ABC had hoped to create a supernatural theme to their TGIF block for the 1997-8 season, adding two new series to complement the returning Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.
Unfortunately neither You Wish nor our next subject, Teen Angel, finished the season.
Teen Angel was the second series to bear that title, both likely inspired by Mark Dinning's hit song of the same name for all we know. The earlier series had starred Jason Priestley, a year before Beverly Hills 90210 made him a pop culture icon.
In this series, Marty (Mike Damus) dies of food poisoning after slamming down a six month old burger he found under his best friend's bed. God's "cousin" (Ron Glass, ex-Barney Miller) sends Marty back to Earth as his pal's new guardian angel. As silly as it sounds. Maureen McCormick (ex-The Brady Bunch, Brady Brides) co-starred, but was gone before the series ended. Luckless Jerry Van Dyke (ex-Coach) appeared on both Teen Angel & You Wish, which didn't exactly inspire confidence.
Here's a sample clip:
Despite coming from Boy Meets World producer Michael Jacobs, this Angel was lucky just to get off the ground.
Rating: C--.
2 comments:
Not one of TGIF's finer moments, there. I get what ABC was trying to do with Teen Angel, make a Sabrina for boys, but they really should have chosen something else like a superhero or a genius inventor or something; focusing the show on a dead kid just added a depressing tone to the whole thing.
Trying to have every show on the block ape Sabrina probably wasn't the best idea, either.
They did a crossover with Sabrina and You Wish as a sweeps stunt, IIRC.
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