Not many people were even aware of this TV shows existence. It basically had nothing to do with the game, and was only loosely based on the premise. It had some pretty random guest stars as well, including Dave Thomas, Martin Short, David Cronenberg and Eugene Levy, the shows creator.
Basically, the uncle was turned into a fly and the youngest son was put into the body of a grown fat adult man, and wacky adventures ensued. If you look past the fact that it had little to do with the fantastic games, it's not completely terrible. It was created by Eugene Levy and starred Joe Flaherty so that was a major plus. It also had a lot of SCTV guest stars. Anyways, just wondering if anyone remembers watching this when it originally aired from 1990 to 1993 on The Family Channel.
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Jul 16 2011 06:32 pm
Wow, never caught that before.
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Jul 16 2011 06:46 pm
I remember reading an article on this show in Nintendo Power. Never actually watched it though.
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Jul 16 2011 07:06 pm
It's Canadian. Of course I watched it.
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Jul 16 2011 09:02 pm
I watched it off and on. It was weird. I was a much bigger fan of Family Channel's reruns of Rin Tin Tin: K9 Cop and the 60s Batman show. I think they might have had Addams Family reruns too. One or all of those reruns might have actually been on TBS. I have trouble distinguishing between the two in the early 90s. I do remember that TBS started all its shows at 5 past past the hour (or half hour), just to be a dick. So if you watched a show on their channel and then flipped to something else, you'd already have missed the first five minutes of it.
I watched it off and on. It was weird. I was a much bigger fan of Family Channel's reruns of Rin Tin Tin: K9 Cop and the 60s Batman show. I think they might have had Addams Family reruns too. One or all of those reruns might have actually been on TBS. I have trouble distinguishing between the two in the early 90s. I do remember that TBS started all its shows at 5 past past the hour (or half hour), just to be a dick. So if you watched a show on their channel and then flipped to something else, you'd already have missed the first five minutes of it.
Addams Family may have come on the Family Channel, but I'm 100% certain it also aired on TBS. The morning schedule usually started like this : Tom and Jerry would air starting at 6:05 to 7:05, followed by an hour of The Addams Family, followed by an hour of Gilligans Island. Also, TBS Superstation would only play movies during night time programming except for Friday and Saturday nights when they would play Night Tracks, a program airing from 11:05 PM to 6:05 AM that consisted of nothing but current pop music videos. It ruled.
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Jul 17 2011 11:22 pm
I saw a couple episodes of it back in maybe 1991/1991.
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Jul 17 2011 11:56 pm
I remember seeing this as part of the Family Channel's line-up but I was never able to catch it.
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