I'm dying at the kazoo version of the Brady theme from the variety show. What the hell were they thinking?? Scratch that: $$$. Greed. Mike Lookinland looks like a full-sized little person, no?

I'm dying at the kazoo version of the Brady theme from the variety show. What the hell were they thinking?? Scratch that: $$$. Greed. Mike Lookinland looks like a full-sized little person, no?

Not to get off topic or anything, but Mike drove me nuts as Bobby in the Brady Universe. I liked him better in my favorite movie, The Towering Inferno.

Did race car driver Bobby ever walk again in some Christmas miracle or anything? I didn't watch the full season.

Did race car driver Bobby ever walk again in some Christmas miracle or anything? I didn't watch the full season.

I can't remember. I bought a DVD of the series at an autograph show once, but I haven't watched it in quite some time.

Not to get off topic or anything, but Mike drove me nuts as Bobby in the Brady Universe. I liked him better in my favorite movie, The Towering Inferno.

Aww, Bobby starred in one of my favorite episodes, it actually put a lump in my throat. He was going to run away from home because he watched Cinderella and thought all step-mothers were wicked, so Carol did the only thing a Brady could do and packed a bag and decided to run away with him.

Saved by the Bell was better than Good Morning, Miss Bliss.

Would you guys call that a spinoff or a revamp, though?

Would you guys call that a spinoff or a revamp, though?

I was thinking that, too. I would probably say revamp.

When I was a kid, they used to do these Friday night previews of the new Saturday morning lineup (those were the days!). One year, the NBC special centered around a group of teens challenged to locate the new Saturday morning lineup. When they found it, just under the bell, they met a Wizard of Oz type figure played by Sherman Hemsley (then starring in Amen) who awarded them with a show that would follow their lives, aptly titled Saved by the Bell. I'm not making this up.

Would you guys call that a spinoff or a revamp, though?

That definelty was not a spinoff. Revamp is more accurate

I looooovvveee the Brady Brides

SBTB was definitely a revamp.

Speaking of revamps, does anyone remember the short-lived show called The Torkelsons? It was about a single mom raising 5 kids. It lasted a short while, and then they revamped it where suddenly the mom had only 3 kids and she moved in to a single father's home with 2 kids of his own to be his maid or something to that degree. The single father was played by Perry King and his daughter was played by Brittany Murphy. The show was called Almost Home. I LOVED this revamped show, but once again it didn't last long. They played it on Saturday nights on NBC during the Golden Girls/Empty Nest early 90's era.

Love that people here are saying Melrose Place > 90210. I think 90210 is more iconic and more remembered, especially its highschool years, but boy when Melrose took off in season 2, it was CAN'T-MISS soapy TV, and definitely my favorite over the other.

I love 90210 and MP for two different reasons. I associate them because they were set in the same time and place, but I go to MP's glory days for soapy melodrama, while I go to 90210's glory days for earnest teen drama. I can't watch the earnest first few episodes of MP, nor can I watch the wannabe soapy later years of 90210.

I can't watch the earnest first few episodes of MP, nor can I watch the wannabe soapy later years of 90210.

That's a clever way to describe it, and you're totally right. Although, I must admit I even have a soft spot for the politically correct self-contained early episodes of MP. It's just so completely different from what it developed to be.

♫People say God looks out for the workin' man... Sure hope He's lookin' out for me...♫ My mother LOVED The Torkelsons and I had such a crush on Dorothy Jane. I have to say, I think the original series was better than the glossy revamp. I thought the Torkelsons (meaning the characters) got cheapened, they weren't as warmly and richly drawn in Almost Home. The Torkelsons was kind of a dramady and that was all scrapped. For instance, the Joey Lawrence episode of Almost Home where Dorothy Jane and Brittany Murphy are drooling over him and literally rip his shirt off. The whole thing kind of reminds me of that classic sell your soul thing in Hollywod, like that episode of Family Guy when Brian's pilot gets picked up.

(*Dorothy Jane in her window box talking to the man in the moon* )