Me and my Late Mom ❤, used to watch this. Jane and Susan ❤❤. Great , Actresses. Remember McMillan and Wife and others movies and How to beat the High Cost of Living, was hilarious 🤣😆. Hmmm 🧐🤔 similar to now, Winky 😉😜 Wink, if you know what I mean, economy 😮. Great Atomic.
I was too late for "Katie and Allie", but I remember Jane Curtin from "Third Rock from the Sun", which is rather underrated, and deserves to be discussed more often.
_"Just when you think there's no one around who's caring..."_ - No matter what life threw at you back then, you could always find comfort in sitcom land. _"Sometimes tears and sorrow are all the things you've got... just when you think you're all by yourself you're not"_
Thanks! Yeah, so many 80s and 90s sitcoms had backdoor pilots and spinoffs. It still happens today but the 70s, 80s and 90s were the golden age of backdoor pilots.
There were a lot of shows I watched that were spin offs of other shows I watched but never knew they were spin offs somehow. It does seem like they were awfully trigger happy with spin offs back then,it almost never happens now
Kate & Allie is one of my favorite sitcoms of the '80s and I'm a huge Jane Curtin fan ever since she was one of the original cast members on Saturday Night Live.
Though updated for the 80s, the premise wasn't exactly new. It was the same premise as "The Lucy Show" (1962 to 1968) where Lucy and Vivian Vance played two best friends (Lucy widowed, Viv divorced) living together raising their kids under the same roof. Viv had a young son and Lucy had a teenage daughter and a young son. This premise only lasted three seasons though as they totally changed it for season four and had Lucy move to LA and got rid of Viv and the kids.
@@mikejanacone8328 id say facts of life. And they tried spinoffs of their own that failed. But I think Frasier was a spinoff of one of the greatest shows ever.
@bossfan49 yes, Jeffersons was great. You saw the characters go from 70s outfits to 80s. Unfortunately it got a raw deal at the end. They all planned on coming back for a 12th season but were unceremoniously canceled with no real final episode.
In my culture, children are to address an adult with an honorific. Those kids may have called him joey, but decent folks know to call him "uncle" joey, in retrospect.
@@DW3010 No because I'm a real person with thoughts and feelings, and one that you don't know. So I'd ask you not to call me that because I don't like it. Joey on the otherhand is a fictional character on a sitcom who's commonly referred to as Uncle Joey in our culture. Ultimately it's a nickname we've bestowed the character with
I can sing this theme song by heart - and considering what we're all about to go through in the US - I'll be singing it to myself more and more. Thanks for this great summary of K&A
Barbara Barrie was also in an earlier series with characters named Kate and Allie....well Allison. The show was "Double Trouble" which starred the twin sisters of Katey Sagal Liz and Jean Sagal.
This is one of those series, I've heard of before, but was long before I was born, and never seen a single episode. However, you did sell me on checking it out and luckily it looks like most if not all the episodes are available here on TH-cam, and someone was nice enough to even put together a playlist of them. So should be easy for me to check it out. 😉 Thank you so very much for this video. I did enjoy it.
I haven't thought about this show in years, I always loved it. I was in high school, and I had a crush on the two girls and who doesn't love Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin always a favorite SNL, 3rd Rock, The Librarian movies and of course here she was great! Thanks for the memories.
The first episode was floating around on TH-cam but the rest of the episodes have vanished. As far as we know only two episodes aired and it never aired overseas or anywhere else.
This was a “Monday show”,I never liked any show they aired on Monday when I was a kid. I’d probably like them if I watched them now though. That’s how we identified days of the week in the 80s🤪. The best shows were always on Tuesday and Thursday,I haven’t thought about any of this in years
I really like the narration on this video, even though Kate and Allie wasn't for me. However, I really like both of the leads - SSJ was great as The Wife of McMillan - although I don't remember seeing her after Kate and Allie. Jane Curtain was great in 3rd Rock From the Sun, and she was refreshed grounded on SNL - not always trying anything for a laugh. The pilots: the leads deserved better! I'm glad Martin is getting more recognition ala other SCTV alumni (O'Hara, Levy especially), but also haven't seen much of Wagner, unfortunately. Nevertheless,.much thanks for an interesting video!
Similar sentiment in the theme songs: K&A - Just when you think you're all by yourself you're not. FT - What would we do, baby, without us... GP - As long as we got each other....
Speaking of Lindsay Wagner and spin-offs, she was short-listed by producer Jeri Taylor as a favourite to play the then 'Captain Nicole Janeway', as the lead in 'Star Trek Voyager' during auditions only a few years later in 1994. Taylor even went so far as to list Wagner by name on the casting description sheet. I wonder if experiences with 'Late Bloomer' hurt her chances...?
This was not a favorite among my school friends I'd never heard of the show until USA would air reruns in the 90's and plus it was a CBS show which at the time was considered the "old people" network.
Yeah, it definitely needs to go, along with the words "cringe" and "iconic" and the trend of videos that include the run time in the title: "Kate & Allie being cringe and iconic for 18 minutes."
The episode about the landlady came out about the same time I did. That episode was a soft embrace while I was being overwhelmed (there was a lot of hate back in the 80s!)
As a Brit I loved this show!. I`m surprised by the many negative comments?. I was lucky that If I missed it showing first time on `Channel 4`, it was shown a day or two later on S4C (Welsh Channel 4). Allie was kinda my idol!. Loved watching this look back & I thought the narration was good?. Guess i`m the odd one out maybe. Favourite episodes include the `Chocolate cake` one, the 2 Lesbian landlords, `Channel G`, `Allie on strike` `Allie trying to find a job` & the 100th? show that was bloopers?.
I just want to say that the ep "A Very Loud Family" is most likely a reference to the tv series "An American Family" (1973) a multi episode series on PBS that followed the Loud Family (from California) and all their trials and tribulations. It's considered the first "reality" program ever aired.
in one episode Allie was in Paris and fell asleep in the subway, you see on the subway station set "Defense de fumIer" writen on the wall instead of 'defense de fumer" (no smokling) , fumier is also a french word and it mans .... manure good idea to make it illegal to drop manure on the subway station , and back to spin off they miss a good opportunity when the blonde girl was in college to give her her own show as a spin off for a younger audience like they did with Cosby show - A Different world the first year
Kate & Allie kinda disappeared from pop culture after its initial run, so I didn’t see it much after prime time. And I don’t remember any spinoffs, failed or otherwise. I thought I watched this show regularly during the prime time run, but either I didn’t, or just don’t remember it well.
In the NYC area it was in daily reruns for a few years (among Who's the Boss, Growing Pains, etc) after its run, but then, yeah went away after that and didn't seem to ever air anywhere else again. Wonder why
@@dayveoI remember reruns on channel 9, beginning maybe a year or two before it wrapped. By then I started high school and through the 1990s I watched limited tv or didn’t own one, so I might remember some things wrong. Still, for a show that yielded this many episodes, had no scandalous cast member, and no copyrighted soundtrack music to fuss over, this one faded into obscurity.
@@75aces97 Yes that's what I was thinking but I couldn't remember if it was channel 9 or 11. Seems like it was on a bit longer than a year to me, but I was also a little kid so my sense of time was very warped then haha
Atomic Abe is the name of the channel, includes a bunch of different people who write, edit, narrate, produce and design. There have been a few different narrators in the 80-something videos on Atomic Abe. But there is no one "Abe". It's a mascot.
I still ❤ Kate n Ally, especially Jane frikkn Curtin... 😅👍 Also, Andrea Martin is so talented I will never get why she never rose to superstardom. She just may be the funniest woman ever. I blame all those bad writing jobs.😮❤
That’s understandable. I haven’t seen it in any rerun rotation in 20 years. I don’t know if it was too idiomatic of its time, but it didn’t seem to catch on with latter day fans.
@@alyzu4755 Diff'rent Strokes tried another spinoff with McLean Stevenson when he left MASH. He was one of Mr. Drummond's old buddies who was going to be a radio host. "Hello, Larry". I guess it wasn't really a spinoff, but they used a couple episodes as a backdoor pilot. Also, Alan Thicke and his then wife Gloria Loring composed the theme song for Diff'rent Strokes....so yeah, it IS all connected! 😀😀
This was a middling sitcom that never had an audience. It was a mid-season replacement that debuted at #8, immediately dropped like a rock, and never rebounded. And just because something is old (the theme song), that doesn’t make it “iconic.”
It had an audience, but wasn’t the kind of show that could be a hit. I didn’t realize it cracked the top 10 in its abbreviated first season, but if you look at the 1983-84 tv schedule that was a real soup sandwich. 😆 Yikes! Otherwise I see what you’re saying. This, Family Ties, Facts of Life and Different Strokes struck some nerve at the time but were outmoded by the time they wrapped.
Better than A.I. or these Millennial/GenZ guys who all somehow have the same pitch and speech pattern for every sentence, ending on an upward inflection.
Roxies TV show reminds me of the 80s cable access show Stairway to the Stars, especially with the wooden lattice background and talent-show acts. If you haven't seen it, you should look. It's equally funny and cringey.
My sister named her twin daughters Kate and Alison Ali. It's one of the best sitcoms ever (Ali's middle name is Emma) always love Curtain and St. James in SNL AND McMillan and wife How to Beat the High Cost of Living such a great movie and add in w time Academy Award winner Jessica Lang it doesn't get any better
I remember Monday night football was a over ride of kate and ally was not a fan of saint johns horrid acting always thought that young boy was gay and we were around the same age. Plus it ran against mash. It’s really strange adria Martin never got a show of her own
08:22 I noticed Billy Crystal here...whats he doing? I also noticed how you didnt say anything...cmon guys. A single line condemning blackface. I'm not asking you to be culture warriors or any nonsense like that but you have to call it out.
Because it was 40 years ago, it was done out of admiration for his friend, it wasn't controversial at the time, and it's irrelevant to the topic of the video. It's ok to have a video where no one is virtue signaling one thing or another.
Me and my Late Mom ❤, used to watch this. Jane and Susan ❤❤. Great , Actresses. Remember McMillan and Wife and others movies and How to beat the High Cost of Living, was hilarious 🤣😆. Hmmm 🧐🤔 similar to now, Winky 😉😜 Wink, if you know what I mean, economy 😮. Great Atomic.
Thanks! Kate & Allie is good show. Holds up really well with a great cast.
I sometimes wonder if others think fondly of "Kate and Allie" as I do. I am happy that I found my people. Thank you for the trip back.
Thanks for watching! Yeah Kate & Allie is a funny, sweet show with a good cast. It's streaming on Roku now and worth revisiting.
I'm 40 and have never seen any channel show reruns of this show
Third Rock is hardly underrated. It still plays in syndication on TV today and was huge at the time it originally aired.
I was too late for "Katie and Allie", but I remember Jane Curtin from "Third Rock from the Sun", which is rather underrated, and deserves to be discussed more often.
The first season of third rock is especially good!
She's great on Third Rock as well. And of course SNL.
I'm 40 and have seen a lot of older shows but I don't think I've ever found a channel that showed reruns of this show growing up
In the usa, it ran on E! or lifetime in the late 90s, easly 00s.
@@atomicabe yes I'm hoping she'll be at the big 50th SNL party in February
_"Just when you think there's no one around who's caring..."_ - No matter what life threw at you back then, you could always find comfort in sitcom land. _"Sometimes tears and sorrow are all the things you've got... just when you think you're all by yourself you're not"_
I'm fascinated by how many sitcoms had spin offs attempted back in the day. I've never even heard of this show!
Great video Abe!
Thanks! Yeah, so many 80s and 90s sitcoms had backdoor pilots and spinoffs. It still happens today but the 70s, 80s and 90s were the golden age of backdoor pilots.
There were a lot of shows I watched that were spin offs of other shows I watched but never knew they were spin offs somehow. It does seem like they were awfully trigger happy with spin offs back then,it almost never happens now
I think I've heard of it but growing up I don't think it was ever shown in reruns
@atomicabe It feels like backdoor pilots specifically are becoming a rarity. Like I dont think Young Sheldon had one for example.
Kate & Allie is one of my favorite sitcoms of the '80s and I'm a huge Jane Curtin fan ever since she was one of the original cast members on Saturday Night Live.
I was scarred for life when Chip went full frontal on Oz.
What?! Did that really happen? 😳
Barbara Barrie is still kickin’ at 93 years young (so is Hal Linden, btw).
…AND Rita Moreno.
Though updated for the 80s, the premise wasn't exactly new. It was the same premise as "The Lucy Show" (1962 to 1968) where Lucy and Vivian Vance played two best friends (Lucy widowed, Viv divorced) living together raising their kids under the same roof. Viv had a young son and Lucy had a teenage daughter and a young son. This premise only lasted three seasons though as they totally changed it for season four and had Lucy move to LA and got rid of Viv and the kids.
Ngl the theme song is classic
Kelsey Grammer, who played the great Frasier crane that was the greatest spinoff ever
@@mikejanacone8328 id say facts of life. And they tried spinoffs of their own that failed.
But I think Frasier was a spinoff of one of the greatest shows ever.
Definitely Frasier is probably in the Top 5 greatest sitcoms ever. Remarkable for a spinoff. (Jeffersons was another highly successful spinoff)
@bossfan49 yes, Jeffersons was great. You saw the characters go from 70s outfits to 80s. Unfortunately it got a raw deal at the end. They all planned on coming back for a 12th season but were unceremoniously canceled with no real final episode.
Thank you for the shout out!
Thank you for the excellent podcast!
You made it Ken!
I absolutely loved this show FOREVER! I wish I knew this show when younger.
I don't think I ever watched Kate and Allie, but when you played the theme song I remembered it somehow.
There were at least 3 or 4 other sitcom themes that sounded similar.
I grew up one of two children of a divorced mother and though we had no roommate, I identified with Kate and Allie. It was real world, yet funny.
Love this kind of cultural history document. Great channel!
Thanks for watching!
@@atomicabe ABC waited more than a year to air the final season of Perfect Strangers which was only consisted of 6 episodes. 🤰👶👩🍼📺
There is no uncle Joey on full house. Joey is Danny’s college roommate… And no, the kids never called him uncle Joey.
In my culture, children are to address an adult with an honorific. Those kids may have called him joey, but decent folks know to call him "uncle" joey, in retrospect.
@ 🙄🙄🙄
but WE the viewers call him that and that's all that really matters
@ and I can call you Hulk Hogan. Is that all that matters?
@@DW3010 No because I'm a real person with thoughts and feelings, and one that you don't know. So I'd ask you not to call me that because I don't like it. Joey on the otherhand is a fictional character on a sitcom who's commonly referred to as Uncle Joey in our culture. Ultimately it's a nickname we've bestowed the character with
I can sing this theme song by heart - and considering what we're all about to go through in the US - I'll be singing it to myself more and more. Thanks for this great summary of K&A
I loved Kate & Allie. The intros every week were always fun.
An actress struggling to make it as a therapist is such an interesting concept, they should've kept it at that.
Barbara Barrie was also in an earlier series with characters named Kate and Allie....well Allison. The show was "Double Trouble" which starred the twin sisters of Katey Sagal Liz and Jean Sagal.
Ari Meyers was so cute. She was my favorite when I was a kid.
She's in the Thanksgiving classic Dutch with Ed O’Neill and Etham Embry!
@@atomicabe WWOR tv channel 9 New York aired reruns in the 90s!
This is one of those series, I've heard of before, but was long before I was born, and never seen a single episode. However, you did sell me on checking it out and luckily it looks like most if not all the episodes are available here on TH-cam, and someone was nice enough to even put together a playlist of them. So should be easy for me to check it out. 😉 Thank you so very much for this video. I did enjoy it.
It holds up! Great cast. It recently came to streaming on Roku and other places.
@@atomicabe Caught me just before I went to start tonight's gaming session. Awesomeness, bookmark it on Roku. Thank you for the heads up.
I hadn’t seen it or thought about it in years, but after watching this video I looked it up and the whole series is free on Roku channel.
Ari Meyers ❤❤❤❤❤
I haven't thought about this show in years, I always loved it. I was in high school, and I had a crush on the two girls and who doesn't love Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin always a favorite SNL, 3rd Rock, The Librarian movies and of course here she was great! Thanks for the memories.
If Chip only knew what the little fella was being setup for later in life.
Whoever did the casting did a really good job with up-and-coming stars at picking them out
Kate & Allie was my show. I don't even remember the spin offs. There was so many spin offs back then I lost track.
Wasn't Jack Riley the voice those old Shedd's Spread Country Crock commercials?
Oh wow yeah! Thanks for the memory. Love those ads. th-cam.com/video/xpkUWJshRm0/w-d-xo.html
There was a Bionic Dog? I learned something today!… Seriously, a well made and fun video. I enjoyed this!
Thanks for watching! You can see our episode on the failed Bionic Dog spin-off here: th-cam.com/video/55dR0CHQD-U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2pmQ6-P66xVs5gG-
Is the Roxie series available to stream anywhere? Did the unaired episodes ever get burned off on cable or sales to international broadcasters?
The first episode was floating around on TH-cam but the rest of the episodes have vanished. As far as we know only two episodes aired and it never aired overseas or anywhere else.
Damn, did Kelsey ever have a full head of hair??
No,him and principal Strickland. Neither ever had hair😂
This was a “Monday show”,I never liked any show they aired on Monday when I was a kid. I’d probably like them if I watched them now though. That’s how we identified days of the week in the 80s🤪. The best shows were always on Tuesday and Thursday,I haven’t thought about any of this in years
When I was a kid, it was The Partridge Family, That Girl and Love American Style on Fridays.
A *Kate & Allie* video game needs to play like *Bloody Wolf* for the Turbografx-16.
I really like the narration on this video, even though Kate and Allie wasn't for me. However, I really like both of the leads - SSJ was great as The Wife of McMillan - although I don't remember seeing her after Kate and Allie.
Jane Curtain was great in 3rd Rock From the Sun, and she was refreshed grounded on SNL - not always trying anything for a laugh.
The pilots: the leads deserved better! I'm glad Martin is getting more recognition ala other SCTV alumni (O'Hara, Levy especially), but also haven't seen much of Wagner, unfortunately.
Nevertheless,.much thanks for an interesting video!
Andrea Martin also appears in the Sesame Street music video for Put Down The Duckie. 🦆🦉🎷🐤
Kate and Allie was broadcast in Scotland in the mid/ late eighties. Early teen me loved it💚
I used to think Kate & Allie was a spin off of Family Ties .
I always thought their houses were identical
Although now I’m realizing it looked more like Growing Pains
Similar sentiment in the theme songs:
K&A - Just when you think you're all by yourself you're not.
FT - What would we do, baby, without us...
GP - As long as we got each other....
I have never once in my life heard of the sitcom “Kate & Allie”…
I remember my mom loved this show when I was a kid.
"And they were roommates"
Speaking of Lindsay Wagner and spin-offs, she was short-listed by producer Jeri Taylor as a favourite to play the then 'Captain Nicole Janeway', as the lead in 'Star Trek Voyager' during auditions only a few years later in 1994. Taylor even went so far as to list Wagner by name on the casting description sheet. I wonder if experiences with 'Late Bloomer' hurt her chances...?
I'm 38 and this is the first time I'm hearing of this show
This was not a favorite among my school friends I'd never heard of the show until USA would air reruns in the 90's and plus it was a CBS show which at the time was considered the "old people" network.
CBS cast its lot with older viewers by the 1980s and I’m not sure they ever shed that perception ever since.😄
Please stop using that tired ass "rent free" thing. If you do, I'll hold your beer. Thanks!
It's a little too late to close the barn door on that expression.
Yeah, it definitely needs to go, along with the words "cringe" and "iconic" and the trend of videos that include the run time in the title: "Kate & Allie being cringe and iconic for 18 minutes."
I remember K&A. It also ran in syndication in the late 90s, early 00s
The episode about the landlady came out about the same time I did. That episode was a soft embrace while I was being overwhelmed (there was a lot of hate back in the 80s!)
I can't remember watching a single episode. I was like 7-12 when it aired.
As a Brit I loved this show!. I`m surprised by the many negative comments?. I was lucky that If I missed it showing first time on `Channel 4`, it was shown a day or two later on S4C (Welsh Channel 4). Allie was kinda my idol!. Loved watching this look back & I thought the narration was good?. Guess i`m the odd one out maybe. Favourite episodes include the `Chocolate cake` one, the 2 Lesbian landlords, `Channel G`, `Allie on strike` `Allie trying to find a job` & the 100th? show that was bloopers?.
I do not recall ever watching this. I likely turned the channel, since I was a teenager and liked good shows.
6:50 I’m always surprised they didn’t just retire the word “chancellor”
I just want to say that the ep "A Very Loud Family" is most likely a reference to the tv series "An American Family" (1973) a multi episode series on PBS that followed the Loud Family (from California) and all their trials and tribulations. It's considered the first "reality" program ever aired.
Oh yeah, definitely. Good call. "An American Family" is the first reality show.
I think the premise of Kate & Allie was basically the same premise that was used for the tv show Raven's Home.
Ray Donovan tried a backdoor pilot. Wife character Abby goes home to her family's bar in Boston. Season 3.
in one episode Allie was in Paris and fell asleep in the subway, you see on the subway station set "Defense de fumIer" writen on the wall instead of 'defense de fumer" (no smokling) , fumier is also a french word and it mans .... manure good idea to make it illegal to drop manure on the subway station , and back to spin off they miss a good opportunity when the blonde girl was in college to give her her own show as a spin off for a younger audience like they did with Cosby show - A Different world the first year
I loved this show!
One Of My All Time Favorite TV Shows,80s & 90s Movie's,TV Shows & Music Are The Best 💯 Period
That Kate & Ali SNL sketch is funnier because everyone thinks they both have Parkinson’s disease but they don’t.
Kate & Allie kinda disappeared from pop culture after its initial run, so I didn’t see it much after prime time. And I don’t remember any spinoffs, failed or otherwise. I thought I watched this show regularly during the prime time run, but either I didn’t, or just don’t remember it well.
In the NYC area it was in daily reruns for a few years (among Who's the Boss, Growing Pains, etc) after its run, but then, yeah went away after that and didn't seem to ever air anywhere else again. Wonder why
@@dayveoI remember reruns on channel 9, beginning maybe a year or two before it wrapped. By then I started high school and through the 1990s I watched limited tv or didn’t own one, so I might remember some things wrong. Still, for a show that yielded this many episodes, had no scandalous cast member, and no copyrighted soundtrack music to fuss over, this one faded into obscurity.
@@75aces97 Yes that's what I was thinking but I couldn't remember if it was channel 9 or 11. Seems like it was on a bit longer than a year to me, but I was also a little kid so my sense of time was very warped then haha
I know we watched it in our house but I can't remember a single joke or episode plot. All I can remember is that we watched it.
Does Julia use her bionic powers to fry an egg?
I liked SNL's spoof "Kate and Ali", about Kate Hepburn and Mohammed Ali!😅
Not to be disparaging to the new narrator lady, but I much prefer the regular narrator dude, even with his bad jokes lol He had the rythimn down
Yeah this is borderline unwatchable.
Really wonderful series…
Kate and Ali was fantastic.
I watched Roxie...I thought it was pretty good, probably because I liked Martin on SCTV
That's not Abe.
Atomic Abe is the name of the channel, includes a bunch of different people who write, edit, narrate, produce and design. There have been a few different narrators in the 80-something videos on Atomic Abe. But there is no one "Abe". It's a mascot.
@@KevinGeeksOut Kevin, your calming voice is one of the main draws of this channel. I am not exaggerating when I say something is missing without it.
Watched many sitcoms during the 80s - Never heard of this one. Not every country outside US got it.
I preferred Julia. It hit home more.
I haven’t seen the show since the early 80s. But I used to really like it. Don’t know if I could watch it now.
It was never uncle Joey.
I still ❤ Kate n Ally, especially Jane frikkn Curtin... 😅👍 Also, Andrea Martin is so talented I will never get why she never rose to superstardom. She just may be the funniest woman ever. I blame all those bad writing jobs.😮❤
Genuinely never heard of this show.
It's a fun 80s show. Good cast and nice to see a show set in NYC that actually filmed there.
That’s understandable. I haven’t seen it in any rerun rotation in 20 years. I don’t know if it was too idiomatic of its time, but it didn’t seem to catch on with latter day fans.
Will people talk about shows 50-60 years from now the same way? Shows nowadays don't have any catchy songs either.
The show was funny and had heart..
Not billie crystal in blackface... that aged poorly.
What about facts of life? They have a lot of failed spinoffs
Yes! Facts of Life is in the works and will be coming to Behind the Backdoor Pilot soon. Thanks for watching!
And, of course, TFOL was a spinoff from "Diff'rent Strones". It's all connected! 😊
@@alyzu4755 Diff'rent Strokes tried another spinoff with McLean Stevenson when he left MASH. He was one of Mr. Drummond's old buddies who was going to be a radio host. "Hello, Larry". I guess it wasn't really a spinoff, but they used a couple episodes as a backdoor pilot.
Also, Alan Thicke and his then wife Gloria Loring composed the theme song for Diff'rent Strokes....so yeah, it IS all connected! 😀😀
@bossfan49 That's right! I'd forgotten that!
Never heard of it
This was a middling sitcom that never had an audience. It was a mid-season replacement that debuted at #8, immediately dropped like a rock, and never rebounded. And just because something is old (the theme song), that doesn’t make it “iconic.”
It had an audience, but wasn’t the kind of show that could be a hit. I didn’t realize it cracked the top 10 in its abbreviated first season, but if you look at the 1983-84 tv schedule that was a real soup sandwich. 😆 Yikes!
Otherwise I see what you’re saying. This, Family Ties, Facts of Life and Different Strokes struck some nerve at the time but were outmoded by the time they wrapped.
That narrator doesn’t work. That’s the opposite of a broadcasting voice. It’s grating.
Better than A.I. or these Millennial/GenZ guys who all somehow have the same pitch and speech pattern for every sentence, ending on an upward inflection.
I would think this would be on CozTV, not everyone watches hour long dramas
I don't remember this show at all. I don't remember reruns or anything
I don't think it ever went into syndication.
@bossfan49 not on Nick at nite, tbs and not on any streaming services either
@bossfan49 I remember Dear John and still have that song stuck in my head and it's been since the 80s
@@LilyQueenmas I watched Dear John occasionally too. I don't even remember it having a theme song.
@bossfan49 it went " dear John, by the time you read this letter, I'll be gonnnee"
Can we please put the expression "rent free" behind us. 🙄
Haha as a boy I never heard of this show
Roxies TV show reminds me of the 80s cable access show Stairway to the Stars, especially with the wooden lattice background and talent-show acts. If you haven't seen it, you should look. It's equally funny and cringey.
My favorite spin off of Kate and Allie was the Kate and Ali SNL Skits.
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First thing I thought of too! 😀
I only watched because the dark haired daughter was such a hottie.
Koozeen Larry
My sister named her twin daughters Kate and Alison Ali. It's one of the best sitcoms ever
(Ali's middle name is Emma) always love Curtain and St. James in SNL AND McMillan and wife
How to Beat the High Cost of Living such a great movie and add in w time Academy Award winner Jessica Lang it doesn't get any better
I remember Monday night football was a over ride of kate and ally was not a fan of saint johns horrid acting always thought that young boy was gay and we were around the same age. Plus it ran against mash. It’s really strange adria Martin never got a show of her own
Jane Curtin was Allie. Get it straight
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they should have made them lesbian, without a lot of tuna jokes.😮😮😮
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Watching this makes me think timothee chalamet would play a great ben stiller in a biopic
That’s how we sucked it to conservatives in the 80s. Shows about nontraditional families.
This one was the inverse of most contemporaries. So many 80s sitcoms had dead or MIA moms. This one had 2 deadbeat/absentee dads.
I used to watch this with my mom too! Also, fwiw, I don't like this voice over person as much as the usual guy. She isn't as expressive or funny.
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I noticed Billy Crystal here...whats he doing? I also noticed how you didnt say anything...cmon guys. A single line condemning blackface.
I'm not asking you to be culture warriors or any nonsense like that but you have to call it out.
It was an SNL parody where Katharine Hepburn (Kate)and Muhammad Ali are hilariously mismatched housemates. Yes, Billy Crystal as Ali. 😬😵💫
Because it was 40 years ago, it was done out of admiration for his friend, it wasn't controversial at the time, and it's irrelevant to the topic of the video. It's ok to have a video where no one is virtue signaling one thing or another.
First!! Is that still a thing?🤣
No.
Dang!
I keep telling myself it was never a thing.
@@bossfan49 Lmao!
I had no desire to watch that one back in the day.
Thinking about it now, wouldn't it have made more sense to have a woman sing the theme song?
I'm think of Mary Tyler Moore's theme in season 1: "You _might_ just make it after all"