36 (35?) NEW SHOWS OF FALL 1998

[@vsgfilmgroup]

Another excellent lineup! I don't know where you keep finding all these, but never, never stop looking! I actually remembered some of these. It was so jarring seeing Christina Applegate try to be taken seriously. It didn't work out well for her, sadly, but still!

[@rosebyanyname]

Me: There couldn’t have been SO many bad tv shows, could there? This channel: *DO I HEAR A CHALLENGE?!*

[@findenison9114]

The only bad shows are ones that don't even get a pilot episode. And I mean this well over 2 decades ago. Everything looks cheesy in retrospect because out tastes change and we go through diff phases and grow.

[@robmclean4352]

4:31 It's a shame you don't have the actual opening sequence for "Trinity", since it won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music (beating out, among others, "The PJs").

[@asecretone]

Imagine being an actor and just going from pilot to pilot and series and series and never getting on one that "clicks" with audiences. Gotta be exhausting.

[@sha11235]

You take the money and run, I guess.

[@RampagingJupiter]

@@sha11235 What money? 1998 was the year of the churn and burn. T.V. shows didn't run long enough for actors to even see "money".

[@sha11235]

God, they really started cutting down opening credits so that you have no idea what the show is about.

[@ChipWhitingtonIII]

Loved Martial Law, watched King of Queens, Will & Grace, Jesse, Sports Night and Felicity. Also, full props to Mercy Point for being a futuristic medical show set in outer space.... I mean.

[@christianlarson2933]

Mercy Point = ER in space!

[@Poizenne]

I loved this show. Didn't last long enough.

[@AquarianNomadic]

I'm already too deep with this Michael Madsen thing 🤣🤣🤣

[@hellmuth26]

9:00 that camera trick, or whatever you want to call it, was use a LOT in the late '90s/early '00s. i think the movie 'crouching tiger hidden dragon' popularized it. it looks cheesy now, but at the time i think we were all impressed by it.

[@Tacocasaking]

You want to see cheesy look at 70’s tv show intros. Everything was either filmed from a helicopter or freeze frame. 😂

[@taylorlconner]

I remember there was a minor uproar around that horrible “Desmond Pfeiffer” show

[@danromero]

Boy this batch is as forgettable as the shows themselves. They’re all just so...similar.

[@huneebunee]

This is pretty neat to see. You should do a where are they now. Ha.. thanks for making this video.

[@cellytron]

Good lord, every single intro looks exactly like every other intro.

[@ParsnipPizza]

The irony of The Lives of Men, starring Bradley Whitford, and then Sports Night, directed by Aaron Sorkin, both killing time until 1999

[@Aster_Risk]

I love seeing stuff like that.

[@taylorcostello4129]

This is true. Don't forget 'Trinty' was the show John Spencer was biding his time with until Sorkin was looking for a "John Spencer type" when casting Leo McGarry. Additionally Allison Smith, the woman who played his daughter on The West Wing, was cast on Buddy Faro during this 1998-1999 season.

[@tejaswoman]

Did y'all fellow _West Wing_ fans seriously miss Kathleen York (Rep. Andrea "Andi" Wyatt) in one of the intros/promos early in this medley? Just when I thought you had beat me to the punch on all the future _TWW_ in here.

[@tejaswoman]

Replied too soon! Commented around the 9-minute part right before Sports night, and thus missed my chance to point out we also have Brett Cullen (Gov. Ray Sullivan, Vinick's running mate).

[@Stormwarningjeep]

And there was Mark Feuerstein (Cliff Calley) and should we even acknowledge Mandy had her own series before polluting TWW world

[@waterandafter]

How many Friends knock-offs did they make?

[@vsgfilmgroup]

Plenty. Friends knock-offs were only slightly less thick on the ground than anything "extreme."

[@RobCamp-rmc_0]

Christ there were so many that I could swear I remember Seinfeld being criticized as a Friends ripoff.

[@DiarraHarris]

All of them!

[@gheller2261]

You could pretty much guarantee that if a detective show's theme music was mostly horns as they tried to evoke old Bogart movies, it would not last more than 4 episodes.

[@ranchoth]

Vengeance Unlimited was sorely unappreciated.

[@BriGuyIL1980]

God, some of these I never even heard of. Or just plain forgot.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

That 70's Show?

[@Chelaxim]

Who would have ever thought only months after Ellen was cancelled, Will and Grace would be the the new show of 1998 with the biggest legacy. I wouldn't have put money on it.

[@FriedConsole]

Will and Grace was actually funny tho. I appreciate Ellen for being groundbreaking but I never found her funny and the Ellen show was not good.

[@The1DonG]

I always thought "My Favorite Mistake" by Sheryl Crow should have been the theme to Felicity.

[@Lynn17]

I REMEMBER TWO OF A KIND. Especially the episodes with Jesse "Brady Bunch Movie" Lee as a math tutor.

[@LordSkella]

I loved that show!

[@TaushaTW]

Martial Law is still in syndication.

[@seanmcmonagle4012]

Robert Guillame asks "... or this going to be another crappy show?" 95% of the time.

[@ParsnipPizza]

Gotta give Sorkin/Sports Night credit, that intro was funnier than all the other comedies in this montage

[@pumbaaj]

I got tired of hearing tv critics saying "Sports Night is the greatest show since Benson, but the ignorant peasants of America are too stupid to appreciate it."

[@steverogers8163]

yeah 7 Days. That was jam in '98.

[@ferociousgumby]

You've got to wonder where all these actors are now.

[@ceptenevar]

Good evening, good share, I wish you success 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@FriedConsole]

That Micheal Madsen show looks bad ass. Apparently ABC put it vs. Friends to go out and die.

[@RwDt09]

There are full episodes of it on KZbin.

[@luckdragongirl]

That sounds like ABC.

[@Chelaxim]

Sports Night and a bunch of other stuff got cancelled when ABC decided to put Who Want To Be A Millionaire on 5 nights a week in Primetime. And the Primetime version was an hour long. So 10 sitcom.s could have been in it's place.

[@petergray7576]

@@Chelaxim And that is how you make money as a TV network. 10 sitcoms (with separate casts, sets etc...) versus one gameshow (same old, same old every night).

[@fromthehaven94]

A bunch of TV show's destinies were forever altered/limited by their placement on the schedule against a Top 5/Top 10 show.

[@alskndlaskndal]

"Martial Law" didn't look like much, but it was created by Carlton Cuse who later worked on "Lost", so I wonder if there was more to it. I was curious about "Costello" because the intro made it look like "Friends" set in Boston. Turns out it's more like "Cheers" set in...Boston. But South Boston, so it's more blue-collar. It lasted just over a month. "Living In Captivity" looks kind of interesting, mainly because I'm surprised/impressed they were able to get one of Talking Heads' best songs for the intro.

[@waterandafter]

Too Many Cooks

[@archer1949]

How many failed pilots and one season flops did Lauren Graham star in before Gilmore Girls came along? I remember the pilot of that last thing. The “Hawaii Dynasty” thing. One of the worst single episodes of Network TV I’ve ever seen.

[@TJ52359]

if you think Graham had a string of stinkers... look up Tammy Lauren (Martial Law) or Jeffrey D. Sams (Cupid) ... I think Both of them have a similar streak , and Neither came close to a Gilmore Girls like success

[@alanoldham1700]

@@TJ52359 Paula Marshall (Cupid) was also quite the show killer.

[@TJ52359]

@@alanoldham1700 another one to look out for especially mid to late 90s is 'Mary Page Keller'... when you called out Graham; Tammy Lauren stuck out for me because she actually started as a Child/Teen actor and a couple of these Videos on 80s Seasons saw her in a show a year... and they just Posted '96 and '97 in the last month or so and Sams was in both of those videos as well...

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

I'm guessing at least one "flop" called Townies.

[@wille5080]

Ah, Charmed. Such good memories.

[@lp-xl9ld]

I can remember hearing about most of these. I can also remember *not* watching any (barring WILL AND GRACE)

[@sha11235]

Encore Encore I remember and what is sad is one of the creators died in the WTC attacks.

[@ferociousgumby]

Most of these seem. . . short-lived.

[@fromthehaven94]

The shows six different networks said "yes" to.

[@jtshark9283]

Mercy Point:ER in space. HOw many episodes did that last?

[@Poizenne]

Not enough.

[@taylorlconner]

Be right back, buying The Mummer’s Dance on iTunes

[@yaywhewclips242]

did anyone like the reboot of Charmed? Myself I loved the original Cupid w/ J. Piven and P. Marshall (who played another 'shrink' on another shaow and maybe Nip/Tuck?).

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

Where on earth is That 70's Show? You can't do 1998 without That 70's Show!

[@RwDt09]

You are absolutely correct. An oversight, no doubt. It's happened a few times before. I was probably thrown off by its debut date being August instead of September or October and so it by-passed me for inclusion. But it doesn't explain why other August debut shows were included in other vids of mine. Thanks for noting it.

[@yaywhewclips242]

R I P Glenn Headly

[@RampagingJupiter]

I won't hold you(or anyone), but I didn't watch felicity until I picked it up for my then girlfriend and I to watch back in 2009. I really enjoyed their attempt at capturing New York City, and the characters. Still, it had its odd storylines at times. Like season 4...all of season 4.

[@christinabridgeman3859]

Haunted by 90s hair! 😮

[@jtshark9283]

While there are many bad shows. Just think, if sports night or secret lives of men had actual hit, we would not have West Wing

[@mijajajaja]

So many tv shows have the twin towers in their intro.

[@petergray7576]

Common means of establishing the show takes place in NYC.

[@porschedaniels5864]

Mercy Point and Oh, Baby Theme Song

[@josephspringfield7221]

I'm so glad that in 1998, I was working all the time and in college, so I never had time to watch half of this garbage.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

I was glad I was too young in 1998 to care about most of these shows either! 🤣

[@JamesBLAHA-s3p]

Wind on Water only went two episodes. Tarzan the Apemam(1981) ended Bo Derek's appeal.

[@CrossJeniel]

Wow

[@Bootmahoy88]

Good God!!

[@ElectraAlan]

Seriously, no "Ask Harriet"? What's 1998 without a crossdressing sportswriter?

[@RwDt09]

It did't air in the fall of 1998. It aired in the previous season, 1997-98, premiering in January 1998.

[@ElectraAlan]

@@RwDt09 OK. I'm sorry. I didn't realize we were going to be arguing about months. IMDB doesn't go into that much detail. It was 1998.

[@JustJess810]

Guys Like Us was created by Dan Schenider? 😮 No thanks 😢

[@mikehoffman3131]

I'd watch a show with Sydney Penny and Cassidy Rae. Just hit the mute button.

[@russellst.martin4255]

L.A Doctors might be the most generic tv show name ever