# Obscure TV shows you just LOVE **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2000, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268 "2000-08-14T08:20:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/61 "2000-08-15T05:32:20Z")
Hey, it wasn’t obscure at the time, but you rarely hear of it now… anybody remember _The A-Team_? ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/62 "2000-08-15T05:49:49Z")
“A-Team” - I often see it on TVLand. I probably (half-ass watch) it several times a week while at work. (I like Murdock especially.) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/63 "2000-08-15T05:50:59Z")
You mean that one show with Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. as fugitives who operate as soldiers of fortune? No, never heard of it. “If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire…The A-Team.” ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/64 "2000-08-15T05:59:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by picmr \* > **silent\_rob you will be pleased to know that Rick and Ade from _Bottom_ have a film out called _Hotel Paradiso_. Haven’t seen it yet, but it looks like more of the same.** Thanks picmr, I’ll have to check it out when it comes out over here. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/65 "2000-08-15T06:07:46Z")
I liked **Good vs Evil** when it was on USA for that short while before going to Sci-Fi. It didn’t seem the same on Sci-Fi though. There was a cartoon series a couple years back based on the Dragon Warrior game on the old Nintendo. I could never find that 13-part series anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/66 "2000-08-15T07:09:54Z")
Good to see I’m not the only **Dinosaurs** fan out there. IMO, if you watch just one episode of Dinosaurs, watch the episode on Potatoism! It is hilarious (because it’s true) My favorite cartoon, and actually my all-time favorite TV show, is now **Samurai Pizza Cats**. It’s an irresistably cute parody (sort of) of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I saw a few episodes back when it was still on the air, but never really got into it until years later, when I stumbled upon a Pizza Cats webpage, and was able to download RealVideo episodes (Get them [here](http://www.edoropolis.org/spclabs2/Eps.html), if you have the time!) and I got hooked on the show. It started in 1990(?) in Japan under the name Kyattou Ninden Teyandee and was aired in America around 1996 (or so.) It’s not on the air right now, but there are numerous petitions and such to get it back on (like [here](http://www.angelfire.com/ca/savespc/index.html)). Space Ghost and Duckman also rule, but to my knowledge they’re not that obscure. - KJ, master of vB code ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/67 "2000-08-15T07:18:47Z")
{{ suddenly remembers he forgot to mention something in the previous post, and that he hit “submit” too soon and it won’t let him edit his messages }} What I meant to mention: The way they made Pizza Cats was really ingenious. They did not translate from the original Japanese episodes. (If they were to do that, they’d have to rewrite a lot of it anyway due to Japanese cultural references.) Instead, the writers (who, in many cases, didn’t even see the original scripts) just watched the episodes with no sound and wrote dialogue to fit the characters’ mouth movements (sometimes even better than in the original cartoon), and made it so that the stories made sense. It’s fun to see all the little tricks they did to make it work. It’s a really “Space-Ghost-esque” thing to do with the cartoon, and that’s part of the reason I like it so much. > [@](#): > > A technologically advanced, futuristic team of super heroes, and **nobody’s** got a flashlight!? ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/68 "2000-08-15T08:18:43Z")
Another vote for Police Squad. There were only six episodes, IIRC. I’ve got both the videos, and have all the shows. Very good. Somewhat like Airplane! Mystery Science Theater 3000, my fave TV show, is somewhat obscure here in Canada because it’s never been shown up here. Many of my friends have never seen it. (Not on a Canadian station anyways, but about five years ago, when some of the shows were repackaged and syndicated for about a year, I’d watch them at midnight, once a week, on a Seattle TV station.) Happily, my mom has been kindly taping episodes for me. 🙂 When I was younger, I really liked a syndicated British comedy show from the 60s/70s called Dave Allen At Large. There would be brief sketches, and often Dave would sit on his stool, with a glass of whisky in one hand and a cigarette in the other and tell a joke. And I used to beat my parents at Headline Hunters, the cheezy CTV 70s game show. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/69 "2000-08-15T08:28:03Z")
**Bottom** – the film (released here as _Guest House Paradiso_) is not exactly related to the series. It was roundly slated in every review here; apparently on the big screen they got away with the even more crude humour the BBC didn’t want in the TV show. **The Prisoner** – this starred Patrick McGoohan as a British spy who wants out; his paymasters decide to ship him off to a bizarre “camp” to keep him quiet. The camp is like a surreal nightmare; it’s such a cult show there’ll be plenty of websites devoted to it. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/70 "2000-08-15T09:01:48Z")
> [@](#): > > When I was younger, I really liked a syndicated British comedy show from the 60s/70s called Dave Allen At Large. There would be brief sketches, and often Dave would sit on his stool, with a glass of whisky in one hand and a cigarette in the other and tell a joke. Scribe: I remember that show! I LOVED it! I would watch every episode. He was so funny. I showed on L.A.'s channel 9, late evening. I also would watch Paul Hogan’s (pre-“Crocadile Dundee”) syndicated show, also on Channel 9. (That’s Channel 9!) I knew of him before he made it “big” here in the States. I still think his TV show was his funniest work. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/71 "2000-08-15T13:38:51Z")
Wow, **Baloo** , I’d forgotten all about _Tales of the Gold Monkey_. That was one of my favorite “cancelled after one season” shows. Stephen Collins flying in and out of danger with that little one-eyed dog… ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268/72 "2000-08-15T14:29:16Z")
I have only two words. **American Gothic**. MR [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows-you-just-love/29268.md?page=3)