Although Friday nights during the '91-92 season belonged to ABC and the TGIF lineup dominated that night, CBS tried and failed to go up against it with their own family programming with both Scorch and Fish Police. Both series were lost in the shadow of Urkel. Unfortunately, there weren't many other nights this would've stood out. Mondays belonged to Will Smith's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Tuesday was dominated by ABC with what might as well have been TGIF Part 2, Home Improvement, Coach, Full House, Roseanne would've thrashed Scorch in the ratings. Wednesday also belonged to ABC when they aired Wonder Years, Doogie Howser, and Young Indiana Jones. Thursday night belonged to NBC with their Must-See lineup of Cosby Show, Different World, Cheers, and Wings. Fox also had a piece of Thursday night success with The Simpsons. Saturday nights were also a no go for Scorch because of Who's the Boss, Growing Pains, and Perfect Strangers. CBS could've made this work if they had a Sunday night slot available. But, it already had 60 Minutes and Murder, She Wrote on Sundays and weren't about to mess with that successful formula. Scorch was just doomed by bad timing.
tbuc500 bad placement terrible advertising and to much competition as my mother the car low standers and not enough real competition and scorch had 6 episodes 3 never aired they never even gave it a chance
