Here are 5 failed 90s TV shows from 1995 0:00 Intro 0:10 Madman of The People 2:23 Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills 5:21 The Preston Episodes 7:37 Hawkeye 9:37 Platypus Man #90s #90stv #1995 #nostalgia
Yeah man I did and platypus man is actually pretty good. The concept could have worked if the studio didn't much about but I still liked what it was, as someone who actually watched it I feel like that opinion is slightly valid. Like the content here but you seem to just read about a thing online without informing your own opinion and it's a bit of a setback to some of the shows you talk about. The condescending way you present the thing makes no one want to check it out. Iunno mayne work on that. Cruel ain't comedy.
as a teen in 1995, I watched the TTAFFBH when I could catch it. Also, I liked Richard Jeni's Platapus Man stand up special, so I TRIED to watch the show, but it was basically Seinfeld if they never hired the supporting cast. i didn't watch Hawkeye, but I became aware of it while reading the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic books, which mentioned the main character being a former member of the League.
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills was created by an executive on coke who had a resentment against TMNT and Power Rangers and said “Pshhh I could make a show like that in my sleep!” but he never slept bcuz he was on coke and this show is the end result
I met Richard Jeni at a random party in Vegas. We collided by chance due to party traffic in a confined space, and the first words out of my mouth were " Hey! It's Platypus Man!". He was such a nice guy! The party we were attending wasn't super conducive to normal human conversation, but he stopped the traffic to talk. Everyone had to walk around us while we talked about comedy and through a few riffs back and forth. He was so genuine, and funny! AND he set me and my friends up with front-row tickets to his show the next night! AND he busted our chops during the act. So much fun!
Watched a ton of TV in 95 and have absolutely no recollection of Madman of the People. I do remember Cynthia Gibb from the Rob Lowe hockey drama Youngblood, an absolute classic
I remember it vaguely. Dabney Coleman had the worst luck with sitcoms. I heard he had a couple of shows in the 80s, which were really good but too dark.
Strangely enough, Madman of the People did a three-part story along with Friends and Mad About You, where a blackout hits New York City. The only member of the Thursday night line up to abstain from doing the blackout storyline was Seinfeld, which made no logistical sense because they had already established that Seinfeld, Friends, and Mad About You took place in the same continuity with characters crossing over between the three shows.
I thought I had seen all the episodes of Seinfeld but I can’t remember any references to the other shows. I didn’t get into Mad About You, but I’d read that Phoebe’s twin Ursula was on it.
@@keithtorgersen9664 Yes, there was an episode in season 1 where you find out that before marrying Jamie (Helen Hunt), Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) lived in the apartment directly across from Jerry Seinfeld, and when he moved, he subleased the apartment to Kramer.
I remember watching Madman of the People. I remember nothing about it, apparently, but I do remember watching and being surprised it was cancelled despite part of NBC’s Must See TV Thursdays.
Pretty much! It was produced because of the popularity of the movie "Last of The Mohicans" with Daniel Day-Lewis that had been released a few years before.
UPN had some _HORRIBLE_ shows when it first debuted (anyone remember _Homeboys From Outer Space_ ?) They would have been better off just showing _Star Trek: Voyager_ every night...
Glad I found this channel It's been hitting a lot of my nostalgia triggers, for lack of a better term, for weeks or months now. No complaints. It had reminded me of a lot of shows I enjoyed and even brought some I hardly remembered to the fore of my mind.
@msdouglas12100 I recently found the Soundtrack CD from Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman on CD which is a rare promo! It was set to be released but got pushed back at the last minute for licencing. 🤗💽🙏👍
The difference was when you bought a National Enquirer or a weekly world news you knew what you were getting and that's why you bought it because it was satire it was like buying a Mad magazine or a Cracked magazine it wasn't clickbait you knew exactly what you were getting and I loved weekly world news that s*** was hilarious
I just found this channel tonight and I absolutely love it! These shows were generally a little bit before my time but I love learning about them. It's interesting how for every "big name" show that makes it into the cultural canon, there are 10 or 20 more that fade into obscurity, and some of the shows are real gems, and others are real stinkers! They're both great in their own way. Anyway, this channel is right up my alley, and I really appreciate how well you research the information and present it, absolutely top notch. Definitely subscribed. Keep up the good work :)
I was born in late 80s and grew up watching lots of TV in the 90s but I have not heard of any of these. I have recently been watching the 1957 series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" so I'll have to check out that Hawkeye series to see what it is like and how it compares, especially since I liked Linda Carter and watched Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess and never missed them when they were on.
Madman must of been before my MUST-SEE TV time because I recall shows like Single Guy, Boston Common, Caroline, and Veronica’s Closet being a part of the lineup but not this one lol
It was the 2nd yr after Seinfeld replaced cheers, Frasier moved to Tue. To hang with John Lauraquat, and Wings, Thur was. mad about you/friends/Seinfeld/mad man/er. Mad man was a hit but was after tvs #1 show so #14 was not good and it was hurting er, so in January friends took the 930 slot giving nbc top 3 shoes on the night...leading to friends become the 8p staple the following yr. If it's any consultation, 2 yrs earlier the 1 2 punch of drexle and simpsons helped take cosby off the air
Well, I think that Hawkeye was a series that, although it did not have the expected success, had an appropriate duration for the story it wanted to tell and personally I liked it a lot, each story was very well told, good episodes, good performances and with a development at the end that was good for the story
I loved it! Still rewatch in the winter because I associate it with that season. It was winter in many episodes plus, when it was first on , we had snow on the ground in PA for four months straight. I really wish it got a season 2 though! I'd like to add that the Hudson Valley, and NY in general, is not New England as this video claims.
I remember a scene where Dabney Coleman was arguing with his boss for Knicks tickets. I thought it was Drexel's Class, but maybe it was Madman of the People. I really remember the weirdest things sometimes lol
I never could understand the idea of Teenagers being Superheroes. You can barely get a teen to clean their room much less fight intergalactic criminals.
Yeah, sorry to hear the sad news. Thank you for checking us out. We covered several shows he's in recently. A great screen presence. And funny too! Hope we went easy on the guy.
Hawkeye was doomed by the fact that it aired on the brand new and struggling UP network, which lacked local affiliates in many areas as well as high production costs.
The Edge sounds very familiar and reminded me of that show Nickelodeon’s Roundhouse which had a dad with a powered lazy boy chair. Shxt was dope af fr 😂
In the 90s there was about 40 shows that tried to rip off the premise of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and spin it in some other way as to not get sued just like today when a show hits gold everybody else tries to jump in the mine this however was another Saban one which was just basically a Power Rangers rip off which Power Rangers was a Voltron ripoff yeah there was like 20 different versions of Power Rangers that weren't Power Rangers
I wonder how Richard jenni could be so great at stand up and have such a bad tv show, but then i remember john mulaney's attempt. Sometimes great comedians don't need the tv, or it doesn't translate
David Allen Grier has to hold the record for being on the most FAILED TV Shows or something. Only show he did that ran its course was "in living color" Coincidence? I think NOT!
Madman followed seinfield on thur nights, Drexel was after Simpsons on thur nights. With got good ratings but lost to much from the hit show they where after
4:00 *TTAFBH- Reminds me heavily of the TMNT knock off **_Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters_* 😹 Fun memories reading those & ElfQuest, Alien Legion, Samurai, Elektra, swords of the swashbucklers, elementals on the schoolbus.
I watched lots of television back then. You think I would of caught one of these things. David Alan Grier. i loved his stuff. He did a short-lived show with Damon Wayans and I remember that one. Oh well.
They should have spun off DAG’s character from Martin the Rev. Leon Lonnie Love! He loses his church and has to go live with a relative and his/her family in another city and deals with how he was once a good clergyman who lost his way and now has to find redemption.
10:32 Ethan Phillips prior to getting cast as Neelix on Voyager. As for Jeni, I only came to know of him after that episode of Family Guy where Peter was having a dirty dream of Jeni. Sad how he went out though.
TV execs in 1994: "Alright, we gotta make a show the kids will love. Larry! What do kids watch these days?" "Uh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is popular." "Great. Dave, whatchu got?" "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?" "I'm sensing a theme here. Bill, you got daughters, what do they watch?" "All I hear about day and night is this Beverly Hills, 90210 show. Apparently the guys are dreamy." "Gentlemen, I believe we have a show. Or at least I have a title in mind. Now, who wants cocaine?"
@@TheReviewStudios You mentioned Hercules and Xena. Xena Warrior Princess which spunoff from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys but there were actually a couple spinoffs from those shows. Captain Zoom: Adventures In Outer Space which didn't go beyond it's 2 hour movie. Not to mention Jack Of All Trades and Cleopatra 2525. Both spinoffs were cancelled after two-seasons. Bruce Campbell was on Jack Of All Trades and another cancelled series The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. Not to mention he was in The Evil Dead movie franchise as Ash Williams. 🦸♂🦹📺🐎💀
@@multitudeofidols Well they were still popular maybe not as popular and continued to be apart of CBS Saturday Morning until being cancelled in 1996. So the final two seasons with the red sky were from 1994 to 1996🐢📺🎥🎬
I seem to remember seeing Hawkeye on at my late Aunt's house when we visited around that time, she was a fan of that genre so it wouldn't surprise me if that's what it was.
Never saw "Madman Of The People," but I do remember Hollyweird trying so very desperately to make a Dabney Coleman sitcom a thing. He had 4, count 'em, FOUR single-season flops in 11 years. Credit where it's due, though, he was great in the nighttime soap/mini-series parody "Fresno," but then the whole mini-series was just top-shelf comedy! I remember the David Allen Grier show. They wanted to make him both the lead AND whacky. If they'd just let him be the straight man, a la Bob Newhart, it might have worked. He was GREAT on "In Living Color!" Oi! I missed a series with Lynda Carter looking that hot?! ARGH!!! 😢
Oh man the Preston episodes was hard to watch. Even the promotional ads were very low effort. David Allen Grier is always on point, but it was painfully obvious that Fox put their worst writers on the show. My brother liked platypus man but I found it to be boring. I was 15 at the time and was more interested in gaming and comics. However Thursdays and Fridays were tv time with the must see tv and TGIF.😊
Well, only one I am familiar with to some extend is Tattooed Teenage, only because dad had 1 episode on VHS. The other 4, never heard of them, but looks like Hawkeye I was the most successful in finding on RU-vid, the whole series, Platypus Man, could only find 2 episodes, and the other 3, at least most of them. Anyways, thank you for this, did enjoy it.
I was thought it was a joke i grew up with Gridman and this American redo looked off to me. of course growing up with original Super Sentai when i moved over with my military husband to the USA my first response to Power Rangers was “is this a joke?”
I need to see madman of the people, iv been a huge fan of cynthia for years for a long time. I want to also see Hawkeye...i like 2 of the actors in that too
I must have been completely confused but I could have sworn that "Madman of the People" was about the lead guy being some kind of murderer. The comedy was based on how he either accidentally killed someone or he had to in self defense or whatever, but everyone just saw him as a murderer and avoided him at all costs, leading to hilarious situations. He would occasionally even make jokes about killing someone again. I don't know why anyone would make that the premise of a comedy but it was the 90's and I don't know why anything was anything back then.
Hey this is the guy who wrote the Madman piece. Listen .. you're not crazy! That sounds SO familiar but I can't pinpoint anything more specific on it. Didn't have any luck searching around. So either we're both crazy or someone will enlighten us in a comment. It's likely something embarrassingly obvious so prepare yourself for that 😅👍. It happens. For example, I could never find Get a Life because for some reason , at whatever age I was, I had convinced myself the show was called The Paperboy. So my searches would take me further and further from any vague memories I had of late night glimpses I caught between antenna battles.
@@TheReviewStudios The mandela effect is so annoying. As far as the "The Paperboy," I would assume it's because Chris Elliot was a paperboy on the show and also he was well known for starring in the 1994 comedy movie, "Cabin Boy." So I could see those getting mixed together. Although nothing will beat my absolute conviction that there was a genie movie called, "Shazam" that came out around the same time as the Shaq genie movie "Kazaam."
Oof - that's a pretty obscure list for me. I don't think I saw a second of any of those shows. Although I do remember hearing about the Tattooed Alien Fighting Whatevers.
