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Lets not forget David Naughton, the Dr Pepper be a Pepper guy starred in this wannabe SNF sort of supposed to be sitcom. The only thing that could have saved this show would have been a guest appearance by Ted McGinley!

Serious Note, Makin' It (the song) on the charts 27 weeks, Makin' It (the show) lasted just 6.

Typical Garry Marshall dreck. A thinly-disguised Saturday Night Fever rip-off, Makin' It had a hit theme song and literally nothing else to recommend it. As in Marshall's absurdly successful Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, this show featured working-class Brooklynites bellowing at each other for 23 solid minutes, then hugging for the requisite schmaltzy denouement. Marshall kept trotting this formula out to increasingly meager returns (Bronsky's Beauties, Joanie Loves Chachi) until finally ABC told him to take a hike. A grateful nation rejoiced.

I agree with a lot of people here--I loved the song, but the show was really corny!

I had nearly completely forgotten about this show. Even as a 13 year old kid I saw clear through the blatant attempt to ride the coat tails of the whole 'Saturday Night Fever'/Disco craze. As I recall, this stinker didn't last long. I gave it a chance (as I had just seen 'Saturday Night Fever' and really enjoyed it) but 'SNF' as a sitcom with goofy characters just didn't quite do it for me.

Did someone keep watching the show after the opening theme ended!? Lets be honest, this show was Saturday Night Fever lite (reduced of all the things that made the movie successful, lets say sex, drugs, and some talent). I am afraid that this lame show never did it, and I don't know in what it was "makin' it", because it certainly wasn't doing that on the ratings.

David Naughton actually went on to some momentary fame in American Werewolf in London. He still acts in films but nothing anyone's ever heard of.

Really good theme song considering I never really even liked disco. Maybe it just seems good in comparison to the train wreck of a plot the show tried to pull off week after week.

Wasn't disco already dead when this show arrived on the dance floor? Bill Murray dancing to the theme song "Makin'It" in "Meatballs" was truly the best thing about this whole deal!

I thought I was the only one to remember this show. I remember the "Duck" wallpaper getting more laughs than anything else.

Great opening theme song, even more so now considering that most shows don't even have real opening themes.

I watched this show because it was set in Passaic, NJ-the town I was born in. I know David Naughton was the star, and there was much lame disco music. Any show about Passaic-the hometown of Loretta(hot-lips)Swit and Corporal Eagarn's mother is OK by me.

Laudable plot: Billy has performed a pretty successful balancing act between his serious aspiration to become a teacher and his desire to dance. Unfortunately, the time would have to come when he had to choose the books or the boots. Rotten timing: it lasted about two months, based on my findings. Too bad. The song was really catchy and a lot of fun. Thus, a case can be made for "Never Had the Chance to Jump" as a new category, reserved specially for those "blink and you'll miss 'em" wonders.

OK, here's a BRILLIANT idea for a show: replay the plot of "Saturday Night Fever" EVERY SINGLE WEEK! Should Billy Manucci complete his education and become a teacher or should he follow his dreams of becoming a disco sensation? Since this show premiered in early '79 and disco was dead by the summer of 1980 let's hope he decided to go for the sheepskin.

This show never did jump because it never got enough momentum to get up the ramp! This show blew from the opening song. IT is a perfect example of producers with money attempting to cash in on a fad, in this case the disco scene. (Which by the time this show made it to the airwaves, the disco backlash was already starting to rear its head.) It is amazing how little credit the entertainment industry gives people when it comes to thinking. And "Makin' It" is a perfect example of how insulting Hollywood can be.

What a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE show. I remember when this one hit the air and even as a kid I knew this was lame. Someone said Saturday Night Fever without the fever. How right they were. We didn't get John Travolta. We got Ellen Travolta. We got the Dr. Pepper guy and no plots. A truly lame attempt to retool Saturday Night Fever into a sitcom. The theme was great. Glad it lasted longer than the show did