Movies/TV/Books/Music from your past, but no one else remembers (or cares)...

[Miss_Mapp]

@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.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@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.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@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.

[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, Reds–but they just sank without a trace.

[needscoffee]

@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, Reds–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!

[Wendell_Wagner]

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”.

[WOOKINPANUB]

@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”

[CelticKnot]

@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.

[Dendarii_Dame]

@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.

[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.

[CalMeacham]

@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.

[terentii]

@CalMeacham

I watched Probe. It was interesting but, well, stupid.

I’m assuming you mean Search. It was way ahead of its time.

[GreysonCarlisle]

@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, 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 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!

[WOOKINPANUB]

@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 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.
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[CalMeacham]

@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

[Ignatz]

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.