Watched this as a kid. Loved it! 3 things that always stuck in my mind: 1 How that guy had EIGHT kids 2 How most of them were hot AF daughters 3 His wife was the actress who played Sledge Hammer’s partner 🤣
I didn't see this gem till Friday on TGIF! Man was I missing some great fun. When TGIF started, it was Full a House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, and Just the Ten of Us. Somewhere down the road, Going Places replaced Just the Ten of Us. It was a mishap of ABC not renewing the show. I thought it would have worked as a 8 season deal. Anything was better then Step by Step!
Actually when it first started it was Perfect Strangers, Full House, Mr. Belvedere, and Just the Ten of Us. Just the Ten of Us had already been gone awhile by the time Step by Step started with a number of other shows coming and going in between. I actually really liked Step by Step myself.
ReuWil Just the Ten of Us first aired in 1988 and that is a good 3 seasons. It aired next to Growing Pains which is where it spun off from. I saw one episode of Step by Step and I couldn't get into it. Even though Stacy Keenan was in it it didn't work for me. However she was good in Going Places. But Step by Step gave her a great career and Sommers + Duffy while it lasted.
Heather's character in NOES died heroically. Brooke's character died in such a grotesque and humiliating way. By 4, Freddy was just crazy. Yes, even more crazy!!!!
It was the 80's, there weren't many minorities around at the time. That doesn't mean minorities are bad, they just weren't in any significant numbers at the time.
Verify Controversy Yeah, I remember USA would air certain classic shows I would watch then all of a sudden Bam they were taken off and not seen ever again to this day. I would be so furious.
Here is something to note. I don't remember seeing any one of these people on any show other than this. I could be wrong, but I don't think they have been Secondly, I am almost certain this show tried to make itself out to be a sit-com version of Eight is Enough. If you check the third season opening credits of Eight is Enough, you can see there is a similar stop a person from diving into them, as seen in this video at 0:40.
Well, California's a big state, and this show doesn't take place in San Diego or the Bay area, where property values are so high. I think it's supposed to take place up by Eureka, which is kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Back in the the seventies and eighties American tv shows had large families.So I think they just went with that trend.If the Waltons could live the the Great Depression why can't this family live thru the Reagan Eighties.
david stanley Right. The cost of living in the 80s was still cheap compared to now and a working-class father or mother could still financially support their family at the time.
Real estate in the big cities in CA like La,Sd,Sf etc is very expensive but once you go 50-100 miles from the coast to rural areas and smaller cities the prices are considerably lower that even a working schlub might get a McMansion and it was probably even lower 20-30 years ago when a lot o these incorporated cities were looking for people to move there.
@carmesundae2 Yes, this was a Growing Pains spinoff and ran for three seasons, 1988 to 1990. The first season was an abbreviated one and consisted of four episodes.
Well the show takes place in Eureka, CA, and back in 2000 even you could find a house by the beach for under $100,000. It wasn't until after the prices started to go up rather high, so even back when this show took place, in theory, it would have been rather cheap for a family of ten to live overall. Nowadays, not so much.
Screwed by the Network: Despite earning decent ratings as part of ABC's TGIF block and frequently winning its time slot, the show was abruptly cancelled in the spring of 1990. *It was widely speculated* that it was due to Miller-Boyett Productions wanting another one of their shows in the timeslot (to join fellow programs Family Matters, Full House and Perfect Strangers) thereby dominating the TGIF block & ABC was simply not able to find another slot for Ten. *However, it was really a case of ABC's then-president Bob Iger simply not liking the show.*
I remember an Episode where Coach Lubbock was grossed out at the sight of eyeballs ran for the bathroom all green and puking just from hearing/seeing "This is CBS" on his TV that episode made me laugh does anyone know what episode that was?
I think because he was a teacher with 8 kids, he received all the tax breaks in the world. Plus, I remember an episode where they lived off of the government. Plus, I think he worked at a Catholic school; so everything they had was donated to them by the church.
As a young boy, I used to think: This is what girl problems are like, huh? I just remember the episode where the "booky" girl with classes tries to become a nun.
Not a bad show, Bill Kirkenbauer was likable but his standup act is 10 times funnier. "The Lubbock Babes" were a favorite of my dad who generally didn't watch this kind of stuff.
Just the Ten of Us started out at #19 in its first abbreviated season, but fell to #51 and 52 in its second and third seasons, respectively. While not a ratings winner overall, it did win the Friday 9:30 timeslot. Miller/Boyett's 'Going Places', which replaced this series, started out with roughly the same ratings as its predecesor, but moved up to #34 in early 1991. ABC then aired 'Baby Talk' in the time slot, and that ranked in the Top 20 during spring 1991..
I don't recall of the same figures you had. JTTOU had ranked in the upper 40s in the Nielsens and ABC was hoping "Going Places" would blow-up as a major stunner in the ratings game. But, "Going Places" never outperformed this series, instead ranking in the neighborhood of #55 for the year and became the lowest rated series in that era of TGIF. If it had been #34, it would have been easily renewed. Both "Baby Talk" seasons and the follow-up "Camp Wilder" outperformed it though neither show lasted. Later, ABC reflected on it's bad decision as Just The Ten Of Us actually had delivered the most consistent ratings out of all the shows they tried to replace it with. If ABC had been smarter, they'd have held onto it as an option for a mid-season replacement rather than just completely axing it. But they put their eggs into one basket figuring a Lockear series couldn't lose. That was just dumb and it was the point where TGIF started to jump the shark.
I don't remember which sources I got the ratings from, but those are the numbers I saw listed for those three series. Going Places *did* nearly get renewed because of its #34 ranking in early 1991, but Baby Talk outperformed it in the bidding war.
+Dan Barker It sure is! He had a slight break after doing "I've Had the Time of My Life" with Jennifer Warnes from Dirty Dancing. She must have recommended him to composer Steve Dorff since she did vocals for Growing Pains.
Why would he have an 80,000 a year mortgage on a house like that? My sister and her husband bought a 4br McMansion in a small town in Riverside county bigger then that like 3 years ago and the property was 200 K. In 1980s housing price that was probably 40 K house. Anyway not only are you the one misinformed your point is moot because the school owned the house so his only expenses were probably food(albeit 10 mouths),car and utilities.
The Dude it’s not unheard of. I remember my old hs coach from Virginia took a job at a high school in Florida. Not quite 3000 miles but still it’s a long ways from Virginia.
Why the fuck is Heather Lagenkamp on this show?!? Seems like she would've done more movies after Freddy & Freddy 3.. Just seems out of place.. This show is super corney which makes it awesome!!
THE actress Brooke THEISS was also in the underatted NIGHTMARE 4 !! wherein she played the ''ROACH'' GIRL still almost made lose my lunch over that one !! no spoilers !! ENJOY BRUV!!
Jamie would go on to the short lived mid 90s drama Savannah before joining the cast of Melrose Place, and took over the All My Children role of Liza Colby
Miss this show and the old USA. Wish they'd go back to the way they were in the 80s and 90s.
I met Heather Langenkamp and didn't cross my mind that she was in this show until years later.
I remember this. What a great show. I wish I could see it again.
Loved this show 80's classic! had such crushes on Heather, Jamie and Brooke.
FUCK !!! I MISS THE 80s !!!!!
G.I. BALLS me too. haha
i use to watch this on abc when it aired regularly back in da 80's. wow the great memories!
i had such a crush on the redhead as a kid!
I miss the 90's!
0:53 was always my favorite part of this version.
Always advertised at the end of press your luck " stay tuned for just the ten of us"
Watched this as a kid. Loved it! 3 things that always stuck in my mind: 1 How that guy had EIGHT kids 2 How most of them were hot AF daughters 3 His wife was the actress who played Sledge Hammer’s partner 🤣
I had no idea that was Sledge Hammers partner Dorough... I guess she intentionally dialed down the hotness...
i believe that it's a spin off a growing pains......never seen a lot of this serie
Sorry guys, I was wrong. Two different actresses. But they were very similar to my 8 year old eyes.
@Lubbock Babes Fan that's why he lost his hair
@Lubbock Babes Fan that's what his wife said 😆
Jamie Luner had about best 80s hair there was.
Langenkamp, Luner & Theiss, 3 hot babes in one show! HELL YEAH!
Harmon and Willette too!
I specifically remember watching this in the early 90's on USA. The good old days...
Premiered as a mid-season replacement in the 1987-88 season.
I loved this show!
I didn't see this gem till Friday on TGIF! Man was I missing some great fun. When TGIF started, it was Full a House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, and Just the Ten of Us. Somewhere down the road, Going Places replaced Just the Ten of Us. It was a mishap of ABC not renewing the show. I thought it would have worked as a 8 season deal. Anything was better then Step by Step!
Actually when it first started it was Perfect Strangers, Full House, Mr. Belvedere, and Just the Ten of Us.
Just the Ten of Us had already been gone awhile by the time Step by Step started with a number of other shows coming and going in between.
I actually really liked Step by Step myself.
ReuWil Just the Ten of Us first aired in 1988 and that is a good 3 seasons. It aired next to Growing Pains which is where it spun off from.
I saw one episode of Step by Step and I couldn't get into it. Even though Stacy Keenan was in it it didn't work for me. However she was good in Going Places. But Step by Step gave her a great career and Sommers + Duffy while it lasted.
Can't say I loved this show but it's a lot of nostalgia seeing this because I constantly watched the USA network back then 😉
From an early 90s USA rerun; one of the best ABC sitcoms *EVER!!!"
This is where I totally fell for the young THICK Jamie Luner!! Shes still hot now but on here...BABOOM!
I remember at age 13 how I wanted to be part of a Brooke and Jamie sandwich.
Yeah i feel you brother the things my 13 year old self would have done...I'd still like to
Me too but without Brooke
I think this show was a spin off of a TV series called growing pains. The guy play the father on this show was Mike Seevers coach on growing pains
You are correct! The first episode was a back door pilot; it was an episode of Growing Pains.
@@jwavada I remember that episode well. Mike Seevers and one of his friends was spying on them.
@@andywatson7994 Yep! Mike and his buddy couldn't believe their balding, portly coach could have two beauties for daughter.
Heather's character in NOES died heroically. Brooke's character died in such a grotesque and humiliating way. By 4, Freddy was just crazy. Yes, even more crazy!!!!
one of my alllllltime favs!!!!
It was the 80's, there weren't many minorities around at the time. That doesn't mean minorities are bad, they just weren't in any significant numbers at the time.
Heather Langenkamp. That is all.
I remember this show. Wow it takes me back.
Basically, Eight is Enough as a sitcom.
They have such a small trailer for having the belongings for 10 people. I hope that's not all they had.
HasNoShamedotcom It didn’t register with me as a child but as an adult I wondered the same thing. Lol.
Jamie Luner♥
They Both Waving.
When will they put this show on Netflix or Hulu or even a DVD release?
Never.
I’m waiting too! Maybe someday! But someday soon!
This was definitely taped of of USA the summer they showed this and Parker Louis Can't Lose for AIR CONDITIONED COMEDIES.
I miss it...
***** Most of them are bad. I like Sirens (?) though.
+GiantBomb82 Monk was good; you take that back. :P
+GiantBomb82 Now _all_ they show is SVU marathons all day (witch _is_ a Saturday Nightmare pun intended)
@Verify Controversy you suck. Big hairy balls.
Verify Controversy Yeah, I remember USA would air certain classic shows I would watch then all of a sudden Bam they were taken off and not seen ever again to this day. I would be so furious.
3 of the girls are from nightmare elm Street. Lmao
OMG MEMORIES
As for Jamie Luner, she then was Peyton Richards on “Savannah” and even hotter on “Melrose Place”.
Grew up watching this show the theme song is great
anyone else find the size of the moving trailer off for a family of 10?
I found this show on USA Network in reruns, and I was FURIOUS when it stopped airing it there. I've yet to find it sense, smh
Here is something to note.
I don't remember seeing any one of these people on any show other than this. I could be wrong, but I don't think they have been
Secondly, I am almost certain this show tried to make itself out to be a sit-com version of Eight is Enough. If you check the third season opening credits of Eight is Enough, you can see there is a similar stop a person from diving into them, as seen in this video at 0:40.
Wow.. I use to watch this in reruns on USA. Heather Langenkamp.. wow!
They need to release this on dvd
Yes, I agree with you :)
Miss Watching This Show Tonight
Great family show
Well, California's a big state, and this show doesn't take place in San Diego or the Bay area, where property values are so high. I think it's supposed to take place up by Eureka, which is kind of in the middle of nowhere.
April 1988-May 1990 in original episodes, not counting summer reruns (the last of which aired after the third season through July 1990).
Back in the the seventies and eighties American tv shows had large families.So I think they just went with that trend.If the Waltons could live the the Great Depression why can't this family live thru the Reagan Eighties.
david stanley Right. The cost of living in the 80s was still cheap compared to now and a working-class father or mother could still financially support their family at the time.
not even in the 80s could a high school coach have 8 kids and live in a house like that
ST. LOUIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Real estate in the big cities in CA like La,Sd,Sf etc is very expensive but once you go 50-100 miles from the coast to rural areas and smaller cities the prices are considerably lower that even a working schlub might get a McMansion and it was probably even lower 20-30 years ago when a lot o these incorporated cities were looking for people to move there.
Holy shit, it's Nancy from ANOES!
horrorjunkie92 don't forget Brooke Theiss was on ANOES 4
Need to add JoAnn Willette in Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy's Revenge
Freddy Krueger's favorite show
I always thought , for a family of ten all u got us an old Suburban and a 6ft u haul , they gotta haul way more shit than that 😂
@carmesundae2 Yes, this was a Growing Pains spinoff and ran for three seasons, 1988 to 1990. The first season was an abbreviated one and consisted of four episodes.
I definitely remember JoAnn Willette as my first crush, guess I was about 12 or 13 at the time 😄
Well the show takes place in Eureka, CA, and back in 2000 even you could find a house by the beach for under $100,000. It wasn't until after the prices started to go up rather high, so even back when this show took place, in theory, it would have been rather cheap for a family of ten to live overall. Nowadays, not so much.
Screwed by the Network: Despite earning decent ratings as part of ABC's TGIF block and frequently winning its time slot, the show was abruptly cancelled in the spring of 1990. *It was widely speculated* that it was due to Miller-Boyett Productions wanting another one of their shows in the timeslot (to join fellow programs Family Matters, Full House and Perfect Strangers) thereby dominating the TGIF block & ABC was simply not able to find another slot for Ten. *However, it was really a case of ABC's then-president Bob Iger simply not liking the show.*
Brooke Thiess was in THE DREAM MASTER as well.
@Gemini700 in the late 80s there were def still working class places to live in manhattan
I remember this moment as a kid in the 80's. This is the moment I realized I was gay.lol
None of the siblings look remotely alike
I remember an Episode where Coach Lubbock was grossed out at the sight of eyeballs ran for the bathroom all green and puking just from hearing/seeing "This is CBS" on his TV that episode made me laugh does anyone know what episode that was?
I think because he was a teacher with 8 kids, he received all the tax breaks in the world. Plus, I remember an episode where they lived off of the government. Plus, I think he worked at a Catholic school; so everything they had was donated to them by the church.
@dragonridercody Hell yea! She was always my favorite...saw a clip of her on youtube somwhere not long ago. Even pushing 50, she still looks good!!
I want to see the intro from the first episode
This show should have lasted longer!
Damn right.
anyone have this on dvd in decent quality?
As a young boy, I used to think: This is what girl problems are like, huh? I just remember the episode where the "booky" girl with classes tries to become a nun.
Not a bad show, Bill Kirkenbauer was likable but his standup act is 10 times funnier. "The Lubbock Babes" were a favorite of my dad who generally didn't watch this kind of stuff.
wow this show made it three seasons? i thought it only aired for six months early-mid 1989. on tgif after perfect strangers...
Seriously like three of the girls are from nightmare on elm Street.
@toddlover Yuppers it's funny....I wonder if they ever discussed being in the Freddy movies while not filming the series.
Looks familiar.
Michelle Diamond
Just the Ten of Us started out at #19 in its first abbreviated season, but fell to #51 and 52 in its second and third seasons, respectively. While not a ratings winner overall, it did win the Friday 9:30 timeslot. Miller/Boyett's 'Going Places', which replaced this series, started out with roughly the same ratings as its predecesor, but moved up to #34 in early 1991. ABC then aired 'Baby Talk' in the time slot, and that ranked in the Top 20 during spring 1991..
I don't recall of the same figures you had. JTTOU had ranked in the upper 40s in the Nielsens and ABC was hoping "Going Places" would blow-up as a major stunner in the ratings game. But, "Going Places" never outperformed this series, instead ranking in the neighborhood of #55 for the year and became the lowest rated series in that era of TGIF. If it had been #34, it would have been easily renewed. Both "Baby Talk" seasons and the follow-up "Camp Wilder" outperformed it though neither show lasted. Later, ABC reflected on it's bad decision as Just The Ten Of Us actually had delivered the most consistent ratings out of all the shows they tried to replace it with.
If ABC had been smarter, they'd have held onto it as an option for a mid-season replacement rather than just completely axing it. But they put their eggs into one basket figuring a Lockear series couldn't lose. That was just dumb and it was the point where TGIF started to jump the shark.
I don't remember which sources I got the ratings from, but those are the numbers I saw listed for those three series. Going Places *did* nearly get renewed because of its #34 ranking in early 1991, but Baby Talk outperformed it in the bidding war.
VaultMasterDBT Man....”Going Places”....I completely forgot about that show. Another intro to look up!
"Just The Ten Of Us"
Counts eight cast members
Wat.
They also had twin babies
Actually, the babies weren't twins. Elizabeth was pregnant with Melissa at the beginning of the series, and Harvey was still a baby.
There was a season 3? I would have sworn it was 1 season show
There were actually two seasons.
Sum1 please upload all of these eps please
That singer is that the Righteous Brothers/Bill Medley?
+Dan Barker It sure is! He had a slight break after doing "I've Had the Time of My Life" with Jennifer Warnes from Dirty Dancing. She must have recommended him to composer Steve Dorff since she did vocals for Growing Pains.
I read somewhere that Medley met Dorff through Warnes.
@squaresyourtrue and remember he was doin it the best he could, LOL
was This a spin off from growing pains
Yes 8 years later
Why would he have an 80,000 a year mortgage on a house like that? My sister and her husband bought a 4br McMansion in a small town in Riverside county bigger then that like 3 years ago and the property was 200 K. In 1980s housing price that was probably 40 K house. Anyway not only are you the one misinformed your point is moot because the school owned the house so his only expenses were probably food(albeit 10 mouths),car and utilities.
Gone too soon
+ralphkjb Yep...proof that shows can be cancelled just the for the heck of it - ratings and quality of the show can be irrelevant.
its like my family i'm the only boy. i have no brothers
and the kids went to catholic school too!!
Was Heather in the Freddy movies???
Up loade. Mor. Episods
This show would have been great especially for Heather Lagankamp so she wouldn’t have been type cast as Nancy on Elm street
Thinking the same thing....when does a HS coach get a job thats worth transferring 3000 miles....kindy silly concept
The Dude it’s not unheard of. I remember my old hs coach from Virginia took a job at a high school in Florida. Not quite 3000 miles but still it’s a long ways from Virginia.
Season 2 intro was better
Wow - a bunch of performers I never heard of! I guess their careers went nowhere as a result of this show.
this was a good show,i used t enjoy watching it
so mad they cancelled this for stupid shows like baby talk
It was going places they cancelled this show for which suck.
Have some more kids why dontcha?
Why the fuck is Heather Lagenkamp on this show?!? Seems like she would've done more movies after Freddy & Freddy 3.. Just seems out of place.. This show is super corney which makes it awesome!!
THE actress Brooke THEISS was also in the underatted NIGHTMARE 4 !! wherein she played the ''ROACH'' GIRL still almost made lose my lunch over that one !! no spoilers !! ENJOY BRUV!!
One of the other daughters was in Nightmare 2.
111highgh All of them except for Jamie, was in one a the nightmare on elm street films.
Jamie would go on to the short lived mid 90s drama Savannah before joining the cast of Melrose Place, and took over the All My Children role of Liza Colby
This show sucked! No warm nostalgia attached to it at all!
terrible show. not funny. 'too religious'. and the girls were cows
that just made me harder now thinking about it LOL!!