This show aired in the 80's - Dream On (1990) Discussion

[–] Orloondo_Bland 18 years ago

Tv.com and epguides.com says the pilot episode first aired on July 8, 1990:

http://www.tv.com/dream-on/the-first-episode/episode/27846/summary.html

http://epguides.com/DreamOn/

So I think you may have your years wrong. I hear what your saying about the boob-age though.

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[–] Petcincook 18 years ago

Yes all the evidence I find says 1990 also-I must be wrong. I must have been taking more durgs than I thought back then.

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[–] Emiabambinacara 18 years ago

NO, you're right, I remember it too. I remember watching it in 89 too. It wierd that everyone has it listed as 90. I thought that rather odd when I came to this page.

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[–] Reeler 18 years ago

I started recording this show at the beginning of season 2, which started on 7/7/91. Every season started during the summer. The previous statement that it started on 7/8/90 makes perfect sense. 1989 doesn't fit unless there was an extra year between seasons 1 and 2.

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[–] SevenKal-ElGuiry 18 years ago

i remeber this show on in 1988 as well, on cable , hbo or something. then in the mid 90s it was on the comdey network here in Canada for like 2-3yrs or so.

I WAS IN THE POOL, I WAS IN THE POOL

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[–] pkostival 18 years ago

I had knee surgery in '89, and I remember watching this show during recovery from my surgery. Definitly 1989.

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[–] cinsmith1 18 years ago

They also say that that the guy who played Martin Tupper (the star) was only in 4 episodes (in 5 seasons). IMDB has sucked lately as far as actual facts go.

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[–] beewiz-2 18 years ago

I thought the show started earlier than 1990 also. Maybe the show had a different title? And it was on HBO when it started.

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[–] reids86 18 years ago

Yes. This show aired before 1990 but then according to http://www.epguides.com/DreamOn/
it started in the summer of 1990. I remember watching it on HBO. Later, it was syndicated and ran on USA Network (and the show didn't work without it's edgy topics and all). USA dropped it after re-airing the first season (and then ran some episodes out of order , which made no sense). I thought E! would pick it up (when it was running WKRP in Cincinatti; without the original music tracks -- which didn't work either). I wish they would release these on DVD.

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[–] torreydeluca 17 years ago

This show definitely debuted on HBO in the summer of 1990. I guarantee it. I even remember how Brian Benben co-starred in a movie with Dolph Lundgren entitled "I Come In Peace" that was released just after "Dream On" first aired.
HBO gave this show a lot of promo and I bet if someone tracked down a TV Guide or something from July of 1990 that the debate would be resolved.

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[–] hbdale309 17 years ago

No, 1989. I remember better than you.

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[–] torreydeluca 17 years ago

Nah uh!!!! I'm so totally right on this.

Next time I really feel like slacking off I'm going to head over to the library next door to my office and see if I can dig up an old TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, or some such thing. Come to think of it, we can probably get Benben himself to confirm for us.

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[–] smooth1-2 17 years ago

Well I worked on this show and I think you've been smokin' banana peels again.1990 is about just right based on my career. Go ahead and ask Brian.And while you're at it ask him where 'Cheeses of Nazareth' ever went to? He'll understand. It's a gouda one.

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[–] Orloondo_Bland 17 years ago

ask him where 'Cheeses of Nazareth' ever went to

Was that a specialist cheese store in California? Or is that just an urban myth?

I like cheese. :-)

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[–] q_female 17 years ago

I found this resume of Dorien Wilson who played Eddie Charles on the show. It says in there:
Once there, Wilson threw his energy into landing a good television part and was rewarded with the role of Eddie Charles in Dream On, which premiered in 1989.

The whole thing is here:
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2943/Wilson-Dorien.html

So yeah... huh?

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[–] torreydeluca 17 years ago

As I promised some time ago... I finally got around to looking up periodicals from 1989-1990 at the library near my job, and I found that they all confirm that "Dream On" debuted on HBO on July 8, 1990.
On July 2, 1990 The Wall Street Journal printed an article entitled, "Dorothy Rabinowitz Reviews New HBO-TV Series Dream On".
The July 10, 1990 edition of The New York Times has an article by John J O'Connor named "A Modern Life Lived in 50's and 60's Images". This article writes of the first episode of "Dream On", and how it debuted on Sunday, July 8, 1990.
The July 7, 1990 edition of The Seattle Times has an article by John Vorhees' called, "Dream On: Here's a New Sitcom You'll Really Enjoy". This article also says that the pilot episode is to air on HBO on July 8, 1990.
The Washington Times edition from July 6, 1990 has an article ("'Dream On' Throws Tasty Funny Bone to Viewers") that also says that the first episode will air on Sunday, July 8, 1990.
I don't mean to discredit biography.jrank.org, but... I think that articles from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times in 1990 have more credence than an online article written years later.
1990 it is!!!!

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[–] hutsman 17 years ago

Of course it was 1990, I remember it like it was yesterday. The show debuted the summer after I graduated high school. Man, I'm feeling old these days! :)

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[–] senote 17 years ago

Isn't it possible that it actually aired in 89 in some states on some networks and 90 was when it recieved a much wider or maybe national launch.

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[–] torreydeluca 17 years ago

No. :)
This show debuted on HBO (a national cable network in the U.S.) in July of 1990. It was not on any other network until it was syndicated a few years later.

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[–] warrenaxtell2002 17 years ago

Is it just me or does it look like everyone aged more then just 8 or so months? the kid looks like years older from season 1-2

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[–] creepah 17 years ago

I remember it airing in the extreme late 80's too '88-'89 I could be wrong as well =(

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[–] BigRich 16 years ago

I found this resume of Dorien Wilson who played Eddie Charles on the show. It says in there:
Once there, Wilson threw his energy into landing a good television part and was rewarded with the role of Eddie Charles in Dream On, which premiered in 1989.

LOL
If you actually watched the first season, you would know that Dorien Wilson didn't play Eddie Charles. Eddie Charles was played by another actor. Dorien Wilson appeared in later seasons.

I watched Dream On from 92 to 96, and after the show went off the air, HBO would occasionally run a Dream On marathon. I was very disappointed by the earlier episodes when they had another black actor in the cast going by the name of Eddie as that guy didn't mesh well with Brian Benben's character like Dorien Wilson's Eddie.

That actor's name is: Jeffrey Joseph ... Eddie Charles (11 episodes, 1990)

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[–] mikeoak840 16 years ago

You've read it here. It's an HBO series and it only aired and premiered on HBO. It began in July of 1990 according to them. It began in July of 1990 according to TV Guide and various other sources. Anyone claiming to have seen it earlier is mistaken.

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[–] filupmolina 16 years ago

Yeah, I guess it's time to give in. What's funny is, I came here because I was talking about this show and thought to myself "Wow, all the way back in 1989." I came here and found this mess.

Anyone stubborn/paranoid enough to think there's a cover-up here? Something only the U.S. government (or Charles Whitmore) could pull off.

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[–] lonewolf74 16 years ago

I too remember it in around 88-89 because of the commercials of new show comming on HBO.

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[–] simplyalice 16 years ago

This is just a guess, but they might have filmed several episodes and then began promoting it in 1989, but did not actually air the first episode until 1990.

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[–] mcfly-31 16 years ago

I'm in the '89 camp as well. They used to air this back to back with either Tales from the Crypt on some nights, or Kids in the Hall.

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[–] torreydeluca 16 years ago

Give up! :)

This show did not air until 1990. I have proved it with the documentation in my prior post in this thread.

This is the reason why investigators and police don't rely heavily on eyewitness testimony - people often remember facts incorrectly for social and personal reasons, or just because they are confused.

Right now there is a nostalgia for the 1980s and a lot of people wish to connect a show they like to that period as part of their "remember the good old days" spiel. Well, the 1990s were better than the 1980s - and this show aired in the 1990s.

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[–] AnotherInternetPerson 16 years ago

I know all the documentation proves it aired in 1990, it just feels like it was 1989. Not because I think the 80s were so great. It was because I remember watching it after watching tales from the darkside and monsters (which wasn't on HBO), those were 80s shows. So that is probably why I didn't recall the year correctly

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[–] AnotherInternetPerson 16 years ago

I know all the documentation proves it aired in 1990, it just feels like it was 1989. Not because I think the 80s were so great. It was because I remember watching it after watching tales from the darkside and monsters (which wasn't on HBO), those were 80s shows. So that is probably why I didn't recall the year correctly

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[–] torreydeluca 16 years ago

I wasn't directing my comment at you, but just at the whole message board, so I hope you didn't take anything personal. Memory is not very trustworthy :)

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[–] AnotherInternetPerson 16 years ago

oh, I wasn't taking anything personally. I was just saying why I didn't remember the correct year. :-)

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[–] lupis_noctum 16 years ago

I distinctly remember the show ending in '92, so I'd say that IMDB is quite wrong.

Trust me, I was living with a chick with MPD at the time, which is the reason I missed the last episode... This was also around the time Carson quit the Tonight Show, another finale I missed because of the lovely Christine, and Kristine, and Chris.

"No one's got a ton of sympathy for guys who throw fat kids in the river"

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[–] torreydeluca 16 years ago

You're so wrong.

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[–] lupis_noctum 16 years ago

Heh, yeah, you're right. I remembered shortly after posting the drivel above that it was a Dream On season finale I'd missed in that time frame. Like I said, was a very distressing time of my life, so the memory files might be slightly corrupted!

"No one's got a ton of sympathy for guys who throw fat kids in the river"

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[–] torreydeluca 16 years ago

I figured you might have had an early season finale mistaken for the series finale. Human memory is pretty crappy :)

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[–] mockingbirdfreak 16 years ago

we are watching "dream on" right now (via Netflix) and the wall calender on Martin's office reads "1987" and my husband and i met that year and we recall watching this around this time.

i'm very surprised that IMDB says it started in 1990....very odd..

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[–] mockingbirdfreak 16 years ago

I stand corrected! As we were watching the episodes, it showed when each one was aired and it states it started in 1990!

i'm very surprised. My husband and i thought for sure the show started in the late 80's...

The show still holds up and is very funny. Even tho the hair and clothes look like it's from the 80's....

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[–] Utpe 15 years ago

I remember seeing 1987 on the yearly calendar Martin had in his office too. But I believe there was an episode later on in Season 1 where Martin was flipping through his datebook. He specifically wrote down 1990 as the year. There's always a possibility that it took them 3 years to shoot the pilot (though I somehow HIGHLY doubt it), or maybe that's the only prop they could find for his office.

Nevertheless, I didn't really start watching Dream On until about 1995. I caught it in its 5th to final season, but I do remember HBO showing reruns when it ended. But as to whether it aired in the 80's or 90's, I really don't see the point in arguing over it. If you want to lay this matter to rest once and for all, then call or e-mail HBO and ask them yourselves. Best way is to go right to the source of it all.

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