Let's be realistic.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

An action-packed slog

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

The main problem with this show is the amount of times the characters leave and are replaced by new ones, giving you not much time to develop favourites.I liked Mary-Beth as Megan Parlen was a good actress and i always liked Danny Melon but dear god the actress who plays Julie needs to take acting lessons, she has to be the most wooden actor i've ever seen.The basketball element was OK, at least they were ambitious but i actually hate basketball and i hate how they always win and they are always the main players (those poor other guys are always the subs!) I would leave the team if the coach never let me play.This is a bit like Saved by the bell but the story lines at least are a little different and they did touch on some issues like young mums and drugs but it was still a bit safe.Overall an amusing show for a rainy day.

This was better than the other TNBC shows as well as the highest rated. Although many of the plots were recycled by all of the TNBC shows, "Hang Time" was the best since the original "Saved By The Bell." Much of the credit belongs to Megan Parlen who played Mary Beth. Megan and Daniella Deutscher were the only people to appear in every episode. Megan, gifted with both comedic and dramatic talent managed to elevate the show to a higher standard. After Amber Barretto joined the cast, Megan had someone closer to her talent to work with. Megan and Amber made a good comedic team and provided the best laughs for the show. It would have been nice if the cast hadn't been changed so much, which is my only complaint. Just when you got to know a new character they would be replaced. It would be nice to see this show more often, it needs to go into syndication or be released on DVD.

Another one of Peter Engle's predictable boring cookie cutter sitcoms along the lines of Saved By The Bell,New and Old Class,and City Guys.The gimmick here is a boys team with a girl as the star player, Julie Conner(Danielle Deutscher).Man when a girl is the MAN on your boys team then that team is in trouble. Of course Julie and Mary Beth Pepperton(Megan Parlen) are still in high school even though the show started in 1995 and it is now 1999 heading into the year 2000.Same old Peter Engle look at reality from Peter Engle.Deutscher,Parlen,and Amber Barreto are cute to look at though.They are the show's mainstays.The actors that play the boys on the show from the beginning to now aren't worth a mention,that's how faceless they are as a group. Neither Reggie Theus or Dick Buckus could really bring anything to their roles as coach of the team,couldn't have Engle gotten a real actor to do the job?When it tries to be a comedy it falls flat,when it tries its' hand at social commentary remind yourself that this is a Peter Engle sitcom and everything will be all right at the end of the half hour.Hang Time has its' fair share of episodes for syndication.It is time that this lousy show be retired for good.

The above/below comments are obviously written by someone directly associated with the show, if its not a complete reprint of an NBC press release. I have yet to watch a vaguely realistic episode of this show (though I admit I don't watch often), nor crack a smile from the flatly delivered "safe" jokes. It's a routine and predictable teen-oriented sitcom, and like all of Peter Engel's routine and predictable efforts, follows a routine and predictable formula...destined never to be taken seriously by anyone living in the real world.