I remember this TGIF Christmas lineup! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I loved TGIF, but my favorite was the Christmas lineup of shows each year. 1995 was the last holiday season with all of these shows on the lineup. 1996 Sabrina the Teeneage Witch joined. Step by Step had a delayed start until Spring 1997, so no Christmas episode. Fall 1997 TGIF changed a lot with Family Matters & Step by Step both moving to CBS. At least they both got to have Christmas episodes, but as part of the CBS Blockparty lineup. I'll have to look back on 1998 and 1999 Christmas lineups. I watched TGIF until its cancellation in 2000. Friday nights were never the same as they were back in the 90s.
@@rememberwhenchannel They really did! Every Friday night my family would gather and watch TGIF. It was a weekly ritual. lol. 90s tv shows were really about 'family matters'. No pun intended. lol!
ABC's TGIF block died beginning in fall 1997, stemming from a combination of aging sitcoms like Family Matters and Step by Step moving to CBS (who started - and ended - their own family-friendly Friday night sitcom line-up in 1997-98 called "The Block Party"), the oversaturation of supernatural/magic type shows (Sabrina the Teenage Witch and new series You Wish and Teen Angel, the latter of which both lasted only one season), the failure of Two of a Kind and Brother's Keeper (which was the last sitcom produced by the previously reliable Miller-Boyett group) starring the Olsen twins the following year (1998-99), and ultimately the ending of Boy Meets World after seven seasons and Sabrina... moving to The WB after the 1999-2000 season. ABC would bring back the TGIF brand for the 2003-05 & 2018-19 seasons, but it never met the same success it had before.
