# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/41 "2008-11-29T17:30:12Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > Anyone remember _It’s About Time_, with time-travelling astronauts meeting cavepeople? [Yep](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10507745&postcount=11). 😃😉 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/42 "2008-11-29T18:38:00Z")
I remember lots of these… OK to come up with one that in real life as well as the board _no one_ seems to remember… Stingray! The characters were all puppets or mannequins. [Opening credits](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rPu9mLfLoOA&feature=related) [Closing credits “Aqua Marina”](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CD96RQ1-wnY&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/43 "2008-11-29T18:41:37Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > OK to come up with one that in real life as well as the board **no one** seems to remember… > > Stingray! I have the boxed set. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/44 "2008-11-29T19:53:15Z")
I loved [http://www.fab1.co.nz/characters/characters.htm](http://www.fab1.co.nz/characters/characters.htm) as a kid. I watched Beverly Hills Teens [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4AjEZy7J6M](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4AjEZy7J6M) with my girls when they were small. We danced around to the theme song, every morning before school and work. I loved that show. I watched Gnomes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAphcvZaS8I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAphcvZaS8I) with my boys when they were young and I worked the night shift. I loved that show too (and I can sing the theme) ---
**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:** [November 29, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/45 "2008-11-29T20:21:37Z")
A show I recall from the early 80s (perhaps late, late 70s) was called “Cliffhangers.” It was a half-hour show split up into three serial segments. The first was a modern-day Dracula serial, the second featured an old west cowboy who stumbled upon a futuristic sci-fi society living below ground, and the third was about a “Brenda Starr” type ‘girl reporter.’ As you might expect, each installment of the serials ended with a cliffhanger. I also remember a series with a name I can’t remember about an average Middle American family who, during a vacation in Egypt, get shunted into a parrallel space/time continuum. Earth in this timeline is a series of sci-fi style fuedal states, and the family goes from one ‘zone’ to the next hoping to find a way back to their proper reality. Anyone remember the name of it? And people think I hallucinated this, but wasn’t there a Saturday morning cartoon version of “the Partridge Family” - only set in a Jetsons-like future world? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/46 "2008-11-29T20:21:56Z")
> [@](#): > > “It’s a Living” was that show about all of the waitresses in a classy restaurant at the top of a hotel, wasn’t it. I can actually picture all of them, but can only name Ann Jillian. Crystal Bernard went on to do _Wings_ and have a semi-successful country music career. Wendy Schaal is still working - she does the voice of Francine on _American Dad_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/47 "2008-11-29T20:25:25Z")
> [@](#): > > I remember lots of these… OK to come up with one that in real life as well as the board no one seems to remember… > > Stingray! I was going to point out that I remembered this show and just mentioned it this week in another thread. Then I saw this: > [@](#): > > The characters were all puppets or mannequins. and realized you were talking about [this show](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057786/) rather than [this one](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090528/). ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/48 "2008-11-29T20:27:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Crystal Bernard went on to do _Wings_ and have a semi-successful country music career. Wendy Schaal is still working - she does the voice of Francine on _American Dad_. I enjoyed that show. Wow - I haven’t thought of it for years. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/49 "2008-11-29T20:32:25Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > As far as cartoons, who remembers **Milton the Monster**? I do – the monster with a Gomer-Pylesque naivete, and the Eddie-Haskell-ish bully Fangenstein. When I was around eight (ca. 1967), there was a show on some Pittsburgh TV station called ‘The Chuckleheads’. It was a series of 1920s-era silent slapstick one-reelers. They were forgettable, but I will never forget the theme song. It was a cacophonous clash of tooting horns set to an increasing-tempo march beat. It was one of those rare pieces of music: the sound of it actually made you laugh. I seem to recall learning that the films were a random set of Mack Sennett works that were marketed under the ‘Chuckleheads’ name after they had fallen into the public domain. I know of one other person on the planet who remembers ‘The Chuckleheads’: my older brother. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/50 "2008-11-29T20:50:19Z")
> [@greatshakes](#): > > Mark Wilson’s Magic Circus > > Pip the Piper > > My World and Welcome to It > > The Champions > > Crusader Rabbit > > The Wilburn Brothers > > Lighttime? With to Poston I remember: Crusader Rabbit, with Rags the Tiger. Mark Wilson’s Magic Circus with Nanie Darnell (Gave me my first boner!) I assume you meant Tom Poston. Also, it sounds like you’re a geezer like me!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/51 "2008-11-29T20:51:15Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > I’ve never heard of a single cartoon you linked. No one I know remembers Kidd Video/Flipside. [http://brandedinthe80s.com/index.php?post\_id=99807](http://brandedinthe80s.com/index.php?post_id=99807) > > Sadly no one remembers the Ladybug Picnic from Sesame Street either. ☹[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0) We must be the same age - I brought up Kidd Video in a thread a little while ago about how they used to have the most bizarre cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/52 "2008-11-29T20:57:16Z")
\*The mon chi-chi’s \* For the longest time I thought I’d made that up. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/53 "2008-11-29T21:24:17Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNrL\_-jVvXo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNrL_-jVvXo) Krazy Kat was pretty popular once. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/54 "2008-11-29T21:27:39Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhyPeXcNmA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhyPeXcNmA) Then Felix the cat. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/55 "2008-11-29T22:18:09Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > And people think I hallucinated this, but wasn’t there a Saturday morning cartoon version of “the Partridge Family” - only set in a Jetsons-like future world? We musta done the same drugs; I remember that one. For some reason the I’ve got the lyric “twenty sixty-two” stuck in my head from one of the walk-cycle chase scenes. I remember the Groovy Ghoulies and M_U_S_H as well, only from introductory clips to reruns we watched as kids on weekday afternoon cartoons. I seem to remember they were done by Filmation (The Danes call it “Suck”_) as part of what used to be a longer “variety show”-type cartoon. \*Except for Fat Albert. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/56 "2008-11-29T22:20:20Z")
[_Partridge Family 2200 A.D._](http://www.cmongethappy.com/2200/) ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/57 "2008-11-29T22:39:57Z")
[Rickety Rocket](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0WCR7BVx7k)…now this iss one that I really thought I had imagined. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/58 "2008-11-29T22:54:56Z")
I was an 8 year old Nickelodeon junky in 1984. Remember _ **the Third Eye** _?, a creepy live action show, that was British I think. _ **Powerhouse** _ was another one. And of course _ **Belle and Sebastian** _, _ **The Mysterious Cities of Gold** _, _ **Mr. Wizard’s World** _. And then at 7:00 Nickelodeon finished its broadcasting for the day, and the most anti-kid network, A&E took over until the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/59 "2008-11-29T23:10:01Z")
Anyone remember [Tomfoolery](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo0DjdCn6pk)? ---
**Author:** ![bat312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bat312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bat312)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/60 "2008-11-29T23:29:30Z")
Wacky Racers? I also remember a TV show called Profit about a guy who was abused by his parents while he grew up and was forced to live in a cardboard box. When he was older he went to work for the company that produced the product that was original in the box that he lived in and he killed other employees. Really, I did not make that up! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873.md?page=4)