plnnr – Rest easy. jb was referring to Babe (you know, the talking pig movie), which starred James Cromwell as the farmer. “That’ll do, pig, that’ll do.”
Hey Jean Grey – I agree. I thought Jeremy Piven was really good in Cupid. Of course, the real reason I watched was Paula Marshall. Mmmmm…she can analyze my psyche anytime.
That was a great show, Moe. I saw some on video a while back.
I was thinking about this show last week and almost started this thread just to ask if anyone remembered this show.
TENKO a BBC production about British and Australian women in a Japanese prison camp during WW2. Heavy drama and a very realistic portrayal of the horrible conditions facing prisoners under the Japanese in the Pacific.
Wasn’t the big redhead on Hot L Baltimore named something like Conchita Farrel? If I recall, she later did a stint as one of the lawyers on LA Law, but has never gottten anything like star billing.
Count me in as another viewer (it would be a stretch to say “fan”) of “HOT L BALTIMORE.” (For those of you who don’t remember the show, the title came from the fact that the “e” in Hotel Baltimore, where the show was set, was missing or broken.) IIRC, the show was a TV adaptation/continuation of a stage play of the same name.
And Southern Style, I remember “It’s About Time” too. Dreadful show, but I can still hum some of the theme song (“It’s about time, it’s about space…”) It’s things like that that often make me wish I could erase my brain like a floppy disk.
Anyway, my favorite obscure show is one I mentioned in the “favorite theme song” thread a month or so ago: “Nichols” starring James Garner (1972ish). Damn that was a great, ahead-of-its-time show; and unlike many of the shows mentioned in this thread, “Nichols” is obscure with a capital “O.”
(And I’m still offering a prize to anyone who can hook me up with a copy/link of the “Nichols” theme song. Thanks.)
I can’t believe this is obscure,but nobody I know has heard of “The Prisoner.” Sad. Really great show.
When I lived in Korea, Star TV used to show “The Crystal Maze”, a British adventure game show hosted by Richard O’Brien(Riff Raff in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”)
When I was very little, there was a show called "My World and Welcome To It, with William Windom playing a cartoonist. I remember liking it a lot.
There was also a cheesy British scifi show called, “Space:1999”, with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. It was
a guilty pleasure.
And I also remember “Hot L Baltimore.”
BOSOM BUDDIES!
This show did run for two seasons,
and spent time in syndication. The cast was
utterly amazing: Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon,
Wendy Jo Sperber, Thelma Hopkins, Holland Taylor
and a then-unknown Tom Hanks (in drag). It should
have run forever!
I wish that I could remember the theme song. All that I can really remember is a childish variant that went “It’s about time, it’s about space, it’s about time to slap your face” at which time a pinkish handprint would appear on the cheek of the listener…
Yup, it’s still on, with brand new games, shows, and prizes. I am pretty hooked on it. Cast no aspersions onmy character because of that. In Atlanta it is on PAXTV at 6:30 (the new show) and 7:30 (the repeat show from previous years.)
As for an obscure show, I always liked Day by Day.
Max Headroom & Doctor! Doctor! both with Matt Frewer, who can be very funny. Bravo was running Max for a while. Haven’t seen D!D! since it went off the air, but, luckily for me, I have all the eps (minus 1) on tape.
I taped every episode of that. I think I still have the tapes somewhere.
Well, I just checked and I do. If I’m remembering how I labeled my tapes back then, it’s 6 hourse worth (so 6 episodes) taped (they’re labeled “Nightmare Cafe (1)”, “Nightmare Cafe (2)” and “Nightmare Cafe (3)” and considering 2 of the tapes’ labels also include “Lightning Force (1/2)”, I think I labeled them by how many hours the taped shows took up). Wonder what Lightning Force was.
Yet another fan of Hot L Baltimore, although I wouldn’t have dredged it up from my memory if you hadn’t mentioned it.
One that I loved that never made it past the 6 week mark was a strange show at the height of the fantasy fad. I don’t know the name, but it was about a royal family in a fairy tale type castle, and played very campy. The only character I remember was the princess, who went on to play the spoiled maid in “Bob” (the second Bob Newhart show) - same character, different setting
Oops, make that “Newhart” (thank the web for imdb) and the series name was “Wizards and Warriors”
Tales of the Golden Monkey[ul]A story of a Flying Tiger (pilot-type) on sabbatical, earning a living in the South Pacific in 1938-9 (therabouts) by flying people and things around in his Grumman Goose, a magical plane that can crash every episode. The plane is easily repaired with nothing more than vines and palm leaves, and can take off again before the end credits, bringing our heroes home safely. Roddy McDowell played the local magistrate “Lucky Louie”, and it looks as if this show was the basis for Disney’s Tale Spin (another fave) years later. It’s sort of like Indiana Jones with a plane and less archaeology.[/ul]
Strange Luck[ul]I loved that show! It was about a man who had very strange luck, indeed (thus, the title). Weird things were always happening when he was around. F’rinstance, whenever he bought a lotto ticket at the diner he frequented, he always won just enough to pay for his meal and leave a tip. It had kind of the same feel that Early Edition had in the first season, but the protagonist didn’t know the future.[/ul]
Due South[ul]A show that was surreal and funny, while still being dramatic, this one starred a Canadian Mounty who was pals with a Chicago cop (or maybe Cetroit – I haven’t seen it in a while). What was a mounty doing in Chicago (or Detroit)? He was the guard at the Canadian Consulate, an aspect of the character that was never explored much. His canine companion was a white, deaf wolf whom Frasier (the mounty) would sometimes carry on conversations with.[/ul]
~~Baloo
Ah, Briscoe County Jr… loved that, too.
And am I the only one who watched the short-lived series called The Searcher?
Red Dwarf? What’s that? 
Anyway, I’ll add my votes to these:
Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Pee-your-pants funny at times. Sadly, Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak was kind of a flop.
Due South. One of the more intelligent shows out there.
Jack of All Trades. This definitely goes in the “guilty pleasure” category. Bruce Campbell is hilarious, even with the crappy scripts. No matter how many times I see it, the part in the opening song where the guy rips the mask off his face to find another mask makes me laugh out loud.
Cleopatra 2525. NO!! I do NOT watch this show. Well, I don’t like it, anyway. But it easily wins the award for the worst theme song EVER!!
I forgot who mentioned The Prisoner. Was that a BBC show where a guy was being held prisoner with a different person playing his jailer every week? I saw a few episodes once upon a time.
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Duckman. That’s another gut-buster. Jason Alexander is hilarious. Did you ever see the episode where Duckman was being stalked by a lady who thought he was George from Seinfeld? Bwahahaha!
Other good, not-so-obscure British shows include Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, and Robot Wars.
Ah, “Wizards and Warriors”. I have a few epsisodes on tape. It starred Duncan Regehr (sp?) Jeff Conaway (from “Taxi”) and of course Julia Duffy. It is a GREAT show, very campy indeed. And that Duncan Regehr!
In college I used to watch a British Cartoon called “Danger Mouse”. It was hilarious. A superhero mouse with a fez-wearing hamster for a sidekick.
Anyone know where I can catch it? I haven’t seen it in years.