kartooner

Eerie Indi­ana for it’s time was one of the great­est shows on tele­vi­sion (in my opin­ion, of course). Eerie debuted in 1991 and it was a kids-version of X-Files with the quirk­i­ness of those hokey Hal­loween shows that would debut on var­i­ous net­works dur­ing the hol­i­day. In the show, Elvis lives on Marshall’s paper route, Big­foot looks through the trash and in Eerie noth­ing is really as it seems.

Part of the magic of this series lie within it’s inter­est­ing sto­ry­lines. One of which called Forever­ware par­o­died the Tupperware/Rubbermaid brand where this mys­te­ri­ous brand of plas­tic con­tain­ers could hold some­thing for­ever — in this case the fam­ily itself was pre­served in Forever­ware main­tain­ing their fresh­ness or age. Another episode called ‘The ATM with the Gold of Heart’ show­cased an ATM that would con­tin­iously dis­trib­ute money. An episode that mir­rored the excel­lent Twi­light Zone episode where a man’s wal­let pro­vided end­less cash.

I sup­pose the pop­u­lar­ity behind this show’s suc­cess was because of its sim­i­lar­i­ties to the X-Files, The Twi­light Zone, and other shows that explored the unknown. How­ever, for a show to appeal to both kids and adults alike is a hard task to com­mit to. Sadly, this show only remained on air for a lit­tle over a year but it will be missed.