That's My White Mama.

[raybear]

Writing about Double Trouble and Throb led me to a quick google search and I stumbled upon Yesterdayland.com and I've been scrolling through their listings of old television show. It's killing me.

"The Charmings"? I blocked that out, but unfortunately many bad plotlines came back to me as soon as I saw some of the video stills. The premise was Snow White and Prince Charming living in the 20th century with modern-day kids.

And the brief sitcom with MacLean Stevenson called "Hello, Larry", which I think was a spinoff of Diff'rent Strokes. Whatever happened to spinoff's? We need more of those in our life.
Of course, some I do remember, like "It's A Living", "Sister Kate", "Voyagers!", and my personal favorite "I Married Dora." Hell, to this day I'm still enamored with Elizabeth Pena.

Back to real work.

Comments

[drood.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Pena's a talented actress who had too few opportunities to shine. I remember "I Married Dora" primarily for being the first place I saw Juliette Lewis.

I liked "It's a Living." My mom always shook her head at the screen when it was on, sighed, and would say, "Poor one-breasted Ann Jillian."

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Your mom's cruel. But funny.

Ann Jillian came up during a birthday dinner over the weekend in a conversation about "the royal family of made-for-tv movies" and I gave her a special award for having a MOTW about her life AND starring in it herself.

[kisha.livejournal.com]

omg, i LOVED "I Married Dora"
Remember "The Greatest American Hero"? That shit was the bomb. The theme song was even better.

[backawayslowly.livejournal.com]

I sorta...*loved* the Charmings. I mean, the Queen as the stepmother upstairs ("Lillian") and Paul Winfield as the Magic Mirror were brilliant. Luther the dwarf housekeeper, and the neighbors who just thought Snow and Eric Charming were hippies -- c'mon, you just don't get that much creativity in sitcoms any more.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I think I watched every episode -- so I guess my claims of how bad it was should be taken with a grain of salt!