i never new there was a series
Is it still running
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No, didn't last very long. I think that a very young Jason Bateman was the star.
shareJason Bateman was not in this show, but he did star in a show called "It's your move" that was on a couple of years earlier, and like Ferris was always outsmarting everyone else- Mainly his Mom, sister, the school principal, and his nemesis, Norman, the neighbor. Also like Ferris, this was cancelled well ahead of its time.
shareYeah I never heard about it either. It probably sucked.
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No, didn't last very long. I think that a very young Jason Bateman was the star.
Jason Bateman wasn't the star. He was on The Hogan Family at the time. Charlie Schlatter played Ferris.
The problem with this show was they tinkered with it too much. Instead of Chicago, they moved it to fictional Ocean Park, California. Slone wasn't his girlfriend in the show, she was the girl who wasn't easily charmed by Ferris. And there wasn't even any original actors on the show. Not even Ben Stein.
Another problem was Ferris was up against another similar show, Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Parker Lewis was enjoyably a lot better to many, and fans who watched Ferris quickly went to go watch Parker Lewis.
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-the one episode available on YouTube was fairly good. But i also understanding how it failed competing with "Parker Lewis".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZr6VUKf9E&search=ferris%20bueller
This show defenitely seems like a precursor to "scrubs" , with its obscure references and guest stars (like basketball commentator Digger Phelps in Ferris' room)
Parker Lewis Can't Lose was a very clever show......In fact, at the end of one of the Parker Lewis episodes, they poke fun at the competing Ferris Bueller show by showing "Ferris and a friend" watching the Parker Lewis episode and commenting how good it was and "no wonder we can't beat them!"
Ferris Bueller was a great movie---but Parker Lewis was a great TV show!
yeah, it was a very funny show and original too. The TV version of Ferris Bueller just over did it. There were things on the show I would not see the movie version of Ferris doing.
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Y'know, I was young and dumb(-er than I am, now, maybe), but I have some fond memories of amusement from the couple episodes I saw of "Ferris." In one of the early ones--the pilot, maybe--Schlaater's (however it's spelled) Ferris mocks the movie portrayal of himself and destroys a cardboard standee of Broderick's Ferris with a chainsaw in his bedroom. I recall, also, the obligatory sitcom standby ep where two or more characters are trapped in an inescapable vault (usually prompting scenes from other episodes to be played as flashbacks--seems like kind of a CHEAP MOVE that so many shows STILL pull the "clipshow" routine in similar ways, often within their first seasons). Ferris and the principal were trapped somewhere together, and the principal, of course, fully AWARE of Ferris's penchant for manipulation and reputation for having his fingers in EVERYTHING, behind-the-scenes, asks him to "Work your magic," or whatever, to pull some strings and get them out. Ferris replies, "I think I used up all my good days. I just got greedy, I guess."
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I remember Parker Lewis, but not the Ferris Bueller show. It's one of those shows that didn't even get a full season, so easy to miss.
Parker Lewis wasn't a hit either, but it got enough of an audience to last two or three seasons, IIRC.
The Untold Truth Of The Ferris Bueller TV Series
https://www.looper.com/1390295/ferris-bueller-tv-show-untold-truth/
The mere mention of Ferris Bueller evokes memories of Matthew Broderick's infamous slacker extraordinaire in the John Hughes teen comedy classic. Even Broderick himself accepted that he would always be seen as the school-skipping teen. While a spin-off movie titled "Sam and Victor's Day Off" is in the works — courtesy of "Cobra Kai" producers Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald — another Ferris Bueller-related project was released four years after the movie.share
Released in 1990, the "Ferris Bueller" TV show ran for 13 episodes across a single season. While not a remake or continuation, the sitcom takes place in its own unique vacuum but features many of the characters from the film. However, none of the actors from the film carry over. Instead, Charlie Schlatter, Brandon Douglas, Ami Dolenz, Richard Rehle, and Jennifer Aniston play the parts of Ferris, Cameron Frye, Sloan Peterson, Principal Ed Rooney, and Jeannie Bueller respectively.
The "Ferris Bueller" TV series failed to make a splash in pop culture as the film did, but it's still a fascinating production to revisit since most people forget it even exists. After all, it was Ferris who once said: "If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." So, let's stop and take a look back at Ferris Bueller's small-screen exploits.