Brooklyn Bridge Promotional Spot
Here’s a short promotional spot for Brooklyn Bridge, created by Gary David Goldberg, which ran on CBS from 1991 to 1993 for a total of 34 episodes. It’s not often you see the creator of a series pitching it.
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September 13th, 2009 at 7:23PM
My family and I loved this show; Dad loved it because like Gary David Goldberg he too was a kid in NYC (Queens) in the 50′s, Mom, my sister and I loved it because we were able to now visualize things that were in the stories that dad would tell us about his childhood
September 13th, 2009 at 11:13PM
CBS initially loved this series, but as certain executives were replaced, the new ones had little patience in keeping the series on the air to allow it to “find its audience” (and bigger ratings). They moved “BROOKLYN BRIDGE” several times across their schedule during the two seasons it aired, guaranteeing it would never reach the mass audience it deserved. Gary David Goldberg talked at length about the show [and his disappointment when CBS cancelled it] in his recent autobiography, “Sit, Ubu, Sit” {READ IT!!}.
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