Man Mr. Belvedere theme song brought back so many memories of watching it as a 9yr old kid! I used to love that show! I miss those days, it went by in a flash! Now, I'm 44yrs old and have 3 kids and busy as anything. I wish I could go back in time to those days, in the 80s.
Crazy Like A Fox was my favorite. Jack Warden & John Rubinstein made such a great team. I could really believe that they were father and son. And even though it wasn't a Stephen J. Cannell production, it had some of that wonderful eccentricity that his shows had. Code Name: Foxfire and Mr. Belvedere were other shows I enjoyed during that time. Oh, and Wildside!
Mr. Belvedere!!! Got to talk briefly with Tracy Wells on Twitter, a few years ago, which was cool because I'd become obsessed with Mr. Belvedere reruns at the time! Shout out to Antenna TV...even though I think know they've stopped airing them.
I'm going through and Scanning my TV Guides...30 years worth! I'm at 1982-1985 now, and seeing some shows that I worked on then...Paper Dolls, The Insiders, Gloria, Boone! It's cool to see the actual Footage though! Thanks!
Out of all the intros, Moonlighting's the classiest and the one that would fit in now. I only remember Mr. Belvedere (from the ads at the time, and I'm from Milwaukee, so Bob Uecker being in a sitcom was a big deal in the local press then) and Moonlighting (which I watched when I had the chance). I knew nothing about these other shows.
wow, feels so weird seeing that intro to Mr. Belvedere, it's one of those shows I know I liked when I was a young kid but remember absolutely nothing about it, seeing the intro is like having something pulled out of a past existence.
I remember the concept of 'Middle Class Family gets a Butler' (no idea what the in Universe reason was for this) and of course stock sitcom Family: Lecherous Teen Boy, Brainy Daughter, Bratty Preteen and the Pre-Teen and Belvedere had 'Dennis/Mr. Wilson type relationship' beyond those 3 points I only know it from a Cameo/Joke on Growing Pains a few seasons later (The Daughter Guest starred, and they actually cite Belvedere with Ben meeting her character and telling someone "She kind of looks like the Girl from Mr. Belvedere." with them following up with "are you sure she doesn't look like Mr. Belvedere."
Two GUIDING LIGHT connections here: Robin Johnson (Codename Foxfire) was "Darcy Dekker" in the summer of 1984; Beth Ehlers (The Best Times) was Harley Cooper.
Bob Uecker Was an IronMan Back in the Day ... Doing "Mr. Belvedere" for a Full Season for 6 Seasons ... the Voice of the Brewers for Decades ... as Well as Movies & Commercials Here & There
Out of all those shows, there were only two that I watched: Otherworld and Street Hawk. I was hoping both shows would be renewed especially Street Hawk because I liked the motorcycle.
"Street Hawk" got decent numbers up against "Dallas"--finishing 47th out of 77 shows for the season which is considerably better than other recent entries against "Dallas" had performed for the network--but ABC clearly didn't have any confidence in the show. They scheduled the final three episodes on Thursday against "Cosby Show" and "Magnum", ensuring horrifically low ratings and its cancellation only weeks later.
@@Mark2756042 I don't even know why the other networks even bothered broadcasting anything on Thursday night at the time. NBC had it locked down tight.
Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, Dean Martin AND an American Pit Bulldog...HOW DID Half Nelson not make it??
The only episode of Otherworld I remember was one where the kids end up on a world where they essentially "invent" rock-and-roll. A little cringe nowadays but at the time I thought it was clever.
Jonathan Banks ended up becoming pretty famous appearing on a Narco Drama called Breaking Bad- it’s got the same premise as OtherWorld except with Meth
@16:00 Orson Welles should have said, "You know what's even better than solving the crime? Mrs. Pell's Fish Sticks! Ummm, they're even better when your scared!" ("The Critic" animated tv show)☺️.
Joe Pesci and Victoria Jackson working together? I can only imagine those two personality types interacting. Hey, it's Mike's friend Eddie from Growing Pains at 12:32. 14:48 - Bruce Jenner acting? James Earl Jones running? Now there's a show that has it all! 15:55 - It's Jack Tripper's brother Lee! I just can't buy Judd Hirsch as a detective. Moonlighting!
@@censusgary From what I've heard, he can't even "act" his way out of the proverbial paper bag which is that "reality" program, falsely so-called, he's in now, which program he's ostensibly trying to use as some kind of a springboard to run for governor of California in their recall election. (As though he has even a half-chance of winning!) It's been a long and far fall for him since his peak in the Summer Olympics in '76 and '84!
15:55 Yeah! That's John Getz! He was in David Cronenberg's "The Fly" alongside Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, and had a cameo in "The Fly II" (he was the only cast member to return for the sequel). And he played Joanna Cassidy's boyfriend in "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" who puts the moves on Christina Applegate's character. That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but he popped up in a lot of stuff in the '80s and '90s.
The original "OFF THE RACK" pilot was seen in December 1984....and it was set in NEW YORK. When ABC decided to "buy" the series as a mid-season replacement, they insisted the locale be changed to LOS ANGELES. It lasted six episodes.
I disagree about "Mom"..yes, it may have some moments of crude humor, but it does a great service for Alcoholics Anonymous with its accurate portrayal of that program (many people in and out of the program have hailed the show for this reason). The writing has been on fire lately, too..and Mimi is one of the greatest assets of that cast!
That futuristic show reminds me of the future my generation was expecting in the 80s. According to the clock in my Delorian 2021 is supposed to be like Blade Runner. ⏰
"Half Nelson" That show also had a couple of ex-NFL stars in it, Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith (13:45-14:00), FWIW. Also, Victoria Jackson (I assume the same Victoria Jackson that was later on SNL).
@@Mark2756042 , every season has a part that was bad.. and this part of that season was. Dismal may have been hyperbole on my part.. but then if you want to take dismal... look back just two seasons at the NBC 1983-1984 season. Actually, the entire season for all three networks was dismal, and only shows getting renewed were worth watching that year. NBC became a force only because within two years almost all long running shows on ABC were coming to an end.
ABC was more interested in promoting Aaron Spelling's latest cop show, "MacGRUDER & LOUD" (of the "L.S.P. D."). It was originally scheduled before "MOONLIGHTING" in March 1985.....and was cancelled by the end of the season, along with most of his other new series.{"FINDER OF LOST LOVES", "GLITTER"}.
The stars on these shows are so random. Bruce Jenner and James Earl Jones on the same show? Why not? How about Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson and Bubba Smith? Sure sounds good.
william woods Like in how Family Guy gets their plot ideas? It's either that or they borrowed a Bingo tumbler from the local nursing home and wrote the names of actors on the balls. "B4 - Bubba Smith"...."G 23 Ken Wahl"...
william woods I don't know Wildside starring Harold Rollins as Bannister Sparks, Terry Funk as Prometheus Jones and Meg Ryan as Cally Oaks seems promising. Or not.
Holy Crap, Meg Ryan was in Wildside?! I know I watched that show because Terry Funk was a wrestler, and I loved wrestling, but not in a million years would I have thought Meg Ryan was there.
I watched that show back in the day. It was... not good. They basically tried to recreate "Soap" in the White House, with the "gimmick" of a female President. The plots were silly, the jokes were stale, and the show just never clicked.
I remember Hail to the Chief. It did have a good cast, I thought. I remember it being billed as "an equal opportunity offender"...and it certainly was that(lol).
Mr. Belvedere needed more Bob Euker on it. He seemed to pop in only once in awhile. I guess he was too busy calling all those baseball games to spend more time with his tv family.
8:25 Mr. Belvidere--didn't watch at the time (I think there were better shows on that I watched), but I wound up seeing a lot of it in reruns probably 20 years later.
Now I know why we only saw Jeannie Wilson sporadically on Simon & Simon. Sheryl Lee Ralph was occasionally on Designing Women and moved on to It's a Living.
8:24 Because he's my Butler!! This was a show I'd occassionly watch as a kid because that's what you do. I can't say I really enjoyed it but it was probably the best of the worst at any given time slot, judging by what I'm seeing here. The kid me didn't know about the 1950's 'Belvedere', I always assumed I missed the origin episode. Like a backstory that had Belvedere being a court appointed butler for Ueker or something. I really hope this is where Seinfeld got the idea from.
Not a Spin Off, But I would not be shocked if it wasn't "inspired by"... it would seem to fit the sub genre Of 'Actor who was Everywhere 20 years ago now solves crime on TV" (See MSW, Matlock, Father Dowling)
The theme music for Wildside didn’t match the period it was set in. Ugh 😩 lol. I was a HS junior in the spring of ‘85. Wasn’t into what NBC, ABC and CBS had to offer it was HBO and MTV for me. But I wasn’t watching TV as much because I started working more.
Really? TAXI didn't do half bad. Granted, DEAR JOHN and NUMBERS didn't last that long but they were pretty good while they were around. His other shows, though...
