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Blue Skies aired from September until October 1994 on ABC.
Lightweight sitcom about two young buddies, suave, charming Russell ( Matt Roth) and creative, excitable Joel ( Corey Parker), who formed an outdoor-goods catalog business in a Boston loft. The Blue Skies Trading Company ( a frank rip-off of L.L. Bean) scored big sales but no profits until the boys discovered that Joel's cousin Kenny ( Richard Kind), the firm's loud , sleazy accountant, was ripping them off, so in came smart, savvy, nineties woman Ellie ( Julia Campbell) with her Harvard M.B.A. and big plans to straighten things out.
Ellie tried to keep her two new partners, who acted like big kids, thinking of business while fending off the continuing schemes of bumbling Kenny ( who looked and acted a lot like the late Paul Lynde). Oak ( Stephen Tobolowsky)was the nutty product tester, who stood in ice water all weekend to try out wading boots, and Eve ( Adilah Barnes) the sarcastic but remarkably resourceful black secretary.
A Review from Entertainment Weekly
Reviewed by Ken Tucker | Sep 09, 1994
EW's GRADE
D-
Details Start Date: Sep 12, 1994; With: Julia Campbell, Matt Roth and Corey Parker
In a new season teeming with actively annoying sitcoms, blue skies (ABC, Sept. 12, 8:30-9 p.m.) is one of the more dismaying. Corey Parker and Matt Roth are friends who run a mail-order catalog business; in the first episode, they hire an accountant (Julia Campbell) and discover they're both attracted to her. Everything about the show is sloppy and secondhand, and the actors are so heartbreakingly plucky, actually doing their best to bring dead jokes to life. Blue Skies is oh, I can't go on-this show is too depressing. D-
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