So fun point of history about this: A few years before Fresh Prince of Bel-Air appeared, a similar show appeared on the USA Network. “Sanchez of Bel-Air” starred a Latino family whose patriarch had found success in the fashion industry and moved his family to a Bel-Air mansion.https://twitter.com/THR/status/1293215836841349122 …
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The show had a cast of relative unknowns at the time, with the exception of pop singer Bobby Sherman as a neighbor. The show’s creators would go on to create Boy Meets World and Becker, two lasting hits on network TV.pic.twitter.com/LqhiE4x3Ph
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This show was extremely obscure, and only aired for 13 episodes before it was cancelled. It’s so obscure that credits discussing it are hard to find.
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Here’s the weird thing: It was one of the first cable-TV sitcoms EVER created, and because of that, its name found modern-day use in Hollywood—as a contractual formula for setting TV residuals. The name? The Sanchez formula.https://www.wga.org/members/finances/residuals/residuals-survival-guide#ex3 …
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So this show, which was actually a pretty smart attempt at trying to bring representation of Latino families to television in the late-1980s, is a footnote … except for the way it paid its writers. I wrote about it here:https://tedium.co/2018/07/24/tv-programming-quirks-history/ …
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And yes, there’s video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAJQqMdYSiU&feature=emb_title …
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Lol even the house looks the same
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