I'm having a great time with these. I've spent my entire weekend stoned off my ass drowning in 80's garbage watching all of these uploads on this dudes channel. I love it!
@@djpetenice i started watching the John Larroquete show becuase of this video,,, oh boy, that show was good,, just watched the episode 11 from season 1, where they namedrop Thomas Pynchon,, cheers
Yeah now but back then this was quality lol. When cable tv came along we thought we transcended into new heights but didn't know what was next in video quality
It's amazing how many well known actors had forgettable shows that failed. It just goes to show how many things have to come together (cast, writers, premise, time slot, etc...) to create a successful show.
The network executives really goofed up big time across all four networks in 1993. Only a third of the new shows saw a second season. The competition from the already established shows were obviously intense. "The Cosby Show" was still on, but in decline, while "Rosanne," "Married with Children," "The Simpsons," "Fresh Prince," and the "TGIF Line up" were all at their peak. Only "Frasier" can claim to be a successful show in this year.
The X-Files looks so out of place among these intros. It's clear why it was such a turning point. It's like with one intro everyone realized that TV didn't have to suck or be about families.
A lot of these shows I really remember. Frasier, X-files, Grace under fire, Seaquest, Lois and Clark, NYPD Blue, Boy Meets World. In the era before streaming services, we had some pretty good television. A lot of these I've never heard of....
I live in the UK and I think those are the only ones of this lot which made it across the Atlantic. I wonder which were the other four that got a second series.
It was awesome. Before I ever saw any of the Evil Dead films, this is where I knew Bruce Campbell from - and it was a show my dad enjoyed watching with me as well back then, which gives me warm fuzzies to this day.
Anything with Bruce Campbell is awesome! He's one of my favorite actor's too bad Brisco County didn't last very long either did the Ash Vrs Evil Dead loved that show too!
screwed by the Network to a degree... and ultimately Larroquette went from Night Court to this without missing a Season... I imagine 'Mood Whiplash' hit some fans pretty hard expecting 'Dan Fielding gets a new job" and getting a whole other animal
“Frasier” will forever be a legendary institution. More than a show. Highly rated and accoladed, and one of my favorites forever.❣️😅 I heard rumors of a reboot, but I will dearly miss John Mahoney. 💜
Only a third of the new shows from this year went on to a second season, and a majority of those second seasons didn't see a fourth. "Frasier" was by far the most successful show in its class debut.
Alex Barnes They are being sarcastic, sweet Alex. The context of the replies should especially clue you in to that. You are right that this awesome show lasted 11 seasons (only truly shutting down bc of David and Lynn Angell’s tragic 9-11 deaths, which is why the baby of Daphne and Niles was named “David”, though they were originally written to deliver a baby girl). Please see the comment just above/prior to yours. 💜
One thing you have to admit, there were a lot of bad shows in the 80s and 90s but a lot of them had some inventive, great opening credits. No one really does that anymore.
The actual reason they don’t do long intros now is not because people skip them, it’s because of run time, and more and more commercials. Shows get if lucky 22 min to run now. If you waste a min you get less. I wish all shows still had opening songs! I think Family guy does what they do specifically to prove that point.
Just because they weren't popular or didn't last as long as The Simpsons doesn't mean they were bad. A show on ABC at 8:30pm Tuesdays would run against a show at 8:30pm Tuesdays on NBC, CBS, FOX, MTV, Comedy Central, TBS, any of the 1000s of TV/Cable networks. Sometimes a mega-popular show runs at the same time as any of these other shows. I will agree you can't find many great TV show openings anymore. Magic keeps dying :-(
I definitely followed John Larroquette and Harry Anderson to their new shows...sad that they were both gone, unceremoniously, by 1997...I was addicted to SeaQuest but knew Roy Scheider wasn't gonna stay underwater too long.
@@schmootheonly I feel like I wasted my youth on an education that hasn't done much for me. Probably should have spent less time watching TV in the mid 90's
@@ktoth29 that's the reality for a lot of us that came of age during the great recession, I'm only just getting a taste of success nowadays out of sheer work. The way it seemed in the 90s, we were supposed to have all the opportunities and time to goof off that our parents had.. Thats what we were taught anyway.
I've always thought "Phenom" was an incredibly underrated show. It should've lasted longer than the single season it was given. Amazingly, some of the episodes have been posted on UA-cam, so at least it lives on in some fashion.
I agree, Winter Steele! "Phenom" was indeed promising; despite tying for 27th place--along with "Evening Shade" and "Rescue 911--for the 1993-94 season and maintaining the viewing audience from its robust lead-in on Tuesday nights, the oh-so-adorable family sitcom "Full House" (which ranked 16th), "Phenom" was unfortunately canceled by ABC after only one season (22 episodes were produced). I'll have to check out an episode of "Phenom" someday, if the uploaded episodes haven't been removed from UA-cam, that is (due to copyright claims). And the theme song (performed by Carly "You're So Vein" Simon) is a true gem!
@@demetriusdillard2863 okay. I just posted that it was in the top 20 in EW, but they must have had top 30 weekly ratings. I enjoyed the show and really thought William Devane was good.
I watched a little bit of the pilot just now and I'll take it over most of the crap on today. At least the boys are being boys and the girls are being girls.
13:17 I remember "South of Sunset" vividly. At the time my family had just moved to Detroit after we had lived in Georgia during most of my childhood. I was super hyped for that show because it was released exactly on my birthday, October 27. Then it was gone immediately afterward. Hahaha. One show. RIP, Glenn Frey.
channels like this makes me think of my childhood. every sunday, I would risk getting yelled at because I would ruin the Sunday paper to get the tv guide. I could here my grandma yelling at me now "what happened to the damn paper!? (me: I accidentally ripped the paper cause I was trying...) her: walk down to the store and get me another paper... thank you baby" after yelling at me about the metro section lol. I miss her.
Was about to say that 30 some shows, it would be really hard to break through to get a second season from all the competition, but through all the crap that had to be waded through (George Foreman in a show? Really?), ABC had a hit with Boy Meets World, and hit the jackpot with NYPD Blue, and did FOX ever hit it with X Files. People were ready for a show that pushed the boundaries of what you could get away with on a TV show, and the paranormal was becoming a big deal around that time, so the timing was right. Not so right for "Missing Persons". That PARTICULAR show didn't last, but they needed to wait some years before the concept of finding missing people became a big deal, as they tried again with the concept and got a hit out of Without A Trace. Wonder if the producers behind Trace ever got any inspiration from Missing Persons.
My first sex dream ever was Brett Butler because of that show. If you think that's bad my second sex dream ever was Rhea Perlman. I'm glad I almost never have sex dreams.
I was a kid during this, and only remember about 20% of these - but what sticks with me the most is the x-files theme song - it used to give me serious nightmares as a 6-7 year old
I used to watch Thea. The show gave us Brandy before she became an R & B superstar. Yvette Wilson starred on The Parkers. Jason Weaver played young Michael in The Jacksons: An American Dream.
I watched: Frasier, The Nanny, Grace Under Fire, Hearts of the West, Bristol County, Lois & Clark, SeaQuest DSV, The X-Files, Boy Meets World, NYPD Blue. I don't remember NBC Friday Night Mystery.
@@pbcoop62 Yes. He would do a show and after a season or so it would get cancelled then that fall he would come back with another to replace it. Hollywood refused to give up on him, but other than Vegas and Spenser For Hire, they were all one season wonders.
It's kind of neat to see this montage of 90's (I was a child from 90-93, and a teenager onward) I chuckled every time I saw a show that I remembered as it lasted long enough to engrain in my memory and was frankly horrified by much of the rest, agreeing with the vast majority of other commenters that speculated a lot of cocaine must of been a flowin' in order to get those dumpster fires green lit. And Paula Poundstone. Yikes! I recall seeing her on either Showtime or HBO (one of the comedy hours) and thinking back then that she was moderately funny for being such a kook, but seeing her in her show's intro had all my stranger danger alarms going off in my head!
I used to know this woman who would cosplay as Paula poundstone when she went to comedy shows...we had the same taste in comedy and we'd run into each other at the regional club where the big names would stop at. She lived in my town and was a nurse at the hospital...lovely lady just kooky
Paula Poundstone had the worst theme song ever created. "So you're home on a Saturday night, don't you have a social life?- no" I'm not watching anything with that intro.
This must have been when the networks started pushing the myth of the single mother working hard and getting it done while having time for her friends and a love life.
Renee Taylor had a great year in 93. She not only played Fran’s mother on The Nanny , but she had an ongoing role ( which clearly didn’t go on for long) on Daddy Dearest ( 4.57). That is a show I never heard about until now.
a fine mix of "I remember that!" and "I dont remember that at all".... of long running classics and forgotten favorites..... of shows that were too good to last and shows that I cannot believe got greenlit
I remember the Paula Poundstone show because Joel Hodgson was supposed to be a 'consultant' on the show and he had just left Mystery Science Theater 3000. This clip is all I remember from the show. Glen Frey and a pre-madTV Aries Spears. Who would of imagined it? Don't remember that one. I never saw a bunch of these. Come on, who would watch a spin-off from Cheers? :)
So this is the beginning of my 90's sci-fi hit. Seaquest DSV and The X Files. Added to TNG and then the following year with DS9 and it was the golden period of sci-fi television. Oh and I forgot Sliders just around the corner.
Two of the greatest shows of all time; a couple of decent ones that were around for a few years; a ton of I-don't-even-remember-these-being-on (and '93 wasn't *that* long ago, relative to some of your other compilations)!
Thanks Algorithm for this mildly interesting video. I remember this vaguely from the time. As a kid I would get confused that shows would appear and then disappear. Interestingly enough, Netflix is doing about the same now.
Wow 1993, the year of my first born . As she was extremely colicky I spent a lot of time round the clock comforting her . Spent a lot of time watching tv too, these shows I totally forgot about . Thx for the memories
After "Perfect Strangers" his career was essentially kaput! I guess that 1993 show was one they were hoping would build on his success from the former.
This video was uploaded 2 years ago, but most of these comments are from the past few days. Guess the UA-cam algorithm struck all of our feeds.
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I'm having a great time with these. I've spent my entire weekend stoned off my ass drowning in 80's garbage watching all of these uploads on this dudes channel. I love it!
@@djpetenice i started watching the John Larroquete show becuase of this video,,, oh boy, that show was good,, just watched the episode 11 from season 1, where they namedrop Thomas Pynchon,, cheers
Michael Biscay Yep
I still watch the Mommies non-stop on a continuous loop. I'm typing this from hell.
Hahahaha 😆
Hilarious.
How'd you get inside The White House?? *Pa da tish* ( drum sound after a joke), Haha!!
@@sammylane21 that's called a rimshot
Haha!
That's one of the few shows from this time that I heard of.
I remember everyone thinking X-Files was going to be some Twin Peaks knockoff. Boy were they wrong.
Diskoboy1974 , David Duchovny was in Twin Peaks too
@@juanc1328 yes, as a trans woman!
funnily, they were planning on mixing the cases into "supernatural reason/natural reason/hoax" and change it up so people could guess.
When the x files came out, no one knew what to make of it. Some shows here gave phenomenal memories.
@@charles1203
I want to believe...
The 90's were so blurry.
Thats because everyone was trippin on acid man
Great comment
Yeah now but back then this was quality lol. When cable tv came along we thought we transcended into new heights but didn't know what was next in video quality
It's amazing how many well known actors had forgettable shows that failed. It just goes to show how many things have to come together (cast, writers, premise, time slot, etc...) to create a successful show.
The network executives really goofed up big time across all four networks in 1993. Only a third of the new shows saw a second season. The competition from the already established shows were obviously intense. "The Cosby Show" was still on, but in decline, while "Rosanne," "Married with Children," "The Simpsons," "Fresh Prince," and the "TGIF Line up" were all at their peak. Only "Frasier" can claim to be a successful show in this year.
@@keldonmcfarland2969 Uh... X-Files? Boy Meets World? Lois and Clark? Even Grace Under Fire and SeaQuest were somewhat successful.
@@keldonmcfarland2969 The Cosby Show ended in 1992. Do you mean reruns?
@@keldonmcfarland2969 not very correct at all
StonyJoe Somewhat.
"The Mommies" (starting at 6:01) had one of the most cursed TV theme songs of all time
The John Larroquette show was amazing, especially its first season
The X-Files looks so out of place among these intros. It's clear why it was such a turning point. It's like with one intro everyone realized that TV didn't have to suck or be about families.
Or lawyers, or hospitals, or cops (although Mulder and Scully were technically FBI agents, but it sure wasn’t a normal FBI or cop show).
The Nanny was pretty good. Thanks for bringing me back in time! 😉
No it wasn't
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e stfu
I just wonder if they had to change the out on her Fanny line if the Nanny aired in the UK. It would have a completely different meaning. 😄
I always hated the Nanny. Fran the Nanny was very annoying.
Annoyingly successful
Aww...RIP Jonathan Brandis :(
A lot of these shows I really remember. Frasier, X-files, Grace under fire, Seaquest, Lois and Clark, NYPD Blue, Boy Meets World. In the era before streaming services, we had some pretty good television. A lot of these I've never heard of....
I live in the UK and I think those are the only ones of this lot which made it across the Atlantic. I wonder which were the other four that got a second series.
I forgot about Brisco County Jr. good show.
agreed great series but screwed up in later episodes
Brisco County Jr. had tons of unexplored potential. insanely included SciFi elements which really intrigued me! I miss that one.
Hell yeah. Good TV on a Saturday morning. They tried real hard to resurrect the classic western melodrama but they just couldn't quite pull it off.
The black guy on it was Sho Nuff from the Last Dragon
It was awesome. Before I ever saw any of the Evil Dead films, this is where I knew Bruce Campbell from - and it was a show my dad enjoyed watching with me as well back then, which gives me warm fuzzies to this day.
Anything with Bruce Campbell is awesome! He's one of my favorite actor's too bad Brisco County didn't last very long either did the Ash Vrs Evil Dead loved that show too!
At least he had one successful show ie Burn Notice. He was great as Sam Axe.
Did you ever watch Jack Of All Trades?
I really liked Bruce Campbell's character on the show Xena Warrior Princess.
I remember almost every last one of these shows AND the promos for them. So much for having my own television at age twelve.
The John larroquette show was pretty good from what I remember.
THey had to revamp the premise, which was common in the 89s for some reason, but yes, it was pretty good.
It was okay. It was depressing, he played a recovering alcoholic managing a bus depot in ST. Louis, MO. He was so excellent on NIGHT COURT, albeit.
The first season was perfect... People were just not ready for it.
screwed by the Network to a degree... and ultimately Larroquette went from Night Court to this without missing a Season... I imagine 'Mood Whiplash' hit some fans pretty hard expecting 'Dan Fielding gets a new job" and getting a whole other animal
It was
Omg. I used to watch Thea as a kid, completely forgot.
“Frasier” will forever be a legendary institution. More than a show. Highly rated and accoladed, and one of my favorites forever.❣️😅
I heard rumors of a reboot, but I will dearly miss John Mahoney. 💜
Only a third of the new shows from this year went on to a second season, and a majority of those second seasons didn't see a fourth. "Frasier" was by far the most successful show in its class debut.
And yet what a hackey bit of lame exposition it started with
That part in the video did not made me want to watch the rest...
Curt Christensen I assume you meant “Ros,” not “Rod,” and that guy was not a boy. So dramatic, like she banged a minor or something.
I concur! As a child, I had no business watching this show, but it certainly was a great one. ❤
Its like watching a sports draft from back in the day.
Anybody remember Sam Bowie?
A lot of busts..
@@meadster308 nope . What’s that?
@@TheNumbasign2 He was the #2 NBA draft pick in 1984, Hakeem Olajuwon was #1 and Michael Jordan was #3.
@@meadster308 nah not really
That 'Frasier' show will never make it. Spinoffs always suck
Yeah your right, it probably won't even get past its pilot episode
Just like Laverne and Shirley Mork and Mindy, andcThe Jefferson's.
@Chris Terry It would run for 11 years. What does that tell you people?
Alex Barnes
They are being sarcastic, sweet Alex. The context of the replies should especially clue you in to that.
You are right that this awesome show lasted 11 seasons (only truly shutting down bc of David and Lynn Angell’s tragic 9-11 deaths, which is why the baby of Daphne and Niles was named “David”, though they were originally written to deliver a baby girl). Please see the comment just above/prior to yours. 💜
I loved Frasier until it became the Niles and Daphne show
I think the theme song to The Mommies is what you hear on the elevator ride to hell.
To this day I will never understand the Mommies craze. TV shows, comedy tours, etc. Just don't get it.
Sir Anthony I could just picture people changing the channel about 10 seconds into the intro.
Chris Hype You're bring very optimistic assuming there's an elevator.
Chris Hype what’s the time stamp?🤣
@Val Venus Pasadena PD will be render security ; remember the hot zone ....
One thing you have to admit, there were a lot of bad shows in the 80s and 90s but a lot of them had some inventive, great opening credits. No one really does that anymore.
VALENTINEproductions possibly because most people just press skip intro! Why waste money on something no one is actually going to see?!
The actual reason they don’t do long intros now is not because people skip them, it’s because of run time, and more and more commercials. Shows get if lucky 22 min to run now. If you waste a min you get less. I wish all shows still had opening songs! I think Family guy does what they do specifically to prove that point.
@@AKayfabe Exactly
Just because they weren't popular or didn't last as long as The Simpsons doesn't mean they were bad. A show on ABC at 8:30pm Tuesdays would run against a show at 8:30pm Tuesdays on NBC, CBS, FOX, MTV, Comedy Central, TBS, any of the 1000s of TV/Cable networks. Sometimes a mega-popular show runs at the same time as any of these other shows.
I will agree you can't find many great TV show openings anymore. Magic keeps dying :-(
I definitely followed John Larroquette and Harry Anderson to their new shows...sad that they were both gone, unceremoniously, by 1997...I was addicted to SeaQuest but knew Roy Scheider wasn't gonna stay underwater too long.
@@JaxFPrime81 Trying to change it into a military show didn't help either.
@@Poizenne Star Trek was changed from space exploration into a military show with them being at war with the Romulans, Klingons, and Borg.
@@hydrolito True.
I wish I had watched Brisco County. At the time I thought it was a generic Western. It actually looks really creative and entertaining.
R.D. Dragon
My parents were very into a disco County Jr. Usually Dad doesn’t watch anything first run... he waits to see if it makes syndication
R.D. Dragon It was... I remember it was on Fridays right before The X-Files.
CBS looked really stupid canceling major dad to make room for shows like the trouble with Larry
Fun fact: Both Bruce Campbell and Dean Cain have hosted "Ripley's Believe It or Not".
Huh, I’ve never seen the show hosted by Campbell. I think I would have enjoyed it more.
I didn't know that! That's cool! 😊 😎 Jack Palance hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not in the 1980s.
The Paula Poundstone opening looks like it's trying for a It's Garry Shandling's Show vibe.
It was pretty much a rip off of the dar superior Gary Shandling Show. Paula Poundstone is one weird person.
@@119Agent She's not that bad, but on like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, not a network show
@@ParsnipPizza yeah I like her, but definitely in that context
@@ParsnipPizza she is a great standup.
She talks like she's got a mouthful of marbles
I remember when most of these shows were brand new... I guess I'm getting old
Me too! I was 18 when these came out!
@@feleciagrasty3880 I was 10
@@ktoth29 I was 9 and yeah where does the time go honestly
@@schmootheonly I feel like I wasted my youth on an education that hasn't done much for me. Probably should have spent less time watching TV in the mid 90's
@@ktoth29 that's the reality for a lot of us that came of age during the great recession, I'm only just getting a taste of success nowadays out of sheer work. The way it seemed in the 90s, we were supposed to have all the opportunities and time to goof off that our parents had.. Thats what we were taught anyway.
SeaQuest - Lets do Star Trek but underwater.
All that I can remember of this show was that the first half of season 1 was ok, but the second half of season 1 and season 2 got very weird.
I've always thought "Phenom" was an incredibly underrated show. It should've lasted longer than the single season it was given. Amazingly, some of the episodes have been posted on UA-cam, so at least it lives on in some fashion.
I agree, Winter Steele! "Phenom" was indeed promising; despite tying for 27th place--along with "Evening Shade" and "Rescue 911--for the 1993-94 season and maintaining the viewing audience from its robust lead-in on Tuesday nights, the oh-so-adorable family sitcom "Full House" (which ranked 16th), "Phenom" was unfortunately canceled by ABC after only one season (22 episodes were produced). I'll have to check out an episode of "Phenom" someday, if the uploaded episodes haven't been removed from UA-cam, that is (due to copyright claims). And the theme song (performed by Carly "You're So Vein" Simon) is a true gem!
@@demetriusdillard2863 okay. I just posted that it was in the top 20 in EW, but they must have had top 30 weekly ratings. I enjoyed the show and really thought William Devane was good.
Yeah, and it had great theme song. It's sung by Carly Simon.
It was to simular to Whos the Boss and came way to close to the WTB series finale. They were trying to hard.
@@adamhanscom6804 I think it had similar qualities, but it could have expanded.
I forgot how intense NYPD Blues opening music was. Jesus. Felt like I witness my whole life in NYC just in those credits.
I love the Chinese dragon scene.
My late mother adored nypd blue and never missed an episode. She wrote a letter to rte giving out about it's MI's scheduling
Mark Daly lol
The show itself was intense.
I have been watching your videos all day
Who would sit through 30 minutes of the Paula poundstone show
That Mommies opening plays like a Tim and Eric bit
That Ben Affleck kid from Against the Grain isn't going anywhere
Just like Danny Masterson
He had his chance.
@@jrlomy2k He's won two Academy Awards. Gotta count for something.
God I loved Brisco County Jr... which opened for the X-files... best 2 hours of television back in 93
Whatever the hell "Paula Poundstone" was on in 93', I want some.
She was awful. She looked and sounded like a Bell's Palsy victim
@@jerseytomato100 bruh I had that even i was like 15 lmao
Still love Grace Under Fire!
Oh how I miss the 90s, being a 90s kid was the best. RIP 90s 😢
Being a 90s teen on the other hand, not so great. Trust me.
I was a 90s kid and a 90s teen and it was amazing. The last great decade.
Ray Ceeya
Yeah being a teen living in the city in the 90’s wasn’t the best of times.
Really glad we had cable😀
TV is a million times better now. Serialized drama >>>> sitcoms.
90s weren't that great
This channel has some serious historical importance. I'm so glad it popped up on my feed.
SBTB college years gives me so many feels of nostalgia. I was the perfect age for that show.
VALENTINEproductions The college year!!
So interesting to see what shows become beloved classics and some that we forgot even existed. Very nostalgic.
The Trouble with Larry is that's Balki!
RyanChamberlainProductions yes
I was excited when it first aired.
Then after 5 minutes of watching turned the channel, never to watch any episode.
Only now instead of a lovable foreigner, he's an insufferable asshole!
Bronson Pinchot.
Of course it is Dont be ridiculous
The intro to Mommies was the most 90s thing I’ve ever seen lol also the most annoying intro ever
🤣🤣 you're absolutely right!
Practically the same title sequence from Saved By the Bell.
I watched a little bit of the pilot just now and I'll take it over most of the crap on today. At least the boys are being boys and the girls are being girls.
I know, it has one of the cheesiest openings and more so then BOY MEETS WORLD season 1, haha!!
@@sammylane21Boy meets world intro was awesome gtfo!
Dang frasier, Lois and Clark, and the X-Files came out in 93. That’s crazy. I was 7
13:17 I remember "South of Sunset" vividly. At the time my family had just moved to Detroit after we had lived in Georgia during most of my childhood.
I was super hyped for that show because it was released exactly on my birthday, October 27. Then it was gone immediately afterward. Hahaha. One show.
RIP, Glenn Frey.
"The Mommies" has to be the most annoying theme song ever! I've never heard of it before, and I wish it could've stayed that way.
I'd heard of the show, but hadn't heard the theme song until this clip. Oy I wish I still hadn't heard it.
I got hooked on the "X Files" Gilian Anderson was cute.
channels like this makes me think of my childhood. every sunday, I would risk getting yelled at because I would ruin the Sunday paper to get the tv guide. I could here my grandma yelling at me now "what happened to the damn paper!? (me: I accidentally ripped the paper cause I was trying...) her: walk down to the store and get me another paper... thank you baby" after yelling at me about the metro section lol. I miss her.
I loved SeaQuest! Although I only watched it for Jonathan Brandis. (RIP)
I wonder if Roy Scheider's character had to deal with sharks.
@@sha11235 At least he finally got that bigger boat.
I always thought Bakersfield P.D was a beer commercial when it first started
ginger suicide Gus Fringe got the same Volvo from Breaking Bad
Some iconic ones in there (X-Files, Frasier, etc) some 'oh I remember that one (Grace under fire, etc) and plenty of... that was really a show?
Grace under fire I like to watch..that brett butler was on Charlie sheen's show angry management tv show for three seasons.
Was about to say that 30 some shows, it would be really hard to break through to get a second season from all the competition, but through all the crap that had to be waded through (George Foreman in a show? Really?), ABC had a hit with Boy Meets World, and hit the jackpot with NYPD Blue, and did FOX ever hit it with X Files. People were ready for a show that pushed the boundaries of what you could get away with on a TV show, and the paranormal was becoming a big deal around that time, so the timing was right.
Not so right for "Missing Persons". That PARTICULAR show didn't last, but they needed to wait some years before the concept of finding missing people became a big deal, as they tried again with the concept and got a hit out of Without A Trace. Wonder if the producers behind Trace ever got any inspiration from Missing Persons.
That’s how it goes...and what makes this compilation interesting...as you say, iconic next to wtf? 😂
My first sex dream ever was Brett Butler because of that show.
If you think that's bad my second sex dream ever was Rhea Perlman.
I'm glad I almost never have sex dreams.
NYPD Blue, Frasier and the X-Files were the most enduring and high quality of the lot...
All of these still beat the fake "reality" shows now days...
BIlly Ray - Reality shows blow, but Tv is a million times better today. Especially on Netflix/HBO
The X-Files and Frasier alone made this season a massive success (for young me anyway).
It’s amazing that Brandy and Ray J both had their TV debut at the same time.
I was a kid during this, and only remember about 20% of these - but what sticks with me the most is the x-files theme song - it used to give me serious nightmares as a 6-7 year old
“Brisco County Jr” is one of the greatest shows of all time. R.I.P Brisco
I really liked it to. I had a huge crush on the blonde bargirl and her fishnet stockings in the pilot episode.
Still one my favorite tv shows. I had a crush on Bruce Campbell
Such a fun show, a rare adventure show the family can enjoy. It wasn’t perfect but should have been given another year to smooth out the rough edges.
The X-Files, that’s all I need to know.
Why wasn't it "the problem with cousin Larry" just an extension of perfect strangers
I used to watch Thea. The show gave us Brandy before she became an R & B superstar. Yvette Wilson starred on The Parkers. Jason Weaver played young Michael in The Jacksons: An American Dream.
Brisco county jr. Was by far the best thing to come out of 1993
Johnny Reb x f I l e s
I watched: Frasier, The Nanny, Grace Under Fire, Hearts of the West, Bristol County, Lois & Clark, SeaQuest DSV, The X-Files, Boy Meets World, NYPD Blue. I don't remember NBC Friday Night Mystery.
Why is “The Mommies” a fever dream?
Lol
It's a wonder the Paula poundstone show wasn't a bigger hit 🙄🙄🙄
Ready to see intros from bad shows
(Sees The Mommies)
I wasn’t ready
(Sees Townsend Television)
Stop it
(Sees Joe’s Life)
Tell my family I love them.
Haha I didn’t even get that far. I could barely make it through the cringe that was ‘The Trouble with Larry.’
Joes Life was infinitely better than the Judith Light one before it. Not saying either are good but..
😂LMAO😂
"The Mommies" is the most 90's intro show ever, was it on Saturday mornings or what??
The mommies could be the worst opening I have ever seen. Also just looks like a cringe show
The opening was cheesy, but I checked out the pilot and it was actually pretty funny (for 90's sitcoms).
It has a vaporwave like quality.
Oh it's horrible. I'm watching it now.
Frasier and NYPD Blue look boring, that Daddy Dearest looks like a winner though.
I watched it when it was on. It wasn't bad but Richard Lewis couldn't keep up with Don Rickles.
I know it's a joke but God I love Frasier
Thomas Finnell Frasier was an amazing show! You must have a high IQ to enjoy...
Frasier was garbage
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The Paula Poundstone opening was infuriating.
Paula Poundstone's existence is infuriating.
@@abefrohman81 lol
It's so bad it hurts.
I didn't even know who she was
It is so amateurish
So, The Paula Poundstone Show was basically just It's Garry Shandling's Show with a girl.
If you consider Paula Poundstone a girl
Whatever happened to Paula Poundstone?
Donnalee Clubb Wikipedia is your friend.
That was Paula Poindstone? I thought it was John Bon Jovi
@@donnaleeclubb119 She's doing panel shows on public radio.
If it took 34 shows to make the Nanny, I'll take it.
My absolute favorite sitcom besides Three's Company and Who's the Boss
Thank you so much for posting this!
Courtney Cox was on a lot of flops. Robert Urich was as well.
the Entire cast of Friends, pre-friends (and post if we're being honest) had pretty sh*t careers
Robert Urich starred in more TV series than any other actor. He kept working, almost up to the very end.
@@pbcoop62 Yes. He would do a show and after a season or so it would get cancelled then that fall he would come back with another to replace it. Hollywood refused to give up on him, but other than Vegas and Spenser For Hire, they were all one season wonders.
and then she was in one of the most popular shows of all time. $$$$$$$$$
The only reason Courtney cox got into tv shows is cause she was boinking.batman.
It's kind of neat to see this montage of 90's (I was a child from 90-93, and a teenager onward) I chuckled every time I saw a show that I remembered as it lasted long enough to engrain in my memory and was frankly horrified by much of the rest, agreeing with the vast majority of other commenters that speculated a lot of cocaine must of been a flowin' in order to get those dumpster fires green lit.
And Paula Poundstone. Yikes! I recall seeing her on either Showtime or HBO (one of the comedy hours) and thinking back then that she was moderately funny for being such a kook, but seeing her in her show's intro had all my stranger danger alarms going off in my head!
I used to know this woman who would cosplay as Paula poundstone when she went to comedy shows...we had the same taste in comedy and we'd run into each other at the regional club where the big names would stop at. She lived in my town and was a nurse at the hospital...lovely lady just kooky
14:20 He decided to leave Bakersfield and open a chicken restaurant called Los Pollos.
Brett Patterson same Volvo, too
living single is missing for the list
Ouch. That hurts. You're right. Sometimes one just slips right by me.
I thought 1992 was the first season?
I thought it was 94?
RwDt09 update? 🙂
@Sonic Thrillington Damn right! That was my show, never missed an episode!
Glenn Frey and Aries Spears? 90s continuing to out do itself!
I so love Lois & Clark! I own the entire series on dvd!
That was a good year for the Strong Brothers
Paula Poundstone had the worst theme song ever created. "So you're home on a Saturday night, don't you have a social life?- no"
I'm not watching anything with that intro.
Intro - tries to be edgy and funny by insulting people for watching it.
People - feels insulted and doesn't watch
She sucked, that's why you never hear of her anymore
This must have been when the networks started pushing the myth of the single mother working hard and getting it done while having time for her friends and a love life.
That was One Day at a time in the 70s. Or Alice.
For me , X-files was the true turn to the 90s for television land.
Renee Taylor had a great year in 93. She not only played Fran’s mother on The Nanny , but she had an ongoing role ( which clearly didn’t go on for long) on Daddy Dearest ( 4.57). That is a show I never heard about until now.
i remember most of these. i felt like the only person that remember Phenom
Smilin' Dro Frazier naw, I remember it too!
I remember it, it was pretty good, and I thought Angela Goethals was cute as heck.
They really threw Ron Eldard at every available wall to see if he'd stick
And he never did
Whoa... Glenn Frey and the guy from Mad TV had their own TV show??
Good to see Giancarlo Esposito go on to other things after Bakersfield, PD.
a fine mix of "I remember that!" and "I dont remember that at all".... of long running classics and forgotten favorites..... of shows that were too good to last and shows that I cannot believe got greenlit
I remember the Paula Poundstone show because Joel Hodgson was supposed to be a 'consultant' on the show and he had just left Mystery Science Theater 3000. This clip is all I remember from the show. Glen Frey and a pre-madTV Aries Spears. Who would of imagined it? Don't remember that one. I never saw a bunch of these. Come on, who would watch a spin-off from Cheers? :)
South of Sunset has that Nash Bridges feel to it. Right down to the car.
loved the John Larroquette show but they screwed it up in the second season
Liked The Nanny.
So this is the beginning of my 90's sci-fi hit. Seaquest DSV and The X Files. Added to TNG and then the following year with DS9 and it was the golden period of sci-fi television. Oh and I forgot Sliders just around the corner.
Two of the greatest shows of all time; a couple of decent ones that were around for a few years; a ton of I-don't-even-remember-these-being-on (and '93 wasn't *that* long ago, relative to some of your other compilations)!
Thanks Algorithm for this mildly interesting video. I remember this vaguely from the time. As a kid I would get confused that shows would appear and then disappear. Interestingly enough, Netflix is doing about the same now.
i dont remember 1993 being so blurry
Some hits, Some ok show, and a lot of WTF.
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There was a itme when I was so addicted to Saved by the bell, the college years,lol!!
Uncle Peanut 38 me too
Wow 1993, the year of my first born . As she was extremely colicky I spent a lot of time round the clock comforting her . Spent a lot of time watching tv too, these shows I totally forgot about . Thx for the memories
I understand why the Paula Poundstone show failed!
I don't remember the Bronson Pinchot show but it looked awful!
After "Perfect Strangers" his career was essentially kaput! I guess that 1993 show was one they were hoping would build on his success from the former.
ab dude
apparently that particular episode had mile-a-minute fat-joke hilarity....
Just think, if it had gone a few seasons Courtney COx would not have had "Friends."
Hello?? The Langoliers?!
Same thing I was thinking. She started Friends a year later and became a multi-millionaire.