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The financial success of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids led Disney to try to turn the movie into a franchise. The Honey, I Blew Up the Kid arrived in 1992 and earned a solid $58 million domestically on a $22 million budget. The brand further extended into Disney’s theme parks, most notably through the 4-D attraction Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, which ran at Epcot from 1994 until 2010. However, the third film, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, followed in 1997 as a direct-to-video release, when the concept had lost its novelty. A fourth film, titled Shrunk and intended to feature Rick Moranis returning to the role after a decades-long absence from acting, entered development in 2019 before being indefinitely shelved by Disney in 2023. Across all these extensions, one entry in the franchise has been consistently overlooked, a television series that ran for three full seasons and delivered 66 episodes of original content that the vast majority of franchise fans have never seen.
The Honey, I Shrunk the Kids TV Series Is Mysteriously Unavailable on Streaming
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show debuted in first-run syndication on September 27, 1997, arriving in the same calendar year as Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves and positioning itself as the franchise’s most ambitious expansion. With Peter Scolari stepping into the Wayne Szalinski role that Moranis had defined, and Barbara Alyn Woods, Hillary Tuck, and Thomas Dekker rounding out the Szalinski family, the series established its own identity rather than simply recreating the films. The show relocated the family to the fictional town of Matheson, Colorado, and reframed Wayne’s scientific career within the corporate structure of a research company called GENTEK. This gave the writers a stable institutional setting from which to launch wildly divergent episode concepts.
