# Dimly remembered shows on network launches **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [March 20, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313 "2021-03-20T18:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/42 "2021-03-21T20:00:46Z")
Are we heading towards dimly remembered shows, but not ones on network launches? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/43 "2021-03-21T20:46:09Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Second. Remember **Hot L Baltimore**? Very well. It flopped not because of its quality, but because some of the characters were prostitutes and, more scandalously šŸ™„, they showed a gay couple who were happy about it. Affiliates dropped it, so the ratings tanked. I saw the play at a local theater. Quite good, and I give one of the actors a lot of credit since the script called for her to parade around nude on stage. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/44 "2021-03-21T21:55:23Z")
Sorry for the hijack. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/45 "2021-03-22T04:49:07Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@terentii](#): > > > > I liked _ **Tour of Duty** _ a lot, but it was on CBS, not a startup network. > > I must have confused it with Foxā€™s attempt at making a series out of _The Dirty Dozen_. That was a truly awful series. Simply wretched. I switched it off after one of the GIs told his buddy ā€œMan, you were _awesome_ up there on that horse!ā€ (They had just fought a skirmish with a band of mounted Balkan Nazis. Ouch! šŸ˜– ) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/46 "2021-03-22T09:01:40Z")
i remeber fox had a show where a white woman with a daughter married her black dentist and he had maybe one or two kids it lasted a short while because the actress who was the daughter said or did something that pissed of a lot of people nd the black actors . ā€¦ i remeber the white grandma was a well known tv actress ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/47 "2021-03-22T14:50:28Z")
That was [True Colors](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098933/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1) and the only reason I could remember the title was because I remembered Nancy Walker from those Bounty paper towel ads. You would have thought Iā€™d have remembered her from _Rhoda._ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/48 "2021-08-08T22:09:27Z")
Welp, dementia is creeping up on me, I had already commented on ā€˜Dream Onā€™ and forgot I did soā€¦Yes, it was an HBO show, now that I recallā€¦but still, people I talk to IRL just donā€™t remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/49 "2021-08-08T22:49:36Z")
Well, since Iā€™m in here. . . Does anyone remember The Kenny Everette Show? Australian, I think. I used to watch it really late summer nights along with a New Jersey guyā€™s ā€œchildrenā€™sā€ show Uncle Somebody. These were really late night, which is why I only watched during the summer because of school. They were so late night they came on AFTER Linda Ellerbeeā€™s news which was AFTER Nightline so you know it was really late. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313/50 "2021-08-09T11:07:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The Kenny Everette Show? Australian, I think. Kenny Everett was British. He was a popular wacky radio host (and friend of The Beatles) who got his own TV shows full of oddball nonsense, top drawer music talent, and sexy music videos (Arlene Phillipsā€™s Hot Gossip dancers). He sadly died of AIDS in the early 90s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dimly-remembered-shows-on-network-launches/938313.md?page=2)