“The Sarah Connors chronicles” is about a young man destined to save mankind who faces a different superpowered menace-of-the-week every episode and is followed around by a girl who can’t show human emotions.
Yep, it’s “Smallville” all over again.
My bad.
According to Imdb, Daws gave voice to Barney in 18 episodes between '59 and '65. He also played some bit parts, and celebrity impersonations.
I knew Reed and Blanc were the voices of Fred and Barney. (I didn’t realize Daws Butler did Barney in a few episodes- that must have been when Mel was recovering from a car accident.) I was referring to the fact that most Hanna-Barbera characters voiced by Daws Butler are meant to mimic well-known actors’ voices: Yogi Bear is Art Carney, Snagglepuss is Bert Lahr, etc.
Grace & Closer couldn’t be less alike. The blond cop aspect is pretty much the only thing they have in common. Grace the show is replete with magic realism, while Closer is grounded pretty firmly in the real world; the dynamics of the character relationships are entirely different; and Brenda, while something of a lying bitch, is not in fact a nutjob.
Dusty’s Trail is basically Gilligan’s Island without the island.
Family Guy = American Dad
Now that doesn’t make a lick of sense. American Dad is, after all, funny. 
Family Guy, American Dad
(and soon to be The Cleveland Show?)
Suddenly Susan was just a really crappy NewsRadio.
Actually, NewsRadio, Wings, Veronica’s Closet, Spin City, Just Shoot Me, and Suddenly Susan all had that “We’re hoping to be as good as Cheers” ensemble comedy approach.
Nitpicking your nitpick, I’d say Spin City was actually aiming to be Family Ties: Now That Alex Is All Growed Up. For Zeus’ sake, Meredith Baxter actually appeared as Mike’s mother!
And the Wikipedia entry on Cheers says that they were trying for a workplace ensemble comedy like The Mary Tyler Moore Show. So everything is modeled on something earlier.
Gene Roddenberry once called Star Trek “Wagon Train to the stars.”
God dammit, didn’t see there was a second page to this thread. Now I look silly :smack:
‘Eureka’ = ‘Andy Griffith’ - single-parent Sheriff in a rural town, dealing with the colorful locals, and trying to find romance. In ‘Eureka’, Aunt Bee is the talking house. The ‘Eureka’ writers are quite aware of the parallels - Carter gets referred to as ‘Mayberry’ at least once, and a character called ‘Sheriff Andy’ is being introduced this season.
Whic also happened to be the same premise of 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, and Surfside 6, right down to the “colorful” sidekick characters.
CBS Evening News
NBC Nightly News
ABC World News Tonight
20/20
60 Minutes
Dateline
Oprah
Dr Phil
I have always thuoght of Burn Notice as a revamped MacGuyver, not Magnum, PI.
MacGuyver never used guns, though, until he got promoted to Lt Colonel.
80 posts and nobody notes ‘Medium’ and ‘Ghost Whisperer’? They’re so similar, a network (CBS?) picked up one of them and will be running them back to back this season.
Also, hat tip to the Dukes/Knight Rider comparison. Great observation!