Obscure TV shows you remember but you don't think anyone else does.

[Sannum]

"Salute Your Shorts"

"Out of this World"

"Hi, Honey i'm Home"

"You can't do that on Television"

Any More?

[MileHiStealth]

1. Lancelot Link , Secret Chimp

[salinen]

5. "and the evolution revolution"

[MileHiStealth]

11. I found a .......Link !!! ..............

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/lancelot.htm

<snip>
In a world where there are chimpanzees instead of humans, Lancelot Link was one of the top agents of A.P.E. (Agency to Prevent Evil), an secret organization that protected the world from evil wrongdoers. Link's partner was Marta Hairi and his supervisor was Commander Darwin. A.P.E.'s evil counterpart was C.H.U.M.P. (Criminal Headquarters for Underworld Master Plan), an evil organization bent on world conquest.
<snip>

How prophetic !!

[medeak]

9. omg...

favorite show.. "What's the matter Lance...doncha love me anymore?"

After all these years greeting to best friend from 6th grade.

[indigobusiness]

45. Gaawwwd that was funny ...Hilarious!!!!

thanks for reminding me....loved that show!!!!

[swag]

2. Calucci's Department

[salinen]

3. "One step beyond"

"TNT"
"Police squad"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

77. I remember One Step Beyond and Police Squad

Both were great for different reasons.

One Step Beyond told supposedly true Twilight Zone-like stories, some of them based on urban legends, while Police Squad was like the Airplane or Naked Gun movies.

[BoX o BooX]

4. Spencer, Tracy & Kong

n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. While on the subject of silly live-action half-hours of the 70's:

The Bugaloos.

[indigobusiness]

6. Sledgehammer

And that Richard Benjamin Star Trek spoof about the Space Garbage Patrol.

[Kire]

23. i was going to say Sledgehammer

[cedahlia]

44. "trust me..."

"I know what I'm doing!"

Isn't that what he always used to say??? LOVED that show as a kid. :D

[indigobusiness]

55. Nothing like a deadpan incompetent egomaniac buffoon as a hero...

What a guy!

[gmoney]

46. Quark

[indigobusiness]

52. YES...thanks,,,had a brain cramp. How'd they slip by the censors???

All that inuendo and bawdy stuff...It was way ahead of its time.

Way cool show. I wish I could find a DVD archive.

[Gothic Sponge]

136. I remember Quark

Richard Benjamin and the Betty clones.

[indigobusiness]

163. And "Ficus"...remember him?

Part plant clone-person.

[doubleplusgood]

94. "Quark"

Was that the Benjamin show ?

[henslee]

246. Loved it. He was an intergallactic trash hauler. The Spock character

was actually composed of vegetable matter ( a vegeton). There were doublemint twins who were one human creature in tandem.

[CanuckAmok]

116. "Quark"

It was pretty funny...as I recall.

[TransitJohn]

7. Voyagers

Emergency

[mongo]

189. brrrnnnt brrnnnt brrrrrnnnnnnnttt! Rampart 51.....

I remember that one - especially the siren thingy at the stationhouse.

[Mojambo]

311. Voyagers.

What a kickass concept for a show.

That kid was kind of annoying though.

[CarolynEC]

8. Batfink

[Maiden England]

15. I remember Batfink!!!

I used to love it.

[CarolynEC]

25. Best-ever name for a villan and arch-nemesis....

Hugo A Go-Go!

[henslee]

247. Batfink to Hugo: "I go, you go, Hugo-a go-go."

[SPQR]

273. "Your bullets cannot hurt me!

My wings are like a shield of steel."

[SPQR]

274. "Your bullets cannot hurt me!

My wings are like a shield of steel."

[Tikki]

10. It's Like, You Know....

n/t

[Sannum]

12. more...

"The Critic"

"Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist"

"Almost Live"

[Modem Butterfly]

135. They still show The Critic on Saturday mornings on Comedy Central

[Mojambo]

310. Almost Live

I watched that show every saturday night as a teenager.

[Maiden England]

13. The Adventure Game

http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/The_Adventure_Game

:bounce:

[DrZeeLit]

14. F Troop; The Adventures of Spin & Marty; Houseboat

Athough technically, Spin and Marty was shown during the Mickey Mouse Club.

I also liked the MMC show about the two brothers who wanted to be detectives. But can't remember the title.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

That was "The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure"

Do you also remember "Corky and White Shadow" and "Annette"?

[DrZeeLit]

139. Yes!

Annette -- probably most people would remember. She arrives from the country with that outfit, hat and all. Then proceeds to become popular.

Corky and White Shadow -- wasn't that Darlene, a white dog, and an old guy up in the hills?

I liked all that stuff. The beginning of my t.v. addiction, which I can boast that, at least here in the casa, I've stopped.

Still...the memories are soft and easy on my mind.

Kerry On!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

144. That's it!

:thumbsup:

[Gildor Inglorion]

16. "Pink Lady and Jeff" "Hello, Larry"

"Circus Boy" "Tales of Wells Fargo"

[argyl]

41. Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees was the star of "Circus Boy."

[Taverner]

48. Bay Area DU'ers: "Buster and Me", "Dudley's Diner"...

Anyone else remember these shows?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

81. I remember all of those!

:-)

[Philostopher]

17. Throb.

Jane Leeves (Frasier's housekeeper) made her U.S. premiere in this show, it was on USA. She played the quirky British reporter on a TV tabloid show.

Also, "Turkey TV" that was on Nickelodeon back in the '80s. They used to show clips of Dana Carvey that were actually funny. I know, hard to believe.

I remembr "Salute Your Shorts" and "YCDTOT" quite well. Saw them on Nickelodeon in the '80s.

[phaseolus]

18. It's About Time

...I can still hum the theme song. I was very, very young when these were on.

Hazel
The Invaders
Hawaiian Eye
Surfside Six
Daktari

[Rowdyboy]

36. Its about time...its about space!

Its about.....for the human race..."

Astronauts get lost in time and are stuck with cave men. Hazel was great. Remember "The Farmer's Daughter" with Inger Stevens and William Windom?

[Kat45]

91. "It's about time, It's about space. It's about time, I slapped your face.

That's how we used to sing the theme song. Hey, I was just a kid then. :-)

[welshTerrier2]

19. The Rogues

the show was on during 1964 and 1965 (i think) ... it had a big time cast that included David Niven, Gig Young, Charles Boyer, Gladys Cooper and Robert Coote and quite a few other big names ...

it was about a family of con men and often involved very elegant "swindles" that were always artfully concocted ... the show had real class and wit ...

anybody remember it ??

[Lydia Leftcoast]

83. I do!

What an amazing cast!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

97. Anybody remember these oldies?

1. Buffalo Bill Junior

2. Ramar of the Jungle--a "great white hunter" having adventures in a hokey jungle

3. Hector Heathcote with Sidney the Elephant

4. The People's Choice--with Cleo the talking bassett hound

5. Topper--two ghosts haunt a house

6. Annie Oakley

7. The Cisco Kid

8. Those Hathaways--a couple lives with three chimps

9. Love on a Rooftop--a young couple in San Francisco

10. Crossroads--an anthology series about clergy or other religious figures

11. Hotel de Paree--believe it or not, a Western

12. Naked City--an anthology of crime/sociological stories taking place in NYC

13. East Side/West Side--social workers in NYC, great jazz theme song

14. Super Circus--with ringmaster Claude Kirschner and drum majorette Mary Hartline

15. The Nurses--the title says it all. Sort of a proto-ER

16. Burke's Law--a detective who lived in luxury

[Kat45]

109. I remember watching numbers 5, 9, and 16, and I remember

my parents watching numbers 12 (& I think 13). I was a little kid then.

[Maiden England]

20. The Interceptor

http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Interceptor

I used to have a major crush on 'the interceptor'



in my defense, I was about 13 and it was the 80's (just)

[Tom Kitten]

21. Hoppity Hooper

a cartoon done by the same folks who brought you "Rocky and Bullwinkle"...

other cartoon shows
The Amazing Three
Colonel Bleep
Princess Moon
Supercar

all I care to think of for now...!

[Ann Arbor Dem]

43. Hoppity Hooper was one of my favorites as a kid....

What were the names of the fox and bear who travelled with him? I can see them in my mind, but I can't remember the names.

[Tom Kitten]

49. Uncle Waldo and Fillmore!

Uncle Waldo was a fox and voiced by the great Hans Conreid...Fillmore was the bugle blowing bear...

[Ann Arbor Dem]

114. That's what they are...thanks for coming up with the names! n/t

[doubleplusgood]

105. Colonel Bleep

Yeah, remember that one. Check out that and other "lost" cartoons at: www.toontracker.com

[Ready4Change]

22. The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine.

I had to look it up. I was thinking it was called the Marty Feldman Show. I and my brothers used to die watching that.

[Logansquare]

241. One of my Dad's favorite shows, along with Flip Wilson n/t

[bain_sidhe]

24. Probe, Earth 2 n/t

[vixengrl]

72. Excellent shows--

I *loved* "Probe"--I thought Parker Stevenson was great and I love the scientific supergenius approach to weird phenomena, and "Earth 2"--I only saw a few eps, but that had Clancy Brown, right? What little I saw was good.

[MissMarple]

26. Casey Jones', Cannonball Express.

Mostly, I remember sitting up late at my grandmother's to watch it. Then the TV went off after the "touch the face of god " poem. Does anyone remember the target thing with the Indian chief in the middle that came on after the stations signed off?

[Kire]

27. Friends, Seinfeld

ER

[pagerbear]

28. Temperature's Rising

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. The Tomorrow People

I loved that opening title, with the hand making weird gestures while coming towards you.

[CanuckAmok]

118. Aye!

"The Tomorrow People"! That was a great one from the U.K.

What was cool about it, besides the premise, whas that it was a serial, but the stories weren't a fixed length. Sometimes a storyline would go on for six half-hour episodes, and sometimes it would just be a one-off.

Pretty clever stories, too.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

158. A memory glitch kept this show in an even deeper obscurity for me.

The Portuguese title was "Seres do Amanhã" (Beings from Tomorrow). For some reason I remembered the English title as being "Men from Tomorrow", which made a little hard to do Internet searches.

Eventually, I broke out a detailed description in some forum (maybe it was here, I don't remember) anmd someone came up with the correct title.

[Khephra]

253. I just found out that the TP has a big fan base

I didn't enjoy it, but it's large enough that it has new novels being published.

[welshTerrier2]

30. Help ... does anyone remember this cartoon ??

mrs. wt2 keeps telling me about a cartoon show that always used the phrase: "the best bones of all are at Symphony Hall" ... the main plot line was that this guy was trying to get a big dinosaur skeleton out of an exhibit hall through a miniscule door ... it was probably on TV during the late 1950's or early 60's ...

i keep telling her it was her mother goofing on her from behind the TV ...

she'll be amazed if anyone remembers this cartoon ... she can't remember the name ... any takers ??

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. I remember a cartoon that's more obscure than yours

The hero was a small boy who wore clothes too big and a battered top hat. A many-episodes storyline was he and his friends trying to find a bably elephant's mom. The opening title was the aforementioned boy walking across the screen, rightwards, with a string and many empty cans attached.

I. Swear. This. Cartoon. Existed.

[Dukakis88]

90. Did the boy look sort of like this?

http://www.tomodachi.de/html/ant/service/ep_guide/bumpety_boo.html

Apparently there was a storyline with a baby elephant on this show, called "Bumpety Boo."

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

157. Nope.

Imagine "Number 1" from Kids Next Door, with dark clothes that are too big and an old top hat. No eyeglasses either.

I'm talking late 60's or early 70's.

[Dukakis88]

73. I may have an answer for you...

I did a web search on that phrase you highlighted and found this:

http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=19018;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;page=last;guest=1269200

Someone inquired on that forum about the same cartoon, and was told that it was likely "The Case of the Screaming Bishop," a Sherlock Holmes spoof involving dinosaur bones... Here's a link to a page describing it:

http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=999"

[JVS]

31. Great space coaster. Joy Junction.

[Pithlet]

180. I remember Great Space Coaster

That was my favorite show. "No Gnus is good Gnus"

[likesmountains 52]

32. Harrigan and Son?

I can still hear the theme song, but don't remember much of the show...late 50's???? Anyone??

[Ann Arbor Dem]

39. H-A-double-R-I-G-A-N spells Harrigan.....

That's all I remember too.....LOL

[BoX o BooX]

187. That's a George M. Cohan song.

TV producers LOVE stuff that's in the public domain.

[LeftyMom]

33. Kindred

It was a prime time soap opera about vampires that lasted less than a full season. The role playign game it's based on is cool, but the tv show was pretty bad.

I'll stop revealing my inner geek now. ;)

[derbstyron]

232. Hooperman/Nothing Sacred/Relativity

The shows I love never seem to last.

Hooperman lasted the longest. It starred the wonderful John Ritter as a detective. It was back during the "dramedy" days. Remember those? One of my all-time favorite shows.

Relativity was about a newly married young couple. I think it was from the creators of thirtysomething. The girl was played by the sister on the abc show according to jim.

Nothing Sacred was a great show about a priest who - brace yourself - actually thinks. He was in trouble for his attempts to approach topics (poverty/abortion) from new angles. It was a great show. Another of my all-time favorites. I don't think it even lasted half a season. Bring on the DVDs!

I fully expect the wonderful Arrested Development to be shuffling off to the graveyard shortly as well.

[CO Liberal]

34. "Good Morning, World" and "He & She"

"Good Morning, World" was a CBS sitcom about two morning DJs. It lasted one season. "He & She" was another CBS sitcom starring Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. It also only lasted one year, but served as the prototype for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".

[NoPasaran]

57. I remember "He & She"

Late 1960s.

[Penndems]

147. I remember it, too

Wasn't Jack Cassidy on it, as well?

[CO Liberal]

186. Yes, He Was

Jack Cassidy played Oscar North, the actor who played "Jetman" on the TV series based on the comic strip Richard Benjamin's character drew. Cassidy was originally offered the part of Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but turned it down. Ted Knight took it, and Jack Cassidy played his older brother on one episode,

[mitchum]

167. I remember "Good Morning World" with Billy DeWolfe as their boss

And I certainly remember "He and She" Benjamin and Prentiss worked together a lot back then. God, I watched way too much television as a child! :)

[Rowdyboy]

38. "Branded" starring Chuck Conners and "One Step Beyond", a strange

little show about "true-life" mysteries.

Oh, yeah, also "Peyton Place", "Harper Valley PTA", and "Julia"

[mitchum]

165. "Branded" was also a strange little show!

Very heavy Freudian subtext.
I'm a big Chuck Connors fan. Even have an autographed glossy. Weird? Maybe :)

[darkism]

40. Mystery Science Theater 3000

[Sabriel]

42. Time Tunnel!

Starring James Darren. Rrrrrowwr.

[gmoney]

47. Mr T & Tina

Not THAT Mr. T... it was Pat Morita as Mr Takahashi, and I think Tina was Pam Dawber of Mork & Mindy.

He was a Japanese businessman in the states, and she was his personal assistant, I think...

How about "The San Pedro Beach Bums"??

[Zorro]

50. China Smith

Detective or something in Shanghai after WW II, I think.

You really have to be an old fud to remember this one.

[Yavin4]

51. Sigmund & The Seamonsters

Pink Lady & Jeff

Cop Rock

[cedahlia]

53. Out of this World

Was that an 80's sitcom with a blond teenager/alien as the main character...I think her name might have been Eve? Or am I thinking of something else?

"Salute Your Shorts" was an awesome show! When the hell is that one coming out on DVD, dammit!

I do remember "Hi, Honey I'm Home"...wasn't it on Nickelodeon...the mom had bright red hair, right? (Forgive my fogginess, please, as it is getting to be my bed time. ;-) )

Oh, and as long as we're reminiscing about those old Nick shows, let's not forget the classic, "Hey, Dude!" Yee haw...:D

[Nikepallas]

68. Did the Theme song go like this

"Would you like to swing on a star. Carry moonbeams home in a jar. And be better off than you are or would you rather go to earth?

[Kat45]

88. I was going to ask the same question about the theme song.

So that probably is the show being talked about. Donna Pescow played the girl's mother. That was a truly bad show.

[cedahlia]

98. I used to like it...

but I was probably around 8 years old at the time and I also loved Small Wonder and Charles in Charge so there ya go...:D (Why don't we have a red-faced smiley???)

So anyway, this is the show I was thinking of, right? With the girl named Eve? Was the dad an alien or something?

[Kat45]

108. Yup, this is the show.

The girl's name was Eve. Her dad was an alien who had hooked up with (or maybe even married, I forget) her mom when he was on earth, then he got called back to his own planet. Eve could communicate with him through some interstellar phone (or whatever it was).

Since you were only around 8, I guess you can be excused from liking this show. :-)

[cedahlia]

89. I don't remember!

I guess we could Google but I'm too tired.

Help, anyone? :shrug:

[mitchum]

161. That's it! Doug McClure (of "The Virginian") played her brother...

a washed up actor who was now the mayor of the town. As much as I generally loath TV, I found the show to be quite charming :)

[NightTrain]

54. When Things Were Rotten

An absurdist sitcom about Robin Hood. I think Mel Brooks had a hand in the show, but my memory is kinda fuzzy at this late date. :shrug:

[Kat45]

85. I loved that show. And you're right, Mel Brooks wrote it.

It was only on for a few months before it got cancelled. I was in college at the time, and I paticularly remember one night when I watched it after having done some incredible hash that afternoon. :smoke:

[China_cat]

137. With Misty Rowe

(later of Hee Haw) as Maid Marian.

My favorite line...Friar Tuck yelling for a superior; "Heeeeeyyyyyyyy ABBBBBBottttt".

(Only the really older crowd will understand.)

[ironflange]

197. A character is captured by the bad guys. . .

and threatened with death. They tell him he'd better call to his creator, so he yells, "MEL!!!"

[awgoodkitty]

272. Didn't Dick Van Patten play the abbott?

I'm 36 but I was a huge Abbott and Costello fan when I was little and I loved that line!!! I was in second grade I think - but I definitely remember loving that show.

Land of the Lost - "Will!" "Holly!" "Dad!"

Black Sheep Squadron (Baa Baa Black Sheep) - my favorite show when I was 9 - I had SUCH a crush on the guys who played the pilots.

[WoodrowFan]

288. wasn't she a playmate

I remember seeing her in Playboy when I was in college (70s)

[intheflow]

207. GREAT show!

Featuring Morgan Fairchild's comedy debut.

[intheflow]

208. "Lidsville" and "Dark Shadows"

[Dukakis88]

56. "On the Air" -- David Lynch's short-lived follow-up to "Twin Peaks"

Bizarre. Only two episodes were aired, and I only saw one of them. It was a strange comedy set in an old-time radio or TV studio, can't remember which.

[doubleplusgood]

100. "On the Air" was SO FUNNY !

The first episode had me (literally) incapacitated with laughter on the floor.

[ironflange]

193. I think there were three aired

I can check. I saw what was coming and taped them all. Weird weird stuff: the flaming telephone, the hallucinating technician, the natives in the raft, Snaps the dog, on and on.

I haven't watched the tape in a long time, I'm not even sure where it is.

[Nikepallas]

58. Anyone remember

Battle of the Planets (cartoon)


Voyagers


Small Wonder


Enos


Land of the Lost


Banana Splits

[Nikepallas]

60. FORGOT

Down to Earth


Safe at Home


Herman's Head


Double Trouble



Kate and Allie


Yes, I was a Tv junkie

[NoPasaran]

59. Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour

ABC I think; 1970

[Dukakis88]

61. "Nowhere Man" conspiracy/paranoia show starring Bruce Greenwood

It was on UPN. It was clearly modelled on Patrick McGoohan's cult series "The Prisoner," but wasn't completely derivative. It was about a lefty photographer who specialized in taking third-world photos to encourage social change. He takes a picture of an execution in South America which looks like it's being done by U.S. soldiers, and his life is suddenly turned upside down -- he no longer exists. His wife no longer recognizes him, his job, everything is lost and he is suddenly on the run from a "vast, right-wing conspiracy" to use Hillary's apt phrase. The cliffhanger ending of the first season (which was the last season) was incredible -- suddenly you learn a huge secret that turns everything you saw on the show around 180 degrees. Loved it. Some episodes were very corny, but Bruce Greenwood is a great actor.

[Kat45]

76. YES! I loved that show. Forgot about it. Unfortunately,

I missed the last episode. (That seems to be a pattern with me; I watched "The Prisoner" when I was a kid, and I missed the last episode of that too.)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

267. Spoilers please! What happened in the last episode?

It didn't air in Brazil.

[NoPasaran]

62. Turn On

ABC's answer to "Laugh In". One episode only (it really sucked)

[bigmonkey]

63. Turn On

I think it only aired twice. The censors hated it. It was in the "Rowan and Martin" vein, but had these white backgrounds, sort of like "Laugh-in" meets "2001". Tim Conway; a beautiful woman in a bikini talking about current events called "The Body Politic".

[CO Liberal]

280. Nope - Just Once

If I remember correctly. the president of ABC phoned in and ordered it cancelled about 15 minutes into the premier episode.

I remember watching it. It was hideous.

[vixengrl]

64. "Shadowchasers" "Probe" "Misfits of Science"--

I used to believe that if any show was any good, I only needed to watch it a few times to get it immediately cancelled.

[vixengrl]

79. Oh wait--"Kindred"--very cool vampires,

and "War of the Worlds"--with pre-HIghlander Adrian Paul.

[philosophie_en_rose]

65. Covington Cross

It was on for a few weeks while I was in elementary school. I had a crush on Glenn Quinn. :)

[wickerwoman]

80. Jinx. We cross-posted.

I had a crush on Glenn Quinn too. I even watched Roseanne much more than I should have. Wonder what he's up to these days?

[philosophie_en_rose]

84. Sad news.

Glenn Quinn died from a drug overdose.

[wickerwoman]

87. That's a shame.

:-(

I really wish they'd release DVDs of Covington Cross but I doubt it will every happen.

[SmileyBoy]

66. Dinosaurs

Greatest final episode ever.

[SmileyBoy]

67. Stressed Eric

[Modem Butterfly]

133. God, I loved Stressed Eric!

It was only on for like, two episodes. I can't believe someone else remembers it!

[SmileyBoy]

69. Thunder Alley

[PassingFair]

70. Howz about:

Get Christie Love; and
Honey West (REALLY dating myself here)

[SmileyBoy]

71. Davis Rules

Starring Jonathan Winters.

[NoPasaran]

74. "Delta House"

"Brothers and Sisters"

Two of three fraternity house sitcoms the networks rolled out in 1978 after "Animal House" killed at the box office.

[Hello_Kitty]

75. "Petticoat Junction"

Actually a little after my time but the gal that played the mom on the show was the voice of Betty Flintstone.

[Penndems]

149. God, I must REALLY be old

I can remember when "The Flintstones" was on in PRIME TIME (on ABC). :scared:

(and "The Jetsons", too.) ;)

[wickerwoman]

78. Knights and Warriors, Covington Cross

I followed these religiously on Friday night when I was 14. The first was a really cheesy medieval themed Gladiators rip-off. I had a crush on Plague- what can I say?

The other was an atrociously written, acted, edited and designed family soap opera set in a castle. I think they only made 6 or 7 and I've never seen them since. It's a pity, cause they had some great actors- Nigel Terry, Ione Skye, etc.

[Champ]

82. "Playmakers" On ESPN

Don't think anyone here remembers that show or even know it was ever on.

[Maiden England]

99. I knew AND I liked it

you can get it on DVD now, saw it in Blockbuster this week

[WilliamPitt]

86. The Barba Poppas

[yewberry]

175. "Here is the world of Barbapapa...

they can change their shapes and sizes
very easily..."

I can't convince my husband that I didn't imagine that show.

[Cats Against Frist]

92. Small Wonder

It's Your Move

Love Sydney

and that Show about the twin girls...someone help me...

[SmileyBoy]

93. Perfect Strangers

[SmileyBoy]

95. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

[indigobusiness]

103. Good one....revolutionary tv n/t

[Bluebear]

110. The Shumway family, the cop, the hemorrhoid pillow...

on the kitchen wall that said "hooray, Daddy's home", Ed Begley playing a deaf guy.....no, nevr heard of it.

[SmileyBoy]

96. Family Dog

[goodboy]

156. that was awesome, "He's whizzin' on the carpet dad!"

[mongo]

190. wasn't that an episode on Amazing Stories

or did they make a whole series out of it.

[ofrfxsk]

101. 3-2-1 Contact!

I just loved the opening for some reason. Hopefully someone else knows what I'm talking about.

[cedahlia]

107. Contact...

is the answer is the reason is the moment, when...blah, blah, can't remember the words...

Let's make
CON...TACT!

3! 2! 1!...CONTACT! :D

Wasn't the Bloodhound Gang also on that show (not that stupid frat boy band but the kids who were detectives...they were awesome and also had a cool little theme song that I can't remember the words to!)

[ofrfxsk]

111. ...

It's the reason, it's the moment (da da da) when everything happens...Contact!

Or some such other nonsense. I can't remember the Bloodhound Gang though.

[short bus president]

146. Oh, yeah - with the cool opening scene

with the slowed-down image of a water drop landing. And DEFINITELY the Bloodhound Gang. "If you've got the crime, we've got the time" or something to that effect. That show was the BEST thing about staying home from school sick!

[Pithlet]

181. Yes, and the theme song was.

"Wherever there's trouble, we're on the double. We're the Bloodhound Gang. Whenever there's crime, we've got the time. We're the Blood Hound Gang.

[SarahB]

300. Oh, dang it, Pithlet,

I was going to do that quote, but you beat me to it. :D

[stranger_with_candy]

102. Parker Lewis Can't Lose

[Jean Louise Finch]

296. I remember that!

I used to watch it on Sunday nights, upstairs because my parents were watching masterpiece theatre downstairs.

good times, it was a quirky, weird weird show. And one of the guys on it (the huge guy) is on ER. Which threw me for a loop trying to remember where I'd seen him when I tuned into ER.

[OneBlueSky]

104. the definitive answer . . . "You're In The Picture" . . .

the shortest-lived show in television history . . . lasted all of one episode . . . it was a game show starring Jackie Gleason that had celebrities stick their heads in cut-outs in historical scenes and guess where they were . . . it sucked so bad that the next week Gleason came on and apologized to the tv audience . . . I saw the show, and the followup . . . I think he held the time slot for a few additional weeks doing something completely different, but then just folded the whole thing . . .

[ccinamon]

106. Beany and Cecil

"Help, Cecil, Help"

"I'm coming Beany Boy!!"

[Cats Against Frist]

266. I love that show

I was only able to watch it when it was on before some other movie or video -- but I liked it so much when I was young.

[lady raven]

112. Bosom Buddies and We Got it Maid EOM

[Logansquare]

240. Bosom Buddies--started Tom Hanks' career n/t

[Flaxbee]

113. "If Not for You"

in fall 1995. I thought it was hilarious. Had Elizabeth McGovern as the female star (whose dad was my Wills and Trusts prof at UCLA law) and I don't recall the male lead. Lasted only a few shows.

[CanuckAmok]

115. Agh! "You Can't Do That On Television" unleashed "Alannis Morisette"...

...on the world!!!!!!

[Ann Arbor Dem]

117. My World and Welcome To It

It was based on James Thurber's writing and cartoons. William Windom played the lead.

[peekaloo]

148. I loved that show! Very imaginative and funny.

Lisa Gerritsen played his bratty daughter.

[arwalden]

268. Yep... That's one that came to mind.

[WoodrowFan]

285. darn

I was going to say that. Made me a Thurber fan. Alas, not out on DVD.

[MrScorpio]

119. Gerry Anderson's U.F.O.

I loved that show. I wanted to join S.H.A.D.O. They had the coolest uniforms and ships.

[mongo]

191. Hellyes!

I used to play U.F.O. on the swings during recess.

As I remember the premise was basically - "there's UFO's! Lets blow them up!" - sound kinda dumb now, but when I was 11 that was the coolest show ever.

That's OK. Daisygirl admits to being into the smurfs as a kid.

[Nikia]

120. Wildfire

It was a cartoon that I mentioned several times in colllege and no one had remembered anything about it. It is about an enchanted horse who brings the princess, in exile, back to her world. The princess, of course, has lived on a ranch in this world for her childhood. I recently found it on a google search. It turns out that there were only about 8 episodes of it.

[CanuckAmok]

121. "Eerie, indiana", "Dave Horowitz' Consumer Buyline", "CPO Sharkey"

Don Rickles in a venue with no swearing allowed?! That's like Scorsese with no blood!!!!

[MUSTANG_2004]

235. I remember Eerie, Indiana

It was almost a good show, but not quite.

[Shadowen]

122. "Dino-Riders"

nt

[Ivan Sputnik]

123. I vaguely remember

My Living Doll (about a sexy female robot)
My Mother the Car (talking car)
Mr. Ed (talking horse)
Sky King (cowboy with airplane, I think)
Davey and Goliath (Christian puppets)
The Pruits of Southhampton (Phyllis Diller as rich matron?)
Julia (black nurse with cute kid)
Hazel (meddling maid)

Watched all of them as a tot, either in prime time or (more often) as afternoon reruns.

[lpbk2713]

124. That Was the Week that Was

Early 60's IIRC. Had David Frost among others. Did a lot of political satire.

Victory at Sea
Mr Lucky
Peter Gunn
Science Fiction Theater (with Truman Bradlay)

[thinksmart]

125. Did anyone mention

Land of the Lost.

[skygazer]

182. Just what I was going to say!

I loved that show!

What about Love, American Style?

And I remember a cartoon called Tom Tomorrow (I think) but I'm a little vague on it.

[latebloomer]

199. Tom Terrific!!

Tom Tomorrow is the political cartoonist.

[InvisibleTouch]

126. VR-5

Not that long ago either. Had too short of a run....

[sans qualia]

262. Seconded

I loved that show.

[mitchum]

127. "Where's Huddles", "Ball Four", "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home"...

"Living Doll" (Julie Newmar!), "Strange Paradise", "All That Glitters", "Arnie"

[donheld]

128. The Others

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229916/

Summary: Forgive my attitude, but this was a complete waste of time.

Ok, folks. We have another one of those "supernatural" shows, trying to ride the success of the X-files. Sorry, fellows, even the current wave of X-like shows can't carry everything along. This one sank for good. The acting, which is supposed to give such a show a realistic feeling, is awful. The plot is... rock-bottom. The special effects, below average. Even though this is a low budget show, it could have been done better, much better. Do not waste your time on it. 2/10

[VOX]

129. "The Great Adventure" - on one season, 1963-64.

it was a filmed series of one-hour dramatizations of the lives of famous historical persons, as well as important historical events.

As I recall, it was pretty good. But who knows now?

[VOX]

130. "The Richard Boone Show" - also on one season, 1963-64.

This was an anthology series starring Richard Boone as host and starred in about 50% of the shows. Each regular had parts in almost every episode and starred in at least one episode.

The cast was terrific:
Richard Boone .... Himself/Various Characters (1963-1964)
Robert Blake .... Various Characters (1963-1964)
Lloyd Bochner .... Regular
Laura Devon .... Regular
June Harding .... Regular
Bethel Leslie .... Regular
Harry Morgan .... Various Characters (1963-1964)
Jeanette Nolan .... Regular
Ford Rainey .... Regular
Warren Stevens .... Regular
Guy Stockwell .... Regular

[DrZeeLit]

140. How about... Have Gun Will Travel ...love the name Paladin! n/t

[mitchum]

168. Paladin was a formative influence on me as a child...

a black-clad gunman who read Keats and Shakespeare. It doesn't get much cooler than that.

[ironflange]

201. Gave us one of the coolest TV moments ever

Richard Boone starred in Hec Ramsey, about a sort of frontier detective, many years after HGWT. I can still remember, in one episode, where he says, "In my younger days, some folks called me Paladin."

:bounce:

[Penndems]

303. " 'Have Gun, Will Travel' is the law of the land . . .

"A knight without armor in a savage land . . . "

Johnny Western sang that theme song, I believe. :)

[mitchum]

169. Richard Boone and Lillian Hellman were seperated at birth!

The first time I ever saw her Blacglama fur ad, I really did ask "Why is Richard Boone wearing a fur coat?"

[VOX]

131. Dupe post.

[The Flaming Red Head]

132. Max Headroom and 20 Minutes into the Future/ The Equalizer

Kind of like it's 20 minutes right now. I wish they would revive it.

I still think about it sometimes with all the instant news. I loved the blanks, the ultimate punks.


Edited to add: the Equalizer. Everybody has needed him at least once in their life.

[Modem Butterfly]

134. Greg the Bunny

Holy hell that show was funny. Seth Green, Eugene Levy, Sarah Silverman, a small, brown bunny puppet (puppets were just another ethnic group in the show). My partner and I still swap lines from that show. We recorded all the episodes and still watch it occasionally.

I still remember the theme song:

"We can sing and dance and we don't wear pants!
See we're just like you!
We've got regular jobs, just with low doorknobs
See we're just like you!
Yes we graduate from Harvard (at the head of my class!)
But if you test sobriety (I might not pass!)
There's no string on my body there's no hand up my ass!
Yes we're just like you!"

[name not needed]

159. The green ones make me horny!

Damn, that show was funny.

[baldguy]

138. The Richard Pryor Show

Imagine Richard taking over the Carol Burnett Show. ... yeah

...

Also "Space Academy", sort of "Battlestar Galactica" on Saturday morning for kids - yes, I know that's redundant.

...

"The Ropers" - a spin off from "Three's Company" based upon the star power of Norman Fell. It succeeded accordingly.

[warrior1]

141. Mighty Mouse

Here I come to save the day!

clyde crashcart and leonardo. No pictures...

[CO Liberal]

282. Clyde Crashcup & Leonardo Were On "The Alvin Show"

Clyde was always inventing things that were already invented. Like bubbles - "That's "bu" - for - "bu", and "ubble" for "ubble" - bubble".

[Penndems]

142. O.K., here's some more

"Guns of Will Sonnett" - Western with Walter Brennan and Dack Rambo

"Greatest Show on Earth" - Starring Jack Palance

"Wide Country" - Western drama with Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine

"T.H.E. Cat" - Robert Loggia as a professional bodyguard

"Concentration" - Game show with Hugh Downs

"Video Village" - Game show with Jack Narz (and later, Monte Hall)

"Ugliest Girl in Town" - Situation comedy with Peter Kastner (and Garry Marshall!)

"Route 66" - Adventure show featuring Martin Milner, George Maharis and a really awesome Corvette

"The Rounders" - Western comedy starring Chill Wills, Patrick Wayne and Ron Hayes

"The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." - Spin-off of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.", starring Stefanie Powers as "April Dancer" and Noel Harrison (son of Rex) as "Mark Slate"

"The Cara Williams Show" - Sitcom starring (who else?) Cara Williams

"The Green Hornet" - Van Williams as the famous crime-fighter with Bruce Lee (!) as "Kato", chauffeur of the "Black Beauty" ("Faster, Kato!")

"Wichita Town" - Western with Joel McCrea

"Kukla, Fran and Ollie" - Children's show with Fran Allison and puppets

"The Texan" - Western with Rory Calhoun

"December Bride" - Situation comedy with Spring Byington

"Going My Way" - Another sitcom, this one with Gene Kelly as a Catholic priest

"The Famous Teddy Z" - Sitcom with Jon Cryer

"Fernwood 2-Night" - Spin-off of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" with Martin Mull as "Garth Gimble"

"Ken Berry 'Wow' Show" - Variety show with Ken Berry

"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" - Sci-fi adventure show starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison

"Queen for a Day" - 1950's game show

"Play Your Hunch" - Game show with Merv Griffin as MC

"The Monroes" - Western drama with Michael Anderson, Jr. and Barbara Hershey (kind of like "Party of Five" set in the Old West)

"Garrison's Gorillas" - War drama with Ron Harper

"Dan August" and "Hawk" - Detective shows with Burt Reynolds

"Kentucky Jones" - Comedy with Dennis Weaver as a veterinarian and ranch owner

"I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" - Sitcom with Marty Ingles and John Astin

*********************************************************************
AND - for those of us who grew up in the D.C. area:

"Captain Tugg" - Children's show with "Hercules" cartoons

"Ranger Hal" - Featuring Hal Shaw as a park ranger (he wore a uniform donated by the National Park Service)

"Pick Temple" - Children's show (Pick Temple rode through Rock Creek Park on a horse, wearing a cowboy outfit)

"Chiller" - Saturday night horror movies on WTTG, Channel 5

(on edit: additional text)

[China_cat]

171. Chiller???? In Pittsburgh?

With Chilly Billy Cardilly????

[Penndems]

178. No, here in the Washington, DC area in the 1960s

It was on WTTG, Channel 5 (which is now, unfortunately, the local Fox affiliate) on Saturday nights at 11:00.

[WCGreen]

143. The New People.....

somehere in the late 60's on ABC, a plane full of College students crass on a atoll in the Pacific and have to make a go of it....

Wow. "Lost" has been found.......

The show was uique in that it split an hour and a half time slot with the David Stienbrenner show.....

[Misunderestimator]

145. Cop Rock

I liked that show...

[fishwax]

259. Yeah, I was going to say Cop Rock

I liked it too. :)

[norml]

150. 21st. Century,a hard science futurist program,sponsored by

Union Carbide. It ran on the weekends,in the afternoon.

[gmoney]

151. Run, Joe, Run

A network, live-action Saturday morning kids show featuring Joe, a German Shepherd who had been in the military over in Vietnam and suffered "Nam Flashbacks" -- he sort of wandered around every week and found a new adventure, sort of like "Kung Fu".

Anyone else recall this little gem? Probably from the mid 70s... (posted before Googling)

on edit: google reveals http://www.70slivekidvid.com/rjr.htm

[rustydog]

152. Captain Nice

The Greatest American Hero

[flygal]

153. "Those were the days", "Isis"

[BigMcLargehuge]

154. "Amanda's"

The American version of Fawlty Towers starring Bea Arthur in the Basil Fawlty role.

"Condo"

Starring McLain Stevenson

[goodboy]

155. "Don't Just Sit There" from Nickelodeon

[OSX]

174. The Fantastic Journey

Series from 1977. I was deeply saddened when this show was sissored.

0sX

[name not needed]

160. Living in Captivity

It was on Fox about 5 years ago.

[Digit]

162. Dame Edna (British)

Hello Possums!

[Logansquare]

243. Australian, actually

[Cerridwen]

164. V ................n/t

[mooky]

166. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl

Zoom
The Electric Company
Bozo (WGN version)
Romper Room
The Snorks (I love Boomerang now)
Dungeons & Dragons
Space Giants
Laff-o-lympics
Droopy
Quantum Leap
Battlestar Galactica (the 3 hour episodes)
Grape Ape
My Favorite Martian

[Cush]

198. Come along with the Snorks, Swim along with the Snorks

[Digit]

170. Madame's Place

Wayland Flowers with Madame, the old lady puppet.

[bigmonkey]

172. Here's another one.

Grindl.

I vaguely remember this, Imogene Coco played a maid-for hire. The one thing I remember is her working for a guy who had championship roses; unfortunately it was because he was in the habit of grinding up maids for fertilizer.

What a strange name for a series, especially in the early 60's.

[GingerSnaps]

173. The P'J's

I loved that show and I cried when it was taken off.

[Huckebein the Raven]

176. Well, I loved "Salute Your Shorts" but here's my list:

"The Visitor"

"Earth 2"

"New York Undercover"

"Roughnecks: Starship Troopers" --> a CGI show following events before and after the movie that was shown early in the morning on Sci-fi

"The Lone Gunmen" --> X-files spinoff

"Herman's Head"

"Ned and Stacey"

"Dark Angel"

"Firefly"

[flamingyouth]

177. Cliffhangers - I miss that show

I especially liked the vampire part.

[nicolemrw]

179. when things were rotten

i loved that show.

[wyldwolf]

183. So when other fairy tales are forgotten! We'll remember back when...

...things were Rotten!

[wyldwolf]

184. "Secret Life of Waldo Kitty" and "Lucan the Wolf Boy"

[skygazer]

185. Best of the West

Anyone remember that one? It ran for one season. About a guy named Sam Best who comes to a western town and ends up as the marshall. He had a ditzy southern belle wife and a son and there was a strange bunch of characters surrounding him. It was very silly.

[chemenger]

188. Then Came Bronson

and The Outcasts, a really good western that lasted only one season. Ex-Confederate soldier (and former plantation/slave owner) who rides with an ex-slave.

[DrZeeLit]

227. I used to LIVE for Then Came Bronson.

Whatever happened to him? I mean the actor.
What a crush that was!

[terrya]

192. "The Name ot the Game"...no one remembers that show.

Friday nights, on NBC. Late 60's - early 70's.

Gene Barry as the publisher of a magazine...

Robert Stack as the editor....

Tony Franciosa as an investigative reporter.

Good show. Pretty decent Dave Grusin theme music.

[LiviaOlivia]

203. I remember that show well

It was very chic/cool for the late 60's.

[Penndems]

297. That WAS a great show - on NBC, right?

Susan Saint James was on that, too.

It was spun off from a made-for-TV movie, "Fame Is The Name Of The Game".

[Paragon]

194. "The White Shadow"

Salami had some mad ballin' skills, yo.

[opiate69]

195. "The Magic Garden" I think it was called...

back in the early '70s, a kid's show I used to watch all the time.. it had 2 hippie-ish women who played guitar ans sang... very weird little show.. also, I remember a kid's show called "----Rama".. I can't remember what the hell it was?? Very vague memory of that show..

[cootiez]

258. o.k., I remember that...

They had a cheesy astroturf set with fake trees and plants. They had a set of plants called the chuckle patch with jokes and riddles written on the leaves. I think one of the girls was named Paula... Gee, I looooved that show!

[opiate69]

261. That's the one!

http://www.caroleandpaula.com/pages/2/index.htm

[CO Liberal]

286. That Was "Wonderama"

Sunday mornings. Originally starring Sonny Fox, later starring Bob McAllister.

"Does anybody here have an aardvark?
Anybody here have an aardvark?
Everybody here has a right and left ear
But nobody here has an aardvark...?"

[terrya]

196. "The Debbie Reynolds Show"...Monday nights on NBC.

Bland sitcom...yet I remember it. :-)

[Philosophy]

200. Jason of Star Command

My favorite Saturday morning show when I was a little kid.

[ironflange]

202. Nichols

A turn of the (last) century Western starring James Garner, early 70's. Only lasted one season, notable in that the main character was murdered at the start of the final episode.

[LiviaOlivia]

204. Adventures in Paradise

Gardner McKay sailing all over the world I think. Early 60's.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

205. my mother the car with jerry van dyke

[ironflange]

206. How about some Canadian content?

Razzle Dazzle
Chez Helene
Adventures in Rainbow Country
Forest Rangers
Colonel Loonar
The Trouble With Tracy
Up Canada
The Littlest Hobo
Pig & Whistle

[Justin54B20L]

209. I have two.

"Space: Above and Beyond" - Great Sci-fi show cut before its time

"Tour of Duty" - Great Vietnam War T.V. Show

[fortyfeetunder]

210. "Discovery '6_" (From 1962-196?)

This was an ABC television show starting in the early-mid 60's, for kids that had all kinds of topics on science, social studies, etc. If anything, this was a precursor to PBS and Discovery channel programming.

I was glued to that show, I think I was in kindergarten when it started. It was probably the one of the few positive television experiences I had, and led to my choice in careers.


Correction:starting date

[SmileyBoy]

211. Hearts Afire

[SmileyBoy]

212. Grace Under Fire

Starring Brett Butler

[maine_raptor]

213. "Man In Space" Check this One Out.....Youngsters!!!

Ran during the late 50's/early 60's...very few episodes (only ran 1 1/2 seasons).

Each show was different step in the "conquest in space": first orbit, building of space station, first landing on Moon, building of Moon Base, etc.

Had a couple of really "Twilight Zone" type shows that I still remember.

One was about a crew coming back from a supply mission to the Moon base, get hit by a meteor, crash lands, and when they exam the "meteor" they find "writing" on it and determine that it has been in orbit for 500 yrs.

Other was one where a scientist gets lost on the moon, they find him, drag his absent mind ass back to the base, and revive him just in time. He starts raving about "dinosaurs on the moon" and since he left some equipment back there, they send a team out to get it and check out what he's raving about. They get to the spot, look around, see nothing, and head back before the air runs out. As the show ends, the camera pulls back showing the team heading back to the base, and there on a rock facing away is a "cave painting".

And that, if I remember correctly was the last episode of the series.

I have only seen it once since I saw it as a kid....SciFi channel used to run retro stuff early on Sat morn. Sure would like to get get a copy of the whole run.

[SmileyBoy]

214. The Duck Factory

Starring a young Jim Carrey

[ThoughtCriminal]

220. What are the odds?

Both of us post that in the same minute?

[SmileyBoy]

229. I know!!! I looked, and said "WTF???"

We're of the same mind!!!:hi:

[henslee]

249. Not to be confused with The fun factory, a game show hosted by Bobby Van.

[henslee]

250. Celebrity sweepstakes was another game show. Carol Wayne used to be on it.

[henslee]

251. Jackpot, another gameshow hosted by Geoff Edwards who wore puka shells!

[ThoughtCriminal]

215. The Duck Factory

very short lived.

[SmileyBoy]

218. Jinx!! You owe me a Coke.

:D

[SmileyBoy]

216. TNT Sunday Night Football

A lot of the time they'd show Pheonix/Arizona Cardinals games in Phoenix. The Cardinals were one of my favourite teams in grade school.

[thinksmart]

217. Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot

The Shadow, The Untouchables, Deputy Dog

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

295. That big sphinx face used to scare the living shit out of 3yo me (nt)

[SmileyBoy]

219. South Central

A very powerful show on FOX back in 1994 or so.

[SmileyBoy]

221. Scrabble - The Game Show

[SmileyBoy]

222. Card Sharks

[SmileyBoy]

223. Sale Of The Century

[Bluebear]

236. I was on that :)

won big bucks :)

[Mojambo]

312. My Favorite game show of all-time n/t

[SmileyBoy]

224. Classic Concentration

[NightTrain]

225. ON THE ROCKS, LOTSA LUCK, and APPLE PIE

All were sitcoms that ran in the middle 1970s. ON THE ROCKS was set in a prison. As for LOTSA LUCK, all I can remember is that it starred Dom DeLuise. And I think APPLE PIE starred Rue McLanahan and possibly Jack Gilford, but my memory is kinda fuzzy.

So, anyone else remember those shows?

[WoodrowFan]

287. I remember lotsa luck, not sure why! (NT)

[PittPoliSci]

226. Sledge Hammer.

Never really watched but a few episodes, wasn't that bad...

[SmileyBoy]

228. Unhappily Ever After

[Justin54B20L]

231. Dance your cares away. . .

Worrys for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock

[Parrcrow]

307. Land of the Giants, Roger Ramjet, Rocket Robin Hood.

[SmileyBoy]

230. The KXJB-TV4 Vikings Pre-Game Show

It was a local Vikings/NFL pre-game show for the Fargo-Moorhead market back in the late-1980's.

Starring a good family friend and local celebrity, sportscaster Tom Coyne.

Howz THAT for obscure???

[x-g.o.p.er]

278. Oh, yeah, how about "The Bud Grant Show" every Monday night?

On KSTP, I think. It was a re-cap of the previous game, with highlights and the "play of the game", wher Grabt would diafram it on a chalkboard and then go to the 16mm game film that had the "coache's clicker" which made the film go backwards. I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

[ThoughtCriminal]

233. Queen For a Day

OK if you're old enough, you probably do remember.

[Logansquare]

238. That was a very popular show, in it's day! The first reality show. n/t

[Logansquare]

239. Anyone over 40 remember "The Texas Wheelers?"

starring Gary Busey and Mark Hamill, among others.

[mitchum]

304. Sure. Crazy-eyed Jack Elam was the best known of the stars...

at the time. But I imagine most people refered to him as "y'know, that guy with the crazy eyes"

[ThoughtCriminal]

248. Just in case you think today's reality shows are bad

It was probably the mommy of them all. So dreadful I'm sure reruns would be a big hit.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

234. Sifl and Olly show

Sock puppet show on MTV. It was really funny.

[Spirochete]

237. The Second Hundred Years

Mr. Terrific

What was the name of that one that had David Keith in it? He was a secondary character, with a couple weird kids.

[Logansquare]

245. Oh shit! I remember that show! Some guy is unfrozen after 100 years

and his son is an elderly man, and his grandson is his "contemporary" as far as physical age. He has to deal with the swinging 60's and miniskirts and hippies and other non-Victorian situations, thus a laff riot.

[maveric]

263. Monte Markham was the dude.

[Lefty48197]

242. Dusty's Trail starring Bob (Gilligan) Denver

This show came out after Gilligan's Island ended. It was a lightly disguised rip-off of GI. This time, instead of being "deserted on a desert isle", they were "part of a wagon train lost from the rest." The cast of characters was even quite similar, although most of the actors were different.

[are_we_united_yet]

244. "Lost in space"

[Ivan Sputnik]

298. Hardly obscure

It's currently being released on DVD. Try Googling it. It is well remembered.

[Tweed]

252. Ghostwriter

[miss_kitty]

254. Private Eye (1987) "Under Suspicion" (1994) "Strange Luck" (1995)

1) intro'd me to Chris Isaak music. Excellent great show
2) didn't know anyone in the cast. shot Karen Sillas (the star) in the chest at the end of the last episode. Great show
#) DB Sweeney, Frances Fisher. Great show

[Arkana]

255. I remember Salute Your Shorts!

"Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts, and when we think about you, it makes me wanna fart!"

Budnick, Donkeylips, Ug, Dina, and the others...that was a funny show.

EDIT: I had cartoon faves, like "Garfield and Friends," "Heathcliff," "Mother Goose & Grimm," and old-school "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

Anyone remember these PBS gems?:
Wishbone
Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

[SmileyBoy]

256. Danger Mouse

[WoodrowFan]

289. Penfold, hush (NT)

[Blue_Tires]

314. good call!!

nickelodeon has some of the greats when i was coming up (mid 80s)

[SmileyBoy]

257. Today's Special

One of Canada's finest children's shows.

[fishwax]

260. "Doctor, Doctor" and "The Fabulous Teddy Z"

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a talent agent, so I thought The Fabulous Teddy Z was awesome.

[marigold20]

292. I loved The Famous Teddy Z!

Too bad hardly anyone else did.

[sans qualia]

264. Red Dwarf

Smeghead.

[maveric]

265. "Its about time", "My Mother the Car", "Coronet Blue"

"My Living Doll' with Julie Newmar too.

[arwalden]

269. Apple's Way

[terrya]

275. I remember "Apple's Way". Ronny Cox starred in it.

"Apple's Way" was a sweet, gentle show.

[miss_kitty]

270. kick cause it's not football

[demwing]

271. Anyone remember Winky Dink?

How about Sheriff John?

I'm not sure if those were syndicated, or local shows in Southern California in the 60s

[TheCentepedeShoes]

276. Winky Dink ?

Is that the purple one ?

[arwalden]

277. Family

[x-g.o.p.er]

279. Quincy, ME and The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Since I mentioned a Bill Bixby show, how about "The Hulk", with him and Lou Ferrigno?

[Logansquare]

291. Remember that Jodie Foster was Eddie's little friend Joey?

FYI Brandon Cruz is now a punk rocker and had a bit part in "The Motorcycle Diaries"

[timtom]

281. Colonel Flack

with Alan Mowbray and Frank Jenks. I don't believe there's even any existing film/kinescope footage available.

[Malebolgia]

283. "Perfect Strangers"

How can you NOT remember Balki????

[tuvor]

284. Captain Nice.

A spoof of the Batman TV series, which was already a spoof.

I barely remember the show. I know that I was too young to know the difference between a show being on channel 7 and being on AT 7.

[CO Liberal]

290. "The Uncle Floyd Show"

It's been carried on various UHF stations across New Jersey since the '70s. It was also carried by NBC for a while after "Saturday Night Live".

http://www.planetshowbiz.com/floyd/

[norml]

293. The Invaders

http://www.theinvaders.co.uk/

[Mist]

294. I remember a lot of those shows

I thought I was the only one who still remembered Nichols; great little show, my father and I loved it. Loved Max Headroom and Eerie, IN. Remember "Fractured Fairy Tales"? (Part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show). And here's a really obscure one: I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. A sitcom w/2 carpenters, I think. I was 4 or something; why would I remember that?

[Penndems]

299. "The Lawman", with John Russell and Peter Brown

Took place in the Old West with Russell as the sheriff of Laramie, Wyoming and Brown as his deputy.

Also:

"The High Chaparral" - Western with Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade and Henry Darrow

"Lancer" - Western with James Stacy, Wayne Maunder and Andrew Duggan


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LOVED Westerns when I was growing up - probably because we don't have cowboys and ranches in Virginia, LOL.

True confession: I developed a lifelong crush on James Gardner after seeing him in "Maverick". ;)

[SarahB]

301. Topper

It was on originally in the early 50's about a family haunted by a middle-aged British ghost named Cosmo Topper. In my teens (we're talking mid-80's) my mom worked second shift and we didn't have cable, so I'd stay up watching obscure old shows like this on Friday and Saturday nights.

[SarahB]

302. Dark Shadows

Used to be obsessed with those old reruns too for awhile. I think I was born in the wrong decade unfortunately (seem to have liked spooky stuff from the 50's and 60's). I loved the Twilight Zone too, but that's probably less than obscure.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

305. "Home Front"

I want to say it was ABC or CBS. It would have been around the early 90s. VERY early 90s. I would KILL to find the episodes on VHS or DVD. It was AWESOME and I don't normally get into dramas.

It lasted only one or two seasons and was about a town in Illinois or Indiana right after WWII and the interactions between the town residents when the WWII vets were coming home.

One guy was from a very affluent family and met and married an Italian woman while in Italy. His family was very snooty and had a hard time accepting her and an even harder time when they saw her tattooed numbers on her inner arm, meaning she was JEWISH (GASP!). Then they thought he just married her to save her from the gas chambers, that he didn't really love her, but he did. Then it turned out she was pregnant.

There were also other families, characters, interconnectedness between them.

SO well-written and almost every actor was unknown but wonderful.

So wish I could find it!

On edit: ACK! Here it is on IMDB! I love that website!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101121/

And I found this! YAY! http://www.homefrontondvd.com/

[Kire]

306. E/R, with George Clooney, the sitcom

with Elliot Gould


"In one episode of "E/R," the overweight receptionist's boyfriend composed a song for her called "Love Handles." He sung it to her, in the E/R, accompanied by backup singers. I don't recall the lyrics word for word, but it went something like this: "I love your love handles...my big meat mama that's you." This is probably the most obnoxious moment in the history of television."

More: http://www.jumptheshark.com/e/erer.htm

[AVID]

308. SALVAGE ONE - Andy Griffith, 1979

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9782/salvage1.html

I loved this show - tried to build my own rocket to the moon.

[oxymoron]

309. "My Mother the Car", "The Mothers-In-Law", "Sky King"

[Mojambo]

313. Whoops!

A post apocalyptic comedy (by Fox, of course) It was one of the shows that launched the network IIRC.

Another show that comes to mind was called (I think) The Lottery. It had two guys who traveled the country, one of them (a hated) IRS agent, seeking out people who had won the lottery so they could cash out their ticket.

It fit so well within the times. It was VERY Reagan. I can't remember the network it ran on.

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315. Bearcats.

Sort of like "The Wild, Wild West" about two soldiers of fortune types in the early 1900's that took on dangerous assignments. They rode around in a Stutz Bearcat and their payment was a blank check.



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066631/

[Beware the Beast Man]

316. It's Your Move

With Jason Bateman. That show was awesome, especially the two-part "Dregs of Humanity" episode.

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317. Cop Rock

Without a doubt one of the worst programs ever produced.

[Ivan Sputnik]

318. Wonderfalls and H.R. Puffinstuff

Just thought of these two.