CBS 1997 vs NBC 1990

[Jerryt]

This is a new thing on the forums I like to called television VS. It when everyone get to vote who have the best television season between two different networks and years. This post will be CBS 1997 with the slogan The Address is CBS Welcome Home vs NBC 1990 with The Place To Be. Go below to click on the videos and see the schedules then vote.



CBS 1997 The Address is CBS Welcome Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=103QUOgCW9M
CBS Saturday Night
800pm - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
900pm - Early Edition
1000pm - Walker, Texas Ranger

CBS Sunday Night
700pm - 60 Minutes
800pm - Touched by an Angel
900pm - CBS Sunday Movies

CBS Monday Night
800pm - Cosby
830pm - Everybody Loves Raymond
900pm - Cybill
930pm - George & Leo
1000pm - Brooklyn South

CBS Tuesday Night
800pm - JAG
900pm - Michael Hayes
1000pm - Dellaventura

CBS Wednesday Night
800pm - The Nanny
830pm - Murphy Brown
900pm - Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel
1000pm - Chicago Hope

CBS Thursday Night
800pm - Promised Land
900pm - Diagnosis: Murder
1000pm - 48 Hours

CBS Friday Night
800pm - Family Matters
830pm - Meego
900pm - The Gregory Hines Show
930pm - Step by Step
1000pm - Nash Bridges

NBC 1990 The Place To Be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnmr6SUpglU
NBC Saturday Night
800pm - Parenthood
830pm - Working It Out
900pm - The Golden Girls
930pm - Empty Nest
1000pm - Carol & Company
1030pm - American Dreamer

NBC Sunday Night
700pm - Hull High
800pm - Lifestories
900pm - The NBC Sunday Movie

NBC Monday Night
800pm - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
830pm - Ferris Bueller
900pm - The NBC Monday Movie

NBC Tuesday Night
800pm - Matlock
900pm - In the Heat of the Night
1000pm - Law & Order

NBC Wednesday Night
800pm - Unsolved Mysteries
900pm - The Fanelli Boys
930pm - Dear John
1000pm - Hunter

NBC Thursday Night
800pm - The Cosby Show
830pm - A Different World
900pm - Cheers
930pm - Grand
1000pm - L.A. Law

NBC Friday Night
800pm - Quantum Leap
900pm - Night Court
930pm - Wings
1000pm - Midnight Caller

[USATVFAN]

NBC 1990

[yankeesrj12]

It's hard to compare shows from different years on different networks, but I went with NBC 1990.

[icecream]

Definitely CBS 1997. It had Early Edition, Touched by an Angel, Murphy Brown, The Nanny, and Everybody Loves Raymond, and I also liked Diagnosis Murder, Promised Land, and Cosby. The only NBC shows on that list I like are Cheers, Law & Order, and The Cosby Show, although I'm interested in seeing Dear John and Wings.

[comedyfreak]

NBC 1990 by far.

[Mr. Television]

Someone should send this to NBC to show them what they looked like when they actually were a television network. I count 16 shows on NBC that I liked. Today it's only Chuck and SVU which I'm about to give up on.

[70s show watcher]

nbc 1990 for me i watched nbc almost every night back then

[DSfan]

I think NBC 1990 is much better. While CBS had some good shows, NBC just had a much better overall schedule.

CBS 1997 they just seemed to be trying to get ratings from past success (bringing over Family Matters and Step by Step from ABC and setting up their Party Block to try to compete with TGIF, which wasn't happening lol).

In 1997, they also brought over Unsolved Mysteries from NBC when its popularity was waning as well.

So to me, I just find CBS was in a huge scramble trying to revive all these big-name shows that had already jumped the shark instead of creating their own new programming. So just for that reason, NBC 1990 wins.

[Dale Key]

On CBS I like four: Raymond, the criminally underrated Cybil, The Nanny & Murphy Brown.

On NBC I like five: The Golden Girls, Cheers, Night Court, Wings & Law & Order.

NBC by a narrow victory.

[Buffyboy323]

NBC - The Golden Girls, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Cosby Show, A Different World, Cheers, Dear John.

CBS - Family Matters, Step by Step, Murphy Brown.

I'll go with NBC, but I didn't love either of these lineups.

[factsoflife]

close call but i went with CBS 1997. Cybill, Murphy Brown, The Nanny, The Gregory Hines Show. my kind of TV.

[megamanj2004]

Without question: N-B-C 1990, The Place to Be!

NBC, the network that gave CBS a huge black eye in the ratings during the late '80s and most of the 1990s was still in full force, especially withtheir sitcoms.

Cheers finally reached #1 for the 1st time in 8 years, The Cosby Show which was once the #1 show on TV was finally knocked off The Top 10 as its own spin-off show A Different World even beat its own parent show in the ratings, The Golden Girls was still going strong, Empty Nest saw its highest-rated season of all, The Fresh Prince which came out during this season didn't even make a dent in the Top 25/Top 30 until around its 3rd or 4th season.

Unsolved Mysteries was still going strong, L&O started, Wings was chugging along, as was L.A. Law.

But where was Amen during this season since it would end in 1991?

CBS 1997, CBS was still trying to get out of its own ratings basement it's been in ever since NBC put a huge black eye in their ratings since the late 1980s and earlier in the '90s. Even in 1997, they were still struggling, especially since most of their existing shows were getting canned, on the verge of getting canned, or struggled in the ratings.

CBS was having major heat thrown on them w/ their sitcoms.

Murphy was on its final legs, so was Cybil. Nanny was on the verge of cancellation until 2 years later, George and Leo never stood much of a chance, Family Matters and Step by Step were already washed-up and CBS gave them no better treatment, The Gregory Hines Show wasn't given much of a chance, either.

[Jerryt]

Originally Posted by megamanj2004

Without question: N-B-C 1990, The Place to Be!

NBC, the network that gave CBS a huge black eye in the ratings during the late '80s and most of the 1990s was still in full force, especially withtheir sitcoms.

Cheers finally reached #1 for the 1st time in 8 years, The Cosby Show which was once the #1 show on TV was finally knocked off The Top 10 as its own spin-off show A Different World even beat its own parent show in the ratings, The Golden Girls was still going strong, Empty Nest saw its highest-rated season of all, The Fresh Prince which came out during this season didn't even make a dent in the Top 25/Top 30 until around its 3rd or 4th season.

Unsolved Mysteries was still going strong, L&O started, Wings was chugging along, as was L.A. Law.

But where was Amen during this season since it would end in 1991?

CBS 1997, CBS was still trying to get out of its own ratings basement it's been in ever since NBC put a huge black eye in their ratings since the late 1980s and earlier in the '90s. Even in 1997, they were still struggling, especially since most of their existing shows were getting canned, on the verge of getting canned, or struggled in the ratings.

CBS was having major heat thrown on them w/ their sitcoms.

Murphy was on its final legs, so was Cybil. Nanny was on the verge of cancellation until 2 years later, George and Leo never stood much of a chance, Family Matters and Step by Step were already washed-up and CBS gave them no better treatment, The Gregory Hines Show wasn't given much of a chance, either.

Amen was in midseason

[megamanj2004]

Originally Posted by Jerryt

Amen was in midseason

Thank you for clarifying that for me.

I watched the NBC "Place to Be" Fall 1990 promo and it had Amen in their line-up but was scuttled again to mid-season status and yet I didn't see Blossom (which premiered mid-season in very early 1991) in the promo.

[kev411]

NBC 1990 hands down.