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
Photo: BBC The Monty Python’s Flying Circus gang are staying at a hotel in the British vacation resort of Torquay and are absolutely amazed at the incompetence of the hotel…
Seinfeld: New York State of Mind
Photo: NBC The seminal TV show of the 1990s started out as nothing special at all. It was a show about nothing, but it quickly turned into something. Stand-up comedian…
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
Photo: Fox The show that started out as a lame copy of producer Darren Star’s Beverly Hills 90210 became the hottest primetime soap on U.S. television in the 1990s. Who…
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…
Frasier: The Finer Things in Life
Photo: NBC I have a special love for this show. There are certain traits in the character of Frasier Crane that reminds me of myself. The close but competitive relationship…
‘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…