!
Same! I almost mentioned it in the opening, but I thought it was too under the radar.
I don't think I even knew it was a spinoff but I loved it!
It was a spinoff of Growing Pains 😊
I’m so glad other people liked it too! It was a little under the radar but the Dad was so funny! And Jamie Lunar from Melrose Place and Heather Langercamp from Nightmare on Elm Street were in it?💕
It was good
My favorite was Soap with it's spin-off Benson.
Same!! Benson's sarcastic wit is perfect 😂
I was in the fifth grade watching Soap. It was hilarious and entertaining.
@@stacybenjamin8309Me, too. We got it in Australia and it was pretty alternative to the rest of the American sitcoms. It was on late and classified AO (adults only). When we saw AO, we knew it was going to be good!
Melrose Place was a spin off of Beverly Hills 90210 and Model's Inc was a spin off of Melrose Place. Model's Inc. didn't last but one season. Those were the days when I only had air channels in my room so I watched everything on the Fox channel. lmao
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I liked Models’s Inc. Of course, not as much as 90210 and Melrose…. But I thought it was decent. 🥰
I really liked Melrose place.
@@stacykeller3812 I recently re-watched BH 90210 series and I had a good ol time. When the show was running, I only watched season 3 through 5, so a lot of it was brand new to me. I gotta re-watch Melrose Place.
@@ashlenriopelle274 I watched the first 2 seasons of Melrose Place before I stopped following it. I was 10-11 year-old watching those shows, so once I got a little older, other things started occupying my time and I never finished the series. Hopefully, it will be available soon for streaming.
Who’s the Boss makes me feel a little old. A few months ago I was in the hospital and I was watching Who’s the Boss reruns on TV; and the nurse had never heard of the show. 😶
Ouch, to the young nurse response. But, appropriate to have old age pain while in the hospital. sorry, that is a stretch. Hopefully not a painful stretch; and, damn I did it again.😗😏
Well it's celebrated its 40th anniversary this year!😂
@@BruceWalther-s2l I’m 43. But to be fair, when I was a kid, I thought 25 was old.
@@COMPFUNK2 Mona from Who's The Boss also had a failed backdoor pilot two part episode! Something to do with a Hotel. Not to mention a young Fran Drescher also had a backdoor pilot episode on Who's The Boss?🏨📺📼🙋♀
@ She did briefly mention the Mona spinoff.
I feel like Joey deserved a spot on this list even though it got a season on TV. Aside from that, the original back door pilot for Empty Nest, featuring Rita Moreno, also deserved a mention. The explanation from Moreno about how problematic the episode was is fascinating
Empty nest had a spin off also called nurses.
Are we sure the Rita Moreno spin-off wasn't originally The Golden Girls?
Joey had 2 seasons.
@@kcbh24 it was an episode of the Golden Girls but it was intended to be a back door pilot for a spin-off about a married couple whose children had grown up and left home, with Moreno as the star. It was very problematic because of a bad script that Susan Harris didn’t have an opportunity to do proper rewrites on and thus didn’t get picked up - but they kept the name and the house and tried again with obviously a different cast and set up and that one was successful
@@LennyT007 more like a season and a half with, if I recall correctly, some significant retooling in the second season to try to reverse the major ratings decline it saw in the first season. Even one of the producers of Friends (who also worked on Joey) said the network and other producers on Joey wouldn’t listen when he tried to say they were destroying everything that made the character likable on Friends. Also, given how heavily NBC promoted Joey at first, it became a pretty high profile flop for the network
Whoa. DID. NOT. Know there was a spin-off to Greatest American Hero.😮
Same! Greatest American Hero was my favorite!
It’s on the first season DVD set if you want to check it out.
Yeah, I guess I missed this because I was stationed in Germany in the late 80's
Me neither, although I know a reboot was being planned a while back, but it was shelved.
Neither did I 'til today in Jan. 2025,
And lets not forget Joanie Loves Chachi. Erin Moran I understand didn’t want to leave Happy Days but did the show anyways. The Bill Mahar one had me 😂😂😂.😊
Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, & Mork and Mindy all had different degrees of separation.
@@kshinokevin it’s wild how blessed we were to get full 30 and 60 minutes of tv back then!
Bill maher with a mullet is hilarious 😂
Eh, I think Joanie Loves Chachi WOULD be better off forgotten.
any time there is a popular side character that is comic relief and they give them a show it almost never works because what makes them work is they are used sparingly
also that comic relief has great chemistry with THAT cast. you take that character (ie. joey from friends or pam from martin) and expect the same chemistry with a new group.
"Huggy Bear and the Turkey" sounds like tv show that would exhist on South Park.
😂😂😂😂
I think you did GREAT! I just absolutely LOVE your channel!!! It always brings back to a (in my opinion) happier time in the world. I miss it so much and I would do almost anything to go back again!
Wow, so many "before they were stars". I totally remember that Home Improvement episode but didn't know Dave and Jim back then. Never heard of Buddies though. I also always wondered what was up with that "Kelly's Kids" episode of Brady Bunch. I always thought it was just because they ran out of ideas lol but now I get it. And I definitely remember watching Living Dolls. I watched all the other regular shows too, but never knew about the attempted spin-offs except for maybe Jackee. This was so fun, thanks!
@tobesocourtney Did you know that Todd Lookinland who plays Matt is the real- life brother of Mike Lookinland who plays Bobby Brady? Also Sherwood Swartz did retool Kelly's Kids in the 80's rebranding the show and changing the title to Together We Stand starring Elliot Gould, Dee Wallace Stone and Data from The Goonies. Moving away from The Brady's wasnt bad for a show that premiered over a decade after Kelly's Kids. It lasted longer on it's own accord 19 episodes! 🤗📺📼👍
Actress Leah Remini was in other failed tv shows such as The Man In The Family, First Time Out and Fired Up. Not to mention recurring and guest appearances on Cheers, Friends, Evening Shade, Home Improvement, The Commish, Diagnosis Murder, Renegade, Saved By The Bell, The Hogan Family and Blossom. She is best known for her role Carrie on King Of Queens. 🙋♀📺💃🙏
She was a TV queen in the 90s. I’ve been thinking about doing a video about her and all of those appearances.
@@mysocalledgenxlife She was working hard. It was really nice when she finally got her own series, and her series did well.
She was Carla's daughter on _Cheers_. She was Taylor's girl friend on _Evening Shade_.
@ChrisBakerauthor After 'King of Queens', Leah Remini also had a supporting role as Nicky, Stuart's sister on 'The Exes'.
She is one of the prettiest actresses ever..go Pacers
All In The Family amazingly had 5 spin-offs. The Jeffersons, Maude, Archie Bunker's Place, Gloria, and 704 Hauser. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude and Checking In was a spin-off of The Jeffersons so they are connected too.
happy days (which is a spin off itself) had six, if you count the cartoon.
mork & mindy
laverne & shirley
blanksy's Beauties
joanie loves chachi
out of the blue
fonz & the happy days gang.
I thought Archie Bunker spin-off was the Jeffersons I thought. Which would make it the grand dad of those others.
I remember Gloria it didn’t last very long. She divorced Michael and was working in a vet clinic. I don’t know why I remember that.
@@flobrez2470 In Gloria, the Vet doctor was played by Burgess Meredith (aka the Penguin from the 1960's Batman series). As I recall Gloria was cancelled due to low ratings and the fact that Burgess Meredith had become quite ill.
@@stingrey1571don’t forget “Carmine”
They should have tried hooking up Huggy Bear with Angel Martin from the Rockford Files. 😂😂
14:58 I LOVED 227!! It was so hilarious. Saaaandra was the best
Sometimes I feel the need to say, “Mary” in that very Sandra growl😅
More police need ninja task forces lol
Holy Mandela effect.....I swear i freaking remember Jackee as it's own show! I probably just renamed 227 in my mind.
I completely remember it too .I checked IMDb and it shows the Jackee show has a 23 minute TV movie so there must have been a pilot episode that actually aired and not just a backdoor pilot
Video topic request idea for Natalie: memorable GenX era commercials
Examples: 1984 Apple, WHERE’S THE BEEF
Love it. Going on the idea board!
@@mysocalledgenxlife Also the anti-drug PSA.."I learned it from watching YOU!!!"
@@mysocalledgenxlifeYou ever read Chuck Klosterman?
"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful"
“ this is your brain on drugs- any questions?”
6-year old me in 1988 got in trouble the night "The Incredible Hulk Returns" premiered and I got sent to bed early. Luckily my mom knew how badly I wanted to see that movie and she ended up letting me watch the movie. I have to watch those movies again, it's been DECADES.
Links in the description! 😊
@@mysocalledgenxlife Natalie you forgot to talk about the 80's retool attempt at Kelly's Kids rebranded as "Together We Stand" which lasted 19 episodes! This incarnation of the show starred Elliot Gould, Dee Wallace Stone and Data from The Goonies. 🙋📺📼🕵
@@SuperMarioBrosIIII will cover crazy spinoff stories like that in a future video. That one is pretty crazy!
I loved that one too! I was just starting to get into comic books, but even I knew they missed the mark with Thor. It was still fun though.
Gimme A Break had a backdoor spin-off with Ola Ray. Michael Jackson's girlfriend in the Thriller video. Don't forget Dynasty had a spin-off called The Colbys. It starred the great Barbara Stanwyck and the great Charleton Heston. It only lasted 2 seasons.
Oh my goodness, that was so painful to watch! 😂 I’m embarrassed for my younger self! 🤣🤣🤣
Thor always loved beer. He also loved to party.
Older Gen X here. You probably aren't aware of "The New Monkees" 1987 Fox show. Huge flop, Great music, could have been huge like the original Monkees.
I’m actually making a video about shows from the 60s that were rebooted in the 80s! The New Monkees, the New Munsters, Back to Mayberry, etc..! It was a major trend!
@@mysocalledgenxlife : I never heard of "Back to Mayberry" but there was a reboot called "Mayberry R.F.D." that starred Ken Berry that had a short run. I don't remember too much about it, though.
As a little kid Force 7 episode was friggin awesome it was at the height in ninja craze for boys like me. As a little kid LAPD ninjas fighting ninja terrorist made sense to me... then I saw it as an adult and I cringed so hard. 🤣
THE HEIGHTS
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MELROSE PLACE
Just found your channel and I am really enjoying your content keep it up great work.😊
The Brady bunch variety hour and living Dolls were part of the 50 worst spin offs ever in TV guide. I viewed the whole living Dolls series right here on UA-cam. They even brought in Marion Ross you know, Mrs C to try to save it I guess but it was probably already doomed. A very good compilation. I guess you could have also included just the ten of us.
227 is awesome and I still watch every now and then, Jackee wasn't terrible but an odd choice of name. Oh and it's never a surprise that Cranston was in an awful backdoor pilot, he was on Seinfeld alot and that show is a cringefest of non humor 😂
PLEASE make this a series!
Great episode,half these shows I didn't know existed
Love the fact that you are not using AI voiceovers for your videos. Some real eye-openers here, especially the CHiPs spin-off. CHiPs was one of my favorites growing up and I will still binge these days.
Finster Hall certainly was no Annie 😊 It's the hard knock life ...
Another is Married with Children had 3 backdoor pilots (Enemies, Top of the Heap, Radio Free Tremaine) Top of the Heap starring Matt Leblanc made it to air 7 episodes then was cancelled.
I LOVE your channel so much 😍 You remember much of what has exited my mind long ago (or simply lives deep down under in a land far, far away) so it’s super cool to be able to revisit my childhood (born in 77!) in a way I *_NEVER_* would have dreamed would’ve been possible, even when I was (say) 15! Happy new year, Natalie 🎉🥳🎊
ETA: makes me respect Chappelle even more than I already have and do. Loved 227 and “jackee” but def didn’t remember Living Dolls so I’ll be questioning my older & younger sisters asap!
You are the perfect viewer for my channel! 77 babies are extra special 😊. So glad you are enjoying the videos!
@@mysocalledgenxlifewe are!!!! ♥️♥️♥️ I am home 🤗
The Nanny tried one with the Chatterbox Hair Salon
You sound like Holly Hunter right now. Love it
Very similar.
Natalie have you done a complete breakdown on all the nighttime soaps from the 80s? That would be great to get your take on them 😊
It’s on the 2025 idea board!
In my opinion,
The lisp is kinda cool.
For some reason, it reminds me of the 80s.
Remember how it seemed like movies and shows gave us the impression, at least, that all dental correction devices were like torturous head gear.
It seemed to be a common character trait to have some type of lisp due to a sadistic dentist; little shop, technically 80s movie.
Nonsequiter:
Speaking of weird impressions that we got as kids, besides high school kids looking like they were in their late 20s:
Remember the brilliant marketing campaign where many characters it seemed walked around eating from giant party sized bags of potato chips (crisps.)
I think Lay's?
As a kid, I thought people just did that.
Going out to the hole in the wall club, grab a snack.
Anyway,
Cool lisp.
It reminds me of Cindy Brady in the early seasons😊
who's the boss had another backdoor pilot. it was going to be a female odd couple. one of the stars was fran drescher.
TK Carter... "He's My Girl".
Darn, now, I have to find that movie 😂😂😂
I went to a live taping of Living Dolls and it was funny. But I was 13/14 and maybe not a great judge of shows! haha
Fascinating topic for a video, and excellently put together :) Hope you'll make a part 2
Another thing about Kelly’s Kids is that the character Matt was played by Mike Lookinland‘s brother Todd Lookinland.
I almost mentioned that…but I thought I’d let my comments section take care of it! Thank you 😊
@@mysocalledgenxlifeAnother mention is one of the kids was the actor Benji, who sadly died recently, ending up as the young boy on Alf.
I thought they looked alike!! 🤣
Enjoyed this so much. Thank you
Emergency! from 1975 tried to spin off 405-WILD, essentially following two animal-control guys instead of two paramedics, and a grumpy, super-duper vet instead of a grumpy super-duper people-doctor.
Great memories. The lisp just added to the charm :)
Did anyone else notice how low the bunk bed was in Fenster Hall?? Good luck getting onto the bottom bunk!!!
My whole childhood/life, most of the tv shows i watched were "unconventional family" situations. Orphans, cousins, divorced people finding new love, single parents, widows.
Brady bunch, step by step, my two dads, sister kate, punky brewster, diffrent strokes, webster, sabrina the teenage witch, sister sister, full house, major dad, bubba on mama's family, fresh prince, pam and olivia on the cosby show, luke on growing pains, one day at a time, smart guy, me and the boys, some of the ghostwriter kids, thea, the sinbad show, curly sue, life with mikey...sorta...ish. and countless others.
I loved growing up with the message that what makes a family isn't always blood relation.
Thanks Natalie for another great content video!
Nice job! I also remember an episode of Facts of Life that had a backdoor pilot episode. It was about some boys military academy near Eastland that Jo's delinquent friend from the hood attended. I vaguely remember that it was about them getting ready for a mixer with Eastland and he desperately wanted to dance with Blair (didn't we all? lol) but he was a working class kid like Jo. It was so clunky and you could tell they were really trying to sell the idea because there were male analogues to the Facts cast.
As you mentioned about Angela Landsbury having some "light" workload or episodes off. In particular recall Wayne Rogers (MASH's Trapper John),& Jerry Orbach (Dirty Dancing & Law & Order's Dt Lenny Briscoe),both filled in as main protagonist for a few episodes each.
Fantastic video! Some I remember, some I don't. Fun hearing the history and the thought behind the ideas...
I'm glad Fred Dryer got his eye back for _Hunter_ and _Cheers_.
Good luck with your channel!!
I wish you much success!
As a fellow GenXer, I always appreciate the voices of our generation.
✌🏻
Was TK Carter in Good morning Miss Bliss??? Or am I just imagining that. ??
You brought back a lot of memories!
I was randomly channel surfing one day and came across this episode. It was the middle of the show so I had no idea what I was watching. It was the weirdest thing. I couldn't figure anything out and thought I had accidentally taken some drugs. When it came to an end I realized I hadn't taken drugs. Whoever put this show together did.
A cool series could be "the best product placements of the 80s" ... maybe especially ads that cannot happen in movies and on television today.
I love this idea. Going on the board!
@mysocalledgenxlife But you remember them walking around with big bags of potato chips, right? I just think it's so funny now.
I liked 227. Regina King is so beautiful!
This was an insane list. Thank you for sharing!
I remember Living Dolls. I never got a chance to see it. And how dare you refer to MacGyver as implausible? I believed in Lassie. Disbelief thoroughly suspended.
38 seconds is all it took for me to subscribe. Don't hate me if it takes another 10secs to hit the like button. PS. Your smile looks more comfortable and confident now.
8:58 HOLD UP!
14:48 Too Many Cooks vibes.
Great shows with many I missed.
For a part 2, please note Married With Children had a couple back door pilots - one went to air, one didn't.
As well, a favourite spin off as a kid no one remembers, ENOS from Dukes of Hazzard got his own show as a lawman in the big city! Most do not recall that one.
Force Seven was awesome. I thought it was a fever dream. Thank you for reminding me.
I love you and your channel!
Thank you so much!
Is there anything more 80s TV than the over the back shot of someone opening a door to reveal a guest in a sitcom? Nobody ever asked who it was or looked through a peep hole. It was always “Oh let me open the door it must be Plot Complications!”
Wings is also a spinoff of cheers.
Just heard clips from your channel on The Bonfire! Legendary status achieved! 🔥🔥🔥 Crackle. Crackle.
Just came across your page. Awesome!!! I had no idea about the Greatest American Heroine.
TK Carter was wonderful in the 80’s. He tried so hard. He ended up playing second rate characters. I don’t remember that episode.
NBC wanted Sheryl Lee Ralph as Sondra. Marla Gibbs fought for Jackee and won!
Oh I forgot Bill Maher was an actor! I remember him from Newhart as well.
Chips had another one with Jayne Kennedy and a female partner. It was bad as well.
I don't remember Maher visiting the Vermont Inn?
I do remember his part in the serio-comedy movie DC Cab (with Mr T).
TK Carter looked like he was on the verge of being a legit tv star (maybe movies). When he had the part in The Thing (1982) it looked like he may be onto something, but, even that really did not give him much to do. He had the boombox, roller skates, and eventually, looked scared because he knew they were in deep do-do because of the alien -- who's been changed -- blood test.
Oh, just remembered TK was in one of the Goldie Hawn-Chevy Chase comedies: Seems Like Old Times.
Grestvideo! You should consider doing a video on rare and oscure music acts from the 70s 80s and 90s
We missed out on 80s ninjas! Not gonna lie, probably would have eaten that up no matter how terrible it was. But then I loved Thor and Daredevil from the Hulk movies, so there ya go 🤣. Great vid, thanks for sharing.
The Remake of McGyver did the same thing with the Coltons. Pretty sure they were trying their hardest to get that series of episodes into a series of it's own.
Holy Cr@p! I remember watching that Chips Ninja fiasco when I was 10 or so. With the Ninja craze of the early 80 (which itself was a "spinoff" of the Kung Fu/Karate craze of the 60s and 70s) 10 year old me was all in. :)
Watching the clips now "shutter" not so much. I remember most of the stuff from the 80s and 90s entries. I was a little too young to remember the 70s ones. Did we really watch that much TV back then? I guess with no internet we had to do something to pass the evenings on school nights.
I hope the oral surgery went well. I have had my fair share of it myself so I totally get talking funny for a bit afterwards.
Great video- thanks for making it.
Regarding Force 7, I believe the poet R. James said it best..
"Cocaine is a hell of a drug."
That Bull Dog needs it's own show 😂
Omg... "Force Seven" -- so Hunter is a ninja with an eyepatch (ninja pirate?) who has to defeat Gimli with the help of a racist puppeteer? Yeah, bring it on... 😂
Link in the description! You can rent it on UA-cam for $1.99.
I was 10 when I watched it on 📺 back then. Thought it was the coolest thing ever ! 😂
_Cheers_ also had the short-lived spinoff _The Tortellis_. This featured Carla's ex-husband Nick Tortelli on his own show. It lasted 13 episodes. This was in 1987. Dan Hedaya played Nick. Nick was married to Loretta, who was played by Jean Kasem (wife of Casey Kasem).
Why did this fail? Nick wasn't a likeable character.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortellis
This was fun and well done 👏 good job
After all these years I'm still asking "who was Bliss Colby?" and why did she matter compared to Charlton Heston & Barbara Stanwyk. Today in pop culture 99% of the world still has no clue why Bliss Colby existed in the first place.
Never knew American greatest hero had a spin off..good vid brought some good memories
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Some intriguing tv series!
Fenster Hall probably was considered like a similar spinoff the Facts of Life, which had a large cast of girls at first, but then reduced to just four. This is usually the case because too many characters divide viewer interest and lead to weak plot lines as well as poor character development and viewer indifference You can even see this in Saved by the Bell, when it was Goodmorning Mrs. Bliss, as well as Boy Meets World where the cast was trimmed down to just a few main characters rather than the whole class.
Have you done " Booker" it was spun from 21 Jump street. Though idk if Spin off is the right word as it aired the same time as 21 jump street
I love your ideas about auto calibration. As well as other things. I'm using the Nvidia Shield TV, just to get the AI upscale technology. I'm a huge advocate of having those kinds of technologies built in to our screens to make the process of improving picture quality easier.
Out of all the backdoor pilots you talk about, Force Seven is my favorite. I think it's still on UA-cam. It was so batshit insane and racist, I couldn't stop laughing at this trainwreck.
I actually remember a couple of these! Definitely duds. On another note, my older brother had the ship wallpaper that was in Kelly’s Kids! It went so well with the dark brown paneling on the other wall 😂
When I see who you refer to as 'Mob Boss', I see the Professor from 'Sliders'. Especially when it's played by a Welsh actor also known for appearances in Indiana Jones movies. Great bookending him at the end too.
Great video! I remeber SOME of thsee
I love the Mona back door of Who’s The Boss!
Hello Natalie. I love this channel. I wanted to add that the Incredible Hulk actually had three spinoff films-Death of the Incredible Hulk was the last, but did not include a marvel character co-star.
HUGGY BEAR!!!! Hard to believe a spin off with Huggy Bear did not work. Who did not love Huggy Bear!
Impressive research on these lost backdoor has been offs not but now I have stunt Gramps and need a heartburn pill that really though. I watch all kinds of videos about lost media and what you've done here is nothing short of fantastic. Let's see what else you got.
I worked for Jamie Luner from " Just the 10 of Us " when she and Soleil Moon Frye and Mark Paul Gosselaar were making the movie " Miracle of St. Tammany " they hung out in the Pub I was bouncer for and I was a extra so the studio hired me for their personal security and that started my new career as I went to work for Millennium Studio's in Louisiana and provide security for the sets and the celebrities.
Congratulations on a successful surgery. Well done! Looks amazing.
"The Greatest American Heroine" sounds like it could be a whole other type of show in modern times...
Ah yes… the infamous back door pilots, where an episode would weirdly focus on guest characters for some reason, with the stars of the show appearing fleetingly.
I’m wondering if that Brady spin-off was pitched as a stand-alone and the creators were forced to blanket it under the Brady umbrella cause that would’ve made a pretty dope family drama series.
Speaking of pilots, have you made a video about tv movies that were pilots for potential tv series that failed? I remember seeing a tv movie with Michael York and Linda Purl that was one, the ending was so badly made that I could understand why it failed.
I recently saw the ninja episode of CHIPS on the Get channel. I had gotten home from work and fell asleep during the beginning of the CHIPS episode and thought I had accidentally changed the channel! I religiously watched CHIPS as a kid and do not remember this. I probably was one of the many who had lost interest at this point.