Swans Crossing (1992) User Reviews

One of the best tv shows of my youth!

[barmecidefeast · 8/10 · 30 June 2021]

I used to watch this show back when I was younger. It would be on at 6:30am and I'd watch it as I was getting ready for school. Then it was abruptly canceled and I obviously never got over it because here I am watching it 30 years later. Sarah Michelle Gellar was already a star in my eyes back then. She did some phenomenal acting in this show. I used to have a crush on her, as well as a HUGE crush on Tom Carroll who played JT (he still looks good to me in the reruns).

This was like The Young & The Restless for teenagers. The stories were varied: romance, revenge, espionage (some terrorists were after a formula for high-powered rocket fuel). The show moved at just the right pace for the material. I'd set my alarm early so I could wake up and be all teaser for school by the time Swans Crossing came on - so I could lay back and watch it uninterrupted. Why isn't this on DVD? In the imaginary world in my head, people are crowdfunding a Netflix movie that catches up with the characters all these years later.

Lost But NOT forgotten

[jcvideoz · 10/10 · 11 August 2006]

This was my favorite teen soap opera ever! I first fell in love with Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) on this show. It was a great show for young people and it is dearly missed. You would think that so many actors from this show had such great success that they would release it on DVD. Maybe one day they will including the lost episodes which were taped but never aired. They ended the summer hit with the quote at the end credits :LET US HEAR FROM YOU" but there was absolutely no contact information. Maybe E! can run a true Hollywood story about it. Vote for the shows DVD Release at WWW.TVSHOWSONDVD.Com or write to the company that own the rights. This is sad that they pulled this show and ignored the requests of the fans if you can find a petition online then sign it if not take a stamp and mail a letter to the address below! Sachs Family Entertainment 12301 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 611 Los Angeles, CA 90025 If you are a SMG fan or Mira Sorvino or Brittany Daniel you will adore this show! BRING SWANS BACK!

Swans Crossing was not an ordinary soap opera

[swanscrossingfan · 26 May 2002]

Swans Crossing was like a teen soap opera. I enjoyed, and still enjoy watching it. I am lucky enough to have some of the episodes on tape. The best thing about Swans Crossing was that it was not about sex or drugs, it was a show you could sit and watch with your whole family. I also am a huge Sarah michelle Gellar Fan. All and All 10 years after it was canceled Swans Crossing is still a very much remembered TV show. I actually watched my episodes today. I really enjoy watching it. The best scene to me, it is also to me the best Sarah Michelle Gellar scene ever, was when Sydney(Sarah Michelle gellar) was supposed to walk off the baseball field with Garret(Shane Mcdermont)and announce their love together, but Sydney did not go. So later she had to run through the woods to catch Garret, but when she arrived at the Soda Shop Garret was with Mila(Brittany Daniel). Sydney cried and walked outside and fell near a bench. I love that scene. This is already too long so I will stop writing now.

I'm a grownie who still love Swans...

[Tajorie · 10/10 · 23 December 2006]

I was 12years when I first saw Swans Crossing. My friends and I would race home after school, grab some snacks and tune in. We would perform the theme song and clown around during the commercial breaks. Fun! I think about Swans Crossing and I get so angry with the networks for canceling such an amazing show with such huge potential. Nowadays we are bombarded with skanky shows like "The O.C" and so forth. Its a shame... At least release it to DVD with the extras that never premiered. My goodness! The theme popped into my head and I couldn't stop thinking about it a couple years ago. I was fortunate enough to find someone who sells episodes on ebay!!! I have signed petitions for it's release as have family and friends of mine. We are all looking forward to the day they get it together and release it. There is no closure for me... Did Garret leave for Paris, will he and Sydney call a truce, will JT and Glory marry and have kids? Is UB2B going to get off the ground, Will the cops catch the baldies, who is Barek, really, is Sandy and Owen's group a success, are Jimmy and Callie officially together? I'm just a mess after all these years, pathetic, huh? In any event, I have copied DVD's if anybody is interested.... Long live Swans!

A VERY amazingly good show, and not just for "soapaholics"!

[gcarras · 10/10 · 15 March 2011]

"Ooh, I love this.." Whoops, someone else quoted Garrett's much used catchline.

The reviewer who mentioned this as for the whole family's right on, and to that last poster, to each their own opinion, on the show being a waste (the one that said the episodes should be burned in the lake of filming!) I wish Stacey Moseley had become a major big screen star like SMG had,and that Cariksa Dahlbo had made it, like Sarah M.Gellar, Mira Sorvino and Brittany "That 80s Show"/"Sweet Valley High" Daniel did.

Very funny and surreal show, as already mentioned by others. No high school mentioned either! Just a pictoresque, Victorian like setting with all kinds of weird stuff happening, and songs like "Talk as Sweet as Honey","Pola Dot Pink", and the theme, "Gotta Grow Up Sometime"., Glad to see so many others rememebered it, and I was already thirty when it aired..:)

Fun show for the whole family..

I agree

[caligurl1076 · 10/10 · 18 June 2007]

I agree to the fullest on the DVD release of Swans Crossings. I am also looking for the episodes, I tried looking on ebay and couldn't find it. I remember watching when I was young and I also had to rush home to watch. I even watched it in the morning before school, after they had cancelled the show. I would love to sign your petition if there is a way for me to sign it. LIke I said, I would love to purchase the season on DVD. Or at least somewhere. If you know how to find it on ebay can you let me know how to find it on search or something. I typed in just swans crossing and it pulled up two dolls from the show. I left my email here so you can contact me with the info, If you can. I also need closure. Dena [e-mail]

Not Given a Chance

[derhds13 · 25 August 1999]

This was by far one of the best-written and best acted shows for teenagers in memory. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brittany Daniel, and Mira Sorvino all went on to have fabulous careers, and they all did a fine job on this show. SMG blew me away in her scenes where her character Sydney nearly drowned and was in shock. "Nobody helps me! Never!" What a powerful performance (I still believe it was the best scene I have ever seen her do)! It only lasted 13 weeks, not nearly given enough time to build a solid audience plus the timeslots were a little ridiculous. Most of all, the show was somewhat a fantasy, but it was real enough because the characters were going through what normal teenagers go through. The storylines were clever and there was always a surprise on Friday's episode (not many soaps can say that). Too bad the devoted fans will never get to find out how these stories played out. Had this show been given a chance, it might have lasted for years.

a fun and silly soap opera

[emylou · 25 August 1999]

It's been a while since I've seen Swans Crossing, but it was an integral part of my TV childhood. Every morning at 6:30 I would wake up to watch this half hour soap opera because I simply could not miss it. Looking back now at the stars in it, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Mira Sorvino, it is funny to remember how silly the show had seemed. Ms. Gellar has not chosen much different roles (Cruel Intentions) but that's okay because Swans Crossing was good fun. It's too bad it still isn't shown as I would love to get my hands on a copy of the show.

If you only knew...

[hvergelmir · 22 May 2001]

Yes, this was a soap opera... a teen soap opera. And not just a regular soap opera, but one of those fantasy soaps, such as Passions and Days of Our Lives. So why do I remember it 9 years after it was canceled? Because it was great. It was shamelessly melodramatic and superficial, filled with conniving and selfish "poor, little rich kids". Imagine having Cruel Intentions piped into your living room 5 days a week. Trust me, you'd get addicted to it just as my friends and I did. There was even a campaign to get the show back on the air. My school had a petition. Why am I telling you this embarrassing bit of unsolicited information? Because you need to know the truth. Sarah Michelle Gellar was a remarkable actor then, just as she is now. And her presence alone made this show respectable and worthy of our affections. I still to this day remember a specific episode in which Sydney (SMG's character) was supposed to publicly announce her secret relationship with the son of her mother's rival. Well, you can pretty much figure out this storyline. Sydney chickened out and her boyfriend gave up on her. And she ran after him, taking a shortcut through a cemetery, where she fell on her father's grave. She finally arrived with dirt and leaves in her hair, her make-up smeared, only to see her beloved with his arms around the dim-witted and naïve third member of this love triangle. If Sydney had been played by someone else, this episode would have seemed to come right out of a Mexican soap, displaying an absurdly awful case of over-acting. It would've been nothing more than a bad joke. But fortunately, SMG brought real emotion to a severely lacking script, and she made me cry with her. So on this day of Buffy's season finale (series finale?), as SMG's career takes another spectacular turn, I thought I'd tell you that Swans Crossing wasn't what you think it was. It was a lot more.

Use Your Petals! Ooooooh, I loved this Series!

[anangel4lyf · 24 December 2002]

Garrett Booth(Shane McDermott), the conceited, self-absorbed mirror kisser in the dirty dozen of rich Long Island children said it best;

"OOOOH, I love myself!"

Ooooh, I loved this series. Why did it have to disappear? It was so long ago, about ten years ago, and I still remember the characters like it was Yesterday. Sarah Michelle Gellar was the snooty anti-heroine torn between her love for Garrett and her Mayor Mother's hatred for all Booth males. She told Ralph, her valet, to 'Use your Petals' when he was driving her. Brittany Daniel, the witchy snoot Jessie Wakefield in "Sweet Valley High", was the beautiful angel Mila Rosnowsky. She wanted to fit in, but she had to escape the shadow of her Countess mother and the annoying yet cute cockatoo Tutu. Stacey Moseley was the hard-as-nails heck-cat Callie Walker who didn't take no poopy from nobody. Carise Dahlbo was the sweet Gloria "Glory" Booth, who was spunky and adorable, but always in the wrong place in the wrong time; one instance really got her in a world of trouble. Devin Doherty was Jimmy Clayton, the melancholy love interest of Callie who kept to himself when he wasn't trying to keep Cassie from going too hardcore. Eddie Robinson was genius Neil Atwater, co-creator of the high explosive UB2B. He was a girl-hater and a science lover; both occupations nearly cost him his best bud and his LIFE. Tom Carroll was J.T. Adams, Neil's computer-cranking partner, Glory's love interest and Garrett's "tech-weenie" bully victim. J.T.'s hate for Garrett dominoed into danger for both Neil and Glory. Kristen Mahon played Sandra Swan, the not-as-rich-as-Sidney plain girl used by Garrett to get even with Sidney for an incident that got him in a peck of trouble with all of Swan's Crossing. Alex Tanaka was Bobby Decastro, whose "Saja" personna protected Jimmy and Callie from the great Mumba-Jumba, an evil entity of bad luck. Evan Ferrante was Owen Fowler, a musician and a geek with the hots for Sandy. Last, but never least, was Kristy Barbera, aka the conniving, scandalous Nancy Robbins. She was Sidney's partner in the crime of being snooty and prissy.

Swan's Crossing was blessed with crazy characters out the wazoo. From the foreign spies known as the Baldies to the mysterious Berek, who always caught Callie's suspicious eye. From J.T.'s sassy sister to Saja's sophisticated sibling who always wanted to be older than she was. And lets not forget the bird. With wacky plot twists, mature storylines and that awesome dozen that starred in the show, Swan's Crossing would have been on today if not for ninnies who didn't know a good thing when they saw it. I was so honored to have met Sarah and her friends Carise, Eddie, Devin, Stacy, and Brittany while they were at Toys-R-Us that 1992 day. Carise's mom was nice, too. Great show. Great cast. I'll never forget the zaniness of that show. Especially not Sidney Rutledge and Garrett Booth. OOOOH, I loved that show!

Mindlessly entertaining

[Jerry-93 · 12 August 1999]

I used to watch this show when I was in high school; it was conveniently on 330 after school was out. I really can't believe the countless hours I wasted watching this soap opera for the teen set, or the countless conversations I had about it with my friends. High school really was a strange time. Anyway...

This show was pretty much your typical soap opera fare, except that it featured no one over the age of 18. It had all your classic soap opera standards: melodramitic plots, terrible dialogue, mediocre acting, poor production values, and way too many closeups. It's really only noteworthy as the first regular TV appearance of Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the school bitch. In fact, the first time in saw Buffy, I said, "Hey, that's the girl from Swans Crossing". The show wasn't as terrible as the tripe that passes for soap operas nowadays, but it wasn't exactly Gone With the Wind, either. I did derive some degree of enjoyment watching it long ago. In fact, if nothing else were on, I'd probably sit down and watch it.

The best tv show ever!

[Gene-Bee · 9 October 1999]

Listen not only did it start the careers of many noticable stars of today, it was smart, funny and very cool for it's time, because so many shows now like Dawson's Creek are trying to get to where Swans crossing was way back in 1992, by far the best one season tv show ever, Glory is the best!!!!!!

Ah, the things we used to watch...

[queen_beet · 25 July 2006]

I don't even know what made me think of Swan's Crossing recently, but I just had to go on here and see if other people remembered it. I used to LOVE this show. I thought Shane McDermott was the cat's PJs back then. I used to watch it in the mornings before school when I was in jr high. I'm pretty sure I still have the poster I got from one of those geeky teen pin-up magazines packed in a box somewhere. I just couldn't part with it for some reason. I can still remember the party that Mila's mom threw for her where everything was pink and there were pink drinks called "Mila Floats." I remember the bird, Tutu, was singing on a video. I thought Sarah Michelle Gellar was just the coolest and wanted to look exactly like her. I didn't realize that Mira Sorvino was on the show. How funny! I would love to find Swan's Crossing on DVD just for a laugh.

Mira Sorvino was also in SW

[Richiey · 29 March 2001]

It kills me that I even remember this show, but alas I do. Anyway, it must be said that besides the Buffer, Sarah Michelle Geller. We must recognize that Mira Sorvino. She is now a huge star that got her start on the small screen in our own Swan's Crossing. Big props to Mira.

All that talent wasted by the scripts.

[cupcakeX · 14 January 2000]

For the most part, Swan's Crossing was an under-16 "One Life to Live." Sarah Michelle Gellar stood out as the school bitch and the tease for the boys. Mira Sorvino was in it but I don't remember doing what besides being another 'pretty' girl. All the male characters stunk. And the scripts were just so bad. The characters were laughably one-dimensional. 65 episodes was way more than enough, my twin sister often made me watch this and my therapy is almost through now. Hopefully the archives of Swan's Crossing were burned by the lake where they were made. The sad part is that "Dawson's Creek" obviously took scenery and location ideas from this show.