The Harry and the Hendersons Sitcom | Forgotten Failures 

"Suburban Sasquatch" is obviously the best Bigfoot movie ever made.

I'd love a reverse-premise film, where a family of Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) take in a stray human.

I remember watching this show In the UK back in the 90s and loving it. The intro is pure nostalgia for me.

Hungarian guy here. I used to catch episodes of this show on a German channel in the mid-nineties and I loved Harry, his appearance, the intricate animatronic mask and the lifelike facial expressions they could achieve with it. I mostly remember livingroom episodes, I had no idea the world found out about Harry in the second season. It deserves to be mentioned that the German version of the theme song is a pretty spot on translation and it works really well. I love that you dig up shows like this! Thank you for your work, keep it up! 🙏👏👑

I’m surprised so many people hadn’t heard of this. It was constantly on TV in the UK during the 90s.

I’m still impressed that the same actor played both Harry and the Predator

I remember this airing on BBC2 over here in the very early '90s.

Love how you cut to Harry laughing at the tv when you show all the bad bigfoot movies

At least ALF could tell jokes. Harry just had goofy expressions. I still loved and watched this show.

I definitely remember watching this over here in England.

I remember watching this show, and enjoying it because of how much I loved the movie. I was eight, and didn’t care how good it was, i was just happy to have more Harry.

I distinctly remember this sitcom. I liked the movie as a kid and watched the show. Man, you keep remembering stuff from my childhood that no one else does.

Harry and the Hendersons was a childhood classic I grew up on, even though the first act scared me a bit as a small child. I only vaguely remember the TV show that followed, as I didn't know what it was like. Just the fact it existed.

I totally remember this show. Especially the theme song. It evens feels weird watching the film without hearing the TV show theme.

In Australia in the mid-late 80’s (possibly 1987-88) H&TH tv show was on prime time tv and quite popular with myself and all the kids at school.

The sitcom as well as the movie were amongst my favorites as a child in Turkey during the 90s. This guy was famous across the globe before RU-vid existed.

I don't know if the series was popular in my country, but i remember that it was an staple on one of the local tv channels. It was aired back in the day when i was a kid every saturday at 5 pm iirc. It ran for years here.

You wanna know something? "Harry and the Hendersons" with Bruce Davison and Molly Cheek was the hit syndicated sitcom was an modest success. Based upon the 1988 Oscar winning film. Produced in association with Amblin Television and MCA-TV Exclusive Distributor. It lasted only for three successful seasons from 1991 to 1993 with a total of 73 episodes. It was great fun. Not bad at all.

I'm from Australia and I can definitely remember watching this show on local television after school back in the early-mid 1990's.

I remember this show. I used to watch it all the time.

as a teenager i once met a homeless man by my local liquor store, he went on to tell me about how he wrote harry and the hendersons. (i didnt believe him) he claims he wrote it because he wanted people to understand that animals have souls and belong in church. anyways , just thought id share

This show was aired in Finland in the 90s. I remember the sasquatch suit so well. When the original X-Men movie came out i regognised the actor like hey hes the guy from Harry and The Hendersons

I loved the show as a kid in germany. You make great research and i was suprised you mentioned germany. You does a great job on your videos

I do remember it existing. I went to Universal Studios in 93, there was 3 stages on a tour that took you behind the scenes of Back To The Future, Harry and The Henderson's and sometjing else? I can't recall the other. The BTTF showed the miniature model of the Delorean, a few behind the scenes shows on a screen, an audience member would be picked to be Doc on the clock tower ledge trying to reconnect the wires, and I got picked to be Marty with a girl to be Jennifer and sit in an interior cockpit of the Delorean as it rocked around and showed us speeding along on the blue screen. Then the next set was HATH where they showed the kitchen area, and I think they did some sound effects things before they had an audience member be tricked into having Harry sneak up behind them to scare them. I only remember seeing maybe one or two episodes on TV, but don't remember anything about it, but the back stage tour thing at Universal, CA was great memories.

I must be crazy because as a kid I actually knew about this show well before I realized it was based on a movie. I had no idea it was considered obscure now

I was terrrified of the movie when I was a kid, I must've been a bit too young at the time (4 years old when it was released), but I absolutely loved the sitcom in the 90s and then ultimately the movie. I even had a Harry talking toy.

I watched this growing up. The movie was one of my favorites as a kid. I remember a lot of the flashbacks.

I remember watching this as a kid. As a wrestling fan, the Hacksaw Jim Duggan cameo was a highlight for me.

I actually watched this when I was a kid, I liked it. They did a great job even back then..

I love everything you do Joe but this one was even a cut above. The splice of Baker showing how to control Harry's face - aMaZiNg. That puppets face can crack a tear at will...

Loved the movie as a kid and honestly I still think it's a fun watch today, even if just to admire how fantastic the makeup on Harry was. Never knew about the sitcom but in hindsight even the name "Harry & the Hendersons" sounds like a sitcom title, so finding out it was intended as a tv show first makes sense.

Can't say I've ever watched it but I definitely remember seeing ads for the tv show in the 90s. Never knew about the movie though.

This show came on along with What A Dummy. It was a sitcom with talking puppet and a family. The theme song sung to Harry And The Henderson's sounds completely different when it's sung in German.

I remember when it came out. I’ve loved it since.

I don't recall seeing this show itself on television, but I do remember at Universal Studios Hollywood there was a sound show based on it in the early 90's, similar to the monster sound show at Disney-MGM studios. The host of the show referred to the TV show as "the _hit _ television show, Harry and the Hendersons" and I thought that was funny as I didn't even know there was a H&TH TV show until then. At the end of the presentation the person called up onto the stage to make noises was supposed to scream and unbeknownst to him or her there was someone in a Harry costume creeping up behind them to scare them.

Funny, I'm swissgerman and I remember the show but didn't even know there was a movie. As a child I always admired the house in the show, a house mostly out of wood surrounded by trees. The german song was very catchy, sometimes that enough to be popular around here. Also the puppeteering art was great in that times, I miss it.

I remember watching this in the UK. The film was called Bigfoot & The Hendersons here so every time I heard a reference to Harry & The Hendersons I though it was referring to the sitcom

“He ran away...” “dO yA tHiNk So!?” Really got me

I remember this show more than the movie. It was on Saturday afternoon on my Fox affiliate on the dreaded tome between cartoons and wrestling on TBS. Though can't remember an episode of it. Never saw the movie. But the tv show seemed to run forever. Hey Hacksaw Duggan.

I love animatronics and puppetry so I watched this a lot when I was younger.

I will never get tired of watching Harry laugh his head off watching television

in the 90's this was useed to fill up the tv schedule in the school holidays in the uk

I only ever knew the show growing up. I didn't know there was a movie until I was older.

I watched the movie many times as a kid . But like you said , I didn't know this show was ever made .

If this had been a bigger hit, we would have gotten *Batteries Not Included: The Sitcom* starring Bill Erwin and Jane Dulo in place of Hume Cronyn (whom I have met) and Jessica Tandy.

Ah yes, I remember this show. I used to watch it when it was on, as I LOVE the movie. It's my dad's favorite film, and mine too. I do remember there was an episode where they TRIED returning Harry to the forest, only to find it completely gone. All the trees were cut down, it was completely deforested, so the Hendersons brought him back home. I don't remember much else about the show, except they had a wacky neighbor, and I faintly recall one episode where George and Nancy end up in jail. I wonder why Universal hasn't released this series on DVD or even streamed it. They own the rights, so what's stopping them?

Definitely count me as one of the few that remembers this show, even the theme song brought back so many memories! In a strange turn of events, I even dated one of the twins that played the new baby near the end of the series, which generally signals the end of any family show, haha Again, thanks for bringing this up for posterity if anything. Yes, the movie was way better, more heartfelt and memorable.

I remember the TV show. I didn't realized it was a movie 1st, till years ago

На территории бывших советских стран его показывали (у меня в РБ, его показывали сразу же за сериалом Альф) On the territory of the former Soviet countries, it was shown (in Republic of Belarus, it was shown immediately after the Alf series)

I like the scene in the movie, where the guy who wasted all his young years chasing bigfoot, meets Harry.

I remember watching the sitcom as a kid in Israel and kind of liking it. You know, the same way I liked Small Wonder and Family Matters. It was on TV and wasn't too heavy, so I watched it. Only a few years later, I found out that the show was based on a movie. I rented the movie and liked it about as much as the show. It was weird seeing different actors playing the Hendersons, though.

Speaking of forgotten failures, how about a video on the unsold pilot based on the Elisabeth Shue movie "Adventures in Babysitting" (which also came out in 1987). It aired only once CBS on a Friday night in July 1989. It featured Jennifer Guthrie as Chris Parker (the Elisabeth Shue role), a post-Gimme a Break/pre-Blossom Joey Lawrence as Brad (the Keith Coogan character from the movie), and a pre-Beverly Hills, 90210 Brian Austin Green as Daryl (the Anthony Rapp character).

I saw (and really liked )this as a kid way before seeing the film

I wasn't prepared for how creepy Harry looks when he's not pupeteered lol.

I saw this when I was a little kid. It aired in Brazil in the early 90s, I think.

Hey, I remember the show! It was broadcasted in Spain back then. I remember little, the opening and little else. But yes, it was real

I remember watching this show when it originally aired. I vaguely remember a behind the scenes feature that aired at the time. I don’t think it was actually filmed in front of a live audience. I believe they used laugh tracks because production moved far slower then most sitcoms mostly because of some of the Animatronics.

when I was younger I was actually at a taping of Henry and the hendersons the sitcom.

Easily one of my top 35 sasquatch tv shows of the early 90s

argentinian here yeah, I remember the sitcom. For some reason one of big tv networks here decided to do a big push for the show in 92 I was very little at the time and I remember being scared of the advertisement that make it look like a horror movie lmao

I definitely watched and enjoyed this show. It was a great show.

I remember this show. Never saw any of it, but I remember it

haha, as a kid I was surprised to find out there was a movie. Funny how little we knew back then fair enough though suburban seattle can turn into woods REALLY quickly

I have been looking everywhere for this series! Wondering if it was a victim of the Universal studios vault fire? Hoping one day it will come out on DVD or at least streaming.

I remember watching episodes of this on late night network TV. For a long time I thought it was a fever dream. Next you should look at the Honey I Shrunk The Kids tv series.

I'm pretty sure this played at 6 AM on Saturday morning on a CBS affiliate around the same time as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Random "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan cameo at the 10:34 mark.

i feel like it was on all the time back in the day.

I was about to question why you call this sitcom a failure before you explained it was successful. I loved the show, and had my own stuffed Harry. I was surprised when I later learned it began as a movie.

That's the German Real Bigfoot Blues. Bigfoot Bebop.

this used to play at like 7 am in canada in the late 90s

I remember it played on fox 32 with small wonder and bobbies world.

I ONLY remembered the sitcom. Never saw the movie.

When they remake this movie the Bigfoot will be entirely drawn, digitally.

I’m curious if anyone else noticed.. [@8:35 ~ in the photo of the actor & his animatronic Predator head] It looks as though Kevin Peter Hall must either secretly be a flamingo, or have the world’s strongest bones! Because he is somehow still able to walk (despite his gargantuan 7+ foot frame) on what can only be described as: freakishly slender ankles!!

I loved this sitcom as a kid. it was shown late 90-s on one of channels here in Russia.

I did not go into this expecting to see Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

I remember this show!!! For the longest time, I thought it was a fever dream I had…

i remember this show...seriously.

10:36 'HACKSAW' JIM DUGGAN!? The first-ever Royal Rumble Winner?!

One of many shows I watched as a kid and had no idea it came from a movie: (the real) Ghostbusters, Weird Science, Harry and the Hendersons.

I love Harry And The Hendersons

When I was little I watched it on TV here in Brazil

It was cool from what I remember about watching it

To this day, still the best looking bigfoot

I remember seeing this show before the movie

Oh, this was aired in Argentina around 1994 on Channel 13. Not so great but it had an audience.

When I was little I remember this being one I'd find playing before station shutdowns at night back when there were independent stations and I guess this was cheaper than having kung fu movies playing after the late edition at the time. Also makes me think about another movie made sitcom that I think even bombed worse if thats possible, Private Benjamin.

Total Recall 2070 would be an amazing Forgotten Failure for your series...a BRILLIANT, great Blade Runner tv show, that no one watch and still no one even knew existed.

0:31 “Father, when can I leave to be on my *ooowwwnuh* 😩💅”

I can remember this Show running here in germany, but I was more into "Dinosaurs" back then.

I was aware of its existence. But never saw the show.

I didnt know it was based on a Movie,just knew the Series :D Watched it alot as a Kid,think it ran alot on German Tv.

It's funny that you say you grew up with the movie but were completely unaware of the sitcom, because I was the opposite. Germans really latch onto some of those early 90's sitcoms, with this, Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Out of this World all being shows I've relied on German releases to get.

I remember watching it but don’t remember much.

I saw the show first , episode I saw was when they thought Harry eat a new pair of shoes 👞

so i deffiently remember the show before seeing the movie

I watched this show as a kid

True story I knew about the sitcom years before I knew about the movie.

To Hats Off Entertainment's Joe Ramoni - You covered Shemp Howard, John Candy and others in your videos. When are you gonna do a new one on Jerry Lewis and his career?