The Strange Story of Eerie Indiana, Its Rebirth & Its Reboot
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- Eerie Indiana is an American horror science fiction television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1991, to April 12, 1992.
A total of 19 episodes were produced with the final episode airing on the Disney Channel after Eerie Indiana was cancelled. That lead to the show finding a whole new audience, moving to Fox Kids and getting a sequel show, Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension which unfortunately faired about as well as the original.
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This show and Pete and Pete were integral to my "weirdness" as a child.
Ah, Pete and Pete. I just showed that to my 12 year old daughter. She gets it, but not all the musician cameos.
Absolutely.
I still listen to the Pete and Pete music today! (My kids love it too)
ARNIE! THE STRONGEST MAAAAAN....inthewoooorld
Did you watch Muppet babies as a young kid too?
That show was so important to me as a kid!
“Better weird than dead.”
This show had some truly surreal episodes for a kid's show. It was exactly as messed up as I wanted and it rarely disappointed.
Also Simon was a boss.
My favourite was the one where he's on the set of the EI TV show and Simon is a womaniser lmao.
The one with the heart transplant always stayed with me as well. Very creepy.
Eerie Indiana aka X-Files for kids
Yes. Errie, primed people for the x files. Maybe that's why x was such a hit. Kids had grown up on Eerie and wanted an adult version
it was Twin Peaks for kids, actually.
What inspired Gravity falls on Disney channel.
@@Uploadingvirus Bingo. More Twin Peaks than X-Files. The weird is the normal in Eerie, Indiana.
Twin Peaks was before Eerie and X Files was after Eerie
I *LOVED* this show. It was *fantastic.* I've never understood why it wasn't more popular. There was so much potential. I would have loved to have seen a couple "status quo" seasons before having a season built around the over-arching plot why exactly things are so strange in Eerie. I would STILL love a follow-up. The evidence locker was the perfect "back-door" for a return, as well. Just have someone else move to Eerie, weird stuff start happening. They find the evidence locker, realize the town has a history...the story writes itself.
God this channel is amazing at making me feel nostalgic. Also makes me realize how much (apparently) obscure stuff I watched as a kid.
It wasn't more popular because it was preachy. Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of The Dark were basically the same show but those two weren't always trying to say something stupidly left-wing. That desire to propagandize REALLY ruined this show in the last few episodes. It was another show like Captain Planet that ended up having an opposite effect on most kids that watched it because it just came across as adults being pushy.
@@picklejuavez6795 What in the bluest of fucks are you taking about? That wasn't even remotely a thing.
@@picklejuavez6795 what the F are you on about??? This was a kids show not some attempt at a political message you fool. Stop over analysing it! Really? seriously?you actually picked up on a left wing political message when watching this as a kid??? I call BS on your analysis, it’s a kids show dude give the politics a rest! Anything you perceive as a politically aware adult is totally irrelevant. It’s popularity was halted only by its exposure. Myself and everyone I knew at my school loved it the UK.
@@WraithTDK agree mate this guy is a nut case. It was a kids show not a political message.
@@picklejuavez6795 I know this comment is very old, but what was the left wing stuff they were being preachy about?
When a friend told me about the concept of "Stranger Things" a while back, I immediately thought of this show, lol.
I thought that too. If you liked Eerie, Indiana, you’d love Stranger Things.
I figured this show was the inspiration for setting Stranger Things in Indiana.
honestly i think a major difference between stranger things and eerie is stranger things is not made for kids while eerie was at the very least marketed as a kids show. also i think it was how i can put this lightly limited by the 90s if that makes any sense. its show that feels super 90s. where as stranger things ironically takes place in the 80s and yet feels like its a show made today.
This show pretty much Stranger Things before Stranger Things.
There needs to be road signs in Hawkins and Eerie pointing towards each other (can you go straight between them, maybe on Indiana State Route 13, or do you have to go through Pawnee and Hohman?)
Thanks for using my scanned image of the complete series DVD set. No, I'm not kidding, that's my box, I recognize the white creases at the top and bottom of the spine (yep, those DVDs have gotten a lot of love❤). I scanned it into the computer and gave it to Amazon because they didn't have a front cover image at the time, next thing I knew, it appeared on the page for the show at Wikipedia. Glad everyone is enjoying it so much. 🙂 I also have The Other Dimension on digital (yes, it's available!)
Eerie Indiana was a gem of a children's show that didn't get the respect that it so clearly deserved, other wise it wouldn't have been canceled. There were two things that you didn't touch upon here, in the first series, starting with episode 14, the writers were switched out which is why the show's quality seemed to suddenly drop. This also made the anti-hero character Dash-X the only reason to watch the last few episodes, because he was the only good thing about it at that point. In fact, if not for the show's cancellation, I would say that Dash was it's saving grace. * sigh * Oh well. Also, there is a script for an unproduced twentieth episode of series. It's called "The Jolly Rogers" and, as the title suggests, it would have been about a crew of pirates (either undead or immortal) who have returned to Eerie after two hundred years to reclaim their buried treasure. And guess where it's buried? No really, take a wild guess. That's right, under the Teller's house, because, of course it is. Great video and thanks for the additional info, you went over a lot of things here that I didn't know before.
God, I loved this, Goosebumps, Round the twist and Are you afraid of the dark. What a great era it was to grow up in. 90's ❤️
Round the Twist was great. I'm still singing the theme tune 30 years later.
I’m so pleased this show is being given a platform, I absolutely loved it. Marshal & Simon were the friends we all wanted!
This series' title was my first notion when I first heard about the town from 'Stranger Things' being called Hawkins, Indiana. This unique show dealing with all kinds of weird stuff left a footprint simply too big to ignore. Bringing in Omri Katz or Justin Shenkarow on ST would also be a neat idea, just like it was the case with Sean Astin.
And just when I was mourning Eerie Indiana, the Adventures of Pete and Pete came along. The early 90s were an amazing time for strange children.
One of my favorite shows. Way ahead of its time for kids. I saw on the first run and it was amazing.
I have eps of it on vhs, from when it first aired.
I remember watching Eerie, Indiana when it was being rebroadcast on Disney from 1993 - 1996. I had originally missed the first run of the series and had always assumed it was a Disney property. Now I know the full story. Thanks TG!
This show was huge in the UK. We all talked about it in school every week. The little gem that didn't get a longer time in the sun
Just realised that this show WASN'T American Gothic after all these years. Thanks Dan!
The "Heart on a Chain" episode really stayed with me as a child. I also loved Danielle Harris...
I liked watching it when it was on Fox Kids but couldn’t get into “The Other Dimension.”
neither could I
I remember seeing the commercials for this show when watching Power Rangers on Fox Kids, but it just never caught my interest enough for me to even bother to watch a full episode.
I loved the original, but was too old for the remake. I don’t really remember it. I might have seen an ad for it.
Never heard of the sequel until now. Be interested to see it.
But if it didn't have Joe Dante overseeing it, I'd imagine it lost some.... Class
Believe it or not, the Other Dimension did a Cross over with the 1st Season, where both Of the Universe Boys got to meet and come up with a plan to keep their World from Colliding!
Serious note though... This grew up to be Warehouse 13
That was a nice series too:)
And then Stranger Things 😎👍
All these mentioned are just shameless, watered down PG wannabees of F13: The Series anyway so...
Nah, it was just animated and called gravity falls
I've told this story more than once on my own channel but more people will hear it here 😁
Anyway, the twins from the first episode were from my hometown, shell rock iowa, and were classmates of my sister. It was just the biggest deal in the world when they were on the show, the whole town stopped and they even announced in in church sunday morning!
They never did anything again as far as I know, though one showed up as an extra in some van dam film, prompoting me to always joke that I'm the 2nd most famous person from shell rock, with one of the twins being the first and the other being the third 🤣
But seriously with the cult status of the show they got me beat.
Funny that you posted this. I just got done rewatching the series after not having watched it since I was a kid. The "Heart on a Chain" episode has stuck with me for so long!
I was a senior in High School and in theory I was supposed to be to old for this show, but I loved it. This was the original run.
Sophomore for me. Unfortunately, it ran up against "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" and that was my go-to show for 7:30 on Sundays. So I only watched it during reruns.
Same here but for most of the first run I could only watch if the game ran way long on CBS but not on NBC, or vice versa, since I was in a public-affairs class that made 60 Minutes required viewing. If both started on time and 60 Minutes' 3rd segment was a celeb puff piece I was in luck!
Me and my dad just got done watching it again , since my dad loved it when he was younger, and he's now in his late thirties
Oh man are you going to feel silly with those pumpkins when I don't watch this until Easter.
Dont forget christmas then he might dress up as santa hoho with toys
Gravity Falls has carried on it's legacy.
It seems that Gravity Falls was influenced by this show for sure
Yup, Alex Hirsh mentioned this show as an influence during his Bancroft Bros. Interview
Its* legacy.
And this is way better than Gravity Falls. Still trying to understand the hype for it.
Loved this show as a 7 year old boy. As soon as I seen it was on dvd I bought it and watched it with my children.
Just learned about this show on TikTok and stumbled WAY down the rabbit hole. Just added Eerie on my Prime watchlist! Thanks for the history :) love the pumpkins
I loved this show, it had extremely limited availability in my country (it just ran for a couple of months in a not very popular channel) but it left a huge impact on me, pushing me to a life time of love for horror and mystery movies.
My favorite episodes in no order:
Heart on a Chain
Broken Record
The Lost Hour
Broken Record is a good one.
I remember this one when I was a kid, it was the retainer one where they could understand dogs. I thought it was a fever dream for years before rewatching again a few years ago.
Great show. I'll have to watch again soon.
I was literally putting on an episode of Eerie, Indiana - decided to click on TH-cam - and Toy Galaxy pops up with this.
Item: I have developed ESP
It was a cool show. Sorta like Twin Peaks for kids. But Nothing else really like in on tv back then. Great video guys
In the uk on BBC1 during the times children/youth would be watching. There was an Austrilian TV show, called Round the twist aired which was really good, it ran for three maybe four series.
its kind of interesting because this show did a concept in an episode that the show supernatural would go on to do as well.
I LOVED this show when it came out
I only saw this a handful of times, and that Milk Man episode stuck with me for years. Also, Nikki Cox was in it. 🥰
This was one of my favourite shows. Another was Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. According to the tv listings in this video, they aired in the same time slot. That might have been different where I grew up.
I loved Parker Lewis Can't Lose, too.
I watched this when it aired in the UK. I *still* think of the episode "The Lost Hour" every time clocks go back in the Fall!
In the UK we call it Autumn, Wierd....
@@gazzaroony LOL! Yes, I'm an American who grew up in the UK, so my terminology is really mixed.
I remember the first show and remember digging it. Had no idea there was a series of books and a spin-off as well!
My whole family LOVED this show, my mother would watch it with us. I seem to remember it being on Saturday mornings for a while
I saw it on Disney Channel and loved every second of it.
The girlfriend and I loved this show waaaay back. It was just so different at the time .
Omg! Love you're doing this, Dan.
I remember religiously watching this show as a kid in the 90s but i forgot most of it and even forgot the name till now cause this vid
I love the original series as well as the books. As a kid, I couldn't get into the Other Dimension. Maybe I should revisit it.
Joe Dante and Omri Katz had the movie Matinee together, and to me, that's a highly underrated movie.
I honestly think "Matinee" is Joe Dante's best movie. Yes, better than Gremlins.
@@karlkarlos3545 I can accept that it's better than Gremlins, but I dunno. Gremlins 2 works for me on so many levels.
@@secretbootlegs Lol. Gremlins 2 is a different level of movie altogether. And it has Christopher Lee.
Weirdness capital of the world. Loved that show. Way ahead of its time.
I was a big fan as tween, catching it in reruns on various channels in the mid 90s. Loved the Tornado episode especially. Dante’s touch was all over the show and helped make it a true cult classic. And it’s influence helped lead to Gravity Falls, so I’ll always be grateful for that.
I watched Eerie, Indiana when it first aired in the early ‘90s and was a huge fan, I rewatched it on Amazon not long ago and was glad to see it still holds up today. Can’t say the same about the Other Dimension, which I didn’t even know existed until recently. I watched the first few episodes after binging the original series and was disappointed that it lacked the original’s satirical edge and penchant for surreal humor, plus it seemed directed at a much younger audience. I probably wouldn’t have liked it even if I’d watched it when it first aired in the late ‘90s, by then I was in high school and had completely aged out of the “horror for kids” stuff.
I watched it when it was on Fox in the late 90s, never knowing it was from the early 90s. I also had one of the books. I don't remember much, other than the name of the show and book, but I recall enjoying it.
I was also a fan of Twilight Zone and Goosebumps (and read quite a few of them).
Man this was my favourite show as a kid! Learned a lot and know going to binge the show. Thanks guys!
I LOVED THIS SHOW! Thank you so much for doing this video, I've wanted something like this for a long time
Oh man! I watched this show religiously when it was first on i got it on dvd at some point and it still holds up, particularly the series finale that deserves a place in the museum of television
I remember watching this here in the UK in the early 90s when I was about 7, I think during after school kid's programming. The only episode I remember is the weird life preserving Tupperware one.
Most underrated show ever.
I watched it so much in The Netherlands back in the day
I am forever grateful for Fox Kids. Do you remember the Twins of Destiny?? None of my friends my age seem to remember this show but it was my absolute favourite!
I was introduced to Eerie Indiana when it moved over to Fox Kids... speaking of Fox kids, I wish I could get my hands on the recording of the Fox Kids Countdown radio show. I loved waking up early on Sunday mornings and listening to Christopher Leary talk about the shows that aired that week and what was to come in the later season.
Yep, Fox picked it up because Goosebumps was doing good enough. I didn't realize it was an old show until that episode with Nikki Cox.
Scanning through the comments to see if anyone teased Dan about having the same mole on his neck as Omri Katz aka Marshall Teller.
Great video! I loved this show during its initial run, and was just talking with a friend how it would make a nice choice for a re-boot, with the original cast grown up.
A younger me saw this in open TV 📺 in the 90s. Me today looks back thinking how fortunate I was to see it.
Original run, I vaguely recall it being on YTV in Canada though I may be mistaken, that along with Are You Afraid of the Dark definitely kickstarted my love of fantasy and urban arcana
That feeling when you finally learn something new about something you enjoy. Good job!
I was waiting to hear when the show was on Fox Kids. I had no idea how old it was! I thought it was contemporary for Goosebumps, except not made for babies.
I'll never forget Omry's name, since the episode where he wakes up and is on a set. They demolished the fourth wall and it was scary because Simon was the actor who played him, not his comrade in solving mysteries. Also.. I honestly couldn't believe that was a real name as a kid.
I loved this series as a kid back in the day. Netflix needs to reboot this.
They already did, as a show called "Stranger Things."
eerie Indiana was awsome
Loved that show! Wow what a blast from the past. My parents wouldn’t let me stay up to watch Amazing Stories, but I saw every episode of Eerie when it aired; was so bummed when it got canceled.
Man, I was watching Amazing Stories, when I was 2 years old. I remember seeing that episode "Go to the Head of the Class", & being absolutely terrified. That episode has stuck with me, over the years, lol.
@@brandonpage7087 I don’t know what my parents’ deal was in 1985, but strict bedtime. By 1988 they were letting me rent Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm St videos, so go figure. I saw some episodes of AS later, but don’t remember any very well. There was one Twilight Zone Vol. 2 episode that stuck with me as a kid, where this young boy’s grandmother was a witch and at the end she died and possessed him, man that freaked me out; that and some scenes from Night Of The Comet I saw as a young boy haha.
I discovered Eerie, Indiana when it moved to Fox. It was on during the same period as all the Saban shows, like Big Bad Beetleborgs. Didn’t know it was created in 1992. WAY ahead of its time. 🐾
My Toy Galaxy wishlist is getting shows crossed off like crazy! As a Goosebumps kid, Eerie, Indiana was right in my wheelhouse and still remember feeling creeped out by the talking ATM.
That show creeped you out at first, but then you couldn't stop watching after. So good.
Ugh I absolutely loved that show
I use to half to find this time slot on NBC. This always move around alot.a lot. Shout-Out to Omari Katz.
Loved this show back in the day. I wish it could inspire either a revival or movie remake.
One of my favorite old shows
I reference the Tupperware episodes fairly regularly. People rarely know what I’m talking about.
I just cannot forget the 'Tupperware' episode, spooked me really good as a kid.
My girlfriend and I watch everything you release and I've been meaning to comment for a while. Exceptional content here, like always. The channel just keeps getting better! Loved the Manimal episode recently, BTW.
I have tried forever to remember that episode with the twins. I couldn't remember the show to save my life. Thanks for the memories jog
I remember The Other Dimension. It came out around a weird time in my life where I was just discovering actors could just be replaced but the characters were supposed to be the same. I had started watching Around the Twist (another "weird" show Fox aired) and they eventually replaced their whole cast with different actors. And Big Bad Beetleborgs had done the same with one of the leads. I found it all very unnerving
One of my all time favourite TV shows !!! I recently re-watched this and the first ever "HBO Original" Dream On ... I have very fond memories of both and they still stand up now.
I remember watching Eerie Indiana in the ate 90's and thinking it looked like it was an early 90's show. I never knew the history behind it. Great video!
So freaking HAPPY 😃 that you are showing this gem of a show. In the age of the 90s horror/Halloween hype of TV was so fun.
I loved Eerie. Looking back now, some of the episodes were super surreal and dealt with some pretty abstract content considering the age of the audience. Which I think in retrospect, was excellent.
I was 12/13 when it came out in the U.K. and I absolutely loved it! This was aired on channel 4 as you mentioned, at 6pm (can’t remember which day) which was a time slot where they had a few other American tv shows (like Hanging with Mr Cooper).
I’d love to see a modern day version of this.
It was ahead of its time , remember the plots of certain episodes to this day
I first saw Eerie, Indiana on Encore. I was an adult, but loved it. I really wish they had done another season. a lot of the problem was they didn't know how to market it.
This was great. My exposure to this show was from Fox Kids. I even had that Wendy’s door hangar!
I have such good memories of this show. My kid and I still watch it on Sundays when my Amazon sub is active.
Need a Netflix remake including the books as episodes.
Have you seen any netflix trends? Anything "good" loses support.
Imo.......one of the best shows of the early 90's. I loved this show. Always enjoy the history of videos, Dan.
I caught this show in its first run but only the foreverware pilot episode, I could nevet find it again for years, Ive owned that 5 disc series collection for at least 16 years now! Still watch it from time to time with people that havent seen it😊
I watched during the original run in '92. Now, my two oldest kids watch it on Disney+.
I’ve never forgotten the talking dogs. Bite the hand that feeds you. Chilling.
I loved this show!! Born in 78 I was the right age for this to be right in my wheelhouse. In one episode I distinctly remember a DeLorean showing up. ♥️
Oh dude, the brief mention of Strange Luck completely sent me down a rabbit hole.
Late 90's on Fox Kids, My favorite episode is the one where a horror movie star is released from his movie and the star is played by Tony Jay aka Judge Claude Frollo.
This show is incredible! I have a huge dvd collection and by far this is the one that I have watched the most , I think I’m obsessed! It’s a spooky fun ride , such a shame it didn’t get a proper second season, love it!
Great synopsis on a very underrated and under appreciated show. I was ravenous for it in 91 and when the DVD box set came out it was an immediate purchase. Kudos for name dropping The Burbs as well, another classic that is incredibly underrated yet absolutely brilliant.
Loved the show! Too bad it never found an audience at the time, because if it came out today it would be super popular. Also reminds me to check out the books.
Thanks for all the awesome content. Always excited when I see a new post. Keep up the great work!
I had never realized that Eerie as I watched it on Fox wasn't an original response to the XFiles. @ToyGalaxy I love these episodes, I learn so much about shows I enjoyed as a kid and teen.
NEVER heard of this.
I watched Freakylinks 10 years later.
Straightforward, engaging, and entertaining; so Mr. Dan, thanks to you and crew for a cool episode. That is all; I'm not feeling as wry as you were, and lo what a dearth of snark. 😉 Thanks as always for good content.
They could totally easily revive this series again, bringing back the original protagonists as parents to the new protags, pull a Goosebumps movie plotline and have the kids accidentally let the weird lost on the town again. Of have the kids end up moving there after their parents go missing on a mysterious trip back to the town. Or have it where taking the relics out of Eerie and something happening to scatter them makes a new town go weird. So many easy ideas. Though it would probably fail in the shadow of Stranger Things sadly.
Loved this show when it was originally on, thanks for the memories.
I spent about 20 years thinking Simon was played by Corey Feldman.
Wow. This video gives me some of the feels. The theme tune brings me right back to memories I didn't know I had. The dude in the atmosphere creeper the shit out of me. Good times
I have never watched the show before, but I see it referenced often on popular culture sites.
Awesome video, the show looks very unique.
Thank you for making the video.