After viewing this preview of this premiere episode as of last night,I was hoping for the updated version of the Brian Keith classic,but let me tell you that I was totally wrong.
For one,the 1960's version of this series had its flaws,but it was sugarcoated and sweeted with a lot of family insituations and you tell that it was a very good series with Brian Keith(Uncle Bill),Sebastian Cabot(Mr. French-a grand version of English authority),and the children Buffy,Joey and Cissy(who in the original looked a lot like actress Sally Field in teenage years),but you can tell that Bill was always there for the children and there were times where Uncle Bill would lecture to them and there was the love at the end...enough said.....
Second,the original series ran for five seasons on CBS-TV(from 1966-71) and you can tell it was a family oriented show,but there was tragedy with the actors(Brian Keith died of suicide in 1997,Anissa Jones,who played Buffy died of a drug overdose in 1976,and Sebastian Cabot who died of a massive heart attack during filming of a movie in 1977)but the
only survivors of that original series(Johnny Whitaker who played Jody,and Kathy Garver who played Cissy)live to tell the whole story on unusual places daytime talk shows and etc....................
That was then,this is now and a whole new format.
The new version of "Family Affair" is not what I had in stored and its nowhere in comparison to the sugarcoated 1960's series of the same name and in my opinion it was totally horrible from the get-go(I agree with the other comment made about this show is that its looks like a train wreck waiting to happen)and you can tell right away this version won't last long on The WB Network.
First of all,Uncle Bill(played by Gary Cole who unfortunably played Mike Brady in the first two feature length Brady Bunch movies)is completely dull and boring;Mr. French(played by all people Tim Curry,who played a transsexual in The Rocky Horror Picture Show)looks like QC channel representative instead of watching after the kids....the children per se,Cissy looks like a slut here(may need to take beauty tips from Kathy Garver who was the original Cissy who had style and class)and Buffy and Joey who look like spoiled rotten brats who in some scenes cry their behinds off for attention......BUT the only individual who has the style of crass of the original series is not other than Mrs. Beasley,and she is a doll with common sense!
To all who want to see the two comparisons of the series,first off,if the 1960's version of the series comes on TV Land,catch some of the episodes and you do the math of the duo of the two. You'll be surprised.
For one,the 1960's version of this series had its flaws,but it was sugarcoated and sweeted with a lot of family insituations and you tell that it was a very good series with Brian Keith(Uncle Bill),Sebastian Cabot(Mr. French-a grand version of English authority),and the children Buffy,Joey and Cissy(who in the original looked a lot like actress Sally Field in teenage years),but you can tell that Bill was always there for the children and there were times where Uncle Bill would lecture to them and there was the love at the end...enough said.....
Second,the original series ran for five seasons on CBS-TV(from 1966-71) and you can tell it was a family oriented show,but there was tragedy with the actors(Brian Keith died of suicide in 1997,Anissa Jones,who played Buffy died of a drug overdose in 1976,and Sebastian Cabot who died of a massive heart attack during filming of a movie in 1977)but the
only survivors of that original series(Johnny Whitaker who played Jody,and Kathy Garver who played Cissy)live to tell the whole story on unusual places daytime talk shows and etc....................
That was then,this is now and a whole new format.
The new version of "Family Affair" is not what I had in stored and its nowhere in comparison to the sugarcoated 1960's series of the same name and in my opinion it was totally horrible from the get-go(I agree with the other comment made about this show is that its looks like a train wreck waiting to happen)and you can tell right away this version won't last long on The WB Network.
First of all,Uncle Bill(played by Gary Cole who unfortunably played Mike Brady in the first two feature length Brady Bunch movies)is completely dull and boring;Mr. French(played by all people Tim Curry,who played a transsexual in The Rocky Horror Picture Show)looks like QC channel representative instead of watching after the kids....the children per se,Cissy looks like a slut here(may need to take beauty tips from Kathy Garver who was the original Cissy who had style and class)and Buffy and Joey who look like spoiled rotten brats who in some scenes cry their behinds off for attention......BUT the only individual who has the style of crass of the original series is not other than Mrs. Beasley,and she is a doll with common sense!
To all who want to see the two comparisons of the series,first off,if the 1960's version of the series comes on TV Land,catch some of the episodes and you do the math of the duo of the two. You'll be surprised.