Really Bland Show

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Webster: This was ABC's answer to Different Strokes which was a big hit for NBC. A young black boy adopted by a wealthy white family. I haven't seen this show years and caught a rerun on Antenna TV. Bleh! How did this crap last for 6 seasons? What a dull, unfunny, and unappealing show. Alex Karras and Susan Clark were so bland and I found Webster himself unappealing and not cute or funny. He lacked a personality and charm unlike Gary Coleman's Arnold Jackson.

This show was freaking creepy and depressing too. There was the episode where they're still living in the high-rise and Webster burns it down; the other where the little blonde girl in Webster's class is being molested by a teacher, and that other one where they move into the big house and he finds the secret room with the life-size doll in the rocking chair. Put there by parents of a girl who ran away, who resembled the doll, the episode where one of his grown-up friends had an epileptic seizure, too? Freaked me out to no end. And that miscarriage episode is BURNED into my memory.

I wish Antenna TV would dump this crap and other shitty poorly aged 80's sitcoms like My Two Dads and Small Wonder and replaced them with better quality shows.

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I remember thinking Webster was at the very least too saccharine back when it aired, but as I have caught the tail end of those reruns on Antenna (waiting for something else to come on), I agree that it was a HUGE load of crap.

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They should run Family Ties.