I would definitely sub to that asap. These clips and intros almost brings me to tears. You begin to fully understand just how much content was made, how much work was put in, how many familiar faces we came across. In the words of Phil Collins "you just another face i met on my tv show" 🍻
Erin Moran and Scott Baio were such big stars in those days. Surprising that a decent show couldn't be built around them. RIP Erin Moran I must have been doing homework when most of these came on. '82 was Junior year in high school.
For me it was TV of the early 90s, but a lot of people don't seem to remember shows from their high school years. It's probably healthier if you missed out on TV in your teen years.
Did you ever hear about Joanie and Chachi getting huge ratings in Korea? Turns out Korean language Chachi is their word for penis. So the show is aired as Joania loves Dick
Thanks, @@DoctorInk20! Other than the "And Rex Hamilton As Abraham Lincoln!" tag during the opening credits of "Police Squad!," the freeze frames that appeared during the closing credits were my favorite part!
5:53 Based on the weather update on the screen, this episode was taped off WJKW-TV8 (CBS; now WJW-TV, Fox) in Cleveland on April 5, 1982, at 9:30pm EST. This was the first of "Making the Grade"'s six airings, temporarily replacing "House Calls" in the time slot.
One thing I noticed watching anything from the 80s is that they really made a point of telling you the city it was set in. I suppose it’s cheap and easy just to have a lot of footage of landmarks
Not just the 80s. In the 70s Laverne & Sirley opened with some Milwaukee scenery, Bob Newhart and Good Times had Chicago, WKRP had Cincinnati landmarks, One Day at a Time had Indianapolis aerials, Dallas reminded you with footage in case you missed the title (that could also count as 80s, I guess). Shows seemed to start phasing out elaborate intros at some point after Molly Dodd, but still in years since, Cleveland establishing shots in Drew Carey, Office had Scranton scenery, Turnpike cuts on Sopranos, and night footage of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
At 5:54 when the opening theme of MAKING THE GRADE and the Cleveland area had a winter snow advisory scrolled across the screen! I'm no stranger to that in the Buffalo area where I reside
Two of these shows became hits: Cagney and Lacey and TJ Hooker. I remember watching both Janie Loves Chachi and 9 to 5 and both were kind of stupid (and didn't last long). Ironically the blonde in 9 to 5 was Dolly Parton's sister. That Chicago show had a good theme and good scenery looks like something my parents probably tried out.
Of the nineteen programs that premiered on the (then) "Big Three"--ABC, CBS, and NBC, of course--in the spring of '82, only "Joanie Loves Chachi," "T.J. Hooker," "9 To 5," and "Teachers Only," and "Cagney & Lacey" survived. Outstanding job, RWdt09...keep up the good work, bro.
@Ted Harrington Loretta Swit played Cagney in the TV movie. Meg Foster was in the first season of the series, being only in the limited-run airing in the spring of '82. The show returned in the fall with Sharon Gless taking over the role.
@@RwDt09 That explains why when I researched the stars there were three Cagney's. Btw, why didn't they keep the theme and just change Meg Foster's card. They did it with other series.
pnighswander Cagney & Lacey started as a 2-hour movie pilot with Loretta Swit of MASH fame as Cagney, with Tyne Daly as Lacey. When it got picked up as a series, Swit was still on contract for MASH, and Meg Foster became Cagney. The network decided to switch her out for Sharon Gless at the start of the second season and the rest became history. Of course it wasn’t a given at first, since Gless was better known back then for comedic roles...
Dunno if that Chicago cop show was any good, but it had a hell of a cast. Cop shows were clearly in a transitional phase. You had various shows clearly influenced by Hill Street Blues, Police Squad! and the sort of show Police Squad! made fun of in T.J. Hooker.
Chicago Story actually wasn't too bad and a rarity as a 90-minute weekly series in the 80s. It never seemed to gain ratings traction with its ill-suited time slots, first on Saturdays at 8:30, then shifting to Fridays at 8:30 during its spring and summer run and so was gone by the fall.
Seems to me that "Chicago Story" was a quick but uninspired attempt to cash in on the critical and commercial success of "Hill Street Blues" (also airing on NBC); unlike "Hill Street Blues," however, "Chicago Story" was axed by the "Peacock Network" that summer after only thirteen episodes.
Seems To Me The Show Got Repurposed 35 years Later As Chicago PD, Chicago Medical etc... Remember Alot Of Shows Were Cancelled Because There Only 3 channels worth of real estate. If it didn't stick to a certain formula viewers were used to it Got cancelled. Whether it had potential or was awful
YUP..?..Myself born in 73 remember the Phoenix and Tj HOOKER. THESE OTHER SHOWS.....NOT A CLUE especially CHICAGO.......I SAW RICHARD DAWSON. AND CRAIG T NELSON.....THEY BEEN WORKIN CONSTANTLY FOR 50 YEARS AND STILL IS.
I'm lucky enough to be able to say that 8-year-old me watched every episode of both "Police Squad" *and* the notorious "No Soap, Radio" when they aired. (Of course, I can say the same for "Joanie Loves Chachi", which rather mitigates the coolness of that.)
I watched all of the episodes of Police Squad as a tween in the early ’90s when they were re-aired on ABC (if I remember correctly). Not hard though, since there were only six. I don’t know of any independents running Joanie Loves Chachi in syndication (were enough episodes even made?), but I wouldn’t have watched it anyway.
What a trip through memory lane! In the 80s here in Chile we were in the last years of Pinochet's regime and with it the local TV industry was in ruins, only local news, telenovelas, game shows and morning shows prevailed, so there was a lot of the air time to fill...and unlike your fellow Americans I remember most of this shows that I watched as a kid. And yes they were all dubbed in Latin Spanish from Mexico. Mostly of them were justified cancelled trash (we got some weird shows like "No Soap, Radio" or "The Phoenix", even the legendary awful Supertrain and Hello Larry were transmitted over here), maybe it was Pinochet's idea to numb our brains with tv garbage, but seeing the opening credits and remember many of them made me feel a lot of nostalgia. Muchas gracias por tu canal ;)
I enthusiastically concur, Jeff! It's a pity that ABC axed it after only six episodes (ABC's then-head honcho, Tony Thomopoulos, lamented that "Police Squad!" required "too much attention to watch"); luckily, I have the entire run on DVD.
Seems to be a common thing around here. For me it was TV of the early 90s, but a lot of people don't appear to remember shows from their high school days.
Series I'd love to have seen when originally aired: 9 to 5 (cuz Carmen Sandiego before the cartoon), Herbie the Love Bug, Teachers Only, Making the Grade, TJ Hooker, Cagney and Lacey (tho I thought it starred Sharon Gless.... Guess she replaced Meg Foster later), Jokebook Maybe: Shape of Things (Chippendale kinda ruins it a bit), Joanie Loves Chachi (love that song), No Soap Radio (theme even SOUNDS hilarious), Report to Murphy, Baker's Dozen, Chicago Story, QED Saw on RU-vid (liked it): Police Squad LORD NO!! (Don't like the intro) The Phoenix
It's painfully obvious that "Baker's Dozen" was inspired by "Barney Miller," which (sadly) ended its eight-season run that spring. Coincidentally, Doris Belack played Fish's wife, Bernice, in a second season episode of "Barney Miller" called "Fish"--she was filling in for Florence Stanley, who was co-starring with Jerry Stiller on the short-lived sitcom "Joe And Sons" during the 1975-76 season--which was essentially a backdoor pilot for the eventual spin-off of the same name ("Fish" premiered on ABC in February of '77 and lasted two seasons and thirty-five episodes); that episode also marked the first appearance of the late Steve Landesberg as Det.-Sgt. Arthur Dietrich, who subsequently replaced Abe Vigoda on "Barney Miller" when Vigoda departed to work on "Fish" full-time (Fish retired from the NYPD at the start of "Barney Miller's" fourth season in September of '77).
WTAF?! Never heard about that particular H-B series in my life, besides.... *Top Cat* *Yogi's Treasure Hunt* and.... *The Flintstones* ....among their most famous ones, that is. Maybe I should look that one up. Otherwise, great work on this compilation as usual, bro. UPDATE: After watching the only available episode of Hanna-Barbera's *Jokebook* on YT, I must say that it was pretty hilarious. Whoever decided to cancel it after just those 3 episodes @ NBC must have been fired without any compensation whatsoever for acting like a frustrated preacher on the wrong network. #JustTellingItLikeItIs
Don't forget 1978's "Mary," @@RwDt09 . "Mary" was a short-lived comedy/variety series starring Mary Tyler Moore that aired on CBS in the autumn of '78 on Sunday nights, following the long-running, Emmy Award-winning newsmagazine "60 Minutes." Along with a pre-"Batman" Keaton, two up-and-coming talents named David Letterman and Swoosie Kurtz were among the regulars. Due to scathing reviews and mediocre ratings (it was scheduled directly opposite ABC's cult sci-fi drama "Battlestar Galactica"), CBS yanked "Mary" in October of '78 after only three telecasts. Undaunted by "Mary's" swift cancellation, Moore decided to revamp the format slightly--with both Keaton and Letterman in tow--the following spring with "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour," which premiered in March of '79. Despite Moore's efforts, "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour" was as unsuccessful--both critically and commercially--as "Mary" had been the previous autumn, and CBS canceled it in May after eleven episodes.
It seems like Keaton couldn't make a dent in Tinseltown during his salad days. It wasn't until his breakthrough role in the sex comedy "Night Shift" (directed by Ron Howard) that the bigwigs in Hollywood finally woke up and began noticing Keaton's incredible talent. And the rest is history.
"All's Fair" was one of Norman Lear's very few failures, @@eydie57. Despite Lear's involvement (as well as the talents of both Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters), CBS put the kibosh on the political sitcom after only one season and 24 episodes in the spring of '77.
Keaton literally began his career on the boob tube, Ruth...prior to "Report To Murphy," Keaton had co-starred on the equally short-lived duds "All's Fair," "Mary," "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour," and "Working Stiffs."
Sad but true, @@DavidTSmith-jn5bs. Due to heavy competition from both ABC's "The Ropers" and NBC's "CHiPs" in its Saturday night timeslot (8 pm EST), CBS did indeed cancel the slapstick sitcom after only four telecasts (leaving five additional episodes unaired).
That is correct, @@laustcawz2089! Michael Keaton was born Michael John Douglas! Keaton decided to change his last name (due to Screen Actor's Guild requirements) to distance himself from the star of "The Streets Of San Francisco," as well as to avoid confusion with legendary talk show host Mike Douglas. It's been long rumored that Keaton selected his adopted surname upon seeing a photo of Diane Keaton, but that's not the case.
And the irony is that the only male lead show in this bunch that got more than one season is T.J. Hooker.. so much for the myth that William Shatner couldn't carry a series on his own.
To be Fair to that 'Myth' Adrian Zmed was a very pretty man and they signed Heather Locklear with Season 2 (in doing so she pulled off the rare feat of working as a regular/recurring character on two series at the same )
@@TJ52359 , I tend to agree. The first season, however, Shatner carried the show while Zemed blossomed till they found the right cast with the right chemistry. Adding Locklear started the ball rolling, and then adding James Darren gave them the perfect dynamic. Zemed's departure left a void, but by then people were getting tired of the standard cop show as it was. The era of the police procedural was about to dawn, but it still had a surprising run for what it was.
It was suppose to be like "The Wild, Wild West" and "The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr." in that they featured stories from the past that used futuristic technology and an evil scientist who wants to rule the world. It probably lacked the fun, clever writing and good cast chemistry of those two shows.
I'm curious - are you in the US? I don't remember Q.E.D. ever being on one of the broadcast networks - I remember it as airing on Showtime in the US. And I've NEVER heard of "Jokebook", where and when did that air? I also noticed "Fame" was missing even though it had premiered on NBC in January. But dont' get me wrong, I LOVE these - they're so much fun. And "The Shape Of Things" - WOW, I thought I was the only person that remembered that show. I also remember a show that ran in January 1982 called "NBC Funnies", it was on Friday at 8 PM and lasted maybe four weeks - NO ONE except my wife seems to remember that show, most of which was done by Bill Plympton...if you ever find the intro for that, I'll be amazed!
Q.E.D. aired on CBS Tuesdays 8-9 pm March 23-April 27, 1982. Jokebook might've been what you remember as NBC Funnies, it aired on NBC Fridays 8-8:30 pm April 23-May 7, 1982 (3 weeks) - there's no record of the title NBC Funnies in any of my sources. As Fame was a winter debut, not a spring one, it naturally wasn't included. And I'm in Canada.
I didn't notice that because I was too distracted by the advisory warning scrolling across the bottom of the screen, so it makes me think of a snowstorm.
Wow, what a forgettable bunch of crap. I think I only remember about a quarter of these shows. I was working nights at the time and when I wasn't working I was going to concerts. Looks like I didn't miss anything. Good video man. I really enjoy your stuff.
Not everything that premiered that spring was "a forgettable bunch of crap," Gregg...though it lasted only six episodes (due to the incompetence of ABC's then-head honcho, Tony Thomopoulos [Thomopoulos yanked "Police Squad!" from the schedule because it "required too much attention"]), "Police Squad!" has truly stood the test of time and still remains as relevant--and hilarious--as ever. And it also spawned the equally hilarious "Naked Gun" film trilogy!
They were indeed, @@gregggoss2210. I'll never grow tired of watching the "Naked Gun" trilogy. May Leslie Nielsen continue to rest in peace...he is still missed.
Despite the swift cancellation of "Making The Grade" (six episodes aired on CBS that spring), Steven Peterman (6:37-6:40) would co-star on another short-lived high school-based sitcom, the cult hit "Square Pegs"--featuring a pre-"Sex And The City" Sarah Jessica Parker--that autumn. And "Making The Grade's" creator and executive producer, the late Gary David Goldberg, would also hit pay dirt that same season with a little sitcom on NBC called "Family Ties."
Ah, yes, POLICE SQUAD! IN COLOR! Never mind that TV had been all color since 1966... But apart from that, T.J. HOOKER and CAGNEY AND LACEY, the rest of these provoked a "you've GOT to be kidding...oops, guess you aren't" reaction
I remember reading that in some foreign country, I want to say Korea, that the first episode of Joanie Loves Chachi was the highest rated show ever, because in their language Chachi means dick.
