Yep. 
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
Closing credits “Aqua Marina”
I have the boxed set.
I loved http://www.fab1.co.nz/characters/characters.htm as a kid.
I watched Beverly Hills Teens 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 with my boys when they were young and I worked the night shift. I loved that show too (and I can sing the theme)
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?
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 was going to point out that I remembered this show and just mentioned it this week in another thread. Then I saw this:
and realized you were talking about this show rather than this one.
I enjoyed that show. Wow - I haven’t thought of it for years.
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.
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!
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.
*The mon chi-chi’s * For the longest time I thought I’d made that up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNrL_-jVvXo Krazy Kat was pretty popular once.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhyPeXcNmA Then Felix the cat.
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 MUSH 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.
Rickety Rocket…now this iss one that I really thought I had imagined.
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.
Anyone remember Tomfoolery?
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!