Hi! Thanks for posting these shows, never heard of any of them! I was into both Lori Loughlin and Scott Bakula back then, and I'm surprised I didn't know of their shows, wow! Gave your video a Thumbs Up, but not Subscribed yet. I will check out more of your videos and maybe Subscribe! - Todd C (Creek Sider1)
I remember Kindred. I wasn't much of a fan of the show. I had a girlfriend that loved it, but couldn't watch it because of work schedule. So i used to tape it for her. 😁
Now, I don't think that's entirely fair; over 100 episodes of 'Quantum Leap' and 'Enterprise' are more than sufficient proof of Scott Bakula's wide range as an actor. 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' was most likely a simple case of miscasting. Not EVERY actor is going to be right for EVERY part. ; )
I thought he was pretty good in that show. It's one of the ones I wished would have had more seasons. He seemed miscast in Enterprise, I didn't see him as a good Captain. But I think he could have been part of that crew in a different role. Most likely the ship's doctor or something like that. I only watched the first season and I'm told the show got much better in Seasons 3 & 4, so maybe he got better at the role.
@@rodh1404 Yeah, That's pretty much accurate. But I would watch all 3 seasons before making my final assessment, IIWY. (If you ask me though, he should more than enough range on 'Quantum Leap' alone.) Plus, you should check him out in 'Lord of Illusions' ; ) =)
Most of these shows flew right under my radar. I was 26 in 1996, and I was clubbing at least 3 or 4 nights a week. But I did catch The Kindred. I love Vampire movies and Mobster movies, and this combined the two genres.
I've always liked Bonnie Hunt. It always makes me happy when I hear her voice in a Pixar movie. Your analysis of Scott Bakulas' acting is brutal but accurate 😂.
I remember watching American Gothic. I was young, but my mom loved it and let me watch. We were both mad we never got more of it. And when we reference anything horror, "someone's at the door" always comes up.
You missed that Kindred: The Embraced was doomed as Mr Frankel died in a motorcycle accident in September of 1996, so before the season had fully aired even. There was no way they'd get a season 2 without him.
It was on the bubble as a likely renewal, but Frankel's death(in a motorcycle accident. Not trying to be pedantic, but the departed deserve accuracy) made the decision for them. They had planned to introduce the Malkavians and the Tremere in season 2 as well.
It can't be that given the actor died months later after it was cancelled. Maybe there were some last ditch efforts to save the show inbetween the months. But it was cancelled for ratings.
I remember watching the show just cause I really liked supernatural/vampire stuff but it wasn't that good. It felt mostly like a show about mobsters. They didn't write the characters in a way that made you care about them at all.
“Someone’s at the door.” Was the major promotional tag line for the show. I was a kid when American Gothic came out and remember loving the show and was sad when it didn’t comeback for a second season.
Me too. I remember writing to CBS asking them to bring it back, and attached a "petition" that had a few legitimate signatures and the rest made up names I signed. A few months later, CBS brought it back to burn off the last 6 episodes that summer. I thought my letter caused that to happen. HAHA.
27:58 now, THIS??? I, DEFINITELY, remember!! I used to be VERY frightened, viewing this show!! This is, ALSO, where I was, FIRST, introduced to, BOTH, Gary Cole and Sarah Paulson 😚😚😚
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 when ANYTHING gets popular, everyone wants to copy that success; usually by the laziest/cheapest means possible without understanding WHY the thing was popular in the first place
They really want a Friends because the 18 to 29 demo is what advertisers want the most. Murder She Wrote received ratings on par with Friends, but old people watched that show and advertisers care less about reaching them.
I remember how Friends was almost cancelled in the first season, the rating weren't good, networks need the shows to find an audience, its crazy how they pull the plug on shows so fast.
2 other big NBC shows almost got canceled because their ratings were mediocre to terrible- Cheers and Seinfeld. I think Cheers was next to last lowest rated show it's first season.
I used to watch American Gothic for a couple weeks. Then I completely forgot it existed. Nothing ever stood out about it yet I somehow remember it 30 years later.
Great show! I often forgot the name, though, for some reason. Most people I knew had the same problem, but everyone knew what I meant when I warned that they should get ready because Sunday Edition or occasionally The Saturday Paper, Gary's Paper or The Psychic Paper Show was almost on. 🤭 It's such an easy name that I recognize as soon as I see it, I don't get why it wouldn't stick. Back then, early edition was a popular newspaper term - so it wasn't an unusual term to hear either. So weird of me/us to have that mental block. 🤔🤭
I LOVE Early Edition. I have the first two seasons on DVD. I think the full series is now available and I want to get it when I can. My family watched it every week when it aired. It was such an interesting series and I liked seeing him trying to save people he read about in the paper.
I roughly remember American Gothic, don’t really remember any of these other shows. In my defense, PlayStation was really popular in 1996 and I don’t remember many TV shows! Great video!
When I was a very young man in the 90s me and a friend of mine used to go to test screenings of new shows all the time. I don't think any of the ones I've seen ever aired. They either gave us money or free dinner, I can't remember but there has to be 1000s of shows that most people have never seen or heard of.
Sounds cool. I had lost my job last year. My unemployment has been run out. I totally wish I could find out if they do this in Chicago? I will definitely Google it when I am done with this show. Thanks.
I would have loved Kindred back then, since I'm a fan of Vampire: The Masquerade. Mr. And Mrs. Smith too, except I happen to always enjoy Scott Bakula in whatever I see him in.
THANK YOU for this!!! I’m looking for ALLLLL these shows, hoping to catch some good ole rewarmed, cheesy, 90s nostalgia 😇😚🕰️⌛️⏳ ETA: omg….and the CHEEZE-O-RAMAIC theme songs are giving me LIFE 6:59 🤣🤣🤣
Harland Williams did a couple of weird puppet videos. It makes me wonder if they are still out there. I actually think he's pretty funny. I'm a big Space Ghost: Coast to Coast fan, and I love the episode where he is a guest.
@@josephshriner2850 I know, when I downloaded it they still had it in the messed up order. But that wouldn't have killed the show because they would have shown it more than once and could have fixed that. I think they just couldn't be bothered. You can tell by the ending they did give that it was being cancelled.
@@hotcrazycatladyme168 what I'm getting at is similar to what people claimed about Firefly. The episodes were placed in the wrong order, which made the story almost impossible to follow in a weekly format. I own the DVD of American Gothic. The episodes are in date aired order. A cancellation after a butchers approach to airing episodes is as good as killing the series.
Between Office Space and American Gothic, Gary Cole can really get into a character that you don't like. Such a great actor. And seeing how Sarah Paulson made it to the American Horror shows was amazing. She really knows how horror works. Lucas Black incidentally went on to NCIS New Orleans with another mentioned actor, Scott Bakula. Great video, The Review.
So according to what you say about Simon, with no time for any sort of break and constant barraging of humor with no break, it feels like it would be a hit with the TikTok crowd.
Yeah that caught me off guard. He was so neutral and fair to most of the other actors and series mentioned in this video but Scott Bakula caught ALLLLLL the strays hahaha. This guy clearly hates him.
I loved Kindred so very, very much. I know it was basically Melrose Place with Vampires, but there really was a lot to love about the characters and the world, and I think they were on the right track of getting the cast whittled down to where it needed to be. Mark Frankl's death was just the nail in the coffin, and I've always wondered what a premium cable network could have made of it. It's sad that one of the best episodes of the entire first season went entirely unaired and can only be found on the DVDs. I re-watch the whole show every couple of years and the nostalgia comes flooding back.
The early to mid 90s also had these late night shows (I think on CBS) that were hidden gems. There were like three or four but the two most famous were "Sweating Bullets" and "Forever Knight." A video on those would br great!
So many good shows were canceled too early - Jason Batemen was in a few of them! They should bring back/reboot shows like Special Unit 2, Now and Again, New Amsterdam (2008), Time Trax, Sliders, Otherworld, Tomorrow People (1992), Forever Knight, Eerie Indiana, Brisco County Jr, Monsters, Brimstone, Out of This World, Friday The 13th: The Series, Mysterious Ways, Beyond Reality, Psi Factor, The Others, My Favorite Martian, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Boys Will Be Boys, Night Visions, Perversions of Science - These were just off of the top of my head, I could go on forever!🤭
You know that post-modern Hollywood has zero respect, nah, complete disdain for every old IP and would turn 9/10 into severely dumbed down, unrecognisable garbage for a mythical "modern audience" in which the heroes of the original would be subverted?
I loved Kindred the Embraced. I own the series on DVD. I played the TTRPG back in the day. The weird thing was that this had very little to do with the TTRPG. Not enough to appeal to the fans completely and too weird to appeal to mainstream audiences.
I remain angry to this day that American Gothic was cancelled. Another cancelled show from 1996 that could/should have been great was EZ Streets with Joe Pantoliano.
For the first few weeks of Partners, the show was called “Too Something”. That name was so terrible that Fox had a renaming contest and that’s where the name “Partners” came from.
If youre wondering why Jennifer Aniston appeared on a episode of Partners... on a competing network.. Partners was on FOX and Friends was no NBC... She was dating Tate Donovan at the time
Wow actually learned something new watching this. Didn't realize Kindred was based off of Vampire the Masquerade nor did I know that the game was originally a tabletop board game. I remember playing it on PC when it first came out. Also loved the series. I was a teenager at this time.
I watched American gothic first few episodes but lost interest. Wow that show was 96? I thought it was like 2004 or so. I was in college then in 96 so busy with that, sports and other stuff too.
Thankfully, I never watched any of these. But thanks for reminding me about Tank Girl. I’m down to rewatch that. I think I remember liking it when it came out. UPDATE: I rewatched Tank Girl and it was horrible.
Kindred: The Embraced was a novelty show for that time, you know which network tended to take risks and do new concepts for shows back then, the director who was looking for ideas, he went to an RPG book store and someone told him that Vampire: The Masquerade was well loved, the book had it's own decorated shelf at that store, then KTE happened. The network that if you read about them, they used to be very impatient, they took risks but they were also afraid to fail hard, so KTE suffered by getting their time slot moved a lot, some episodes never getting broadcast and then the network rapidly deciding to cancel it, from 8 episodes only 6 were broadcast, it wasn't the show that failed for itself, but also people didn't see supernatural dramas back then, Buffy happened later. ShowTime had planned to pick it up for a season 2 and they were in works to get the rights, until the protagonist, Mark Frankel passed away in a motorcycle accident. They didn't think the series could work without his character Julian Luna, so they decided to not make it. If you know the lore of VTM, it could certainly have worked, but in those times in the 90s, maybe not, because of how viewers were back then. While the series wasn't verbatim to the lore, it also managed to interpret well different parts of it, that even the average fan of VTM don't get it. Lore is complex and rich.
Just yesteday I was watching a Monday Night Football broadcast from the mid 90s between the Lions and 49ers. The intro that night was a skit between Lori Loughlin and Tony Danza. I could not figure out why the network paired them for the opening, but I now realize it was clearly to tie in and promote Hudson St.
With Kindred, it doesn't help that Fox kept shifting when it was aired, so it was hard to keep track of. American Gothic was great. Wish it had more time.
Yeah, Fox had that bad habit when they made a show but wanted an excuse to can it afterward of moving it around or when they right the right to air NFL football, on Game Day so it was always pre-empted or only had like 10 minutes left. They did the same with Firefly and I'm pretty sure Brimstone too
Thanks to Scifi Channel for showing Kindred back in the day. Would love to see a reboot of Kindred: The Embraced. Though I don't think another actor would be as good as Mark Frankel as Julian. I at least liked the storyline between Sasha and Cash.
I remember Hudson Street was picked as the number one best new show by TV Guide that year. They made a pros and cons list for it, and in the con section they wrote, “None at all based on the pilot. A sure fire hit.”
@@TheReviewStudios yeah, the funny part is, like you said in the video it didn’t keep my attention. Because I was a viewer of Roseanne and home improvement, but I don’t remember this show being in the middle. I must’ve changed the channel 😄
It was doing well until the show 3rd Rock From the Sun premiered on NBC. Viewers drifted toward that and it stole Hudson Street’s audience. To add insult to injury, Ted Harbert, then president of ABC Entertainment, could have picked up 3rd Rock but he turned it down, yet he picked up Aliens in the Family, Maybe This Time, and Hudson Street-three shows that didn’t live to see a second season.
As someone who turned 9 in 1996 I don't really remember any of these. I remember hearing about American Gothic when I was younger but I don't remember the show.
It's kind of funny that Kindred the Embraced didn't have many viewers. Because I remember how hard Fox was pushing the show... So many commercials, it's really too bad because the show really started to find it's feet after a few episodes and I could totally see it digging deeper into the Vampire and World of Darkness lore if it had stuck around.
I was just a kid in the 90s so I never saw any of these shows. But now I’m intrigued to look these up (if anything, to see youtube clips and look up cast members)
Number 6 - I remember that one, fondly. Had an absolutely excellent Pilot episode. Excellent premise. And an overall, great cast.... What the show lacked was talented writers. Unfortunately, after that strong first episode, the writing pretty much dropped off a cliff! Calling it terrible would have been a compliment. These were supposed to be very mature, centuries-old characters who behaved much of the time like immature children in very expensive suits or dresses. It made no sense. At one point, a vampire clan leader is destroyed. The vampire who destroyed him then instantly becomes the leader of the clan he belongs to. A separate one from the one whose leader he destroyed. Main protagonist is then told he'll have to tolerate this since the destroyed leader of his clan did something horribly underhanded long ago. An example of the cheap writing that became common. Sadly, only one example of many.
Do you remember these?
Hi! Thanks for posting these shows, never heard of any of them! I was into both Lori Loughlin and Scott Bakula back then, and I'm surprised I didn't know of their shows, wow! Gave your video a Thumbs Up, but not Subscribed yet. I will check out more of your videos and maybe Subscribe! - Todd C (Creek Sider1)
Kindred was a great show.
I hate the ending.
Otherwise wanna different take on the vampire lore.
I remember Kindred. I wasn't much of a fan of the show. I had a girlfriend that loved it, but couldn't watch it because of work schedule. So i used to tape it for her. 😁
@@TheReviewStudios I only remember American Gothic
@@profdmiranda lots of girlfriend points then.
I wish we had a network of just cancelled shows. Get these out of the vault and throw them on your streaming service
Yes!
I could swear there was a really short-lived TV channel that only showed cancelled shows.
@@PecanSandees23 I cant remember the name of the channel but I remember a series called"Brilliant But Canceled"
Throw in the commercials, too. Let's time capsule this thing.
Tubi
Them cancelling American Gothic was infuriating. It's almost 30 years later and I am still mad about that, lol.
Loved it
Me too! I wanna know where the heck the key that kid found went to.
I know!! I loved that show…
liked this one too! only know this one and Kindred
Someone’s at the door, Someone’s at the door, Someone’s at the door!
Every character Tony Danza ever played was named Tony so he would know the other actors/actresses were addressing him.
"Bobby... Bobby...???"
"Ohh yeah, I'm bobby... What's up?"
Cut!
In the next video .. The Tony Danza Show! 🤣
@@TheReviewStudios I bet his character's name was also Tony.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I try to avoid anything with Tony Danza, to be honest, although it's fun to make fun of him.
I've got a sense of humor.
I laugh at Tony Danza.
I laugh at Tony Danza
I laugh at Tony Danza
I laugh at Tony Danza
The opening sequences with the clip art, many colors, and style of music are so 90s. Definitely a moment in time and you recognize it right away.
Now, I don't think that's entirely fair; over 100 episodes of 'Quantum Leap' and 'Enterprise' are more than sufficient proof of Scott Bakula's wide range as an actor. 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' was most likely a simple case of miscasting. Not EVERY actor is going to be right for EVERY part. ; )
I thought he was pretty good in that show. It's one of the ones I wished would have had more seasons. He seemed miscast in Enterprise, I didn't see him as a good Captain. But I think he could have been part of that crew in a different role. Most likely the ship's doctor or something like that. I only watched the first season and I'm told the show got much better in Seasons 3 & 4, so maybe he got better at the role.
Agreed!! Nothing wrong with Scott Bakula. He's a damn good actor. Loved him in Quantum Leap!!
@@rodh1404 Yeah, That's pretty much accurate. But I would watch all 3 seasons before making my final assessment, IIWY. (If you ask me though, he should more than enough range on 'Quantum Leap' alone.) Plus, you should check him out in 'Lord of Illusions' ; ) =)
@@meggo329 Ditto! I recently bought the full-series DVD set! =)
Yup. He was also pretty great on "Men of a Certain Age".
Most of these shows flew right under my radar. I was 26 in 1996, and I was clubbing at least 3 or 4 nights a week. But I did catch The Kindred. I love Vampire movies and Mobster movies, and this combined the two genres.
I've always liked Bonnie Hunt. It always makes me happy when I hear her voice in a Pixar movie.
Your analysis of Scott Bakulas' acting is brutal but accurate 😂.
I remember watching American Gothic. I was young, but my mom loved it and let me watch. We were both mad we never got more of it. And when we reference anything horror, "someone's at the door" always comes up.
You missed that Kindred: The Embraced was doomed as Mr Frankel died in a motorcycle accident in September of 1996, so before the season had fully aired even. There was no way they'd get a season 2 without him.
I had this on a hard drive for like a decade.
_Kindred_ was cancelled because Mark Frankel (Julian) died in a car accident and they didn't think that CTH et al could carry the show without him.
It was on the bubble as a likely renewal, but Frankel's death(in a motorcycle accident. Not trying to be pedantic, but the departed deserve accuracy) made the decision for them. They had planned to introduce the Malkavians and the Tremere in season 2 as well.
Wasn't Kindred: The Embraced cancelled in May of 1996? I thought Frankel passed away that September.
It can't be that given the actor died months later after it was cancelled. Maybe there were some last ditch efforts to save the show inbetween the months. But it was cancelled for ratings.
@@DesignIncase The show was about to land at showtime for the next season.
I remember watching the show just cause I really liked supernatural/vampire stuff but it wasn't that good. It felt mostly like a show about mobsters. They didn't write the characters in a way that made you care about them at all.
“Someone’s at the door.” Was the major promotional tag line for the show. I was a kid when American Gothic came out and remember loving the show and was sad when it didn’t comeback for a second season.
Me too. I remember writing to CBS asking them to bring it back, and attached a "petition" that had a few legitimate signatures and the rest made up names I signed. A few months later, CBS brought it back to burn off the last 6 episodes that summer. I thought my letter caused that to happen. HAHA.
Sends like a lot of people in these comments really liked that show
Your appreciation of Scott Bakula's acting skills really shines through in this video. It's obvious you're a big fan.
Entertainment purposes only. Long running joke on the channel. He's harmless and super likable.
27:58 now, THIS??? I, DEFINITELY, remember!! I used to be VERY frightened, viewing this show!! This is, ALSO, where I was, FIRST, introduced to, BOTH, Gary Cole and Sarah Paulson 😚😚😚
The "Friends" wannabe shows were an epidemic in the mid 90's.
They definitely were
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 when ANYTHING gets popular, everyone wants to copy that success; usually by the laziest/cheapest means possible without understanding WHY the thing was popular in the first place
@@BR-jw7pmMASH, Cheers, Seinfeld all stood up without much imitation. Friends was just cataclysmic.
Married with Children made fun of it. Al's watching TV, and every show is Chums, Buddies, Amigos.
They really want a Friends because the 18 to 29 demo is what advertisers want the most. Murder She Wrote received ratings on par with Friends, but old people watched that show and advertisers care less about reaching them.
I remember how Friends was almost cancelled in the first season, the rating weren't good, networks need the shows to find an audience, its crazy how they pull the plug on shows so fast.
2 other big NBC shows almost got canceled because their ratings were mediocre to terrible- Cheers and Seinfeld. I think Cheers was next to last lowest rated show it's first season.
But Seinfeld early seasons were awful. The show deserved to be cancelled.
Glad it wasn’t cause it became amazing by season 4/5
I never seen any of these shows it dont look like I was missing anything
Fox wanted to order a second Season of Kindred: The Embraced, but Mark Frankel died in 1996
Damn man, what did Scott Bakula do to you? Lol
@@jessewilley531 Wait, the what now??
@@jessewilley531 I saw the movie and the first season. But now that you tell me, I clearly need to start over and get through it all. For science.
@@jessewilley531I watch Dark Shadows.
I'm wondering if the movie was based on this show 🤔
I used to watch American Gothic for a couple weeks. Then I completely forgot it existed. Nothing ever stood out about it yet I somehow remember it 30 years later.
Tony Danza has the acting range of TJ Miller. If you didn't hire him to play himself, why did you hire him?
OHMYGOD I was OBSESSED with American Gothic!
I miss Early Edition... Not sure you can call it failed... but don't hear people talking bout it alot or even remembering it
Great show! I often forgot the name, though, for some reason. Most people I knew had the same problem, but everyone knew what I meant when I warned that they should get ready because Sunday Edition or occasionally The Saturday Paper, Gary's Paper or The Psychic Paper Show was almost on. 🤭
It's such an easy name that I recognize as soon as I see it, I don't get why it wouldn't stick.
Back then, early edition was a popular newspaper term - so it wasn't an unusual term to hear either.
So weird of me/us to have that mental block. 🤔🤭
I loved that show!
I remember that show too, because it was on at the same day as Walker Texas Ranger was really popular.
My mom loved Early Edition
I LOVE Early Edition. I have the first two seasons on DVD. I think the full series is now available and I want to get it when I can. My family watched it every week when it aired. It was such an interesting series and I liked seeing him trying to save people he read about in the paper.
I roughly remember American Gothic, don’t really remember any of these other shows. In my defense, PlayStation was really popular in 1996 and I don’t remember many TV shows! Great video!
I couldn't imagine why Kindred The Embrace didn't do well. It sounds a lot like the show Angel. That was a great show
When I was a very young man in the 90s me and a friend of mine used to go to test screenings of new shows all the time. I don't think any of the ones I've seen ever aired. They either gave us money or free dinner, I can't remember but there has to be 1000s of shows that most people have never seen or heard of.
How did you get that gig? Sounds fun
@@MaxOakland I can't remember, I think my friend seen an ad for it in the newspaper and everytime we went they'd invite us back.
@@GTSN38 Damn, that's pretty cool. When was that?
Sounds cool. I had lost my job last year. My unemployment has been run out. I totally wish I could find out if they do this in Chicago? I will definitely Google it when I am done with this show. Thanks.
I would have loved Kindred back then, since I'm a fan of Vampire: The Masquerade. Mr. And Mrs. Smith too, except I happen to always enjoy Scott Bakula in whatever I see him in.
Daaaamn shots fired at Scott Bacula
Nah they're just jealous cuz he still looks good even after all this time😂
These videos are comfort food
THANK YOU for this!!! I’m looking for ALLLLL these shows, hoping to catch some good ole rewarmed, cheesy, 90s nostalgia 😇😚🕰️⌛️⏳
ETA: omg….and the CHEEZE-O-RAMAIC theme songs are giving me LIFE 6:59 🤣🤣🤣
Ned and Stacy was awesome
Harland Williams did a couple of weird puppet videos. It makes me wonder if they are still out there. I actually think he's pretty funny. I'm a big Space Ghost: Coast to Coast fan, and I love the episode where he is a guest.
Scott Bacula watching this like, "bro, wtf"
He is one of the first guys I had a crush on as a little girl😂❤✨🖤🫶
American Gothic should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍
you're definitely not alone on that one
Amazing show. Gary Cole was legitimately unnerving
It got aired in a butchered order that scattered the story. It wasn't cancelled, it was killed.
@@josephshriner2850 I know, when I downloaded it they still had it in the messed up order.
But that wouldn't have killed the show because they would have shown it more than once and could have fixed that. I think they just couldn't be bothered. You can tell by the ending they did give that it was being cancelled.
@@hotcrazycatladyme168 what I'm getting at is similar to what people claimed about Firefly. The episodes were placed in the wrong order, which made the story almost impossible to follow in a weekly format. I own the DVD of American Gothic. The episodes are in date aired order. A cancellation after a butchers approach to airing episodes is as good as killing the series.
I spent the whole weekend binging all of your videos like this.Great work
That's Awesome Thank you so much.
TBH Taxi wasn't really about driving a Taxi either.
Very true
Yeah, but what kind of show would it be if it was? Watching a guy drive around is much fun.
Ned and Stacey is one of the funniest sitcoms of all time, really deserved to last longer than 2 seasons
Scott Bakula is a National Treasure and should be regarded as such!
His acting is 💩
@@squirellmaster1😮
@@shanware2 🤷♂️if the sh💩t fits.
National treasure is a real stretch😂
Between Office Space and American Gothic, Gary Cole can really get into a character that you don't like. Such a great actor. And seeing how Sarah Paulson made it to the American Horror shows was amazing. She really knows how horror works. Lucas Black incidentally went on to NCIS New Orleans with another mentioned actor, Scott Bakula. Great video, The Review.
So according to what you say about Simon, with no time for any sort of break and constant barraging of humor with no break, it feels like it would be a hit with the TikTok crowd.
Sounds like Tony Danza was also singing the theme song on Hudson Street.
Gary Cole WAS the most interesting character on American Gothic.
It was scary when he would keep asking for the TPS reports😮
I rember he had another show on NBC where he was some sort of radio talk dj
@@henrywallacesghost5883LOL!!!
I want more TV shows based on role-playing games! Imagine a Pathfinder show, a Rifts TV show, or a Mork Borg show…
I remember Nowhere Man and Kindred and maybe one of the Bonnie's mentioned.
_My man went hard on Scott Bakula, like he owed him money..._
I like how Sam Raimi is said to be best remembered for the first 3 The Evil Dead movies, rather than his more widely known trilogy of Spider-Man.
Excellent point
Because everyone knows Evil Dead got them those jobs…
Probably because The Evil Dead is a cult horror masterpiece and Spiderman is just another Superhero movie, that may have something to do with it.
@@JackLeftTown427 Or the Hercules/Xena phenomenon.
I still want to watch American Gothic and Kindred: The Embraced, never seen them, but they are on my watch list.
Man I LOVED American Gothic so much! I still think of it every time I see Lucas Black. We need a high-def remaster of it or something.
That level of hatred for Scott Bakula is unparalleled.
ikr? he wasnt THAT bad...
I don't know many people that dislike Scott Bakula.
Did Scott Bakula personally beat this dude's ass or something? Wow.
Yeah that caught me off guard. He was so neutral and fair to most of the other actors and series mentioned in this video but Scott Bakula caught ALLLLLL the strays hahaha. This guy clearly hates him.
Quantum Leap wouldn't have worked at all without Bakula.
I really enjoyed the crew. The theme was performed by Lisa & Wendy
Another fun fact about "Major Payne" is that it was directed by Nick Castle, best known as the original Michael Myers in the "Halloween" franchise.
that is a fun fact thanks
I only watched Kindred, but I loved that series and was so sad, that we never got more.
I loved Kindred so very, very much. I know it was basically Melrose Place with Vampires, but there really was a lot to love about the characters and the world, and I think they were on the right track of getting the cast whittled down to where it needed to be. Mark Frankl's death was just the nail in the coffin, and I've always wondered what a premium cable network could have made of it. It's sad that one of the best episodes of the entire first season went entirely unaired and can only be found on the DVDs. I re-watch the whole show every couple of years and the nostalgia comes flooding back.
It’s obvious The Review is a huge Scott Bakula fan 😂
I still regularly quote Lush Life!!! Hate that it was canceled. Hate that I never saw every episode made.
Simon. Oh, those early WB Network shows. Man, I remember the first night they were on. Just terrible. :)
Amazing production values on your work. Mesmerizing.
American Gothic is one of the few shows on this list that aired here in the UK. I remember really enjoying it
The early to mid 90s also had these late night shows (I think on CBS) that were hidden gems. There were like three or four but the two most famous were "Sweating Bullets" and "Forever Knight." A video on those would br great!
Little fun fact for you: Mark Frankel from Kindred son is currently staring in HBO's House of the Dragon
I always felt alone in my love for rare/cancelled shows, commercials, etc lol
We are not alone!
Definitely not alone at all!
1996: "hey hun! the guy that drank piss in Dumb and Dumber has a show!"
Kindred:The Embraced was a show I loved and it was cancelled because the lead actor died.
I remember the majority of these shows and watched the before they got cancelled.
So many good shows were canceled too early - Jason Batemen was in a few of them!
They should bring back/reboot shows like Special Unit 2, Now and Again, New Amsterdam (2008), Time Trax, Sliders, Otherworld, Tomorrow People (1992), Forever Knight, Eerie Indiana, Brisco County Jr, Monsters, Brimstone, Out of This World, Friday The 13th: The Series, Mysterious Ways, Beyond Reality, Psi Factor, The Others, My Favorite Martian, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Boys Will Be Boys, Night Visions, Perversions of Science - These were just off of the top of my head, I could go on forever!🤭
So many of those you could only find on like 3AM.
You know that post-modern Hollywood has zero respect, nah, complete disdain for every old IP and would turn 9/10 into severely dumbed down, unrecognisable garbage for a mythical "modern audience" in which the heroes of the original would be subverted?
Even those cancelled 90s shows would have more life to it than current tv show’s do
Hudson street was at the corner of "Lame and contrived".
Mr & Mrs Smith was fantastic. American Gothic I will never forget.
Usually when I see these videos on rare occasion I discover a show I never heard of but everything on this list never even pinged my radar.
Aussie here. American Gothic, Kindred and Ned and Stacey were popular here. Never heard of the others.
I loved Kindred the Embraced. I own the series on DVD. I played the TTRPG back in the day.
The weird thing was that this had very little to do with the TTRPG. Not enough to appeal to the fans completely and too weird to appeal to mainstream audiences.
I remain angry to this day that American Gothic was cancelled.
Another cancelled show from 1996 that could/should have been great was EZ Streets with Joe Pantoliano.
For the first few weeks of Partners, the show was called “Too Something”. That name was so terrible that Fox had a renaming contest and that’s where the name “Partners” came from.
Turned out better results than similar contests that brought us such classics as "The Yeet Cannon" and "Boaty McBoatface".
I remember watching Partners! I loved that show! I've had scenes from it stuck in my head for decades.
Jason Bateman never seems to age.
"Someone's at the door" in that bloody lettering still sits in my mind all these years later...lol. I was pissed when American Gothic got cancelled.
I remember Kindred The Embraced and it should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍
That show was ahead of it’s time. 😭😩
If youre wondering why Jennifer Aniston appeared on a episode of Partners... on a competing network.. Partners was on FOX and Friends was no NBC... She was dating Tate Donovan at the time
6:24 His hand on the pool table. I guess no one corrects the boss.
Wow actually learned something new watching this. Didn't realize Kindred was based off of Vampire the Masquerade nor did I know that the game was originally a tabletop board game. I remember playing it on PC when it first came out. Also loved the series. I was a teenager at this time.
Live action version or larping was also big, around here anyway for Vampire.
I watched American gothic first few episodes but lost interest. Wow that show was 96? I thought it was like 2004 or so. I was in college then in 96 so busy with that, sports and other stuff too.
Kindred!! I loved this show so much!
Thankfully, I never watched any of these.
But thanks for reminding me about Tank Girl. I’m down to rewatch that. I think I remember liking it when it came out.
UPDATE: I rewatched Tank Girl and it was horrible.
“Kindred: The Embraced” was a good show! It ended prematurely due to one of the stars unexpected deaths. I used to ❤ it!
Kindred: The Embraced was a novelty show for that time, you know which network tended to take risks and do new concepts for shows back then, the director who was looking for ideas, he went to an RPG book store and someone told him that Vampire: The Masquerade was well loved, the book had it's own decorated shelf at that store, then KTE happened. The network that if you read about them, they used to be very impatient, they took risks but they were also afraid to fail hard, so KTE suffered by getting their time slot moved a lot, some episodes never getting broadcast and then the network rapidly deciding to cancel it, from 8 episodes only 6 were broadcast, it wasn't the show that failed for itself, but also people didn't see supernatural dramas back then, Buffy happened later.
ShowTime had planned to pick it up for a season 2 and they were in works to get the rights, until the protagonist, Mark Frankel passed away in a motorcycle accident. They didn't think the series could work without his character Julian Luna, so they decided to not make it. If you know the lore of VTM, it could certainly have worked, but in those times in the 90s, maybe not, because of how viewers were back then.
While the series wasn't verbatim to the lore, it also managed to interpret well different parts of it, that even the average fan of VTM don't get it. Lore is complex and rich.
Interesting, thank you for sharing that with us.
Mark died before the first episode was even aired. That doomed the show from the start
Just yesteday I was watching a Monday Night Football broadcast from the mid 90s between the Lions and 49ers. The intro that night was a skit between Lori Loughlin and Tony Danza. I could not figure out why the network paired them for the opening, but I now realize it was clearly to tie in and promote Hudson St.
With Kindred, it doesn't help that Fox kept shifting when it was aired, so it was hard to keep track of. American Gothic was great. Wish it had more time.
I can agree with you thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I had to keep checking the paper every week to find what slot they'd moved it to in their lineup. It was so obnoxious.
Yeah, Fox had that bad habit when they made a show but wanted an excuse to can it afterward of moving it around or when they right the right to air NFL football, on Game Day so it was always pre-empted or only had like 10 minutes left. They did the same with Firefly and I'm pretty sure Brimstone too
Thanks to Scifi Channel for showing Kindred back in the day. Would love to see a reboot of Kindred: The Embraced. Though I don't think another actor would be as good as Mark Frankel as Julian. I at least liked the storyline between Sasha and Cash.
I was a freshman in college in the fall of 96 and was so busy with so many things, I honestly don’t remember any of these shows.
Tell me you did *not* just diss The Bakula like that.
I have one for your list. Dracula the tv series, a Canadian tv series. It was canceled after 1 season, even with its popularity.
I remember Hudson Street was picked as the number one best new show by TV Guide that year.
They made a pros and cons list for it, and in the con section they wrote, “None at all based on the pilot. A sure fire hit.”
wow you have a great memory that's awesome
@@TheReviewStudios yeah, the funny part is, like you said in the video it didn’t keep my attention. Because I was a viewer of Roseanne and home improvement, but I don’t remember this show being in the middle.
I must’ve changed the channel 😄
It was doing well until the show 3rd Rock From the Sun premiered on NBC. Viewers drifted toward that and it stole Hudson Street’s audience. To add insult to injury, Ted Harbert, then president of ABC Entertainment, could have picked up 3rd Rock but he turned it down, yet he picked up Aliens in the Family, Maybe This Time, and Hudson Street-three shows that didn’t live to see a second season.
Tony Danza playing a character named Tony? No way!
Oh man I really liked that Kindred show lol
Not gonna lie, I watched Kindred the Embraced back in the day.
Back in the day?! I own the DVD and still watch it from time to time. I wish Mark Frankel hadn't died. That's the real reason the show got cancelled.
Ned and Stacy did make a second season.
As someone who turned 9 in 1996 I don't really remember any of these. I remember hearing about American Gothic when I was younger but I don't remember the show.
It's kind of funny that Kindred the Embraced didn't have many viewers. Because I remember how hard Fox was pushing the show... So many commercials, it's really too bad because the show really started to find it's feet after a few episodes and I could totally see it digging deeper into the Vampire and World of Darkness lore if it had stuck around.
I was just a kid in the 90s so I never saw any of these shows. But now I’m intrigued to look these up (if anything, to see youtube clips and look up cast members)
I watched Kindred and American Gothic, both shows I enjoyed but neither got to fully meet their potential.
Number 6 - I remember that one, fondly. Had an absolutely excellent Pilot episode. Excellent premise. And an overall, great cast.... What the show lacked was talented writers. Unfortunately, after that strong first episode, the writing pretty much dropped off a cliff! Calling it terrible would have been a compliment. These were supposed to be very mature, centuries-old characters who behaved much of the time like immature children in very expensive suits or dresses. It made no sense.
At one point, a vampire clan leader is destroyed. The vampire who destroyed him then instantly becomes the leader of the clan he belongs to. A separate one from the one whose leader he destroyed. Main protagonist is then told he'll have to tolerate this since the destroyed leader of his clan did something horribly underhanded long ago. An example of the cheap writing that became common. Sadly, only one example of many.