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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2022 21:25:15 GMT
Like LawrenceA, not a sitcom fan and don't remember ever seeing any during that era. In fact, the only series that I remember regularly watching that began in the 90s was Star Trek: Voyager. Watched the first couple of seasons of The X-Files only - right after coming home from the kids' HS football games on Fridays - and some of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Looked at a list of 90s TV shows over on imdb and found The Pretender - a show I don't remember ever seeing, but sounds like I would have liked. Other than that - nothing.
Back in those days, didn't have cable, 1 TV, 2 kids in HS, and worked long hours.
The Pretender is one I never watched either...might have been the time slot, if it was up against something else I normally watched.
But the main character's name is Jarod, like my name (Jarrod)...so it seems like something I should check out LOLMy mom watched The Pretender. She liked the guy that starred in it, Michael T. Weiss, who had been on Days of Our Lives. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it was on Saturday nights, along with The Profiler. I was working nights during that time, so I rarely saw anything unless I taped it.
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Post by CinemaInternational on Nov 4, 2022 21:31:52 GMT
The Pretender is one I never watched either...might have been the time slot, if it was up against something else I normally watched.
But the main character's name is Jarod, like my name (Jarrod)...so it seems like something I should check out LOL My mom watched The Pretender. She liked the guy that starred in it, Michael T. Weiss, who had been on Days of Our Lives. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it was on Saturday nights, along with The Profiler. I was working nights during that time, so I rarely saw anything unless I taped it. The Pretender and Profiler were indeed Saturday night shows. The 90s were the last full decade where the networks actually would put first-run shows on that night, as they pretty much abandoned the practice by 2004. other 90s series that aired on that night included: Sisters, The Commish, Walker Texas Ranger, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, the final season of China Beach, the final season of Twin Peaks, and other assorted other minor shows.
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Post by topbilled on Nov 4, 2022 21:36:36 GMT
My mom watched The Pretender. She liked the guy that starred in it, Michael T. Weiss, who had been on Days of Our Lives. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it was on Saturday nights, along with The Profiler. I was working nights during that time, so I rarely saw anything unless I taped it. The Pretender and Profiler were indeed Saturday night shows. The 90s were the last full decade where the networks actually would put first-run shows on that night, as they pretty much abandoned the practice by 2004. other 90s series that aired on that night included: Sisters, The Commish, Walker Texas Ranger, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, the final season of China Beach, the final season of Twin Peaks, and other assorted other minor shows. The Commish is another one I never watched.
I should mention that I am sort of named after Richard Long's character Jarrod Barkley in The Big Valley. My mother is superstitious, and there had been 'bad luck' with juniors in the family...my father's name is Gerald, so she wanted a name that sounded like my father's but was different, decidedly not Gerald Jr. LOL
She liked the spelling of Richard Long's character's (it appears in the opening credits of each episode). So that's how I got my first name.
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Post by dianedebuda on Nov 4, 2022 21:52:23 GMT
The Pretender and Profiler were indeed Saturday night shows. Well that probably explains why I never saw it - hubby is a football fan... 😔
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Post by topbilled on Nov 13, 2022 18:37:49 GMT
Just thought I would let people know that Picket Fences is leaving Hulu eleven days from now. So this is the time to check out a few episodes, if interested.
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Post by jinsinna13 on Dec 9, 2022 14:37:41 GMT
Mine: - The Simpsons
- Will & Grace
- Home Improvement
- Boy Meets World
- Sports Night
- Freaks and Geeks
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 11, 2022 17:45:08 GMT
Sure. 3rd Rock From The Sun
Ellen( her sitcom from 1994-1998)
Law And Order
Northern Exposure
Spin City
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Post by topbilled on Jan 7, 2023 22:15:10 GMT
Mine: - The Simpsons
- Will & Grace
- Home Improvement
- Boy Meets World
- Sports Night
- Freaks and Geeks
I have to admit I never watched Will & Grace. A straight female friend of mine wanted to go to a taping, and she dragged me along. I wasn't much interested but went to humor her. I mention that she was straight and female, because a lot of the folks in the audience were gay males. I must say, that was one of the funnest tapings I ever attended. We went back and watched a second one a month later.
But I never watched those episodes when they aired on NBC. And I have never caught the show in reruns. So to this day, I still have never seen an episode of W&G on TV. Just what Diane and I saw recorded live.
I just checked the show's episode descriptions on wiki. The ones we saw were from Season 6...'Flip-Flop' which was a two-parter. And 'I Never Cheered for My Father.' I remember 'Flip-Flop' had Eileen Brennan as a guest star. Debra Messing was very pregnant, about to go off on maternity leave, and they filmed all her scenes first. She was on reduced hours, but trying to get as many episodes completed before she took time off to have the baby. She was on maternity leave when we went back a month later, and she does not appear in 'I Never Cheered for My Father.'
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Post by topbilled on Jan 7, 2023 22:18:04 GMT
Sure. 3rd Rock From The Sun Ellen( her sitcom from 1994-1998) Law And Order Northern Exposure Spin City Sepiatone Good choices. I loved Northern Exposure but it wasn't the same when Rob Morrow left at the beginning of the final season. It was on borrowed time at the end.
I did like Ellen and there were several standout episodes. Never watched Spin City. Occasionally caught 3rd Rock but was not a consistent viewer, probably because I watched something else on another network at the same time.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 8, 2023 3:33:23 GMT
I no doubt am forgetting something important I love(d)
Daria The Tick Cybill Ned and Stacey Working Judge Judy
And I now have 25 episodes of Nowhere Man to watch (again?). If I watched it back then I don't remember much about it. It sounds right up my dark alley...
Series creator Larry Hertzog has acknowledged the influence of The Prisoner and The Fugitive in the show's themes. Resemblances can also be seen to The Manchurian Candidate, North by Northwest, 12 Monkeys, Three Days of the Condor, The X-Files and the 1967 television series Coronet Blue.
And Coronet Blue - I don't remember this one at all. Both are on the Internet Archive which is handy but enabling. I may soon need an intervention. I need to stay out of these "Five Favorites" topics.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 8, 2023 3:46:24 GMT
Earlier in the thread I mentioned that Picket Fences was leaving Hulu. But I am happy to report that they changed their minds, and the show is still available in the new year. So this was one time the 'expiring' label was wrong!
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 8, 2023 16:46:12 GMT
And Coronet Blue - I don't remember this one at all. Both are on the Internet Archive which is handy but enabling. I may soon need an intervention. I need to stay out of these "Five Favorites" topics. I was a regular viewer of CORONET BLUE. Even liked the theme song. Funny you don't remember the show, and then it could be your off-beat sense of humor because the show's premise was a man suffering from amnesia searching for his true identity and why the words "coronet blue" seem to be so important to it. Sepiatone
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Post by jinsinna13 on Jan 9, 2023 14:36:07 GMT
Mine: - The Simpsons
- Will & Grace
- Home Improvement
- Boy Meets World
- Sports Night
- Freaks and Geeks
I have to admit I never watched Will & Grace. A straight female friend of mine wanted to go to a taping, and she dragged me along. I wasn't much interested but went to humor her. I mention that she was straight and female, because a lot of the folks in the audience were gay males. I must say, that was one of the funnest tapings I ever attended. We went back and watched a second one a month later.
But I never watched those episodes when they aired on NBC. And I have never caught the show in reruns. So to this day, I still have never seen an episode of W&G on TV. Just what Diane and I saw recorded live.
I just checked the show's episode descriptions on wiki. The ones we saw were from Season 6...'Flip-Flop' which was a two-parter. And 'I Never Cheered for My Father.' I remember 'Flip-Flop' had Eileen Brennan as a guest star. Debra Messing was very pregnant, about to go off on maternity leave, and they filmed all her scenes first. She was on reduced hours, but trying to get as many episodes completed before she took time off to have the baby. She was on maternity leave when we went back a month later, and she does not appear in 'I Never Cheered for My Father.'That's a great story. Thanks for sharing.
Will and Grace did return for three revival seasons from 2017-2020, but I prefer the episodes that aired in its original run. One of my favorites is "Will on Ice" from Season 1. It's Will's birthday, and all he wants is for Grace and Jack to get along. Grace and Jack bond over figure skating, and they more or less convince Will to go with them to an ice show on his birthday. Karen also comes along, and she brings champagne. You will enjoy that episode.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 9, 2023 14:49:09 GMT
I have to admit I never watched Will & Grace. A straight female friend of mine wanted to go to a taping, and she dragged me along. I wasn't much interested but went to humor her. I mention that she was straight and female, because a lot of the folks in the audience were gay males. I must say, that was one of the funnest tapings I ever attended. We went back and watched a second one a month later.
But I never watched those episodes when they aired on NBC. And I have never caught the show in reruns. So to this day, I still have never seen an episode of W&G on TV. Just what Diane and I saw recorded live.
I just checked the show's episode descriptions on wiki. The ones we saw were from Season 6...'Flip-Flop' which was a two-parter. And 'I Never Cheered for My Father.' I remember 'Flip-Flop' had Eileen Brennan as a guest star. Debra Messing was very pregnant, about to go off on maternity leave, and they filmed all her scenes first. She was on reduced hours, but trying to get as many episodes completed before she took time off to have the baby. She was on maternity leave when we went back a month later, and she does not appear in 'I Never Cheered for My Father.' That's a great story. Thanks for sharing.
Will and Grace did return for three revival seasons from 2017-2020, but I prefer the episodes that aired in its original run. One of my favorites is "Will on Ice" from Season 1. It's Will's birthday, and all he wants is for Grace and Jack to get along. Grace and Jack bond over figure skating, and they more or less convince Will to go with them to an ice show on his birthday. Karen also comes along, and she brings champagne. You will enjoy that episode.
I have a few other memories from those Will & Grace tapings. First, every other sitcom taping/filming I attended took place in the evening. The Golden Girls did a dress rehearsal in the afternoon which was not open to the public, but there was still an evening performance that the public attended. Usually sitcoms would start taping their first scenes around 6 p.m. in the hopes of being done by 10 p.m. But on Designing Women things often went to midnight, in some cases, till 2 a.m.
Anyway, what I remember about W&G is that their tapings were in the afternoon, starting around 3 p.m. There was no dress rehearsal. They began filming at 3 and were done by 6 or 7. So it was an "early" schedule for them, and after it was done, you could go off and have dinner and talk about what you'd just seen.
Because Debra Messing was pregnant and in her last trimester, she had reduced hours as I said, so that meant 'Flip-Flop' was filmed out of order, with all her scenes done first so she could leave as soon as possible. Then the scenes involving the other subplot, with Jack & Karen, were filmed. But when we went back a month later to watch 'I Never Cheered for My Father,' Messing was off on maternity leave, so the whole show was done in order.
When we first arrived on the day that 'Flip-Flop' was filmed, I remember we had a long walk from the parking garage to the sound stage. This was at Radford in Studio City and a lot of other shows were being filmed there at the same time in nearby sound stages. We walked by the building where the NBC soap opera Passions was being taped and saw some of the actors outside. The building right next to W&G was where a short-lived sitcom starring Suzanne Pleshette was being done, called Good Morning Miami.
When we got seated inside the W&G building, the first thing I remember was the warm-up comedian telling us about Messing's pregnancy and explaining that the episode's scenes would be shot out of order, but he summarized the story, so we'd understand what was happening. Then he introduced the cast. Most of them came down stage and clowned around for a few minutes. When Eric McCormack came out, he was reading a magazine. It was a copy of Playboy, an obvious way to let the audience know he was heterosexual playing a gay man on this hit TV show. The audience laughed, but I always felt that he must have been a bit insecure to signal the visitors to the set about his own sexuality.
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 9, 2023 17:09:35 GMT
Well, as said, "To each their own....".
I never did find WILL&GRACE the least bit amusing. A sister in law of mine was crazy about it. I recall a few times my wife and I were at her house for a visit. Then that show would come on and we'd sit there with her to watch it. I never once even cracked a smile. My wife fell asleep. But her sister was rolling on the floor in laughter.
Go figure.
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