History Series / TheBabySittersClub1990

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is the 1990's [[TheShowOfTheBooks television adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series, during the height of early popularity of the series. The series ran for one season of thirteen episodes, which aired on {{Creator/HBO}} from November 1999 until February 1993, it then [[{{Rerun}} reaired]] on the Disney Channel from October 1994 until January 1997. The first handful of episodes were released as direct to video specials, starting in September 1990, before airing on HBO soon after.

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is the 1990's [[TheShowOfTheBooks television adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series, during the height of early popularity of the series. The series ran for one season of thirteen episodes, which aired on {{Creator/HBO}} from January until March 1990; it then [[{{Rerun}} reaired]] on the Disney Channel from October 1994 until January 1997.

* ThemeTune: "Say Hello to Your Friends" by songwriter Glen Roven. It later became seen as the theme song for the series as a whole and was used in the 2020 series.

The series assumed watchers already knew the foundation of the series and characters, and did not start from the founding of the club. Notably the episodes did not cover events from the book series, instead creating original plots among the characters.

[[caption-width-right:490:Say hello to your friends!]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: The VHS covers showed artwork covers from the published book series; however, the plot lines rarely aligned. For example, the cover image for the VHS for "Stacey Takes a Stand"--which is about STacey dealing with conflict between her divorced parents--is the book cover from the super special ''New York, New York!'', which is about the girls taking a vacation to New York City together. The only thing in common with the book is that Stacey is in New York.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The VHS covers showed artwork covers from the published book series; however, the plot lines rarely aligned. For example, the cover image for the VHS for "Stacey Takes a Stand" is the book cover from the super special ''New York, New York!'', which is about the girls taking a vacation to New York together. The only thing in common with the book is that Stacey is in New York.

* PuppyLove: More than one episode revolves around the 12- and 13-year-old protagonists having crushes on boys. Much more than the book series does (where only Mary-Anne has a steady boyfriend for the majority of the series)

* AdaptationalJerkass: Dawn. Obviously, she's not the nicest of girls in the book, but here she's portrayed as more stubborn and argumentative.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: "Dawn Saves the Trees" had Dawn becoming upset by a building contractor who was going to clear out a forest for new construction and even confronted the group at a hearing. Fair enough, but she also decided to angrily break a date with the contractor's son and actively avoids him in spite of him not being involved whatsoever with the project.

* PieInTheFace: "Mary Anne and the Brunettes" has [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mary Anne]] do this to the obnoxious ex-girlfriend of her boyfriend, Logan. Marci harasses her all episode long and this finally came about while at a carnival where she was to (jokingly) pie Kristy in the face for a game; the latter was participating in when Marci bragged she'd never told Mary Anne about what a good kisser Logan was.
* PuppyLove: More than one episode revolves around the 12- and 13-year-old protagonists having crushes on boys. Much more than the book series does (where only Mary-Anne has a steady boyfriend for the majority of the series)
* ShoutOut: The Valentines Day episode ends with a [[DancePartyEnding huge dance]] where the background music is an instrumental of [[Music/RickAstley "Never Gonna Give You Up".]]

** Episode 10, "The Baby-Sitters and the Boy-Sitters", has Logan and his friends bond with the girls' charges to the point where they come to prefer them to the girls due to being more fun-loving and not disciplining them like they do. While they obviously got along with the kids, they soon realize how ill-equipped they are to actually sit for them, easily getting overwhelmed they go to an arcade center for the day.
* ThemeTune: "Say Hello to Your Friends" by songwriter Glen Roven. It later became seen as the theme song for the series as a whole and was part of the 2020 series.

* DemotedToExtra: Mallory never starred in an episode all her own; Jessi only received one. The sitting clients were also downplayed, with episodes more about the girls themselves and their inter- and intra-personal issues.

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is a [[TheShowOfTheBooks television adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series, during the height of early popularity of the series. The series ran for one season of thirteen episodes, which aired on {{Creator/HBO}} from January until March 1990; it then [[{{Rerun}} reaired]] on the Disney Channel from October 1994 until January 1997. The series assumed watchers already knew the foundation of the series and characters, and did not start from the founding of the club. Notably the episodes did not cover events from the book series, instead creating original plots among the characters.

* DemotedToExtra: Mallory never starred in an episode all her own; Jessi only received one.

* PieInTheFace: An episode has [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mary Anne]] do this to the obnoxious ex-girlfriend of her boyfriend, Logan. The girl was harassing her all episode long and this finally came about while at a carnival where she was to (jokingly) pie Kristy in the face for a game the latter was participating in when the ex bragged, "Hey, Mary Ann. I never told you about what a good kisser Logan was."

** In the ChristmasEpisode, Stacey decides to "cut loose" and indulge in more holiday treats than usual. Problem is, she's an insulin-dependent diabetic and while a ''rare'' treat can be harmless (especially if your sugar count is low), you can't overdo it.[[note]]This is less true nowadays due to the advent of fast-acting insulin, which allows diabetic people to compensate for what they eat in real time rather than having to follow a specific diet, but this technology wasn't widely available in 1990.[[/note]] Needless to say, the poor girl ends up hospitalized on Christmas Day.

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is a television adaptation of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series, during the height of early popularity of the series. The series ran for one season of thirteen episodes, which aired on {{Creator/HBO}} from January until March 1990; it then [[{{Rerun}} reaired]] on the Disney Channel from October 1994 until January 1997. The series assumed watchers already knew the foundation of the series and characters, and did not start from the founding of the club. Notably the episodes did not cover events from the book series, instead creating original plots among the characters.

* * DemotedToExtra: Mallory never starred in an episode all her own; Jessi only received one.
* EdutainmentShow: The show focused more on imparting moral lessons to children rather than the characters.

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is a television adaptation of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series, during the height of early popularity of the series. The series ran for one season of thirteen episodes, which aired on {{Creator/HBO}} from January until March 1990; it then [[{{Rerun}} reaired]] on the Disney Channel from October 1994 until January 1997. The series assumed watchers already knew the foundation of the series and characters, and did not start from the founding of the club.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: One episode had Dawn becoming upset by a building contractor who was going to clear out a forest for new construction and even confronted the group at a hearing. Fair enough, but she also decided to angrily break a date with the contractor's son and actively avoids him in spite of him not being involved whatsoever with the project.
* CannotKeepASecret: One episode had the girls' reputation take a hit because they were seemingly telling intimate/embarrassing secrets about their charges. Turns out, they didn't and no one else [[ExactWords overheard]] these secrets; a friend of the children was the one innocuously repeating the facts, and the boy, who was hearing impaired, learned the secrets by ''reading their lips'' instead.

* PieInTheFace: An episode has [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mary Ann]] do this to the obnoxious ex-girlfriend of her boyfriend, Logan. She had been harassing her all episode long and this finally came about while at a carnival where she was to (jokingly) pie Kristy in the face for a game the latter was participating in when the ex bragged, "Hey, Mary Ann. I never told you about what a good kisser Logan was."
* PuppyLove: More than one episode revolves around the 12- and 13-year-old protagonists having crushes on boys, much more than the book series does (where only Mary-Anne has a steady boyfriend for the majority of the series)

** Episode 10, "The Baby-Sitters and the Boy-Sitters", has Logan and his friends bond with the girls' charges to the point where they come to prefer them to the girls due to being more fun-loving and not disciplining them like they do. While they obviously got along with the kids, they soon realize how ill-equipped they are to actually sit for them, easily getting overwhelmed they go to an arcade center for the day.

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is a television adaptation of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series, during the heigh of early popularity of the series. The series ran for one season of thirteen episodes, which aired on {{Creator/HBO}} from January until March 1990; it then [[{{Rerun}} reaired]] on the Disney Channel from October 1994 until January 1997. The series assumed watchers already knew the foundation of the series and characters, and did not start from the founding of the club.

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is a television adaptation of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series, during the heigh of early popularity of the series. The series ran for one season of thirteen episodes, which aired on Creator/HBO from January until March 1990; it then [[{{Rerun}} reaired]] on the Disney Channel from October 1994 until January 1997. The series assumed watchers already knew the foundation of the series and characters, and did not start from the founding of the club.

''The Baby-Sitters Club'' is a television adaptation of ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book series. The series ran for one season and consists of thirteen episodes.

The show is about a group of middle school girls who run a babysitting service.

* CoolOldLady: Claudia's belated grandmother, who taught the girls how a Japanese tea ceremony goes and was a kindred spirit with her granddaughter.
* EdutainmentShow: The show teaches moral lessons to children.

* PuppyLove: More than one episode revolves around the 12- and 13-year-old protagonists having crushes on boys.

** In the ChristmasEpisode, Stacey decides to "cut loose" and indulge in more holiday treats than usual. Problem is, she's an insulin-dependent diabetic and while a ''rare'' treat can be harmless (especially if your sugar count is low), you can't overdo it[[note]]this is less true nowadays due to the advent of fast-acting insulin, which allows diabetic people to compensate for what they eat in real time rather than having to follow a specific diet, but this technology wasn't widely available in 1990[[/note]]. Needless to say, the poor girl ends up hospitalized on Christmas Day.
** Another episode had Logan and his friends bond with the girls' charges to the point where they come to prefer them to the girls due to being more fun-loving and not disciplining them like they do. While they obviously got along with the kids, they soon realize how ill-equipped they are to actually sit for them, easily getting overwhelmed they go to an arcade center for the day.

** In the ChristmasEpisode, Stacey decides to "cut loose" and indulge in more holiday treats than usual. Problem is, she's an insulin-dependent diabetic and while a ''rare'' treat can be harmless (especially if your sugar count is low), you can't overdo it[[note]]this is less true nowadays due to the advent of fast-acting insulin, which allows diabetic people to compensate for what they eat in real time rather than having to follow a specific diet, but this was still years away in 1990[[/note]]. Needless to say, the poor girl ends up hospitalized on Christmas Day.

** In the ChristmasEpisode, Stacey decides to "cut loose" and indulge in more holiday treats than usual. Problem is, she's an insulin-dependent diabetic and while a ''rare'' treat can be harmless (especially if your sugar count is low), you can't overdo it. Needless to say, the poor girl ends up hospitalized on Christmas Day.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Dawn. Obviously, she's a the nicest of girls in the book, but here she's portrayed as more stubborn and argumentative.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the ChristmasEpisode, Stacey decides to "cut loose" and indulge in more holiday treats than usual. Problem is, she's an insulin-dependent diabetic and while a ''rare'' treat can be harmless (especially if your sugar count is low), you can't overdo it. Needless to say, the poor girl ends up hospitalized on Christmas Day.

* PuppyLove: More than one episode revolves around the 12- and 13-year-old protagonists having crushes on boys.

The series is about a group of middle school girls who run a baby-sitting service.

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* SlumberParty: The final episode consists of the girls remembering memories at a sleepover.
* PuppyLove: More than one episode revolves around the 12 and 13 year old protagonists having crushes on boys.

* EarWorm: Say hello to your friends! Say hello the people who care!

* TheShowOfTheBook: The series adapts the children's book series ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub''.
* SleepoverEpisode: The final episode consists of the girls remembering memories at a sleepover.

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