It’s still playing on cable today (I see it listed in the onscreen guide from time to time)
The one I miss the most is The Paper Chase, with John Houseman and James Stephens, 1978-1986. Was a pretty class show, sad it’s not remembered today.
Yes! I’ve only seen the first season, and I’d love to get a complete boxed set of the series. It’s another show I watched religiously when it was on.
Played by Marg Helgenberger who went to be on NCIS. The show also had Robert Picardo as a non holographic doctor, and looking at IMDB, Ricki Lake was in part of a season.
I see it in the listings, too. It runs numerous times every day on TV One, a cable network which targets Black viewers. They also show tons of repeats of “A Different World,” “black-ish,” “Living Single,” etc.
Nitpick: She played Catherine Willows in the Las Vegas iteration of CSI, not NCIS.
In the pilot of NCIS, an airport security officer asks DiNozzo if NCIS is anything like CSI. DiNozzo replies “Only if you’re dyslexic.” 
Yes, I am having a brain fart night, at least I’m close.
I was never a China Beach watcher, but Harold Russell appeared in two episodes. I’d kinda like to see those, for historical/trivial reasons.
Sometimes if I had a work project that seemed endless but that I was absolutely committed to finishing, I would mentally refer to it as “Bell’s property outline”. But I never said that out loud because the reference was too obscure.
Great show.
Caroline in the City was the first one mentioned in the OP article, and it even mentioned that it came on after Seinfeld. Yes, that’s why it lasted for a few years. I only watched it due to inertia and residual Lea Thompson crushing.
Several comedies came and went in that 1/2 hour slot after Seinfeld while it was on the air. None hung on that long, despite the primeness of the spot. It was like one of those restaurant locations that seems like a prime spot, yet the restaurants keep going under and getting replaced by a different one. CitC was possibly the most successful of the tentpole-supported shows in that slot.
A couple of teen dramas: Dawson’s Creek and the original Beverly Hills 90210.
Teen dramas don’t tend to age well and imagine music licensing rights also get involved.
I never heard anyone mention ‘Lexx’ until now! My husband and I were mesmerized by this WEIRD WEIRD sci-fi show. It had a famous guest star or two - Barry Bostwick and Britt Ekland did some bits, Malcolm McDowell, and Tim Curry - and some amazingly strange storylines.
My favorite episode- Non Spoilers
Xev is dead somehow. Stan and (what was the assassin’s name?) take her body to a meeting of druids in hope of getting her resurrected.
“This isn’t proper mead! It’s lager and golden syrup!”
There was a review site for Lexx - sadgeezer.com - I don’t know if it’s still around, but after the series ended someone wrote an amazing synopsis - it was like a PhD dissertation - revealing the hidden themes and meanings. Even the names meant something.
Was Riptide ever as popular in its day as other Stephen J.Cannell stuff like A-Team or Rockford Files ?
Few families on television were as squeaky-clean as the Huxtables. That house seemed ridiculously cloying and the life lessons were often smug and condescending. Also, even as a Canadian teenager, I wondered how they afforded a three-story brownstone, and could park three cars there (in New York!!!), when Claire was seen actually practicing law, like, six times over the course of the series, and Cliff occasionally saw a patient in the basement.
Not to the same level, though it did run for a couple of seasons (so it must have been getting at least reasonably good ratings). It always struck me as being imitative of Magnum P.I..
Definitely, with some nerd thrown into the mix.
I agree with this. Riptide is the first show I remember having a hacker character. IIRC He built an orange robot. In its debut episode, the robot was blind because he hadn’t installed eyes yet. The orange robot’s head reminded me of the spies from Spy Vs Spy in Mad. The hacker used an excuse to get a villain’s credit card in one episode. He then used that informmation to find out everything there was to know about the villain.
This thread is a fun nostalgic read, but I’m guessing that the wildly popular shows that have stayed as part of cultural currency are much rarer than those mostly forgotten? A hand’s worth or so maybe?