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I have watched it as an adult. It’s been on Antenna TV. Jerry Van Dyke deserved better, and got it on Coach. And Avery Schreiber as Captain Manzini was nothing more than a three-dimensional cartoon villain.
Year before last, I dialed up the six episodes of Desmond Pfeiffer on YouTube, and I have to say, it wasn’t that bad. For the mid-nineties it was terrible, but years of South Park and Family Guy have recalibrated my offensensitivity meter. First off, it’s not racist if the black guy is the most intelligent and least neurotic one in the bunch! Desmond was English, so he was free, not a slave, and I don’t recall any other black characters, slaves or otherwise*. Hey, it was farce. Not defending the portrayal of Lincoln, but General Grant being a drunk is accurate, and I couldn’t help laughing at Stonewall Jackson giving orders while having his uniform fitted by a cranky Jewish tailor. (Yes, another stereotype; it was that kind of show. As I said, worse things show up in Seth McFarlane productions all the time.) I think because I’m so well-informed about the Civil War, I can kid because I love.
*Though I may have blocked them out, the way I blocked out Joey Lawrence singing “Mammy” in blackface on Gimme a Break. That is, I remembered the singing, but not the blackface.
The US version of the wonderful British show Coupling.
Really, really awful. They made 11 episodes but only the first four aired in the US.
They even used the British scripts for the most part at first!*
Bad acting, bad production, etc.
- So the Hollywood people of course blamed the writing for the failure.:smack:
Possibly because it had already been done on US TV…as Friends.
Okay, I’ve only ever seen three or four episodes of Coupling. But I distinctly remember thinking, “Hey, lookit that! The Brits actually remade one of our shows, and not vice versa!”
Another Sherwood Schwartz classic: “It’s About Time.” Two astronauts go faster than the speed of light and end up back in the Stone Age (with requisite dinosaurs).
I thought it was pretty cool when I was a kid watching it. It’s been airing on one of the cable channels on the weekend, and I’ve caught a few eps, and it’s pretty hard to watch now.
About 2/3 of the way into the sole season, they decided to retool the ‘fish out of water’ scenario and had the astronauts fixing the spacecraft and taking some of the cave dwellers back to the modern age. Still canceled after the first season.
Joe E. Ross’s mugging gets a little old, although when I was a little kid, I thought he was really funny. He got the few spots that he did not so much as because he was funny or particularly talented–he just looked funny.
This is a very unfortunate point of view. Not all shows with similar superficial cast properties are Friends. E.g., The Big Bang Theory has revolved around a cast of 3 men and 3 women (none initially married) for some time but is quite unlike Friends.
Umm. Sorry about that. Bad example.
Anyway: the characteristics of number/gender/marital status do not define the premise of a show. Otherwise you get 3rd Rock from the Sun ~ Seinfeld.
I’m sick of people ripping on Small Wonder. It was a kids’ sitcom, and for that it wasn’t bad.
Ah, yes, back on the UPN network. It wasn’t even Pfeiffer (Fifer) it was (Puh-fifer.) Lincoln was played by Dann Florek, and Pfeiffer was played by Chi McBride. I can only assume someone had blackmail photos of them to get them to act in this horrid show.