My Two Dads: Why the Spin-Off Failed

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Remember "My Two Dads"? The hit '80s sitcom featured Paul Reiser, Greg Evigan, Staci Keanan and a young Giovanni Ribisi. But did you know it almost had a spin-off? Find out why the spin-off never happened on the latest episode of the Atomic Abe series Behind the Backdoor Pilot.
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Written by Nick Nadel
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@Lboogie0711 5 месяцев назад

This sitcom is so good, the girl who played Nicole was in the “Lisa” movie in 1990 and she was in step by step.

@JennaLeigh 5 месяцев назад

He says that in the video toward the end when he mentions her current career! What a crazy career change!

@shanellsplace 5 месяцев назад

I just watched Lisa on Tubi and that is what made me look up the show 💖📺

@ralpheichenlaub7004 2 месяца назад

@Lboogie0711 always had a big crush on staci keanan. Wasnt crazy about step by step but she was a highlight

@FrenkTheJoy 5 месяцев назад

The premise of My Two Dads would be so effed up in real life - imagine if you were dating two guys at the same time and knew they hated each other so you write in your will that they both have to take care of your daughter who might be their kid even though you know they hate each other and never told them you were pregnant

@AvallonYo 5 месяцев назад

DNA

@ttintagel 5 месяцев назад

Meanwhile, the real father was some asshole from Newark.

@vinnym5607 5 месяцев назад

@@ttintagel Wait, really?

@vinnym5607 5 месяцев назад

If this came back in the modern, no doubt in my mind it would've been a threesome and at least one of the guys would be bi, if not gay. Hell, maybe the original premise was that.

@Mew_Mokuba_Akari 5 месяцев назад

@@vinnym5607 No at the end they did a proper DNA test to determine the father. But they decided they don't care and don't want to know so they literally put the results in the freezer. They never revealed the father

@gregschell1094 5 месяцев назад

Obviously this show came out before Maury aired.

@drmayeda1930 3 месяца назад

I'd love to find My two dads and BJ and the bear on DVD or streaming

@ralpheichenlaub7004 2 месяца назад

@drmayeda1930 my two dads is on tubi for free. No options yet for bj & the Bear that I've seen

@MrYac-ie8ie 5 месяцев назад

so weird to me that this show was only on 3 seasons, i remember it airing forever.

@vinnym5607 5 месяцев назад

I think I remember it airing on USA after the show ran.

@MrYac-ie8ie 5 месяцев назад

@@vinnym5607 yeah, its just one of those weird shows i always remember being on but rarely actually watched.

@littletom1978 5 месяцев назад

@@vinnym5607 Thats where I saw as a kid, probably why seems lasted longer the 3 seasons, it was always semingly on.

@DW3010 5 месяцев назад

I wish they’d just release season three on DVD. It’s frustrating only owning the first two seasons.

@MrYac-ie8ie 5 месяцев назад

@@DW3010 i hate that so much, when a DVD set just never completes.

@mannyja 5 месяцев назад

It’s funny to hear Giovanni Ribisi’s voice crack on a few episodes during the first season.

@LizC1213 5 месяцев назад

I also noticed Brandon Cruz's voice cracking during Bad News Bears in 1976. He was almost 14 then.

@ralpheichenlaub7004 2 месяца назад

@mannyja I always though giovanni debuted on the Wonder Years until I saw him on this and the 2nd season of davis rules. But he was originally credited as "vonni"

@ralpheichenlaub7004 2 месяца назад

@LizC1213 not sure who the actor was but when the kids yells "where's our shortstop?!?!?" Major voice cracking

@trinaq 5 месяцев назад

Rest in peace, Dick Butkus. He could have led a sitcom, who knew? I never knew that a young Giovanni Ribisi appeared in this show.

@paladro 5 месяцев назад

he's a scientologist, he's been a shoehorned in projects because of his affilation.

@WesMoast 5 месяцев назад

The My Two Dads theme song was one of the best of the 80s ... the best of course being the theme to "Perfect Strangers". I will die all day on that hill 🤣

@Jamessmith-xk3fh 5 месяцев назад

I agree Perfect Strangers has the best TV theme song of all time

@censorshipsucks9493 5 месяцев назад

False. Anything by Mike Post, and/or Pete Carpenter: The A Team, Riptide, Hardcastle and McCormick.....the list goes on.

@MJC_227 5 месяцев назад

Nah, the best theme song of the 80's was Cheers with Golden Girls in second place.

@WesMoast 5 месяцев назад

@MJC_227 good choices for sure but Golden Girls doesn't count in my opinion since it was a cover of a pop song released in the 70s.

@MamaMOB 5 месяцев назад

I'd honestly have to argue for Cheers. I'm sorry but that one's freaking iconic!

@westholmes2001 5 месяцев назад

One of the writers that worked on My Two Dads was Chuck Lorre. Lorre would evolve the concept further with two shows he would create: Dharma & Greg (The families of the couple were similar to the two dads from My Two Dads came from different social/economic backgrounds.) and Two and a Half Men (The idea of two men, who are brothers with a kid, which is the son of one of the brothers.).

@mattm7798 4 месяца назад

Huh, good point. Dharma and Greg is criminally underrated. Jenna Elfman should have become a mega star, she had so much talent and Mitch Ryan and Alan Rachins were side splittingly hilarious!

@alexubel 4 месяца назад

@@mattm7798 Dharma and Greg wasn't underrated.

@mattm7798 4 месяца назад

@@alexubel Not at the time but now I think it is.

@QuasarSniffer 5 месяцев назад

"A change in leadership" killed more network sitcoms than the Black Plague.

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

ha!

@mattm7798 4 месяца назад

I wonder if that change was Brandon Tartkekoff? Who funny enough IIRC championed saved by the bell. That said, I honestly don't think the spinoff would have done well. The characters weren't really strong enough. They worked better on the main show as side characters.

@petewillson205 3 месяца назад

Family sitcoms where dying, on nbc, ironically picked up fresh prince and blossom, let similar hogan family and my 2 dad's go, plus Alf.

@deskish3930 5 месяцев назад

i just realised that Joey was the go-to name for a character in a 80's/90's sitcom

@Nabinut 4 месяца назад

It didn't help that Joey Lawrence was in three series during that era, always playing a character named...Joey.

@deskish3930 4 месяца назад

@@Nabinut i like the sitcom where his brother matthew and andrew play also play characters called matt and andy respectively

@ralpheichenlaub7004 2 месяца назад

@@Nabinut I think tony danza always played a guy named tony too

@WesMoast 5 месяцев назад

Giovanni Ribisi was a standout on the Wonder Years a few years later

@mattm7798 4 месяца назад

Haha, right! That's where I first saw him. Ah the wonder years, the classic case of an A+++++ show before the star grew up, then became really annoying :) (while funny enough, Wayne became less annoying)

@Makoto03 5 месяцев назад

Great video. I love your Backdoor pilot series. Its always hilarious when the main characters of the show take a backseat, so that we get a completely unrelated plot for the rest of the episode. lol

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!! Yeah, the backdoor pilots find so many ways to move the main characters out of the way for an episode.

@anthonyrowland9072 5 месяцев назад

43% of kids in the 80s had a dad that looked like Kenny Loggins.

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

ha! I love how specific this statistic is.

@JoeyArmstrong2800 5 месяцев назад

I remember Giovanni, or sorry "Vanni" Ribisi from the New Leave It To Beaver.

@COMPFUNK2 5 месяцев назад

I think Marsha Warfield and John Larroquette are the only actors from Night Court who are still alive.

@stingrey1571 5 месяцев назад

Yes and in the reboot they have addressed some of the deaths.

@vinnym5607 5 месяцев назад

Yes. Marsha Warfield is one of the random people I follow on Facebook and she mentioned it.

@mcribs7811 5 месяцев назад

There are a few people left (Didn’t care for Bret Spiner’s return ) that could possibly bring back if they can officially get renewed for a 3rd season. But the smaller roles are slim as some of those actors have passed as well. Hell, John Astin just turned 94. He could be the long lost grandfather. Just sayin’

@COMPFUNK2 5 месяцев назад

@@mcribs7811 We’ll see. Nowadays NBC seems to cancel comedies after two seasons (Kenan; Mr. Mayor; American Auto; Grand Crew (or as I called it, Living Single Jr)…).

@mattalan6618 5 месяцев назад

Bull is dead?

@MJC_227 5 месяцев назад

I'm begging you to please do a failed spin-off video about The Facts of Life, that show had SO MANY failed spin-off attempts...

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

It's definitely in the works. Thanks for watching!

@MeganKoumori 5 месяцев назад

5:37 Two Face just dragged Ethyl into a room. _That's_ the crossover I never expected.

@Drew791 5 месяцев назад

I can’t get enough of your Backdoor!

@CyclopsWasRight616 5 месяцев назад

these are my favorite type of videos on RU-vid. Yours are always so great !

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!!!

@johnkimball9716 5 месяцев назад

I love this series!

@FrenkTheJoy 5 месяцев назад

I'd love someone to explore the child actor to lawyer pipeline. With this video I only have three examples, but it's wild that child actors either become adult actors or lawyers apparently.

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, Charlie Korsmo also went into law. And Chunk from Goonies is an entertainment lawyer.

@mattm7798 4 месяца назад

Haha, good question. A number of child actors also become serious scientists like Blossom and Winnie Cooper(and Dolph Lungren) .

@AllMediaReviewsPodcast 5 месяцев назад

liked this 1, although I can kind of see why it wasn't picked up. Greg Evigan also went on to TekWar with William Shatner.

@robshimer 5 месяцев назад

I watched this show on USA. I remeber they also hosted the Saturday cartoons. I was sure that if anyone was going to be a movie star from that show it would be Chad Allen.

@iamstu33 5 месяцев назад

I loved my two dad's when I was young. Yes I am old and watched it on TV. I was in love with the daughter. Then I grew up and fell in love with her sister on Step by Step. Then a few seasons later fell in love with her step sister in the same show.

@COMPFUNK2 5 месяцев назад

1:37-1:39 - I’m an 80s baby and I have never heard of Our House.

@ttintagel 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, when I think of Chad Allen I think of St. Elsewhere or Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

Good show! Wilford Brimley, Deidre Hall, Chad Allen and Shannon Doherty.

@wesleybush8646 5 месяцев назад

Sundays 7pm Eastern on NBC 1986-1988.

@pisto30 5 месяцев назад

Great show. I watched it every Sunday with my parents. I recently found the entire series on RU-vid about a month ago. (the channel's called JarlenaFan if you ever want to check it out)

@LizC1213 5 месяцев назад

Staci Keanan's Step by Step costar Christopher Castile was a guest star on My Two Dads during Season 3. He also guest starred on Empty Nest twice before joining the cast of Step by Step and Going Places.

@SuperMarioBrosIII 5 месяцев назад

3 seasons but My Two Dads must have had 4 of 5 different intro sequences LOL!

@Stephen-to7jx 5 месяцев назад

Also Mad About You and Dinosaurs.

@shanellsplace 5 месяцев назад

I used to love My Two Dads. The first time I saw an upside down Christmas Tree was on the show. I loved Roy and Corey. My little butt was upset when it didn’t get picked up 😊 💖📺💖📺💖📺💖

@BishopWalters12 5 месяцев назад

This is a show that I haven't thought about in a long time, but I was a big fan as a kid.

@instantlife 4 месяца назад

It's interesting that Butkus was a monster Hall of Fame linebacker and became this lovable character on TV.

@fromthesidelines 5 месяцев назад

"A Friend of the Family", burned off on August 14, 1988.

@markyuen2312 Месяц назад

Giovanni Ribisi was also the "Medic" in the movie, "Saving Private Ryan". 22

@kim_fd8938 5 месяцев назад

I really like your channel very entertaining

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much!

@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115 5 месяцев назад

I knew that I recognized Florence Stanley's voice! She played Bertha Packard: elderly, sarcastic, chain-smoking radio operator. in Disney's 2001 animated film named Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

@jaymz010 5 месяцев назад

1987!? 😳 Didn’t air here in the U.K til like 1990 6:22 Hey, it’s Phillip from Dream Warriors 😄

@kevin10001 5 месяцев назад

I remember the show’s first run syndication on USA when they got some shows first run in syndication since I was born in 84 I don’t really remember it’s network run but loved it in syndication when I saw it

@mattm7798 4 месяца назад

My two dads actually holds up pretty well despite being very 80s. The actors have great comedic timing and it's generally pretty well written. Stacy Kennan would basically go straight from this to Step by Step(playing a completely different type of character) so for about a decade straight, she was on TV.

@bobfleet74656 5 месяцев назад

I remember Dick B. from the BLUE THUNDER tv series

@davidponseigo8811 5 месяцев назад

I had the biggest crush on Amy Hathaway, she is still gorgeous !

@TheHomeman 5 месяцев назад

I liked it. Unique idea, best cast, excellent acting. I didn't think either one of them was her father her mother just trusted both of them.

@aph1976 5 месяцев назад

I think either Michael or Joey was Nicole's father and i'm wondering if Nicole's mother knew which of them was the father but she loved them both and wanted both of them to raise her daughter.

@mattalan6618 5 месяцев назад

a show like this would no way work on television today

@HeretixAevum 5 месяцев назад

Is that the guy that ED209 blasted in the board room in RoboCop?

@mysticloverfairy1 4 месяца назад

There’s a Taiwanese adaptation of this show called “Two Fathers” it’s on Netflix, there’s 73 episodes, it’s set in modern times (2013) . A few changes that the girl was much younger than her American sitcom (she’s seven) . Funny thing is I don’t know if people even know about this show. If you like “My Two Dads” you would probably like the Taiwanese version.

@ArtByDesign80 5 месяцев назад

3:21 How could the father be indeterminate?!? Does that mean neither were the father? 🤔

@1talldaddy 5 месяцев назад

no it was never revealed who the father was.aka not ruin the plot of the show.

@SuperBrooklynite007 4 месяца назад

Dana was my biggest crush growing up

@p1sstoph3 4 месяца назад

That X-Files episode is one of the best

@BlackHammer0891 4 месяца назад

Dan Fielding, true role model

@PassiveAgressive319 4 месяца назад

How long was this pilot? Wow, a lot happens

@paladro 5 месяцев назад

all the things you forget about, until someone mentions them...

@philipjay2099 5 месяцев назад

I dunno bout no spin off, but I got a My Two Dads reboot pitch that will blow your mind... and mine LOL

@otisroseboro5613 5 месяцев назад

80s & 90s Movie's & TV Show's Are The Best 💯

@carmelosgro6413 5 месяцев назад

I would have watched it, if it got picked up

@gstone8255 2 месяца назад

I LOVE Florence Stanley❤️🤩❗️ She was an acting legend 🔥❗️

@kcsnipes Месяц назад

Loved this show (2 dads) I think it was on usa but wish I remember my 2 kupkiss show

@justindenney-hall5875 5 месяцев назад

Funny to think that before we had shared cinematic universes, we had shared TV universes🤣

@tylerhughes9090 5 месяцев назад

Who can forget the cult classics of Kinjite forbidden subjects and Lisa !

@X-iy6bh 3 месяца назад

Before Maury stepped in

@NoelComiX 5 месяцев назад

I loved this show

@justyouraveragegeek548 5 месяцев назад

The closest thing we got to a remake is Baby Daddy

@candacecherry2846 4 месяца назад

I remember this stell wach it today

@SuperMarioBrosIII 5 месяцев назад

Remember The New Monkee's from 1987?🎸🧑‍🎤🎤📺

@blimy01maynard30 4 месяца назад

Times have changed. This show was getting 18 million viewers in its last season and that was considered poor. If a show had 18 million viewers today, the suits at the network would Randy Marsh all over themselves.

@christopherbaker9676 5 месяцев назад

I didn't think anybody watched it. And Nicole was one of my crushes

@mathieuduval7544 5 месяцев назад

Loved that show, i re watched it a couple of years ago since it 1st aired and i really enjoyed it but it sucks it was only 3 seasons!!??.... i had no idea this was an attempt for a spin off, im also watching married with children for the 1st time and when i saw the ep. with Matt Leblanc and his dad i immediately guessed it was an attempt at a spin off!!!... why did 80s and 90s show always pushed for that!?.... well we got a couple of goods ones.... Family Matters and Different World

@raulzavala9061 5 месяцев назад

The reason for sitcom spin-offs I'm guessing the networks wanted more viewers while the producers wanted more hits which equaled more money for them.

@THE_bchat 5 месяцев назад

The original Star Trek and The Brady Bunch had backdoor pilot episodes in the 1960s & 70s, so it's not an 80s or 90s trend. Spin-offs have always been a thing, going back to the radio era of the 1940s.

@sejejo7565 5 месяцев назад

That woulda been a kickass show

@DW3010 5 месяцев назад

I love your backdoor pilot episodes. Do you remember the episode of MacGyver where MacGyver is only in it at the first, and then the rest of the episode just on the Colton brothers? I think MacGyver shows up at the end of the episode. I’ve always wondered if this was supposed to be a backdoor pilot, or just a one off episode focusing on the Colton’s.

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

Yes! An episode on the Macgyver backdoor pilot is in the works!

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

And thanks for watching!

@SuperMarioBrosIII 5 месяцев назад

@@atomicabe How about the Knight Rider backdoor pilot Code Of Vengeance aka Dalton's Code Of Vengeance. 🚗💥📺📼

@lehnrik 3 месяца назад

12:55 That's Stockholm.

@sarahhey7804 5 месяцев назад

Hey hey

@shanedittmar2524 5 месяцев назад

Very cool video!!!

@marcuswalton2922 5 месяцев назад

what ever happenwd to D.N.A. tests? Was one of the dads one half of starsky and Hutch?

@1talldaddy 5 месяцев назад

they actually do that.but at the last minute they decided it would be better to just leave things they way they were.

@MISTERKIC 5 месяцев назад

2 men living and raising kids together. Buttkiss. Backdoor Pilot episodes. Cupkiss. Bruh...

@delorme9 5 месяцев назад

11:39 is that Kato Kaelin?

@MamaMOB 5 месяцев назад

I remember loving My Two Dads but I also remember nothing about the show.

@rudolphgonzalezjr.6640 5 месяцев назад

I think Merlin Olson had an 80's sitcom as well?

@rickyallen7176 4 месяца назад

Yes he did it was called Fathers and Sons. I also remember Merlin Olson had a show called Father Murphy that also had Moses Gunn who played Joe Kagan from Little House On The Prairie on it

@rmsvend 4 месяца назад

I admit that I didn't watch because I was a young man chasing leg and didn't have time for television.

@animeknight8958 5 месяцев назад

too bad Jennifer Slept Here never got a failed Spin-Off Series.

@atomicabe 5 месяцев назад

Ha! That's a fun show with a great theme song

@animeknight8958 5 месяцев назад

@@atomicabe yeah... How it just a blank screen until a face appeared and said "Hello, it's me! only you can see and hear me"

@SuperMarioBrosIII 5 месяцев назад

@@atomicabe Joey Scarbury sings the Jennifer Slept Here theme song. And Cousin Dale from National Lampoon's Vacation was on this show as well as the Cheer's pilot and Sams first customer. 🍺🍻🧑‍🎤🦸

@babatunjiebell6743 5 месяцев назад

What about Blossom?

@MikeP-sq6be 5 месяцев назад

Guys, My Two Dads never cracked the top 30 in the Nielsen Ratings.

@jasminemcphail3614 5 месяцев назад

If this show was such a success why did it only get three seasons? In today's world if a show gets three seasons it was cancelled due to ratings, it's sucked or because of money obviously.

@arfriedman4577 5 месяцев назад

I love lauren Tewes on love boat. We loclved night court and 227.

@AVGGGHGGGGGGGGGGGGG 5 месяцев назад

Never seen my two dads but i always thought it was about a gay couple.... Guess not in the 80s

@KasumiKenshirou 5 месяцев назад

I haven't seen it since the original airing, but I think characters they met in the show would frequently make the same mistake and they'd have to explain that, no, they're not gay, they just didn't know which one of them was the father of the daughter.

@vinnym5607 5 месяцев назад

It might have been a joke once or twice but, to misquote Lawrence Chaney "I noticed a lot of sexual tension...."

@TheWingsoffury 5 месяцев назад

How did I get 2 dads??? A three-way and they were too cheap to get a paternity test!

@tiffanyt9329 4 месяца назад

A paternity test didn't exist back then. That's why it will never happen today in this day in age. Never mind. It parenting testing dna exist in 1988. Lol . I thought it was in the early 90s.

@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115 5 месяцев назад

Please don't give NBC any more reboot ideas. We are suffering enough from the ones that we have now. 😂🤣

@1talldaddy 5 месяцев назад

to be fair modern technology would ruin the concept of the show.

@NiKiMa023 5 месяцев назад

@@1talldaddynah. They would take the test and then at the last minute before getting results, both men wouldn’t want to know

@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115 5 месяцев назад

@@1talldaddy or they would add an extra dad that is an AI. to the mix.

@1talldaddy 5 месяцев назад

@@NiKiMa023 oh they actually did that episode.

@1talldaddy 5 месяцев назад

@@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115 oh god no that would be just a messed version of "Three Men and a Baby".

@charmcshane3517 3 месяца назад

Wasn't Vonnie on Roseanne?

@melissacooper8724 5 месяцев назад

I've never seen this show, but part of the premise reminded me of when Anna Nicole Smith died and several men were claiming to be the father of her young daughter. I remember all the men took a DNA test to find the biological father. I'm not sure if it's relevant or not but at least we find out in real life unlike the TV show.

@SuperMarioBrosIII 5 месяцев назад

@melissacooper9724 Yeah, that whole thing had to have been staged. Even the judge🧑‍⚖in the Anna Nicole Smith Case and his attempts at humor was to get his own show on Court tv.📺Her son Daniel dies then 5 months later she dies. Her mother even predicted this on tv I mean what are the odds? 👱‍♀🤔🙆👶

@raulzavala9061 5 месяцев назад

Boy you said it only in the 80's can such a stupid premise lend itself to a sitcom, after it disappeared in reruns for most of the 90's and 2000's I caught up with it again on Antenna TV only to be reminded of how sappy, insipid and cliche the show was, did it get abruptly cancelled or did they ever find out who the real father was?

@baronvg 5 месяцев назад

VONNI??? Dafuq?!

@MsDisneylandlover 5 месяцев назад

N i though the girl was from step by step. I also seen her n thiller were she was obsessed with calling a guy was ended being u know n she and her mom came very close to getting R and killed bc she was being stupid..smh

@sarahhey7804 5 месяцев назад

Hihi

@BluJae93 4 месяца назад

The mother is a villain

@craigslivka1 4 месяца назад

so funny you used the Law and Order sound with jail bars. this show came out in 1987 and I googled DNA testing after hearing the law adn order sound and here is what it said 1986 DNA was first introduced as evidence in the United States criminal court system in 1986. In little more than a decade, DNA technology became an increasingly powerful forensic tool for identifying or eliminating suspects, when biological evidence such as saliva, skin, blood, hair or semen is left at a crime scene. it was in use, but maybe it took a show Law and Order to make this widespread knowledge (just like reading a person their rights when arrested before L&W came out wasn't widespread knowledge among the mass population in this country).

@sarahhey7804 5 месяцев назад

Hiheylikeit