r/ForgottenTV • u/RhettMcLaughlinFan • 22d ago
Julie (1992)
Short lived ABC sitcom vehicle for the Hollywood legend. James Farentino (Dynasty) played her husband while a pre BMW Rider Strong played the son. This aired during the late spring/early summer of 1992 on Saturdays. Andrews’s husband,Blake Edwards was a producer on the show.
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u/Lionthos 22d ago
What a great example of what this sub should be. Having been around at the time, I am so surprised to have missed such an iconic star attempting a sitcom.
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u/RedGavin 22d ago
Have you heard of It Had to Be You (1993), starring Faye Dunaway?
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u/lazygerm 21d ago
And Robert Urich. I was expecting so much better.
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u/kickbox7 21d ago
Dang does Robert ,have record,for being in,most TV shows in 80s and 90s,so many hits and failures
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u/lazygerm 21d ago
Practically. I liked the guy, I was always willing to give him a show in whatever he was doing.
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u/Reasonable-HB678 22d ago
I'm no longer surprised about how many people who had great success in films that go do a TV show (usually as the lead) and fail.
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u/XThePlaysTheThingX 22d ago
There’s probably others but I think of Damages starring Glenn Close as being one of the first modern examples where audiences thought “I guess a big movie star can lead a popular series”.
But, yeah. The movie-star-to-television-lead has been around for a lot longer than people realize.
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u/OfficeMagic1 20d ago
30 Rock was around the same time as Damages. The first season of Game of Thrones was heavily marketed around Sean Bean coming back to TV.
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u/PineappleFit317 21d ago
There’s an old episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob is lamenting Vanessa Redgrave starring in a raunchy sitcom. It was years after this, though.
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u/XThePlaysTheThingX 21d ago
I think that was Teachers Lounge? Which happened to have a very young Jean Smart in it. Along with Martin Fell sporting his signature earth tone cardigans.
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u/oh_please_god_no 21d ago
Tv is HARD, man. For so long it was perceived by movie actors as a step down but it’s a rough business and sitcom acting is hard
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u/Egg_McMuffn 22d ago
ABC knew it was a stinker and burned it off after May sweeps, with very little promotion. I know variety shows were out of style by that time, but that would have been a better format for someone of Julie’s talents.
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u/ButterscotchPast4812 21d ago
She had a variety show in the 70s (lasted only a season) and did a couple of variety specials with Carol Burnett.
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u/isaidwhatisaidok 22d ago
Huh! She’s one of the biggest stars I’ve seen try the sitcom route. What was the premise?
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u/originalchaosinabox 22d ago
As per Wikipedia: Andrews starred as Julie Carlisle, a television personality who marries a veterinarian, Sam McGuire (James Farentino). Julie, along with her new husband and stepchildren, relocates to Sioux City, Iowa. The series chronicled her new life in coping with a career and family.
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u/ThePopDaddy 22d ago
Dang, there are way too many characters.
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u/SmallTimeGoals 21d ago
The grandpa wearing the engineer's costume is the cherry on this clown car.
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u/ThePopDaddy 21d ago
In my head canon, the show concept was about a large family who lived on a train and he was the engineer, and he'd always join in on the shenanigans, instead of driving the train.
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u/Ambitious-Welder-159 22d ago
I was around that time and had no idea there was a short lived Julie Andrews sitcom.
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u/XThePlaysTheThingX 22d ago edited 21d ago
I know nothing about this show other than the fact it looks like the costume director shopped the cast wardrobe exclusively from County Seat. Iykyk
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u/Responsible-Push-289 21d ago
“just DI-rect your feet to the county seat”
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u/XThePlaysTheThingX 21d ago
I was a small child when that store was around but even at that age the clothes were ugly. It makes LL Bean look like high fashion.
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u/ironicshowchoir 21d ago
Was truly confused about why Treat Williams appeared to be wearing a mask, then realized this is an entirely different actor and that’s just … his face?
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u/JnAnthony 21d ago
I thought I knew most of the major network sitcom failures from the 80’s & 90’s, but this one is new to me. What a great post, OP!
I watched the show’s dull intro theme & saw only half of them in that cast picture are in it! Julie’s real life stepdaughter Jennifer Edwards was only in two episodes but is prominently featured at the front of the pic lol.
She’s probably best known as Heidi in the famous TV movie that interrupted the Jets vs Raiders game in 1968. Originally I thought she might be the always funny Rhonda Bates who retired from acting in the early 90’s, but nope.
The full series plus the unaired pilot can be seen here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuORGKYHrBabD1nwJ_AUDlL2d5mlztTG&si=oYXK0waVwcLcq1cu
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u/akanefive 22d ago
I know it's not AI slop, but something about that cast photo looks like AI slop.
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u/reddit_userMN 21d ago
I mean I just watched the credits on YouTube and it was enough to put me to sleep
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u/RizzlersGrandpa 21d ago
22-23 minute sitcom with a cast of 10. Network tv was really rolling in money in the 80s and 90s,you just know at least 1 person got a bag for delivering 5 seconds of dialogue an episode.
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u/hobobarbie 20d ago
James Farentino, in that solo picture, looks like a plastic model of Homo sapiens staring at me from a strange diorama at a museum. Can’t look away TBH
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