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
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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 :-(
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.
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 RU-vid, 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 RU-vid, 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.
@@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.
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. 💜
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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!
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.
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
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.
I liked Harts of the West, Lois & Clarke,Brisco County Jr and its use of anachronisms was great, SeaQuest truly deserved more than three seasons, RIP Jonathan and Roy, AH NYPD Blue.
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 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? :)
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
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.
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.
