Comments on: What Was Your Favourite TGIF Lineup?

By: jps

jps — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:29:07 +0000

I think the best of the ABC TGIF lineups were the following seasons:

1965-66: The Flintstones, Tammy, The Addams Family, Honey West, Peyton Place, and The Jimmy Dean Show

1970-71: The Brady Bunch, Nanny and the Professor, The Partridge Family, That Girl, Love, American Style, and This is Tom Jones.

The worst TGIF lineup was the 1966-67 season: The Green Hornet, The Time Tunnel, The Milton Berle Show, and Twelve O'Clock High. All four shows died either at midseason or season's end. Twelve O'Clock High was replaced in January of 1967 by The Avengers, the British import which introduced Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg to North America.

By: Claudia Lemire

Claudia Lemire — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:59:56 +0000

Yes they are the only ones right now, but it's a start : )

I don't know why it took them so long to get TV series on DVD (I guess VHS wasn't good!) but I love it especially the oldies that I really liked!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:10:10 +0000

I thought seasons 1&2 were the only ones out.

By: Claudia Lemire

Claudia Lemire — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:39:56 +0000

And so funny, now you can buy them on DVD by the seasons.

By: Claudia Lemire

Claudia Lemire — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:33:15 +0000

To this day, I still love Dallas, I watch it every so often, need a little JR Ewing fix, he was the best bad guy!

I loved the theme of Hulk

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By: @igsjr

@igsjr — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:03:52 +0000

Actually, the best ABC TGIF lineup was the 1971-72 season: The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple and Love, American Style.

By: Nick L

Nick L — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:03:17 +0000

Meego really was the perfect storm: a Miller-Boyett production with one of their most ubiquitous stars that was also a desperate attempt to imitate the Sabrina-like fantasy-sitcoms that had ousted them from their ABC perch. Featuring that little kid with the glasses from Jerry Maguire.

Mid-1990s, thy name is Meego.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:18:54 +0000

I'd say the 89-90 and 90-91 lineups were probably the best, with Full House, Family Matters and Perfect Strangers. (I vaguely remember Just the Ten of Us, and not at all Going Places and Baby Talk — well other then their names and, with Baby Talk, the general concept — so I suspect I turned off the TV after Perfect Strangers.) And you know, while Full House and Family Matters are heavily repeated, Perfect Strangers has barely been seen in at least a decade, outside of a very brief run on ION a few years back. It's kind of surprising, and also disappointing, as I remember Perfect Strangers easily being my favorite of those three shows.

By: DerekPearce

DerekPearce — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:29:53 +0000

Oops and I just realized, it goes Hulk first, and then Dukes etc etc… Weinman, I apologize for TV inaccuracy!

By: inessentials

inessentials — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:53:25 +0000

In my memory, the definitive TGIF is probably 1991-1992: Family Matters, Step by Step, Perfect Strangers, Baby Talk

I remember preferring Step by Step to Full House, but my absolute favorite was Perfect Strangers, which was about the pinnacle of contemporary television comedy for me at the time. (I was even more engrossed in Nick at Nite – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_bro… – particularly The Dick van Dyke Show, which remains my favorite sit-com.)

I still remember the introduction of Dinosaurs the following year, which I didn't like. I know that the next year I watched Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, but I don't think I responded well to Boy Meets World. (I usually hated shows about people my own age.) There must have been something else on that I switched to, but I don't remember what.

By: Claudia Lemire

Claudia Lemire — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:48:34 +0000

My favorite had to be 89 – 90, (pregnant with my first child, I watched a lot of tv, sad but true!) Larry and Balki were the biggest and most adorable idiots and Steve Urkel, became quite the sensation, did I do that? What happened to him?

By: DerekPearce

DerekPearce — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:56:11 +0000

In the 90s I was in Uni, and Friday night meant par-tay, not TV! My fave Friday night lineup as a kid though, was CBS– for years it was always Dukes of Hazzard/Incredible Hulk/Dallas/Falcon Crest.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:48:16 +0000

I was just checking out the Miller-Boyett Productions Wikipedia page, and came across Meego (?):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meego_(sitcom)

Kind of made me wonder what other shows were probably pitched as 'can't miss' to the tv executives and were canceled after one season. "Guys, look, it's a Miller-Boyett show, starring Bronson Pinchot and a bunch of cute kids! How can it NOT work?"

My favourite part is that the alien passes himself off as Canadian.

By: Anthony Strand

Anthony Strand — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:31:37 +0000

You're certainly right that 1996-1997 was the best lineup, quality-wise. But the TGIF lineup I remember best is Family Matters-Boy Meets World-Step by Step-Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. When I think of "TGIF" as a concept, that's always the lineup in my head.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:25:25 +0000

If you'll allow me a Simpsons quote:

Lisa: All right! It's time for ABC's "TGIF" line-up!
Bart Simpson: Lise, when you get a little older, you'll learn that Friday is just another day between NBC's "Must See Thursday" and CBS' "Saturday night craporama".