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post #51 of 58
3/25/09 at 12:02am
This is a derail but I feel that I can't let this thread continue without saying how pissed I am all these years laters that Erie, Indiana was cancelled.

Shit, The Torkelsons got two seasons. The Torkelsons!
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post #52 of 58
3/25/09 at 12:57am
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Down to Earth, the story of a 1920's flapper who gets run over by a car and comes back as the guardian angel/maid for modern-day family. Family patriarch played by the 2nd Darren from Bewitched, the one that died of AIDS.
I came in here just to post this, but I'm not surprised Will beat me to it. That's okay, though, I've got RESERVES.

Also on TBS (along with Down to Earth) in the late-afternoon weekday block, you got "Rocky Road." It was the tale of the family that invented the titular ice cream flavor, and owned an ice cream shop somewhere...uh... in a town. The parents had died before the series started, and the kids were left to run the business (and learn a few heartwarming lessons along the way). It wasn't going to be easy, though-- they'd have a difficult path ahead of them. A rocky... road, if you will.

I'm thinking there was one more in this block, but it's not coming to me right now. I can sing the theme songs to both of the above shows. They were catchy.

EDIT: The third show was "Safe At Home," and I really can't recall much about the plot, but I looooved the theme song as a youngster. I think that's the one I taped off the TV by holding my tape recorder up to the console Zenith.
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post #53 of 58
3/25/09 at 10:15am
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This is a derail but I feel that I can't let this thread continue without saying how pissed I am all these years laters that Erie, Indiana was cancelled.
I agree, my friend, I agree.
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post #54 of 58
3/25/09 at 10:40pm
If it had anything to do with the BBC in the 80's, it was a low budget sitcom. Take a look at Red Dwarf, Blackadder any of them really.
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post #55 of 58
3/25/09 at 11:41pm
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If it had anything to do with the BBC in the 80's, it was a low budget sitcom. Take a look at Red Dwarf, Blackadder any of them really.
And yet those were undeniable successes at what they were trying to do, while American cheap sitcoms were the abortions you see littered about in here.
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post #56 of 58
3/26/09 at 1:41am
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While lousy, its status as a spinoff of Growing Pains disqualifies it. Also, Heather Langenkamp!
I wanted to do dirty things to Heather Langenhamp as a 8 year old.
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post #57 of 58
3/26/09 at 3:04am
The Charmings wins this thread.
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post #58 of 58
3/26/09 at 4:11pm
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And yet those were undeniable successes at what they were trying to do, while American cheap sitcoms were the abortions you see littered about in here.
Seems like networks/producers valued high-concept over good writing and acting. It's peculiar, since the '70s had so many great sitcoms that were all about the writer, be it James L. Brooks or Norman Lear.
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