"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show" (1997) TV series 1997-2000

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Creators:

Ed Ferrara
Kevin Murphy

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

1 September 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi | Family

Plot Keywords:

Boy | Children | Inventor | Miniaturization | Shrinking

Awards:

3 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Peter Scolari	...	Wayne Szalinski (64 episodes, 1997-2000)
Barbara Alyn Woods	...	Diane Szalinski / ... (64 episodes, 1997-2000)
Hillary Tuck	...	Amy Szalinski (64 episodes, 1997-2000)
Thomas Dekker	...	Nick Szalinski (64 episodes, 1997-2000)
George Buza	...	Chief Jake McKenna (30 episodes, 1998-2000)

Runtime:

60 min (66 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Filming Locations:

CL Ranch - 45001 Township Road, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Movie Connections:

Follows Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997) (V)

Surprisingly Good/ Not enough publicity

When I first heard of this series, I thought it was going to be a stupid, corny, throw-away series. After a few episodes, however, I was pleasantly surprised. The family is perfectly casted (they're better than their original movie counterparts), and the dialogue is original and funny, which is the basis of this show's success. The plots are extremely corny (e.g. family gets trapped inside of T.V., family harbors a bigfoot couple, and family travels back to the Wild West days with some aliens) but amazingly they are able to pull them off with sharp dialogue and very creative elements (e.g. every comment is punctuated, very humorously, with a laugh track when trapped inside a sitcom, and the bigfoot couple whine and bicker like married humans). It's sad that the show is so underrated and has such a obscure time slot (11:00 AM, Sundays).