Meego (TV series)
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| Genre | Science fiction sitcom |
| Created by | Ross Brown |
| Developed by |
Thomas L. Miller Robert L. Boyett Michael Warren |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer |
Jesse Frederick Bennett Salvay |
| Composer(s) | Jesse Frederick Bennett Salvay |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (7 unaired) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ross Brown Thomas L. Miller Robert L. Boyett Michael Warren |
| Producer(s) | Karen K. Miller |
| Camera setup | Videotape; Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes (approx.) |
| Production company(s) |
Miller-Boyett-Warren Productions Warner Bros. Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | September 19 – October 24, 1997 |
Meego is an American science fiction sitcom that ran for six episodes from September 1 to October 24, 1997 on the CBS television network as part of its Friday night Block Party program block; after its cancellation, seven additional episodes that were produced but left unaired in the United States were aired in some international markets (such as on Sky1 in the United Kingdom).
Created by Ross Brown, and developed by Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett, and Michael Warren, the series starred Bronson Pinchot in the title role as an alien masquerading as a human being who, after his spaceship crashlands on Earth, unexpectedly becomes the nanny to a single father's three children.
Meego (Pinchot) is a 9,000-year-old shape-shifting alien from the planet Marmazon 4.0. After his spaceship crashes, he is discovered by three children; Trip (Erik von Detten, later played by Will Estes), Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Alex Parker (Jonathan Lipnicki). They live with their single father, Dr. Edward Parker (Ed Begley, Jr.) and pass Meego off as human (he does not want anyone to know that he is extraterrestrial, and tells people he is from Canada instead). Although he plans to go home as soon as his ship is repaired, he becomes attached to the children and decides to remain on Earth to care for them.
Meego was commissioned specifically for the CBS Block Party, an effort to compete with TGIF, the long-running family comedy block on ABC. Incoming CBS head Leslie Moonves saw an opportunity to take advantage of an ownership change at ABC (then being acquired by The Walt Disney Company, which was reshaping TGIF into a more teen-oriented block) and offered Miller-Boyett Productions US$40 million to bring two of TGIF's programs, Family Matters and Step by Step, to CBS. As part of the deal, Miller-Boyett also received the right to produce a new show, which became Meego.
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