Season 1 • Episode 18
LatestJack and Charlie take Nick and Sam's nature scout group on a camping weekend, but their inexperience with the nature scouts causes them to end up lost in the wildnerness. Nick stands up for Sam after the boys in the scout group tease Sam for being a nerd. But Sam's intelligence saves them, as he leads the boys to civilization. Meanwhile, Kate & Alex win $10,000 on a radio quiz show, but are later disqualified because they are indirect employees of the radio station.
Four young adults not only share producing jobs at a hidden-camera TV show but also share the same house.
Acting
Young Alan Ruck charm before he became your dad's favorite character actor.
Production
Hidden-camera show premise feels accidentally prescient about reality TV explosion.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on ABC in spring 1990 and was cancelled so fast it never even got a VHS release.
The hidden-camera TV show premise mirrored the real rise of 'Candid Camera' clones, making this accidentally meta about the medium it inhabited.
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