13 Short-Lived Sitcom Spinoffs We Totally Forgot About

Sometimes, sitcoms launch spinoffs that fizzle out in a minute.
13 Short-Lived Sitcom Spinoffs We Totally Forgot About

The graveyard of TV is vast and frankly, fascinating. It is filled with hidden gems, could-have-beens and almost-was's. It is littered with passion projects and ill fated spin offs that just couldn't find traction. The fact is not everything is built for prime time and, to be fair, some things just aren't great ideas. We wanted to explore some short lived spin offs that just didn't quite work.

We bet you don't remember ‘Top of the Heap’. It was a ‘Married with Children’ spinoff that got absolutely brutalized by a review in the LA Times. We never even heard about the ‘Brady Kids’, an animated spin off of the Brady Bunch, a show for absolutely no one that included plot lines revolving around meeting a wizard as well as spider man. 

You'd be forgiven if you didn't know about the obscure spinoffs of some of your favorite sitcoms. Well, we're here to help. Scroll down for more!

 

Saved by the Bell: The College Years

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SAVED BY THE BELL HAD A COLLEGE SPINOFF THAT LASTED A TOTAL OF ONE SEASON. Saved by the Bell: The College Years only ran for 19 episodes, and probably part of the reason it got cancelled was that some members of the original cast decided not to join the new show.

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BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM TURNS OUT, THERE WAS A BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES LIVE-ACTION TV SHOW. It ran for eight episodes, and although it apparently wasn't terrible, it wasn't great either - the franchise was getting kind of milked dry by then (there was already a sequel and a Saturday morning cartoon).

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The Michael Richards Show

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MICHAEL RICHARDS NEARLY ENDED UP PLAYING KRAMER AS A DETECTIVE. That was the premise of the ill-fated The Michael Richards Show, which had a bunch of Seinfeld writers working on it --Richards' character was called Vic Nardozza, but he was basically a copy of Kramer.

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