I was 9/10 years old when this very original show was on and I was hooked on the first episode. The show featured some bizarre moments (On the pilot alone you had two adults being preserved as children by sleeping inside a giant Tupperware)but always kept things kid friendly. Simon and Marshall were a bit the kid's answer to Mulder and Scully and their world was like Twin Peaks.People in every corner were a bit off.It was a show that was just fascinating for me when I was a child. The Brain child of Joe Dante (Gremlins) , this was a superior children show that I believe parents could watch and enjoy as much as the kids. This is the type of show that makes you think "They just don't make TV like they used to" If you compare this to what children watch these days (Looking at you Disney and Nickelodeon!!!) you will feel quite sad. Omri Katz (whom most people remember from "Hocus Pocus")was a great lead. He was likable , sure of himself and charismatic.The kind of kids other kids want to be. The rest of the cast were fine , especially the adults who never played down their characters even when some of the situation they had to act out were strange to the extreme. You definitely feel a lot of love was put into that short lived show. To make it short this was an underrated gem that did not last as long as it should have but that will always have a special place in the hearts of 90's children such as myself!

after forgetting about Eerie Indiana for over twenty years, i accidentally stumbled onto it in you tube followed by a marathon EI session on "hulu". (they have ALL episodes of it along with that Other Dimension sequel). EI is just as awesome now as it was back in 1991.apart from Marshall using a public phone at start of Who's-Who and Simon using a brick cell phone in Reality Takes A Holiday, it has held up quite well. hardly dated at all.nothing is overdone. Marshall doesn't constantly talk about New Jersey. only mentions it once or twice (usually in opening monologue) to orient viewer towards episode. unlike a coworker of mine, it does not make you want ask "why don't you go back then?" one can watch EI on level of a fun, campy kids show with an age-appropriate level of mystery/spookiness. or one can catch some serious depth... onwards to the depth: Forevermore: families using 'kitchenware' to stay at same age since early 1960s. you mean this product would not become bigger than the internet if it were released today? Losers & Lost Hour episodes: both are great for initiating discussions about parallel universes & other dimensions. because, i think most of us can agree that in real life there more going on around us than what what's visible to our eyes.Dead Letter: just how much history there is floating about us? how many life stories that we don't even know about that have taken place in the very streets & even the very rooms we inhabit? literally, only God himself knows.Just Say 'NO' to Fun: brainwashing in schools. as Nurse Nancy said "we don't want imagination & courage; these days demand a certain... simplicity." ya think? further down, i talk about reality versus fantasy, but i think Nurse Nancy is real and prolifically cloned.Who's Who: from power of an Eerie #2 pencil to the power of our thoughts.No Brain No Pain: just what happens when a person 'loses their mind' ? if you connect with & talk to homeless people, if you get them to trust you, you will find that many of them have stories as worth listening to as that of Furnell.Zombies In PJs: humorous way to show dangers of credit. the bankers might or might not get to (re)possess our souls in real life, but they sure are brainwashing & enslaving people and entire nations just the same.Reality Takes A Holiday: to me, this is a disquieting episode. the cool thing about the rest of the show, like w any cool TV/movie is the idea that you immerse yourself into the place/people while watching and have a good time at it. if you like something enough, you wish you could visit that place & that you could hang out with the cool characters. this episode shatters that pretense.Marshall, who thought he was his own character, suddenly finds himself on the Eerie Indiana set in SoCal**. in his mind Marshall is still Marshall, while nobody else on the set is the Teller family. they are just a bunch of actors playing themselves in a most douche bag way. it irked me to see everyone -except Marshall, who can't understand why everyone is calling him Omri Katz (name of actor who plays Marshall)- and what happened to his 'real' Teller family.yes, it's disquieting, yet necessarily so. somehow i think everyone should see this episode for the sake of seeing that TV shows & movies are pretend/fantasy/make believe and that actors are not their characters.because i liked the show so much, it saddens me to forcibly reminded that the Tellers & Eerie Indiana only exist inside the minds of the scriptwriters and on film as brought to 'life' by actors & production crews. disquieting, but mega-educational. i'll show this to my kids whenever they start getting too wrapped up in anything on a screen.**SoCal: if you look at the intro trailer to each episode where it shows Marshall riding his bike in neighborhood) you can see a palm tree sticking up in the background scenery.Broken Record: i don't understand why this one never showed during the initial 1991-2 airing of EI. it was the best episode of them all. nice way to subtly demonstrate just how mega-important parents ultimately are to their offspring.DashX: someone else referred to this kid as the Eerie Indiana's "self destruct button". DX was a little annoying at times, in part because i liked EI & its characters as it was already. yet, i think it would have taken a maximum of one more season to fit DashX into the show better and reveal more about this shoplifting street kid who came from nowhere.more seasons? i wish. the good news? at least we didn't watch EI fall from greatness & turn into mediocre crap. it's only one season, but a worthy one season it was.

My family and I adored this show. It was such a shame it only lasted a short while. I really thought they had something different and unique. I remember running to the TV to watch the show, both the kids and adults of the house. You know it must have been good, since I still remember the show. I didn't remember the name until I saw it on an actors biography, but I've been describing the show for some time to people to see if anyone remembered the name. Apparently, not everyone saw the show (or remembered it). Maybe it was before its time. But now we're in a post X-files and Buffy the Vampire time, so they should try again. I know I'd watch it! i'd love it if they would even replay the episodes. Someone pick it up again!

I fondly remember watching reruns of this show on MoviePlex two or three years ago, when I was twelve or thirteen. Even back then, I knew how much better this was than the more popular shows of the time--"Are You Afraid of the Dark" and "Goosebumps." There are so many reasons, I don't even know where to begin.I'd say the principal reasons this show was so good was mostly because A) it didn't take itself too seriously and B) it didn't talk down to kids. Too many shows underestimate a child's resilience, and so they throw tired plots and cheesy "scares" at them, thinking (and unfortunately, they are usually correct) that these children will be satisfied. I only believe this works because most kids don't know until later what they are missing. But the thing that irks me most about Goosebumps (and, sometimes, Are You Afraid of the Dark) is that they take these cheesy scares so seriously that it quickly becomes not just silly, but in fact plain ridiculous. Not so with Eerie. Here, the plots are outlandish, unbelievable, and perhaps outright absurd, but the makers realize this, and so they are never _silly_. For example, one episode I remember concerned a group of ladies who are obsessed with a brand of Tupperware called "Foreverware," or some such thing, which keeps all food products fresh forever (one lady comments that she packaged some peas "when Jimmy Carter was president, and they're still as fresh as the day I opened them"). But, Marshall and Simon discover the ladies use Foreverware for more than just food storage--like remaining eternally young! Sounds about as frightening as a killer sponge under the sink (*cough R.L. Stine cough*), but not only do they make it work, they make it fun! I don't believe the intention of the show was ever to frighten (although it does get suspenseful at times). I think it was made to cause wonder, explore some of life's little mysteries, and perhaps even spoof the world we live in. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a satire, of life or of other horror shows, but it definitely has a tongue-in-cheek approach to things, and a dry sense of humor is usually present.To conclude, I can only say I really hope this is out on video somewhere. It's better than Goosebumps in every way imaginable, and more consistent than Are You Afraid of the Dark. And best of all, it won't induce an urge to puke, groan, or even roll your eyes.