The only thing I remember about it was some CBS 50th anniversary show (or something like that) when the Dingbat (Jean Stapleton) mentioned it as one of her favorites.
Someone mentioned “ABC’s Wide World of Sports” which had the memorable “Agony of Defeat” skiing crash (although Vinko Bogataj was shocked in 1981 to find he was a minor U.S. celebrity and Muhammad Ali wanted his autograph). I submit the anthology on CBS, known as “CBS Sports Spectacular”, among other names.
To explain how ignorant I am of this show, even though I’ve heard of it, I thought it was about Reverend Jim from Taxi.
Who the heck watches CBS’ “Face the Nation” (1954-present) either? 
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Nobody mentions Murphy Brown, though that was on for a decade.
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I remember thinking at the time, even though I was a fan, “This show is going to be dated by the time the summer repeats start, there’s no way it’s going to find an audience in syndication”.
A couple of years ago I caught it for the first and only time in syndication and… damn. Half of an hour of G.H.W.Bush and pre-Lewinsky Clinton jokes don’t age well.
I’m going to mention The Arthur Godfrey TV show, 1948 - 1959, forgotten maybe because the viewing audience is mostly deceased. I just remember watching ‘Offy Goffy’ with my grandma when I was a small child.
In the late 1950s/early 1960s there were a whole lot of westerns on TV (26 in 1959). Some of them are getting released on DVD but it surprises me that “The Virginian” could run from 1962-71 (third-longest running Western after “Bonanza” and “Gunsmoke”) and “Cheyenne” from 1955 to 1963.
Most dramatic series don’t do well in syndication and the popularity of color TVs made series filmed in
black and white lose popularity.
I will grant you The Wonder Years, but the first season of Murphy Brown was released and it tanked. It also isn’t on in syndication anywhere. It simply doesn’t hold up.
LOL I said that.
Until my father started talking about it a few months ago, I had no idea that Dean Martin had hosted a wildly popular comedy show – for nine years! And I’m old enough to barely have memories of it, 'cept I don’t.
Also, Hee Haw. Who talks about that show these days?
Both shows were advertised heavily on infomercials recently.
Huh. I’m living overseas and hadn’t seen that. Maybe that’s why my father started talking about it.
Mr Belvedere and Perfect Strangers still had a cultural impact…I mean can we say the Dance of Joy?
Re: Head of the Class…I met the guy who played Arvid down at my town’s beach.
Well, it did launch the career of a certain Stacey Ferguson.
To submit one of my own; I recall The Critic being pretty damn popular when it first aired, to the point that it got a crossover with The Simpsons, but I don’t think they even air reruns of it anymore (and the jokes about early '90s movies probably haven’t aged well either).
That reminds me of Emergency!
It had paramedics!
Nobody seems to talk much about Charley Weaver these days. And "Sergeant preston of the Yukon " has few fans.
B-b-but I met “King the Wonder Dog” at a kennel in Vermont… So at least one person will never forget Sgt. Preston.
What I find fascinating about this thread is the way memory works.
I’ve watched a lot of network TV for half a century or so. Some short-run program will stick in my memory (“Coronet Blue”, “Nowhere Man”, “Andy Barker, PI”, “Freaks and Geeks”, “Firefly”;)) but some of the shows here, I had to look up. Despite having watched them dozens of times!
This is me reading this thread: "‘Yes, Dear’? Was that an obscure British ‘wordy comedy’?" Then check Youtube, but just looking at the thumbnails warns me that it isn’t funny enough to watch a clip of. “Wow. I probably watched fifty episodes of this show, and I couldn’t tell you one thing that happened in a single one of them. Or the characters’ names, or what they did. Weird…”
So, as an aside, what show do you now watch (and even like) that you’ll utterly forget in a decade? For me, probably American Dad. I mostly watch it because I don’t change the channel after Family Guy.
Yes it did. Imagine how shocked I was to see that Paramedic Roy DeSoto ended up owning a bar called the Double Deuce in a little known movie called Road House!
Was he handing out towels?
You would think his old buddy Dennis would throw him some work.
Mama’s Family
Emergency! runs daily on MeTV.
I remember a lot of people used to love Designing Women, but somehow it just died after it ended and never seemed to get the attention of comparable shows.