I remember maybe ONE of these shows, but it is a fascinating time capsule. The 90's music, the fashion, but most notably, a lot of actors and actresses that were in much bigger projects. Captain Janeway even made an appearance. Love these compilations. I miss the 90's, so much.
Instead of insulting the shows it’s pretty fun looking for and spotting actors and actresses that later became famous many years later. I did not know that Johnny Galecki had worked with Billy Connolly on a short-lived TV series. This is fascinating
The theme to the Jackie Thomas show is the embodiment of "We have Metallica at home." Also, I can usually tell what a show was like just from its opening bit, but Room For Two's has me utterly scratching my head.
The fun in these videos is seeing the names of people who were (or would become) famous in other vehicles: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Guillaume, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, S. Epatha Merkerson, Martin Mull (twice!), Linda Lavin, Patricia Heaton, Teri Garr, Seth Green, Nell Carter, Scott Baio, Polly Bergen, Tony Danza, Billy Connolly, Johnny Galecki, Leah Rimini, James Garner, Kate Mulgrew, Faye Dunaway, Robert Urich, Valerie Bertinelli, Tom Arnold...the list goes on. And that's not even counting future film director Paul Feig (twice!), Simpsons voice Dan Castellaneta, rapper Doug E. Doug and Seinfield's Newman, Wayne Knight. (And George Wyner, who was a personal favourite of mine.) Plus, a guy who was on "Baby Talk" but didn't make it into the opening credits...somebody named George Clooney.
The great actor, Lionel Barrymore from a great family acting dynasty once said, supposedly, on his death bed, "One thing harder to do than die, and that's comedy."
Joel Johnson dude, I usually don't say anything two other comments, but I was just saying this to my son! I did not watch TV from 1989 until about 1996. I was in college, running around, doing s***. And I think I missed most of everything except for a few sporting events. And no brother, I don't believe we missed much!
@@michaeldavies4871 so what are you saying? If you didn't go to college, you work fast food, but if you did go to college, you're a Barista at Starbucks? Or are you trying to tell me that a gender studies degree is a path to success?
@@1964DB There was an awful Bradys variety show in the 70s, The Brady Brides, a short lived sitcom about Jan and Marcia living together after they got married (to guys, not each other lol), and the thankfully short lived 90s comedy/drama series The Bradys.
"You Take the Kids" Production Department: "Hey, Clancy. How can we confuse the crap out of people watching the show when they see the names of the cast the easiest?" "Well, we got that one dyslexic guy in graphics with that broken keyboard and the really swivelly chair." "That's the one with the crater for the spacebar, right?"
Wow, its sad but for Pacific Station at @1:39 There are only two people left alive from the credits. One of which passed just months after the shows cancellation.
Rhythm and Blues, I remember that. And the only reason I remember it was that he said Vanilla Ice's real name. And the Bradys, I really thought it was more of a special movie miniseries.......lol. The only two I remember. Dang, see what being an adult and working does? OK, even though I never saw the show, Tom Arnold in The Jackie Thomas Show was featured on Roseanne when they went to California and they appeared (in character) in the audience of The Jackie Thomas Show. It didn't realize there had been an actual show Tom Arnold was in. And how could I miss a show that the theme song was Enter Sandman by Metallica?
I know I'm replying to a two year old comment, and you probably don't care about this anymore, but I read about The Bradys being a movie miniseries. It turns out they kinda made three made-for-TV movies by smashing two episodes together (which is how I remember seeing this and assumed they were made-for-TV movies). Ironically enough, there were only six episodes aired (and probably made since Wikipedia doesn't list any unaired episodes), so if you watch all three movies, you've seen the entire run in a little less than three hours if you remove the commercial breaks.
Hey, he just passed, respect for the dead please! Also, he made alot of money with Benson and Soap before that. He was practically retired by the time that show aired.
I was a full grown adult with regular work hours and a semi- busy life, but not crammed with activities and responsibilities. I must not have watched TV, though. I don't remember any of these. After a little more thought, I do remember watching Frasier and Law & Order!
Good lord, I remember hearing about half of these shows. What a horrible, painful time for network TV! I'm suddenly extremely grateful to have been given enough homework back in the early '90s to where I ended up avoiding these shows in exchange for getting to watch a few choice shows back then, e.g. "Flashback MTV" with Karyn Bryant (which turned into "Classic MTV" when John Norris took over as host) -- let's just say I was obsessed with the '80s as a '90s teenager.
Wow....I thought I knew every show on tv.....I was wrong. Thanks for posting. I didn't know one of them. What a stumper......You keep me informed thanks.
1. i wonder if SAG had a clause in those days that an actor that got enough screen time, had to be in the opening credits. 2. Longer opening credits mean less time for money-making commercials. 3. Actors in Hollywood> actors that get into series> actors that get into successful series> actors that get into more than one successful series. 4. Persistence pays. 5. Have a backup plan (90's Paul Feig, unsuccessful sitcom actor, 2000's Paul Feig successful writer/ director/ producer).
You would be in the opening credits if you were a member of the regular cast, that is so obvious. As to the opening credits being longer, that was the norm at the time. As to some of these people in these shows, some were up and comers, others were veterans, that's how it always will be. How do they get into these shows? Contracts, deals, stuff like that.
They took all the energy out of the original theme song--this version sounded like the intro to some lame soap opera. And Leah Ayres played Marcia, not Maureen McCormick. Glad I missed it.
I can see why most of these shows tanked based off their opening titles alone. Though there are some that I thought fell under the "Brilliant But Cancelled" category. 4:35 His & Hers 10:54 Billy 15:56 The Jackie Thomas Show
I can't speak for the first 2 shows that you mentioned, but the jackie thomas show was light years away from being brilliant. And Metallica wants their money for the rip off of Enter Sandman used in the show's intro.
wow I don't remember any of these cuz the 90's was my 20's and guess I had an actual life...I do remember Lane Davies he's a good actor always played a great heel.
I remember watch Here And Now and Where I Live. I don't know why they didn't connect this show to the Cosby show. It would have reeled in the Cosby Show and Different World fans. I actually enjoyed this show quite a bit. Where I Live came on ABC. Me and my mother hse to watch it. I remember the show having a good run, but it was a little dull
Here and Now - Seems like a spin off of Theo's backstory about working at the youth center on The Cosby Show. According to Wikip - It is often mistaken as such as it has almost that exact same plot. Wow.
As I recall, it was originally intended to be a spinoff of The Cosby Show, called "Theo's World". At some point during pre-production, they removed all connection to the Huxtables, and rewrote MJW's character to be a completely original one.
Wonder if it had to do with creation rights, as in who all would get paid from it. As in who created the character of Theo Huxtable, getting some rights off of using the character. I know that the people of MASH tried to sue for profits off of the show Trapper John MD, saying they were using their character. The show runners for Trapper John argued that they were using the version of the character from the movie (or maybe they said the book). Just speculating.
I remember Room for Two and Good & Evil. Mostly just from these credit sequences lol As well as Billy, Uncle Buck and Café American... I watched A LOT of tv as kid
i remember here and now with malcom jamal warner it must came on after cosby ended in 92, the brady's baby talk, uncle buck and the jackie thomas show is all I remember, the rest look like intro's to sitcoms on fox in the early days lol
We didn't have a lot of money in the 90s so stayed home and watched a lot of TV. I don't remember any of these shows. They must have been one episode and gone.
It Had to Be You lasted two episodes, IIRC, as did the other series that followed it, Family Album, which starred Peter Scolari. When they both tanked, CBS brought back Diagnosis: Murder to fill the slot.
My friends & I were outside living. The only one I remember is “Where I Live.” It was okay. I have to check out “Here & Now.” I love that theme song. “Tennessee” by Arrested Development.
Unlike the failed 80s sitcoms you posted, at least in these I recognize at least one of the actors in most of these sitcoms and they went on to better things lol also the intro songs are a vast improvement lol
About three of them (from 2:10-4:35) admittedly had similar-sounding theme songs, but the shows themselves were probably a lot different--BAD, but different. Regular sitcoms, as opposed to a series of short sketches.
R.I.P. Kevin Meaney. ABC attempted to revive "UNCLE BUCK" with an all-black cast in the summer of 2016- and disappeared even faster than the 1990 version.
Thanks for the memories! But I must also say - early 90s Fox dropped shows after 6 weeks?! Half of theirs were actually innovative if not decent, and all theirs were infinitely better than those titles. And who thought "The Bradys" as solely a serious show would work? *shudder*
"THE MAN IN THE FAMILY" was originally intended for Andrew "Dice" Clay......it lasted six weeks in the summer of 1991. Leah Remini later found steadier work on "THE KING OF QUEENS".
When Ray Sharkey was hired for the show, they originally called it The Ray Sharkey Show, then realized that his minimal star power from Wiseguy wasn't enough to merit that, so it became When You're Smiling. The network thought that was lame, so it became The Man in the Family.
I remember the Farrah Fawcett/Ryan O'Neal show. It wasn't on very long, but it did garner some early publicity. Everyone thought that it would be a career comeback for the pair; but the show, sadly, was trash.
The Jackie Thomas Show theme sounds suspiciously like Enter Sandman by Metallica from The Black Album that came out just a few months earlier and I don't recall Metallica ever mentioning the song being used as a sitcom theme.
Ahh, the 90's.... when the emergence of FOX and a renewed interest in first-run syndication opened the door for a lot more forgettable shows that didn't last.
I was just thinking 🤔 the same thing; along with the slew of animated shows and crappy black sitcoms (yes, I said it) and gangsta rap)--the 1990's was one long retro nightmare from 1992 onward.
I can't believe they tried to make an uncle Buck show. Without John Candy there is no uncle Buck. I turned 16 in 1990 and don't remember these. Too busy in sports and partying, I guess.
Well, I wasn't in college or drunk/stoned in the early 90s, but I was going through a divorce, so I guess that's my reason for not remembering a single one of these shows. I do recognize some names and faces, but from other work, not these programs.
I got a question about "Rhythm & Blues": did Bobby's mom ever make an appearance during the run? 'Cause if she did, I'd have a nasty feeling she'd still be mad with him for messing about with his dad's radio as a kid.
"Rhythm & Blues" had a premise that, as far as I know, has never existed on any other TV show, before or since-- A radio station (geared towards a black audience & run by/ employing only black people) hires a new D.J., sight unseen, who they believe is black. Upon his arrival, however, they discover he's actually a white guy, but he's got a pre-signed & solid contract, so they have to keep him as a D J., even though they're not (at least, initially) okay with it. Anti-white racism among blacks. Too close to what was already becoming reality. Couldn't last. Don't think there were more than 3 or 4 episodes aired.
This brings back so many great memories of watching none of these shows.
I remember maybe ONE of these shows, but it is a fascinating time capsule. The 90's music, the fashion, but most notably, a lot of actors and actresses that were in much bigger projects. Captain Janeway even made an appearance. Love these compilations. I miss the 90's, so much.
Instead of insulting the shows it’s pretty fun looking for and spotting actors and actresses that later became famous many years later. I did not know that Johnny Galecki had worked with Billy Connolly on a short-lived TV series. This is fascinating
I must have been stoned through out the 90s cause all I can remember is Beavis and butthead and Ren and Stimpy .
If I ever start to get nostalgic for the early nineties, somebody make me rewatch this and it’ll cure me
The theme to the Jackie Thomas show is the embodiment of "We have Metallica at home."
Also, I can usually tell what a show was like just from its opening bit, but Room For Two's has me utterly scratching my head.
The fun in these videos is seeing the names of people who were (or would become) famous in other vehicles: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Guillaume, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, S. Epatha Merkerson, Martin Mull (twice!), Linda Lavin, Patricia Heaton, Teri Garr, Seth Green, Nell Carter, Scott Baio, Polly Bergen, Tony Danza, Billy Connolly, Johnny Galecki, Leah Rimini, James Garner, Kate Mulgrew, Faye Dunaway, Robert Urich, Valerie Bertinelli, Tom Arnold...the list goes on.
And that's not even counting future film director Paul Feig (twice!), Simpsons voice Dan Castellaneta, rapper Doug E. Doug and Seinfield's Newman, Wayne Knight. (And George Wyner, who was a personal favourite of mine.)
Plus, a guy who was on "Baby Talk" but didn't make it into the opening credits...somebody named George Clooney.
PAul Feig sucks though and so did every show and movie he's worked on ..
Well, Rachel Phelps needed to do SOMETHING after selling the Indians to Roger Dorn :P
@@KenMabie He directed The Dinner Party episode of The Office which was great and also created Freaks and Geeks. Not everything he’s done I was awful.
Don't forget Dante Beze (alias rapper Mos Def, now Yasiin Bey) on that Nell Carter show
Plus the great character actor Richard Libertini.
“Hey kids, put on your Sunday best, we’re going to Sears.”
I wonder what seemed more strongly dated, overused, and attached to its time: late 70s disco intros or early 90s new jack swing intros
...it's like stepping into an alternate universe.
The great actor, Lionel Barrymore from a great family acting dynasty once said, supposedly, on his death bed, "One thing harder to do than die, and that's comedy."
Truth
Edmund Gwenn supposedly
said something similar
with his dying words:
"Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
It looks like I didn’t miss much while drunk in college...
Weird. I don't recall commenting on this video.
Joel Johnson dude, I usually don't say anything two other comments, but I was just saying this to my son! I did not watch TV from 1989 until about 1996. I was in college, running around, doing s***. And I think I missed most of everything except for a few sporting events. And no brother, I don't believe we missed much!
Of course, college didn't miss you either...and yes, I will have fries with that.
@@michaeldavies4871 so what are you saying? If you didn't go to college, you work fast food, but if you did go to college, you're a Barista at Starbucks? Or are you trying to tell me that a gender studies degree is a path to success?
Mst3k, twin peaks, Xfiles, GOOD Simpson’s seasons... you missed quite a bit actually.
I thought I watched a lot of TV back then, but almost all of these are new to me. With some big stars too.
Working night check (on shore duty) between Oct 90 to Nov 93, I guess I missed most of these. I'm kinda glad I missed "The Bradys"
Seems Martin Mull had a short live sitcom in every decade from seventies to 2010
But never one called Martin!
In every Brady project after the original, there as always one who didn't come back LOL.
How many of those awful specials did they do? I guess if you're typecast, you might as well milk it for all it's worth.
In both the Brady variety show and 90s "dramedy," original Marcia was the only one smart enough to refuse to participate
@@1964DB There was an awful Bradys variety show in the 70s, The Brady Brides, a short lived sitcom about Jan and Marcia living together after they got married (to guys, not each other lol), and the thankfully short lived 90s comedy/drama series The Bradys.
Not true. The 1981 TV-movie "The Brady Girls Get Married" was the first (and only) time the entire principal cast reunited for a Brady project.
Black Phoenix In the Brady variety show, it was the original Jan who did not participate. The original Marcia did appear.
"Tennessee" by Arrested Development (the group) as the theme for *Here and Now* ? Still a great song. I played that tape to death, back in the day.
It's far more than just 'ratings-starved', it's more like never-heard-of-them.
Wow! I was a kid in the 90s and thought I knew a lot of TV trivia....but I have only vaguely heard of only one or two of these shows.
"You Take the Kids" Production Department:
"Hey, Clancy. How can we confuse the crap out of people watching the show when they see the names of the cast the easiest?"
"Well, we got that one dyslexic guy in graphics with that broken keyboard and the really swivelly chair."
"That's the one with the crater for the spacebar, right?"
I remember the last show. I'm pretty sure they originally used the guitar riff from Enter Sandman before changing it. That's why I remember the show
I remember "Where I Live", because it was part of ABC's TGIF lineup. It may have been the 9:30 show before 20/20.
Not many TGIF shows at that time slot survived more than one or two seasons.
Wow, its sad but for Pacific Station at @1:39 There are only two people left alive from the credits. One of which passed just months after the shows cancellation.
Rhythm and Blues, I remember that. And the only reason I remember it was that he said Vanilla Ice's real name. And the Bradys, I really thought it was more of a special movie miniseries.......lol.
The only two I remember. Dang, see what being an adult and working does?
OK, even though I never saw the show, Tom Arnold in The Jackie Thomas Show was featured on Roseanne when they went to California and they appeared (in character) in the audience of The Jackie Thomas Show. It didn't realize there had been an actual show Tom Arnold was in.
And how could I miss a show that the theme song was Enter Sandman by Metallica?
I know I'm replying to a two year old comment, and you probably don't care about this anymore, but I read about The Bradys being a movie miniseries. It turns out they kinda made three made-for-TV movies by smashing two episodes together (which is how I remember seeing this and assumed they were made-for-TV movies). Ironically enough, there were only six episodes aired (and probably made since Wikipedia doesn't list any unaired episodes), so if you watch all three movies, you've seen the entire run in a little less than three hours if you remove the commercial breaks.
I liked Where I Live. Rare to see a Caribbean family on TV
Robert Guillaume in 'What Happened to my Career?'
Hey, he just passed, respect for the dead please! Also, he made alot of money with Benson and Soap before that. He was practically retired by the time that show aired.
He is dead? That is too bad. We used to watch Benson. It was a watchable show in the 80s
He redeemed himself in Half-Life 2.
He had a career?
+Adam W "respect for the dead please"?? This ain't a funeral home, gimme a break. And he didn't "just pass"--he died in Oct. 2017.
I was a full grown adult with regular work hours and a semi- busy life, but not crammed with activities and responsibilities. I must not have watched TV, though. I don't remember any of these.
After a little more thought, I do remember watching Frasier and Law & Order!
These were my peak school-all-day-work-all-night years. The only things I remember watching were Star Trek TNG and the NBC Thursday night comedies.
Good lord, I remember hearing about half of these shows. What a horrible, painful time for network TV! I'm suddenly extremely grateful to have been given enough homework back in the early '90s to where I ended up avoiding these shows in exchange for getting to watch a few choice shows back then, e.g. "Flashback MTV" with Karyn Bryant (which turned into "Classic MTV" when John Norris took over as host) -- let's just say I was obsessed with the '80s as a '90s teenager.
There WERE good shows on in the early 90s--they just weren't any of these. (I don't remember any of these, actually.)
'If we throw enough at the wall, one might stick!'
Wow....I thought I knew every show on tv.....I was wrong. Thanks for posting. I didn't know one of them. What a stumper......You keep me informed thanks.
2:52 Theo got the beeper inside out! 😂I love the 90s
1. i wonder if SAG had a clause in those days that an actor that got enough screen time, had to be in the opening credits. 2. Longer opening credits mean less time for money-making commercials. 3. Actors in Hollywood> actors that get into series> actors that get into successful series> actors that get into more than one successful series. 4. Persistence pays. 5. Have a backup plan (90's Paul Feig, unsuccessful sitcom actor, 2000's Paul Feig successful writer/ director/ producer).
You would be in the opening credits if you were a member of the regular cast, that is so obvious. As to the opening credits being longer, that was the norm at the time. As to some of these people in these shows, some were up and comers, others were veterans, that's how it always will be. How do they get into these shows? Contracts, deals, stuff like that.
Greg Brady has the thickest mustache I’ve ever seen in that intro.
Cafe Americain! Golly that's about it for my memory here, but fun list thank you
The Bradys intro was a beautiful sight. I wish I had caught the show- I was probably too busy in the USMC...
They took all the energy out of the original theme song--this version sounded like the intro to some lame soap opera. And Leah Ayres played Marcia, not Maureen McCormick. Glad I missed it.
Come on! Even the most hardcore Brady fan can't take any pleasure in seeing Marsha turn into a raving alcoholic!
You didn't miss shit.
FAKE MARCIA!
The Jackie Thomas Show theme - it's just Enter Sandman with a few tweaks!
That first one is so painful!
Why do all of them look like the intro to "In Living Color"?
They jumped on thay new jack swing.
Rhythm and Blues was set in Detroit. My hometown!
I never saw it heard of it, but some of the shots looked like Detroit. Too bad it looked so awful and likely was
whatupdoe?
That Farrah Fawcett was a beauty
I can see why most of these shows tanked based off their opening titles alone. Though there are some that I thought fell under the "Brilliant But Cancelled" category.
4:35 His & Hers
10:54 Billy
15:56 The Jackie Thomas Show
I can't speak for the first 2 shows that you mentioned, but the jackie thomas show was light years away from being brilliant. And Metallica wants their money for the rip off of Enter Sandman used in the show's intro.
I actually use to watch “here and now” and “this is where I live”. Lol.
wow I don't remember any of these cuz the 90's was my 20's and guess I had an actual life...I do remember Lane Davies he's a good actor always played a great heel.
Baby Talk, or That Time ABC Decided to Rip Off A Motion Picture Franchise and Frantically Hope No One Noticed.
they put it on tgif for christs sake. bad move there
They retooled it many times, too, before finally giving up on it. 2-3 different lead actresses, with about as many lead actors. It was just a mess.
George Clooney was a regular in the Julia Duffy Baby Talk episodes.
Billy - Because ABC didn't learn after "I Married Dora" that sitcoms about getting married to avoid deportation don't work
Call me crazy, but I like Baby Talk
I remember watch Here And Now and Where I Live. I don't know why they didn't connect this show to the Cosby show. It would have reeled in the Cosby Show and Different World fans. I actually enjoyed this show quite a bit.
Where I Live came on ABC. Me and my mother hse to watch it. I remember the show having a good run, but it was a little dull
Agreed
Here and Now - Seems like a spin off of Theo's backstory about working at the youth center on The Cosby Show. According to Wikip - It is often mistaken as such as it has almost that exact same plot. Wow.
As I recall, it was originally intended to be a spinoff of The Cosby Show, called "Theo's World". At some point during pre-production, they removed all connection to the Huxtables, and rewrote MJW's character to be a completely original one.
Charles Brown and John Hancock aren't real people in a TV show.
Wonder if it had to do with creation rights, as in who all would get paid from it. As in who created the character of Theo Huxtable, getting some rights off of using the character. I know that the people of MASH tried to sue for profits off of the show Trapper John MD, saying they were using their character. The show runners for Trapper John argued that they were using the version of the character from the movie (or maybe they said the book). Just speculating.
I remember Room for Two and Good & Evil. Mostly just from these credit sequences lol As well as Billy, Uncle Buck and Café American... I watched A LOT of tv as kid
The 90s loved them some Martin Mull
I was a big TV watcher, I recognized only two shows. Wow
i remember here and now with malcom jamal warner it must came on after cosby ended in 92, the brady's baby talk, uncle buck and the jackie thomas show is all
I remember, the rest look like intro's to sitcoms on fox in the early days lol
I do not recall any of these shows. Surprisingly, some of them had well known actors in them.
The Jackie Thomas Show intro sounds like Enter Sandman by Metallica.
5:28 Linda Lavin ("Alice") and Patricia Heaton ("Everybody Loves Raymond") apparently co-starred in that train wreck "Room for Two" (5:55 LOL)
We didn't have a lot of money in the 90s so stayed home and watched a lot of TV. I don't remember any of these shows. They must have been one episode and gone.
Actually a lot of these had good runs. I remember a decent amount of these
It Had to Be You lasted two episodes, IIRC, as did the other series that followed it, Family Album, which starred Peter Scolari. When they both tanked, CBS brought back Diagnosis: Murder to fill the slot.
At least some lasted a few episodes--
"Rhythm & Blues", "Good & Evil",
"The Bradys" & one not
mentioned here--"Drexell's Class".
Some of these I remember really well but most I’ve never heard of. I loved “His and Hers.”
Man I really miss these shows 😢 I wish TV would Reboot these awesome shows 😊
Good Gravy! Could you imagine playing Uncle Buck after John Candy already put his mark all over it? That show was doomed, ha ha.
I don't remember John Candy's version being all that great, either. Pretty lame either way.
Kevin Meaney was probably the lamest comic that Star Search ever produced. The show fit him perfectly, as it was just as lame.
My friends & I were outside living. The only one I remember is “Where I Live.” It was okay. I have to check out “Here & Now.” I love that theme song. “Tennessee” by Arrested Development.
Unlike the failed 80s sitcoms you posted, at least in these I recognize at least one of the actors in most of these sitcoms and they went on to better things lol also the intro songs are a vast improvement lol
Same garbage .....
True
I enjoyed the "In Living Color" ripoffs
About three of them (from 2:10-4:35) admittedly had similar-sounding theme songs, but the shows themselves were probably a lot different--BAD, but different. Regular sitcoms, as opposed to a series of short sketches.
Wow, I only remember like 3 of these. Maybe. Did anyone else notice an influx of RnB/Dance, electronic drum tinged music?
I love the "Exit: Sandman" theme music for the Tom Arnold stinker! How did they avoid a lawsuit with that one?
Paul Little um, i think u mean enter. sandman😀
R.I.P. Kevin Meaney. ABC attempted to revive "UNCLE BUCK" with an all-black cast in the summer of 2016- and disappeared even faster than the 1990 version.
Good. Hey hollywood quit it with the sjw casting.
I was ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD to it because it was Mike Epps.
9:21 There was a different actress playing the mom in the first (?) season. Julia Duffy originally played that role.
Was interesting to see where some stars started, finished or did between gigs.
It's funny, if you watch the 80s one, it's like a "before they were famous" video. The 90s one is the opposite.
Thanks for the memories!
But I must also say - early 90s Fox dropped shows after 6 weeks?! Half of theirs were actually innovative if not decent, and all theirs were infinitely better than those titles. And who thought "The Bradys" as solely a serious show would work? *shudder*
I was to busy to watch tv in the 90s thank God didnt miss much did I .
"THE MAN IN THE FAMILY" was originally intended for Andrew "Dice" Clay......it lasted six weeks in the summer of 1991. Leah Remini later found steadier work on "THE KING OF QUEENS".
"The Man In The Family" also had Don Stark, who later play Bob Pinciotti (Donna's father) on "That 70's Show", which lasted eight seasons.
"originally intended for Andrew "Dice" Clay"
It really shows with the suits and car in the intro!
I just wonder would have happened if this show had lasted into 1993, given that Ray Sharkey passed away that year.
When Ray Sharkey was hired for the show, they originally called it The Ray Sharkey Show, then realized that his minimal star power from Wiseguy wasn't enough to merit that, so it became When You're Smiling. The network thought that was lame, so it became The Man in the Family.
Leah Remini at some point around that time also did a few "fill in" episodes on "Saved by the Bell."
Wow! What a career!
I remember the Farrah Fawcett/Ryan O'Neal show. It wasn't on very long, but it did garner some early publicity. Everyone thought that it would be a career comeback for the pair; but the show, sadly, was trash.
More so for Ryan. I think Farrah was still riding high back then. The last time for her.
Well, the intro (shown here) was trash. Wouldn't have expected much of the show.
Seems like it was basically "Moonlighting".
I remember Here and Now damn nostalgia 😊
Martin mull gets work, and like Paul Rudd he will always look exactly the same
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Jackie Thomas Show theme sounds suspiciously like Enter Sandman by Metallica from The Black Album that came out just a few months earlier and I don't recall Metallica ever mentioning the song being used as a sitcom theme.
SO MANY billed as "the triumphant return to TV of ___________ !" (fill in the blank).
I never knew the Brady's had a comeback show
Didn't last long.
I remember one of these shows from when I was a baby in Brooklyn...
Even though, I recognize a lot of the actors. I never seen, or even heard of any of these shows. Where was I in the 90s? Was tv that bad?
Yes, it was
I was too busy working and going to college. I don’t think I saw any of these.
Most of these shows must have been during my college years.....I don't remember those years too well.
Oof! You know your show will be short lived when Arrested Development is your opening theme.
How many Brady Bunch spinoffs/reboots did we really need?
Makes wonder where I was. I don't recall any of these. Well, I do remember the Brady's.
Ahh, the 90's.... when the emergence of FOX and a renewed interest in first-run syndication opened the door for a lot more forgettable shows that didn't last.
Many of these were "filler" shows wedged in between Fox hits of the '90's.
I was just thinking 🤔 the same thing; along with the slew of animated shows and crappy black sitcoms (yes, I said it) and gangsta rap)--the 1990's was one long retro nightmare from 1992 onward.
throughout the simpsons is the sole survivor
These make me sad.
I can't believe they tried to make an uncle Buck show. Without John Candy there is no uncle Buck. I turned 16 in 1990 and don't remember these. Too busy in sports and partying, I guess.
RIP Kevin Meaney
Wait, he's dead???!! That's not right!!
All these rap intros mean the shows cool
If you have an unhealthy obsession with Paul Reubens, you have 2:43.
Well, I wasn't in college or drunk/stoned in the early 90s, but I was going through a divorce, so I guess that's my reason for not remembering a single one of these shows. I do recognize some names and faces, but from other work, not these programs.
And these shows are the reason why Because and Butthead were a huge hit.
Holy crap.... Uncle Buck was doomed from the first second... wth were they thinking???
Sad Nell Carter never achieved any post-GAB success on sitcoms.
Rhythm & Blues must be the most "early 90's" show intro of all times. sooooooooooo ugly and garish
It was like a Bobby Brown video XD
It's the show I remember most out of all of these, and of the few I've seen, probably the only one I liked.
That premiered the same season as Martin, which was also set in a radio station at the beginning of that minstrel show's run.
Sibs was worse
I got a question about "Rhythm & Blues": did Bobby's mom ever make an appearance during the run? 'Cause if she did, I'd have a nasty feeling she'd still be mad with him for messing about with his dad's radio as a kid.
+Ian Sherman It's funny, that's Anna Maria Horsford doing the voice of Bobby's mom in the intro!
"Rhythm & Blues" had a premise
that, as far as I know, has never
existed on any other TV show,
before or since--
A radio station (geared towards
a black audience & run by/
employing only black people)
hires a new D.J., sight unseen,
who they believe is black.
Upon his arrival, however,
they discover he's actually
a white guy, but he's got a pre-signed
& solid contract, so they have to
keep him as a D J.,
even though they're not
(at least, initially) okay with it.
Anti-white racism among blacks.
Too close to what was already
becoming reality. Couldn't last.
Don't think there were more
than 3 or 4 episodes aired.
It's amazing how many of these are just random shots of people doing things that don't tell you anything about the premise.
Shes the best gynecologist in the city. Hes a deep sea diver. Together they are in the new new NBC drama..DOWN BELOW.. BE THERE!!
Lol!
That first "intro" (Good Sports)--they had Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett to work with, and that was the best they could come up with?
Ryan O'Neal looks absolutely ridiculous. That intro would have kept me from even watching .
Aw man, I loved Where I Live and Doug E Doug
Wow, I barely remember any of them! They must had not lasted a whole season. I was in my teens then.
They should do a network channel full of shows like this.
Sitcom Sanctuary--
an attempt at that idea.
A very early feature
of Comedy Central,
back in the early '90s,
rerunning short-lived
shows from the '80s.
@@laustcawz2089Wow. Thanks.
'The Bradys' needs to be in the drama category, despite its lineage!
Well it was supposed to be a dramedy!
More like a tragedy (humor-wise), LOL