Don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, Bubba
The late 80s...I worked 2nd shift so my Wife recorded Married with Children for me on our brand new state of the art. $800 VCR from Highland Appliance!
You have to give Fox credit. Three of their first season's shows are still very well known even today. *• The Tracey Ullman Show* *• Married with Children* *• 21 Jump Street*
No he's right nobody cares or remembers the Tracy Ullman show! How ironic it is,that show lasted only 4 seasons and the Simpsons have gone on for 35 and counting! ... Wonder if she ever got jealous! 😆
@@superstarreviews9937 You can't speak for everyone. Tracey Ullman's Fox show is very well remembered and the fact that it only last four seasons shouldn't matter. Give me a break...The Simpsons just doesn't have the same "bite" now that it did in 1989-90.
The Gary Shandling Show was pure gold, one of the first metaphor series, a young Matthew Perry on Second Chance, the birth of the Simpsons, and the crown jewel, Married With Children
That 21 Jump Street theme takes me back!.... I'm a little teary eyed hearing it again. I was 12 years old, not a care in the world... no worries. Thanks for the memories
Which was lampshaded on a Simpsons episode: BART: Hey Dad, let's see what's on that new Warner Bros. channel...(turns on TV) MICHIGAN J. FROG singing: Coming up next on the WB Another great show that nobody will see!
Oddly, when The Tracey Ullman Show aired in the UK, BBC thought that The Simpsons was so poor that they edited it out of the show when they broadcast it
Very interesting piece of history I remember when fox first launched and years later I couldn't remember half the shows in this video. Also forgot Tracey Ullman was a debut show. Great blast from the past thanks for posting.
You would not believe how amazing a new broadcast network with original programming was to a kid growing up in rural Texas when my only option were broadcast channels. This was a huge improvement over the indy UHF channels re-broadcasting 60s era sitcoms & dramas. Not to mention breaking the stagnation of the big three. In spite of nostalgia, you would have to pry my current thousands of hours of on demand programming from my cold dead hands.
I grew up in a small town and had the same experience. Sometimes I could turn the antenna and get Fox from another market. They’d play some shows at different times.
@@5roundsrapid263 I lived in the Texas Panhandle in 1987-88 and with an antenna and some aluminum foil, I could pick up Channel 14 in Amarillo, Channel 34 in Lubbock, Channel 18 in Wichita Falls and sometimes Channel 25 in OKC. All were Fox stations.
I love these complications... Brings back such good memories... I was 5 yrs old watchin married with children and Tracy ullman with my dad...remember thats how the Simpson's started?, as a small lil skit during TRACY ULLMAN? Wow...how time flies
Everybody starts somewhere. Matt Perry in Second Chance and Randee Heller from Karate Kid franchise. Couldn't imagine remembering this show. Interesting retrospective. Thank you for putting this together.
I dont care what any one says That fox Sunday schedule rocked. 21 jump street werewolf Married with children Tracy Ullman and Duet was awesome. Damn, Fox didnt let shows gel back then and would pull or change them way to quick which lead to failures . Damn, I miss werewolf the most.
The clip at the beginning, with Katey Sagal and Ed O'Neill whose show Married with Children was an afterthought when the first Fox lineup was announced.
"Duet" was the first of these shows to get a spin-off. "Werewolf" was underrated. It needs a reboot. Except for "Mr. President" and "Women in Prison," I remember every one of these shows.
i was 7 back then, but i still remember these shows. my fave was Werewolf, looooooooooooooooved it, wish they would release it on dvd, though i do have a bootlegged version of the series. i miss the late 80's, brings back so many memories.
I remember being really into fox back then, because all the shows I loved were there. Married with Children, Gary Shandling, Tracy Ullman, Brisco County jr, even Women in Prison was decent, I thought. Fox had guts back then to make "Edgy" tv.
That was the point at the time. Fox was doing offbeat shows because they were trying to attract an audience as this new network. They actually did this for several years.
That was the idea of Fox, to do more offbeat stuff. Notice in the first few years of Fox's history they did that. Of course, they weren't proud of MWC, the jerks.
Duet actually had a pretty good run. Ran for 2 and a half seasons then was re-tooled and re-named Open House and ran for a season. Interesting thing about this is that on Duet Mary Page Keller was the female lead and Alison LaPlaca a supporting character. On Open House LaPlaca was the lead and Keller was the supporting character. Ellen Degeneres was also on it as the receptionist.
I remember loving The New Adventures of Beans Baxter! It was created and directed (and opening animated) by "Savage" Steve Holland, the mad genius who gave us Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer! I always thought it was cool and had that wonderfully quirky, odd sense of humor Holland brought to the aforementioned films! Would love for it to get a home media release!
It's interesting to see Kurtwood Smith was around at the beginning of Fox with Beans Baxter, since he became so synonymous with the network years later on That 70s Show.
That is cool they brought him back years later for one of their most popular sitcoms. I guess they were paying homage to him in a way, since he was there in the beginning. I Wonder if people first saw that 70s show if they thought “Hey that’s that guy from Beans Baxter!”
"Werewolf" used to scare the bee-jeezus out of me, as an 8-year-old kid, but still watched rivited! Hard to believe it's been 34 years, since these shows were on the air.
To be expected from a brand new network back then. Having Married With Children hit so big was huge for Fox. I watched some real turds on the early network.
OMG!!!! The memories!!! Damn I miss tv like this!!! 21 Jumpstreet, Werewolf, and Married w/Children was what made Sunday night awesome. Despite knowing I had school the next day. LOL
The last era of creative television shows. When fox was the renegade network. Fox was hitting home runs with each show. When was the last time a new network was doing that.
@Necroglobule Fun fact: Julia Campbell is married to Jay Karnes, who played Dutch Wagenbaugh, Pounder's partner, on The Shield. In fact, Campbell herself was in the final episode.
Werewolf had serious potential. It probably would've lasted longer had it originally been scheduled on Sunday night instead of Saturday. By the time they moved it to Sunday, the damage had been done, so to speak.
I remember the debut of the prime time lineup and loved 21 Jump Street and the Tracey Ulman Show and grew to love Married with Children. The staying power of the latter really surprised me, but it was kind of a spoof on sitcoms which flooded 80's television lineups. I was also surprised to see the Simpsons (which came out of Tracey Ulman) still on TV today with new episodes!
We didn't have cable until about 15ish years later. Yes, FOX is broadcast but we only got ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS clearly. Anything else was fuzzy. But, I still remember several of these shows. I know of 21 Jump Street and Tracy Ullman but never watched. I would have been 8 at this point and 9pm was bedtime then. I do remember Women in Prison and Beans Baxter. I loved Beans.
Kristin My household did not get also cable(not counting HBO) until few years later when i went away to college. I was lucky growing up in NYC/Brooklyn to live in a high rise apartment building and late at night getting a couple of UHF Tv stations out of town.Mainly Philadelphia's Ch. 29n(now a Fox station)and Ch. 17 so I saw alot of the Philadelphia pro sports teams games like the Phillies, Flyers and Sixers. As a then 14 year old kid in spring/summer 1987, it was cool to see new programming and shows. Granted some of the shows was awful. Still cool looking back on the very early days of the Fox network 30 years later in 2017.
In Dallas-FW, if I recall correctly FOX started on the incredibly weak Channel-27 before a brand new station came later at 33, they made a huge deal out of it. Of course after a while channel-4 switched from CBS to FOX.
@@floydlooney6837 Floyd the only reason many cities such as Dallas/FT Worth, was able to switch to Fox on a much better VHF (in days of analog TV)channel was because of the NFL. Most of the affiliate switches occurred in the locations of the bigger NFC Conference, i.e Dallas-Cowboys, Atlanta-Falcons, Milwaukee/ Green Bay-Packers being the prime examples. Most stories confirm Fox Owner Rupert Mudrock got into the NFL because his early Fox Affiliates was being wooed by then Mid 1990's new challenging rivals the WB and CW. As most of you know, by 2006, the WB and UPN merged creating the CW Network. The NFL and soon after MLB Baseball is what made Fox stay on the air for good.
@BMT That was back when Fox was primarily on low-powered UHF stations (channels between 14 and 69). The Bundys had an older model TV set and that was the only way receive that station.
@@floydlooney6837 Channel 27 was never a Fox station. However, it is currently a sister station to Fox4. Channel 33 started in 1980 as a Spanish language station. In 1984, it became a Metromedia affiliate. Then, in 1986 when Metromedia merged with 20th Century Fox and formed Fox broadcasting, Channel 33 became Fox and remained until 1995. Then, 33 became the WB Network until it merged with UPN (Channel 21) in 2006 to become The CW Network where it remains today.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Nah, she was probably playing the 1987 Machintosh 2 release of POLICE QUEST: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (Police Quest 1). If she had kept playing the game she would have learned how to properly cover her tracks and not get arrested so easily.
I was in middle school when the Fox network was born. I remember Married With Children, The Tracey Ullman Show, 21 Jump Street, and Duet, but the others are unfamiliar to me.
The first ever Fox lineup started at 7 on the East Coast, with 21 Jump Street, followed by Married With Children, Duet, The Tracey Ullman Show and ending with Mr. President
Unfortunately the writing was a mishmash - the show (and its creators didn't know what it wanted to be) - because it was on Fox, they tried to make it into a sitcom, but it also wanted to be somewhat serious, and they never really got the tone. Also, as good an actor as George C. Scott was, he was never ideal for a 22-min sitcom based show. If this show had been on CBS a few years later, I think they might have had a better time of it on a network that would have given them more leeway. (That dilemna was what also killed Roc, one of the best comedy drama shows in memory)
@@sha11235 As great as Carson was as a talk show host, his production company apparently wasn't that great at producing tv shows. Partners In Crime is one of the worse shows ever (they tried to make Loni Anderson and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) private detectives - you knew it was bad when Loni made a pun about Lynda's "assets" in the first episode). Teacher's Only - a show that was a summer replacement and got rid of all but the two main stars for the second and last season. Lewis and Clark, Cassie & Co, - the only real success for a scripted tv show was Amen.
FUCK YEAH WEREWOLF!!! I was obsessed with that show. I had stickers, and posters, and note books of that show. It was supposed to be scary, but it was badass to me, and I was only 4 or 5.
21 JUMP STREET stayed in place for one crucial reason...Fox successfully argued that only programming 5 hours a week meant they weren't subject to certain regulations the big 3 networks were--including having to program either news/public affairs or children's shows in the Sunday at 7 PM ET slot (what the FCC required in exchange for letting the networks run shows there again). Fox could offer the only entertainment option for viewers.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 It was January 1993 when Fox primetime aired seven days a week with two shows on Tuesdays. They were quickly canceled, I think.
Next year will mark 30 years since this lineup and this fall will mark 30 years since Fox was founded. I remember they did an anniversary special some time ago. It wasn't until when Fox got the NFL rights that turned things around for the network.
@@TJ52359 Actually AMW started out (correct me if i am wrong)on a couple of the Fox affiliates in NYC, LA and Washington DC in January 1988 as a trial run. After making headlines for helping to lead the capture of several fugitives, it was on the full national Fox Network in Spring 1988. Off topic. In June 1988, Fox had its first major entertainment special when it was the sole American broadcaster for a tribute concert to Nelson Mandela from London. That Mandela concert is best known for making an instant International star an then unknown Rock singer named Tracy Chapman.
@@F40PH-2CAT While you probably right, I know for a fact that "AMW" started before being "specials" on the Fox Network before and later a weekly series, it was shown in a couple of Fox affiliates mainly in NYC, LA and DC to starter. Again someone can confirm.
Not gonna lie, I haven't seen these shows in so long that I completely forgot about most of them. But after watching this, I pretty much remember all to most of them.
The Tracey Ullman show was ahead of its time that was a great show. My favorite theme song was 21 Jump Street, till this day I still thinks it's one of the best, and Holly Robinson was a fox no pun intended.
Not sure whether you're old enough to remember the year, but Fox was new, and they must have had to make do with show pitches the other networks rejected. And network primetime was wasn't great in 1987. Married with Children was written and acted as well as all but maybe 4 sitcoms at the time, but too course for established, risk averse networks. Most of the others were just, well, awful.
Damn I feel old. I remember all of this, I was 4 years old, and The Simpson's were still on the Tracey Ullman show. It's weird to remember a time before the Simpson's had their own show.
I don't remember Second Chance, Women in Prison, or Mr. President. Married with Children is one of my favorites..today they would have to go on cable or streaming. Everyone would get offended & that's what I loved about the show
They also filled out any time slot gaps with "Friday the 13th: The Series" which I suppose was actually syndicated, but it was part of the lineup. Another show they did the previous year as a kind of test run before moving ahead with plans for network television, was "Small Wonder".
Thank God! Small Wonder was SHIT! One of the worst shows ever produced. Felt bad for the boy from that show. He became a loser who blew all his money on cigarettes, booze, strippers and prostitutes.
Don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, Bubba
I have mad respect for you.
Spare Tire Dixon?
Very much Indeed Sir !
This time it's actually appropriate lol.
Never forget.
I have a video called Women in Prison, Its very different from the tv show
lurch321 Sure lets go with that
I imagine the acting is better.
I bet the dialogue is top notch too
Yes
Is it from BBC version than the our version
The late 80s...I worked 2nd shift so my Wife recorded Married with Children for me on our brand new state of the art. $800 VCR from Highland Appliance!
That's where we bought our appliances! I had forgotten about Highlands!
There are people in prison today for stealing VCRs back in the 1980s. 😆
@@diana1nicole Only if they killed someone during the theft.
brah! You got that VCR??? brah! we have reached peak technology and you actually have one??? Lucky
@@tartrazine5 probably did
You have to give Fox credit. Three of their first season's shows are still very well known even today.
*• The Tracey Ullman Show*
*• Married with Children*
*• 21 Jump Street*
@Meamishere, you forgot the Dungman Chronicles. It was only one episode.
Nobody remembers the tracy ullman show
@@NecramoniumVideo That show itself is not remembered specifically.
But it is acknowledged that that was the show where The Simpsons got it’s start.
No he's right nobody cares or remembers the Tracy Ullman show! How ironic it is,that show lasted only 4 seasons and the Simpsons have gone on for 35 and counting! ... Wonder if she ever got jealous! 😆
@@superstarreviews9937 You can't speak for everyone. Tracey Ullman's Fox show is very well remembered and the fact that it only last four seasons shouldn't matter. Give me a break...The Simpsons just doesn't have the same "bite" now that it did in 1989-90.
The Gary Shandling Show was pure gold, one of the first metaphor series, a young Matthew Perry on Second Chance, the birth of the Simpsons, and the crown jewel, Married With Children
@nemo pouncey true, but he was self aware
But the _real_ crown jewel for Fox would come in 1994: *The National Football League!* (and other sports to follow in the years since)
And a young Johnny Depp on Stephen J Cannell's 21 Jump Street, who easily became a teenage girls fan favorite TV star at the time.
And I watched pretty much every one of these shows. That first FOX season was a breath of fresh air for us youngsters back then.
That 21 Jump Street theme takes me back!.... I'm a little teary eyed hearing it again. I was 12 years old, not a care in the world... no worries. Thanks for the memories
Fox was The WB of the 80s.
Fox survived and prospered the WB faded away
Which was lampshaded on a Simpsons episode:
BART: Hey Dad, let's see what's on that new Warner Bros. channel...(turns on TV)
MICHIGAN J. FROG singing:
Coming up next on the WB
Another great show that nobody will see!
...and still is today.
@@DMS-pq8 Actually The WB became The CW and UPN merged with them and faded away.
@@wturner777 correct!
In 1988, Tracey Ullman was the first performer from a Fox series to win an Emmy.
That had the best musical introduction out of the bunch too
I was 11 when this premiered. So much time has passed. I'm older than most of the people I thought were old.
Same here
I remember calling Beans Baxter "Beans Bastard", and my dad got really mad at me and sent me to my room for the remainder of the show.
beans baxter is ripe for a parody intro lol
you weren't wrong
Did this happen only once?
Werewolf was an awesome show. I was disappointed when they cancelled it. Married with children was absolute gold
It was pretty much a revamped “Incredible Hulk” though.
@@GLoveMOA But dammit it was worth it.
Oddly, when The Tracey Ullman Show aired in the UK, BBC thought that The Simpsons was so poor that they edited it out of the show when they broadcast it
Very interesting piece of history I remember when fox first launched and years later I couldn't remember half the shows in this video. Also forgot Tracey Ullman was a debut show. Great blast from the past thanks for posting.
This was where I first heard of her.
@@sha11235 She also had a hit song in 1984 called "They Don't Know"
You would not believe how amazing a new broadcast network with original programming was to a kid growing up in rural Texas when my only option were broadcast channels. This was a huge improvement over the indy UHF channels re-broadcasting 60s era sitcoms & dramas. Not to mention breaking the stagnation of the big three.
In spite of nostalgia, you would have to pry my current thousands of hours of on demand programming from my cold dead hands.
I grew up in a small town and had the same experience. Sometimes I could turn the antenna and get Fox from another market. They’d play some shows at different times.
did you have hollywood video in tecksaz?
@@5roundsrapid263 I lived in the Texas Panhandle in 1987-88 and with an antenna and some aluminum foil, I could pick up Channel 14 in Amarillo, Channel 34 in Lubbock, Channel 18 in Wichita Falls and sometimes Channel 25 in OKC. All were Fox stations.
I love these complications... Brings back such good memories... I was 5 yrs old watchin married with children and Tracy ullman with my dad...remember thats how the Simpson's started?, as a small lil skit during TRACY ULLMAN? Wow...how time flies
It's also interesting seeing people before they became famous in other sitcoms and work.
That Married With Children show might make it
...and Johnny Depp (21 Jump Street) might have a decent future in Hollywood.
And if Mathew L Perry drops the middle initial he might get some friends or a major substance abuse problem.
I don;t know, I thought Women in Prison had a chance.
I watched that show all the way till 1997! Great show to the end.
Who knows if that cartoon that is on the Tracey Ullman show is gonna result to anything?
Everybody starts somewhere. Matt Perry in Second Chance and Randee Heller from Karate Kid franchise. Couldn't imagine remembering this show. Interesting retrospective. Thank you for putting this together.
A walk down memory lane. And what is funny is that some of those sitcoms had stars or up and comers.
That's really the only interesting aspect of watching these intros, aside from how bad some of the intros (and most of the shows) were.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Sometimes the intros aren't bad, but the show is.
Young Holly Robinson, young Katey Sagal, and young Randee Heller all looked great young and all aged exceptionally well. (Damn you Rodney Peete)
My sentiments exactly
I dont care what any one says
That fox Sunday schedule rocked.
21 jump street werewolf
Married with children
Tracy Ullman and
Duet was awesome.
Damn, Fox didnt let shows gel back then and would pull or change them way to quick which lead to failures . Damn, I miss werewolf the most.
Fox learned from their mistakes and by the early 2000s had so much patience for shows like Firefly and... oh, wait, this is Fox, they never learn!
Maybe, but Saturday looked pretty awful. I don't even remember "Beans Baxter". It looks like a joke promo.
Yes!! Duet was a great show!! Fox was awesome back then.
I don't understand why they only had Sunday and Saturday lineups (0:10). Nothing during the week?
NGL if this lineup was still on Sunday nights I'd sit there and watch the whole thing.
The clip at the beginning, with Katey Sagal and Ed O'Neill whose show Married with Children was an afterthought when the first Fox lineup was announced.
That prison cells bigger than my living room
You must live in either New York City or the San Francisco Bay area (other than Oakland).
And of course, from The Tracey Ullman Show sprung that icon of American cartoons, The Simpsons.
The only show from Fox's early years still showing.
Or the reanimated corpse at least.
@@Rockhound6165 the only show from that year that's still showing. Or that decade for that matter.
I'm under the impression that "The Simpsons" broke the record for "Longest-Running American Comedy Series" set by "M*A*S*H"
@@floydjohnson7888 It's the longest running prime time scripted show in US history
Huge married with children fan saw it when I was 6 in 1990 until I was 13 in 1997😊
"Duet" was the first of these shows to get a spin-off.
"Werewolf" was underrated. It needs a reboot.
Except for "Mr. President" and "Women in Prison," I remember every one of these shows.
I thought "Open House" was more of a re-tool than a spin-off. At the time, it looked more like a re-FOOL.
Werewolf may not have gotten an 'official' remake/reboot, but "Teen wolf" (the TV show, not the movie) should count, if only because it was also good.
Actually, "The Simpsons" is a spin-off of "The Tracey Ullman Show"
Married with children and Tracy ulman/Simpsons really saved the hell outta Fox. Thanks whoever uploaded this.
and 21 Jumpstreet, their first show to have the cover of TV Guide
Women In Prison got the old Netflix revival treatment as “Orange Is The New Black” and took off.
I wondered about that, except the early Fox series was meant to be funny
Good god, Holly Robinson was smoking hot.
I loved Holly Robinson when I was in grade school
She still FINE
i was 7 back then, but i still remember these shows. my fave was Werewolf, looooooooooooooooved it, wish they would release it on dvd, though i do have a bootlegged version of the series. i miss the late 80's, brings back so many memories.
+Lucas Jenkins The series has been released on dvd. I saw it at a Wal-Mart.
Lucas Jenkins WOW Jenkins! For a 7yr old, you sure soaked it up!😮 And i was much older than you!
I was 7 too and remember the FOX launch as well. What year was it they launched Herman’s Head?
That opening song to the Tracey Ullman show is still awesome!
Of course it was George Clinton.
I was dancing…
Good times. Watched the hell out of FOX growing up. I could go on about it for hours.
Wahja Ellington you should, I’d listen
I remember being really into fox back then, because all the shows I loved were there. Married with Children, Gary Shandling, Tracy Ullman, Brisco County jr, even Women in Prison was decent, I thought. Fox had guts back then to make "Edgy" tv.
That was the point at the time. Fox was doing offbeat shows because they were trying to attract an audience as this new network. They actually did this for several years.
That was the idea of Fox, to do more offbeat stuff. Notice in the first few years of Fox's history they did that. Of course, they weren't proud of MWC, the jerks.
I vaguely remember the Garry Shandling show... I think (or assume) he had a lot of guest-starring comedians(?)
I loved the Dirty Dozen tv series they had
Fox 1987 was the television equivalent of TH-cam circa 2005
Duet actually had a pretty good run. Ran for 2 and a half seasons then was re-tooled and re-named Open House and ran for a season. Interesting thing about this is that on Duet Mary Page Keller was the female lead and Alison LaPlaca a supporting character. On Open House LaPlaca was the lead and Keller was the supporting character. Ellen Degeneres was also on it as the receptionist.
I remember the switch over - it sucked and lasted maybe a season.
I really respect you for putting these together
I remember loving The New Adventures of Beans Baxter! It was created and directed (and opening animated) by "Savage" Steve Holland, the mad genius who gave us Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer! I always thought it was cool and had that wonderfully quirky, odd sense of humor Holland brought to the aforementioned films! Would love for it to get a home media release!
I thought I recognized that opening animation!
Don't forget Salute Your Shorts
Kurtwood Smith: didn’t pan out as the villain of Beans Baxter, but hey, did pretty well for himself as the Dad on THAT ‘70’s SHOW👍🏽
That Women in Prison song
I dont know if it's terrible or if it's so terrible that it's awesome
Before Orange is the New Black lol....
The latter.
I like the song.
It's like Weird Al wrote it.
It's interesting to see Kurtwood Smith was around at the beginning of Fox with Beans Baxter, since he became so synonymous with the network years later on That 70s Show.
That is cool they brought him back years later for one of their most popular sitcoms. I guess they were paying homage to him in a way, since he was there in the beginning. I Wonder if people first saw that 70s show if they thought “Hey that’s that guy from Beans Baxter!”
Still better than anything on TV now
"Werewolf" used to scare the bee-jeezus out of me, as an 8-year-old kid, but still watched rivited! Hard to believe it's been 34 years, since these shows were on the air.
The music for 21 Jump Street was pretty popping!🤗
"Second Chance" with two people who were dear to me, Keil Martin and Joseph Maher. I miss them dearly.
What a mix of classic and garbage
@@bxnybatzz5664 most dont realize that the Simpsons is a spin off.
Well, at least there was Married with Children! 😂
A LOT of garbage. "Beans Baxter" looks like a joke promo.
To be expected from a brand new network back then. Having Married With Children hit so big was huge for Fox. I watched some real turds on the early network.
Yeah. That sounds like the Fox Network all right.
I miss the 80's tv shows
I hear they're rebooting 'Women in Prison' with Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin.
Hey-yooo.
As a limited series.
Good one!!
Hard to believe there was ever a time you could Actually Enjoy Watching The Fox Network.
None of these shows would
be allowed to exist today.
Women In Prison aka the original Orange Is the New Black
and Bad Girls
It was 25 years ahead of its time.
The people who did WIP also did MWC. I'm not joking with you all here.
OMG!!!! The memories!!! Damn I miss tv like this!!! 21 Jumpstreet, Werewolf, and Married w/Children was what made Sunday night awesome. Despite knowing I had school the next day. LOL
The last era of creative television shows. When fox was the renegade network. Fox was hitting home runs with each show. When was the last time a new network was doing that.
So Women in Prison was Orange is the New Black ver. 0.5
More like "Prisoner Cell Block H" played for laughs.
"I understand that reference!"
It was even from the same people as Married with Children.
Early role for CCH Pounder (The Shield, NCIS New Orleans)
@Necroglobule Fun fact: Julia Campbell is married to Jay Karnes, who played Dutch Wagenbaugh, Pounder's partner, on The Shield. In fact, Campbell herself was in the final episode.
I still think married with children is one of the best shows ever made!
Werewolf had serious potential. It probably would've lasted longer had it originally been scheduled on Sunday night instead of Saturday. By the time they moved it to Sunday, the damage had been done, so to speak.
LOL, it's funny seeing Claudette from The Shield locked up in a cell. She was the one always trying to lock up Vic Mackey
Hmmm... Never heard of The Shield. Current TV show? Movie?
It's like everybody from The Tracy Ullman show went to The Simpsons but Tracy Ullman 🙃
Even James L. Brooks was on board.
My god, what a stroll down memory lane. I literally remember all of those, except the ones I don't remember.
I remember the debut of the prime time lineup and loved 21 Jump Street and the Tracey Ulman Show and grew to love Married with Children. The staying power of the latter really surprised me, but it was kind of a spoof on sitcoms which flooded 80's television lineups. I was also surprised to see the Simpsons (which came out of Tracey Ulman) still on TV today with new episodes!
We didn't have cable until about 15ish years later. Yes, FOX is broadcast but we only got ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS clearly. Anything else was fuzzy. But, I still remember several of these shows. I know of 21 Jump Street and Tracy Ullman but never watched. I would have been 8 at this point and 9pm was bedtime then. I do remember Women in Prison and Beans Baxter. I loved Beans.
Kristin My household did not get also cable(not counting HBO) until few years later when i went away to college. I was lucky growing up in NYC/Brooklyn to live in a high rise apartment building and late at night getting a couple of UHF Tv stations out of town.Mainly Philadelphia's Ch. 29n(now a Fox station)and Ch. 17 so I saw alot of the Philadelphia pro sports teams games like the Phillies, Flyers and Sixers.
As a then 14 year old kid in spring/summer 1987, it was cool to see new programming and shows. Granted some of the shows was awful. Still cool looking back on the very early days of the Fox network 30 years later in 2017.
In Dallas-FW, if I recall correctly FOX started on the incredibly weak Channel-27 before a brand new station came later at 33, they made a huge deal out of it. Of course after a while channel-4 switched from CBS to FOX.
@@floydlooney6837 Floyd the only reason many cities such as Dallas/FT Worth, was able to switch to Fox on a much better VHF (in days of analog TV)channel was because of the NFL. Most of the affiliate switches occurred in the locations of the bigger NFC Conference, i.e Dallas-Cowboys, Atlanta-Falcons, Milwaukee/ Green Bay-Packers being the prime examples. Most stories confirm Fox Owner Rupert Mudrock got into the NFL because his early Fox Affiliates was being wooed by then Mid 1990's new challenging rivals the WB and CW. As most of you know, by 2006, the WB and UPN merged creating the CW Network. The NFL and soon after MLB Baseball is what made Fox stay on the air for good.
@BMT That was back when Fox was primarily on low-powered UHF stations (channels between 14 and 69). The Bundys had an older model TV set and that was the only way receive that station.
@@floydlooney6837 Channel 27 was never a Fox station. However, it is currently a sister station to Fox4. Channel 33 started in 1980 as a Spanish language station. In 1984, it became a Metromedia affiliate. Then, in 1986 when Metromedia merged with 20th Century Fox and formed Fox broadcasting, Channel 33 became Fox and remained until 1995. Then, 33 became the WB Network until it merged with UPN (Channel 21) in 2006 to become The CW Network where it remains today.
3:19 Ah, 1987... gone are the days when you could be arrested by your Macintosh II...
Nice graphics on that monitor...maybe she can play the game "Pong" on it?
@Kissa Deff i mean so does iphones
Not-so-smart aleck Or play Oregon Trail where you end up dying of dysentery.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Nah, she was probably playing the 1987 Machintosh 2 release of POLICE QUEST: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (Police Quest 1). If she had kept playing the game she would have learned how to properly cover her tracks and not get arrested so easily.
I was in middle school when the Fox network was born. I remember Married With Children, The Tracey Ullman Show, 21 Jump Street, and Duet, but the others are unfamiliar to me.
The first ever Fox lineup started at 7 on the East Coast, with 21 Jump Street, followed by Married With Children, Duet, The Tracey Ullman Show and ending with Mr. President
I'd like to watch some Mr. President. I mean, George C. Scott and Madeline Kahn? Two amazing actors with perfect comic timing.
Unfortunately the writing was a mishmash - the show (and its creators didn't know what it wanted to be) - because it was on Fox, they tried to make it into a sitcom, but it also wanted to be somewhat serious, and they never really got the tone. Also, as good an actor as George C. Scott was, he was never ideal for a 22-min sitcom based show. If this show had been on CBS a few years later, I think they might have had a better time of it on a network that would have given them more leeway. (That dilemna was what also killed Roc, one of the best comedy drama shows in memory)
@@jamesrawlins735 Notice who one of the creators was?????? The then King of Late Night.
@@sha11235 As great as Carson was as a talk show host, his production company apparently wasn't that great at producing tv shows. Partners In Crime is one of the worse shows ever (they tried to make Loni Anderson and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) private detectives - you knew it was bad when Loni made a pun about Lynda's "assets" in the first episode). Teacher's Only - a show that was a summer replacement and got rid of all but the two main stars for the second and last season. Lewis and Clark, Cassie & Co, - the only real success for a scripted tv show was Amen.
Having two talented leads is only one part of having a successful show.
FUCK YEAH WEREWOLF!!!
I was obsessed with that show.
I had stickers, and posters, and note books of that show.
It was supposed to be scary, but it was badass to me, and I was only 4 or 5.
Back before Matthew Perry got the L outta there.
7:44 Was that his first show?
His first series where he was the star.
I still remember when the producer of friends told him straight up - "Get the L out or get the HELL out." He obviously got the L out.
And joined a bunch of Friends I didn't watch.
I remember some of these. I still watch Married. I guess Parker Lewis wasn't on, yet.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose is one of my favorite shows. I loved it when Francis showed up on ER
CCH Pounder (Women in Prison) became a notable dramatic actress, with a recurring role on ER and a supporting role on The Shield.
And the voice of Amanda Waller in justice league and justice unlimited.
She was also on Warehouse 13
Don't forget Carmen Sandiago
Damn....Fox was amazing in the late 80’s and 90’s.....and then their Saturday morning cartoons....IM NOT CRYING!!! YOUR CRYING!!!
When in living color cam around right after Married w Children, that was Must see TV back then.
One of my favorite skits on In Living Color was handiman. No one could make that kind of a skit today. It's too funny!
Jim Carey at his finest. Amazing to watch over and over. How the mighty have fallen.
I remembered all these Fox TV shows from the fall of 1987!! Back when I was about 6 years old!!
Did you notice that Mr. President was created by Johnny Carson?
His company also produced Amen. He did not have a golden gut.
It's strange that he was such a company man with NBC but created shows for other networks.
Nowadays, Mr. President would probably be a reality show starring some reality show veteran, let's say Donald Trump. Oh wait...
Yeah.
21 JUMP STREET stayed in place for one crucial reason...Fox successfully argued that only programming 5 hours a week meant they weren't subject to certain regulations the big 3 networks were--including having to program either news/public affairs or children's shows in the Sunday at 7 PM ET slot (what the FCC required in exchange for letting the networks run shows there again). Fox could offer the only entertainment option for viewers.
How long did Fox only have Sunday & Saturday lineups? They must've gone full time after just a couple of years or so, I would think.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 It was January 1993 when Fox primetime aired seven days a week with two shows on Tuesdays. They were quickly canceled, I think.
Next year will mark 30 years since this lineup and this fall will mark 30 years since Fox was founded. I remember they did an anniversary special some time ago. It wasn't until when Fox got the NFL rights that turned things around for the network.
When I see certain actors / actresses and I say to myself that I've seen the people before but just can't remember, well these are the shows!!
You should do UPN's first season lineup.....lol
Where's "Parker Lewis Can't Lose?" I loved his many colorful shirts and how he always had to dodge the school bully.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose premiered in September 1990, approximately 3 years after Fox's Fall 1987 lineup displayed here.
@@SuperAV21 coolness
Nostalgia overload!! Brings back so many memories!!!
I watched all of these. And “Duet” was on Sundays, “Married With Children” was Saturdays.
I remember "America's Most Wanted" being on Sundays at 7 pm.
@@TJ52359 Actually AMW started out (correct me if i am wrong)on a couple of the Fox affiliates in NYC, LA and Washington DC in January 1988 as a trial run. After making headlines for helping to lead the capture of several fugitives, it was on the full national Fox Network in Spring 1988.
Off topic. In June 1988, Fox had its first major entertainment special when it was the sole American broadcaster for a tribute concert to Nelson Mandela from London. That Mandela concert is best known for making an instant International star an then unknown Rock singer named Tracy Chapman.
@@americangiant1003 i believe it was a special aired occasionally before it became a weekly show, like Unsolved Mysteries on NBC
@@F40PH-2CAT While you probably right, I know for a fact that "AMW" started before being "specials" on the Fox Network before and later a weekly series, it was shown in a couple of Fox affiliates mainly in NYC, LA and DC to starter. Again someone can confirm.
Not gonna lie, I haven't seen these shows in so long that I completely forgot about most of them. But after watching this, I pretty much remember all to most of them.
I can totally believe Amanda Waller going to prison for her Cadmus connections.
Nah, this is when she is DOJ poaching new recruits for Task Force X.
The Tracey Ullman show was ahead of its time that was a great show. My favorite theme song was 21 Jump Street, till this day I still thinks it's one of the best, and Holly Robinson was a fox no pun intended.
Seeing that 21 jump st intro got me all stoked again. I used to love that show!
Highlights:
- Graphics for The Tracey Ullman Show
- Johnny Depp (as Officer Hanson in Jump Street)
I still have my 21 Jump Street poster with Johnny Depp on it rolled up in a corner in my basement. He's just too hot to get rid of.
If this lineup is any indication, it's amazing that television continued at all after 1987.
Not sure whether you're old enough to remember the year, but Fox was new, and they must have had to make do with show pitches the other networks rejected. And network primetime was wasn't great in 1987. Married with Children was written and acted as well as all but maybe 4 sitcoms at the time, but too course for established, risk averse networks. Most of the others were just, well, awful.
Watching this I now get where a lot of the pot shots the Simpsons takes at their home network come from
Elinor was teenager in Father knows Best in 1950s with Robert Young
JEEBUS! all that subtext just to say, " Then you don't know BEANS!
Damn I feel old.
I remember all of this, I was 4 years old, and The Simpson's were still on the Tracey Ullman show.
It's weird to remember a time before the Simpson's had their own show.
You feel old. I was 13 and there was Kelly Bundy.
I was 27 when the Simpsons started (in '89, not counting Tracy Ullman).
Married with children is still my favorite show
The Bundys never get old. 😀😀😀
I know the title of the show is married with childern.
But ive always referred to it as the bundys.
With Mr. President, did you notice Mr. Drummond was in it? Trying for his third series in a row.
I noticed that the kids from Mr. President were the lead boy from The Monster Squad and Zuzu Petals from Ford Fairlane.
I don't remember Second Chance, Women in Prison, or Mr. President. Married with Children is one of my favorites..today they would have to go on cable or streaming. Everyone would get offended & that's what I loved about the show
I am 40 1987 was a good year to be a kid. To watch these. coming from school.
Those cartoon shorts on the Tracey Ullman show had promise.
Second Chance is legitimately one of my all time fav.shows. I use it in my Sunday school classes. My students LOVE it.
All I remember of Beans Baxter is one joke. Somebody mentions psychic channeling, and Mom (Elinor Donahue) says, "Channeling? But we just got cable!"
They also filled out any time slot gaps with "Friday the 13th: The Series" which I suppose was actually syndicated, but it was part of the lineup. Another show they did the previous year as a kind of test run before moving ahead with plans for network television, was "Small Wonder".
Thank God! Small Wonder was SHIT! One of the worst shows ever produced. Felt bad for the boy from that show. He became a loser who blew all his money on cigarettes, booze, strippers and prostitutes.
Wow! Those theme songs were...interesting.
'Werewolf' was good.. I've looked for it on DVD over the years with no luck..
Crazy feels like yesterday. Damn time flies fast.