You Wish (TV series)

You Wish is an American fantasy sitcom television series created by Michael Jacobs, that ran from September 26, 1997, to June 19, 1998. It started as part of ABC's TGIF programming on Friday nights for the fall of 1997, along with Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World, and Teen Angel.

You Wish
Genre	Fantasy Sitcom
Created by	Michael Jacobs
Starring	John Ales Harley Jane Kozak Jerry Van Dyke Alex McKenna Nathan Lawrence
Composer	Ray Colcord
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Michael Jacobs
Producers	Mitchell Bank Jeffrey C. Sherman
Editor	Marco Zappia
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Michael Jacobs Productions Touchstone Television
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	September 26, 1997 – July 24, 1998

In the show's pilot episode (in which the proposed series was still known under a working title of Genie^[1]), Gillian Apple (Harley Jane Kozak) and her two children, Mickey Apple (Alex McKenna) and Travis Apple (Nathan Lawrence) visit a rug shop where they meet the owner, Madman Mustafa (John Rhys-Davies). There they buy a rug, where they unexpectedly release a genie (John Ales), who has been imprisoned for 2,000 years. The genie's name is simply "Genie", although in the first episode Gillian refers to him as "Steve from Canoga Park", an alias he later uses. Jerry Van Dyke was introduced to the show in the third episode as Genie's Grandpa Max (thus, Van Dyke was simultaneously appearing on two TGIF series, You Wish and Teen Angel at the same time as different characters).

• John Ales as Genie
• Harley Jane Kozak as Gillian Apple
• Jerry Van Dyke as Grandpa Max
• Alex McKenna as Mickey Apple
• Nathan Lawrence as Travis Apple

Although the series made a total of 13 episodes, it was taken off after the seventh episode, "Genie Without a Cause." This episode, which aired on November 7, 1997, was part of a night-long TGIF retro crossover, which started with Sabrina. Sabrina made a time ball, which Salem swallowed and caused the time period to be the 1960s. Salem then crossed over to Boy Meets World, turning it into the 1940s, then this series to the 1950s and then to Teen Angel to the 1970s.

You Wish was a ratings failure, ranking 92nd for the season^[2] and was cancelled after seven episodes. Reruns from the first season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch were added to the TGIF lineup to fill the empty slot for the remainder of the season. The remaining six unaired episodes of the series were burned off in May and June 1998, filling the slot of its fellow new TGIF series, Teen Angel, after that show was canceled.

TV Guide called the series "Hammy, artificial, and altogether excruciating".^{[citation needed]}

• You Wish at IMDb
• You Wish at epguides.com
• https://archive.org/details/YouWish