Joey
Joey was the only character on Friends to get a spin-off... but it never matched the success of the original series. Better than its reputation, Joey always paled in comparison;…
Ally McBeal: Justice in a Miniskirt
Vonda Shepard, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Jane Krakowski, Calista Flockhart, Lisa Nicole Carson, Greg Germann, Portia de Rossi, Peter MacNicol and Lucy Liu. Photo: Fox David E. Kelley has a…
Remington Steele: The Moonlighting Detective
Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist. Photo: NBC Remington Steele shared many similarities with another lighthearted procedural called Moonlighting, which also featured two detectives that spent a lot of time bickering…
Fawlty Towers: Keeping Up Appearances
Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, John Cleese and Connie Booth. Photo: BBC The Monty Python’s Flying Circus gang are staying at a hotel in the British vacation resort of Torquay and…
Seinfeld: New York State of Mind
Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jerry Seinfeld. Photo: NBC The seminal TV show of the 1990s started out as nothing special at all. It was a show about…
Home Alone 4
This one makes the third film look pretty good. It’s a TV movie that takes us back to Kevin, with a new kid replacing Mac Culkin, who once again runs…
Melrose Place: Supersoap 2.0
Thomas Calabro, Doug Savant, Heather Locklear, Grant Show, Daphne Zuniga, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Andrew Shue and Josie Bissett. Photo: Fox The show that started out as a lame copy of producer…
3rd Rock From the Sun
This sitcom became an opportunity for the versatile actor John Lithgow to tickle our funny bone – and he was good at it. The show featured four aliens that came…
‘Allo, ‘Allo: Getting Along in Nouvion
Carmen Silvera and Gorden Kaye. Photo: BBC Throughout the 1970s, David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd were reaping the rewards of having created one of the most successful British sitcoms of…
Falcon Crest: Wine, Women and Power
Robert Foxworth, Jamie Rose, Susan Sullivan, Jane Wyman, William R. Moses, Abby Dalton and Lorenzo Lamas. Photo: CBS At first they all seem to have had realism in mind, the…