![]() ![]() Those looking to see the episodes where Fox’s Back To the Future co-star, Christopher Lloyd, and Heidi Klum appear will have to skip ahead to Season 3. Mos Def appears in one episode, and Meredith Baxter, Fox’s TV mom from Family Ties, appears as a love interest of The Mayor’s (the writers even have fun with this episode’s title which is of course, “A Family Affair”). We see the mayor appear on an episode of Regis and Kathy Lee. Spin City was established enough to attract some notable guest stars this season Raquel Welch appears as Paul’s mom who Stewart, let’s just say, really takes a liking to. Mike manages to keep things hopping with the mayor’s staff at New York City Hall who often has to clean up the damage he often creates. Mayor Winston is well-meaning but is often a bit of a dolt. Fox’s Mike Flaherty is a former lawyer turned political aide who runs the great city of New York alongside Mayor Randall Winston (Barry Bostwick). Spin City was a breezier show than Night Court and obviously much more socially progressive. Here the creators swapped The Reagan era for The Bill Clinton one and wisely forget all about the first Bush one in between. I’m not sure when or where it all changed, but for the second part of the ’90s every new weeknight, network was king and it was my bliss.Īnd Spin City was for my money, maybe the best thing on.Ĭreated in 1996 by Family Ties’ Gary David Goldberg and a young TV writer named Bill Lawrence, Spin City established itself as a very funny, sharp, fast-paced, energetic adult sitcom which felt like a ’90s Night Court. I don’t even watch network TV these days. ![]() The time when you could plunk yourself in your chair and not move for four hours straight because there was something amazing on each weeknight. Remember when you actually looked forward each week to spending time with the amazing characters on TV? These shows were a TV lover’s dream and they were heaven to me. ![]() Fox as New York city Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty and with him the series featured one of the ’90s best ensemble casts outside of Ally McBeal and the gang at NewsRadio. We truly had no idea back then how good we had it. I’d kill for a Wednesday schedule like that these days. By Season 2, Spin City was moved from Tuesdays to Wednesdays where it competed against The Nanny on CBS, Third Rock from the Sun on NBC and Beverly Hills 90210 on Fox. Spin City’s Tuesday night competition was Caroline In the City on NBC. It wasn’t even among its own network’s most popular sitcoms which at the time for ABC would have been Home Improvement and The Drew Carey Show. Spin City didn’t become a pop-culture phenomenal. It was another New York based sitcom featuring an ensemble of oddballs and we know those types of shows had no trouble finding audiences. How can this show be so neglected? It was a relative hit when it premiered in September 1996 and critics generally liked it. I’m not including Seinfeld or Friends as both of those began their runs outside of 25 years ago ( Seinfeld began way back in 1989 and Friends in ’94).įor some reason however one of the ’90s must hilarious comedies, Spin City, hardly ever shows up on any of these “best of” lists. We all know these titles: Arrested Development, 30 Rock, NewsRadio, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office to list a small few. If you’ve even read a few of these you’ll have noticed many of the same titles on each list. There have been many television “best of” lists over the past 25 years and many comedy television lists as well. ![]()
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