I watched part of one episode fifty years ago but I was saying “Oh God, no,” in under three seconds. No warning. No ads telling me that crap was on this crappy channel.
Not surprised that it was followed by My Mother the Car.
What crap is clogging your brain?
Funny you should mention this series. I just realized after 50-odd years why they changed Imogene Coca’s name after the pilot episode (from “Shag” to “Shad”). DUH! :smack:
“Shag—nag!” 
Could be worse. CHCH in Toronto shows the ***Gilligan’s Island ***reboot Dusty’s Trail three or four times a year between 02:00 and 04:00. When I pull an all-nighter, I sometimes have to leave it on to keep from falling asleep.
Man, they must really have a small collection of videos! :mad:
They’re trying to make up for it by showing the Maurice Sendak Nutcracker, but that needs Kirkland and Baryshnikov to be perfect. These dancers I don’t know.
One thing I don’t get about It’s About Time. When Mac and Hec return to the present with the Gronk family, why are they sharing an apartment in Los Angeles. You’d expect astronauts to be based in Texas or Florida. And as officers, they’d be entitled to their own housing, not shacking up in an apartment. It makes my brain hurt just to think about it.
It’s about time,
It’s about space,
It’s about two men
In a very strange place.
:smack:Yeah, I still remember the theme song, or that bit of it, after 50 years.
It’s about time
To slap your face!
That’s the bit of the premise you find unbelievable?
This said, the show was slightly more plausible than My Mother the Car.
…it’s about you and your ugly face!
I thought I was the only person who watched/remember that show.
It occupies a corner of my brain along with Captain Nice, Mr. Terrific, Rango, and Run, Buddy, Run.
“Only the wagon master’s hand, keeps them a moving to the promised land - on Dusty’s Trail”
When I was a young child in the '70s, my mom was a huge Barry Mannilow fan. As a result, many of his lyrics are permanently embedded in my brain. It’s such a waste of perfectly good brain cells.
What stuff is filling up my brain? Why useful stuff, of course.
E.g., in an episode of Mad Men the creepy kid was reading an early issue of Metal Men. I knew right away that wasn’t right. Metal Men debuted after the time that episode took place.
If that isn’t useful knowledge, what is?
Regarding little watched episodes. I watch one episode of Will & Grace. Pass.
But every time after that when an episode happened to be on (due to the DVR recording something on that channel earlier and going to live TV) it was that same crappy episode.
Metal Men! What a great nerdy science comic! Learn the properties of the elements as our heroes combat the forces of evil! Noble Gold! Mighty Iron! Steady Lead! Wimpy Tin! Volatile Mercury (inaccurately colored red like an alcohol thermometer)! And lovely Platinum, the only female metal man!
Aside from IAT, which I remember a lot, I also remember bits of shows and sometimes entire episodes that hard core TV fanatics might not remember.
Run Buddy Run
Police Surgeon (part of the basis for “Cop Lawyer, MD” parodies) in glorious video tape. From Canada, too.
On The Rocks
Arnie
“Hi, I’m Glen Campbell!”
Lassie on the log flume
Which episodes the shots in the original Hawaii 5-0 credits come from, and what season they were added
Festus: But I don’t want a lotta land!"
It’s a blessing, and a curse.
How about “Dusty” John Dusty?
Pardon the nitpick but My Mother the Car - the exemplar of TV idiocy from the 60s - debuted in 1965. It’s About Time was in 1966.
I’ve never watched a full episode of that program but Los Angeles is close to Edwards Air Force Base. I’m guessing that’s where Mac and Hec worked.
Well, that and the dinosaurs. Not to mention Sherwood Schwartz produced it, so they clearly recycled the sets from Gilligan’s Island.
Tina! sproinnnngggggg!
I Dream of Jeannie was a bit more plausible. Tony and Roger lived in Cocoa Beach, FL, near the Kennedy Space Center, in separate houses. Although to be more accurate, astronauts are trained in Houston.
Also, NASA’s California launch site is at Vandenberg AFB, located between San Francisco and Los Angeles.