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Going Places (1990-91). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN-jx3yMNuM
For those not familiar, this was the Miller-Boyett sitcom based in a California beach-front house, which of course came with the stereotypical Miller-Boyett feel-good theme song that made you want to hug yourself.
I'm probably the only person who ever cared about it, but there was something about this short-lived show that had me captivated. Like all TGIF shows, this was a cheesy, sentimental depiction of idealized American life, but I wanted to live in this world more than any other. For one thing, the women on this show were beautiful (my heart was almost evenly divided by Heather Locklear and Staci Keanan, with Locklear just barely winning out. Locklear was the TV analog to a girl I knew in junior high.). But that life--living in a cool house on the beach with your best buddies, the gorgeous women, and driving around in a classic Caddy convertible--I couldn't get enough of it.
The type of humor displayed was less sophisticated than other adult shows, but fairly adult for TGIF. It had a hot young cast in Heather Locklear, Alan Ruck, Jerry Levine, and Staci Keanan. Sadly, after putting the show on hiatus, ABC found no reason to continue the show in the Fall of '91 when its mid-season replacement, (the abysmal) Baby Talk, dwarfed its ratings performance. Both Staci Keanan and Christopher Castile would move on to Step-by-Step in the Fall of '91.
Other shows I liked:
Mr. Belvedere
Perfect Strangers
Family Matters
Step-by-Step
Boy Meets World
The Norm Show (briefly on TGIF)
I hated Baby Talk, and I wasn't interested in any shows made for preteen girls.
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