March 14, 1997 commercials with ABC TGIF bumpers

Taken from Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Step By Step.
1. Disney's Jungle 2 Jungle movie trailer
2. Pizza Hut
3. ABC's Wide World of Sports promo
4. Roseanne/Ellen promos
5. WABC-TV March Against Drugs promo bumper
6. TGIF Sabrina, The Teenage Witch preview
7. Boy Meets World closing credits
8. TGIF Step By Step in 30 minutes bumper
9. E.P.T.
10. Space Jam on home video
11. Payless Shoe Source
12. Walt Disney World
13. Mighty Ducks promo
14. Liar Liar trailer
15. Toys 'R' Us
16. Monopoly game at McDonald's (many WILL win if a piece of food counts though)
17. Nickelodeon Harriet The Spy on home video
18. Dangerous Minds/Bridge of Time promos
19. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman promo
20. The World Figure Skating Championships promo
21. Lipton
22. Morgan Fairchild for Old Navy
23. Selena trailer
24. WABC Eyewitness News at 11 promo bumper
25. Sabrina TGIF commercial bumper
26. Sears
27. Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves on home video
28. KFC
29. Hellmann's
30. The Oscars (Academy Awards) promo
31. TGIF Sabrina/Step By Step transition bumper
32. Sabrina, The Teenage Witch split screen closing credits
33. The Oscars promo bumper
34. Children's Advil
35. (same as #14)
36. (same as #11)
37. Chef Boyardee
38. The Drew Carey Show/Arsenio promos
39. Scotch-Brite
40. (same as #15)
41. Blockbuster
42. Another Sears
43. Another Monopoly at McDonald's
44. Partnership for a Drug-Free America
45. ABC D-DAY PSA on drugs
46. Johnson's Kids No More Tangles Shampoo
47. Dr Pepper
48. Old El Paso
49. Step By Step split screen closing credits
50. TGIF closing

[@hernacabreja5988]

Step by Step was still on that day, and I know this show from the September 24, 1993 episode's commercials that aired between SBS and "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper"

[@tuningin88]

i miss TGIF when it was like this, too.

[@perualonso]

25 years ago today…

[@rickgrey5432]

The 90s seem so innocent in retrospect.

[@averymerrick]

ABC's TGIF lineup for Friday March 14, 1997. 8pm - Family Matters (new episode: Odd Man In) 8:30pm - Boy Meets World (repeat: Janitor Dad) 9pm - Sabrina, The Teenage Witch (repeat: Third Aunt From the Sun) 9:30pm - Step By Step (new episode: Road Trip) 10pm - 20/20

[@averymerrick]

The last great year (1996-97) for TGIF.

[@pannoni8449]

+Avery Merrick Blame CBS for that by trying to "compete" with ABC by stealing Family Matters and Step By Step, the two best shows remaining. Teen Angel and You Wish just weren't nearly as good (it says a lot when "lesser" earlier shows like Going Places and Baby Talk are superior in quality.

[@pannoni8449]

+pannoni 8 It was made worse when CBS had already tried in 1992 with a couple dying sitcoms (Major Dad/Designing Women) and the now obscure Golden Palace and Bob. Nowadays, Fridays are a joke on TV thanks to Hollywood Hype and heading out on the town.

[@lebronkenney7443]

+pannoni 8 I would rather CBS pick it up rather than it just end like that

[@nlee4566]

Once Step by Step left...it fell off. Olson twins had a show which was the sign of the end lol

[@averymerrick]

pannoni 8 In early 1997, CBS picked up Family Matters and Step by Step in a $40 million deal to acquire the rights to the programs from ABC.[5] ABC then promised to pay Miller-Boyett Productions $1.5 million per episode for a ninth and tenth season of Family Matters. However, tensions had risen between Miller-Boyett Productions and ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company (which had bought the network in 1995 as part of its merger with ABC's then-parent Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.). Miller-Boyett thought that it would not be a big player on ABC after the network's recent purchase by Disney. In turn, Miller-Boyett Productions agreed to a $40 million offer from CBS for a 22-episode season for both Family Matters and Step By Step. CBS scheduled Family Matters along with Step By Step as a part of its new Friday lineup branded as the CBS Block Party and scheduled the family-oriented block against ABC's TGIF lineup, where the two series originated. Near the end of the ninth season, the cast was informed that a tenth and final season was planned, so scripts and plot synopses were written for the show. Ultimately, due to poor ratings, CBS cancelled Family Matters (as well as Step By Step) after one season, along with the rest of the "Block Party" lineup. CBS also pulled the show from its regular schedule in the winter. As a result, the series finale was broadcast with little fanfare during "burn off" summer TV time in 1998

[@samjean3688]

17:38

[@EvansSt83]

TGIF should've moved to The WB.

[@pannoni8449]

One of its shows at the time, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, moved to the WB in 2000, which was basically the final nail in the coffin for TGIF. The WB basically was "TGIF 2.0" in the early to mid '00s, even if ABC had an actual TGIF 2.0 from 2003-05.

[@koopert899]

This VHS recording (not the video) is now 23 years old.

[@longboardguy]

25 years old almost now

[@koopert899]

Yeah

[@longboardguy]

@@koopert899 nice to see reply fast cool. Sometimes people don’t answer their old comments. Hope your well take care 👋🇨🇦.

[@koopert899]

Thanks man! Have a nice day.

[@lebronkenney7443]

8:00 Family Matters 8:30 Boy Meets World 9:00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch 9:30 Step by Step 10:00 20/20

[@samjean3688]

Goodnight!

[@danielgalanaugh714]

Great year for 1997.

[@kingbozo2619]

11:27

[@TheChampProductions]

3:44 Same Commercial from the Toy Story 1996 VHS Opening

[@changetheuniverse944]

Do you have the episodes of the these shows too, along with the commercials? Love your uploads, such nostalgia!! :)

[@pannoni8449]

Whenever you see me posting these blocks of commercials, I specifically mention the programs these were taking from. Except for some movies (you'll find those on home video anyways), I have the episodes of all of the shows that I've post, in full or partial form. Some aren't present on my channel since they are either available from another user or have a proper DVD/streaming release.

[@averymerrick]

ABC's TGIF block (1989-2000) began to die in the fall of 1997: stemming from a combination of aging sitcoms like Family Matters and Step by Step moving to CBS (who started - and ended - their own family-friendly Friday night sitcom line-up in 1997-98 called "The Block Party"), the oversaturation of supernatural/magic type shows (Sabrina the Teenage Witch and new series You Wish and Teen Angel, the latter of which both lasted only one season), the failure of Two of a Kind (which was the last sitcom produced by the previously reliable Miller-Boyett group) starring the Olsen twins the following year. Ultimately, the ending of Boy Meets World after seven seasons and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch moving to The WB after the 1999-2000 season. ABC would bring back the TGIF brand for the 2003-05 & 2018-19 seasons, *but it never met the same success it had before.*

[@markelijio6012]

The Miller-Boyett Group has found great success with the Emmy nominated "Full House 2: Fuller House" on Netfix from 2016 until 2020 for five successful seasons and 75 episodes.

[@Barber747]

Well, well, well...if that isn't the most excellent breakdown of TGIF's gradual decline I've ever read!!! 😃👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@averymerrick]

@@Barber747 Sad but true.

[@davidcross701]

3:05 EPT Test, More accurate than the theory of Evolution

[@bobowens9798]

Liar Liar was so hokey pokey and predictable. They need to do a modern day version but with darker adult themes and humor.

[@averymerrick]

TGIF returns to ABC, beginning October 5, 2018.