Flying Blind

The good news about being on Fox in 1992 was - no one was watching, and you could get away with things you'd never get to do on a major network. The bad thing about being on Fox in 1992 was that almost no one watched. Which was a shame. Those few that tuned in were well rewarded.

The writing was sharp (look at what the writers and producers went on to do), the acting was brilliant (look at the cast), with incredible comedic timing, the production was...well, they had an early Fox budget, but they did what they could.

Some years later, Dharma and Greg would do another uptight guy marries into a free spirit family story. And while it was successful, it is a pale imitation of Flying Blind.

There is no show that I'd like to see come out on DVD more than this one.

Comparisons to "Dharma and Greg" are fair, although this series was better (I like D&G too, but not anywhere near as much) and the only thing Dharma and Alicia have in common is free-spiritedness. The comparison to "Mad About You," however, is ridiculous. Calling "Mad About You" a classic is even more ridiculous. That aside, as a network suffers through its infancy, many good shows fall by the wayside. Baby nets have very few resources available to sustain good shows if they aren't getting good ratings. "Flying Blind" thus died a most undeserved early death. And as "The Naked Truth" has replaced it in most people's mind's "Tea Leoni file" the chance of anyone purchasing the reruns seems slight; a shame, because I'd like to see it again. "The Naked Truth" was a good show too, but not as good as this one.

This was one of those great shows from fox, the SAME fox who brought you all the great shows, married with children, in living color, Simpson's, Tracey Ullman, parker lewis cant lose. all of these shows ( with the exception of parker lewis, ) are on DVD for viewing and a reminder of what great TV is about.

If you haven't seen this show, do yourself a favor and HUNT IT DOWN. i have all the episodes on VHS, but since the tape has degraded, it is quite hard to see.

You see many people call it the precursor of the oddball couples comedy. Ned and Stacey, Dharma and Greg, Mad about you, Will and Grace, are ALL copies of this excellent comedy. Thomas Haden Church, Lisa Kudrow, Andy Dick, all have appeared in the show, YEARS before their other shows.

Tea Leoni's presentation of her character in Flying Blind has always stood out as one of the most perfect presentations of the ingenue femme fatale in all of television (and most of cinema). Wild, extravagent, guileless and innocent, this presentation is a guaranteed heart-breaker for anyone who believes The Perfect Woman actually exists. The show as a whole, while flawed, still glowed as result of this unexpectedly successful collision of writing and actress.

I must also concur with other comments that this show got the short-shrift reserved for other real comic gems like The Ben Stiller Show and (dare I say it in print) Duckman. While a different genre entirely, Flying Blind was buried late in the Sunday evening programming where it too was doomed to a quick death (probably because Married With Children was busy leaving its "mark" on television).

I've lost sleep over the sadness of losing this amazing show!

I just bought the full series from this link: http://www.sell.com/241R45 but haven't seen the DVDs yet. The seller said he's friends with Corey and sent him a set. Also said he sent a set to Tea, so I'm thinking they might be pretty good quality. The seller has excellent reviews. Only $19.95 including shipping.

While talking with the seller, he told me that Corey said the show was cancelled because 2 of the producers hated the other two producers! The producers and writers are brilliant: Malcolm in the Middle, Arrested Development... etc. The seller said there were more episodes written and ready to shoot, and the end of season one was left wide open for a season two but things just broke down on the set into havoc and everyone was miserable! The show wasn't cancelled as much as it fell apart! Corey had an opportunity to go back to Broadway and took it. That was it.

Corey and Tea are friends in real life, that's why they had such great chemistry on screen : ) Reading these reviews over the years has been comforting to me - to know others feel my pain and loss. Soon, I will get to re-live all of the joy of the only season of one of my favorite TV shows ever!!