THE WATCHER (1995) – It seems redundant to refer to a UPN series as forgotten. Or short-lived. Nearly every show that UPN launched in January of 1995 was on and off the air pretty quickly. At 13 episodes, The Watcher was to the new UPN Network what long-lived shows like Gunsmoke were to the established networks.
The Watcher was an anthology series starring rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot as the title character. The Watcher was a mysterious, quasi-supernatural figure in Las Vegas who had hidden cameras throughout the city, thus allowing him to observe and narrate the grim fates of each episode’s main characters. He hosted from his plush room at the Riviera.
Sometimes the omniscient narrator would ride around the nighttime Vegas streets in his limo driven by Lori Danforth (Bobbie Phillips). Multiple stories would play out and sometimes overlap in each episode of The Watcher, like it was a horror version of Fantasy Island. Continue reading
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