You remember Nick from Family Ties, right? Mallory’s punky artist boyfriend?

Way back when, NBC took note of the character’s popularity and made motions towards a spinoff show. The pilot episode of The Art of Being Nick aired in August of ’87 and apparently did decent ratings, but if Wikipedia can be believed, NBC got cold feet about removing a key character from one of its biggest shows.

Despite being a Family Ties fan for as long as I can remember, I never heard about Nick’s extracurricular endeavors until the internet age. No idea if this pilot episode was any good, but it’s gotta be worth a watch even if only for curiosity’s sake.

Posted by Matt on 02/10/18
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Happy Friday, everyone!

Glad to have Dino Drac After Dark back on track. Let’s celebrate with playthroughs of old Nintendo games:

DOUBLE DRAGON 2

SILVER SURFER

Enjoy! They’re weirdly relaxing.

Posted by Matt on 02/09/18
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Since today’s main site article was about Sightings, I thought I’d double-down!

Here’s another episode, this time from the show’s first season. Looks like it covers everything from vampires to the Bermuda Triangle. Should be good!

Posted by Matt on 02/08/18
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Here are a bunch of TV commercials that aired on CBS late at night back in ’91:

(You’d never mistake some of these for daytime ads!)

Posted by Matt on 02/07/18
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