Let’s be Huge TV Shows that faded into obscurity

Eight is Enough

Family Affair

My Three Sons

"Dick" York made me tingle down there now and then - and, yes, I'm an Elder Gay.

The Cosby Show - and we know why

Bewitched did not fade into obscurity. It is still widely watched and loved.

The Cosby Show will never fall into obscurity for the same obvious reasons. It might just be difficult to find.

I think Get Smart is a better example. Huge hit in the 60s. Lots of Emmys. You can't find it anymore.

I don't know if Felicity would be considered a huge show, but it's never mentioned. Lost was huge, but nobody has a desire to watch it again.

Cosby Show

Hill Street Blues

Thirtysomething

China Beach

Partridge Family, Family Affair, Streets of San Francisco, Marcus Welby M.D., Room 222, Laugh In, Ed Sullivan, Your Show of Shows, Gunsmoke, Medical Center, Cannon, Angie, Lou Grant, Too Close for Comfort, Simon & Simon, Webster, Riptide, L.A. Law...

Adam 12, which I'd never even heard of until recently on DL. It ran for an entire decade.

R7 trying to close the thread

Loved the Six Million Dollar Man so much as a kid. I had a Steve Austin bionic doll - you could look though the back of his bionic head through his glass bionic eye! You could roll up the rubber skin on his bionic firearm and remove the Six Million Dollar fake silicon chip embedded there and do precisely nothing with it! I loved that show so much. It's strange they haven't rebooted it into a garbage movie with, say, Ben Stiller as the 60 Million Dollar Man, some stupid shit like that.

Route 66

R9 needs to be more imaginative.

The Great American Hero and Remington Steele.

Petticoat Junction

The Winds of War

War and Remembrance

I, Spy

Welcome Back Kotter

Julia

R7 Cannon Fat Detective has been airing on MeTV for years now and remains very popular. .. I've read it's one of their HUGE draws.

My boyfriend watches it regularly just to see William Conrad run and to check out the cars seen in the series.

Desperate Housewives was huge for a moment, but hasn't maintained the cult following that Dallas and Dynasty have. Knots Landing and Falcon Crest have their cults, but I think members would acknowledge the big Ds are the crowdpleasers.

Winds Of War and War and Remembrance were huge tv events and they're both forgotten now.

Dragnet

R5 Lost. I agree. Forgot all about it

Queen for a Day

The Millionaire

They were also really good R17 as were the books. Today it would be a Netflix or Amazon "Limited Series" with tons of CGI, mumbling actors with bad cosmetic surgery and cancelled before it was finished.

I'm the forgotten "I Married Joan" show.

R4 Get Smart is available a few places. Coincidentally, they're doing a Get Smart marathon on Catchy TV (free over the air) right now.

R8 Adam-12 airs two episodes every evening on MeTV

R18 Dragnet airs two episodes every morning on MeTV.

One Day at a Time

Gimme a Break

Smallville

Damnit, r26!!!

Gidget

Mr. Ed

F-Troop

Hogan's Heroes

The Hogan Family

Bonanza

I am wondering in what parallel universe "Riptide" was "a huge TV show." It had only 58 episodes.

Alf.

Murphy Brown

Burke's Law

Peyton Place

Emergency!

We had fireman as a guest speaker in my 2nd grade class, 1977. Inspired by an episode of Emergency! (and to show how smart I was), I asked him, "What you do when the fire hose burns?!"

He looked at me nonplussed and said, "Firehoses don't burn."

Adventures in Paradise.

The Flip Wilson Show

Get Christie Love

The Captains and the Kings

Daktari

The Governor and JJ

He and She

[quote]They were also really good [R17] as were the books. Today it would be a Netflix or Amazon "Limited Series" with tons of CGI, mumbling actors with bad cosmetic surgery and cancelled before it was finished.

And they'd find a way to shoehorn contemporary themes in that were completely anamalous to the era.

Barnaby Jones

R38- it's okay! I'm sure you were adorable asking the question.

“Here’s Lucy” is probably the least remembered of Lucille Ball’s long running sitcoms. It was never a hit in syndication.

Here's Lucy was pretty awful.

R45 It was wildly inconsistent. No continuity, zero focus. It was more like a variety show disguised as a sitcom.

I never got into the last three "Lucy" vehicles. I blame Gale Gordon. And the fact that in Life with Lucy she was a walking corpse.

Make Room For Daddy

Sammy Davis Jr.’s performance on Here’s Lucy of Laura Nyro’s And When I Die is off the fucking chain.

Nobody who’s seen that is gonna forget it. He’s brilliant.

But Lucy’s estate blocks so much that I can’t link it.

R43 - you know, I never thought about it that way until now, it was just an embarrassing memory I've carried around inside my head for almost 50 years, but ... you're totally right. Thanks for that reply!

R40 People may remember Get Christie Love! - more than likely because it's linked to the Made for TV Movie that spawned the series - but the TV show was not huge. It only lasted one season, averaging a measly No. 72 in the prime time ratings.

Barnaby Jones is another one that's being recycled over and over on MeTV.

Also, Remington Steele is on MeTV+ every weekday morning.

Barney Miller

Make Boom For Daddy

I know “Mary Tyler Moore” was beloved and still has devotees, but it doesn’t seem to be as widely remembered today as, say, “Cheers”.

30 Rock. I don't remember ever really seeing it play in syndication after its network run or on any cable stations like other sitcoms from its era.

I'm Game of Thrones.

Fame

The Untouchables

The Outer Limits

Mad Men doesn't seem to have had a second life in syndication/streaming.

Mad About You

Im thinking of Toronto series of the late 80s early 90s like

Highlander

Heat of the Night

Beauty and the Beast

R57 Game of Thrones will fade into darkness mostly because of its psychotic fan base who felt they were culturally, socially or even intellectually superior to the ones who never watched it.

Anthology series tend to fade away. With the exception of the X Files, because they balanced the anthology with a lot of stand alone episodes.

You Can't Do That on Television

Blansky’s Beauties

Bronk

Grandpa Goes to Washington

Most of the shows named in this thread were never really that big.

R57 named a good one.

Girls was supposed to be HBO's next Sex and the City. It was on for 5 years, very popular, racked up Emmy noms, but where is it now?

SATC is still pretty big in syndication. Girls faded into obscurity.

R3 and r4 don’t know what words mean. Some things are not subjective.

I meant r2. Apologies r4.

Apology accepted.

r67 You ok, sweetheart?

I don't know if this counts, but I miss the "Made for TV" movies about true crimes, usually murders.

Anything on YouTube is often blurry to the point of being unwatchable.

"Fatal Vision." "Good Night, Sweet Wife." "The Deliberate Stranger." Etc.

OP Six Million Dollar Man is on Peacock.

A lot of these titles are somewhere. You just have pay for them. Or they're on one of the commercial broadcast retro channels that are out there, and you just have to catch them in rotation.

R31 Hogan's Heroes has been running on MeTV far too long. Two episodes every fucking night for what seems like forever. It's the show that makes me change the channel.

Me too r72

[quote]Hogan's Heroes has been running on MeTV far too long. Two episodes every fucking night for what seems like forever.

Yeah, I love MeTV but it really is time for them to change their lineup.

R63 isn’t anthology and stand-alone the same thing?

Ally McBeal

Emergency

[quote]Here's Lucy was pretty awful.

Here's Lucy may not have been a hit in syndication, but in the 80s it played a couple episodes in the middle of the night on local tv for years!

We couldn't escape its awfulness.

Local tv in NYC, I meant.

Kojak

Telly Savalas is also pretty much forgotten.

Maybe not “huge” but SISTERS ran for several seasons, won multiple Emmys, but seems forgotten now. I recorded it every Saturday night, and loved it. I wonder if I’d like it now.

Mad About You

[quote]Telly Savalas is also pretty much forgotten.

No he isn't.

R82 found the ultimate. It’s reboot flopped too

On DL nothing fades into obscurity.

Baretta.

No one kept any eye on the sparrow.

[quote]On DL nothing fades into obscurity.

DL is the repository for the mediocre.

Were Suddenly Susan and Caroline in the City considered huge? They got big ratings because they followed Seinfeld and Friends.

Lee Majors was so sexy back then.

Coach

Ugh I hated Coach, and my college friends always wanted to watch it.

Just about everyone I know fucking loved Coach. I hated that show with a passion. I'm glad Shelley got a good gig cause I love her but dang that show was shit. That show was on for like 20 years to. Just like that shit show According to Jim.

On a recent episode of Jeopardy! all of the contestants were stumped by clues about Bonanza and Bewitched.

'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'

One Day At A Time will never fade into obscurity on DL.

"The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" reboot is what Norman Lear was working on when he died last year.

[quote] One Day At A Time will never fade into obscurity on DL.

Or Alice.

"Moonlighting" to my knowledge has never been in re-runs, unlike:

"Magnum, P.I."; "Kojak"; "Perry Mason"; "Hawaii 5-0"; "Matlock"; "Mannix"; "Peter Gunn"; "The Saint"; "Rockford Files"; "NCIS"; "Rizzoli and Isles"; and every iteration of "Law and Order."

R80, Who loves ya, baby!

Most of the shows mentioned here have not faded into obscurity. As so many posters have written, MeTV airs a lot of them.

MeTV's forerunner in the 1980s, Nickelodeon, aired some that were fading in memory, but revived them:

Naked City...Paul Burke was hot

Car 54, Where Are you?

Time Tunnel

Land of the Giants

And others:

My Mother, The Car

Please Don't Eat The Daisies!

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Prison Break.

Oh Madeline starring Madeline Kahn

R77 it’s on Cozi every mafuckin’ day. They do lots of promos for it too. It hasn’t faded off of the map. You just need to pull your head out of your own ass.

[quote]Route 66

You can find all 4 seasons on Tubi, Freevee, and Crackle.

[quote] Oh Madeline starring Madeline Kahn

So many people on this thread have a strange definition of “huge TV shows.”

R98 With only a total of 67 episodes, Moonlighting didn't have enough in the can to get the kind of syndication deals those other shows did when that type of thing seemed to matter more. One hundred was usually considered the magic number of episodes. It did get repeated on both Lifetime and Bravo cable channels, though.

[quote] Were Suddenly Susan and Caroline in the City considered huge?

I don't know if they were huge ... but both of those shoes were rerun over and over on late-night, syndicated TV (at least here in Los Angeles on one of the local channels). .. Same with "Just Shoot Me." .. It's the only time I ever watched any of these three sitcoms. .. I never bothered tuning in when they aired during regular, broadcast prime time.

Oh, Madeline was more successful than Caroline in the City and Just Shoot Me.

[quote] Maybe not “huge” but SISTERS ran for several seasons, won multiple Emmys, but seems forgotten now. I recorded it every Saturday night, and loved it. I wonder if I’d like it now.

I bought the complete series on DVD in 2016 because I had and still have the feeling that it's never going be on a streaming service. At the time, I bought the DVDs I was closing on a house and I also had to go out of state for couple of months for my job. When I returned and moved into my house, I put a lot of TV and movie DVDs in the basement. I didn't watch the Sisters DVDs until the late spring/early summer of 2020 after my job moved to remote status and I was home more because of the covid lockdowns. On weekdays, I would watch a couple of episodes in the early morning before my workday and then a couple at night after work. I would watch maybe 6 or 7episodes during the weekends. It took me a couple of months to get through the entire series.

I enjoyed the rewatch for the most part. There were some storylines that I disliked during the rewatch like the storlylines involving Alex's plastic surgeon husband and the brat daughter Reed, The stuff with Georgie's husband having that weird singing career was annoying as fuck. The Charlie storyline didn't annoy me during the rewatch, but when the show originally aired on TV I couldn't stand it back then. I liked rewatching Sela Ward's performance as Teddy in the storylines about Teddy's daughter Cat being beaten and raped by a college classmate. Overall, I still liked the show and I think it sucks that's been forgotten.

[quote] Oh, Madeline was more successful than Caroline in the City and Just Shoot Me.

“Caroline in the City” aired for four years, a total of 97 episodes. “Just Shoot Me!” aired for more than six years, a total of 145 episodes.

“Oh, Madeline” lasted less than six months. A mere 18 episodes.

By no objective metric was “Oh, Madeline” more successful than either of these programs.

Sorry to burst your bubble “Oh, Madeline” troll.

Flipper

Shitter

I'm [italic] The Real McCoys [/italic] on even days, and [italic] Dobie Gillis [/italic] on odd days.

I have many odd days.

R110 Eldergas have kept Flipper and shirtless Luke Halpin in his cut-offs alive.

Last time I saw it, it was free on Pluto.

St Elsewhere, ER and Chicago Hope. Medical dramas don't seem to hold up well.

24.

Medical Center would be worth it for Chad Everett's bulge in those scrubs. Even my grandmother giggled like a teenager.

Like a shooting star, The Greatest American Hero (mentioned upthread) was one those shows blazed WHITE-HOT when it debuted, but fizzled quickly for various reasons (time slot, network interference in the creative direction of the show).

There were only 43 episodes of TGAH produced over three seasons. But for a hot minute in 1981 (mid-season replacement), it was a sensation! The theme song became a huge a hit, etc. It had so much potential; the possibilities with "the suit" were unlimited (as the instruction manual had been lost).

The only place I've ever seen re-runs is on the "Heroes & Icons" channel, several years ago.

R33 -

The 1983-84 TV season has "Riptide" as #18 (18.8 vs #1 Dallas at 25.7) The 1984-85 TV season has "Riptide" as #14 (19.2 vs #1 Dynasty at 25.0)

I never watched the show (not my type of thing), but I'd call that a hit.

Moonlighting is now streaming on Hulu.

Has Ally McBeal held up?

In the latter 90s it seemed all of commercial television rested on the boney shoulders of Calista Flockhart and Jenna Elfman.

Peyton Place.

I watched the first two seasons off Ally McBeal on Hulu, I think. I got tired of it after a while and stopped watching. Same with Moonlighting, which I loved as a kid.

Cover Up is forgotten today, even it was very popular at the time, and Jon Erik Hexum died tragically on set.

It doesn't surprise me that many DL posters don't understand the meaning of "huge".

Seeing how its infested with micro-dicked incels.

R4 There was a weekend Get Smart marathon on the over the air Catchy Comedy channel.

R98 Moonlighting was on Bravo for a few years back in the day. Music licensing is holding it from being brought back.

Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey

30 Something.

The Brady Bunch. Huge in syndication with Gen X but Gen Z has never heard of it

Helen Lawson's Hellzapoppin' Variety Spectacular Hour

9 to 5 had a fairly lengthy run despite the cast turnover, but you can’t find it anywhere.

The Brady Bunch airs 2 episodes every Sunday on MeTV.

I await for the idiot who says The Flintstones was never again seen after its initial run.

The Brady Bunch is also on Pluto (free) and Paramount + (subscription).

[quote]The Brady Bunch. Huge in syndication with Gen X but Gen Z has never heard of it

What a load of horseshit. American Gen-whatevers absolutely know of The Brady Bunch & the 1990s Brady Bunch movies, even if they've never actually watched the show or movies.

I think The Brady Bunch is like I Love Lucy and Full House. People are aware of these shows even if they've never seen an episode.

R81 R106 R16 Sisters, Falcon Crest, and Knots Landing all ran in syndication on SOAPnet for years. It seemed like every time I was channel surfing and passed that channel, one of them was on. They had other prime time serial dramas from the 80s and 90s as well.

Thank you, r105 and r119!

R105, Alas, I missed it on those two channels!

R119, I don't get Hulu, but I can buy the "Moonlighting" series via Amazon Prime, I just discovered! Love Season 4's spoof on "The Taming of the Shrew"!

thirtysomething

Too Close For Comfort

Falcon Crest

As The World Turns

All My Children

Picket Fences

I don’t know if this was a “huge TV show” but Rock Hudson was a big star at the time.

I never see this show referenced in TV discussions. Maybe it really didn’t make a huge impression.

R141, I was channel surfing over the weekend and passed by COZI just as they were playing the "McMillan & Wife" closing credits, so that's one station that's currently showing it.

Speaking of Sela Ward, you can’t find her other Emmy winning show, Once & Again, anywhere either. I loved that show..costarring my future husband, Billy Campbell.

[quote]R141: I don’t know if this was a “huge TV show” but Rock Hudson was a big star at the time.

It lasted six seasons; the last season was simply called 'McMillan,' since Mrs McMillan's character was killed off. Since it was part of a 'wheel show' (cycling with other shows on NBC Mystery Theater), that didn't amount to a large volume of episodes - just 40 overall.

A few years ago, I bought the DVD boxed set from VEI; it included 'The Snoop Sisters' as a bonus.

Most of these were not huge shows.

R141 McMillan and Wife was indeed huge. It was one of my parent's favorites, and I remember watching it on Sunday nights.

R145 = Size kween

All In The Family- was HUGE in importance and popularity in the 1970’s.

But it’s not forgotten- I had to mention it anyway.

Edith- Archie, please be nice.

Archie- I’m always nice. Now sit THE HELL DOWN!

It's a Living with gay icon Ann Jillian

TvOne airs the Cosby show, Roseanne airs on CMT. Both shows derailed their final few seasons.

I don’t think old real world episodes lasted long in syndication.

Westerns have been pretty resilient in syndication surprisingly so has mamas family which airs on metv, logo and CMT and has run continuously in reruns since it went off the air in 1990.

Daria had a similar music licensing issue to Moonlighting. When it finally came out on DVD the music was replaced with some generic background music.

Welcome Back, Kotter was pretty huge when I was a kid. Most of that had to do with the emergence of John Travolta. But Gabe Kaplan was an annoying HORRIBLE actor, and most of the other Sweathogs were one-trick ponies. There was an underlying ugliness to the show, as if all the characters had BO and bad breath, especially that greasy Epstein and ignoramous, it’s Pat-looking Horschak.

I’ve seen it rerun an obscure cable channel, and it just doesn’t hold up, not even in a hate-watch sore of way, like Alice or One Day at a Time.

R151, they still provided him with the generic out-of-his-league hot wife - only, they made her ugly by having her wear glasses.

Hotel with Connie Seleca and James Brolin

Golden Girls

R13 R117 Greatest American Hero is on Crackle.

Disco Detective starring Helen Lawson

Anyone remember Police Story? I don't think it was a ratings killer but I liked it, as a teen.

I thought Police Woman would be somehow related but no. Pure trashy fun.

Marcus Welby. Which, surprisingly was a really good show. I recently watched a few episodes on YouTube just for a sort of time capsule type thing. It was a really good show. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. The sidekick was hot as fuck. I think his nurse was the first spicy Latina on TV.

Police woman

Why should a teevee show endure? Obscurity seems to be their natural fate.

Police Woman airs on weekends on GetTV.

[quote] Speaking of Sela Ward, you can’t find her other Emmy winning show, Once & Again, anywhere either. I loved that show..costarring my future husband, Billy Campbell.

I remember that show did a get a bit of buzz for awhile. I also enjoyed it.

Star Trek

Twilight Zone

One Step Beyond

The Outer Limits

Lost in Space

Beulah

Get Christie Love

^ Star Trek and the Twilight Zone are obscure?????

Star Trek is the opposite of obscure

Plus, R108, Sela had young George Clooney as her hot cop boyfriend for several episodes.

Has thirtysomething been mentioned yet?

Yes R167

NBC Nightly News

Marcus Welby is a top shelf reply

NYPD Blue

ER was huge in its day and it's pretty much faded away. As another poster said, medical dramas don't seem to have staying power.

Queen for a Day

F-Troop with the deadly Larry Storch

The Carol Burnett Show.

Is M*A*S*H forgotten?

Carol Burnett show airs nightly on ME TV and ME TV+

Not amongst straight guys. I hate M*A fucking *S*H. Especially Alan Alda Most punchable face ever.

M*A*S*H airs nightly on MeTV.Four back-to-back episodes airing in a two-hour block from 6-8 p.m.

Who let in the publicist for MeTV?

“You under arrest, sugah!”

As a gayling, I was enamored with Get Christie Love and randomly pointed my finger at people and sassily told they under arrest, sugah. My mom was mortified.

Happy Days was massive in the mid-70s, and ran in syndication for a while, but it’s largely forgotten now. Everybody knows “jumped the shark,” but do they know it came from Happy Days?

Mannix

What about “James at 15” starring then hunky actor Lance Kerwin?

r 181: And "Joanie Loves Chachi" the spinoffs is even more forgotten.

The A Team.

Unless I'm going blind, The Bionic Woman was not mentioned.

Lindsay had a "Bionic Vadge" that would destroy the man that would fuck her.

This is why I was Gay!

No r167. Good one.

Banachek (Did I spell that correctly)?

Columbo

r181: I DID THE SAME THING! I loved how cool and tough Theresa Graves was - it was a shock that afterwards she became a mealy-mouthed anti-feminist Jehovah's Witness.

r185: YES! Remember how popular Mr. T was?

“That was the first time I kissed a black man above the waist”

R185, Wednesdays, 2:00 p.m.---5:00 p.m.

"Heroes and Icons" Channel. (H&I)

For everyone: ALSO check these Channels for your favorite oldies....

METV

MYTV

Your PBS

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BOUNCE

CHARGE!

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Murphy Brown. I don't give a fuck where it's run everyday either.

R188, "Columbo" is shown on the COZI Channel.

But, r191, if a show is still on the air?

Yes, not as popular. Yes, not as Prime Time, perhaps. Did you somehow think a sit-com from the last century might yet be on a "big" network?

But whatever. You're not even a fan of the one show you mentioned!

Oooooooooo

Columbo is also showing on the Great American Family or whatever it's called. I don't think it's forgotten, people were talking about watching Columbo reruns during the pandemic

The Real McCoys

Laugh-In

Petticoat Junction

The Loretta Young Show- ran 8 seasons starting in 1953.

A lot of the shows I was thinking of were already mentioned so I'll add:

Brothers & Sisters Veronica's Closet Small Wonder Mr. Belvedere Jesse (NBC)

R149 - Why the hell did I think Ann Jillian died 30 years ago from breast cancer?

R152 - True, her good looks really didn't cover the spread created by her overall cuntiness. And that goes for the actress too. Marcia Strassman must've thought she Tina fucking Louise with the star trip going on in head.

[quote] Who let in the publicist for MeTV?

That's what I was thinking, R180. I hate to break it to some of you, but reruns on 4th tier streaming channel or airing at 2 am on low rent cable outfits IS THE DEFINITION of obscurity.

“It Takes A Thief” with Robert Wagner, 1968-70. He was quite the attractive dish in it at the time to this then-gayling.

Wings

Northern Exposure

St Elsewhere

Small Wonder was not huge, R200.

R183 - Poor thing aged about as well as Ron Howard... and then he died.

Oh I see no mentioned my past show Life Goes On.

"Marcus Welby. Which, surprisingly was a really good show. I recently watched a few episodes on YouTube just for a sort of time capsule type thing. It was a really good show. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. The sidekick was hot as fuck. I think his nurse was the first spicy Latina on TV."

R158, that "sidekick" is Mr. Barbra Streisand to you!

[quote]R178 I hate M*A fucking *S*H. Especially Alan Alda Most punchable face ever.

Is suicide painless, really?

Is it?

[quote]Petticoat Junction

PJ airs every Saturday morning at 5am on MeTV.

Hugshe tv showsh that faded into obshcurity

Lizsha, I'd say the Judy Garland Show has faded into obscurity, despite the fact you were in it.

The OC

90210

Most of these shows WERE NOT HUGE!

Real McCoys are on four free streaming services and two subscription.

Laugh-In is also on five free streaming services and two subscription. It doesn't hold up. Most of it's pretty dumb

90210 is still very popular that it's usually subscription or pay-per-episode. But right now, Pluto (free) is running the series as a promotion.

R218 Are you sure you’re ok, sweetie?

Beulah

Respect R163, I was reading the list backwards.

- R222

[quote] Especially Alan Alda Most punchable face ever.

He pretty much encapsulates the crappy side of the 70s.

Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and pretty much anything ever made by Chuck Lorre is destined to be on this list in a few years.

No R203, obscurity is not airing in syndication at all

Or not available on any platform and only in crappy pirated copies (like my fave Homefront with a delicious young Kyle Chandler)

Hazel

The Mentalist

Dammit Julie! Dammit Barbara!

Why aren't we on Metv?

**SLAP**

hugely obscure - or - obscurely huge

Reading the thread, it seems like 95% of these oxymorons are still being shown somewhere.

R203,NOT. YOURE A MORON.

They weren't huge but the mention of "Sisters" reminded me of 3 other Saturday shows from that era that have since dropped off the TV radar: Nurses, Profiler and the Pretender.

Cell Block H

We should get super hung up on the definition of true obscurity, since this is a dissertation website!

[quote] They weren't huge but the mention of "Sisters" reminded me of 3 other Saturday shows from that era that have since dropped off the TV radar: Nurses, Profiler and the Pretender.

I remember those three. They weren't great, but decent enough if you wanted to watch something on a Saturday night if you were home.

Has Empty Nest been mentioned? God, that show sucked.

R236 lol I forget about that one and it was a Saturday night NBC show.

Step By Step

[quote] Brothers & Sisters Veronica's Closet Small Wonder Mr. Belvedere Jesse (NBC)

Not one of these was huge. This assignment was so easy yet apparently impossible.

This thread has brought back memories of when broadcast networks had scripted shows on Saturday nights. Early Edition was a Saturday night show, but came out on BS. It was another Kyle Chandler show.

The Golden Girls will never be obscure!!!!

This thread can now move to the one on "Old Shit on TV".

The Red Skelton Show

TRL

[quote]I think Get Smart is a better example. Huge hit in the 60s. Lots of Emmys. You can't find it anymore.

Catchy Comedy (formerly Decades) had a "Get Smart" marathon all last weekend.

Predictably, this thread just turned into an uninteresting list of old TV shows.

R231 - Tell us you're on the spectrum without saying you're on the spectrum.

The Trump Administration that nobody seems to remember.

Combat

Rat Patrol

My non DNA dad had them on every day