The 80s gave us some of the biggest shows ever—but the decade also gave us a ton of shows that basically vanished from memory. Not bad…just forgotten (okay, some of them were just bad). Let’s see how many of these you actually remember. Because getting to five might be a lot harder than you think.
Columbo and Murder, She Wrote couldn’t have been more different—one smelled like rain-soaked asphalt and coffee; the other like tea and typewriter ink. Yet both solved murders that left entire generations glued to the couch. Now, let’s settle it once and for all: trench coat vs. typewriter....
There were so many shows that even die-hard fans couldn’t keep up—and some gems (and not so gems) just slipped through the cracks in our collective memories. From talking bunnies to bizarre dramas, here are 35 shows from the ’90s you probably totally forgot about (until now).
Almost every great show has one: that character who just grates on your nerves. Whether they were meant to be annoying or just ended up that way, these characters made us roll our eyes, yell at the screen, and sometimes even question why we were watching in the first place.
On TV, The Brady Bunch was pure blended family bliss—six kids, two perfect parents, and a dog who never aged. But when the cameras stopped rolling, real life was anything but squeaky clean. Secret romances, bitter feuds, career-crushing choices… the Brady house had its share of drama.
Some of our favorite TV shows deserve a spin-off, perhaps to end a particularly interesting character arc or to give a stand-out character their own show. Some spin-offs are successful, but let's examine the ones that fell flat on their face.
He was building something real in Hollywood. Role by role, performance by performance, people were starting to realize how good he actually was. But how good could he have been? We’ll never know, because his story ended far too soon… and in a way that feels completely impossible to believe, even by Hollywood standards.
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