Badaptation: Harry and the Hendersons (1991) Starring Bruce Davison and Molly Cheek

1987 saw the release of the Academy Award winning film Harry and
the Hendersons. That Oscar was for makeup and hairstyling, which
makes sense when you consider that the star of the story is in
fact a bigfoot. It was adapted into a sitcom a mere four years
later. Both were produced by Amblin Entertainment, best known as
the Spielberg-helmed production company responsible for another
1980s family-meets-fantasy-creature-drama E.T. The Extra
Terrestrial…the image of which is right in their logo. This very
Hairy show replaced John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon with Bruce
Davison and Molly Cheek, as the parents of a family who happen
upon a friendly bigfoot and adopt him into their family. Brynn,
Aaron and Barry go on a hike in the Pacific Northwest and try to
determine if Harry’s ‘feets’ are in fact…too big.


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