Restaurants!

Restaurants! is an American sitcom television series created by John Whitfield. It first premiered on Nickelodeon on March 10, 1990. It last premiered on the same channel on January 8, 1999 because of Steve's wife pregnant.

The show first appeared as an original unaired pilot in 1989 and produced by Lorimar-Telepictures. In 1990, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and Viacom adapted ''Restaurants! ''into a half-hour television series on Nickelodeon. The pilot episode   was originally first aired on March 10, 1990.

The show's popularity resulted in a feature-length theatrical film produced, titled Movieaurants!   which will be released on September 17, 2013. This movie used to be cancelled and scheduled on November 8, 1998. It was later discovered on 2012.

Development
The show was first concieved by Steve's mother, sending a mail to John Whitfield about a series of the Restaurant family when John was at Cleveland, Ohio on March 6, 1988. She forced him to schedule the original unaired pilot on Spring 1989 and the series on September 9, 1989.

Later on Spring 1989, John Whitfield had to schedule the pilot episode on March 10, 1990 instead because he thought that the series came over 12 months later than an original unaired pilot.

''Restaurants! ''first appeared on Spring 1989 as an original unaired pilot. It was then showed for The Oprah Winfrey Show. It is the early version of Pilot.

Characters

 * List of Restaurants! characters

Episode Guide
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Film adaptation
Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies produced Movieaurants! a film adaptation of Restaurants! released on September 17, 2013.

On 1998, the movie was fully completed. Probably the dog took the filmstrips away from the studios and put in the secret spot of an attic. They didn't know whose house was it. Not John. John tried to discover but it was hard to find. He said that it would be a cancelled movie and never make a remake one.

14 years later, when the owner of a dog moved the house, the owner discovered the filmstrips left in the attic and gave to John Whitfield. John felt upset and surprised. The first trailer was shown this year. John Whitfield had to schedule on September 17, 2013, one day before Nathan's 1993 Adventures.

Crossover direct-to-video film
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon Original Movie produced a crossover with Restaurants! and Rocko's Modern Life. It was called Rocko Meets the Restaurants! It was premiered on December 20, 1997 which was shown immediately after ''Restaurants! ''Filmmaking was developed and produced from 1996. It was a first Restaurants! crossover ever.

Other crossovers
The Restaurant family made appearances on Nathan's Excellent Adventures frequently and also on All-Stars Revolution.

Trivia

 * This pilot episode was reference to the Twilight Zone episode, It's A Good Life.