Great Scott! (TV series)

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Great Scott!
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Genre Sitcom
Created by Tom Gammill
Max Pross
Starring
Theme music composer Mark Mothersbaugh
ComposersMark Mothersbaugh
Hummie Mann
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (7 unaired)
Production
ProducersPeter Schindler
Todd Stevens (pilot only)
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time30 minutes
Production companies Claverly One Productions
Castle Rock Entertainment
Original release
Network Fox
ReleaseOctober 4 (1992-10-04) –
November 29, 1992 (1992-11-29)

Great Scott! is an American sitcom starring Tobey Maguire and Kevin Connolly that premiered on Fox on September 27, 1992, [1] [2] and aired from October 4, 1992, until it was abruptly cancelled on November 29 of the same year. It was created by Tom Gammill and Max Pross, and produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and Claverly One Productions. [3]

Contents

Great Scott! would come to serve as Maguire's first starring role in a TV series.

Premise

The show centered on 15-year-old [4] Scott Melrod (Maguire), a freshman at Taft High School, [5] and his vivid imagination. [6] The main gimmick of the show is the audience experiencing Scott's imagination in different situations he is put in. [7] This is shown multiple times in all known episodes.

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"Pilot" Bradley Silberling Tom Gammill & Max ProssOctober 4, 1992 (1992-10-04)
Scott's dream date decides to give him another chance.
2"Hair Scare"Bradley SilberlingTom Gammill & Max ProssOctober 18, 1992 (1992-10-18)
Scott tries to change his attitude to impress a rebellious girl, who takes him to the salon she works at to change his look. After getting into an altercation with Scott's mom at the salon, she is then fired. When she decides to egg a house where Scott's mom is at a party, Scott is forced to decide which woman means more to him.
3"Choir Mire"Bradley SilberlingTom Gammill & Max ProssOctober 25, 1992 (1992-10-25)
After flunking out of an advanced class, Scott tries to get into a new class, but is beset by problems. Eventually he is put into choir alongside his sister.
4"Stone Moan" Niels Mueller Tom Gammill & Max ProssNovember 1, 1992 (1992-11-01)
Scott becomes enemies with a math teacher when he defends a girl in math class.
5"Stripe Gripe"Rick Berger Michael Curtis & Gregory S. MalinsNovember 8, 1992 (1992-11-08)
When Larry gets injured, Scott has to take over as mascot, annoying him to no end. A drifter offers to be the mascot, but Scott realizes he may have traded one problem for another.
6"Pyrrhic Lyric" Andy Tennant Ken LaZebnik November 29, 1992 (1992-11-29)
Procrastinating on a poem, Scott finds it a good idea to plagiarize thrash metal band Exodus's "Good Day to Die" from their 1992 album Force of Habit . He gets praise for the poem he plagiarized, and begins to worry that the band will hunt him down for stealing their song.
7"Book Crook" Dean Parisot Maria Semple Unaired
8"Vacation Tribulation"Bradley Silberling Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky Unaired
9"Whatta Sloppy Photocopy" Matia Karrell Jeremiah BosgangUnaired
10"Royal Toil" John Fortenberry George Meyer & Maria SempleUnaired
11"Thief Grief" Alex Zamm Michael Curtis & Gregory S. MalinsUnaired
12"Garage Barrage"Bradley Silberling Tim Kelleher Unaired
13"Date Bait"Gerald Hughes Jeff Schaffer & Alec Berg Unaired

Jack Black and Marley Shelton guest starred in the unaired episode "Book Crook". [8]

Cancellation

Great Scott! was cancelled due to its poor ratings, [9] [10] ranking 136th out of 139 television shows that ran ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox during the 1992 to 1993 television season. It was rated a 4.2, the highest on the list being rated a 21.9, and the lowest being a 4.0. Despite its cancellation in the states, all 13 produced episodes are known to have aired on German Television station RTL Zwei, [11] though the status of these German variants are unknown. The German version of Great Scott! is known as Super Scott!.

References

  1. ↑ Moore, Fraizer (September 12, 1992). "THE 1992 TV SEASON". Kentucky New Era. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  2. ↑ Scott Williams; Fraizer Moore (September 5, 1992). "A Bow-Wow TV Season". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. p. 1E. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Great Scott! (1992) Company Credits". IMDB. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  4. ↑ VARIETY TV REV 1991-92 17 (17 ed.). Routledge. March 1994. p. 530. ISBN   9780824037963 . Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  5. ↑ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 484. ISBN   0-345-45542-8.
  6. ↑ TV Guide. "Great Scott! Episodes". TV Guide. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ Jeff Katz, Great Scott!, TV Guide
  8. ↑ Leszczak, Bob (2018). Single Season Sitcoms on the 1990's: A Complete Guide. McFarland. p. 77. ISBN   978-1-4766-3198-1 . Retrieved September 12, 2023.
  9. ↑ "YEAR-END RATINGS". Deseret. Deseret News. April 22, 1993. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  10. ↑ Lowry, Brian (November 25, 1992). "Fox putting 'Batman' in Sunday slot". Variety. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Claverly One Productions". Audiovisual Identity Database. March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
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