I'm having a great time with these. I've spent my entire weekend stoned off my ass drowning in 80's garbage watching all of these uploads on this dudes channel. I love it!
@@djpetenice i started watching the John Larroquete show becuase of this video,,, oh boy, that show was good,, just watched the episode 11 from season 1, where they namedrop Thomas Pynchon,, cheers
It's amazing how many well known actors had forgettable shows that failed. It just goes to show how many things have to come together (cast, writers, premise, time slot, etc...) to create a successful show.
The network executives really goofed up big time across all four networks in 1993. Only a third of the new shows saw a second season. The competition from the already established shows were obviously intense. "The Cosby Show" was still on, but in decline, while "Rosanne," "Married with Children," "The Simpsons," "Fresh Prince," and the "TGIF Line up" were all at their peak. Only "Frasier" can claim to be a successful show in this year.
A lot of these shows I really remember. Frasier, X-files, Grace under fire, Seaquest, Lois and Clark, NYPD Blue, Boy Meets World. In the era before streaming services, we had some pretty good television. A lot of these I've never heard of....
I live in the UK and I think those are the only ones of this lot which made it across the Atlantic. I wonder which were the other four that got a second series.
It was awesome. Before I ever saw any of the Evil Dead films, this is where I knew Bruce Campbell from - and it was a show my dad enjoyed watching with me as well back then, which gives me warm fuzzies to this day.
Yeah now but back then this was quality lol. When cable tv came along we thought we transcended into new heights but didn't know what was next in video quality
screwed by the Network to a degree... and ultimately Larroquette went from Night Court to this without missing a Season... I imagine 'Mood Whiplash' hit some fans pretty hard expecting 'Dan Fielding gets a new job" and getting a whole other animal
“Frasier” will forever be a legendary institution. More than a show. Highly rated and accoladed, and one of my favorites forever.❣️😅 I heard rumors of a reboot, but I will dearly miss John Mahoney. 💜
Only a third of the new shows from this year went on to a second season, and a majority of those second seasons didn't see a fourth. "Frasier" was by far the most successful show in its class debut.
Anything with Bruce Campbell is awesome! He's one of my favorite actor's too bad Brisco County didn't last very long either did the Ash Vrs Evil Dead loved that show too!
Alex Barnes They are being sarcastic, sweet Alex. The context of the replies should especially clue you in to that. You are right that this awesome show lasted 11 seasons (only truly shutting down bc of David and Lynn Angell’s tragic 9-11 deaths, which is why the baby of Daphne and Niles was named “David”, though they were originally written to deliver a baby girl). Please see the comment just above/prior to yours. 💜
I definitely followed John Larroquette and Harry Anderson to their new shows...sad that they were both gone, unceremoniously, by 1997...I was addicted to SeaQuest but knew Roy Scheider wasn't gonna stay underwater too long.
One thing you have to admit, there were a lot of bad shows in the 80s and 90s but a lot of them had some inventive, great opening credits. No one really does that anymore.
The actual reason they don’t do long intros now is not because people skip them, it’s because of run time, and more and more commercials. Shows get if lucky 22 min to run now. If you waste a min you get less. I wish all shows still had opening songs! I think Family guy does what they do specifically to prove that point.
Just because they weren't popular or didn't last as long as The Simpsons doesn't mean they were bad. A show on ABC at 8:30pm Tuesdays would run against a show at 8:30pm Tuesdays on NBC, CBS, FOX, MTV, Comedy Central, TBS, any of the 1000s of TV/Cable networks. Sometimes a mega-popular show runs at the same time as any of these other shows. I will agree you can't find many great TV show openings anymore. Magic keeps dying :-(
channels like this makes me think of my childhood. every sunday, I would risk getting yelled at because I would ruin the Sunday paper to get the tv guide. I could here my grandma yelling at me now "what happened to the damn paper!? (me: I accidentally ripped the paper cause I was trying...) her: walk down to the store and get me another paper... thank you baby" after yelling at me about the metro section lol. I miss her.
The X-Files looks so out of place among these intros. It's clear why it was such a turning point. It's like with one intro everyone realized that TV didn't have to suck or be about families.
Was about to say that 30 some shows, it would be really hard to break through to get a second season from all the competition, but through all the crap that had to be waded through (George Foreman in a show? Really?), ABC had a hit with Boy Meets World, and hit the jackpot with NYPD Blue, and did FOX ever hit it with X Files. People were ready for a show that pushed the boundaries of what you could get away with on a TV show, and the paranormal was becoming a big deal around that time, so the timing was right. Not so right for "Missing Persons". That PARTICULAR show didn't last, but they needed to wait some years before the concept of finding missing people became a big deal, as they tried again with the concept and got a hit out of Without A Trace. Wonder if the producers behind Trace ever got any inspiration from Missing Persons.
My first sex dream ever was Brett Butler because of that show. If you think that's bad my second sex dream ever was Rhea Perlman. I'm glad I almost never have sex dreams.
I watched a little bit of the pilot just now and I'll take it over most of the crap on today. At least the boys are being boys and the girls are being girls.
@@schmootheonly I feel like I wasted my youth on an education that hasn't done much for me. Probably should have spent less time watching TV in the mid 90's
@@ktoth29 that's the reality for a lot of us that came of age during the great recession, I'm only just getting a taste of success nowadays out of sheer work. The way it seemed in the 90s, we were supposed to have all the opportunities and time to goof off that our parents had.. Thats what we were taught anyway.
I've always thought "Phenom" was an incredibly underrated show. It should've lasted longer than the single season it was given. Amazingly, some of the episodes have been posted on TH-cam, so at least it lives on in some fashion.
I agree, Winter Steele! "Phenom" was indeed promising; despite tying for 27th place--along with "Evening Shade" and "Rescue 911--for the 1993-94 season and maintaining the viewing audience from its robust lead-in on Tuesday nights, the oh-so-adorable family sitcom "Full House" (which ranked 16th), "Phenom" was unfortunately canceled by ABC after only one season (22 episodes were produced). I'll have to check out an episode of "Phenom" someday, if the uploaded episodes haven't been removed from TH-cam, that is (due to copyright claims). And the theme song (performed by Carly "You're So Vein" Simon) is a true gem!
@@demetriusdillard2863 okay. I just posted that it was in the top 20 in EW, but they must have had top 30 weekly ratings. I enjoyed the show and really thought William Devane was good.
13:17 I remember "South of Sunset" vividly. At the time my family had just moved to Detroit after we had lived in Georgia during most of my childhood. I was super hyped for that show because it was released exactly on my birthday, October 27. Then it was gone immediately afterward. Hahaha. One show. RIP, Glenn Frey.
Renee Taylor had a great year in 93. She not only played Fran’s mother on The Nanny , but she had an ongoing role ( which clearly didn’t go on for long) on Daddy Dearest ( 4.57). That is a show I never heard about until now.
Two of the greatest shows of all time; a couple of decent ones that were around for a few years; a ton of I-don't-even-remember-these-being-on (and '93 wasn't *that* long ago, relative to some of your other compilations)!
I used to watch Thea. The show gave us Brandy before she became an R & B superstar. Yvette Wilson starred on The Parkers. Jason Weaver played young Michael in The Jacksons: An American Dream.
I was a kid during this, and only remember about 20% of these - but what sticks with me the most is the x-files theme song - it used to give me serious nightmares as a 6-7 year old
Wow 1993, the year of my first born . As she was extremely colicky I spent a lot of time round the clock comforting her . Spent a lot of time watching tv too, these shows I totally forgot about . Thx for the memories
I watched: Frasier, The Nanny, Grace Under Fire, Hearts of the West, Bristol County, Lois & Clark, SeaQuest DSV, The X-Files, Boy Meets World, NYPD Blue. I don't remember NBC Friday Night Mystery.
It's kind of neat to see this montage of 90's (I was a child from 90-93, and a teenager onward) I chuckled every time I saw a show that I remembered as it lasted long enough to engrain in my memory and was frankly horrified by much of the rest, agreeing with the vast majority of other commenters that speculated a lot of cocaine must of been a flowin' in order to get those dumpster fires green lit. And Paula Poundstone. Yikes! I recall seeing her on either Showtime or HBO (one of the comedy hours) and thinking back then that she was moderately funny for being such a kook, but seeing her in her show's intro had all my stranger danger alarms going off in my head!
"Thea" was one of the shows trying to capitalize on the popularity of "Roseanne". FOX also put out a sitcom called "Babes" with three large ladies (because 3 Roseanne's are better than one?) "Phenom" tanked after Jennifer Cappriatti was arrested for pot.
I liked Thea it as a funny show and she is a very funny lady and it as not made to capitalize on the popularity of Roseanne it as a part of a trend, that included Roseanne, of Stand-up Comedians trying to translate their acts into television. Home improvement and the Cosby show were also a part of the trend as was the Paula Poundstone show
Thea was also on NBC. I don't think it was trying to capitalize. There was a show with Nell Carter in the early 90s called Take Your Kids on CBS that was a more blatant ripoff
"The Paula Poundstone Show" intro is painful. Like, she's just saying random shit no one cares about and she's trying to be funny. She can't even pretend!
Funny, I didn't see the opening credits to "Living Single" in this montage...the "Designing Women"-esque sitcom premiered on 22 August 1993 and lasted for five seasons on Fox. As you mentioned in your opening spiel, Fox did indeed become a formidable contender to the "Big Three" for the first time, especially after outbidding CBS for NFL broadcast rights in late 1993. Aside from the big winners ("Frasier," "The Nanny," "Grace Under Fire," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman," "SeaQuest DSV," "The X-Files," "Dave's World," "Boy Meets World," and "NYPD Blue"), there were quite a few stinkers this season ("Daddy Dearest," "South Of Sunset," "George," "The Paula Poundstone Show," "Angel Falls," "The Trouble With Larry," "Family Album," "It Had To Be You," "The Second Half," "Joe's Life," and, of course, "Saved By The Bell: The College Years"), as well as a handful of promising but unsuccessful gems that never clicked with viewers ("The Adventures Of Brisco County, Jr.," "Harts Of The West," "Against The Grain," "The Sinbad Show," "NBC's Friday Night Mystery," "Thea," "Missing Persons," "Bakersfield P.D.," "The Mommies," "Townsend Television," "Cafe Americain," "Moon Over Miami," "The John Larroquette Show," and "Phenom"). Here's a bit of trivia for you: "Diagnosis: Murder" replaced both "It Had To Be You" and "Family Album" in late October; the "Quincy"-inspired forensic crime drama enjoyed a marginally successful eight-year run on CBS...it was also Dick Van Dyke's first successful series in many years--following the cancellation of his groundbreaking 1960s sitcom ("The Dick Van Dyke Show")--after a string of unsuccessful failures ("The New Dick Van Dyke Show," "Van Dyke and Company," and "The Van Dyke Show'). Is it just me, or is the opening credit sequence to "The Paula Poundstone Show" far more entertaining than the actual series itself? Along with the late, great Glenn Frey's ill-fated private eye drama "South Of Sunset" (which lasted only one [extremely low-rated] telecast in late October of '93; CBS promoted the hell out of "South Of Sunset" during the 1993 World Series--luckily, four additional episodes, including the pilot, aired on VH1 the following year [at the height of the hoopla surrounding Frey's reunion with his former Eagles bandmates]), "The Paula Poundstone Show" was the most embarrassing dud of the 1993-94 season (ABC aired only two episodes on Saturday nights before it was abruptly canceled). And I was flattered by Poundstone's obligatory but sly reference to the '90s crime drama "The Commish" (starring Michael "The Shield" Chiklis and the late, great Theresa Saldana), which aired on Saturday nights directly after her comedy/variety series! Whose bright idea was it to greenlight a lightweight--and lightheaded--family sitcom starring former heavyweight boxing champion (and fat-reducing cookware pitchman/peddler) George Foreman? That's like casting former NBA badboys Dennis Rodman and Latrell Sprewell as a mismatched pair of private investigators! You'd think a sitcom (I'm talking, of course, about "Daddy Dearest") co-starring comedy giants Richard Lewis and the late, great Don Rickles as father and son would've been ratings gold, but ultimately it wasn't...despite having the long-running blue collar sitcom "Married...With Children" as its lead-in on Sunday nights, "Daddy Dearest" was yanked from the Fox schedule in early December after eleven telecasts (with one episode left in the can). "NBC's Friday Night Mystery" was an intriguing but unsuccessful attempt by the "Peacock Network" to revive their successful "umbrella" series of the 1970s, "The NBC Mystery Movie" (which had consisted of, among other programs, "Columbo," "McCloud," "McMillian and Wife," and "Banacek"). Sadly, veteran actor Raymond Burr would die in September of '93, leaving their successful "Perry Mason" made-for-television films--which had aired regularly on NBC (once, twice, or even thrice per year) since 1985--in limbo; four additional films (sans Burr) aired sporadically throughout the next two years under the title "A Perry Mason Mystery." I did enjoy listening to the late Don LaFontaine's voiceover during the promo, however; LaFontaine also narrated the promo for the critically acclaimed but short-lived high school sports drama "Against The Grain" (co-starring a young thespian by the name of Ben Affleck). Despite the undeniable talents of actor/comedian/writer/director Robert Townsend (he collaborated with "In Living Color" guru Keenan Ivory Wayans on the cult '80s film "Hollywood Shuffle"--one of my all-time favorite films!--as well as the underrated early '90s musical melodrama "The Five Heartbeats"), "Townsend Television" was basically an imitation of Wayans' groundbreaking sketch comedy/variety series "In Living Color" (also airing on Fox); due to fierce competition on Sundays from CBS's long-running newsmagazine "60 Minutes" and ABC's utterly ridiculous but successful "America's Funniest Home Videos" and "America's Funniest People," Fox pulled the plug on "Townsend Television" after ten episodes. But it's a delight to see veteran comedian John "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" Witherspoon ("The Wayans Bros." and "Friday") in the opening credits! As for the much-ridiculed "Saved By The Bell: The College Years," the less said, the better...it was obviously greenlit by NBC--albeit rather quickly--due to the gigantic success of its parent series, "Saved By The Bell," on Saturday mornings; NBC's execs had high hopes that "SBTB's" fanbase (comprising of teenagers, obviously) would follow the college exploits of three of Bayside High School's graduating students (Zack Morris, A.C. Slater, and Samuel "Screech" Powers) once "SBTB: The College Years" premiered in primetime...alas, it was not to be; "SBTB: The College Years" was massacred in its timeslot on Tuesdays by ABC's oh-so-adorable hit family sitcom "Full House," CBS's informative, life-saving docudrama "Rescue 911" (hosted by the one and only William Shatner), and Fox's critically acclaimed urban comedy series "Roc." This particular opening credits sequence for "SBTB: The College Years" is from the pilot episode, which aired on 22 May 1993; when "SBTB: The College Years" began its regular run in September, however, Essence Atkins was abruptly dropped from the cast when Tiffani (Amber-)Thiessen agreed to reprise the role of Zack's former girlfriend from Bayside, cheerleader and prom queen Kelly Kapowski. Despite the failure of "The College Years," NBC continued "SBTB" on Saturday mornings as "Saved By The Bell: The New Class," complete with a new cast (save for Dennis Haskins, who played bumbling Bayside principal Richard Belding); despite being critically panned by both critics and fans, "SBTB: The New Class" lasted seven interminable seasons--amid numerous cast changes spanning throughout each season--as a staple of NBC's "TNBC" lineup before ending in 2000. All in all, this was yet another highly entertaining montage! Thanks for uploading, RWdt09!
Thanks for your detailed input. And yeah, Living Single was one I had overlooked somehow to include in the video. It's happened a few times before. One of these days I'll get it right each and every time.
I used to know this woman who would cosplay as Paula poundstone when she went to comedy shows...we had the same taste in comedy and we'd run into each other at the regional club where the big names would stop at. She lived in my town and was a nurse at the hospital...lovely lady just kooky
After "Perfect Strangers" his career was essentially kaput! I guess that 1993 show was one they were hoping would build on his success from the former.
@@pbcoop62 Yes. He would do a show and after a season or so it would get cancelled then that fall he would come back with another to replace it. Hollywood refused to give up on him, but other than Vegas and Spenser For Hire, they were all one season wonders.
This must have been when the networks started pushing the myth of the single mother working hard and getting it done while having time for her friends and a love life.
a fine mix of "I remember that!" and "I dont remember that at all".... of long running classics and forgotten favorites..... of shows that were too good to last and shows that I cannot believe got greenlit
I remember the Paula Poundstone show because Joel Hodgson was supposed to be a 'consultant' on the show and he had just left Mystery Science Theater 3000. This clip is all I remember from the show. Glen Frey and a pre-madTV Aries Spears. Who would of imagined it? Don't remember that one. I never saw a bunch of these. Come on, who would watch a spin-off from Cheers? :)
So this is the beginning of my 90's sci-fi hit. Seaquest DSV and The X Files. Added to TNG and then the following year with DS9 and it was the golden period of sci-fi television. Oh and I forgot Sliders just around the corner.
Thanks Algorithm for this mildly interesting video. I remember this vaguely from the time. As a kid I would get confused that shows would appear and then disappear. Interestingly enough, Netflix is doing about the same now.
Paula Poundstone had the worst theme song ever created. "So you're home on a Saturday night, don't you have a social life?- no" I'm not watching anything with that intro.
This video was uploaded 2 years ago, but most of these comments are from the past few days. Guess the TH-cam algorithm struck all of our feeds.
hehehheç
YUP
I'm having a great time with these. I've spent my entire weekend stoned off my ass drowning in 80's garbage watching all of these uploads on this dudes channel. I love it!
@@djpetenice i started watching the John Larroquete show becuase of this video,,, oh boy, that show was good,, just watched the episode 11 from season 1, where they namedrop Thomas Pynchon,, cheers
Michael Biscay Yep
I still watch the Mommies non-stop on a continuous loop. I'm typing this from hell.
Hahahaha 😆
Hilarious.
How'd you get inside The White House?? *Pa da tish* ( drum sound after a joke), Haha!!
@@sammylane21 that's called a rimshot
Haha!
That's one of the few shows from this time that I heard of.
It's amazing how many well known actors had forgettable shows that failed. It just goes to show how many things have to come together (cast, writers, premise, time slot, etc...) to create a successful show.
The network executives really goofed up big time across all four networks in 1993. Only a third of the new shows saw a second season. The competition from the already established shows were obviously intense. "The Cosby Show" was still on, but in decline, while "Rosanne," "Married with Children," "The Simpsons," "Fresh Prince," and the "TGIF Line up" were all at their peak. Only "Frasier" can claim to be a successful show in this year.
@@keldonmcfarland2969 Uh... X-Files? Boy Meets World? Lois and Clark? Even Grace Under Fire and SeaQuest were somewhat successful.
@@keldonmcfarland2969 The Cosby Show ended in 1992. Do you mean reruns?
@@keldonmcfarland2969 not very correct at all
StonyJoe Somewhat.
The Nanny was pretty good. Thanks for bringing me back in time! 😉
No it wasn't
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e stfu
I just wonder if they had to change the out on her Fanny line if the Nanny aired in the UK. It would have a completely different meaning. 😄
I always hated the Nanny. Fran the Nanny was very annoying.
Annoyingly successful
I remember everyone thinking X-Files was going to be some Twin Peaks knockoff. Boy were they wrong.
Diskoboy1974 , David Duchovny was in Twin Peaks too
@@juanc1328 yes, as a trans woman!
funnily, they were planning on mixing the cases into "supernatural reason/natural reason/hoax" and change it up so people could guess.
When the x files came out, no one knew what to make of it. Some shows here gave phenomenal memories.
@@charles1203
I want to believe...
A lot of these shows I really remember. Frasier, X-files, Grace under fire, Seaquest, Lois and Clark, NYPD Blue, Boy Meets World. In the era before streaming services, we had some pretty good television. A lot of these I've never heard of....
I live in the UK and I think those are the only ones of this lot which made it across the Atlantic. I wonder which were the other four that got a second series.
I forgot about Brisco County Jr. good show.
agreed great series but screwed up in later episodes
Brisco County Jr. had tons of unexplored potential. insanely included SciFi elements which really intrigued me! I miss that one.
Hell yeah. Good TV on a Saturday morning. They tried real hard to resurrect the classic western melodrama but they just couldn't quite pull it off.
The black guy on it was Sho Nuff from the Last Dragon
It was awesome. Before I ever saw any of the Evil Dead films, this is where I knew Bruce Campbell from - and it was a show my dad enjoyed watching with me as well back then, which gives me warm fuzzies to this day.
I think the theme song to The Mommies is what you hear on the elevator ride to hell.
To this day I will never understand the Mommies craze. TV shows, comedy tours, etc. Just don't get it.
Sir Anthony I could just picture people changing the channel about 10 seconds into the intro.
Chris Hype You're bring very optimistic assuming there's an elevator.
Chris Hype what’s the time stamp?🤣
@Val Venus Pasadena PD will be render security ; remember the hot zone ....
The 90's were so blurry.
Thats because everyone was trippin on acid man
Great comment
Yeah now but back then this was quality lol. When cable tv came along we thought we transcended into new heights but didn't know what was next in video quality
lol
This channel has some serious historical importance. I'm so glad it popped up on my feed.
"The Mommies" (starting at 6:01) had one of the most cursed TV theme songs of all time
The John larroquette show was pretty good from what I remember.
THey had to revamp the premise, which was common in the 89s for some reason, but yes, it was pretty good.
It was okay. It was depressing, he played a recovering alcoholic managing a bus depot in ST. Louis, MO. He was so excellent on NIGHT COURT, albeit.
The first season was perfect... People were just not ready for it.
screwed by the Network to a degree... and ultimately Larroquette went from Night Court to this without missing a Season... I imagine 'Mood Whiplash' hit some fans pretty hard expecting 'Dan Fielding gets a new job" and getting a whole other animal
It was
Aww...RIP Jonathan Brandis :(
“Frasier” will forever be a legendary institution. More than a show. Highly rated and accoladed, and one of my favorites forever.❣️😅
I heard rumors of a reboot, but I will dearly miss John Mahoney. 💜
Only a third of the new shows from this year went on to a second season, and a majority of those second seasons didn't see a fourth. "Frasier" was by far the most successful show in its class debut.
And yet what a hackey bit of lame exposition it started with
That part in the video did not made me want to watch the rest...
Curt Christensen I assume you meant “Ros,” not “Rod,” and that guy was not a boy. So dramatic, like she banged a minor or something.
I concur! As a child, I had no business watching this show, but it certainly was a great one. ❤
I have been watching your videos all day
Anything with Bruce Campbell is awesome! He's one of my favorite actor's too bad Brisco County didn't last very long either did the Ash Vrs Evil Dead loved that show too!
At least he had one successful show ie Burn Notice. He was great as Sam Axe.
Did you ever watch Jack Of All Trades?
I really liked Bruce Campbell's character on the show Xena Warrior Princess.
The John Larroquette show was amazing, especially its first season
That 'Frasier' show will never make it. Spinoffs always suck
Yeah your right, it probably won't even get past its pilot episode
Just like Laverne and Shirley Mork and Mindy, andcThe Jefferson's.
@Chris Terry It would run for 11 years. What does that tell you people?
Alex Barnes
They are being sarcastic, sweet Alex. The context of the replies should especially clue you in to that.
You are right that this awesome show lasted 11 seasons (only truly shutting down bc of David and Lynn Angell’s tragic 9-11 deaths, which is why the baby of Daphne and Niles was named “David”, though they were originally written to deliver a baby girl). Please see the comment just above/prior to yours. 💜
I loved Frasier until it became the Niles and Daphne show
Its like watching a sports draft from back in the day.
Anybody remember Sam Bowie?
A lot of busts..
@@meadster308 nope . What’s that?
@@TheNumbasign2 He was the #2 NBA draft pick in 1984, Hakeem Olajuwon was #1 and Michael Jordan was #3.
@@meadster308 nah not really
Omg. I used to watch Thea as a kid, completely forgot.
I definitely followed John Larroquette and Harry Anderson to their new shows...sad that they were both gone, unceremoniously, by 1997...I was addicted to SeaQuest but knew Roy Scheider wasn't gonna stay underwater too long.
@@JaxFPrime81 Trying to change it into a military show didn't help either.
@@Poizenne Star Trek was changed from space exploration into a military show with them being at war with the Romulans, Klingons, and Borg.
@@hydrolito True.
CBS looked really stupid canceling major dad to make room for shows like the trouble with Larry
One thing you have to admit, there were a lot of bad shows in the 80s and 90s but a lot of them had some inventive, great opening credits. No one really does that anymore.
VALENTINEproductions possibly because most people just press skip intro! Why waste money on something no one is actually going to see?!
The actual reason they don’t do long intros now is not because people skip them, it’s because of run time, and more and more commercials. Shows get if lucky 22 min to run now. If you waste a min you get less. I wish all shows still had opening songs! I think Family guy does what they do specifically to prove that point.
@@AKayfabe Exactly
Just because they weren't popular or didn't last as long as The Simpsons doesn't mean they were bad. A show on ABC at 8:30pm Tuesdays would run against a show at 8:30pm Tuesdays on NBC, CBS, FOX, MTV, Comedy Central, TBS, any of the 1000s of TV/Cable networks. Sometimes a mega-popular show runs at the same time as any of these other shows.
I will agree you can't find many great TV show openings anymore. Magic keeps dying :-(
"The Mommies" has to be the most annoying theme song ever! I've never heard of it before, and I wish it could've stayed that way.
I'd heard of the show, but hadn't heard the theme song until this clip. Oy I wish I still hadn't heard it.
channels like this makes me think of my childhood. every sunday, I would risk getting yelled at because I would ruin the Sunday paper to get the tv guide. I could here my grandma yelling at me now "what happened to the damn paper!? (me: I accidentally ripped the paper cause I was trying...) her: walk down to the store and get me another paper... thank you baby" after yelling at me about the metro section lol. I miss her.
I remember almost every last one of these shows AND the promos for them. So much for having my own television at age twelve.
The X-Files looks so out of place among these intros. It's clear why it was such a turning point. It's like with one intro everyone realized that TV didn't have to suck or be about families.
Or lawyers, or hospitals, or cops (although Mulder and Scully were technically FBI agents, but it sure wasn’t a normal FBI or cop show).
Oh how I miss the 90s, being a 90s kid was the best. RIP 90s 😢
Being a 90s teen on the other hand, not so great. Trust me.
I was a 90s kid and a 90s teen and it was amazing. The last great decade.
Ray Ceeya
Yeah being a teen living in the city in the 90’s wasn’t the best of times.
Really glad we had cable😀
TV is a million times better now. Serialized drama >>>> sitcoms.
90s weren't that great
All of these still beat the fake "reality" shows now days...
BIlly Ray - Reality shows blow, but Tv is a million times better today. Especially on Netflix/HBO
SeaQuest - Lets do Star Trek but underwater.
All that I can remember of this show was that the first half of season 1 was ok, but the second half of season 1 and season 2 got very weird.
The Trouble with Larry is that's Balki!
RyanChamberlainProductions yes
I was excited when it first aired.
Then after 5 minutes of watching turned the channel, never to watch any episode.
Only now instead of a lovable foreigner, he's an insufferable asshole!
Bronson Pinchot.
Of course it is Dont be ridiculous
Some iconic ones in there (X-Files, Frasier, etc) some 'oh I remember that one (Grace under fire, etc) and plenty of... that was really a show?
Grace under fire I like to watch..that brett butler was on Charlie sheen's show angry management tv show for three seasons.
Was about to say that 30 some shows, it would be really hard to break through to get a second season from all the competition, but through all the crap that had to be waded through (George Foreman in a show? Really?), ABC had a hit with Boy Meets World, and hit the jackpot with NYPD Blue, and did FOX ever hit it with X Files. People were ready for a show that pushed the boundaries of what you could get away with on a TV show, and the paranormal was becoming a big deal around that time, so the timing was right.
Not so right for "Missing Persons". That PARTICULAR show didn't last, but they needed to wait some years before the concept of finding missing people became a big deal, as they tried again with the concept and got a hit out of Without A Trace. Wonder if the producers behind Trace ever got any inspiration from Missing Persons.
That’s how it goes...and what makes this compilation interesting...as you say, iconic next to wtf? 😂
My first sex dream ever was Brett Butler because of that show.
If you think that's bad my second sex dream ever was Rhea Perlman.
I'm glad I almost never have sex dreams.
NYPD Blue, Frasier and the X-Files were the most enduring and high quality of the lot...
The intro to Mommies was the most 90s thing I’ve ever seen lol also the most annoying intro ever
🤣🤣 you're absolutely right!
Practically the same title sequence from Saved By the Bell.
I watched a little bit of the pilot just now and I'll take it over most of the crap on today. At least the boys are being boys and the girls are being girls.
I know, it has one of the cheesiest openings and more so then BOY MEETS WORLD season 1, haha!!
@@sammylane21Boy meets world intro was awesome gtfo!
I forgot how intense NYPD Blues opening music was. Jesus. Felt like I witness my whole life in NYC just in those credits.
I love the Chinese dragon scene.
My late mother adored nypd blue and never missed an episode. She wrote a letter to rte giving out about it's MI's scheduling
Mark Daly lol
The show itself was intense.
I wish I had watched Brisco County. At the time I thought it was a generic Western. It actually looks really creative and entertaining.
R.D. Dragon
My parents were very into a disco County Jr. Usually Dad doesn’t watch anything first run... he waits to see if it makes syndication
R.D. Dragon It was... I remember it was on Fridays right before The X-Files.
I remember when most of these shows were brand new... I guess I'm getting old
Me too! I was 18 when these came out!
@@feleciagrasty3880 I was 10
@@ktoth29 I was 9 and yeah where does the time go honestly
@@schmootheonly I feel like I wasted my youth on an education that hasn't done much for me. Probably should have spent less time watching TV in the mid 90's
@@ktoth29 that's the reality for a lot of us that came of age during the great recession, I'm only just getting a taste of success nowadays out of sheer work. The way it seemed in the 90s, we were supposed to have all the opportunities and time to goof off that our parents had.. Thats what we were taught anyway.
I've always thought "Phenom" was an incredibly underrated show. It should've lasted longer than the single season it was given. Amazingly, some of the episodes have been posted on TH-cam, so at least it lives on in some fashion.
I agree, Winter Steele! "Phenom" was indeed promising; despite tying for 27th place--along with "Evening Shade" and "Rescue 911--for the 1993-94 season and maintaining the viewing audience from its robust lead-in on Tuesday nights, the oh-so-adorable family sitcom "Full House" (which ranked 16th), "Phenom" was unfortunately canceled by ABC after only one season (22 episodes were produced). I'll have to check out an episode of "Phenom" someday, if the uploaded episodes haven't been removed from TH-cam, that is (due to copyright claims). And the theme song (performed by Carly "You're So Vein" Simon) is a true gem!
@@demetriusdillard2863 okay. I just posted that it was in the top 20 in EW, but they must have had top 30 weekly ratings. I enjoyed the show and really thought William Devane was good.
Yeah, and it had great theme song. It's sung by Carly Simon.
It was to simular to Whos the Boss and came way to close to the WTB series finale. They were trying to hard.
@@adamhanscom6804 I think it had similar qualities, but it could have expanded.
Thank you so much for posting this!
That Ben Affleck kid from Against the Grain isn't going anywhere
Just like Danny Masterson
He had his chance.
@@jrlomy2k He's won two Academy Awards. Gotta count for something.
Fun fact: Both Bruce Campbell and Dean Cain have hosted "Ripley's Believe It or Not".
Huh, I’ve never seen the show hosted by Campbell. I think I would have enjoyed it more.
I didn't know that! That's cool! 😊 😎 Jack Palance hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not in the 1980s.
The Paula Poundstone opening looks like it's trying for a It's Garry Shandling's Show vibe.
It was pretty much a rip off of the dar superior Gary Shandling Show. Paula Poundstone is one weird person.
@@119Agent She's not that bad, but on like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, not a network show
@@ParsnipPizza yeah I like her, but definitely in that context
@@ParsnipPizza she is a great standup.
She talks like she's got a mouthful of marbles
Can see how almost 8 people watched the Paul Poundstone Show.
God I loved Brisco County Jr... which opened for the X-files... best 2 hours of television back in 93
13:17 I remember "South of Sunset" vividly. At the time my family had just moved to Detroit after we had lived in Georgia during most of my childhood.
I was super hyped for that show because it was released exactly on my birthday, October 27. Then it was gone immediately afterward. Hahaha. One show.
RIP, Glenn Frey.
That Mommies opening plays like a Tim and Eric bit
Renee Taylor had a great year in 93. She not only played Fran’s mother on The Nanny , but she had an ongoing role ( which clearly didn’t go on for long) on Daddy Dearest ( 4.57). That is a show I never heard about until now.
Whatever the hell "Paula Poundstone" was on in 93', I want some.
She was awful. She looked and sounded like a Bell's Palsy victim
@@jerseytomato100 bruh I had that even i was like 15 lmao
Two of the greatest shows of all time; a couple of decent ones that were around for a few years; a ton of I-don't-even-remember-these-being-on (and '93 wasn't *that* long ago, relative to some of your other compilations)!
So interesting to see what shows become beloved classics and some that we forgot even existed. Very nostalgic.
I used to watch Thea. The show gave us Brandy before she became an R & B superstar. Yvette Wilson starred on The Parkers. Jason Weaver played young Michael in The Jacksons: An American Dream.
In what universe does Bronson Pinchot deserve an audience standing applause just for appearing
SBTB college years gives me so many feels of nostalgia. I was the perfect age for that show.
VALENTINEproductions The college year!!
Dang frasier, Lois and Clark, and the X-Files came out in 93. That’s crazy. I was 7
Who would sit through 30 minutes of the Paula poundstone show
I was a kid during this, and only remember about 20% of these - but what sticks with me the most is the x-files theme song - it used to give me serious nightmares as a 6-7 year old
The Paula Poundstone Show looked great.
Someone please kill me.
I thought that your punchline was going to be "for me to poop on."
The mommies could be the worst opening I have ever seen. Also just looks like a cringe show
The opening was cheesy, but I checked out the pilot and it was actually pretty funny (for 90's sitcoms).
It has a vaporwave like quality.
Oh it's horrible. I'm watching it now.
Wow 1993, the year of my first born . As she was extremely colicky I spent a lot of time round the clock comforting her . Spent a lot of time watching tv too, these shows I totally forgot about . Thx for the memories
I loved SeaQuest! Although I only watched it for Jonathan Brandis. (RIP)
I wonder if Roy Scheider's character had to deal with sharks.
@@sha11235 At least he finally got that bigger boat.
I got hooked on the "X Files" Gilian Anderson was cute.
“Brisco County Jr” is one of the greatest shows of all time. R.I.P Brisco
I really liked it to. I had a huge crush on the blonde bargirl and her fishnet stockings in the pilot episode.
Still one my favorite tv shows. I had a crush on Bruce Campbell
Such a fun show, a rare adventure show the family can enjoy. It wasn’t perfect but should have been given another year to smooth out the rough edges.
Some hits, Some ok show, and a lot of WTF.
Best post
"The Mommies" is the most 90's intro show ever, was it on Saturday mornings or what??
Why is “The Mommies” a fever dream?
Lol
I watched: Frasier, The Nanny, Grace Under Fire, Hearts of the West, Bristol County, Lois & Clark, SeaQuest DSV, The X-Files, Boy Meets World, NYPD Blue. I don't remember NBC Friday Night Mystery.
It's kind of neat to see this montage of 90's (I was a child from 90-93, and a teenager onward) I chuckled every time I saw a show that I remembered as it lasted long enough to engrain in my memory and was frankly horrified by much of the rest, agreeing with the vast majority of other commenters that speculated a lot of cocaine must of been a flowin' in order to get those dumpster fires green lit.
And Paula Poundstone. Yikes! I recall seeing her on either Showtime or HBO (one of the comedy hours) and thinking back then that she was moderately funny for being such a kook, but seeing her in her show's intro had all my stranger danger alarms going off in my head!
The X-Files and Frasier alone made this season a massive success (for young me anyway).
So, The Paula Poundstone Show was basically just It's Garry Shandling's Show with a girl.
If you consider Paula Poundstone a girl
Whatever happened to Paula Poundstone?
Donnalee Clubb Wikipedia is your friend.
That was Paula Poindstone? I thought it was John Bon Jovi
@@donnaleeclubb119 She's doing panel shows on public radio.
Still love Grace Under Fire!
Brisco county jr. Was by far the best thing to come out of 1993
Johnny Reb x f I l e s
living single is missing for the list
Ouch. That hurts. You're right. Sometimes one just slips right by me.
I thought 1992 was the first season?
I thought it was 94?
RwDt09 update? 🙂
@Sonic Thrillington Damn right! That was my show, never missed an episode!
"Thea" was one of the shows trying to capitalize on the popularity of "Roseanne". FOX also put out a sitcom called "Babes" with three large ladies (because 3 Roseanne's are better than one?)
"Phenom" tanked after Jennifer Cappriatti was arrested for pot.
I liked Thea it as a funny show and she is a very funny lady and it as not made to capitalize on the popularity of Roseanne it as a part of a trend, that included Roseanne, of Stand-up Comedians trying to translate their acts into television. Home improvement and the Cosby show were also a part of the trend as was the Paula Poundstone show
Thea was also on NBC. I don't think it was trying to capitalize. There was a show with Nell Carter in the early 90s called Take Your Kids on CBS that was a more blatant ripoff
Thea was a good show stayed on for a while
pumbaaj Babes was funny
Liked The Nanny.
Man, I loved ordering a pizza on Fridays and watching Brisco County Jr. followed by The X-Files!
It’s amazing that Brandy and Ray J both had their TV debut at the same time.
Ready to see intros from bad shows
(Sees The Mommies)
I wasn’t ready
(Sees Townsend Television)
Stop it
(Sees Joe’s Life)
Tell my family I love them.
Haha I didn’t even get that far. I could barely make it through the cringe that was ‘The Trouble with Larry.’
Joes Life was infinitely better than the Judith Light one before it. Not saying either are good but..
😂LMAO😂
"The Paula Poundstone Show" intro is painful. Like, she's just saying random shit no one cares about and she's trying to be funny. She can't even pretend!
travis7310 It was on Saturdays...DOA.
It was utterly painful. I agree. I was kind of embarrassed
It was like the intro to a TH-cam video before TH-cam...😂😂
Now I know what her adopted kids felt like
🤣🤣🤣
I always thought Bakersfield P.D was a beer commercial when it first started
ginger suicide Gus Fringe got the same Volvo from Breaking Bad
Funny, I didn't see the opening credits to "Living Single" in this montage...the "Designing Women"-esque sitcom premiered on 22 August 1993 and lasted for five seasons on Fox.
As you mentioned in your opening spiel, Fox did indeed become a formidable contender to the "Big Three" for the first time, especially after outbidding CBS for NFL broadcast rights in late 1993.
Aside from the big winners ("Frasier," "The Nanny," "Grace Under Fire," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman," "SeaQuest DSV," "The X-Files," "Dave's World," "Boy Meets World," and "NYPD Blue"), there were quite a few stinkers this season ("Daddy Dearest," "South Of Sunset," "George," "The Paula Poundstone Show," "Angel Falls," "The Trouble With Larry," "Family Album," "It Had To Be You," "The Second Half," "Joe's Life," and, of course, "Saved By The Bell: The College Years"), as well as a handful of promising but unsuccessful gems that never clicked with viewers ("The Adventures Of Brisco County, Jr.," "Harts Of The West," "Against The Grain," "The Sinbad Show," "NBC's Friday Night Mystery," "Thea," "Missing Persons," "Bakersfield P.D.," "The Mommies," "Townsend Television," "Cafe Americain," "Moon Over Miami," "The John Larroquette Show," and "Phenom").
Here's a bit of trivia for you: "Diagnosis: Murder" replaced both "It Had To Be You" and "Family Album" in late October; the "Quincy"-inspired forensic crime drama enjoyed a marginally successful eight-year run on CBS...it was also Dick Van Dyke's first successful series in many years--following the cancellation of his groundbreaking 1960s sitcom ("The Dick Van Dyke Show")--after a string of unsuccessful failures ("The New Dick Van Dyke Show," "Van Dyke and Company," and "The Van Dyke Show').
Is it just me, or is the opening credit sequence to "The Paula Poundstone Show" far more entertaining than the actual series itself? Along with the late, great Glenn Frey's ill-fated private eye drama "South Of Sunset" (which lasted only one [extremely low-rated] telecast in late October of '93; CBS promoted the hell out of "South Of Sunset" during the 1993 World Series--luckily, four additional episodes, including the pilot, aired on VH1 the following year [at the height of the hoopla surrounding Frey's reunion with his former Eagles bandmates]), "The Paula Poundstone Show" was the most embarrassing dud of the 1993-94 season (ABC aired only two episodes on Saturday nights before it was abruptly canceled). And I was flattered by Poundstone's obligatory but sly reference to the '90s crime drama "The Commish" (starring Michael "The Shield" Chiklis and the late, great Theresa Saldana), which aired on Saturday nights directly after her comedy/variety series!
Whose bright idea was it to greenlight a lightweight--and lightheaded--family sitcom starring former heavyweight boxing champion (and fat-reducing cookware pitchman/peddler) George Foreman? That's like casting former NBA badboys Dennis Rodman and Latrell Sprewell as a mismatched pair of private investigators!
You'd think a sitcom (I'm talking, of course, about "Daddy Dearest") co-starring comedy giants Richard Lewis and the late, great Don Rickles as father and son would've been ratings gold, but ultimately it wasn't...despite having the long-running blue collar sitcom "Married...With Children" as its lead-in on Sunday nights, "Daddy Dearest" was yanked from the Fox schedule in early December after eleven telecasts (with one episode left in the can).
"NBC's Friday Night Mystery" was an intriguing but unsuccessful attempt by the "Peacock Network" to revive their successful "umbrella" series of the 1970s, "The NBC Mystery Movie" (which had consisted of, among other programs, "Columbo," "McCloud," "McMillian and Wife," and "Banacek"). Sadly, veteran actor Raymond Burr would die in September of '93, leaving their successful "Perry Mason" made-for-television films--which had aired regularly on NBC (once, twice, or even thrice per year) since 1985--in limbo; four additional films (sans Burr) aired sporadically throughout the next two years under the title "A Perry Mason Mystery." I did enjoy listening to the late Don LaFontaine's voiceover during the promo, however; LaFontaine also narrated the promo for the critically acclaimed but short-lived high school sports drama "Against The Grain" (co-starring a young thespian by the name of Ben Affleck).
Despite the undeniable talents of actor/comedian/writer/director Robert Townsend (he collaborated with "In Living Color" guru Keenan Ivory Wayans on the cult '80s film "Hollywood Shuffle"--one of my all-time favorite films!--as well as the underrated early '90s musical melodrama "The Five Heartbeats"), "Townsend Television" was basically an imitation of Wayans' groundbreaking sketch comedy/variety series "In Living Color" (also airing on Fox); due to fierce competition on Sundays from CBS's long-running newsmagazine "60 Minutes" and ABC's utterly ridiculous but successful "America's Funniest Home Videos" and "America's Funniest People," Fox pulled the plug on "Townsend Television" after ten episodes. But it's a delight to see veteran comedian John "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" Witherspoon ("The Wayans Bros." and "Friday") in the opening credits!
As for the much-ridiculed "Saved By The Bell: The College Years," the less said, the better...it was obviously greenlit by NBC--albeit rather quickly--due to the gigantic success of its parent series, "Saved By The Bell," on Saturday mornings; NBC's execs had high hopes that "SBTB's" fanbase (comprising of teenagers, obviously) would follow the college exploits of three of Bayside High School's graduating students (Zack Morris, A.C. Slater, and Samuel "Screech" Powers) once "SBTB: The College Years" premiered in primetime...alas, it was not to be; "SBTB: The College Years" was massacred in its timeslot on Tuesdays by ABC's oh-so-adorable hit family sitcom "Full House," CBS's informative, life-saving docudrama "Rescue 911" (hosted by the one and only William Shatner), and Fox's critically acclaimed urban comedy series "Roc." This particular opening credits sequence for "SBTB: The College Years" is from the pilot episode, which aired on 22 May 1993; when "SBTB: The College Years" began its regular run in September, however, Essence Atkins was abruptly dropped from the cast when Tiffani (Amber-)Thiessen agreed to reprise the role of Zack's former girlfriend from Bayside, cheerleader and prom queen Kelly Kapowski. Despite the failure of "The College Years," NBC continued "SBTB" on Saturday mornings as "Saved By The Bell: The New Class," complete with a new cast (save for Dennis Haskins, who played bumbling Bayside principal Richard Belding); despite being critically panned by both critics and fans, "SBTB: The New Class" lasted seven interminable seasons--amid numerous cast changes spanning throughout each season--as a staple of NBC's "TNBC" lineup before ending in 2000.
All in all, this was yet another highly entertaining montage! Thanks for uploading, RWdt09!
Thanks for your detailed input. And yeah, Living Single was one I had overlooked somehow to include in the video. It's happened a few times before. One of these days I'll get it right each and every time.
You're very welcome, RwDt09! Keep up the good work, bro!
I used to know this woman who would cosplay as Paula poundstone when she went to comedy shows...we had the same taste in comedy and we'd run into each other at the regional club where the big names would stop at. She lived in my town and was a nurse at the hospital...lovely lady just kooky
I don't remember the Bronson Pinchot show but it looked awful!
After "Perfect Strangers" his career was essentially kaput! I guess that 1993 show was one they were hoping would build on his success from the former.
ab dude
apparently that particular episode had mile-a-minute fat-joke hilarity....
Just think, if it had gone a few seasons Courtney COx would not have had "Friends."
Hello?? The Langoliers?!
Same thing I was thinking. She started Friends a year later and became a multi-millionaire.
It's a wonder the Paula poundstone show wasn't a bigger hit 🙄🙄🙄
Courtney Cox was on a lot of flops. Robert Urich was as well.
the Entire cast of Friends, pre-friends (and post if we're being honest) had pretty sh*t careers
Robert Urich starred in more TV series than any other actor. He kept working, almost up to the very end.
@@pbcoop62 Yes. He would do a show and after a season or so it would get cancelled then that fall he would come back with another to replace it. Hollywood refused to give up on him, but other than Vegas and Spenser For Hire, they were all one season wonders.
and then she was in one of the most popular shows of all time. $$$$$$$$$
The only reason Courtney cox got into tv shows is cause she was boinking.batman.
Whoa... Glenn Frey and the guy from Mad TV had their own TV show??
Good to see Giancarlo Esposito go on to other things after Bakersfield, PD.
Frasier and NYPD Blue look boring, that Daddy Dearest looks like a winner though.
I watched it when it was on. It wasn't bad but Richard Lewis couldn't keep up with Don Rickles.
I know it's a joke but God I love Frasier
Thomas Finnell Frasier was an amazing show! You must have a high IQ to enjoy...
Frasier was garbage
@@darinp5612 incorrect
Why wasn't it "the problem with cousin Larry" just an extension of perfect strangers
That was a good year for the Strong Brothers
This must have been when the networks started pushing the myth of the single mother working hard and getting it done while having time for her friends and a love life.
That was One Day at a time in the 70s. Or Alice.
There was a itme when I was so addicted to Saved by the bell, the college years,lol!!
Uncle Peanut 38 me too
a fine mix of "I remember that!" and "I dont remember that at all".... of long running classics and forgotten favorites..... of shows that were too good to last and shows that I cannot believe got greenlit
I remember the Paula Poundstone show because Joel Hodgson was supposed to be a 'consultant' on the show and he had just left Mystery Science Theater 3000. This clip is all I remember from the show. Glen Frey and a pre-madTV Aries Spears. Who would of imagined it? Don't remember that one. I never saw a bunch of these. Come on, who would watch a spin-off from Cheers? :)
So this is the beginning of my 90's sci-fi hit. Seaquest DSV and The X Files. Added to TNG and then the following year with DS9 and it was the golden period of sci-fi television. Oh and I forgot Sliders just around the corner.
14:20 He decided to leave Bakersfield and open a chicken restaurant called Los Pollos.
Brett Patterson same Volvo, too
Glenn Frey and Aries Spears? 90s continuing to out do itself!
South of Sunset has that Nash Bridges feel to it. Right down to the car.
If it took 34 shows to make the Nanny, I'll take it.
My absolute favorite sitcom besides Three's Company and Who's the Boss
Thanks Algorithm for this mildly interesting video. I remember this vaguely from the time. As a kid I would get confused that shows would appear and then disappear. Interestingly enough, Netflix is doing about the same now.
For me , X-files was the true turn to the 90s for television land.
Paula Poundstone had the worst theme song ever created. "So you're home on a Saturday night, don't you have a social life?- no"
I'm not watching anything with that intro.
Intro - tries to be edgy and funny by insulting people for watching it.
People - feels insulted and doesn't watch
She sucked, that's why you never hear of her anymore
Frasier will always be a classic 🙌🏾