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Remember when Scott Bakula was a sleezy lawyer, pre-Friends Matt Leblanc was on a TV news show, and the Navy shut down ABC’s knockoff of Tom Cruise's biggest hit? From Eisenhower and Lutz to Supercarrier, these 10 forgotten shows flopped so hard that they left a crater.
Future stars like pre-Seinfeld's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Brad Garrett (before Everybody Loves Raymond) couldn’t save these disasters.
10 Forgotten TV Shows from 1988 That Flopped HARD
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - #10: Eisenhower and Lutz (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125154/http://www.jumptheshark.com/e/eisenhowerandlutz.htm) — Scott Bakula, Patricia Richardson
03:27 - #9: Coming of Age — Paul Dooley, Kevin Pollak
05:32 - #8: Murphy’s Law — George Segal
07:35 - #7: First Impressions — Brad Garrett
09:39 - #6: HeartBeat — Kate Mulgrew, Lynn Whitfield
12:16 - #5: Day by Day (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125223/http://www.jumptheshark.com/d/daybyday.htm) — Douglas Sheehan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith
14:33 - #4: Sonny Spoon — Mario Van Peebles
16:59 - #3: TV 101 (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125202/http://www.jumptheshark.com/t/tv101.htm) — Matt LeBlanc
18:49 - #2: Aaron's Way — Merlin Olsen, Jessica Walter
21:06 - #1: Supercarrier — Gerardo Mejía, Robert Hooks
Remember when Scott Bakula was a sleezy lawyer, pre-Friends Matt Leblanc was on a TV news show, and the Navy shut down ABC’s knockoff of Tom Cruise's biggest hit? From Eisenhower and Lutz to Supercarrier, these 10 forgotten shows flopped so hard that they left a crater.
Future stars like pre-Seinfeld's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Brad Garrett (before Everybody Loves Raymond) couldn’t save these disasters.
10 Forgotten TV Shows from 1988 That Flopped HARD
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - #10: Eisenhower and Lutz (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125154/http://www.jumptheshark.com/e/eisenhowerandlutz.htm) — Scott Bakula, Patricia Richardson
03:27 - #9: Coming of Age — Paul Dooley, Kevin Pollak
05:32 - #8: Murphy’s Law — George Segal
07:35 - #7: First Impressions — Brad Garrett
09:39 - #6: HeartBeat — Kate Mulgrew, Lynn Whitfield
12:16 - #5: Day by Day (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125223/http://www.jumptheshark.com/d/daybyday.htm) — Douglas Sheehan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith
14:33 - #4: Sonny Spoon — Mario Van Peebles
16:59 - #3: TV 101 (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125202/http://www.jumptheshark.com/t/tv101.htm) — Matt LeBlanc
18:49 - #2: Aaron's Way — Merlin Olsen, Jessica Walter
21:06 - #1: Supercarrier — Gerardo Mejía, Robert Hooks