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Never Jumped
Day One
They performed songs years before they were actually released
JJ goes off to Vietnam
Hair Care (no flips)
Shark Bytes
this show? jump the shark? really? i couldn't stop fantasizing about brittany snow (talkj about a **** name) and whats-her-name with the big nose - roxanne? they could have made a sandwich with meany day of the week. talk about hotties! then there was little sis - sarah romos - hottie in training. look at her now! wow. untouchable, but nice.
I stopped watching because of all the "race" issues and the hints of a romance between Meg and Nathan. The 60s were about a lot more than race and if the producers/writers hadn't been so concerned with "politically correctness," which was unknown in the '60s, "American Dreams" could have been a great show.
The show started out very strong but either the network or the writers got impatient with the pace and started to rush the storyline too much and that doomed it. And yes, NBC's maddengly inability to stay consistent with it---that doomed it too. You'd get two new episodes, an off week, then and old episode, then another new one, then an off week---who wants to deal with that nonense? Dick Clark's stroke didn't help matters as if he were at 100%, I think he would have fought to keep the show going longer to gain it's traction back. The final blow was when the imbeciles at NBC tried to save the disappointing boxing reality series, "The Contender" by moving it to American Dreams time slot and moving American Dreams to mid-week. That buried it. All in all, a show with a huge amount of promise (even with the historical inaccuracies---hey people, it's just a TV show) was dealt a terrible hand by an inept network. This show could have made it either on a different network or syndicated independently. If the cast and writers could have held things together, they could have re-emerged. It was interesting enough that it should have been a steady top-30 show and lasted Sunday nights like "Murder She Wrote" or other dramas. NBC blew it.
This show was a great series. i loved it. my favorite character was JJ pryor. I would like to catch seasons 2 and 3 on DVD. I hope they release it soon
this show is on of the best shows ever! yea so the events and music are little off, and no offense to history buffs but who cares! i love anything that deals with the 60s and i love meg and roxanne. even patty though she was a spolied brat at times. this show should have never ended.
When they fixed the younger kid's leg. "Miracle" cure of a character's supposedly permanent disability=automatic JTS.
I absolutley loved this song before it got canceled. I loved coming home and watching it on Sunday nights. I was in love with J.J. The only thing I did not like was the very end. I did not know it was the last episode and I hated it when Meg went off with her boyfriend. Horrible ending... I wish they wouldn't have canceled this show. It is one of my absoulte favorites of all time!
we loved the show..watched as a whole family..think it stepped on too many toes..actually pretty accurate from the Catholic families I've seen..it's sad when "reality" tv takes over the sets instead of a show that will at least get people to "talk about issues"....it was doing really well, so why did they pull it? Did someone with money not like that they were being portrayed accurately?limais
This show jumped the shark when it became apparent that the men had no morals. The father became a City Councilman and proceeded to take a bribe, while JJ gambled away the down payment on his and his wife's house. These are devout Catholics?!
I like the storylines and I love the music, but it really pisses me off how dick clark and his bum buddies think that they have the power to alter history. The Rolling Stones were never on this show despite the footage. The Who were never on this show unless is was to spit in Dick's corporate face. Aretha Franklin was on the show but I doubt she would perform the the 1967 hit Respect, in 1965. Just cause you want to have the American Idol (fantasia) on the show before she dries up doesn't give you the right to mix and match songs with inacurate time lines which works better for the T.V. show. American Dreams was a great show but it was predominantly aimed at stupid teenage girls who want to hear all the commercial hits that they know even if they are out of sequence, as long as it works with the story line.The reason the show got cancelled was because the stupid girls who were watching it got over the 60's fad and moved on to another trend. This is sad cause it was a great show. Ride on Milo Ride On
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