On facebook people have started sharing the intro to the classic 80s TV sitcom "My Two Dads". The series where a young girl (Staci Keanan) is some how allowed to live with 2 men who could be her potential father. The 2 older men (Paul Reiser , Greg Evigan) are forced to raise Keanan's character as father figures. Both men are vastly different as the Evigan character is a free spirited artist. While Reiser's is the more straight laced lawyer type.

The series would be a start for Staci Keanan who would then go onto a long run as Dana Foster on Step by Step. But Keanan herself had a mid stumble after My Two Dads wrapped after 3 seasons. Her next project would be a show that would star a variety of 80's actors and a sex symbol in Heather Locklear. In fact the series was called "Going Places" and had a big history behind the scenes leading to it debuting in 1990.



ABC was just starting to flex its powerful TGIF lineup and was looking to add another Millar/Boyett show to the schedule for a 2 hour block. They also wanted a show to capture a more adult type audience like Perfect Strangers had been doing at 9pm block. So they wanted a series to follow it. The producers pitched "Going Places" about a series featuring 4 TV writers fresh to LA who had to handle a TV actress on a series as well as their private lives.

As shown it would feature 80's stars like Alan Ruck (Cameron from Ferris Bueller film) , Jeffrey Irvine (Stiles from Teen Wolf) , Hallie Todd (Brothers on Showtime Network) as well as Locklear and Keanan all starred in this series. It was amazing to see such an experienced cast come together for this and watch it literally start to fail. And it quickly did as ratings weren't good.

But ABC and producers wanted the series to work and expanded Keanan's role as the know it all neighbor to the 4 writers living in a beach house. They soon added another kid role to the series and refocused the show towards a younger audience. They then removed a cast member (Holland Taylor who played Dawn on series). Taylor comically exited the series as the group lived at her beach house saying she'd be by once a month to get rent. She was never seen again for the rest of the series. This reboot of the series occurred halfway through season 1.

The shows ratings started to move upwards and climbed to 34th as ABC decided to put the show on hiatus and air Baby Talk as planned. It was said ABC was wanting to move on owning Tuesday nights and was gonna move Family Matters to 8pm on Tuesdays to lead off the comedy block there. But in a surprise move ; the critically derided Baby Talk performed a lot better than ABC believed in its short run that spring of 1991. This had ABC decide to move Full House instead and keep Baby Talk for fall.

The move pretty much spelled the end of Going Places and the series returned and ran off some episodes that summer of 1991. Keanan would move onto her next big role the next season on Step by Step ; which she'd star for 7-8 seasons...on ABC and TGIF. Today Keanan has retired from acting and in 2013 is actually a lawyer in LA.