Flops of the 90s: 10 TV Shows That Didn't Make the Cut. [1997]

[@TheReviewStudios]

Do you remember watching any of these?

[@Scrapla1]

I loved Perversions of Science

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

I really enjoyed Dark Skies! One of multiple shows starring Eric Close that sadly failed including Now And Again.

[@co2metal]

no

[@sarahfranklin8934]

Homeboys from outer space

[@Harley.b.]

Ok so I have a request. Ive been looking for a short clip series that used to run in the early 2000 on mtv Europe about a sandbox. Does anyone know it's name or remember seeing it?

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

A TV show I hear nobody talk about is Early Edition, the one where the guy gets the newspaper ahead of time so he can help prevent major incidents.

[@mariebertrand400]

That was a good premise

[@manueltapia1859]

It had some seasons 🎉 even there was a two part episode tittled Fatal Edition where Gary is framed with a murder 😮

[@suntanironman]

I liked the series. I didn’t watch all of it, but the episodes that I did watch I remember liking.

[@aaronsakulich4889]

oh man, I had forgotten about that one!

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

@@manueltapia1859 I remember the Christmas episode where (spoilers) he couldn't prevent one guy's death but their death led to a new heart for a child in need of a new heart

[@scootstix]

How did Townies manage to waste a cast of Jenna Elfman, Lauren Graham, Molly Ringwald, Ron Livingston and BILL BURR!!!! Those writers must've been awful

[@MelissaAnn420]

I’m addicted to these!! Keep up the great work.

[@jessewilley531]

Dark Skies was to The X-Files what Webster was to Diff'rent Strokes. I saw ONE episode of Meego and I thought Bronson Pinchot was playing a mix of Mr. Belvedere and Third Rock from the Sun. Weird fact... the BBC considered suing UPN, since several of the writers on Homeboys In Outer Space were in the writer's room for the failed the Red Dwarf U.S.A. pilot. Laqueita bore a bit too many similarities to Holly and Android was basically Kryten.

[@TheReviewStudios]

Thanks for sharing

[@Beldamsansmerci]

Homeboys in outer space looks like such a gem! Seems like a an excellent complement to Red Dwarf

[@TheReviewStudios]

Yeah I hope people enjoyed that we didn't even mention Red Dwarf. Almost everything you can find on Homeboys in Outer Space winds up turning into a discussion about Red Dwarf. Which makes sense. Thought it would be nice to give the show a space of it's own for a change. Really strange that Red Dwarf had so many seasons and it's almost unheard of in the US. Thanks for watching and for commenting too!

[@r.brooks5287]

@@TheReviewStudios Red Dwarf was brilliant.

[@Lhunweth]

I enjoyed Dark Skies as a kid, even though it was kind of a low-rent X-Files. It had enough of a twist on the premise to be its own thing, and I was disappointed when it was canceled (I vaguely remember it leaving off on a cliffhanger), but happy to see Jeri Ryan pop up later on Voyager.

[@mattchalucha894]

Great video! Keep up the good work!

[@TheReviewStudios]

We love hearing that! Thanks for watching and for commenting too!

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

This just reminded me that it's time to bring back Tales from the Crypt. Reboots and legacy sequels are everywhere now and nothing is easier to reboot (in concept, at least) than an anthology series. Let's get some shovels and dig up the Cryptkeeper.

[@CarniviusPrime]

Creepshow has been running for past several years. :)

[@pegasusactua2985]

Tales from the Crypt is plagued in copyright problems which would make a revival incredibly difficult. The rights are split between multiple entities with the Cryptkeeper puppet alone having its rights independently owned. This is the same reason it isn't streaming anywhere even on HBO.

[@chrismcnair]

I remember "Townies". Bill Burr was in it or when he did the show he went by Billy. Seen the show herer on KZbin. Its fun to see some of these actors before they had hit roles or during their prime.

[@lsimon343]

I saw not I seen

[@davidortiz8705]

Forget Ringwald was that Bill Burr at 5:50 Lauren Graham is sitting on his lap. Billy with hair too 😆🤣🤣🤣

[@peterjaketalkswrasslin6920]

I came here to say this!!! I was like OH SNAP, Look out, Philly!

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Dark Skies left a lasting impact for me. I'm writing a novel and the MC is named Loenguard, in honor of John Lonegard from the show

[@cookieanddabutt2843]

Good luck with your fan fiction. Worked for Stephanie Miller.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

@cookieanddabutt2843 It's not fan fiction. I took inspiration from the... You know, never mind. I can't be bothered

[@aliali-ce3yf]

I had no idea Ron Johnson from a Different World went on to star in Homeboys from Outerspace - what a funky show . Gotta hand it to the 90s, they took risks

[@dopefiendchronicles2974]

The whole UPN network was a risk 😂

[@pisceanbeauty2503]

@@dopefiendchronicles2974 Not really. Lots of successful shows emerged from UPN: Moesha, Girlfriends, The Game…just because they were not on your radar doesn’t mean they were not popular.

[@HuffinStufff]

These are some star studded faulted shows. Pretty wild that a lot of these didn’t catch on.

[@MoonStruckBunnyIRL]

I remember Roar, it came out at just the right time for me in my mythology obsession.

[@Nirual]

I remember Homeboys from Outer Space! I loved that show!

[@aliali-ce3yf]

lol, I didn't realize Kerri Russell was in so many different shows before hitting it off in Felicity. Odd that when she played the attractive character (obvious) the show failed, but the one time she played the "nerd" in Felicity , the show took off. All part of the 90s trend of lazily trying to make attractive women look "nerdy" then the hot guy realizes what a babe she really was!

[@dr.snakes]

This just reminded me, she was in the pilot episode of that horrible Clerks TV show.

[@aliali-ce3yf]

Meego looks like a Mork & Mindy clone ! Poor guy kept trying to recreate that perfect strangers magic

[@DavidGowers]

Ok that wasn't the "The Cape" that I was expecting...ROAR was incredible, though. RIP Heath Ledger

[@RaoulDuke77]

I like the idea of Dark Skies, pretty ambitious to have this multi decade sci-fi plot, clearly it didn't pan out though sadly

[@TheReviewStudios]

It could've been big if done right

[@adorablychaotic]

Flops of the 90s series = Tops of my tops!

[@charlottecorday8494]

Vivica A. Fox is pure class and has one of the most irresistible chemistries I've ever seen in my life. It's so baffling she never became the biggest star back in the day, she just made so many bad decisions in the roles she took. Maybe she had a really awful agent.

[@TheReviewStudios]

I can definitely agree with all that. Now i'm curious I might dive into that agent theory.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

I don't get why the show was called Arsenio but his character name is Michael? That's just weird

[@JenMistress]

Mentioning May 19th for when The Cape aired it's last episode, and the wrestling fan in me laughed. If you don't get it, look up May 19th Kane, and you'll understand. 😉😂🤣 As for these shows, The Burning Zone, found 3 of them on Internet Archives, and everything else, between KZbin, Internet Archives, and in the case for Dark Skies, not so legal streaming services, was able to find them, which is good, as some of these has me curious, but never seen any of them. However, 1997, I wasn't even a year old yet. Yeah, we reached the year I was born. Anyways, thank you, enjoyed the video.

[@Allerka]

I remember watching Dark Skies and Homeboys in Outer Space when they were on, originally. Perversions of Science I caught later, when I saw it was a slightly more softcore version of Welcome to Paradox.

[@sithlordo66]

All 3 of that NBC Thriller block was amazing. The Pretender is on of my favorite shows

[@nicksoapdish157]

I never watched any of these shows, but I heared about the shows "Roar," "Homeboys in outerspace," Dark Skies,"and "Lost on Earth," Which I remember the last of those because it was played with the show "Claude's crib", which I'm honestly very surprised was not mentioned on this show.

[@TheReviewStudios]

I've honestly not heard of that show. Thanks

[@juliejones2991]

I was in high school in 1997

[@jwb52z9]

I graduated that year.

[@manueltapia1859]

Me in Junior High the worst years because I was bullyied back then 😮

[@michaelkrull3331]

I graduated in 98

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Anybody remember the series The Cape (2011)? It starred David Lyons, Summer Glau & Keith David?

[@kimberlyehrlich4]

Yep. And “Community” did a great episode making fun of it. That’s where “6 seasons and a movie” came from. Abed loved “The Cape” (2011) and despite Jeff saying it was terrible and would be canceled, Abed insisted it would go 6 seasons and a movie. 😄 But I had seen the first episode, maybe 2 episodes of The Cape and it was terrible in my opinion. Thankfully we got the Community episode out of it.

[@JolynHannah]

Dark Skies should have lasted longer, it was so good. It barely got a chance to develop its mythos

[@kimberlyehrlich4]

FYI, George Takei’s name is pronounced like “Ta-kay”, not Ta-kai. George Takei said that Gene Roddenberry at first mispronounced it like you did and George explained to him that that mis-pronunciation actually is a word that means “expensive”. So Gene said he’d never make the mistake again of calling George Takei expensive (or something to that effect). 😄

[@mysticwolf75]

Wow, I very, very vaguely remember Homeboys From Outer Space. It's hard to forget a title like that!

[@jamesmoss3424]

Perversions of Science should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍

[@lisagibson2975]

the eldest son in Meego did the voice of Sid in all those toy story movies :D

[@mistuhgone]

Perversions Of Science Ruled! It definitely made the Summer of '97 very entertaining - along with the animated shows Spawn and criminally short lived Spicy City. HBO just seemed to get Gen Xers back then.

[@RayW....]

Now i want to see Roar...

[@spacemanspiralcatzero]

I remember most of these shows, but I think this was the era I was watching less tv and hanging out with the wrong crowd haha. Can’t wait till you get to the 2000’s and you talk about Cleopatra 2525 😆

[@Lhunweth]

Yes! That show was campy as hell and I loved it. Mostly because it aired right after Xena, shared some of the same actors, and I had a crush on Victoria Pratt 😻

[@spacemanspiralcatzero]

@ I’ve been meaning to watch Mutant X with Victoria Pratt for nearly two decades now 😆

[@sonablom]

Dark skies scared the crap out of me as a kid in an existential dread kind of way.

[@suntanironman]

22:45 Curious. I definitely was watching Moesha and Homeboys In Outer Space at this time (I was actually randomly discussing Homeboys with someone the other day, lol). However, I have zero memory of The Burning Zone.

[@TheReviewStudios]

That's probably a good thing

[@strangebotwin-]

What were they thinking with that puppet show? 😂

[@haruruben]

The only one of these I remember fondly is Homeboys in Outer Space

[@The-Khandor-of-Kalakuta]

I remember watching Homeboys In Outer Space, but never liking it. You only had so many choices back then 😆

[@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats]

Dark Skies could have started the "I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens" meme. RIP J.T. Walsh, one of the best movie bad guys. The less said about Perversions of Science, the better. I don't remember any smutty humor on Meego. All I do remember is Meego talking to a dog - by barking - and, in a Halloween episode, the little boy floating and his head spinning around. Speaking of fever dreams, it's good to know Lost on Earth was real. I couldn't remember the title and nobody I mentioned it to had ever heard of it. I guess I'm not crazy.

[@nancymorales196]

I remember loving Roar.

[@Ray_Wood_1984]

That robot creeps me out. 😅

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

Don’t lie you love her

[@Ray_Wood_1984]

😆👍​@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072

[@bluejem1315]

I use to.have a jack Russell his name was duke . I miss him .

[@cxs69]

I loved Roar, didn't see it until Sci-Fi/Syfy aired it. Faked sick from school twice in a month to make sure I could record all the episodes.

[@christineheminger7762]

The title “The Cape” sounds like a “Project Runway “ for superheroes

[@Ishitonyou666]

Wow never heard or seen any of those shows, except for “Dark Skies”(have the dvd boxset but still haven’t watched it yet).

[@thedarkprince1987]

Home boys from Outer space was fun to watch.

[@ricey23]

I take it Sleepwalkers is going to appear in a future video?

[@TheReviewStudios]

You got it

[@mossena]

I loved Dark Skies! A great idea that never got a decent chance.

[@definecoco27]

No one will remember The Hitchhiker, The Great Bradberry Theater, and Up All Night.

[@jennibennecke669]

USA up all night? That I do remember

[@aaronsakulich4889]

I remember Dark Skies quite well. My friends all said it was one of the many ripoffs of the X Files after that started getting popular, but I'm convinced that with it's focus on historical footage being manipulated, it was actualy a ripoff of... Forrest Gump. I'm not sure many people remember what it was like when Forrest Gump was shown meeting Kennedy and all that, people went absolutely bonkers! It really felt like they tried doing a sci-fi version, but it was just too goofy to take seriously.

[@ShinySephiroth1]

10:06 SIX SEASONS AND A MOOOOVIE! 😂

[@sonablom]

Honestly the cape sounds like a show that would work today but only if it got shonda-fied

[@steelcurtain187]

Townies seems like it had the most potential

[@MrsMorrisReads]

the third kid on Meego was Erik Von Detten. He was a big teen heart throb at the time.

[@TheReviewStudios]

Yeah the kid from Brink! Glad you noticed! He disappears after the pilot episode.

[@jwb52z9]

My parents would never pay for movie channels, so I never saw Perversions of Science. I remember liking Dark Skies and The Burning Zone. I don't remember watching Townies, Lost on Earth, The Cape, Roar, or Meego.

[@Rjonesy101]

I remember Homeboys from Outer Space.

[@luisrizo8813]

10:11; Abed: six seasons and a movie

[@TheReviewStudios]

Nice! 😅👍

[@twannifufu]

I do not konw how "Homeboys in Outer Space" made it past the draft phase. UPN didn't learn their lesson because less than a year after cancelling that show to greenlight "The Secret Diaries of Desmond Pfeifer." The execs were out of their mind. NBC Saturday nights in the mid to late 1990s was pivotal in my development. I love The Pretender and Dark Skies because I had crushes on Michael T. Weiss and Eric Daly respectively. I wanted to be a pyschological profiler because of "Profiler."

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

I wish my life was like Townies. I am a townie.

[@christianlorre]

I heard of Homeboys but all the rest are total unknowns to me. by the way his name is George ta-kay. As he told William Shatner, surely you would understand rhymes with toupee.

[@RobertGreenwald]

I never watched any of these shows. In fact, the only ones I’ve heard of were Dark Skies and Homeboys in Outer Space.

[@codybailey855]

Homeboys in Outer Space....And I thought Reality TV was bad.

[@LovelyAutoRace-hh2gu]

I wonder if that series the cape , used the same soundstage as Kubrick did where he filmed the moon landing in 1969. That be a neat Easter egg

[@TheReviewStudios]

That's a great question

[@bbdarknyss]

I watched several of these but particularly loved ROAR.

[@john1120]

Perversions of Science was great. I've seen one or two episodes in my life. My cousin had HBO in 90s. Was it me or was the 80s/90s was know for having a sexy host with most. i.e. Elvira, USA up all night Rhonda Shear to name a few. I miss the old black sitcoms that were actually funny seems humor has deteriorated over time. Arsenio wasn't a bad show remember tuning in a few weeks and off the air. Just like homeboys in outer space. Which was one of the hardest shows to keep up with. UPN premiered the show and after that it kept moving around random time slots. Then eventually dissappear. Lost on earth was so raunchy at times. I actually looked forward to watching that twisted show as a kid. Meego felt too similar to mork and mindy in my opinion, but at the time I had a crush on Michelle Tranchtenberg...that may have kept me around 😅

[@andrewb4999]

Townies had a hell of a cast for a show that got canned so quickly.

[@TheReviewStudios]

It's crazy

[@ohmylard]

SCI-FI KNOCK OFF?! Invasion was a great series, I don't know what you're talking about!! Especially for the time I rewatch it time to time & it's still good.

[@SuperMeatsammich]

Perversions of science and body bags were awesome

[@bluejem1315]

I watch roar , I use to have a mad crush on heath Ledger . may be at peace.

[@manueltapia1859]

Where is Gary Sinise??? Was showed in the miniature 😅

[@guybeleeve]

I loved Homeboys in outer space. Wasn’t Morris in a somewhat relationship with loquatia? If I’m not mistaken I think she made herself physical body so she could be with him. Arsenio would’ve been better had it been about him hosting a late night show. However I’m pretty sure that he didn’t want to relive that.

[@TheReviewStudios]

They had a pad on the ship that pretty much served whatever purpose they needed it to from episode to episode. I wanna say she briefly manifests herself on that at least once. But I could be picturing "space chicks" they'd have pop up during passing jokes that didn't really have anything to do with the episodes. And a bunch of other characters used it to "beam aboard". Surprising they never whipped up a futuristic way to travel with her. They chose to lug that unplugged TV around everywhere instead. 😅👍

[@robshimer]

I always though "Townies" was supposed to be Mystic Pizza: The Series" but they lost the rights at the last minute.

[@aliali-ce3yf]

Townies seems like it was ahead of its time. Probably would've been a success in the late 2000s

[@TakeWalker]

Roar! :D I remember that show! I was indeed sad when it ended. I had no idea Heath Ledger was in it!

[@TheReviewStudios]

High quality episodes on KZbin

[@suntanironman]

23:58 Oh! Homeboys? Really? I don’t consider that series to be a failure because I loved it so much, lol. Here for only a short time, but left an impression on me even all these years later. As I mentioned in another comment a few minutes ago, I was randomly talking to somebody about Homeboys in Outer Space just the other day. 😂😂😂

[@TheReviewStudios]

Yeah, it really lands in the " Short-lived " category, such a funny out of the box show

[@jamesmoss3424]

I remember Lost on Earth and it should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍

[@timeflys3248]

I had no idea Molly Ringwald was on the first season of Facts of Life.

[@BadAxeEntertainment]

I don't remember any of these, lol.

[@LarsOfTheMohicans]

Me neither, and 1997 is a year that I remember very fondly. Only heard of "Homeboys in Outer Space" in passing and knew that Arsenio Hall had a talk show for a spell (as did Chevy Chase). edit: scratch that, it was an Arsenio sitcom. So no, zero recollection.

[@napoleonfeanor]

I don't remember any of them coming over here

[@j.demarco8937]

Townies sounds like it had potential. So does The Cape.

[@HuffinStufff]

Homeboys in outer space… YIKES lmao

[@0errab0]

I forgot all about Homeboys in Outer Space and that's ok.

[@bluejem1315]

I remember dark skies I kind of liked it.

[@TurdFergurson]

5:50 is that Bill Burr???

[@sneggleblech]

Ed Begley, Jr.? Well, I think I know why Meego failed

[@radomirkorac-uu3nk]

Where is Almost Perfect on your list? I know that series ended in 1996, but since you skipped over 1996 in your shows, I was hoping it would be in a future show. I was wrong.😞

[@TheGoddamnJefe]

Wait, Homeboys in Outer Space? Lol.

[@MotorPotor56]

Dark Skies deserved better

[@restionSerpentine]

Yeah I remember perversions of science.. the one where the guy goes crazy during a simulation of an outbreak was my favorite I remember hearing of dark skies, never watched it. I did not learn of or watch Roar, till it was on Scifi in early 00s. Only know Homeboys in outer space from similar lists of terrible 1 season forgotten shows

[@TheReviewStudios]

Thanks for sharing.

[@Harley.b.]

Ok so I have a request. Ive been looking for a short clip series that used to run in the early 2000 on mtv Europe about a sandbox. Does anyone know it's name or remember seeing it?

[@TheReviewStudios]

It's a good place to ask! We're happy to look into it.

[@Harley.b.]

@TheReviewStudios i was watching your videos and thought if anyone can find them it's them. It was a cartoon. But the version I could see was in Spanish since I lived in Spain. Me and my friends used to meme about it when memes weren't a thing yet😅. But no of us have been able to find it.

[@jaybirdjargon]

I loved Roar...

[@sejejo7565]

I don’t remember the LaQuasia character At all

[@TheReviewStudios]

Oh that's surprising! They took that TV with them all over the place. If I had a Loquatia I'd get a lot more done around here. - Milky Ray 😅👍

[@safetyhappy]

I remember The Cape

[@kellens737]

5:25 5:50 Bill Burr!

[@bobcartwright7476]

Apparently series called The Cape suffer that fate.

[@antonmassopust568]

I remember the burning Zone that actually was a pretty good series but the problem was too many people compared it to the X-Files viruses instead of aliens or Monsters but it just didn't click with audiences ask for homeboys in outer space that is just a really bad knockoff a red dwarf

[@CoreyT127]

5:50 Young dapper Bill Burr!