I can't help but find it hilarious that part of the deal of selling Family Channel is that no matter who owns it they are obligated to keep 700 Club as part of their daily programming. I always found it odd that 700 Club came on everyday as it didn't fit well with all the other shows on the network.
Yeah they would air like the fosters or some other show that features lots of swearing, gay relationships, sex scenes, violence and drug use. Then immediately after that a show that caters heavily to only old conservative people that definently did not just watch show that was on an hour ago. Like what? They could atleast try to air something that kinda makes sense to ease audiences into 700 club like a family sitcom or something.
Despite the financial problems they stumbled into, I really enjoyed most of what Fox Family had to offer. They even showed reruns of Digimon, Mega Man, Real Ghostbusters, and even some of the short lived cartoons like Camp Candy and All Dogs Go To Heaven (based off the film). ABC Family was good until they got rid of Jetix shifting away from children's programming altogether. Nevertheless I had fond memories watching that channel.
Completely agree, see my comments above. What I guess you have to remember is, that turn of the century was when everybody started wanting the more formulaic kind of stuff, and FFC was kind of way to original and outside the box for those kind of tastes.
@lenzzzzzzz I have a 3-year-old son named Tyler, He just Loves the All-New Captain Kangaroo, His Favorite Characters Are, Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit, and he also likes, All Dogs go to Heaven the Series (Animated Series), The Animal Shelf, Bad Dog Animated Series, Little Mouse on the Prairie Animated Series, Mega Babies Animated Series, also my 16-year-old son named Wesley just loves watching the children's Game Show "The Great Pretenders",
You're absolutely right it left its mark. I'm 31 years old, and still think of this as channel as Fox Family even though I know that it changed to ABC Family and Freeform. I guess ages 7-10 were probably some of my most memorable years for TV.
Fox Family was one of my favorite channels as a kid. Loved their "Made in Japan" block they had on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings, it was mostly Saban anime dubs and stuff from the Fox Kids library like Digimon. I was also a huge fan of The New Addams Family.
That takes me back, had not seen Made in Japan, with Digímon and Flint the Time Detective, or the 1998 New Adam’s Family, or Oh no Mr Bill, in 21 years
Nothing like getting up at dawn on Sundays in 2000 to watch and tape reruns of the Mega Man cartoons. Of course, they had plenty of other shows that intrigued me like Kids From Room 402 and Angela Anaconda.
Fox Family was way huge in my household in the late 90's to early 2000's, from August 15, 1998 until November 10, 2001. In its 3-year run during the Fox Family era, they aired original programs like The 3 Friends and Jerry, Walter Melon, Bad Dog, Donkey Kong Country (based on the immensly popular Super Nintendo game Donkey Kong Country by Nintendo & Rare), Show Me the Funny, Ohh Nooo! Mr. Bill Presents, Mumfie, Enigma, The New Addams Family, Great Pretenders, Big Wolf on Campus, Rotten Ralph, I Was A 6th Grade Alien, Angela Anaconda, Weird-Ohs, The Kids from Room 402, Mega Babies, S Club 7 in Miami, S Club 7 in L.A., & S Club 7 in Hollywood, So Little Time, Moolah Beach, Braceface, What's With Andy?, Totally Spies!, and acquired reruns of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Eek! Stravanganza!, Spider-Man: The Animated Series (based on the Marvel Comics superhero), Bobby's World, Camp Candy, Creepy Crawlers (based on ToyMax's Creepy Crawlers activity toy), Dennis the Menace (based on the Hank Ketchum comic strip of the same name), The Harveytoons Show, Heathcliff, The Real Ghostbusters (a spin-off/sequel of the 1984 Columbia Pictures movie Ghostbusters), The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper (a spin-off show and a sequel of the movie Casper, which, in turn was based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost), Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (based on a series of computer games by Broderbund), The Why Why Family, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension (an Eerie, Indiana spin-off), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (based on the 1978 of the same name & its 1988 sequel of Return of the Killer Tomatoes), All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (based on the 1989 Don Bluth/MGM movie), Mr. Bogus (based on the French/Belgain clay animation series of shorts simply titled, Bogus), Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates, Mork & Mindy, Mr. Bean, The Bradys, The Partridge Family, Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High, The Mouse and the Monster, DinoBabies, The Mr. Potato Head Show (based on the Hasbro toyline of the same name), Space Goofs, Toonsylvania, Tenko & the Guardians of the Magic, Oggy and the Cockroaches, The Mask: Animated Series (based on the 1994 New Line Cinema movie The Mask, itself which was based on the comic book by Dark Horse Comics), Mega Man (based on the video game series by Capcom), Who's The Boss?, Life With Louie, Digimon, Goosebumps, Monster Rancher, Early Edition, My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Coach, The Drew Carey Show, Weird Science (based on the 1985 Universal Pictures movie of the same title), Step By Step, Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths & Legends, Garfield and Friends (based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis), Inspector Gadget, Growing Pains, and The Wonder Years.
I was totally a FOX KIDS fan back then. Never really into Disney Channel or Cartoon Network. I was all about FOX KIDS, PBS Kids and NICKELODEON! Man, what an innovative time for television.
Something interesting not mentioned here is that FOX Family was the channel that introduced the Aussie children’s music icons The Wiggles to American television
I really appreciate all of the work that had to have gone into this. Finding all of that footage, writing the narration, recording it, editing, etc. Thank you for making this unique content.
I grew up with Fox Family back in 1998-2000 when News Corporation bought out The Family Channel. It has some shows I really like (weather it's original programming or off-network shows) aired on the channel. Fox Family was one of my favorite basic cable channels I watched as a kid.
If you wanna watch our long block of it and other childhood channels growing up, there’s a channel on RUclips that shows nothing but that for Disney, Cartoon Network, toonami and Fox family channel and so many more
Kids TV networks were incredible. Was like having Disney World in my house. 13 Days of Halloween and 25 Days of Christmas were EXCELLENT. #FugkFreeform
".. values between husbands and wives and children, where they can have loving, caring relationships in which children aren't smart alecks and the parents aren't buffoons" Hee hee, is funny because currently the 700 Club is followed every night by 2 hours of The Simpsons.
@robtheoutsider funnier still is that The Simpaons was, at one point, too radical. It says a lot about both modern entertainment and entertainment of the past that The Simpsons began life as a "radical" show.
Great job on the research of this video (and introducing me to the "Golden Banana" song). Never knew they had so many problems with money and low viewership. Thank you for helping me relive some of my childhood! It seems though that most people have forgotten about the channel. I liked the channel better when it was Fox Family. I remember cool shows like Braceface, Great Pretenders, So Little Time, Big Wolf on Campus, and S Club 7. I also remember Angela Anaconda, New Addams Family, Early Edition, Higher Ground, and original movies like Au Pair. One of my favorite shows during that time was State of Grace. No one ever talks about it, and you can't find it anywhere to watch. I wish I could. Do you think you may ever go more in depth with the different periods from The Family Channel to Fox Family to ABC Family? I think each era has an interesting history and variety of shows.
Fox Family was huge in my household in the late 90s I still think about it to this day. The music video countdown show was great, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Goosebumps, Camp Candy so many great memories.
I definitely have strong memories of Fox Family and the very early days of ABC Family mainly through the kids' and animated content. It gave me my first real exposure to Pee-wee's Playhouse, as I was too young to know of it during its original CBS run, reinforced my love of anime through the Made in Japan block that was an accompanying block to the content Fox Kids was showing and by the time the switchover happened gave me the guilty pleasure 1-2 punch of Braceface and Totally Spies.
Despite the troubles it had I have a fond nostalgia for the Fox Family channel. They showed reruns of cartoons I never knew about and I loved their 13 Days Of Halloween/25 Days Of Christmas thing. I always looked forward to them every year. I also just loved the bumpers they had.
For clarification: The Family Channel operated as a separate entity from CBN and was likely driven by strategic and programming considerations. Both channels shared a commitment to family-friendly and wholesome content. While CBN likely focused more on religious programming, news, and talk shows with a specific appeal to Christian viewers, The Family Channel aimed to cater to a broader audience of families looking for general family-oriented entertainment, including classic TV shows, movies, and cartoons.
You know it's been almost 25 years since Fox Family was launched and 20 years since ABC Family was launched and some things have changed, one of the biggest changes was Disney buying Fox. If Disney bought Fox back in the 90s they would still have the rights to the Saban library!
I remember watching Rescue 911 on The Family Channel in the early 90s. Fox Family Channel era is my favorite era. I particularly remember watching it in 1998. ABC Family was okay. Free-form is garbage. Also, didn't the contract say it is suppose to always have the word "family" in it?
I’m old enough to remember when the channel was CBN; Doris Day had a show on there, in which Rock Hudson made his final public appearance just weeks before dying from AIDS (another CBN original series I remember was Celebrity Chefs). During the Family Channel era, they had a Fun Town/FamTV kids’ block similar to USA’s or TBS’, as well as “That’s My Dog!” (which they imported from the UK) and a reboot of It Takes Two with Dick Clark, now with civilian partners. As Fox Family, they had Paranoia (Peter Tomarken’s last game show) and some reality home video show called “Life Camera Action!” (with a young Ryan Seacrest as the announcer). Since becoming ABC Family and now Freeform, they’ve brought us The Secret Life of the American Teenager (introducing the world to Shailene Woodley), Melissa & Joey (starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence of course), and Pretty Little Liars (which probably had older males watching just for Lucy Hale). Boy…they’ve sure come a long way from when they were originally a religious channel!
As a child/kid in the 90s, man I had energy to get up super early in the morning. As early as 4:30am watching reruns, to dragon ball z. Most shows started around 7:00am but hey, I wanted to unlock the dragon. Lol
@channelserfer you are one of the greatest info streamers that have been on RUclips! The nostalgia of it all, and to the answers to questions I've always wanted has made my day! Pleeaase continue with more content(i.e UPN, WB - CW, MTV from music to TV shows & BET the same) Lovin this channel! Also would love to meet you lol
I would like to see a full on review/retrospective on the channels' show "The Three Friends and Jerry", it's criminally underrated and needs more love, it was way ahead of its' time and was very creative and funny.
I have been looking for the name of this show for years. Finally seen a photo of them in the thumbnail and your comment finally helped me rememebr the name of show!
And not only that, CBN had game shows like “Treasure Hunt”, “Tic Tac Dough”, “Name That Tune” and others. When CBN rebranded as the Family Channel, it also has game shows like “Trivial Pursuit” with Wink Martindale in both regular and interactive versions, along with the “Interactive Play Break” segments ran in-between commercials. I missed those days.
@@Musicradio77Network there is one problem with having gameshows in the PTA Hour from 1983-2009 though. Who in their right minds thought they actually stood a chance against Pat, Vanna, Charlie O, Alex and Johnny? I mean that's just asking to get creamed and still is...unless you're Family Feud which can be a third evening player...but you're still better off for good clean fun with Vanna and her sidekicks. That's why when Price did night specials after 1995 they never ever set them at the same time....they just placed them after to kick off Prime Time....which works.
The only thing I remember from The Family Channel is the game show blocks, with noteworthy titles being Masters of the Maze, Maximum Drive, reruns of The $100,000 Name That Tune, the 1986 revival of Split Second, and Wink Martindale's quadrilogy of Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Shuffle, and Jumble.
I was Never really into Disney Channel and Cartoon Network. I was all about FOX PBS and NICKELODEON! Man, what an innovative cool time/era for television.
This video is awesome!! I adored the fox family channel when I was younger and still miss it today. One thing that wasn't touched upon in this video was the awesome anime block they used to have on Sunday mornings.
This takes me back to the weeknights in the late 90s when I watched "Show me the Funny", a show similar to "America's Funniest People", which also showed Jackalope clips and "Mr. Bill Presents".
I have fond memories of watching Fox Family back in the day. I would watch quite a few of their animated series like Camp Candy, Braceface and reruns of Digimon. I also remember watching Big Wolf on Campus, The New Adams Family and State of Grace. I'm not too surprised that the channel was struggling. I wasn't aware of it at the time and I remember being surprised when the logo changed to ABC Family, but I think it was too hard for the channel to get the kind of attention that other more established channels and blocks at the time already had. ABC Family was still a pretty solid channel until they got rid of Jetix. While I enjoyed some of their reruns of 90's sitcoms, the channel was just never the same for me once they stopped airing animated series. Now I rarely watch Freeform outside of its Halloween and Christmas events, which is a bit of a shame. With better management from the start, I wonder if they could have had a more successful launch for Fox Family and still be around now, or at least they could have possibly lasted longer than they did.
fox family had some heat, 13 days of halloween and 25 days of christmas always hit. basement block was interesting, oh no mr. bill was AMAZING (but i only saw it like once). When ABC family started showing whose line was a great time too. I think whose line came on at 10 to 11, then 11 i'd turn to adult swim and finish watching aqua teen hunger force and all those shows.. good times.
My parents didn't have cable when I was growing up (save for two years from 1996-1997) because it was too expensive. I would always see advertisements for Fox Family channel in Sonic the Hedgehog comics (the only comics I read) and would be so upset that we didn't have cable and I couldn't watch the shows being advertised. As a gamer and big fan of Mario I especially hated missing out on getting to watch Donkey Kong Country. I had to settle for whatever episodes would sometimes air on Fox Kids to get my fix of the show. Fortunately now I have internet and the first season of Donkey Kong Country on DVD so I can watch it whenever I want.
I love that, as of this writing in August 2023, this same channel known today as Freeform bookends the still-obligatory airings of the 700 Club with a comedy series about a religious cult.
I watched family channel/fox family etc … it was one of the 3 kids channels in my small town in the 90s. Disney - Cartoon Network and family channel/fox family. I even watched 7th heaven and Dawson’s creek there I think….
I religiously watched Fox Family growing up, and the 700 Club never made sense to me even as a child, it didn't fit. I really hated baseball, and I'll never forget that feeling I got as more and more of my shows gave way to baseball games, but 700 Club never did. It was soul crushing.
It's like pat threaten them on the phone about moving it. If you take 700 club off I'll send my Goons to your house an your body Will be in a river buddy.😂
You're not the only one who hates baseball. Try watching WGN (the original, Chicago feed), and a Cubs game comes on, that takes up to 3 hours to finish. Another reason I hated growing up outside that cesspool. The 700 Club doesn't make sense to millions of people, worldwide. It's stupid AF. Any idiot (even my mentally ill brother) would agree that it is all nonsense. No cancellation (moneymaker?)
We all wish we could hustle like Haim Saban. Fox wanted to buy Saban Entertainment, he said nah and ended up with that joint venture instead. That’s why he got so rich off Eisner’s folly.
I used to like to watch Fox Family when it 1st launched, and I really enjoyed it during its run. It's one of those now defunct cable channels I really missed.
I was looking for the name of one of the shows ABC/Fox Family channel aired, the girl colored in black and white with short hair and orange outfit. I remember blwatching her show even though I thought the drawing was so weird lol. I saw the thumbnail on your video, hence why I'm here. I didn't know abc and fox were the same channel.
Interesting take on the whole channel and it's neverending changes through the years. I used to love watching it with my sisters growing up and we loved everything from It's Itsy Bitsy Time for the magic tricks, to Real Scary Stories/Scariest Places and even some of the teen shows and for me it was the cartoons I was so annoyed that ABC family got rid of a bunch of shows I loved when they bought the network. Like Totally Spies -ABC made a massive mistake in getting rid of that one.
It's so fascinating to find out the very adult reasons why my favorite networks and shows made changes that to me, as a kid, were dumb and pointless 😅 I remember it took me a long time to get used to saying ABC instead of Fox when they took over 😅
"The Virginian Pilot" It took me a minute to realize that's the name of a newspaper and not referring to the pilot episode of a show called The Virginian, lol
I loved Fox Family when it first debuted! It had a great variety of shows, especially a lot of the ones I loved. It marked the return of Pee-wee’s Playhouse reruns to national television, which I had missed since it was pulled from CBS 7 years earlier following Paul Reubens arrest. I also liked that shows such as All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series, DIC’s Dennis The Menace cartoon, and Bobby’s World were on there too. I liked The New Addams Family too. The channel felt like paradise in my mind. But then, by the latter part of 1999, it didn’t seem quite the same anymore, as they pulled a bunch of the shows I liked from the schedule.
I remember w it was Fox Family, I love 13 Nights Of Halloween Big Wolf On Campus & State Of Grace, Angela Anaconda. I always was curious as to why 700 Club was on there but that wasn't until I was an adult. But I do love you channel and the stuff you cover. Great Work!
I was part of a focus group for Fox Family Channel before it launched. Everybody there was a guy in their 20s. They asked us about the slogan "Fox Family Channel - You Belong" and then asked what we thought about the programming and shows that would be on the network without showing us clips of any of the shows. I had heard of Mr. Bean, but hadn't heard of any of the other shows, so I couldn't really comment on whether I would watch. I thought it was a weird focus group, since I didn't feel like we were the target audience.
I loved Family Channel / Fox Family Channel! Fox Kids! Big Wolf on Campus!!! 13 Days of Halloween and 25 Days of Christmas were EXCELLENT. #FugkFreeform
12:02 sorry Pat Robertson but preschoolers and teenagers home sick from school aren't going to watch your vomit when blues clues and gullah gullah island are happening just one channel away.
I VIVIDLY remember the debut of this network. Like first day where they were breaking down all the shows that were coming or returning like “the basement” and “700 hunZzZZZzz club” I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who could see the fox family channel on TV!
It would have been better if they aired the preschool stuff in the early afternoons since Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney would have signed off around that time.
I only know ABC Family/Freeform for the 25 Days of Christmas event, because they at least aired classic Christmas specials, like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, with some Disney classics and the Pixar shorts.
Oh, International Family Entertainment also owned MTM, who brought us Mary Tyler Moore, Newhart, WKRP In Cincinnati, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, and several other shows, it would be absorbed into 20th Century Fox Television.
As a kid, I loved watching Fox Family; tuning in often for reruns of The Real Ghostbusters. I honestly had no idea they were struggling until I woke up one morning and saw they had renamed to "ABC Family" with zero fanfare.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 I don’t know they should release the show on DVD with the Gogs shorts uncut, yes Three friends and Jerry had the Gogs localized here in the United States.
11:58 Thomas the tank engine also used to air on the Network from 1998-2000 with Reruns of Shining Time Station, along with The Show Airing as a segment on Mister Moose’s Fun Time, and a New Series "Storytime with Thomas".
I can't help but find it hilarious that part of the deal of selling Family Channel is that no matter who owns it they are obligated to keep 700 Club as part of their daily programming. I always found it odd that 700 Club came on everyday as it didn't fit well with all the other shows on the network.
Right 😂😂. They have tried to buy them out of their time slots so many times and they reject them. And I’m here for it!
Yeah they would air like the fosters or some other show that features lots of swearing, gay relationships, sex scenes, violence and drug use. Then immediately after that a show that caters heavily to only old conservative people that definently did not just watch show that was on an hour ago. Like what? They could atleast try to air something that kinda makes sense to ease audiences into 700 club like a family sitcom or something.
right? i really found that weird
@@Sorveathat might change now that Pat Robertson is dead.
@@Father_of_Death depends if his son wants to continue it or not.
Despite the financial problems they stumbled into, I really enjoyed most of what Fox Family had to offer. They even showed reruns of Digimon, Mega Man, Real Ghostbusters, and even some of the short lived cartoons like Camp Candy and All Dogs Go To Heaven (based off the film). ABC Family was good until they got rid of Jetix shifting away from children's programming altogether. Nevertheless I had fond memories watching that channel.
Completely agree, see my comments above. What I guess you have to remember is, that turn of the century was when everybody started wanting the more formulaic kind of stuff, and FFC was kind of way to original and outside the box for those kind of tastes.
Digimoooon tho! That theme song is dope!
Some of the wholesome content was good.
700 club is outlasting everything.
While the network is bellying up
I'll still be. There.
Fox Family channel brought S club 7 into my life and for that I’ll always be grateful
@lenzzzzzzz I have a 3-year-old son named Tyler, He just Loves the All-New Captain Kangaroo, His Favorite Characters Are, Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit, and he also likes, All Dogs go to Heaven the Series (Animated Series), The Animal Shelf, Bad Dog Animated Series, Little Mouse on the Prairie Animated Series, Mega Babies Animated Series, also my 16-year-old son named Wesley just loves watching the children's Game Show "The Great Pretenders",
Ain’t no party like an Sclub party 🎉
You're absolutely right it left its mark. I'm 31 years old, and still think of this as channel as Fox Family even though I know that it changed to ABC Family and Freeform. I guess ages 7-10 were probably some of my most memorable years for TV.
Fox Family was one of my favorite channels as a kid. Loved their "Made in Japan" block they had on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings, it was mostly Saban anime dubs and stuff from the Fox Kids library like Digimon.
I was also a huge fan of The New Addams Family.
Me too I was a 4 grader In shoreheaven elementary Shows i loved pee wee mr.bill and the Addams family.
That takes me back, had not seen Made in Japan, with Digímon and Flint the Time Detective, or the 1998 New Adam’s Family, or Oh no Mr Bill, in 21 years
Made in Japan caught my attention when I was flipping through the channels. I was really into anime at the time, so watching it was really fun.
Nothing like getting up at dawn on Sundays in 2000 to watch and tape reruns of the Mega Man cartoons. Of course, they had plenty of other shows that intrigued me like Kids From Room 402 and Angela Anaconda.
I enjoyed this a lot. Covering histories of defunct TV channels be a really interesting series. You should do more.
Thank you, my next video will be in that vein so stay tuned
@@channelserfer also, it should be noted that Rich Cronin went to Game Show Network after he left FFC, and really ran that went in the ground too.
The summer of 2000 for cable TV and just life itself for teenagers was the best
Fox Family was way huge in my household in the late 90's to early 2000's, from August 15, 1998 until November 10, 2001. In its 3-year run during the Fox Family era, they aired original programs like The 3 Friends and Jerry, Walter Melon, Bad Dog, Donkey Kong Country (based on the immensly popular Super Nintendo game Donkey Kong Country by Nintendo & Rare), Show Me the Funny, Ohh Nooo! Mr. Bill Presents, Mumfie, Enigma, The New Addams Family, Great Pretenders, Big Wolf on Campus, Rotten Ralph, I Was A 6th Grade Alien, Angela Anaconda, Weird-Ohs, The Kids from Room 402, Mega Babies, S Club 7 in Miami, S Club 7 in L.A., & S Club 7 in Hollywood, So Little Time, Moolah Beach, Braceface, What's With Andy?, Totally Spies!, and acquired reruns of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Eek! Stravanganza!, Spider-Man: The Animated Series (based on the Marvel Comics superhero), Bobby's World, Camp Candy, Creepy Crawlers (based on ToyMax's Creepy Crawlers activity toy), Dennis the Menace (based on the Hank Ketchum comic strip of the same name), The Harveytoons Show, Heathcliff, The Real Ghostbusters (a spin-off/sequel of the 1984 Columbia Pictures movie Ghostbusters), The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper (a spin-off show and a sequel of the movie Casper, which, in turn was based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost), Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (based on a series of computer games by Broderbund), The Why Why Family, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension (an Eerie, Indiana spin-off), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (based on the 1978 of the same name & its 1988 sequel of Return of the Killer Tomatoes), All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (based on the 1989 Don Bluth/MGM movie), Mr. Bogus (based on the French/Belgain clay animation series of shorts simply titled, Bogus), Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates, Mork & Mindy, Mr. Bean, The Bradys, The Partridge Family, Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High, The Mouse and the Monster, DinoBabies, The Mr. Potato Head Show (based on the Hasbro toyline of the same name), Space Goofs, Toonsylvania, Tenko & the Guardians of the Magic, Oggy and the Cockroaches, The Mask: Animated Series (based on the 1994 New Line Cinema movie The Mask, itself which was based on the comic book by Dark Horse Comics), Mega Man (based on the video game series by Capcom), Who's The Boss?, Life With Louie, Digimon, Goosebumps, Monster Rancher, Early Edition, My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Coach, The Drew Carey Show, Weird Science (based on the 1985 Universal Pictures movie of the same title), Step By Step, Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths & Legends, Garfield and Friends (based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis), Inspector Gadget, Growing Pains, and The Wonder Years.
Big wolf on campus was my favorite as a kid.
I was totally a FOX KIDS fan back then. Never really into Disney Channel or Cartoon Network. I was all about FOX KIDS, PBS Kids and NICKELODEON! Man, what an innovative time for television.
Same here, mostly because my grandmother's cable service didn't have cartoon network.
Something interesting not mentioned here is that FOX Family was the channel that introduced the Aussie children’s music icons The Wiggles to American television
I really appreciate all of the work that had to have gone into this. Finding all of that footage, writing the narration, recording it, editing, etc. Thank you for making this unique content.
I grew up with Fox Family back in 1998-2000 when News Corporation bought out The Family Channel. It has some shows I really like (weather it's original programming or off-network shows) aired on the channel. Fox Family was one of my favorite basic cable channels I watched as a kid.
I Really miss FOX Family Channel!😭❤️📺🎶👍🏻
Me too. Isn’t it strange that, when Disney bought them in 2001, they became even less family oriented than before. SMH.
@@AnErrorOccurred And now Disney owns Fox! I am still upset that Fox sold to Disney!
@@chrisdigitalartist Actually Disney owns the 20th Century Studios movie and TV operation. Fox is still controlled by 21st Century Fox.
If you wanna watch our long block of it and other childhood channels growing up, there’s a channel on RUclips that shows nothing but that for Disney, Cartoon Network, toonami and Fox family channel and so many more
Fox Family channel brings back memories to me!
Same here love that channel.
Kids TV networks were incredible. Was like having Disney World in my house. 13 Days of Halloween and 25 Days of Christmas were EXCELLENT. #FugkFreeform
".. values between husbands and wives and children, where they can have loving, caring relationships in which children aren't smart alecks and the parents aren't buffoons"
Hee hee, is funny because currently the 700 Club is followed every night by 2 hours of The Simpsons.
And the fact that The Simpsons actually made it to the channel eventually is really funny.
@robtheoutsider funnier still is that The Simpaons was, at one point, too radical.
It says a lot about both modern entertainment and entertainment of the past that The Simpsons began life as a "radical" show.
Great job on the research of this video (and introducing me to the "Golden Banana" song). Never knew they had so many problems with money and low viewership. Thank you for helping me relive some of my childhood! It seems though that most people have forgotten about the channel. I liked the channel better when it was Fox Family. I remember cool shows like Braceface, Great Pretenders, So Little Time, Big Wolf on Campus, and S Club 7. I also remember Angela Anaconda, New Addams Family, Early Edition, Higher Ground, and original movies like Au Pair. One of my favorite shows during that time was State of Grace. No one ever talks about it, and you can't find it anywhere to watch. I wish I could. Do you think you may ever go more in depth with the different periods from The Family Channel to Fox Family to ABC Family? I think each era has an interesting history and variety of shows.
Fox Family was huge in my household in the late 90s I still think about it to this day. The music video countdown show was great, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Goosebumps, Camp Candy so many great memories.
I found outrageous on RUclips.
Just likr two episodes.
Remember they had host hosting
The cartoons?
It was similar to what nickelodeon an
Cartoon network did.
I really miss the Fox Family Channel. Thanks for this!
I definitely have strong memories of Fox Family and the very early days of ABC Family mainly through the kids' and animated content. It gave me my first real exposure to Pee-wee's Playhouse, as I was too young to know of it during its original CBS run, reinforced my love of anime through the Made in Japan block that was an accompanying block to the content Fox Kids was showing and by the time the switchover happened gave me the guilty pleasure 1-2 punch of Braceface and Totally Spies.
I liked Saban's version of Fox Family when I was a kid. That's where I use to get part of my anime Fix watching Digimon and Monster Rancher.
Despite the troubles it had I have a fond nostalgia for the Fox Family channel. They showed reruns of cartoons I never knew about and I loved their 13 Days Of Halloween/25 Days Of Christmas thing. I always looked forward to them every year.
I also just loved the bumpers they had.
Some of the special events are still around pn Freeform except it's now called 31 nights of #Halloween
For clarification: The Family Channel operated as a separate entity from CBN and was likely driven by strategic and programming considerations. Both channels shared a commitment to family-friendly and wholesome content. While CBN likely focused more on religious programming, news, and talk shows with a specific appeal to Christian viewers, The Family Channel aimed to cater to a broader audience of families looking for general family-oriented entertainment, including classic TV shows, movies, and cartoons.
700 club is never going away from
That network an there's a reason for it.
It was there since the family channel.
FAMILY CHANNEL!!!!
You know it's been almost 25 years since Fox Family was launched and 20 years since ABC Family was launched and some things have changed, one of the biggest changes was Disney buying Fox. If Disney bought Fox back in the 90s they would still have the rights to the Saban library!
Fantastic ride dude. would love to see a video on the Saturday morning cartoon wars of the 90s/ early 00s.
I remember watching Rescue 911 on The Family Channel in the early 90s. Fox Family Channel era is my favorite era. I particularly remember watching it in 1998. ABC Family was okay. Free-form is garbage. Also, didn't the contract say it is suppose to always have the word "family" in it?
I’m old enough to remember when the channel was CBN; Doris Day had a show on there, in which Rock Hudson made his final public appearance just weeks before dying from AIDS (another CBN original series I remember was Celebrity Chefs).
During the Family Channel era, they had a Fun Town/FamTV kids’ block similar to USA’s or TBS’, as well as “That’s My Dog!” (which they imported from the UK) and a reboot of It Takes Two with Dick Clark, now with civilian partners. As Fox Family, they had Paranoia (Peter Tomarken’s last game show) and some reality home video show called “Life Camera Action!” (with a young Ryan Seacrest as the announcer).
Since becoming ABC Family and now Freeform, they’ve brought us The Secret Life of the American Teenager (introducing the world to Shailene Woodley), Melissa & Joey (starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence of course), and Pretty Little Liars (which probably had older males watching just for Lucy Hale). Boy…they’ve sure come a long way from when they were originally a religious channel!
I definitely loved the Fox Kids channel. I was a huge Power Rangers fan and I loved the WB cartoons and Marvel
I remember Inspector Gadget aired on the original Family Channel back in the med 90s and aired again in Fox Family Channel in 2001 when Disney merged.
Saban was a powerhouse for kids entertainment
hell yes, so glad to see a new upload!!
Donkey Kong Country was a Canadian tv series. And The New Addams Family was a joint Canadian-US production.
As a child/kid in the 90s, man I had energy to get up super early in the morning. As early as 4:30am watching reruns, to dragon ball z. Most shows started around 7:00am but hey, I wanted to unlock the dragon. Lol
@channelserfer you are one of the greatest info streamers that have been on RUclips! The nostalgia of it all, and to the answers to questions I've always wanted has made my day! Pleeaase continue with more content(i.e UPN, WB - CW, MTV from music to TV shows & BET the same) Lovin this channel! Also would love to meet you lol
I would like to see a full on review/retrospective on the channels' show "The Three Friends and Jerry", it's criminally underrated and needs more love, it was way ahead of its' time and was very creative and funny.
I have been looking for the name of this show for years. Finally seen a photo of them in the thumbnail and your comment finally helped me rememebr the name of show!
I interviewed the creator a few years back. Great show
I remember watching the Family movies on CBN as a kid. I enjoyed The Family Channel as a kid but it wasn't my only channel I watched
And not only that, CBN had game shows like “Treasure Hunt”, “Tic Tac Dough”, “Name That Tune” and others. When CBN rebranded as the Family Channel, it also has game shows like “Trivial Pursuit” with Wink Martindale in both regular and interactive versions, along with the “Interactive Play Break” segments ran in-between commercials. I missed those days.
@@Musicradio77Network there is one problem with having gameshows in the PTA Hour from 1983-2009 though. Who in their right minds thought they actually stood a chance against Pat, Vanna, Charlie O, Alex and Johnny? I mean that's just asking to get creamed and still is...unless you're Family Feud which can be a third evening player...but you're still better off for good clean fun with Vanna and her sidekicks. That's why when Price did night specials after 1995 they never ever set them at the same time....they just placed them after to kick off Prime Time....which works.
The only thing I remember from The Family Channel is the game show blocks, with noteworthy titles being Masters of the Maze, Maximum Drive, reruns of The $100,000 Name That Tune, the 1986 revival of Split Second, and Wink Martindale's quadrilogy of Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Shuffle, and Jumble.
I was Never really into Disney Channel and Cartoon Network. I was all about FOX PBS and NICKELODEON! Man, what an innovative cool time/era for television.
A great video! I don't think I watched the channel much, but this video jogged my memory regarding "Itsy Bitsy Time."
We use to watch that in our hotel
Room at the beach a lot.
That 64 zoo Lane song still runs in
My head😖
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 Same. It’s an ear worm, to be sure.
@@MasterSanders they got the song
From howdy doody.
You know that old show with the
Puppet?
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 I know, I was referring to the 64 Zoo Lane theme ear worm.
@@MasterSanders oh ok.
This video is awesome!! I adored the fox family channel when I was younger and still miss it today. One thing that wasn't touched upon in this video was the awesome anime block they used to have on Sunday mornings.
This takes me back to the weeknights in the late 90s when I watched "Show me the Funny", a show similar to "America's Funniest People", which also showed Jackalope clips and "Mr. Bill Presents".
I have fond memories of watching Fox Family back in the day. I would watch quite a few of their animated series like Camp Candy, Braceface and reruns of Digimon. I also remember watching Big Wolf on Campus, The New Adams Family and State of Grace. I'm not too surprised that the channel was struggling. I wasn't aware of it at the time and I remember being surprised when the logo changed to ABC Family, but I think it was too hard for the channel to get the kind of attention that other more established channels and blocks at the time already had. ABC Family was still a pretty solid channel until they got rid of Jetix. While I enjoyed some of their reruns of 90's sitcoms, the channel was just never the same for me once they stopped airing animated series. Now I rarely watch Freeform outside of its Halloween and Christmas events, which is a bit of a shame. With better management from the start, I wonder if they could have had a more successful launch for Fox Family and still be around now, or at least they could have possibly lasted longer than they did.
fox family had some heat, 13 days of halloween and 25 days of christmas always hit. basement block was interesting, oh no mr. bill was AMAZING (but i only saw it like once). When ABC family started showing whose line was a great time too. I think whose line came on at 10 to 11, then 11 i'd turn to adult swim and finish watching aqua teen hunger force and all those shows.. good times.
I'd love to see you cover the early history of the FX Channel and Noggin/Nick Jr down the line!
I have a bit of Fox Family nostalgia. That was my first time seeing The Real Ghostbusters.
Remember fox also had a reality channel?
My parents didn't have cable when I was growing up (save for two years from 1996-1997) because it was too expensive. I would always see advertisements for Fox Family channel in Sonic the Hedgehog comics (the only comics I read) and would be so upset that we didn't have cable and I couldn't watch the shows being advertised. As a gamer and big fan of Mario I especially hated missing out on getting to watch Donkey Kong Country. I had to settle for whatever episodes would sometimes air on Fox Kids to get my fix of the show. Fortunately now I have internet and the first season of Donkey Kong Country on DVD so I can watch it whenever I want.
There is a clicking sound through the whole video that made me think I was going insane.
I love that, as of this writing in August 2023, this same channel known today as Freeform bookends the still-obligatory airings of the 700 Club with a comedy series about a religious cult.
Im surprised they still have to air that program since Pat Robertson is now dead.
13 Days of Halloween was AMAZING when I was young!
It's still there today
I really miss this channel is pretty awesome back then.
I like how to 'most repeated' part of the video is literally the part where most viewers lost attention and had to go back to catch up
@6:53 ❤ I love that logo with colors & action. They should have kept it.
Great retrospective! Thank you for making these videos!
I watched family channel/fox family etc … it was one of the 3 kids channels in my small town in the 90s. Disney - Cartoon Network and family channel/fox family. I even watched 7th heaven and Dawson’s creek there I think….
I religiously watched Fox Family growing up, and the 700 Club never made sense to me even as a child, it didn't fit.
I really hated baseball, and I'll never forget that feeling I got as more and more of my shows gave way to baseball games, but 700 Club never did. It was soul crushing.
Someone needs to make a theory or
Creepypasta about why the 700
Club has never went away from the
Network.👹
Why the network is going through changes it will always be there staring
You in the face.
Never been moved or put to a different hour.
It's like pat threaten them on the phone about moving it.
If you take 700 club off I'll send my
Goons to your house an your body
Will be in a river buddy.😂
You're not the only one who hates baseball. Try watching WGN (the original, Chicago feed), and a Cubs game comes on, that takes up to 3 hours to finish. Another reason I hated growing up outside that cesspool. The 700 Club doesn't make sense to millions of people, worldwide. It's stupid AF. Any idiot (even my mentally ill brother) would agree that it is all nonsense. No cancellation (moneymaker?)
We all wish we could hustle like Haim Saban. Fox wanted to buy Saban Entertainment, he said nah and ended up with that joint venture instead. That’s why he got so rich off Eisner’s folly.
Great stuff. Keep it up!
Seriously a big part of my childhood, loved it
I used to like to watch Fox Family when it 1st launched, and I really enjoyed it during its run. It's one of those now defunct cable channels I really missed.
I was looking for the name of one of the shows ABC/Fox Family channel aired, the girl colored in black and white with short hair and orange outfit. I remember blwatching her show even though I thought the drawing was so weird lol. I saw the thumbnail on your video, hence why I'm here. I didn't know abc and fox were the same channel.
FOX Family was the best thing!
Interesting take on the whole channel and it's neverending changes through the years. I used to love watching it with my sisters growing up and we loved everything from It's Itsy Bitsy Time for the magic tricks, to Real Scary Stories/Scariest Places and even some of the teen shows and for me it was the cartoons I was so annoyed that ABC family got rid of a bunch of shows I loved when they bought the network. Like Totally Spies -ABC made a massive mistake in getting rid of that one.
It's so fascinating to find out the very adult reasons why my favorite networks and shows made changes that to me, as a kid, were dumb and pointless 😅 I remember it took me a long time to get used to saying ABC instead of Fox when they took over 😅
If network TV was still like this, I'd subscribe and never leave my house for anything other than groceries and work again.
Very well done, hope to see newer content
"The Virginian Pilot" It took me a minute to realize that's the name of a newspaper and not referring to the pilot episode of a show called The Virginian, lol
I thought Moral Oral was on TBN but found out it was Davie and Goliath.
The people on the 700 club are vampires 😂
I appreciate the Sgt. Pepper homage in the thumbnail
i love that medieval moon intro and hope you never rebrand 😂
I loved Fox Family when it first debuted! It had a great variety of shows, especially a lot of the ones I loved. It marked the return of Pee-wee’s Playhouse reruns to national television, which I had missed since it was pulled from CBS 7 years earlier following Paul Reubens arrest. I also liked that shows such as All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series, DIC’s Dennis The Menace cartoon, and Bobby’s World were on there too. I liked The New Addams Family too.
The channel felt like paradise in my mind. But then, by the latter part of 1999, it didn’t seem quite the same anymore, as they pulled a bunch of the shows I liked from the schedule.
I did not know that Pat Robberson (That guy from The 700 Club) invented The FOX Family Channel. lol
Yup.. And unless a total buyout.. Every channel it become got to air the 700 club n once a year a telethon I believed
I was obsessssed with that movie Au Pair
I remember w it was Fox Family, I love 13 Nights Of Halloween
Big Wolf On Campus & State Of Grace, Angela Anaconda. I always was curious as to why 700 Club was on there but that wasn't until I was an adult. But I do love you channel and the stuff you cover. Great Work!
Loved Fox Family back in the day. So many shows to pick from.
Wow! Brings back a lot of memories! Seems like some fever dream of a world forgotten.
I was part of a focus group for Fox Family Channel before it launched. Everybody there was a guy in their 20s. They asked us about the slogan "Fox Family Channel - You Belong" and then asked what we thought about the programming and shows that would be on the network without showing us clips of any of the shows. I had heard of Mr. Bean, but hadn't heard of any of the other shows, so I couldn't really comment on whether I would watch. I thought it was a weird focus group, since I didn't feel like we were the target audience.
WHAT'S THE BACKGROUND SONG AT THE 15 MINUTE MARK?!?!? I GOTTA KNOW! IT SLAPS!!!!
Thank you, its all original music
I remember it being the "Reject" channel for Fox shows that didn't last on the main network.
Awesome video! Freaking loved that channel.
This is so ridiculously good. Your modern marvels style voice is smooth af. Would love to see you cover g4.
I loved Family Channel / Fox Family Channel! Fox Kids! Big Wolf on Campus!!! 13 Days of Halloween and 25 Days of Christmas were EXCELLENT. #FugkFreeform
12:02 sorry Pat Robertson but preschoolers and teenagers home sick from school aren't going to watch your vomit when blues clues and gullah gullah island are happening just one channel away.
I VIVIDLY remember the debut of this network. Like first day where they were breaking down all the shows that were coming or returning like “the basement” and “700 hunZzZZZzz club” I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who could see the fox family channel on TV!
It would have been better if they aired the preschool stuff in the early afternoons since Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney would have signed off around that time.
I love your videos.. will you make a come back?
Working on the next one now
I only know ABC Family/Freeform for the 25 Days of Christmas event, because they at least aired classic Christmas specials, like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, with some Disney classics and the Pixar shorts.
So many cool shows but my favorite will always be S Club 7 in LA/Miami.
Remember the safari one?
My favorite channel as a kid I was so sad when it changed.
The first time Disney bought something from Fox
Oh, International Family Entertainment also owned MTM, who brought us Mary Tyler Moore, Newhart, WKRP In Cincinnati, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, and several other shows, it would be absorbed into 20th Century Fox Television.
As a kid, I loved watching Fox Family; tuning in often for reruns of The Real Ghostbusters. I honestly had no idea they were struggling until I woke up one morning and saw they had renamed to "ABC Family" with zero fanfare.
You belong, you belong, you belong... you belong on Fox Family! I can't believe I still remember this bumper.
Your content is so good! You eserve so many more views
Its funny that people complained about The Simpsons being the template for Fox Family when its successor Freeform now broadcasts the show.
That three friends and Jerry animated sitcom needs more talk and I believe that Saberspark is the one to talk about this show.
Why haven't that show been put on
DVD yet?
Plus da mob.
Remember walter melon?
He was dressing up as famous people
From movies?
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 I don’t know they should release the show on DVD with the Gogs shorts uncut, yes Three friends and Jerry had the Gogs localized here in the United States.
I remembered watching Digimon, some of the Rankin-Bass specials during the 25 Days of Christmas, and the TV Series of All Dogs Go to Heaven.
The 25 days tradition still lives on the
Network.
Halloween too.
The only thing that has never been
Removed.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 yeah though it's different now
I lived a lot of their shows... nostalgic ❤
Pat Robinson sounds awesome 😎
the zack files was broadcasted early in the mornings on CH 4 in the uk
11:58 Thomas the tank engine also used to air on the Network from 1998-2000 with Reruns of Shining Time Station, along with The Show Airing as a segment on Mister Moose’s Fun Time, and a New Series "Storytime with Thomas".