Promos and host segments from ABC's 3D Week! (1997) 

Dammit your right it was 711 I don't remember Wendy's as advertised I'm old tho that's crazy

@@jayreals5051 I bugged my mother to get the glasses .man I miss being a child .the 90's were the best :-(

Nope it was Wendy’s bc ppl still have them and some are on eBay and it says Wendy’s on the glasses.

Oh I don't remember where I got my glasses but I do remember begging my parents to take me somewhere to get the glasses it was so much fun I love that and they just don't make TV like that anymore I mean I've asked several people that I think would have remembered that and they're like no what?? I just don't know why don't they do stuff like that anymore I think it's a cool idea they should keep doing that stuff on TV more often unless it was just expensive. But I remember going mom look at this is really like bouncing off the TV that's so cool. I mean I don't know, they did 3D TV for a while but it never caught on the 3D TV thing never caught on it just wasn't very popular or something I don't know. I mean I would have loved to have a 3D TV if I can afford it I would have watched it but I think there wasn't channels that provided 3dtv anyways I think they started out with like European soccer see how it goes and if it gets any popularity. That wasn't what people really want to see. It is like football for the I mean yeah it's popular but if you're going to do 3D TV and start with certain channels and work your way up to see if people really are interested in starting this kind of service you're not going to start with fútbal. No that's not what you're going to you're going to start with things like real housewives and you know sea life and BBC America's blue planet or whatever that show is where he narrates the Amazon and stuff like that. I would have loved to watch a 3D TV if I could afford it I'm not really sure why it didn't really take off but no. I mean if you're not going to outright do 3D TVs anymore that was a one-time thing and it didn't really pan out then fine they need to get back with ABC or ABC Family which I think now is called something else now it entices people to get out with their families and go to the store and get 3D glasses and enjoy popcorn in a movie once a month TV shows that are 30 minutes each and you have commercial breaks so that it's easier on the eyes. Do what they did on ABC in the . That was so much fun

It was Wendy's. The ones Fox had for Married with Children and Revenge of the Nerds IV and Living single were at 711 and they also had scratch and sniff cards for Aroma Vision. The event was called Fox O Rama. ABCs event glasses were at Wendy's and NBC's event 3rd Rock from the Sun in 3D had their glasses at Little Caesars and Barks Root beer. NBC and ABC had their events both in May of 1997 and you couldn't watch one with the glasses for the other because they used two different 3D methods. Fox O Rama was in 1994. I watched all of them! I love 3D.

@Raymond Frand An infamous moment in television history.

We would've had a 10th season if it stayed on ABC. I blame Disney! 🤬

Achebe Dike In early 1997, CBS picked up Family Matters and Step by Step in a $40 million deal to acquire the rights to the programs from ABC. ABC then promised to pay Miller-Boyett Productions $1.5 million per episode for a ninth and tenth season of Family Matters. However, tensions had risen between Miller-Boyett Productions and ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company (which had bought the network in 1995 as part of its merger with ABC's then-parent Capital Cities/ABC Inc.). Miller-Boyett thought that it would not be a big player on ABC after the network's recent purchase by Disney. In turn, Miller-Boyett Productions agreed to a $40 million offer from CBS for a 22-episode season for both Family Matters and Step By Step (along with a new production from the company, Meego). CBS scheduled Family Matters along with Meego and Step By Step as a part of its new Friday lineup branded as the CBS Block Party and scheduled the family-oriented block against ABC's TGIF lineup, where the two series originated. Although Jo Marie Payton was reluctant to continue and wanted to leave, feeling the show had jumped the shark years prior, she agreed to stay for the first half of the season to keep continuity and, partway through, her part was recast with Judyann Elder. Family Matters, while it continued to lose viewership compared to previous years, was initially a modest success on CBS, beating the show that replaced it, You Wish. Meego, however, was a ratings failure and was canceled after six weeks. Near the end of the ninth season, the cast was informed that a tenth and final season was planned, so scripts and plot synopses were written for the show. After the holiday special season, CBS replaced Meego with Kids Say the Darndest Things, and with that show's child-centered focus, it was placed in Family Matters' 8/7c time slot, with Family Matters pushed an hour later and paired with Step by Step. The ratings for Family Matters fell even further in this later slot, and the entire Block Party except for Kids Say... was canceled in spring 1998, with the remaining episodes burned off in the summer.

Avery Merrick you also know that WB is the producer and distributor of both FM and SBS but it somehow the overhaul of TGIF has to do with ABC’s overhaul as Disney’s ownership the network took over

Darren Rosario ABC wanted to continue with Family Matters: “ABC then promised to pay Miller-Boyett Productions $1.5 million per episode for a ninth and tenth season of Family Matters. However, tensions had risen between Miller-Boyett Productions and ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company (which had bought the network in 1995 as part of its merger with ABC's then-parent Capital Cities/ABC Inc.). Miller-Boyett thought that it would not be a big player on ABC after the network's recent purchase by Disney.” Look 👀 above at my previous comment.

It was really impressive

The move that killed TGIF. In early 1997, CBS picked up Family Matters and Step by Step in a $40 million deal to acquire the rights to the programs from ABC. ABC then promised to pay Miller-Boyett Productions $1.5 million per episode for a ninth and tenth season of Family Matters. However, tensions had risen between Miller-Boyett Productions and ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company (which had bought the network in 1995 as part of its merger with ABC's then-parent Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.). Miller-Boyett thought that it would not be a big player on ABC after the network's recent purchase by Disney. In turn, Miller-Boyett Productions agreed to a $40 million offer from CBS for a 22-episode season for both Family Matters and Step By Step (along with a new production from the company, Meego). CBS scheduled Family Matters along with Meego and Step By Step as a part of its new Friday lineup branded as the CBS Block Party and scheduled the family-oriented block against ABC's TGIF lineup, where the two series originated. Although Jo Marie Payton was reluctant to continue and wanted to leave, feeling the show had jumped the shark years prior, she agreed to stay for the first half of the season to keep continuity and, partway through, her part was recast with Judyann Elder. Family Matters (while it continued to lose viewership compared to previous years) was initially a modest success on CBS, beating the show that replaced it, You Wish. Meego however, was a ratings failure and was canceled after six weeks. Near the end of the ninth season, the cast was informed that a tenth and final season was planned, so scripts and plot synopses were written for the show. After the holiday special season, CBS replaced Meego with Kids Say the Darndest Things, and with that show's child-centered focus, it was placed in Family Matters's 8/7c time slot, with Family Matters pushed an hour later and paired with Step by Step. The ratings for Family Matters fell even further in this later slot, and the entire Block Party except for Kids Say... was canceled in spring 1998, with the remaining episodes burned off in the summer.

Avery Merrick wow. That is a lot of crazy info! Cool. Thx!

Have you ever watched Fuller House?

Over 20 years ago, ABC (newly acquired by Disney at the time) came up with a great cheesy gimmick to hook viewers: *a full week of 3-D effects for most of their programming,* able to be seen with glasses picked up at your local Wendy's restaurant. Several sitcoms joined in the fun, including the entire TGIF lineup.