# Movies/TV/Books/Music from your past, but no one else remembers (or cares)... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099 "2019-02-23T19:54:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/101 "2019-03-02T20:01:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I loved **connections** [. I didn’t bring it up because I didn’t think it was that obscure, but maybe I’m wrong. > > His second series, **The Day the Universe Changed** is also great. He later did two series for TLC, **Connections[sup]2[/sup]** and **Connections[sup3[/sup]**, which weren’t quite up to the standards of the first series, but were a lot better than other stuff out there. I remember these shows. The “connections” got more tenuous as each series progressed, but the one thing James Burke taught me is that we are never very far from James Watt or the Hagia Sophia. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/102 "2019-03-02T23:50:46Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > There was _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_, a summer replacement show for _The Dean Martin Show_ in 1970, which had Marty Feldman and Charles Nelson Reilly in comedy sketches. The Golddiggers were the comedy and dance troupe that filled in between sketches in the regular seasons of _The Dean Martin Show_ and were part of the summer replacement shows. In 1970 the producers decided to shoot the summer replacement show in London. > > The show had comedy sketches like nothing I had ever seen. Remember, _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ hadn’t reached the U.S. yet. There was one sketch with Feldman and Reilly that was an adaptation for two people of the sketch “The Four Yorkshiremen” from _At Last the 1948 Show_, for instance. The Golddiggers version I remember vividly (as I had just hit puberty) featured Joey Heatherton, Stanley Myron Handelman and the Times Square Two. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/103 "2019-03-03T01:23:12Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Don’t remember “Run, Joe, Run” but I definitely remember “Zoom.” I was right in the targeted age group for its first run, and many old episodes are on You Tube - both the 1970s series, and the ca. 2000 reboot. > > Around the same time, there was a PBS series called “Inside Out” which we used to watch at school. They were episodes about 15 minutes long where kids were faced with age-appropriate moral dilemmas that were deliberately left unresolved, and then we would have a class discussion about it. > > There was also a Saturday-morning show called “Isis”, about a woman who had superpowers that involved her calling upon the goddess Isis and transforming into a female superhero. It was probably awful but we kids loved it. I watched a few episodes of _Isis_ back in the day. IIRC, it was somehow connected to _Shazam_ - either a spin-off or at least in the same universe. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/104 "2019-03-04T03:35:04Z")
A lot of movies from 1978-83 were, I thought, destined to be listed in the pantheon of great movies– **Being There, Breaking Away, Red** s–but they just sank without a trace. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/105 "2019-03-04T04:33:06Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > A lot of movies from 1978-83 were, I thought, destined to be listed in the pantheon of great movies– **Being There, Breaking Away, Red** s–but they just sank without a trace. Recently re-watched Being There and didn’t think it held up very well (but the folks I watched it with loved it). I do think Breaking Away has held up very well. Fun, thoughtful movie! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/106 "2019-03-04T14:25:30Z")
Horatio Hellpop, while it may be true that those three movies aren’t as well-known as some other equally good movies, they have not “just sank without a trace”. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/107 "2019-03-04T14:59:09Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Don’t remember “Run, Joe, Run” but I definitely remember “Zoom.” I was right in the targeted age group for its first run, and many old episodes are on You Tube - both the 1970s series, and the ca. 2000 reboot. > > Around the same time, there was a PBS series called “Inside Out” which we used to watch at school. They were episodes about 15 minutes long where kids were faced with age-appropriate moral dilemmas that were deliberately left unresolved, and then we would have a class discussion about it. > > There was also a Saturday-morning show called “Isis”, about a woman who had superpowers that involved her calling upon the goddess Isis and transforming into a female superhero. It was probably awful but we kids loved it. I remember all of these. "oh mighty Isis. . . " 😛 If you watched that, then perhaps you remember _Electrawoman and Dynagirl_. “Electrawoman and Dynagirl, fighting all evil deeds. Each writes for a magazine, hiding the life she leads” ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/108 "2019-03-04T15:58:17Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > My husband and I both remember Zoom fondly. We can even sing the zip code of the address to send mail to Zoom: “Oh-two-one-three-four!” > > PBS rebooted the show briefly a few years ago. The reboot was pretty good. Puts me in mind of another PBS kids’ show, Big Blue Marble. I don’t remember anything but the theme song. My obscure show from the past is thankfully, not gone forever. Probe, starring Parker Stevenson as an eccentric, misanthropic genius (but I repeat myself, according to the trope) who solves mysteries with the help of the ditzy blond sidekick, has been uploaded to YouTube. I have spoken of it before; it was murdered by TV execs who put it up against The Cosby Show. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/109 "2019-03-04T16:11:42Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > Puts me in mind of another PBS kids’ show, Big Blue Marble. I don’t remember anything but the theme song. > > My obscure show from the past is thankfully, not gone forever. Probe, starring Parker Stevenson as an eccentric, misanthropic genius (but I repeat myself, according to the trope) who solves mysteries with the help of the ditzy blond sidekick, has been uploaded to YouTube. I have spoken of it before; it was murdered by TV execs who put it up against The Cosby Show. I remember Big Blue Marble fondly. It used to have two segments, each about a child who had what I thought was an interesting life. It had a great theme. I enjoyed Probe too. ---
**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 4, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/110 "2019-03-04T16:11:53Z")
_ **Search** _, 1972–73. NBC. Leslie Stevens, creator. Bob Justman, producer. Probe agents (Hugh Brian, Doug McClure, and Tony Franciosa) of World Securities Corporation alternate in perilous missions to investigate wrongdoing worldwide, while being remotely guided by Burgess Meredith and a team of specialists from a high-tech control center. \*\*\*Star Trek \*\*\*without the _Enterprise_ in early-1970s America. I always wanted to be a Probe agent. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/111 "2019-03-04T16:26:09Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **Search** _, 1972–73. NBC. Leslie Stevens, creator. Bob Justman, producer. Probe agents (Hugh Brian, Doug McClure, and Tony Franciosa) of World Securities Corporation alternate in perilous missions to investigate wrongdoing worldwide, while being remotely guided by Burgess Meredith and a team of specialists from a high-tech control center. \*\*\*Star Trek \*\*\*without the _Enterprise_ in early-1970s America. > > I always wanted to be a Probe agent. ☹ I watched Probe. It was interesting but, well, stupid. ---
**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 4, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/112 "2019-03-04T16:46:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I watched Probe. It was interesting but, well, stupid. I’m assuming you mean _ **Search** _. It was way ahead of its time. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/113 "2019-03-04T17:29:26Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I grew up in the Dark Ages, before Google and Wikipedia and having the whole panoply of pop culture at one’s fingertips, so I questioned for years whether I had actually seen a short-lived series called [_Run, Joe, Run_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run,_Joe,_Run), about an Army dog fleeing across the country. I remember _Run, Joe, Run_. I watched it every Saturday morning until it just disappeared. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > If you watched that, then perhaps you remember _Electrawoman and Dynagirl_. I do. I was ga-ga in love with the then almost 30-year-old Judy Strangis. Anybody remember [_The Ghost Busters_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-Io8xMHL4) from a decade before _Ghostbusters_? There was also a weeknight TV show about a boy raised by wolves. _Lucan_, I think. I wanted to be raised by wolves, too! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/114 "2019-03-04T18:19:53Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > I remember _Run, Joe, Run_. I watched it every Saturday morning until it just disappeared. > > I do. I was ga-ga in love with the then almost 30-year-old Judy Strangis. > Anybody remember [_The Ghost Busters_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-Io8xMHL4) from a decade before _Ghostbusters_? > > There was also a weeknight TV show about a boy raised by wolves. _Lucan_, I think. I wanted to be raised by wolves, too! Yup, starring my (then) sweet baby Kevin Brophy. I don’t remember any specific episodes but I remember his eyes would glow when he was about to go into wolf mode. In my mind this was on around the same era as \*Three for the Road. \*. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/115 "2019-03-04T19:28:12Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I’m assuming you mean _ **Search** _. It was way ahead of its time. **Probe** was the name of the pilot, **Search** the series. “way ahead of its time?” I doubt it. It was blatant wish-fulfillment. as such, it had a hard time drumming up conflict and drama. Here’s interesting comment from James Lileks: [http://www.lileks.com/institute/70s/search/2.html](http://www.lileks.com/institute/70s/search/2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099/116 "2019-03-08T01:57:37Z")
Recently bought and watched “The Third World War” starring David Soul and costarring Rock Hudson. It’s about the Russians parachuting 40 or so soldiers into snowbound Alaska to destroy a Pipeline pump station as payback for US embargoing grain shipments. Doesn’t end well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-books-music-from-your-past-but-no-one-else-remembers-or-cares/830099.md?page=5)