The WONDERFUL series that marked the childhood of those who reach 40…

Nostalgia is the watchword for many. And that’s true even when it comes to Hollywood producers. Or how else would you explain the countless sequels, remakes, and reboots of landmark movies from the era, whether in the 80s, 90s, or even before.

There are those who say with both feet that they don’t make films like they used to. Well it’s true. Partly because our society has changed so much that it would be impossible to replicate some concepts today. So, for better or for worse, today’s audiovisual productions reflect our times. The downside is the growing wave of recycling, as if truly original products are rare to find.

All the stories in the world have already been told and the rest are little derivatives of the same thing. It will be? Anyway, this is not said when talking about television series. Unlike film productions, television series have taken a leap forward in terms of quality. This is because series are increasingly cinematic, having the freedom to tell certain stories that entertainment cinema no longer has.

It’s undeniable when you look back at how TV shows have evolved from pure serial escapism to interconnected stories, with a beginning, middle and end, that directly affect outcome to outcome – rather than, say , a new story from scratch every week.

Bet on nostalgia and nostalgia – for a change – we offer you a new article. Here we are going to revisit with you the programs that succeeded 30 years ago in every household in the world. Let’s see if you’ve actually heard of any of them.

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Which do you remember?

The program that revealed comedian Tim Allen (the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story movies) and made him an American TV star was one of the biggest hits of the early 90s and even aired here in Brazil on a cable channel. Also known as “the Tool Man”, it was the nickname of the character played by Allen, host of a show that talked about home repairs, where he taught how to maintain and repair the house. The series was hugely successful, spanning 8 seasons until 1999.

dinosaur family

This one, I’m sure, is unforgettable. Absolute success when it was first shown on Globo 30 years ago, later finding its way into the hands of SBT and finally now available on the Disney+ collection where it no doubt promises to captivate a new legion of fans. a young generation. At the time, the series was very well defined as “a response to the success of The Simpsons”, as it had a family structure very similar to the design of the yellow characters, even a baby. Of course, changing the fact that they are now dinosaurs and not yellowish humans. The big attraction was the craftsmanship behind creating the dinosaurs, through a mix of rubber clothing and animatronics. This, two years before the premiere of Jurassic Park. The series ran for 4 seasons until 1994.

Another family series, this children’s comedy was double-aired in the mid-1990s on the Warner channel alongside Full House. Here, too, it was “full”, when a single father (Patrick Duffy) decides to move in with his partner, a single mother (Suzanne Somers). He takes her and their three children along – youngsters ranging from infancy to late teens. The show ran for 7 seasons until 1998.

Clarissa knows everything

Another children’s show, this one featured teenage muse of the 90s, Melissa Joan Hart. The actress, of course, will make a name for herself in her follow-up series, the cult classic Sabrina – The Teenage Witch, which was recently rebooted on Netflix. Who knows, maybe a producer is happy to bring Clarissa back too. Here, whose original title is Clarissa Explains Everything, Hart plays the smart teenager in the title, who lives by breaking the fourth wall and explaining the actions and situations of everyone around her to the audience. The show ran for 5 seasons until 1994.

Silk Harassment

The first action and detective series on the list, Silk Stalkings was a huge hit in the early 90s and featured a pair of “very hot” detectives solving murder cases in Palm Beach, Florida. The chemistry of the protagonists was what would shape, for example, the characters of The X-Files and the different pairs of professional partners of the opposite sex, with enormous sexual tension. Rob Estes and Mitzi Kapture played Sgts Chris Lorenzo and Rita Lee Lance. The duo would play until season five – when their arc would come to an end. In the same season, but already in 1996, a new duo was introduced, but they did not please the audience, soon being replaced by sergeants Tom Ryan and Cassy St. John (Chris Potter and Janet Gunn) – who will remain until the series ended, for a total of eight seasons, in 1999.

final righteousness

Anyone who grew up in the 90s will surely remember Judge Nicholas Marshall, as this series (Dark Justice in the original) marked the period in its nightly broadcasts on Globo with never-before-seen episodes. Whoever is talking to you vividly remembers watching the series while on vacation at a friend’s beach house. Lawyer by day, vigilante by night, the main character even looks like the blind hero Daredevil, from Marvel. Here, instead of a lawyer, the main character was a judge, who came out with his motorcycle at dawn after the criminals whom the law could not reach in court, after the murder of his wife and her daughter. The program lasted 3 seasons until 1993. A curiosity is that the main character changed performers at the end of the first season. Indeed, the first year of the show was filmed in Spain and the following seasons moving to Los Angeles, Ramy Zada ​​would not be available due to the change of location, being replaced by Bruce Abbott.

If this title is familiar to you, you are not mistaken. At this point, it was nothing new for blockbuster movies to turn into TV series. And here we have the small screen version of a Steven Spielberg production. It’s about Harry and the Hendersons (in the original), a “derivative” of ET – The Extra-Terrestrial, exchanging only the little alien for a bigfoot and the urban environment of the city, for a rural house of the protagonist family. Almost none of the main actors involved in the 1987 film have returned to the series, which counts the absences of Spielberg, the father of the family John Lithgow (replaced in the series by Bruce Davison) and even the interpreter of the “gorilla “, Kevin Peter Hall, in the series lived by Patrick Pinney and Dawan Scott. Only make-up artist Rick Baker, who won an Oscar for creating Bigfoot in the film, also returned to continue his excellent work on the series. The show ran for 3 seasons until 1993.

Speaking of adaptations, it’s not just movies that have had versions for the small screen, very common in the 70s, 80s and 90s. At that time, Hollywood producers also rehash ideas from the past , pulling well-known brands out of the oven in order to capture a new legion of fans. But it didn’t always work. Mission: Impossible, for example, was a series that was very successful in the 60s, then was brought back into the 80s without the same impact, before becoming a blockbuster in cinema with Tom Cruise. Here something similar happened. The Missing Link was a big hit in the 70s, telling the story of the Marshall family, which goes back in time to the time of the dinosaurs. 30 years ago, another attempt was made at this storyline, this time focusing on the Porter family – where many have come to know this story. The show ran for 2 seasons until 1992 and then would give a 2009 movie starring Will Ferrell.

street justice

Everyone knows actor Carl Weathers well. Immortalized as Apollo Creed in the Rocky franchise, it is thanks to his character that the derivative of Creed, starring Michael B. Jordan, was able to succeed. Weathers appeared in many successful action films in the 1980s, such as The Predator (1987) and Action Jackson (1988). Today, the actor is still active, appearing in the famous Disney+ series The Mandalorian, the first spin-off of the Star Wars universe. But the actor’s flirtation with television is nothing new, and 30 years ago he starred in his third series. In Steet Justice (in the original title), Weathers played Adam Beaurdreaux, a veteran of the Vietnam War, seriously wounded in combat and rescued by a family of missionaries. Years later, the protagonist now works as a policeman and is determined to find the now adult son of such a family when he learns that his parents have been killed. The show ran for 2 seasons until 1993.

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