It Was a Thing on TV: Episodes 521 & 522 - My Mother the Car/Family Affair (2002)

This week on It Was a Thing on TV here’s what we offer in our next-to-last drop at Place to be Nation.

 

First, it took over 500 episodes, but we are finally talking about what many consider to be the worst television show of all-time.  A man's deceased mother gets reincarnated into a 1928 automobile, communicating with her son through the radio.  That's the premise.  Jerry Van Dyke passed up being Gilligan for this.  If all the above isn't unbelieveable enough, one of the world's biggest entertainers did a cover version of the theme song.

 

Then, we have seen this time and time again--a network reboots a series which ran for a considerable amount of time, only for it to flop badly.  This time, the victim is Family Affair, which The WB felt was worthy of rebooting over 30 years after the original show ended.  Against tough competition, this version quietly whimpered away after a half year.

 

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Timestamps

0:31 - My Mother the Car (Episode 521)

51:51 -  Family Affair (2002) (Episode 522)