What Were You Watching in 1997?
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Dustin Rowles
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April 10, 2009 | Comments (89)
Last week, apropos of nothing, we looked back 21 years at the 1987-88 network primetime schedule, to take some of our geriatric readers (those over 30) on a trip down memory lane before they actually lose their memory. Today, apropos of nothing, let’s take a gander at the 1997-98 primetime network television schedule for the benefit of our under-30 readers.
And if you were under 30 and a teenager in 1997, man: Your television options sucked. We don’t have an image this week, so in order to see the entire schedule, you’ll have to click here. It’s amazing the difference a decade makes: While I watched a ton of television in 1987, a few of the shows in 1997 don’t even ring bells: “Over the Top,” “Hiller and Diller,” “George and Leo,” “Cracker,” and “Promised Land”? And those were on the Big three networks. How did NBC manage Must-See Thursdays? It had “Friends” and “Seinfeld,” but I don’t remember ever watching “Union Square,” and I may have accidentally watched one episode of “Veronica’s Closet.”
Of course, there was “Buffy” and “The X-Files,” and “Mad About You” was still on, as was “Spin City.” I believe “Ally McBeal” was the huge break-out hit that year. But otherwise: Wow. TV really sucked in 1997. Did anyone actually watch “Michael Hayes” or “Delaventura”?
I’m glad that by 1997, I was drinking.
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Ah... 1997. A glorious year for the Donut in many respects, but I guess not so much on the TV front. If I recall, I mainly watched movies for the most part. And hockey.
I watched "Simpsons", "X-Files" and the Must-See Thursday line-up. If I recall "Union Square" was about some goofy dude from the south who followed his sister to Harvard (or some school in Boston) and became like a RA or something. If that's the show, then I've seen more episodes than I'd care to admit, though most were in syndication. I was in law school between 1997-2000, so that provided a lot of time to watch syndicated TV (Union Square, Newsradio, Seinfled, DeGrassi Junior High, among many, many others).
I didn't start watching "Buffy" until the summer of 1998.