As a lady born in '82, and with a TV babysitter, I couldn't agree more! In fairness, that's because we watched WUHF (now a Fox affiliate, but not in 91) mostly.
I tried to watch The Trouble With Larry when it premiered, but only about six minutes in the first episode was interrupted by the local news covering the arrest of a wanted criminal in the area. The breaking news coverage, which would have taken a few minutes to cover, at most, went on for more than two hours. No further episodes aired on the local network affiliate, as far as I know.
Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, and Matt LeBlanc were all available for friends only because their prior sitcom failed. How different that show might’ve looked.
I love watching these just to see familiar actors before they got famous. Like I had no idea Aries Spears acted before Mad TV or Danny Masterson was on a show before that 70's. Great vid keep it up.
I was a HUGE Perfect Strangers fan at the time and was also a HUGE fan of Bronson Pinchot. On top of that, I was a HUGE TV watcher during 1993 (I would write up my TV schedule of each week and use crayons to make it look fancy, that's how dedicated I was. Granted, I was only 9 at the time. LOL). With that said.... I had NO clue that Larry show even existed till now. To say they failed to properly advertise that show is an understatement. I would have watched it if I knew it existed.
@3:24 a long line of original Saved By The Bell wannabes. California Dreams and Hang Time (which signaled the arrival of Anthony Anderson) were my favorites because they were both very good.
lol okay, out of ALL the SbtB rip-offs during this time there were only TWO shows that I genuinely enjoyed and that was “The Guys Next Door” and “Running the Halls”. I TRIED my hardest to keep up with California Dreams but I stopped watching after the characters Matt and his sister left the show. Actually I gave all the “Teen NBC” shows a try: Malibu CA, Hang Time, City Guys, One World etc. SbtB set the standards so high other shows just didn’t compare (to me at least) and I HATED SbtB: The New Class…..to this day I STILL don’t understand how it lasted so long yet SbtB: The College Years only lasted a single season 🤦🏾♂️. But I digress….I was just SOMETHING about Running the Halls that I loved lol. Maybe it was the ridiculousness of the show or just the whole zany tings happening in a boarding school concept in general but all I know is, as kid when I found out it was cancelled I was actually a bit devastated lol. Damn I’m old, I’m 43 so that means I was around 11-12 years old during the “Teen NBC” block…..memories 😂😂
I remember South Of Sunset. I think the reason why the show was doomed to fail it’s because by 1993, CBS was airing news coverage of the Malibu Wildfires and those living in the East Coast were watching the World Series. I think it was an odd idea to release a show during a baseball coverage. FOX always does it all the time whenever they release a new show and move it to another night due to Baseball.
Surprised Briscoe County Jr didn’t make this list as Fox had thought of was going to be huge but last only one season. The X-Files then turned out to be the real breakout hit.
Fortunately for Bruce Campbell, he was able to star in the massive popular Xena, Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, not long after that.
My mom loved that show, and I can't say I blame her, because Bruce Campbell is awesome 😀 I remember another series they hyped up on Fox around the same time, called "Mantis." They thought that would be a big hit, but it didn't pan out either.
@@WinterSteele I remember Mantis! And the lovely Jessica Alba featuring in the equally short lived Dark Angel. Fortunately for her and Michael Weatherly it did not really damage their careers.
Well, I'm just glad back then when something sucked they just quietly took it off the air. Now if a show sucks you have to deal with the cast and crew on multiple screens calling you names and blaming you for their failures!
The only show I remember watching in 1993 was Running the Halls. Matthew Perry would go on 1 year later 2 star in the successful FRIENDS. Still can't believe he is no longer with us. R.I.P Matthew
The Trouble with Larry was too silly. It felt as if the producers thought calling him Larry was a witty spin on Perfect Strangers. Bronson Pinchot is still an amazing comedic actor, but nobody can pull off a show that was that overly silly.
@@IHateNicolasCage wrong again. Everybody I knew was smart and cool and well dressed. But most of all, they all would go crusader when fools talked ish about balki's new show.
Looking forward to 94! I know Battletech: The Animated Series was a series that only lasted for 1 season that comes to mind. Information is Ammunition. No Guts, No Galaxy!
How in the hell "Home Free" didn't land with having Skeletor in the cast is beyond me. It may have something to do with the creepy foot fetishist, Dan Schneider, also being in there.
Ugh, this is driving me insane. There was a police show that was filmed in my old neighborhood (Weston ON Canada) in the 90's that I believe aired once on Fox before it was abruptly cancelled. I used to know it but I've since forgot.
I would love to see a deeper dive into the Trouble With Larry. That sounds like SUCH a dumpster fire that would yield significantly more entertainment knowing behind the scenes stuff.
@@joeriveracomedy I haven't been able to find anything about a forced marriage but I am reading about Bijou Phillips and her whole family is seriously messed up.
One of the biggest problems with a lot of the television shows they did is when the original showrunner who got the series off the ground decides to leave and move on the networks put in somebody that's nothing but a stuffed shirt executive the series goes down the tubes
Wow, good eye. This tv show had very little video available online, so I had to fill it in with picture pans that was one random picture of a closed business on 66 the pan was longer originally but I replaced it with another picture somehow one random Frame remained in. I didn't even notice until now.
I remember Space Rangers and Key West. I actually really liked Key West and wish it would have gotten more seasons. Space Rangers was okay, a little cheesy - also I thought that laying down on your belly to navigate a space ship was a very poor design! That must have gotten really uncomfortable after a while!
I liked Space Rangers, they saved some $ on VFX by having "old fashioned" lead slinging guns rather than laser analogs. I'd recorded it, then bought the DVD with the unaired episodes. Of course, I also liked Misfits of Science and several other "weird" Sci Fi series around the same years.
@@johnparadox9429 I did like it, just thought it was a little cheesy. Still, Number One from Babylon 5 was their pilot, and the lady from NCIS was their boss! My brother bought the DVD set and I watched them again after many years. I also liked Misfits of Science - that one I do have on DVD.
@@mysticwolf75 Misfits was what introduced me to Courtney Cox. I remember after it was cancelled, Dean Paul Martin died doing his National Guard duty. 😪
@@johnparadox9429 Same here! I believe it was her first TV series. I was also saddened by the death of Dean Paul Martin shortly after the series ended - he died way too young.
I was 14 in '93, and I remember really liking Key West and being bummed it got canceled. I've thought about it a few times over the past few years, though I'd be hard-pressed to remember anything that happened in it. I did remember the Hemingway connection and I think of the show whenever he comes up.
Out of all these shows, I only remember "Key West". I didn't realize it was so short lived though. I never watched the show really, but I do remember it being on TV in the background from time to time (as we ALWAYS had the TV on, even if nobody was watching it lol). From that moment on, I never forgot Fisher Stevens' face. I'd always say "Hey, it's that guy from Key West!"
I only remembered 3 of them. "The Trouble with Larry", "Space Rangers" and "Key West". Only knew the first one from the ads, and thought it was a gimmick to keep Bronson Pinchot working. Space Rangers just happened to be on one night, but it didn't impress me. Caught an episode of Key West, but again didn't impress me.
Well, this time, I can say I've never seen any of them, but 3 of them, I've heard of at least. That being South Beach, Space Rangers, and Home Free. Maybe as commercials on VHS Tapes dad had, or maybe they were brought up in other TH-cam videos, can't remember for sure, but do remember hearing about them. And The Trouble With Larry, yeah, I could see the problem with the title right off the bat, with that guy starring in it, hearing the title, thought it would have been another spin off of Perfect Strangers, much like Family Matters was, but guess not. And here I thought Langoliers was the start of that actor's downfall. Guess it started before hand. Anyways, enjoyed the video. Thank you.
It's deeply weird seeing Thomas Gibson play the carefree Greg in Dharma & Greg and then transition into the ultra serious Agent Hotchner in Criminal Minds.
I grew up watching a lot of shows in the 90s and I briefly remember Route 66 only because they mentioned Allentown Pennsylvania as the guys Hometown and that's where I happen to live! And watching this video and seeing the picture of that highway sign of Route 222 towards Allentown just makes me feel giddy because I drive that route every day back and forth to work. Allentown doesn't get enough recognition in a lot of shows save for the Billy Joel song and in an episode of The X-Files and Supernatural, I believe.
Never knew Dan Schneider starred in a sitcom before his days at Nickelodeon. Makes me wonder what things would have been like for him sticking to acting and not stirring up so much controversy on the production side during his time at Nick.
@@IHateNicolasCageThe guy is a freak and was a complete douchebag but so far unlike Brian Peck and Jason Handy there's no proof of sexual abuse towards any of the kids...He made a lot of inappropriate content for Nickelodeon but once again...he was rewarded by the audience for it...The elephant in the room is how sexualizing young stars became a big business in Hollywood...both male and female. I remember all the magazines showing young actors...my sister and cousins had their room covered in posters and it was kind of weird how these guys were exploited as dream boyfriends for young girls...Dan Schneider was a product of that era's industry.
I was in college, so I don't remember any of these, but I do recall Jay Leno on the Tonight Show telling Dan Cortez how dumb it was that the Vette in his new show started immediately after being found dusty and dilapidated in an old barn. What a strange memory to still have. I wonder how Cox and Perry's future would have changed if their shows had succeeded? EDIT: I looked him up. it's spelled Cortese. My bad. He's still acting, but that's after largely disappearing for almost a decade.
That is amazing to remember such an obscure thing after all these years. Little did Cox and Perry know that the failure of those two shows would actually help jump start their careers.
Amazing, strange...it's a bizarre memory to still have and recall at this particular moment. A family member's birthday? Nah! An obscure Tonight show recollection of a Dan Cortez interview? Absolutely! Wasn't he on MTV? Wow, that is odd. I should stop thinking about my damaged 50 year old brain now. 😑Too much music television in the 80's I guess.@@TheReviewStudios
I haven't watched TV or anything Hollywood produced in about 15 years. Being so far removed from TV it makes the whole phenomena very interesting. In retrospect I think it's clear from the sorts of environments and settings of 80s, 90s and 2000s shows that they really were making shows for themselves or at minimum for the upper class. In their eyes the average 'middle class family' always lived in some, by today's standard, enormous multi-storey mansion. These 'average folk' were almost always experiencing the lifestyles of the rich and famous on their adventures as well while somehow affording it all on their 9-5 salaries. I think it really reflects how long this spoiled industry has been completely out of touch with reality.
@@MelB868 the easy answer to that is that I decided around that time that I was going to practice proper capitalism. Meaning I was only going to support the things I appreciated with my time and $. I would much rather give the underdog my time and $ than the dominating force
Back in the 80s/90s we were a 6 person single income family in a 2 story house that cost my parents about $125k. The house is worth over 800k now. That’s how the world used to be. It’s only “unrealistic” by today’s insane costs. That would be impossible today.
@@TheReviewStudios people forget in season three it was in the top 10 but then major Dad designing women and the Golden girls spin off Golden Palace or all put on Friday nights to compete with ABC’s TGIF. Very bad experiment because it resulted in all three shows getting canceled.
space force reminds me of another 90s show where teens had mechs, only recall one episode where they fought giant worms in ice caves. was live action with cgi.
I never heard of “South of Sunset” but that theme song sounds like a banger! It must be done by Glenn Frey I assume, since you mentioned he stared in the show.
That's the name! I remembered Space Rangers, or at least the episode I watched before the series got lost in the schedule shuffle on syndication...but I'd long forgot what it was called. A few gimmicky things stuck out, which still I recall all these years later. It was otherwise an average low-budget sci-fi show. At least now I know what it was. Thanks
Awesome! It wasn't easy to squeeze that one in because there was so little to go on. But it was sure to rekindle lost memories for a lot of people. Thrilled we were able to work it in!
I was an 80's kid and a VORACIOUS TV watcher (as most of us were). I don't remember most of these failed shows. Hence the "failed" part of this video title. At a little after the 12:40 mark you can see a young Jane Lynch as a sales woman in the clothing store from "Joe's Life". I spotted it and looked her up on IMDB and sure enough that's her.
I was 14 back in 1993 and I honestly don't remember any of those shows but I do remember a short-lived show in that year called Thea. I thought that show was pretty 20 but not very believable because Blackstone live or act like that for real. I'm shocked those 2 shows shows placed in South Florida on the beach didn't do better but as as a kid who grew up in mianineteen 93 was and will forever be known as the year postHurricane Andrew.Key West and most of MiamiWe're almost decimated so it probably made filming and travel very difficult. Even today things are kn post Andrew.
there was one cop show that featured a detective and his partner. The show was shot using the camera as the partner's point of view so all conversations were directed at the camera. Does any one remember this show?
@@WinterSteele I want to say that it was a drama. I just remember thinking that it was interesting using the camera like it was an actual person but I also remember there were no responses from the camera just almost a monologue from the other person directed at the camera??? Oh and the camera was a rookie detective.
I was surprised to not see the cute-and heavily-promoted-1993 show ‘Phenom’ on this list. Starring ‘Who’s the Boss?’ star Judith Light as the mother to a childhood tennis phenom played by ‘Home Alone’ star Angela Goethals and ‘Growing Pains’ star Ashley Johnson [and featuring a William Devane, Debra Jo Rupp & a young Sara Rue], I absolutely loved this all-too-short-lived show as a child! *[Maaajor ‘Blossom’ vibes, by the way!]
@@joaopedrobaggio4475 I have a cat named Chandler, I am very aware and saddened by Matthew Perry’s passing. I don’t think it’s necessary to be a downer on a comment that was intended to be positive. We can remember characters as they lived on our screens and those two brought so much laughter and joy to so many people.
@@joaopedrobaggio4475 Actually Matthew Perry is as we don't know if the FRIENDS writers have killed him off yet! So Currently in the FRIENDSVERSE Chandler Bing is still alive and married to Monica and w/ their Twins! As they haven't did a Revival yet!
Okay, I think I may have run into the point where I was transitioning into a proto-hipster teen because the only one of these I recognize at all is South Beach, which I ONLY think I recognize because I *think* they made have had some hot lady's leg in the commercials for it. It really says something that is the year I stopped recognizing most of the shows, too, because I LOVED Perfect Strangers and the only reason I can think of that I wouldn't have watched that stinker of a follow-up would be teen angst.
WTF! Back then as a teenager I was a couch potato watching and recording just about every show I came across, even if it was crap. I don’t remember any of these shows whatsoever!
I don't really remember any of these shows honestly, except for Key West. I never watched Key West, but I do remember that was a show that was on at this time.
Key West and another show that could of been on this list, Class of 1996, were hugely popular at my college. We only had 500 students and were in a rural area so really bored but they were fun shows to mock.
@MelB868 yeah, I would have been 13 and watching 60 hours of TV, but these are completely new to me. I do vaguely remember wondering why the two dudes from perfect strangers were never in anything else, but...
So many things about the Route 66 sequel! So the son inherited the first actual Corvette that disappeared in later seasons and was replaced with a Stingray! It must have been stashed away somewhere! Haha!
The Trouble with Larry is very similar to the 1940 Cary Grant film My Favorite Wife...not sure why they didn't just call the show that. Funny enough, I knew Courtney Cox from Ace Ventura before I saw a single episode of Friends.
On Home Free, It was confusing to see the lady from It's from It's A Living nice and loving. She was typecasted to me. It was fun seeing the computer nerd from Head Of The Class as a grown-up though.
Do you remember watching any of these?
Man and Machine was one of my favorites, but still, a hard watch, even back then.
Never heard of any of them haha
Where do you watch these shows?
They are pretty obscure, you can watch some low quality episodes right here on TH-cam
I stopped watching TV shows in '91 because there was NUTHIN' worth my time....as a matter o' fact, I don't remember much 'bout the '90s anyway.🤙😎🥃🥃🥃🥃
@@NorbertoFontanezyeah cool kids didn't watch TV like this.
Anyone remember “Herman’s Head”? It played on Fox during the time of the Tracey Ullman show. Thought it was a cute premise
I actually liked Herman's Head, and would watch it faithfully along with the Tracy Ullman show, (another favorite).
@pumpkinspice8184 Thank you. I had forgotten the Tracy Ullman Show had ended before Herman's Head.
I do
Watched that, Simpsons, In Living Color, Martin, Married with Children, and Get a Life. Fox had a 🔥 line-up at that time
That actually ran for 3 seasons.
16:50 😳Dan Schinider jump scare
11:54 Danny Masterson jump scare lol
@@etownshawnI like Masterson and doubt he actually did anything wrong
You mean Dan "get in the van" Schneider?
Danny & Dan. Damn! 😮😂
One actor is in jail one went on to become a notorious sex predator and one is now dead. If a show was ever cursed it was this one.
As someone who was born in 81' and watched a ton of sitcom television at the time, I recall absolutely none of these shows lol
A few years earlier and same. Not a one.
As a lady born in '82, and with a TV babysitter, I couldn't agree more!
In fairness, that's because we watched WUHF (now a Fox affiliate, but not in 91) mostly.
Same. I was born in 1982. I knew almost all the shows from his 1991 video, but none of these.
Same here 81 ' baby never seen any of these shows
Me too. But I do remember 1 tv show Joe’s Life.
I've been loving these videos!
I'm so glad! Thank you
I tried to watch The Trouble With Larry when it premiered, but only about six minutes in the first episode was interrupted by the local news covering the arrest of a wanted criminal in the area. The breaking news coverage, which would have taken a few minutes to cover, at most, went on for more than two hours. No further episodes aired on the local network affiliate, as far as I know.
Wow
It was cancelled before the fall season officially started.
Probably better you didn't waste your time 😅 jk
Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, and Matt LeBlanc were all available for friends only because their prior sitcom failed. How different that show might’ve looked.
And I just remembered that Lisa Kudrow played Phoebe’s twin Ursula in Mad About You.
It could have been watchable with other actors.
@@stevenhochlander1630Never liked that show
Lisa Kudrow had also been cast as Roz on "Fraiser" but was replaced last minute.
It’s also a good thing that Ross’s storyline in NYPD Blue in the first season was cut down
Poor Mary Page Keller. She was too talented and charming to be the queen of 90s cancelled sitcoms
@@markelijio6012 Those were guest appearances of one for two episodes. She never starred in a hit a show.
I love watching these just to see familiar actors before they got famous. Like I had no idea Aries Spears acted before Mad TV or Danny Masterson was on a show before that 70's. Great vid keep it up.
Thanks for watching more to come
I was a HUGE Perfect Strangers fan at the time and was also a HUGE fan of Bronson Pinchot. On top of that, I was a HUGE TV watcher during 1993 (I would write up my TV schedule of each week and use crayons to make it look fancy, that's how dedicated I was. Granted, I was only 9 at the time. LOL). With that said.... I had NO clue that Larry show even existed till now. To say they failed to properly advertise that show is an understatement. I would have watched it if I knew it existed.
@3:24 a long line of original Saved By The Bell wannabes. California Dreams and Hang Time (which signaled the arrival of Anthony Anderson) were my favorites because they were both very good.
Yes
lol okay, out of ALL the SbtB rip-offs during this time there were only TWO shows that I genuinely enjoyed and that was “The Guys Next Door” and “Running the Halls”. I TRIED my hardest to keep up with California Dreams but I stopped watching after the characters Matt and his sister left the show. Actually I gave all the “Teen NBC” shows a try: Malibu CA, Hang Time, City Guys, One World etc. SbtB set the standards so high other shows just didn’t compare (to me at least) and I HATED SbtB: The New Class…..to this day I STILL don’t understand how it lasted so long yet SbtB: The College Years only lasted a single season 🤦🏾♂️.
But I digress….I was just SOMETHING about Running the Halls that I loved lol. Maybe it was the ridiculousness of the show or just the whole zany tings happening in a boarding school concept in general but all I know is, as kid when I found out it was cancelled I was actually a bit devastated lol.
Damn I’m old, I’m 43 so that means I was around 11-12 years old during the “Teen NBC” block…..memories 😂😂
I remember South Of Sunset. I think the reason why the show was doomed to fail it’s because by 1993, CBS was airing news coverage of the Malibu Wildfires and those living in the East Coast were watching the World Series. I think it was an odd idea to release a show during a baseball coverage. FOX always does it all the time whenever they release a new show and move it to another night due to Baseball.
Great point thanks for sharing.
Was this on CBS or Fox? I thought CBS.
@@W81Researcher It was on CBS. FOX didn’t start their sports programming until 1994.
It also aired up against Home Improvement and Melrose Place which were the two of the biggest shows at that time
I remember all these shows not because I watched them but mostly because I was an avid TV Guide collector.
If you have TV Guide you don't need TV.
Is this Frank Costanza talking?
so you're saying you're a hoarder
Surprised Briscoe County Jr didn’t make this list as Fox had thought of was going to be huge but last only one season. The X-Files then turned out to be the real breakout hit.
Fortunately for Bruce Campbell, he was able to star in the massive popular Xena, Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, not long after that.
Briscoe County Jr was awesome!!
My mom loved that show, and I can't say I blame her, because Bruce Campbell is awesome 😀
I remember another series they hyped up on Fox around the same time, called "Mantis." They thought that would be a big hit, but it didn't pan out either.
@@WinterSteele I remember Mantis! And the lovely Jessica Alba featuring in the equally short lived Dark Angel. Fortunately for her and Michael Weatherly it did not really damage their careers.
@@WinterSteele Bruce Campbell was the only reason I even tried Burn Notice
Well, I'm just glad back then when something sucked they just quietly took it off the air. Now if a show sucks you have to deal with the cast and crew on multiple screens calling you names and blaming you for their failures!
Imagine. If "Home Free" had been a success and had multiple seasons, Matthew Perry wouldn't have been available to be in "Friends".
Maybe he would be alive today 🤨
It’s probably best everyone got away from Dan Schneider as quickly as possible.
@@IHateNicolasCage Idk, if it was a hit maybe he wouldn't have gotten a job with Nickelodeon
He would still be alive since it was Ross that pulled him underwater.
Imagine if “The Trouble with Larry” had been a success and had multiple seasons, Courtney Cox wouldn’t have been available for “Friends”.
R.I.P. Matthew Perry
The only show I remember watching in 1993 was Running the Halls.
Matthew Perry would go on 1 year later 2 star in the successful FRIENDS. Still can't believe he is no longer with us. R.I.P Matthew
Thanks for the video and Merry Christmas everyone!🎄
You're welcome. Merry Christmas
The Trouble with Larry was too silly. It felt as if the producers thought calling him Larry was a witty spin on Perfect Strangers.
Bronson Pinchot is still an amazing comedic actor, but nobody can pull off a show that was that overly silly.
Absolutely, Thanks for watching
I disagree. You guys just don't get it.
@@russell2910 Neither did anyone else, apparently.
@@IHateNicolasCage wrong again. Everybody I knew was smart and cool and well dressed. But most of all, they all would go crusader when fools talked ish about balki's new show.
Fun fact. Pierce brosdon and Bronson pinch off are brothers.
Looking forward to 94! I know Battletech: The Animated Series was a series that only lasted for 1 season that comes to mind. Information is Ammunition. No Guts, No Galaxy!
Fond Memories of "Key West" I had almost forgotten it...thanks for the reminder!
You're welcome. It's fun to rediscover these shows and the memories they bring.
You know a show’s going to fail when it steals a gag from “I Love Lucy”.
How in the hell "Home Free" didn't land with having Skeletor in the cast is beyond me. It may have something to do with the creepy foot fetishist, Dan Schneider, also being in there.
Chandler Bing and Skeletor is a combo I never expected. :O
but yeah, creepy Dan taints it.
Ugh, this is driving me insane. There was a police show that was filmed in my old neighborhood (Weston ON Canada) in the 90's that I believe aired once on Fox before it was abruptly cancelled. I used to know it but I've since forgot.
Hmm, do you remember anything else about it ?
Backstrom?
Maybe it was Lawless with Brian Bosworth
Cop Rock?
I really like your new content. It's enjoyable and I wish you a lot of luck.
Thank you very much! It took a little while to find what people want.
@@TheReviewStudios you figured it out. To answer your question, I don't remember any of those shows.
I would love to see a deeper dive into the Trouble With Larry. That sounds like SUCH a dumpster fire that would yield significantly more entertainment knowing behind the scenes stuff.
Can you speak on shows that were on the tv segment TGIF such as Family Matters, Steps by Steps, and etc.
Man, Florida got hit hard with cancelation in 93
Eagle Eye Cherry had a TV show?!
Crazy
Save tonight and watch my show.- Eagle Eye Cherry.
Ironic seeing Danny Masterson displayed here knowing his current fate.
Being forced to marry Bijou Philips was indeed a tragedy. Especially after what Ari Shafir did to her.
@@joeriveracomedy I haven't been able to find anything about a forced marriage but I am reading about Bijou Phillips and her whole family is seriously messed up.
Horrible misuse of "ironic"
Prison might be preferable to being on a sitcom.
Don't remember any of these, but when you get to 94's failed shows I'll remember Thunder in paradise
14:14 Did this show happen to air on Fox, by chance?
CBS
The first Firefly
@@jayman9910 I'm sorry that you know the pain :( For me, my first encounters with Fox doing this was either M.A.N.T.I.S. or Sliders.
@@TheReviewStudios Not too surprising, haha. Thank you for the info and your amazing vids. Just found your channel and am binging.
Someone once thought a show about a dude being dragged off by a baboon during his honeymoon was going to be a hit? lol
Absolutely ridiculous story line
It worked for Chris Rock on Pootie Tang.
@@joeriveracomedycept Chris came back.
One of the biggest problems with a lot of the television shows they did is when the original showrunner who got the series off the ground decides to leave and move on the networks put in somebody that's nothing but a stuffed shirt executive the series goes down the tubes
What's with the Barstow Cafe frame @00:06:31?
Wow, good eye. This tv show had very little video available online, so I had to fill it in with picture pans that was one random picture of a closed business on 66 the pan was longer originally but I replaced it with another picture somehow one random Frame remained in. I didn't even notice until now.
Space Rangers having that cgi in '93 and being on tv is actually quite impressive
Being on CBS it had the bar set too high. It probably would have worked in syndication. Too bad the Sci Fi channel wasn't into original shows in 93.
I remember Space Rangers and Key West. I actually really liked Key West and wish it would have gotten more seasons. Space Rangers was okay, a little cheesy - also I thought that laying down on your belly to navigate a space ship was a very poor design! That must have gotten really uncomfortable after a while!
Key West was a good show. Can't believe he talked about the show and didn't mention the crazy finale alien abduction lol.
I liked Space Rangers, they saved some $ on VFX by having "old fashioned" lead slinging guns rather than laser analogs. I'd recorded it, then bought the DVD with the unaired episodes. Of course, I also liked Misfits of Science and several other "weird" Sci Fi series around the same years.
@@johnparadox9429 I did like it, just thought it was a little cheesy. Still, Number One from Babylon 5 was their pilot, and the lady from NCIS was their boss! My brother bought the DVD set and I watched them again after many years. I also liked Misfits of Science - that one I do have on DVD.
@@mysticwolf75 Misfits was what introduced me to Courtney Cox. I remember after it was cancelled, Dean Paul Martin died doing his National Guard duty. 😪
@@johnparadox9429 Same here! I believe it was her first TV series. I was also saddened by the death of Dean Paul Martin shortly after the series ended - he died way too young.
I was 14 in '93, and I remember really liking Key West and being bummed it got canceled. I've thought about it a few times over the past few years, though I'd be hard-pressed to remember anything that happened in it. I did remember the Hemingway connection and I think of the show whenever he comes up.
Another one I liked around that time was Class of '96. Don't think that lasted long either.
I actually remember Space Rangers! That show was cool to a kid in the 90s
Out of all these shows, I only remember "Key West". I didn't realize it was so short lived though. I never watched the show really, but I do remember it being on TV in the background from time to time (as we ALWAYS had the TV on, even if nobody was watching it lol). From that moment on, I never forgot Fisher Stevens' face. I'd always say "Hey, it's that guy from Key West!"
How did I immediately recognize the "South of Sunset" theme? One episode aired? Crazy! I can't remember where I put my keys.
It's funny how that works sometimes
I don't remember any of these shows! I have recently found out about space rangers though.
I only remembered 3 of them. "The Trouble with Larry", "Space Rangers" and "Key West". Only knew the first one from the ads, and thought it was a gimmick to keep Bronson Pinchot working. Space Rangers just happened to be on one night, but it didn't impress me. Caught an episode of Key West, but again didn't impress me.
16:46 Dan 'im on this show, hope to see some toes' Schneider
Never heard of any of these shows.
I really enjoyed Key West, and was very disappointed when it was cancelled. Great ensemble cast of eccentric characters.
Well, this time, I can say I've never seen any of them, but 3 of them, I've heard of at least. That being South Beach, Space Rangers, and Home Free. Maybe as commercials on VHS Tapes dad had, or maybe they were brought up in other TH-cam videos, can't remember for sure, but do remember hearing about them. And The Trouble With Larry, yeah, I could see the problem with the title right off the bat, with that guy starring in it, hearing the title, thought it would have been another spin off of Perfect Strangers, much like Family Matters was, but guess not. And here I thought Langoliers was the start of that actor's downfall. Guess it started before hand. Anyways, enjoyed the video. Thank you.
Its nice to see you back again, yeah 93 was a tough year I struggled to even find enough clips for this video
9:46 - Glenn "Fray" 🤦♂️😅😂
Sorry
"The trouble with Larry" reworked the "uncle Buck" ad
It is deeply weird to see Bronson Pinchot in Perfect Strangers…and then see him in The Langoliers where he plays an insane killer
Definitely, for me its weird to hear him without a heavy accent like in Perfect Strangers and Beverly Hills Cop.
It's deeply weird seeing Thomas Gibson play the carefree Greg in Dharma & Greg and then transition into the ultra serious Agent Hotchner in Criminal Minds.
@@keithtorgersen9664 I haven't seen Criminal Minds, but that does sound odd O_O
AND HE DID IT DELIBERATELY!
@@TheReviewStudioswhich is probably why he went back to doing an accent when he was a stylist in the final season(s) of Step by Step
I grew up watching a lot of shows in the 90s and I briefly remember Route 66 only because they mentioned Allentown Pennsylvania as the guys Hometown and that's where I happen to live! And watching this video and seeing the picture of that highway sign of Route 222 towards Allentown just makes me feel giddy because I drive that route every day back and forth to work. Allentown doesn't get enough recognition in a lot of shows save for the Billy Joel song and in an episode of The X-Files and Supernatural, I believe.
I remember Johnny Bago. Hilarious. Anyone else remember that one? Needs to be here.
Never knew Dan Schneider starred in a sitcom before his days at Nickelodeon. Makes me wonder what things would have been like for him sticking to acting and not stirring up so much controversy on the production side during his time at Nick.
Abuse of children isn’t “controversy”
He was in Head Of The Class during the 1980s.
Freezing cold take.
@@IHateNicolasCageThe guy is a freak and was a complete douchebag but so far unlike Brian Peck and Jason Handy there's no proof of sexual abuse towards any of the kids...He made a lot of inappropriate content for Nickelodeon but once again...he was rewarded by the audience for it...The elephant in the room is how sexualizing young stars became a big business in Hollywood...both male and female. I remember all the magazines showing young actors...my sister and cousins had their room covered in posters and it was kind of weird how these guys were exploited as dream boyfriends for young girls...Dan Schneider was a product of that era's industry.
He'd still ask for toes.
I'm amazed I never heard any of these shows, but of course its nice to recognize Alot of these actors!!
Very interesting.
I was in college, so I don't remember any of these, but I do recall Jay Leno on the Tonight Show telling Dan Cortez how dumb it was that the Vette in his new show started immediately after being found dusty and dilapidated in an old barn. What a strange memory to still have. I wonder how Cox and Perry's future would have changed if their shows had succeeded? EDIT: I looked him up. it's spelled Cortese. My bad. He's still acting, but that's after largely disappearing for almost a decade.
That is amazing to remember such an obscure thing after all these years. Little did Cox and Perry know that the failure of those two shows would actually help jump start their careers.
Amazing, strange...it's a bizarre memory to still have and recall at this particular moment. A family member's birthday? Nah! An obscure Tonight show recollection of a Dan Cortez interview? Absolutely! Wasn't he on MTV? Wow, that is odd. I should stop thinking about my damaged 50 year old brain now. 😑Too much music television in the 80's I guess.@@TheReviewStudios
Nbc loved Dan Cortese giving him shine on Seinfeld & SNL Stefan reviews.
I still love the opening theme for space rangers.
And how could you not mention Cary tagawa and linda hunt being in it?
Wait, was that Dan "The Foot Fan" Schneider?
Yes, it is that creepy bastard
No, that was Dan "Ten Toes, Young Hoes" Schneider.
Perfect Strangers. Balki or whatever his name was. Same crazy guy in Langoliers.
I haven't watched TV or anything Hollywood produced in about 15 years. Being so far removed from TV it makes the whole phenomena very interesting. In retrospect I think it's clear from the sorts of environments and settings of 80s, 90s and 2000s shows that they really were making shows for themselves or at minimum for the upper class. In their eyes the average 'middle class family' always lived in some, by today's standard, enormous multi-storey mansion. These 'average folk' were almost always experiencing the lifestyles of the rich and famous on their adventures as well while somehow affording it all on their 9-5 salaries. I think it really reflects how long this spoiled industry has been completely out of touch with reality.
Good point thanks
Why
@@MelB868 the easy answer to that is that I decided around that time that I was going to practice proper capitalism. Meaning I was only going to support the things I appreciated with my time and $. I would much rather give the underdog my time and $ than the dominating force
Back in the 80s/90s we were a 6 person single income family in a 2 story house that cost my parents about $125k. The house is worth over 800k now. That’s how the world used to be. It’s only “unrealistic” by today’s insane costs. That would be impossible today.
It continued well into the modern day. Watching the Goldbergs, I found myself often being like "God, these people seem to just have unlimited money!"
Gotta sample the theme song to these shows. Its so much better and nostalgic with the music.
Geez, no wonder I spent the 90s fighting with my now ex-wife.
Tell me you don't know the Eagles without telling me you don't know the Eagles.
Major Dad was cancelled to make room for the Trouble with Larry. Talk about a blunder.
Major Dad was a major deal back in the day. Surprising sometimes the way things turn out. Thank you for watching!
@@TheReviewStudios people forget in season three it was in the top 10 but then major Dad designing women and the Golden girls spin off Golden Palace or all put on Friday nights to compete with ABC’s TGIF. Very bad experiment because it resulted in all three shows getting canceled.
People seem to forget Courtney Cox was on Family Ties as Lauren.
space force reminds me of another 90s show where teens had mechs, only recall one episode where they fought giant worms in ice caves. was live action with cgi.
I never heard of “South of Sunset” but that theme song sounds like a banger! It must be done by Glenn Frey I assume, since you mentioned he stared in the show.
That's the name! I remembered Space Rangers, or at least the episode I watched before the series got lost in the schedule shuffle on syndication...but I'd long forgot what it was called. A few gimmicky things stuck out, which still I recall all these years later. It was otherwise an average low-budget sci-fi show. At least now I know what it was. Thanks
Awesome! It wasn't easy to squeeze that one in because there was so little to go on. But it was sure to rekindle lost memories for a lot of people. Thrilled we were able to work it in!
I never heard of these shows.
I was an 80's kid and a VORACIOUS TV watcher (as most of us were). I don't remember most of these failed shows. Hence the "failed" part of this video title. At a little after the 12:40 mark you can see a young Jane Lynch as a sales woman in the clothing store from "Joe's Life". I spotted it and looked her up on IMDB and sure enough that's her.
Wow crazy
Surprisingly, I only remember one of these shows and it's "Key West". The rest I've never heard of ever.
Dan Cortese of MTv fame played the sidekick in the Route 66 reboot
I was 14 back in 1993 and I honestly don't remember any of those shows but I do remember a short-lived show in that year called Thea. I thought that show was pretty 20 but not very believable because Blackstone live or act like that for real. I'm shocked those 2 shows shows placed in South Florida on the beach didn't do better but as as a kid who grew up in mianineteen 93 was and will forever be known as the year postHurricane Andrew.Key West and most of MiamiWe're almost decimated so it probably made filming and travel very difficult. Even today things are kn post Andrew.
there was one cop show that featured a detective and his partner. The show was shot using the camera as the partner's point of view so all conversations were directed at the camera. Does any one remember this show?
I'll have to get back with you on that
@@TheReviewStudios thanks
@@WinterSteele I want to say that it was a drama. I just remember thinking that it was interesting using the camera like it was an actual person but I also remember there were no responses from the camera just almost a monologue from the other person directed at the camera??? Oh and the camera was a rookie detective.
@@WinterSteele honestly I don't remember who starred in it.
I was surprised to not see the cute-and heavily-promoted-1993 show ‘Phenom’ on this list. Starring ‘Who’s the Boss?’ star Judith Light as the mother to a childhood tennis phenom played by ‘Home Alone’ star Angela Goethals and ‘Growing Pains’ star Ashley Johnson [and featuring a William Devane, Debra Jo Rupp & a young Sara Rue], I absolutely loved this all-too-short-lived show as a child!
*[Maaajor ‘Blossom’ vibes, by the way!]
Funny you mention that, we're working on some Blossom right now! Thanks for watching and for commenting too!
@@TheReviewStudios 👌❤️…..and I just saw the ‘93 show I was talking about in the next video because it was “canceled in ‘94.” Y’all don’t miss a beat!
Very glad Monica and Chandler found their way home to Friends after these failed TV shows. ❤
Yes!
aw.
Unfortunatelly now, Chandler is dead.
@@joaopedrobaggio4475 I have a cat named Chandler, I am very aware and saddened by Matthew Perry’s passing. I don’t think it’s necessary to be a downer on a comment that was intended to be positive. We can remember characters as they lived on our screens and those two brought so much laughter and joy to so many people.
@@joaopedrobaggio4475 Actually Matthew Perry is as we don't know if the FRIENDS writers have killed him off yet! So Currently in the FRIENDSVERSE Chandler Bing is still alive and married to Monica and w/ their Twins! As they haven't did a Revival yet!
Okay, I think I may have run into the point where I was transitioning into a proto-hipster teen because the only one of these I recognize at all is South Beach, which I ONLY think I recognize because I *think* they made have had some hot lady's leg in the commercials for it.
It really says something that is the year I stopped recognizing most of the shows, too, because I LOVED Perfect Strangers and the only reason I can think of that I wouldn't have watched that stinker of a follow-up would be teen angst.
I missed all of these shows. Working and college took up all my time.
WTF! Back then as a teenager I was a couch potato watching and recording just about every show I came across, even if it was crap. I don’t remember any of these shows whatsoever!
I don't really remember any of these shows honestly, except for Key West. I never watched Key West, but I do remember that was a show that was on at this time.
Thanks for watching.
Oh man...My ex-wife & I LOVED Key West. So much so, that one of our daughters is named after a character from the show.
I actually liked Key West and hated that it got cancelled but Fisher Stevens found better work on Early Edition with Kyle Chandler.
I really liked Early Edition. I used to watch it with my mom. 😊
Early Edition: Wow classic
Does anyone remember from around this time the show Phenom and Shaky Ground with Matt Frewer?
I remember Phenom - the daughter was a tennis player.
Does any remember the show renegade and sliders those are shows they should reboot and also in the heat of the night
We should cover the entire In The Heat Of The Night series! Right? The background music alone is worth the trip down memory lane.
The only show I remember from this line up was Route 66, only because of the Corvette and Dan Cortese was kind of a MTV star.
I remember some of these titles but none of these series.
Key West and another show that could of been on this list, Class of 1996, were hugely popular at my college. We only had 500 students and were in a rural area so really bored but they were fun shows to mock.
9:50 Pronunciation- Frey (Fry) 🤦♂️
a lot of people make fun of these series, but many of these disasters started many a career
Man i dont remember any of these!
its probably a good thing
I don't remember any of these either and I was like 13
@MelB868 yeah, I would have been 13 and watching 60 hours of TV, but these are completely new to me. I do vaguely remember wondering why the two dudes from perfect strangers were never in anything else, but...
@@TheReviewStudios maybe I'll have better luck for the 1994 video :)
So many things about the Route 66 sequel! So the son inherited the first actual Corvette that disappeared in later seasons and was replaced with a Stingray! It must have been stashed away somewhere! Haha!
I remember Key West. There were TONS of promos weeks before it played. I kinda liked it, but I guess most Nielson box owners did not.
Home Free, is that the just the 10 of us set? with Brooke Theiss in the cast?
Dont remember running the halls; i do remember tnbc. That took me back.
I remember watching Route 66 and Space Rangers
The Trouble with Larry is very similar to the 1940 Cary Grant film My Favorite Wife...not sure why they didn't just call the show that. Funny enough, I knew Courtney Cox from Ace Ventura before I saw a single episode of Friends.
"Space Rangers?" Who was on drugs enough to air that??!!
On Home Free, It was confusing to see the lady from It's from It's A Living nice and loving. She was typecasted to me. It was fun seeing the computer nerd from Head Of The Class as a grown-up though.
.... I remember that The Trouble with Larry commercial. I'm kinda freaking out.