# Old shows and Cartoons that no one remembers but you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873 "2008-11-29T02:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![meanyred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@meanyred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meanyred)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/261 "2008-12-07T23:09:00Z")
Pistols and Petticoats Lincoln Vale of the Everglades Beanie and Cecil ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/262 "2008-12-08T22:34:03Z")
“Lincoln Vale of the Everglades” OMG, I haven’t thought of that show since it was on, probably! But the only specific thing I remember about it (which popped into my head IMMEDIATELY when I read that) is the theme song. ---
**Author:** ![meanyred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@meanyred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meanyred)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/263 "2008-12-09T00:07:50Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > “Lincoln Vale of the Everglades” > > OMG, I haven’t thought of that show since it was on, probably! But the only specific thing I remember about it (which popped into my head IMMEDIATELY when I read that) is the theme song. He’s the man on patrol in the everglades Yeah, and riding in an air boat, too. No one seems to remember “The Guns of Will Sonnet” but me. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/264 "2008-12-10T00:11:49Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > [ > > I don’t suppose this was either “Superbook” or its less well known companion “The Flying House”, was it? Neither had an archaeological dig, but both had traveling through Biblical times. > > [Superbook - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbook)]([Superbook - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbook)) Nope, the animation was Western style. > [@melodyharmonius](#): > > It wasn’t the Kingdom Chums was it? Where they go back and discover 10 different commandments? It starts off as non-cartoon - and then the kids go in to the cartoon . . . I don’t think it was that. I’m pretty sure I remember an episode with Matthew (or maybe another one of the Gospel writers) sitting under a tree or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/265 "2008-12-10T01:41:32Z")
This thing seemed to be on all the time, in the early 1960’s: it was about a boy, home alone. He looks out the wndow, and watches the raindrops fall-then a puddle forms, and a milkweed see flies by-and turns into a dancer. The boy is mesmerized by all of this-clearly he is entering some kind of dream. Anyway-anybody remember this? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/266 "2008-12-10T02:24:31Z")
> [@meanyred](#): > > He’s the man on patrol in the everglades > > Yeah, and riding in an air boat, too. > > No one seems to remember “The Guns of Will Sonnet” but me. I remember The Guns Of Will Sonnet- starring Walter Brennan! “No brag, just fact.” ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/267 "2008-12-10T12:56:28Z")
Rex Trailer and Sgt. Billy on Boomtown! (I had an autographed Rex Trailer photo on my childhood wall) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/268 "2008-12-10T19:05:32Z")
I seemed to remember a game show that was on in the 80’s where kids played arcade games to win prizes. They had to get a certain score or get to a certain level within a time limit. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/269 "2008-12-10T19:32:07Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > How about [Villa Alegre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Alegre_(TV_series))? I have a vinyl record of some of the songs from this show. I’m not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/270 "2008-12-10T19:43:45Z")
“Grandpa Goes to Washington” starring Jack Albertson and Larry Linville. I remember loving the theme song. “Tenspeed and Brownshoe” with Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen “Duck Factory” with Jim Carrey and Geena Davis “House Calls” with Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave “FM” with Robert Hays and Patricia Richardson (Not that old but still seems to be forgotten): “Grosse Pointe” on the W.B. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/271 "2008-12-10T19:46:58Z")
By the way, anyone remember [Hattytown Tales](http://images.progressiveboink.com/mike/admiralbird/hattytown3.jpg)? I’ve only ever met one person who remembers this, and he was from Australia. **Peter Morris** : Are [these the two dogs](http://www.styltex.cz/data/z_54573_v.jpg) you’re thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/272 "2008-12-10T19:59:05Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > “Duck Factory” with Jim Carrey and Geena Davis She was in that? From around the same time: a TAXI-ish show about bike messengers. Can’t remember the title. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/273 "2008-12-10T20:03:22Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > I seemed to remember a game show that was on in the 80’s where kids played arcade games to win prizes. They had to get a certain score or get to a certain level within a time limit. Video Power. I used to watch that show every goddamn morning and I loved it. At the end, the winning kid got to run around some maze in a velcro suit and stick video games to himself and at the time that was all I wanted in life. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/274 "2008-12-10T20:07:38Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > She was in that? > > From around the same time: a TAXI-ish show about bike messengers. Can’t remember the title. There was [Double Rush](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111941/) with Robert Pastorelli (Eldon from _Murphy Brown_) and David Arquette. But that was 11 years later than _Duck Factory_, not around the same time. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/275 "2008-12-10T20:23:44Z")
> [@Nurobath](#): > > How about [Werewolf](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEAGEewAdlQ)? Oh yes! I loved that show! And it had Chuck Connors! Speaking of short-lived Fox shows, here’s two more fairly obscure ones: [Good Grief!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098807/) starring Howie Mandel as a madcap funeral director. Used to laugh my ass off at that show! [Woops!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103583/) A member of the exclusive “one episode” club. I actually saw that episode, and let me tell you, “awful” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. And speaking of Howie Mandel, does anybody remember [Laugh Trax](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453428/)? Syndicated sketch comedy show, aired in NY on channel 11. IMDB has it only going one episode, but I seem to remember more. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/276 "2008-12-10T20:24:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > There was [Double Rush](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111941/) with Robert Pastorelli (Eldon from _Murphy Brown_) and David Arquette. That might have been it and I had my timing wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/277 "2008-12-10T21:42:48Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > One of the weirder ones that no-one talks about these days is [Clutch Cargo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBzkNchB0p0). The only animation was the mouths, everything else was just still drawings. But the mouths were really realistic. Creepy. > > Going back much further was the Andy Devine kid’s show called Andy’s Gang. The sponsor was Buster Brown Shoes, and the one part I remember most clearly is his sort of catchphrase: > > Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy! > > Never did understand quite what that meant. I also remember that Andy Devine was a very comfortable, avuncular presence. This would have been in the mid-50’s so you’d have to be over 55 to remember it. > Roddy [Froggy Gremlin](http://froggythegremlin.com/)! My hero from those days. That was how Andy introduced Froggy and the sound guy would stick in a “twoioioioioing” sound. Froggy got poor old Andy into a world of shit every week. I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/278 "2008-12-10T22:21:18Z")
Does anybody else remember “Throb”? It was a syndicated sitcom (I don’t think it ever aired on a network), and starred the actress who played Corrine on “Soap” (she had a baby that was possessed by the devil on that show.) Throb referred to a small-time record label, and “Corrine” (or whatever her name on that show was) was an A&R rep. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/279 "2008-12-10T22:23:36Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > > [@Shodan](#): > > > > As I recall, it was Mighty Manfred UMPH!! the Wonder Dog. > > What’s the “UMPH!!”? Is that a sound that Mighty Manfred made? This is another show of which I remember only that specific thing. It was Manfred’s song. The rhythm probably has a name, but I don’t know it. It’s like the bass line of the Habanera from _Carmen_ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKnR9VIK3MA#t=2m15s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKnR9VIK3MA#t=2m15s). So “Migh-ty” would be on the first 2 bass notes, and the “umph” would be on the 5th note (a repeat of the first bass note). My memory’s **very** hazy on this, but as best I can recall he only sings the song once in some long time period, then he sleeps for another unusually long period. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/280 "2008-12-10T22:44:25Z")
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