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The Geena Davis Show (ABC)

PREMISE Davis plays a kid-phobic public relations exec, Teddie Cochran, who marries a single father of two (Peter Horton, with, from left, Makenzie Vega, John Francis Daley, and Mimi Rogers); wackiness ensues.

LIFE SPAN Oct. 2000-June 2001

FUN FACT Four years after her critically savaged flop, Davis has found a hit on the same night and network, playing a character with a similarly gender-neutral name, President Mackenzie Allen.

CRITICAL TAKE EW's Ken Tucker called the series ''assiduously joyless'' and ''career-squeezingly unfunny'' when he listed it among the five worst shows of 2000. (Read the full review.)