Forgotten TV: Home Free (1993)

 ABC did its level best to keep its Friday TGIF block relevant from top to bottom in the mid-90's, but not everything that made the lineup clicked.

Take, for example, Home Free, a spring replacement series in 1993. An ensemble comedy built around the staff of a newspaper.

Matthew Perry, about a year and a half away from Friends, top-lined. The ensemble also included veteran Marian Mercer, Alan Oppenheimer, who hadn't had a live-action series gig since season 1 of The Six Million Dollar Man, where he was replaced by Martin E. Brooks, and spent the 80's and early 90's as a voice actor, Brooke Theiss (ex-Just The Ten of Us), and Dan Schneider (ex-Head of The Class). I think part of the reason Oppenheimer stopped getting live action gigs might've been because casting directors kept confusing him with Gavin MacLeod, but that's just me.

Following is a sample episode:

As everyone knows by now, Schneider later became a producer at Nickelodeon, and wound up losing that gig a while back due to allegations of sexual harassment/abuse, which forms the basis for the current Investigation Discovery series, Quiet on Set.

No rating.