Forgotten tv shows

I'd never seen it before until it was brought to my attention on YouTube about five years ago. It's really good. I wish it was available on DVD.

She's The Sheriff.

I always thought Paul Regina from Brothers was so hot. He died way too young.

Brothers was great; I caught most of it on youtube. Forgotten because it was on cable, but then again, it would have never been on network TV in the mid-80s.

What was up with Suzanne Somers and that stupid side ponytail? Was that ever in fashion?

My favorite 'lost' sitcom

I LOVED this show when I was little.

'Timeslip' 1970 British 'childrens' SF show, strange and scary at the time, and Derek FTW

Anyone remember Phyllis Diller's "The Pruitts Of Southampton"? I used to LOVE the opening theme sung by the great Diller.

Other forgotten treasure: It's About Time, Run Buddy Run, and Here Come The Brides.

I loved The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd starring Blair Brown.

R7 - as a gayling back then I watched it for the dad.

Filthy Rich

I loved Double Trouble with the Sagal twins. I've always been a sucker for twin antics.

Swans Crossing

Square Pegs

You must have absolutely adored MY show, r13!

"Men in Trees" (2006) - Starring "Celestia," as Anne Heche

I loved Filthy Rich.

Also All's Fair starring DL fave Bernadette Peters.

Pink Lady and Jeff

Im loving this thread. I loooovveed Swans Crossing R14!

F/X's "The Riches"!

If it were not for the 2008 writers' strike, Minnie Driver, Eddy Izzard, and the series would have won Globes.

“Guys Like Us” about two straight bros raising a kid. Co-starring Chris Hardwick (The Talking Dead).

"Temperature's Rising," the first show I remember being upset about when it was cancelled.

The Powers That Be starring DL faves Holland Taylor and David Hyde Pierce

I'll Fly Away, from Joshua Brand and John Falsey. No DVD. No Netflix. No Amazon Prime. No streaming anywhere I know of.

As a 80s British gayling with only 4 channels but much more interesting content loved Brothers and Hooperman.

Also have a vague recollection of a BBC series with a Phil Collins theme song about ex cons, some gay.

On British TV now other than the occasional high profile series, usually with Ben Whishaw, it's just wooden but attractive hunks in every soap. Much less interesting

"Any Day Now" was one of my favorite shows during the late 90s and early 00s. I thought they did an excellent job in portraying the challenges of an interracial friendship that existed in 1960s Birmingham, AL, and resumed in the same city some 30 years later.

State of Grace, where I first encountered Mae Whitman and Alia Shawkat.

Byrds of Paradise

Models Inc

Both cancellations rocked my early teen world.

It comes up all the time in "cancelled too soon" threads but it really deserves a DVD release: Frank's Place. I don't even think it had a summer rerun.

r29 How could anyone's world, teen or otherwise, be "rocked" by the absence of Jennifer Love Hewitt or Seth Green?

Two shows that immediately came to mind are Third Rock from the Sun and Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood. Nowhere Man I understand being forgotten (it was on UPN), but I'm particularly stunned by Third Rock because that had a successful run and ran on NBC at the height of the network's popularity but it's like no one has ever heard of remembered or even seen the show. I don't even think it gets referenced in any stories about Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I can't remember one time anyone going, "Oh, yeah, he was also the kid who played the old alien on Third Rock."

One last forgotten show was The Job, starring Denis Leary. This was one of the funniest, edgiest TV shows to ever appear on network TV (ABC). I'm amazed it never lasted more than a season.

Ben Casey Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law Safe at Home (WTBS) Almost Anything Goes

[quote]Third Rock from the Sun

Forgotten? Not by many.

[quote]I don't even think it gets referenced in any stories about Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I can't remember one time anyone going, "Oh, yeah, he was also the kid who played the old alien on Third Rock."

I've read three such references in the past few weeks.

Rags to Riches (1987-88, NBC)

Anything But Love (1989-92, ABC)

Homefront (1991-93, ABC)

The Torkelsons (1991-93, NBC)

Two great and vicious showbiz sitcoms: Action and The Famous Teddy Z

The 5 Mrs. Buchanans from DL fave Marc Cherry. Great ensemble cast.

I loved Square Pegs! And I watched Family with my parents. Sada Thompson was my real mother, because my own was a drunk who died of lung cancer at 53.

Serpico and Petrocelli.

Serpico was based on the movie and only lasted one season but I remember it as being good. Petrocelli was a legal based drama only lasted maybe two seasons.

How long did Judging Amy last? My mother loved that show.

The Monroes (co-starring Barbara Hershey)

Otherworld. One of the stars Tony O'Dell went on one year later be on Head of the Class.

PICKET FENCES I’ll FLY AWAY SISTERS AMERICAN GOTHIc

Party Down

BROADSIDE

IT'S ABOUT TIME

KAREN

with the actress who played little Blanche Hudson as her baby sister

The Pruitts of Southampton. (1966-67)

It was on at 9:00, which was my bed time (I was 9) so never got to watch it. My parents said I could watch it in summer reruns, but I don't think it ever made it that far, and it's never been released on DVD.

I would stall long enough to at least see the opening credits where Phyllis Diller would flounce around her mansion singing "Howcha do howcha do, howcha do my dear. What a LOVELY surprise, nice to see you here."

I would throw a blanket over my shoulders, grab a Tinker Toy to use as a cigarette holder and mimic her any chance I got.

Still wonder how my parents could've been surprised 9 years later when I turned out to be a big 'mo.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

"The Heights" (1992) - The show sucked, but I thought Jamie Walters was adorable. At least until he moved to Beverly Hills and threw Donna down a flight of stairs!

Mannix. My father liked that show. My mother loved Ironside.

I remember Barretta, starring the now disgraced Robert Blake.

"Woops." about survivors of THE nuclear holocaust. Very quirky, only lasted one season.

"He and She." I enjoyed the series, but it never caught on. Too NYC/sophisticated perhaps?

What was the series where we saw four disparate parts of a man's brain, and how they were going to control and/or comment on his everyday life?

"The Tony Randall Show," and not just because it was set in Philadelphia. Well-casted, funny and fast, snappy dialogue. "What's your name?" "Mario Lanza." "Are you related?" "To who?" And co-starring DL fave Rachael Roberts. What's not to love?

"Hank," about a young man who would sneak INTO college to attend class, aided and abetted by his girlfriend, the dean's daughter. Starring another DL fave, Dick Kallman.

Seven brides for seven brothers with river phoenix. His first gig. LOVE the theme song and opening.

I loved Herman's Head. Some really funny scenes from that one. There was another show that I watched but I can't remember what it was called but I remember one line from the show;

[quote]You look like you're going to happy hour at the Man Hole. - spoken by a female co-worker to a guy in a cowboy outfit.

I think it was "Up in the Air" or something. I remember the main character worked in some capacity for an airline.

DUET

My Living Doll...Julie Newmar, Bob Cummings.

Jesus R55. That intro music sucked.

Here is a list of short-lived and easily forgotten TV shows from the 1970s. I was in grade school then. I remember a few of these, but many I don't remember at all.

[quote] "Hank," about a young man who would sneak INTO college to attend class, aided and abetted by his girlfriend, the dean's daughter. Starring another DL fave, Dick Kallman.

I had forgotten about Hank!

I remember watching it on Friday nights after Camp Runamuck. At age 8 I had no idea about gay things but I remember thinking Dick Kallman was so cute (or, in the parlance of the day 'dreamy').

Sadly, Kallman and his partner Stephen Szladek were killed in 1980 in a break-in and burglary of their apartment

The Loveboat

[quote]"The Tony Randall Show," and not just because it was set in Philadelphia. Well-casted, funny and fast, snappy dialogue. "What's your name?" "Mario Lanza." "Are you related?" "To who?" And co-starring DL fave Rachael Roberts. What's not to love?

A man after my own heart! I remember that so well. It was actually a "water cooler show" at my office and we used to love to talk about the episodes the next day. I STILL think of the "Mario Lanza" line every time I hear the singer mentioned.

[quote]I loved Double Trouble with the Sagal twins. I've always been a sucker for twin antics.

Bel Ami is planning a remake with the Peters Twins.

California Fever

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Sliders

The Governor and J.J.

HE & SHE

I never forgot the Sierra theme song. I was surprised to see it only aired a few times, because I remember watching it when I was eight or so. Also remember Holmes and Yoyo, which my whole family enjoyed despite it supposedly being one of the worst shows ever. Also When Things Were Rotten.

The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer. It didn't last long for obvious reasons.

The Life Of Riley

R69

You mean because it was pure fiction ?

Homeboys In Outer Space

The Big Gay Sketch Show

2 shows I remember but can't remember the name:

One was about an Italian-American married to a good-looking WASPY guy. It may have been Bruce Boxlietner. The other one was about a black couple moving in to a white apartment house. Both were sitcoms in the 1970's. I didn't watch much '80's television. Anyone remember these? There was also another sitcom with David Leisure (?). Anyone remember that one?

Motherfucker! Motherfucker!

Swingtown with Grant Show

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman! is a work of genius and, in many ways, would still feel subversive if it aired today. David Lynch must have been inspired by some of it.

I remember "Brothers." I was in college, and I remember that it helped me to accept who I was. "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" was in syndication, when I was a kid in the 70s, and like another poster, I had a tingly feeling whenever Mark Miller was in a scene. I can now recognize that as my first gay feelings. Another guy who gave me a tingly feeling was Ken Berry. I loved Captain Parmenter. But how about forgotten Kids' TV Shows:

One is Enough

Mark Miller was hot. I don't think there is a shirtless picture of that man anywhere on earth.

The Fanelli Boys with DL fave Chris Meloni

[quote] The other one was about a black couple moving in to a white apartment house. Both were sitcoms in the 1970's.

Seriously?

JOE’S WORLD from the 79-80 tv season. Christopher Knight played the oldest son.

R72

Sounds like a great place to put them.

Wish I could find I’ll Fly Away somewhere...

Shirley's World

[quote]Wish I could find I’ll Fly Away somewhere...

I wish I'd kept my tapes and the VCR I recorded them on.

"Sisters"

The Canadian Dark Shadows ripoff, "Strange Paradise."

And "Monsters" which I guess you could consider the younger brother of Tales From the Darkside

Going to Extremes - (1992-1993) - This hour-long dramatic comedy featured American medical students undergoing their training on a tropical island.

Joshua Brand and John Falsey produced it.

From a Bird's Eye View

"Dirty*Sexy*Money"

Donald Sutherland, Jill Clayburgh, Peter Strauss, Natalie Zea, Lucy Liu, Candis Cayne, Peter Krause, William Baldwin, Chole Grace Moretz, and Bryce Dallas Howard's husband aka Seth Gabel -

[quote] "Dirty*Sexy*Money" ... Jill Clayburgh

"Hot L Baltimore", a sitcom based on an off-Broadway play by Lanford Wilson. It was considered controversial and had a disclaimer cautioning viewers about its mature themes. The characters included two prostitutes (one an illegal immigrant) and a gay couple. It was produced by Norman Lear but didn't catch on with viewers and was cancelled after 13 episodes. Cast members included James Cromwell, Richard Masur, Conchita Ferrell, Al Freeman Jr and Charlotte Rae. I vaguely remember an episode where Ferrell, who plays one of the prostitutes, in convinced that Cromwell's character doesn't care about her. She changes her mind after he hits her! She thinks that if she can make him mad enough to hit her he MUST have deep feelings towards her. No wonder that show didn't last.

R89:

In NYC they showed Strange Paradise very late at night. As a kid, the moving eyes in the portrait scared the shite out of me every time!

James at 15/16

Lumberjacks!

Partners in Crime

Dirty Sexy Money had a lot of promise, but it wasn't the delicious soap you hoped for. The writers strike put the final nail in its coffin.

“It Takes Two” starring Patti Duke, Helen Hunt, Anthony Edwards and Blanche Devereaux’s kitchen.

From the producers of Family Affair - two season sitcom "To Rome with Love" starring John Forsythe. Music by DeVol!

In an effort to boost ratings, Family Affair's Buffy and Jody made a crossover appearance in season 2. Uncle Charley, DL fave Robbie Douglas and Katie from My Three Sons also were featured on a later episode.

This one only lasted for 13 episodes, but I still remember it being a fun show like Moonlighting.

Also this one from around the same time, it went from an hour, then was retooled as a half-hour "dramedy."

BJ and the Bear, starring Greg Evigan

"The Charmings" - the only upside was the very cute Christopher Rich as the Prince

"90 Bristol Court" - three sitcoms for the price of one!

Including "Tom, Dick and Mary," featuring DL icon Joyce Bulifant!

Miss Judy Carne in "Fair Exchange"

"The Dumplings," with James Coco and Geraldine Brooks

'Dream On', so irritating

Boston Public

Lidsville

Get a Life- The weird sitcom that starred Chris Elliot as a thirty something paper boy. I liked the bizarre aspect of the show.

"Nanny and the Professor" with Juliet Mills as a sort of Mary Poppins, Richard Long and young Kim Richards as Prudence. Very charming show.

Reruns of "Love That Bob" with Robert Cummings and Ann B. Davis as Shultzy; also, "The People's Choice"with a talking basset hound.

"The New People" some sort of hippies on an island with Tiffany Bolling (her name was memorable) . I remember it was slotted for 45 minutes, instead of 30 or 60, and there was another show that either was on before or after that was also 45 minutes. Kind of weird, but I guess some sort of experiment.

"Davy and Goliath" - a boy and his dog - on early mornings, it was claymation show which had a religious bent to it.

"Mr. Terrific" and "Captain Nice", both shows with similar premises

"Kukla, Fran and Ollie" - gone but never forgotten - so lovely they were, and from such a different era

"Quark" My parents thought it was too racy - because of the twins.

[quote] Dirty Sexy Money had a lot of promise, but it wasn't the delicious soap you hoped for.

Exactly. I tried to get into it but it was basically if a flyover frau wrote about the lives of uber-wealthy Manhattanites, i.e. basically having no clue about its subject matter.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Class of 96

It was a shame Scott Barstow turned out to like little girls, r117. I thought he was hot. Plus Wanda from Doogie Howser, MD. And it was gone before the year was up.

Mysterious Ways with Adrian Pasdar.

Moonlight starring a curly-haired Alex O’Loughlin.

Twisted

Life As We Know It

Everwood- It was a WB show that lasted several seasons, but didn't make it on the CW after the WB/UPN merger.

Starring Patti Lupone

[quote]Get a Life- The weird sitcom that starred Chris Elliot as a thirty something paper boy. I liked the bizarre aspect of the show.

I loved that show; it was so underrated. BTW, South Park ripped off the "OMG, we killed Kenny!" bit from Get a Life. It annoys me that SP gets so much credit for that gimmick.

[quote]Parker Lewis Can't Lose

A ripoff of Ferris Bueller's Day Off that was actually 10x better than the official one that debuted on NBC, which didn't even last the season.

Oh, you reminded me of another gem from FOX in its earlier days: Oliver Beene. This was a hilarious half hour sitcom in the vein of The Wonder Years, except it took place in the early 1960s. It was kind of groundbreaking. It did the whole Mid Century Modern thing before Mad Men, and the best friend was gay. When it was canceled, I was so heartbroken. It was such a cute, irreverent and charming sitcom.

Brooklyn Bridge on CBS

Day by Day- A late 80s sitcom that lasted two seasons. It was about a couple with a teen son and a baby daughter who open up a daycare in their home. Julia Louis-Dreyfus played their next door neighbor

What ABout Brian

The Goode Family by Mike Judge, who made a huge mistake pitching the show to ABC (because, IIRC, he was pissed off at FOX). The show didn't last a season and I don't think there's a soul that watched it or even knows it existed.

Some other forgotten animated shows:

Brickleberry--very Family Guyish cartoon show produced by Yucko the Clown.

Allen Gregory--about an obnoxious smart kid who tries to go to "regular" school. I think he had two dads. Was hated, I guess because it was produced by Jonah Hill but I thought it was entertaining.

Napoleon Dynamite--quirkiness meets King of the Hill, voiced by the original cast.

R128 I liked Allen Gregory too.

Another forgotten animated show The Critic on FOX.

I loved Brickleberry and Napoleon Dynamite. There was another, Mr. Pickles, about a Satanic dog that I liked.

The Adventures of Beans Baxter, one of the original FOX shows, along with Married With Children and Tracey Ullman.

Flo, the Alice spin-off that actually did pretty well in the ratings...but apparently not well enough.

The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd received love letters from the critics but anemic ratings.

The Hat Squad

October Road

There was a TV show adaption of The Outsiders on FOX. It only lasted one season.

The 90s revival of The Outer Limits is forgotten and there were some great episodes.

Wonderfalls

Anyone remember The Tomorrow People about mod British teens with superpowers? It ran on early Nickelodeon along with that other weird show The Third Eye.

The PJs

"Wait Till Your Father Gets Home," which was the 1970s version of "Family Guy."

I am enjoying Brothers, thanks OP

The show with Geoff Stults , Chris Lowell and Parker Gregory as the brothers in the army.

More Lee Pace Pushing Daisies.

R78 How can you call H.R. Pufnstuf forgotten, when it gave us the immortal Witchiepoo?

I will, however, give you The Bugaboos, with the immortal Martha Raye as Benita Bizarre.

Can’t seem to find anything on Google. Please remind me: Was it “It’s Cheryl!” Or “The Cheryl Show”?

Of course it was sponsored by Febreeze.

Oh that wacky Martha!

High Mountain Rangers with the tight trousered Robert Conrad and one or two of his sons:

ABC (?) Movie of the Week. Isn't that the show that used "Nikki" by Burt Bacharach as the theme? That song sent chills down my spine, and still does.

Jacques Cousteau specials. I used to watch it for the fit French dudes in SPEEDOS, OMG. His son was hot.

Bridget Loves Bernie. I liked Bernie, too.

The Six Million Dollar Man. Sigh. Lee Majors was hot back in the day.

Evening Shade with Mr. Burt Reynolds. MMMMM....move ovah, Blanche Devereaux.

The cartoon show that aired in the early p.m. "Wait 'til Your Father Gets Home".

The show that was basically DL Cinema Verite.......

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*Queen for a Day*

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Despite good ratings and taking place during an era of huge social change, [italic]Bridget Loves Bernie[/italic] got cancelled due to hate mail from viewers who objected to a positive portrayal of a "mixed marriage."

[italic]Needles and Pins,[/italic] set in NYC's Garment District, lasted 10 episodes on NBC in 1973.

Lee Grant's ill-fated sitcom [italic]Fay,[/italic] now notable only because NBC censored the phrase "stretch marks" from an episode

Did it get any sillier than Captain Nice (about a police department chemist who discovers a liquid that turns him into a nerdy superhero)?

Nightingales starring Suzanne Phleshette

GROSS POINTE on the WB. That show was HILARIOUS .

Sigmund and the Sea Monster

Wonderbug

Dr. Shrinker

I watched these shows as a kid.

Malibu Shores with Keri Russell

[italic]The War Next Door,[/italic] starring Damian Young and a really hot blonde guy as a couple of secret agents who despise each other and then one of them moves next-door to the other. Damian Young seems to play his role as gay, even though that's never stated, and the two agents manage to kill one or the other of themselves every week, yet they're always back the following week. It's quirky, dark humor at its best.

Over There- FX show about the Iraq war. Got canned after a season.

It's About Time, by the people who brought us Gilligan's Island. The show is so forgettable that in spite of watching on Antenna TV for months, I promptly forgot about it all over again as soon as it stopped running.

Back when many of us eldergays were kids - Big Blue Marble!

[italic]The Smith Family,[/italic] starring Henry Fonda as a police detective, couldn't decide whether it was a cop show or a family sitcom.

I loved Brooklyn Bridge!

Another religious-themed show I loved was Nothing Sacred.

And another...Book of Daniel starring Aiden Quinn and Christian Campbell.

[italic]Ozzie's Girls[/italic] was a "hip and with-it" '70s spinoff of [italic]The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet[/italic] in which they rented rooms to two college girls after the boys left home. Co-star Susan Sennett later married rocker Graham Nash.

[italic]Arnie[/italic] starred Herschel Bernardi as a working-class schlub who inexplicably got promoted to upper management at his job. DL icon Miss Sue Ane Langdon co-starred as his frosted-shag-wearing wife.

Before Dee Dee Halls found fame as a soap queen, she co-starred as a superheroine on [italic]Electra Woman and Dyna Girl,[/italic] part of the mid-'70s Saturday-morning [italic]Krofft Supershow[/italic] on ABC.

Thorgy Thor at R145 looks good

[italic]The Single Guy,[/italic] a generic [italic]Friends[/italic] rip-off

[italic]Getting Together,[/italic] the sitcom vehicle for Bobby Sherman, the Walmart Great Value version of David Cassidy

R126, I loved Day By Day! The cute son, Ross. And Courtney Thorne Smith as the hot hippie girl who helps at the daycare: ”Oh sorry, I’m so tired. I was up all night with my loom.”

How about when George Clooney was on the other ER, the sitcom with Elliott Gould?

A couple of years before [italic]The Golden Girls,[/italic] Bea Arthur briefly starred in [italic]Amanda's,[/italic] the second US adaptation of [italic]Fawlty Towers.[/italic] (The first, [italic]Chateau Snavely,[/italic] starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, aired as a pilot on ABC but didn't get picked up.)

R147, yes it was the ABC Movie of the Week that used Burt Bacharach's "Nikki" as the theme song, albeit in a highly orchestral version. It gives me the chills, too, for good reason. Some of those flicks scared the living hell out of me as a kid.

P.S., There's another DL thread devoted specifically to those chilling ABC TV movies of the 70's. I tried to figure out how to link to it, but couldn't find it under the Help/FAQ's. (I see, "Related Datalounge Thread" all over threads on this site, but I can't seem to find out how to do this myself. Yes, I'm a dummy, I guess. If anyone can point me in the direction of Albuquerque, I'd be grateful!)

Or Love, Sydney with Tony Randall.

Love, Sidney is an American sitcom which aired two seasons on NBC, from October 1981 to June 1983. It stars Tony Randall as Sidney Shorr (a single, closeted gay man), Swoosie Kurtz as Laurie Morgan (a single mother with whom he shares his home), and Kaleena Kiff as Patti Morgan (Laurie's young daughter). It was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central character, although his sexual orientation was carefully downplayed for most of the series' duration.

I believe it was briefly mentioned upthread but The Days And Nights of Molly Dodd was really special. A dramedy/half hour drama before they were commonplace.

On NBC in its first season then on Lifetime.

Unlikely to be well known today because music rights prevent its re-release on DVD or elsewhere.

Truth be told, I wanted to BE Molly Dodd. I wanted to live in a big city, hail cabs, work in a bookstore, live in a brownstone, and date fabulously quirky men. (And actually....I did!)

There are actually several old Movie of the Week threads. This one's the latest.

[italic]Love, Sidney[/italic] never explicitly addressed Sidney's sexuality, although the pilot movie, [italic]Sidney Shorr,[/italic] did.

Sid and Marty Krofft's DC Follies.

A lot of people don't remember this show. I was probably four when this show was on, but I remember clearly an episode where they had a Tammy Faye Bakker puppet and when it started crying, all this makeup started running down the puppet's face. I thought that was hilarious.

David Lynch's On The Air

[italic]Mr. T and Tina[/italic] starred Pat Morita as a businessman who moves his family from Japan to America and hires a wacky white girl (Susan Blanchard) as his housekeeper. Notable co-stars were Miss Pat Suzuki as his sister and [italic]The Electric Company[/italic]'s June Angela as his daughter. The cringy opening credits feature a Chinese-restaurant font and gong-enriched theme song.

The entire pilot is at Daily Motion: dailymotion.com/video/xstdz0

I also loved Molly Dodd and it always had great music.

In the early '90s there was a syndicated nighttime-soap version of [italic]Valley of the Dolls,[/italic] starring Sally Kirkland as Helen Lawson. Daily Motion has full episodes, but they're dubbed in what sounds like Russian.

The Secrets of Isis

"Oh Zephyr Winds which blow on high, lift me now so I can fly!"

[quote]Malibu Shores with Keri Russell

And Greg Vaughan, FFS.

I loved Isis as a kid and coveted her amulet. The show also inspired a now-forgotten DL meme ...

"Thank you for the daily lesson, Isis, but I think there's a runaway bear that needs catching."

Capitalizing on the runaway success of Luke and Laura–era [italic]General Hospital, Behind the Screen[/italic] was an early-'80s soap-within-a-soap on CBS's late-night lineup.

"The Man from Atlantis" -- every week watching young, gorgeous Patrick Duffy swimming in a tight bathing suit! What memories!

For a great gay read, R9, & R48, find the book the show came from, the novel House Party (1954) by Patrick Dennis. So gay! Great fun.

"The Class,' only one season on CBS, September 2006 to March 2007. Not picked up, not on DVD. Good cast, when age 28, eight grade-school pupils gather, become friends. It was on YouTube, bits and pieces still are. It is worth seeing. A cast of talent: Jason Ritter, Lizzy Caplan, Heather Goldenhersh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jon Bernthal, Andrea Anders, Sean Maguire, Lucy Punch, Julie Halston, David Keith, Sam Harris, Sara Gilbert, Cristián de la Fuente.

One of my early crushes was Jon-Erik Hexum on [italic]Cover Up.[/italic]

R140, it was called "Enlisted" and it was a great show, very funny.

The Paper Chase, about law students. Enjoyable drama.

Back when I was a kid in the mid-70s, (maybe '76-'77) there was a show called "Almost Anything Goes". It was a game show where people from one town/city competed against people from another town/city in really wacky games. It might have been syndicated, I seem to recall watching it in the early evening on Saturdays. There was a kids version too.

Around 1979 was an hour long show called Cliffhangers. I think it was on Tuesday nights on NBC, not sure why I remember such random things. It had a few different serialized programs within the hour, that would end every week on a (wait for it...) cliffhanger. I recall one serial was "Get Susan Williams" starring Susan Anton, I think she was a woman on the run. But the favorite of me and my friends was a vampire serial starring Michael Nouri as a Dracula character.

A couple of years later was "The Two of Us" on CBS Monday's for a year or two. It starred Mimi Kennedy as a single mother to Dana Hill, and Peter Cook was the butler who moved in. Dana Hill's character was named Gabrielle, and my sister and I would always laugh because the butler would refer to her as "Miss Gabrielle". It probably sucked, but 11 or 12 year-old me thought it was great.

Mid-80s, NBC had a show called All Is Forgiven for a while on Thursday nights. It starred Bess Armstrong as a soap opera producer (Carol Kane played one of her staff), who on a whim marries Terence Knox (who I had a crush on), formerly of St. Elsewhere. Shawnee Smith played Knox's teenage daughter who didn't care for her new step mom. I remember watching it on YouTube a couple of years ago, and while it wasn't hysterically funny, it had its charms.

[quote]*Queen for a Day*

And the early-'80s version, [italic]Fantasy[/italic]

Also I remember a show called "Friends", (no, not that one)... it featured a pre-Love Boat Jill Whelan, and was an hour-long drama about three kids growing up and all their challenges as tweens. It was on 7:00-8:00 Sunday nights on ABC.

I'm not kidding when I say TV Guide was my bible. The Fall Preview editions sent me into orgasm as young as 8 or 9 years old.

Marie Osmond's horrifying sitcom pilot from 1979

R196, I recall that “Fantasy” got into some hot water (at least PR-wise) when bags full of unopened viewer letters were discovered in a dumpster behind the studio. The producers issued a public apology, but that was pretty much the beginning of the end for that show.

Working Girl with Sandra Bullock

It's your move

My Sister Sam

That's My Bush, which was on a few weeks in 2001 right around 9/11. It's by the South Park guys. It was really funny.

There was a game show called "The Baby Game" where among other contests, people would put down their babies and have them crawl along a course to win points and prizes. I kid you not.

"On Our Own", another Bess Armstrong comedy series. I seem to remember an episode similar to "The Golden Girls" where Bess and her co-star ended up at a nudist resort and using props to hide nudity from the camera, decided to give it a go. Someone was really pushing Bess back then, though she seemed to disappear after a few years.

"The Paul Lynde Show", which I remember the promos, where someone asked him how the rat race was going, to which Paul snidely replied "The rats are winning!"

"My World and Welcome To It" with William Windom, and sometime DL fave, Bess from "Mary Tyler Moore Show" herself, Lisa Gerritson, about an animator based on James Thurber and his family. It was kind of whimsical if I recall.

Baby Boom starring Kate Jackson, based on the movie.

"The Rookies" with Kate Jackson and Michael Ontkean.

I remember many of these shows that have been mentioned.

In the 1970s and 80s, we subscribed to TV Guide, and I can remember the excitement I would feel at the end of every summer when they would publish their "Fall TV Preview" describing all the exciting new shows. Just writing this brings up the memory of the smell associated with flipping through a freshly printed guide, with its mix of full color glossy pages on the outside, and cheap pulp black and white for the local listings on the inside.

A few that I don't think have been mentioned yet...

Lucan was a show on ABC in the mid1970s about a young man who had been raised by wolves. I had a boy crush on Kevin Brophy and wanted to go live out in the woods with him. Canceled after 12 episodes.

Liquid Television ran on MTV in the early 1990s, in a late night slot. It was a surreal collection of animation and experimental live action shorts. There were many recurring bits -- Dog Boy, Aeon Flux, Stick Figure Theater were the most memorable to me. I can remember my roommates never wanted to watch it with me, because they didn't get it. Only made 24 episodes.

Similar to Liquid Television, KaBlam! ran on Nickelodeon in the late 1990s. I loved Prometheus and Bob (an alien tries to teach things to a caveman), and Action League Now! (a collection of action figures goes on stupid adventures). This was another show that most of my friends didn't get, but at least it lasted for four seasons.

Bess Armstrong was the Nancy Travis of her day. Where someone, somewhere, kept trying to make her or her shows happen. And happen. Aaaaand happen.

The Shmoo.

1980s Saturday morning cartoon remake of what apparently was a 1940s era cartoon character. Obvious Scooby Doo ripoff but young preteen me liked it. Only ran a season, I think.

I used to love "V". First the miniseries, then the series. Actually, I think there was a second miniseries before the series? Can't recall for sure.

For my fellow Canadians, let me mention ENG and the long running THE BEACHCOMBERS.

The shmoo first appeared In Al Capp's Li'l Abner in 1948, r207.

[italic]The Great American Dream Machine,[/italic] a weekly one-hour event on PBS in the early 1970s.

It had no narrator, no host and no regular features. It was a very funny series of snippets dealing with American life and current events. Think an adult and VERY hip version of [italic]Laugh-In.[/italic]

How about Jim Nabors & Ruth Buzzi as space-time traveling androids on "The Lost Saucer?" Even as a kid, this one was just too much for me.

SheTV.....

I feel like I'm the only person who remembers 3 Girls 3.

*

MISS DEBBIE ALLEN!!!

*

MISS ELLEN FOLEY!!!

*

MISS MIMI KENNEDY!!!

I remember 3 Girls 3, R214.

And this one: Sugar Time, with Miss Barbi Benton!

74 the show with the Italian American women marrying the WASP guys was called Angie. It only lasted about 1 1/2 seasons. Early 1979 to mid 1980.

When I was a kid, I hated the ABC Friday Night Movie theme. I always associated it with that Travolta movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” which scared the hell out of me. I was terrified by the idea of someone having to live in a plastic bubble their entire life, or else they would just die.

I also remember getting an issue of The Weekly Reader at school, which came out around the same time as the movie, talking about the real-life “Bubble Boy” who inspired the movie (David something). Knowing someone was really living like that freaked me out even more.

ABC Friday Night Movie Theme

r216 if you think "Angie" is forgotten on DL, you must be new here.

[quote]"On Our Own", another Bess Armstrong comedy series. I seem to remember an episode similar to "The Golden Girls" where Bess and her co-star ended up at a nudist resort and using props to hide nudity from the camera, decided to give it a go. Someone was really pushing Bess back then, though she seemed to disappear after a few years.

Her costar was Lynnie Greene, who played Dorothy in the flashbacks on "The Golden Girls."

Long before "Cheers" there was a sitcom called "The Corner Bar", which featured the patrons of a bar called Grant's Toomb. Supposedly it featured the first recurring gay character on American television, but then I've heard that about other shows. Anyway, it was pretty good the first season. But for some reason the second season was totally revamped with new characters and totally sucked. It was cancelled soon after.

"Grindl," starring Imogene Coca.

Throb with Jane Leeves and Diana Canova

Mr. Merlin

"Priest" with Linus Roache.

Quite controversial - check out this episode description: Father Greg (Linus Roache) goes out for the night and ends up in bed with another man (Robert Carlyle)

Wasn’t Priest a film?

Marblehead Manor, with hottie Phil Morris and a pre-"Seinfeld" Michael Richards.

r225 Yes, you're right -- sorry.

Bess looks like a toadstool, r220.

Linc’s - a comedy set in a bar owned by a black guy. I don’t think it lasted very long but it was funny. Pam Grier was in it.

Father Dowling Mysteries- Tom Bosley played a priest who solved murders and crimes with help of his nun sidekick played by Tracy Nelson.

MUSCLE, a SOAP-like comedy from the WB.

I was mulling this thread again today and realized that a lot of 1980s shows that had decent runs or became cult hits have fallen into obscurity, shows like:

Riptide (fun detective show with three guys where most of the action happened over water)

Simon and Simon (another detective show, this time with two brothers)

Remington Steele (I guess it became forgotten once Pierce Brosnan went Bond)

Beauty and the Beast (starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman)

Sledge Hammer! (parody of Dirty Harry movies)

[quote]In the 1970s and 80s, we subscribed to TV Guide, and I can remember the excitement I would feel at the end of every summer when they would publish their "Fall TV Preview" describing all the exciting new shows.

R205, do you remember how the networks would preview its fall lineup with a lavish music production and snazzy tagline? The one I remember the most is ABC's "You'll Love It!"

I wish 3 Girls 3 was on DVD somewhere.

Murder One

Just remembered a few more shows that have been completely forgotten. Remember all the reality shows that used to air, based around human interest stories and fascinating people and events? Stuff like:

That's Incredible!

Ripley's Believe It or Not (hosted by Jack Paar)

In Search Of... (paranormal show narrated by Leonard Nimoy)

Sister Kate starring a pre-90210 Jason Priestly. Theme by Amy Grant.

Our House starring a pre-90210 Shannen Doherty, a pre-outed Chad Allen and DL fave Dee Dee Hall, hoping to leave daytime in the dust.

Raven. This didn't last long at all. My mom didn't miss and episode because of Lee Majors.

Connections. My dad watched this all the time. It was on The Learning Channel, I believe.

Palmerstown, with a young Michael J Fox

I loved the fall promos, R233, especially the extended ones like this.

[italic]The Stockard Channing Show[/italic] (a.k.a. [italic]Just Friends[/italic])

Adams Rib, featuring the white shadow and Goop Senior!

One season.

Oh Madeline!

[italic]Shirley's World[/italic]

Hey homosexuals, it’s Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole in Bearcats!

I watched this when I was seven.

Shirley’s World sounds like a planet in a game of Traveler.

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. They got some big names on this show.

Cutter To Houston

High Tide

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., a mix of western and sci-fi starring Bruce Campbell

Johnny Bago

Due South, with Paul Gross and David Marciano, later replaced by Callum Keith REnnie

PJ Katie's Farm

profit. Think it was first of example of fox airing interesting different shows for a year or two. then cancelling them. can name at 10 more after that including la to vegas this year

R237, for some reason the only plotline from Sister Kate that sticks in my head is this little black girl who told everybody she was from Jamaica until Sister Kate found out she was from Jamaica Queens. I would have been maybe 10 when that aired. I have no idea why that's the only thing I remember about it.

Angela Anaconda

The Edison Twins.

On MTV back in the '80's there was liquid television. Anyone remember Dog Boy? I remember the first time I saw Aeon Flux. There was another show on LT, but all I can remember is one character on it called Crime Clown. Anyone know which show I mean? I must have been the oldest person to watch MTV!

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp!

There was another show about neanderthal man,with actors dressed up as neanderthals speaking perfect English.

Planet of the Apes the tv series.

I always liked Hooperman with John Ritter - it was a nice role for him. And he still looked good.

Buffalo Bill starring Dabney Coleman and Geena Davis

[quote[Ripley's Believe It or Not (hosted by Jack Paar)

No, dear.

Remember when that weird husband and wife mime team had a show it was called Sheilds and Yarnell.

Brothers--the big bear guy that plays Lou is Fiona Apple's father.

R126 I never watched it except for the great Brady Bunch episode. And then the guy from that played Greg Brady in the movie. And - probably more memorably on here - the football player Dorothy didn’t want to pass on GG.

Alias Smith and Jones from the early 70's

Due South forgotten??? Fuck you!

Never heard of High Tide at R251 but it looks like fun fluff. And holy shit, the guy that plays Rick Springfield's brother in the show (Yannick Bisson) is a fucking hottie.

That Was the Week That Was.....

R260, it was The Specialists. I had to look it up because I remember watching it too.

r240 Totally enjoyed that series, it prompted me to purchase the book.

r249 An updating of "Shirley Temple's Storybook" perhaps?

"Sergeant Preston of the Yukon" Sigh.....

"Dragnet" 'Just the facts, ma'am.'

"The Red Skelton Show" 'Good night, and may God bless.'

"Candid Camera" 'Smile, you're on "Candid Camera!"'

SKY KING

The San Pedro Beach Bums. My friends and I still say "Football...you bet" because of this show.

The Joan Rivers created Husbands, Wives and Lovers from 1978. This was on Saturday nights and I’d watch it when my parents were out. Being 12 I thought it was really adult, probably because the word Lovers was in the title. Had a big crush on Charles Seibert and Claudette Niven was my favorite of the women in the cast.

DIVER DAN

Evidently The San Pedro beach Bums also did a "nude beach/obscured body parts" episode, based on the final opening credits here. I think Charlie Angels did one too.

Two horse-related shows: "Fury" and "My Friend Flicka."

The Survivors was a short-lived soap starring Lana Turner & that pretty boy pictured below

TOP CAT

Kate and Allie. This was on for quite awhile but no one seems to remember or talk about.

Dear John, starring Judd Hirsch.

r271 That was the original British version. The American version had Nancy Ames, David Frost, and many others. It aired on NBC (briefly.)

Reasonable Doubts- early 90s legal drama with Marlee Matlin as a prosecutor and Mark Harmon as the detective who often acted as her interpreter. Lasted two seasons.

The original Dear John was British and starred Ralph Bates, he died too young.

Sugar Time. It was a jiggle show that tried to capitalize on the success of Three’s Company.

"Lotsa Luck" - kind of an even more lowdown "All in the Family" and while funny, rather crude, starring Dom DeLuise

Magilla Gorilla

Huckleberry Hound

The Perils of Penelope Pittstop

Underdog - voiced by Wally Cox

Fired Up

They did a Mission Impossible take-off with Sharon Lawrence as a sublimely perfect Barbara Bain.

[quote]Capitalizing on the runaway success of Luke and Laura–era General Hospital, Behind the Screen was an early-'80s soap-within-a-soap on CBS's late-night lineup.

It was cancelled quickly, but it left enough of an impression that Janine Turner got cast on GH as Demi Moore's sister.

[italic]Flying High,[/italic] a CBS jiggle show about sexy stewardesses

[italic]The American Girls[/italic] starred Priscilla Barnes (later of [italic]Three's Company[/italic]) and Debra Clinger (whose biggest previous credit was the Saturday-morning [italic]Krofft Supershow[/italic]) as two journalists for a TV newsmagazine.

“The Invisible Man” starring Vincent Ventresca who I thought was hot as fuck...why didn’t he have a bigger career?

“The Complete Savages”.

Before there was “This Is Us” there was “Six Degrees” starring Jay Hernandez and Campbell Scott.

Frasier.

That guy who played the brother was hilarious. Was he gay?

Hope Springs

Jeff's Collie

Timmy and Lassie

The Five Mrs. Buchanans

The American version of ”Prime Suspect” which I quite liked. Strong supporting cast.

R300 they really tried to make Charlotte Ross (Eve on DOOL) happen back then - a million failed prime time shows.

She was like a softer looking Jodie Foster.

Men Behaving Badly

Couples

(Both unsuccessful adaptions of Britcoms.)

I absolutely hated her hat, r301. It was so....so "this quirky wardrobe item really defines my character!".

Special Unit 2.

Michael Landes is another actor l thought would have been more successful... but at least he continues to work!

R300, meet R37

I meant COUPLING, not Couples.

The aforementioned “Homefront” — Kyle Chandler and (especially) Tammy Lauren were delightful as the young lovers and Sammi Davis was excellent as the British war bride.

“The Marshall Chronicles”, a smart and witty look at a high school student, with Joshua Rifkind and the hilarious Meredith Scott Lynn.

And going further back, I LOVE “The Name of the Game”! Engrossing , topical stories, terrific guest-stars and a swingin’ theme song!

Now and Again with Dennis Haysbert and DL Fave Heather Matarazzo.

Why isn’t Homefront on DVD???

So many hot men in Homefront but this is where I first fell in love with John Slattery. Such beauty and masculinity mixed together.

I think it's music rights holding the release back, R310. That, and the show was not very highly rated.

R310, “Homefront” has long been one of the most-requested titles on home video. I read somewhere that music rights were holding it back.

The opening

One thing I appreciated about “Homefront” from the get-go was the complexity of the characters. Snooty Mimi Kennedy and duplicitous Sammi Davis could have been perceived as villainous at first,, but because of the writing and fine acting, their characters were more interesting and sympathetic.

[italic]High Society,[/italic] the mid-'90s AbFab ripoff starring Jean Smart and Mary McDonnell

[italic]Style and Substance,[/italic] starring Jean Smart as lifestyle guru Chelsea Stevens (a not-thinly-veiled Martha Stewart) and Nancy McKeon as her beleaguered assistant

Lime Street starting Robert Wagner.

The NBC Mystery Movie family of rotating crime shows. Along with [italic]Columbo, McCloud, McMillan and Wife,[/italic] and [italic]Quincy,/italic] there were these and other now-forgotten series:

* [italic]The Snoop Sisters,[/italic] a proto–[italic]Murder, She Wrote[/italic] starring Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick

* [italic]Hec Ramsey,[/italic] starring Richard Boone as an Old West gunfighter-turned-detective

* [italic]Tenafly,[/italic] starring James McEachin as a private investigator and family man; this and the TV version of [italic]Shaft[/italic] (which aired concurrently on ABC) were the first crime dramas with black lead characters

* [italic]Amy Prentiss,[/italic] starring Miss Jessica Walter as the fictional chief detective of the San Francisco PD

Heart of The City starring Mr. Judith Light and a young Christina Applegate.

Welcome To New York

“The Family Tree”. Frank Converse and Anne Archer are middle-aged newlyweds raising 4 teens from their previous marriages. James Spader, Melora Hardin and the gorgeous Martin Hewitt play 3 of the kids.

Emeril's NBC sitcom.

Bracken's World, late '60s drama about the workings of a Hollywood studio. With the baroness herself, Eleanor Parker.

Jake and the Fatman, notable for Joe Penny's shirtless scenes.

I always remember Paul Regina showing up in It's My Party and thought he was straight playing gay and then he showed up in that. I mean there were a lot of actors who were well known cast in it, but the lesser known ones I always wondered. He was much more comfortable in that film.

Two Guys, A Girl, A Pizza Place.

Then they got rid of the pizza place, and then a guy and maybe a girl...

Also, one Singles in LA show with Linda Gray playing herself

I vaguely remember a Fox show called Whoops!

"Mrs. Columbo" with Kate Mulgrew.

DL Superstar Nathan Lane in "Encore! Encore!"

"Bette," before LiLo got dumped.

"Oh, Madeline!"

One season.

THE CARA WILLIAMS SHOW

Love on a Rooftop - with Judy Carne and Pete Duel (who later on was in midst of the successful "Alias Smith and Jones" when he killed himself, unfortunately.)

Barefoot in the Park - with a mostly black cast

Tammy - based on the Debbie Reynolds et al. movies

The Tammy Grimes Show - not related to the above

The Debbie Reynolds Show - good theme song and with Don Chastain (from "Its a Bird/Plane/Superman") and Tom Bosley

Getting On

"Turn-On," with Tim Conway. Cancelled after one episode.

"No Soap, Radio," with Steve Guttenberg.

Miss Debbie....

Jennifer Slept Here

Living Dolls

Sara.

Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bill Maher and little Matthew Lawrence before bankruptcy!

The White Shadow.

Ken Howard was kinda hot!

Created by Goop’s dad!

It’s Not Easy.

Also starting Ken Howard...the opening makes it seem like he hooks up with his ex-wife’s new hubby!

Brooklyn Bridge

Debbie Does Dreadful

"Brothers" was a TERRIBLE show.

Boys Will Be Boys.

Starring Matthew L. Perry!

I Had Three Wives.

Starring baby Victor Garber!

The Brady Brides!

The clip from 3 Girls 3 made me wish I could see more.

And OMG Mimi Kennedy! She could sing! (And kinda looked vaguely like Molly Shannon here....)

if it's Victor Garber it should be called I Had Three Cocks

"Hack" starring David Morse.

Lucas Tanner

I loved the 1988 reboot of Mission Impossible. I had a huge crushes on Antony Hamilton and Phil Morris!

Women of the House: Delta Burke returns as Suzanne Sugarbaker, who is now a Member of Congress. Also starring Terri Garr and Patricia Heaton.

Emerald Point NAS.

Only lasted 1 season despite the hot meat in the cast - Andrew Stevens, Charles Frank and Richard Dean Anderson.

Yes, R309! I loved NOW & AGAIN! I think it would have fared MUCH better in today's t.v. landscape....or even just 10 years later. The digital effects they were using in 1999-2000 were much more expensive than they are now. And also, because of the way Glenn Gordon Caron worked. He was an auteur (sounds so pretentious, but true). He wanted to have his fingers in EVERYTHING...not just the writing, but the directing, which slowed down production. NOW & AGAIN would have been much better suited to a 10-13 episode season-format like we see now, not just on premium cable networks, but USA, FX, and other platforms.

"Land's End"

“Teachers” - terrible show but I wished all my teachers in high school looked like Justin Bartha.

Vega$

"Lucan" starring Kevin Brophy as the title character. He was perfect for the role; he looked very "wolfish." The show wasn't on long, but I watched it because I thought he was hot.

"David Cassidy: Man Undercover." David Cassidy in an attempt to shake his teen idol status by playing of all things a cop. Tiny, cute David Cassidy as a cop? Viewers didn't buy it.

"Bosom Buddies", starring a young Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. They played two guys in New York who dressed as women in order to live in a building for females only, where the rent was cheap. It also starred Wendie Jo Sperber and Holland Taylor.

"The Powers That Be", a sitcom about a Reagan-like President and his cabinet. The President was played by John Forsythe and the Nancy Reagan wife was brilliantly played by Holland Taylor. It also starred Peter MacNichol and David Hyde Pierce.

Providence

Big brother Jake

A Year in The life

The beautiful people

The king and I

R358 "The Powers That Be" was about a Senator not a President. The Senator was a liberal Democrat, not a Reagan Republican.

just the ten of us

Arnie

The New People

I really liked MTM’s 80’s sitcom “Mary” - though I’m probably the only one who did. I also thought James Farentino was hot and that they had great romantic chemistry.

ALOHA PARADISE (1981)....starring Debbie Reynolds, Bill Daily, Stephen Shortridge & Pat Klous. An Aaron Spelling production.

Shameless attempt to create another LOVE BOAT or FANTASY ISLAND. Same exact formula -- three stories, with guest stars. And why not?? If you'd struck gold twice, with a really basic idea, wouldn't you go to the well one more time? Especially with beloved Debbie Reynolds at the "helm"?

p.s. Debbie Reynolds as the Lead, with Connie Stevens among the guest-stars? You've just got to fucking love that!! That might be the most Hollywood thing ever.

"The Naked Truth," with Tea Leoni and DL fave Holland Taylor.

"Emily's Reasons Why Not," a vehicle for Heather Graham that bombed so badly it was cancelled after one airing. And, embarrassingly, Heather had a cover story in "Parade" plugging her new show that came out AFTER it was unceremoniously dumped.

Phenom.

Theme song by Carly Simon!

Before “The Good Wife” there was “Canterbury’s Law”. Good show!

[italic]The New Dick Van Dyke Show,[/italic] featuring DL's favorite waffle-bumper, Fannie Flagg

Hooperman, already mentioned, starring John Ritter, Barbara Bosson and others in one of the early dramadies primarily set at a police station. Also noteworthy for the presence of a gay cop, playing against the usual stereotypes which were still common.

"Automan" about a digital crime-fighter starring Desi Arnaz Jr. as a police computer genius who creates the self-titled character.

Forgotten in terms of its *original* incarnation as t.v. show......which was a 1000x funnier/more ridiculous than the movie(s).

"Cop Rock," or "Hill Street Blues SINGS!"

"Fish Police"

"George & Leo," with Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart.

Failed because Newhart only succeeds in shows where he's named "Bob."

[italic]The Betty White Show,[/italic] starring Betty as a washed-up movie star forced to slum it on TV as the lead in a cop show

Third Watch

Pensacola: Wings Of Gold

Profiler- The show about an FBI profiler. Ally Walker played the profile for three seasons and then left was replaced by Jamie Luner and the show was canned after the season Luner took over as the lead.

Pacific Blue

The Pretender- aired on NBC and IIRC, was shown on Saturday nights along with Profiler. The show was about genius who could impersonate any occupation.

"Maybe This Time."

Sorry -- no Liza. Instead, enjoy Marie Osmond, Betty White, Craig Ferguson and DANE COOK!

[italic]Mary,[/italic] Mary Tyler Moore's cringeworthy variety show co-starring David Letterman, Michael Keaton, and Swoosie Kurtz. After a few terrible episodes, it was retooled as [italic]The Mary Tyler Moore Hour,[/italic] a show-within-a-show sitcom.

The second episode of [italic]The Mary Tyler Moore Hour,[/italic] with Special Guest Star Bea Arthur

“Sibs” created by Rhea Perlman’s sister.

[quote]they really tried to make Charlotte Ross (Eve on DOOL) happen back then - a million failed prime time shows.

lol I remember that. In the late 90s, she was on a short lived NBC show called Trinity. It was about an Irish Catholic family in NYC. John Spencer and Jill Clayburgh played the parents. Charlotte played the overachiever sister who worked on Wall Street, Tate Donovan played the priest brother, Sam Trammell was the brother who was involved in the mob, and the other siblings were a cop brother and a druggie sister.

[italic]Blansky's Beauties,[/italic] starring Nancy Walker as the manager/den mom of a troupe of Vegas showgirls. Notable for trying and failing to make gawky Southern comic Rhonda Bates happen.

Incidentally, Rhonda Bates looks better at nearly 70 than in her brief heyday on TV, during which she was made to look as homely as possible.

“Relic Hunter”, a cheesy but fun “Tomb Raider” rip-off with Tia Carrere!

The Ken Berry 'Wow!' Show, a summer replacement series in the early 1970s. The only notable thing about it was some of the young featured performers - Teri Garr, Steve Martin, Cheryl Stoppelmoor (later Ladd)

Police Surgeon

Mayberry, RFD - a spin-off of "Andy Griffith Show" w/Ken Berry and other members of Mayberry plus Arlene Golonka

The Brian Keith Show - set in Hawaii and co-starring Shelley Fabares

Friends and Lovers - with Paul Sand - had the spot right after "All in the Family" back in the 1970s for a season

The Girl with Something Extra - Sally Field and John Davidson

The Courtship of Eddie's Father - Bill Bixby, Brandon Cruz and DL fave Miyoshi Umeki - actually well-remembered show but rarely seen nowadays

Gigantor - Japanese animation

Felix the Cat - as opposed to Felix Unger from the 'Odd Couple"

Quincy, Medical Examiner - Jack Klugman starred - before all those NCIS shows

Me and the Chimp - w/Ted Bessell (from "That Girl")

Medical Center - Chad Everett and James Daly (Tyne and Tim's Dad)

American Dreams with Brittany Snow, Gail O'Grady, Tom Verica, Will Estes.

The Guardian with Simon Baker, Dabney Coleman.

A Gifted Man with Patrick Wilson, Margo Martindale.

“Mr. Terrific” with Stephen Strimpell and Dick Gautier. An extremely short-lived 1967 comedy about Stanley Beamish, a mild mannered gas station attendant in Washington DC who turns into an unlikely superhero for 60 minutes after swallowing an enormous pill. The pills were created by a secret government agency who use Stanley to perform important secret missions. Of course, his superpowers would wear off at the worst possible times thus creating humorous situations. I was five years old when that show ran and I have never forgotten it.

Damn what was the budget of that Betty White Show? Production values looked about a half step above Cable access.

"Midnight Caller" with Gary Cole.

The Bradys

The Helen Reddy Show was a summer replacement for The Flip Wilson Show back in 1974.

Lee Ann sounds like Connie but looks like Eartha, r394.

The Division

Millennium with Lance Henriksen

r395 I'll see your "Mr. Terrific" and raise you a "Captain Nice."

Ned and Stacey- Thomas Haden Church and Debra Messing play two people who enter a marriage of convenience for personal and professional reasons.

Fridays

USA's TV show adaptation of The Dead Zone with Anthony Michael Hall

Boston Public

The State- 90s sketch show on MTV

THE EDGE

I Married Dora

I loved The Edge, especially the parody they did of Madonna.

And Wilson Phillips

The Jackie Thomas Show - Tom Arnold, Breckin Meyer, and Martin Mull.

I always liked Cara Williams. However this promo is probably not suitable for those prone to seizures.

Star Of The Family!

Hawkeye, starring Matt Houston and Diana Prince!

Fernwood Tonight - spin-off of "Mary Hartman" x 2

"Sunday Night" - really nice music show in he '80s hosted by sax player David Sanborn with some great jazz music

"This is Tom Jones"

The Engelbert Humperdinck Show

lots of variety shows on -- the last ones that had a decent run I think were "Donny and Marie" and "The Barbara Mandrell Show" back in the 80s

She-TV

The Steven Banks Show.

Lola Falana Show

Back in the 80s there was a weekly show called “The Star Games” which was basically a rip-off Of “Battle Of The Network Stars”. Pamela Sue Martin , Dick Butkus and Caitlin Jenner were the hosts.

^^^^

From 1996-97 - Relativity, which as basically twentysomething

It starred Kimberly Williams, David Conrad, Jane Adams, Randall Batinkoff, Cliff De Young, Adam Goldberg & Devon Gummersall

[italic]The Dean Martin Show,[/italic] featuring the Dingaling Sisters

Becker

I was trying to remember what that Lance Henrickson show was. I loved it. We would all sit around, get stoned and watch it in rotating living rooms.

I also thought Get A Life was quite funny.

Friday the 13th anyone?

Tanner ‘88 on HBO.

I have 4:

Kitchen Confidential starring Bradley Cooper and Action starring Jay Mohr and Grosse Pointe and Alright Already starring Carol Leifer

Does anyone remember HBO's Not Necessarily the News? Around the same time as Brothers and I remember HBO, newly formed, running the movies Tim and Time After Time 24 hours.

@R358 "Bosom Buddies" had also starred Dan Aykroyd's wife, Donna Dixon -

Put-Put-Put-Puttin' On the Hits!

Solid Gold

Dance Fever

And hasn't American Bandstand pretty much fallen into obscurity now? I think it has. Very few people reference it or Dick Clark today.

Here's its premiere episode, r428.

Throb featuring Paul Walker

Grindl, with Imogene Coca. A favorite show of mine once upon a time.

Ed on NBC

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Dream On - on HBO which used to feature Brian Benben's butt in a lot of episodes - cute show with clips of old shows mixed into the episode

Mr T and Tina, which had nothing to do with "The A-Team" star being on meth. (But it DID feature DL fave pat Suzuki!)

Apple's Way--a 70's show that tried to dwell somewhere between The Brady Bunch and The Waltons, but ended up falling off the edge. I remember this one because I went to school with one of the lesser known members of the main cast.

“Phil and Mickey” circa 1983

“Key West,” “2000 Malibu Road,” “Freshman Dorm” circa 1992

Nearly Departed, which appears to have run for all of 5 episodes.

I can't believe i never heard about Brothers before. I've been watching and it's way ahead of its' time. It's kind of bizarre to know such a progressive show was on the air in the mid 80's. I love recognizing the actors, Hallie Todd played Blanche's slutty niece Lucy in Golden Girls. Robert Stack plays Donalds father in one episode that was great. There was a prison rodeo joke that Golden Girls used.

The Mothers-in-Law.

The New Zoo Revue.

“Flamingo Road”

"It's a Living" - 1980

Bare Essence

The White Shadow.

Cheers.

"Magic City" - Starz

"Rubicon" on AMC. It was too cerebral, of course they had to cancel it to create more budget for zombies.

It's a Living, r444....forgotten? Here on DL????

“Gravity” — Starz, 2010.

Quirky show with a terrible title.

Banacek and his weekly doses of Polish Proverbs

Seeing Get a Life earlier reminded me of this show. Monty, with Henry Winkler playing a Rush Limbaugh type. David Schwimmer played his son pre-Friends.

American Gothic 1995

"The Mothers-in-Law" is very funny, and it's on Amazon Prime nowadays.

Produced by Aaron Spelling, [italic]The Decorator[/italic] (1962) was an unsold, unaired sitcom pilot starring Bette Davis as a down-on-her-luck interior decorator who uses her clients' homes as crash pads while she works on projects. Mary Wickes co-starred as her wisecracking assistant. Bette was excited about doing a TV series and was deeply disappointed when no networks picked it up.

Going Places featuring a star-studded cast: Heather Locklear, Cameron from Ferris Buller's Day Off, Blanche's slutty niece from The Golden Girls, Will & Grace's gay friend, DL fave Holland Taylor and the girl from My Two Dads and Step by Step.

“Claude’s Crib”

“Ned & Stacy”

Hi Honey, I'm Home! The first few episodes aired as part of ABC's TGIF with reruns airing Saturday night on Nick. No one in my family liked it but me and my grandmother, I remember we were upset when ABC dropped it because we didn't have cable in our area at the time.

I wish there was a channel dedicated specifically to these long forgotten flops.

I wish studios would offer home video on demand for these like they do other more established shows.

[italic]The Ugliest Girl in Town,[/italic] one of TV Guide's 50 worst TV shows of all time

I'm not ashamed to admit I watched it, r462.......

R460, there was a channel about 15 years ago called TRIO that would show a lot of these short-lived shows. They also had a special called, "Brilliant But Cancelled" that would profile a lot of different long lost, yet short lived shows.

Here's a clip from Trio's, "Briiliant But Cancelled" documentary.

"Thunderbirds"

Invisible Man with David McCallum

R427, I enjoyed “Alright Already”! And “Banacek” was terrific, great locked-room mysteries with fine guest-star casts (a favorite featured Margot Kidder). Was so glad it was released in DVD, still holds up well!

"Ellery Queen" with Jim Hutton and David Wayne.

Dinosaurs. Actually had four seasons. I didn’t watch it but my friends said good things about it.

Richie Brockelman, Private Eye

Thunderbirds isn’t forgotten though — it’s iconic and still has a huge cult following. Over 25,000 followers on Facebook.

Room 222. What ever happened to the tall guy with the curly hair?

R457 re Staci Keanan how did someone so unremarkable (in terms of both looks and talent) Get so much consistent work for over a decade? Did she have some kind of connection of which I’m unaware?

Best forgotten......

Small Wonder.

Though it was rather educational if you were a robot contemplating taking speed.

R470 Dinsaurs was brilliant. It was our future.

Alien Nation was also rather brilliant, cheaply made, but fun. Best avoid the scene of the alien man giving birth though.

Anyone watch Fantastic Journey about the Bermuda Triangle? Oh just me.

Dont' forget me!

Lauren Hutton's strange talk show.

TBS comedy show best known as Jan Hooks' first job

The one about the US president's daughter and her boyfriend.

The one where we heard a baby's thoughts. "Happy"?

Anyone mention "Whirlybirds" and it's often-alternate "Rescue 8"?

Michael Callan's series wherein he had to pretend to be married to hold onto his job with a baby food company IIRC?

Mr. president with George C. Scott on an early FOX network. I only watched a couple of episodes because I knew the daughter at the time (who is now married to Jane Alexander’s son - who was busted surfing porn of something like that) but I digress....

The Nut House from c. 1990 with Harvey Korman, Cloros Leachman and that whole Mel Brooks crew.

Princesses with Fran Drescher and Julie Hagerty.

And of course, my favorite, Just the Ten of Us

Interesting to consider the memorable stars of forgotten TV shows. Ted McGinley is considered the star of shows that had already "Jumped the shark," (there were very few shows that he was on when they premiered, but he joined the cast on the tail end of Happy Days, Dynasty, The Love Boat, and Married ... with Children and saw them through until cancellation). But who is the memorable star of forgotten TV shows?

I nominate Robert Urich. He was the lead on quite a few shows, but none of those shows made it into syndication; none of them came close to making 100 episodes. He was obviously very likable -- even after a show got cancelled, it would not be long before Urich had another job lined up.

My second nominee is Ken Berry. He had a lot of appeal in the 1960s, but was on forgettable shows like F Troop and Mayberry RFD. The Wow Show was probably the best thing he ever did, but nobody was watching. He did a bunch of guest spots in the 1970s, and today he's remembered as Vinton Harper on Mama's Family. Can you imagine the show without him? It's not a great show, but Ken Berry made it better.

[quote]The one where we heard a baby's thoughts. "Happy"?

I think you are thinking of Baby Talk, which was on ABC. It was loosely based on Look Who's Talking?. It was a single woman who pregnant from an affair instead of artificial insemination like in Look's Who Talking?. Julia Duffy played the woman in the first season who had a baby boy. The baby's voice was done by Tony Danza and George Clooney played one of the mom's love interests. In season 2, the mom was recast as Mary Page Keller and Scott Baio joined on as the love interest. I think the mom and Baio's character married towards the end of that season and then it got cancelled by ABC,.

Showtime had a series called Leap Years that followed a group of friends from NY.

Each of the episodes would jump back and forth between the present day and years earlier.

The only thing I remember about it (other than the fact that it wasn't a good series) was that Bruno Campos was in his underwear in at least one scene per episode.

r484 That show is a new one on me. The sitcom I referred to, which was on NBC, was indeed titled "Happy." It was about a family(named Day, how's THAT for confusion/coincidence/foreshadowing?) who managed a motel, viewers were kept informed of various goings-on because you could hear the thoughts of the baby of the family. It ran for a year, starting in 1960, and co-starred Ronnie Burns, George and Gracie's son.

foreshadowing. Oops!

“Being Erica,” on odd little Canadian show broadcast in the US on Soapnet circa 2009.

I enjoyed Being Erica. R485 - wow - young version of a dad bod but what the hell is in his briefs? Is that some kind of underwear seam or does he have a mammoth cock head?

I second that comedy “Action” from 1999. Ahead of its time. A spot on, brutal and hysterical take on Hollywoods entertainment industry. Jack Plotnick was really able to shine in this. Pity it was cancelled.

"Judd for the Defense" starring gorgeous Carl Betz from the "Donna Reed Show" - I think he won an Emmy for it

"Land of the Giants"

"Doctor in the House" - in U.S. syndication for a little while - very funny British show

WB had a sitcom in the late 90s called Movie Stars which starred Harry Hamlin as an action movie star and Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer played his dramatic actress wife. The sitcom parodied celeb culture. The main characters had two kids named Apache and Moonglow. Harry's character had a daughter from a previous marriage to non-famous woman who had the normal name of Lori. There was also a brother character to Harry's who hung out with the less famous brothers of other actors. Joey Travolta, Don Swayze, and Frank Stallone guest starred themselves on the show.

Jennifer Slept Here with Ann Jillian.

Does anyone remember Nowhere Man? It was syndicated.

There was also another great show on Fox called Profit. Anyone remember that?

Anyone remember Almost Live? It was a local Seattle comedy sketch show, but for several years it was put out nationally on Comedy Central. It was very funny, very sharp, although of course a lot of the humor was local.

Bill Nye got his start on the show. It ended its long run in 1999.

Brimestone on FOX- Peter Horton played a cop who was sent to Hell for killing his wife's rapist. Years later, souls escape from Hell and the Devil played by John Glover returns Horton's character back to Earth to capture and send the souls back to Hell in return for a second chance at life on Earth. I really liked the show Glover's Devil portrayal was fun.

Have we discussed “Amanda By The Sea”, the US adaptation of Fawlty Towers?

Starring Morothy from GG.

R497 it’s funnt because that show was only two years before GG but she still looks 100 percent like Maude here.

They used to rerun this on A&E for a bit during GG’s run (around 1986/87 I would say). Never saw it before or since.

That show with Mandy Patinkin and Jasmine Guy as angels of death. I liked that show.

"The Hathaways" with DL fave Peggy Cass, Jack Weston, and some chimps.

r499 Toilet seats in a tree? Nasty mother? Super-precocious kid? "Dead Like Me."

Is that what Mandy Patinkin is like in real life?

Wonderfalls

My Life and Welcome to it.

Get Christie Love

r503 Do you mean "My WORLD and Welcome To It?"

Gloria Sara Jennifer Slept Here Easy Street Best of the West The Charmings Townies

"Boston Common" with the DL fave Anthony Clark.

NBC shows I finally remembered, which all had decent runs: Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan, Just Shoot Me

Flying Blind, which ran on FOX and starred Tea Leoni.

Speaking of FOX, anyone remember Comic Strip Live? It ran Saturday night for years. I still have some old VHS copies of it. Also, Comedy Club, which was produced by Laugh In's George Schlatter.

I think the Benny Hill Show has been completely forgotten. From what I understand, there was a concerted effort in the UK to completely bury his legacy, so it's as if he and the show never existed.

Oh, and one last show--Night Stand with Dick Dietrick! Anyone remember that one? It was a parody of a TV talk show but filmed with a real live audience. Not only was it funny, it had one of the funniest TV bloopers ever.

Mulberry. Loved this show - and the theme song too.

[quote] I think the Benny Hill Show has been completely forgotten.

By people not over 100, yes.

[quote]"Boston Common" with the DL fave Anthony Clark.

Which reminds me . . . whatever happened to him? He seems to have just disappeared after 2012?

Another forgotten TV show that featured Anthony Clark is Yes, Dear.

Greek on ABC Family(now Freeform)

[quote]By people not over 100, yes.

Yawn.

[quote]"Yet in the UK, he’s slowly but surely been forgotten. The show has scarcely been repeated at all since the early 90s, but still gets aired all around the world today, in Italy, Canada, Finland and Australia, to name just a few."

Joan Of Arcadia

Pete and Gladys. The Real McCoys. The Donna Reed Show. Flipper. Get Smart. The Munsters.

They used to repeat Benny Hill on my local UHF station in the 1970s.

But it probably hasn't been shown in the States since then (30+ years ago).

The Magic Garden.

"Flying Blind" with DL fave Tea Leoni. Still use the phrases "expired medication blowout sale" and "groinshattering pit of emotional venom" in daily conversation.

The Crew. It was a Friends ripoff on Fox.

Party of Five

Les Crane

Get Christie Love is a cult classic, not FORGOTTEN at all.

One West Waikiki- starring Richard Burgi and Cheryl Ladd.

Burgi was sexy as fuck but Cheryl’s facelift was so tight it gave ME a headache.

The show on HBO that went on way too long "Not Necessarily The News" sort of like Weekend Update and the Daily Show but not nearly as funny.

R516 didn’t understand the assignment.

R501, yes. Dead Like Me is it. Very morbid show, but I loved it.

Thought of another one. Thinder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan and Carol Alt. That show was terrible.

The Roaring 20's

R524 Richard Burgi makes me moist!

Hawaiin Eye

Hawaiian

This seems to have a bunch.....

Magruder and Loud

I remember a TV show that was on in syndication in the 70s (kind of like "In Search Of", but it was all about natural disasters. They would tell stories of different hurricanes, or tornadoes, or blizzards, etc. My dad used to watch it, and it would totally be something I'd watch today.

And... For anyone who was a TV Guide fan, I present the following Fall Preview edition.

You missed...ME!

You lahved...ME!

(Never mind this was nevah on your TV...just play along!)

[quote]I remember a TV show that was on in syndication in the 70s (kind of like "In Search Of", but it was all about natural disasters. They would tell stories of different hurricanes, or tornadoes, or blizzards, etc. My dad used to watch it, and it would totally be something I'd watch today.

[italic]When Havoc Struck,[/italic] starring Mr. Glenn Ford

The Riches was an awesome show the first season - kinda went off the rails in season 2, but one of the best TV shows I've ever seen. Pity.

Cade's County - Glenn Ford

The Virginia Graham Show

How those two came out one after another, I have no idea!

Thanks, that was it R536!

That Was the Week That Was, it was a British satirical comedy news show. I recall seeing it here as a kid in NYC. David Frost was the host. Millicent Martin was on the series, my mom was a big fan, that's why we watched it. Most of the writers who went on to become famous: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan to name a few.

There was also a US version, with David Frost, Harry Morgan, Buck Henry and Alan Alda. Regular contributors included Gloria Steinem, William F. Brown, Tom Lehrer, Steve Allen and Calvin Trillin.

[quote] Burgi was sexy as fuck

Burgi has *always* been sexy!

R280 Harold Robbins' The Survivors is one show I've always wanted to see, since I first learned about it. It was the first hour long prime time soap about the super wealthy people, predating Dallas by almost a decade. It was based on the work of Harold Robbins, and it featured Lana Turner, Jan-Michael Vincent, George Hamilton, and Clu Gulagar. I don't understand why it wasn't a hit. It is the one show I have searched in vain for, for just a sample of it on youtube, but I've never been able to find even a short clip.

^^ I take that back I did find a short promo, but I want more!!!

Holmes and Yo-yo

Just a reminder that Fridays, mentioned above, was broadcast live.

Joya’s Fun School (although I believe it was a local NYC show).

I loved the Fanelli Boys, especially Chris Meloni in the role of a classic Guido, I watched and imagined what he looked like naked. Then I saw him in Oz. Thanks, Mr. Meloni, for clearing the picture for me.

TV show adaptation of In the Heat of the Night

"Amen" with Sherman Hemsley.

Nurses (1991-1994)

Lady Blue!

Mmmmm, r548, Allen Autrey.....

The Insiders - a Miami Vice Rip-off.

WHET Stoney Jackson wondered nobody.

Matt Houston

"One Happy Family" with DL fave Dick Sargent. They showed it on Decades recently.

Down to Earth.

I loved watching Mysterious Ways with the yummy Adrian Pasdar with his permanent 3 day growth.

R552 Kind of random, but he was also on the Jean Smart sitcom, Style & Substance., that was mentioned up thread. She was a Martha Stewart clone and he was her handyman on the farm.

Neither Heat of the Night or Amen are really "forgotten" per se, both were in syndication or TVLand for years.

I loved the post DW Jean Smart sitcoms but really loved the AbFab copy.

Romper Room

It's Academic

Shenanigans w/ Stubby Kaye

Highway to Heaven- I liked this show as a kid even though I thought it was corny back then. I recently watched some episodes on Netflix and I noticed more that it had a bit of liberal slant and if today's Evangelical Christians watched it they would hate it.

What was that nasty rip off of MWC, "Unhappily Ever After"? I guess it was on for a few years but it's been forgotten since I don't think I've ever seen it in syndication.

Unhappily Ever After didn't make it to the 100 episode mark for syndication. It wasn't released on DVD either.

"Kevin Can Wait" …. as a big fan of "The King of Queens" I was excited, but due to the competition with "The Voice", which I really don't understand my appreciation of, because none of these rather talented singers ever goes on to anything bigger, well, anyway, I kept watching The Voice even when in the second season of Kevin Can Wait, the actress from King of Queens, Leah Remini, sort of replaced the wife from the first season..... oh well, even all of that did not convince me to watch Kevin Can Wait. and now Kevin Can Wait cannot wait anymore. And I still have no idea why I keep watching The Voice, maybe this will be the end of that, i.e. me watching "The Voice". thank god for reruns of The King of Queens on TV Land.

"Out of the Blue" (1979) - an angel is sent to Earth to act as caretaker and guardian for a family of recently orphaned children. Starred Jimmy Brogan as the angel, Dixie Carter as the children's aunt, Clark Brandon as the oldest brother, a slew of child actors and Eileen Heckart as the head angel.

"The G.E. College Bowl," hosted by Allen Ludden

R567 some people just always figure into DL threads no matter what, don’t they? Haha

R535, meet R455.

Sorry if this has already been posted.

So what can be gleaned from this thread is that if a show had Tammy Lauren in it, it was bound to last a season or less...

Shenanigans was a poor man's Video Village, r561.

So many good shows already mentioned that I had forgotten- LeapYears, Herman’s Head, and Jennifer slept here!!!!

I offer up “Down the Shore” - short lived Fox show about 3 guys and 3 girls who rent a shore house. I am guessing their was a lot of shirtless-ness or why else would I be remembering it.

"Better Off Ted" was a rarity among the network sitcoms in the past 10 years or so: genuinely funny and smart. Of course, it lasted a single season.

r573 Down the Shore featured future Breaking Bad star Anna Gunn.

r572 I actually had the home version/board game of Video Village.

"The Associates"

[italic]The Hitchhiker,"[/italic] introduced by Page Fletcher. Just look at the first 30 seconds of the opening. That is one of the sweetest asses ever on TV.

Roseanne v2.0 will soon belong to this thread!

NURSE

I think I watched every single episode and it was very good at first. But I got tired of ole you know who being proven right all the time. And she was juggling a bit of Mary Worth into that "exploration of her dimensions"

Too soon, R579?

"Me and Mrs. C."

No, it was not a "Happy Days" spinoff.

R578 - I remember that was the first time I’d ever seen Bruce Greenwood in anything and I shot many loads watching that episode on VHS!

Mary's variety show.....

Hot Hero Sandwich

“The Loop”, which aired for a couple of abbreviated seasons on Fox in 2006-7. Mimi Rogers was the biggest name in the cast.

da da da, da da, da da da da THESE ARE THE DAYS

The Chan Clan

Clone High on MTV- Short lived animated show about teens who were clones of historical figures. The show's cancellation stemmed from people being upset about the Gandhi clone character.

The Uncle Floyd Show. It started as a local New Jersey kids show, but the host Floyd Vivino noticed the mom's were laughing more at the jokes than the kids.

Then the show became more topical and oriented towards an older audience. They had musical parodies and sketches, with the cast portraying Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Meatloaf and many others. The show was very low budget, but hilarious. They also had some major musical guests, such as The Ramones and Squeeze. The show had the distinction of being the only English language show on the Spanish channel it was aired on in the East Coast.

Floyd's two musician brothers ended up in Conan O'Brien's band.

Who the heck is Ellen Regan and why did she get an 'And' credit?

Thanks, R590! I loved the Uncle Floyd show!

OMG, I completely forgot about Uncle Floyd. My brother was nauseatingly addicted to that show.

I still remember Mr. Tony. ("G'wana, g'wana g'wana")

Slightly off topic..... What are the chances of success for a TV series with the following premise: Take an episode of an old/iconic/forgotten TV series and re-shoot it with an ensemble cast, and every week pick an episode from a different series. Play it straight, so to speak, and have the actors do it as originally done. Obviously, not all the actors would be in every episode, but it would be interesting to see how a new cast's "take" would be different from the original one. The same faces would pop up here and there, and, I believe, add some contemporary interest.

I'm sure the copyright fights would be hell, but barring those, do you think this would fly? Would people think it interesting enough to watch? What if the old episode preceded the newly-made one?

R594, your idea was called The Rerun Show, a NBC show that ran in 2002. Add it to the list of forgotten TV shows.

"Steampipe Alley" with Mario Cantone

I totally forgot about The Hitchhiker! He was hot, the narrator.

DL Fave Dom DeLuise in "Lotsa Luck"

end of the world

"Whoops"

Buh bye now