The History and Origins of TGIF | Family Friendly Television | Bring Back the 90's
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- The History and Origins of TGIF | Family Friendly Television | Bring Back the 90's
In the 90's, there was 1 night of the week that everyone looked forward to, Friday nights, when we'd gather around the tv, order dinner from a restaurant and watch TGIF. Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, Step by Step, Boy Meets World, Sister Sister, Growing Pains, Dinosaurs, and more were apart of ABC's TGIF line up and part of the Walt Disney television family.
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Hollow Screams: Day of the Dolls
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Mike is stuck at his grandparents' house for a week during Summer Vacation.
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Hollow Screams: Ghost House
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Jake just moved into a creepy old house when his dad got a job replacing the old principal of his new school. Shortly before school begins, Jake makes a few new friends who reveal his house is haunted and the old principal used to live there, before leaving in the middle of the night - NEVER TO BE HEARD FROM AGAIN!
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ABC's TGIF block (1989-2000) began to die in the fall of 1997: stemming from a combination of aging sitcoms like Family Matters and Step by Step moving to CBS (who started - and ended - their own family-friendly Friday night sitcom line-up in 1997-98 called "The Block Party"), the oversaturation of supernatural/magic type shows (Sabrina the Teenage Witch and new series You Wish and Teen Angel, the latter of which both lasted only one season), the failure of Two of a Kind (which was the last sitcom produced by the previously reliable Miller-Boyett group) starring the Olsen twins the following year. Ultimately, the ending of Boy Meets World after seven seasons and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch moving to The WB after the 1999-2000 season.
ABC would bring back the TGIF brand for the 2003-05 & 2018-19 seasons, but it never met the same success it had before.
Back when the Networks actually cared about Family friendly programming!
Did they?
It was good times.
It was a family night before Disney bought it. TGIF began its branding on 1989. Disney bought it around 94 or 95.
If you watch the video, I said that TGIF began in 89
Disney brought ABC in 1995, made public in June 1996.
My sister and I loved watching the TGIF lineup! I don't know how much of it our dad watched, since he was always working, but our mom used to watch it with us. I'm surprised you didn't mention Dinosaurs, except for showing some images of it. It was created by Brian Henson, featuring characters from Jim Henson's Creature Shop, after Jim had passed away, in 1989. Dinosaurs had appealed to a wide audience, not just children. The fun characters were for the kids, but much of the source material was aimed at the adults, whether it was Carl's "Mating Dance," or the sexual harassment episode, where Fran's friend sues a co-worker, for his unwanted advances. The show ran from April 26, 1991, to November 10, 1995 (I had to look it up). The final episode, which had found the Sinclair family in the middle of the Ice Age, I believe was meant to be a commentary on climate change.
Most of the shows dealt with serious issues, as you had mentioned, that were often relevant to the 90s. I'm happy to hear that people today are still watching, even if the format has changed, from television to streaming. However, not all of them were successful (anyone remember Aliens in the Family?). But they will always hold a special place in our hearts.
Perfect Strangers is actually hilarious.
A lot of plots only work in a pre cell phone world. lol
So I’m a way your whole family has seen me on tv cause I was a background extra on Sabrina for two seasons.
You were my family's favorite background character extra of all time! We didn't even call it Sabrina. We'd say "is that show with sejojo in the background on?". You did an incredible job!!
This video randomly popped up in my feed and I liked it a lot. Id definitely watch more videos about 90s stuff like this.
Growing pains never aired on TGIF. Maybe briefly during summer reruns
It actually did ... kinda... the pilot of Hangin with Mr. Cooper and the preseeding bumper for it... in the Bumper, Alan Thick as Jason Seever appears to welcome Mark Cooper to the neighborhood and tells him, he and his family used to live in the house that Hangin with Mr. Cooper's pilot took place in. The Seavers also hosted TGIF on a couple of occasions. And its spin-off Just the 10 of Us was part of tgif during the 88/89 season.
@@ComicgeddonTV well here’s the thing, mr cooper first aired on Tuesday nights so that pilot episode didn’t even air on Friday
You forget about reruns... The pilot episode did air in reruns on TGIF, not just in the Summer, but also during the broadcast season.
Even 25 years later as a grown ass man the goodbye scene from Boy Meets World makes me cry like a baby.
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