The Watcher (TV series)

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The Watcher is a TV show that premiered on UPN in January 1995, during that network’s disastrous first season. Like every other UPN show premiering that year save Star Trek: Voyager, it did not survive its first season. Only 13 episodes were made.

It was an anthology show, with many episodes featuring several stories. The only recurring character was “The Watcher”, an omniscient narrator played by Anthony Ray, better known as rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot.

[edit] Season 1, Episode 3

In Season 1, Episode 3, Coolio guest starred as himself, and met a young male Amish flautist who was bemused by his tyrannical father's insistence that he give up music for more heavenly pursuits. Undaunted by the young boy's mis-parenting, Coolio nurtures the boy's gift for music. They danced and they rapped, they rapped and they danced. The mix of traditional Amish flute melodies and Coolio's unique brand of post-modern rapping fused to create an experience unmatched in music up to that point in the late 1990s. The show's post-production was run by Fredrick Lyle, the music supervisor on Universal TV's MIAMI VICE.