OMG! Tales of the Gold Monkey! I had all but forgotten about that show! I loved that show! Thanks for the link!
Wow, TotGM was only on for one year? 21 episodes? I would have sworn that is was on longer than that.
Aah the memories. 
Dear, sweet Jon-Erik Hexum. Did I ever have a crush on him. I was always partial to Magnum PI, though, which was one of the only shows I was allowed to watch. I did see Tom Selleck in the supermarket once, when I was a kid!
**deb2world, ** there are very few limits on both my knowledge of pop culture and on the cheesy television I will watch. That said, I did not have to look up the name of the character, but I do remember seeing the show and years later reading the character’s name in some book or other.
The A-Team functioned best as a satire of Mission: Impossible-type shows, where the heroes would have everything planned down to the last detail. Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. often had to improvise to deal with unexpected twists; Hannibal’s catchphrase, “I love it when a plan comes together,” was more often than not said with heavy irony. M:I always had the latest electronic gear. The A-team had to use whatever was handy, from old machine parts to toilet paper.
Tales of the Gold Monkey. Now there was a show that got chewed up and spit out by the mixmaster that is Network Television. Were I the producer of TGM, I’da sued somebody for such poor treatment as that show got from the network.
Actually, that’s not exactly true (of the original MacGyver, I mean, not your dog). Mac’s first name was revealed in one other episode. Does anybody besides me know which one?
Hey wow I was just thinkin about that show a couple weeks ago. All I can remember is one episode where they visit Thomas Edison, who disassembles the pocket watch to figure out how das blinkenlights worked.
IIRC, the actor playing Phineas died on a movie set, joking around with a prop gun. Put it to his head & pulled the trigger, knowing it would only fire blanks, but the wad killed 'em.
Just did a google search on the show… for being a one-season run, it’s got a good following! Even a few fanfic sites.
I remember Voyagers! My favorite episode they were on the Titanic trying to save the Mona Lisa. There was at least one book starring the cast, i remember that from 5th grade! IMDB says from Voyagers
Meeno Peluce was in these previously listed 80’s shows
My favorite bad 80’s show was Out of This World, with the time stopping teenager!
They were showing for a while on Sci-Fi channel. It was pretty lame. It ranks among the “80’s sci-fi-action-shows-that-sci-fi channel-won’t-even-touch-anymore” which included Manimal, Misfits of Science, V, and Otherwolrd.
Although it was the subject of the David Letterman after-school special: “They took my program away.”
Wasn’t it the dream/middle ages episode ?
** Voyagers! **
Wow i had totally forgotten about that show, didn’t that kid always wear the same red-white shirt
no matter what age they were in.
Now does anybody here remember Photon a [low budget] live-action sci-fi series about a guy who becomes a laser-tag warrior.
I kind of liked “out of this world” at the time
Saitou, yes, that’s it. 
Those mentioning Tales of the Gold Monkey haven’t brought up its feeble step-sibling Bring 'Em Back Alive!, another, even worse Indiana Jones rip-off (starring the couple from TRON!) from the same year.
I liked Simon & Simon because it was the only series that took place in San Diego so I’d recognize all the location shots.
The Equalizer not only had the best theme song (by Stewart Copeland from The Police) and the biggest badass on TV (Robert McCall could kick the collective asses of Michael Knight, Thomas Magnum & the entire A-Team without breaking a sweat), but it also predated the urban gloss-&-grime look of NYPD Blue and Law & Order. Edward Woodward was nominated for the Emmy over and over again for this show but never won. 
Anyone remember Mr. Merlin? Teenaged Zack pulled a crowbar out of concrete and thusly became Merlin’s apprentice…
Ahh, adolescence…Didi McCall on Hunter got me through many a lonely teenage night…
And has no one mentioned Riptide? What a great show, detectives with a big pink helicopter!
I will still to this day hold out my hand in front of me with my knuckles curled under and start wiggling and rippling my hand while saying “I am Manimal!” My friends think I’m insane.
I almost forgot: Matt Houston! The action sequences were ok, but what really held my attention as I entered puberty was the non-stop series of bikini models in every episode.
That’s it! Thank you! I was struggling to remember the name of that show yesterday and all that kept coming to me was “Mr. Wizard” - which, of course, was wrong.
Personally, I miss St. Elsewhere.
Meeno Peluce, who was in Voyagers with the late lamented Jon-Eric Hexum, is now a elementary school teacher. He’s also been romantically linked to Soleil Moon-Frye, the “statuesque” former star of Punky Brewster.
Meeno Peluce and Soleil Moon Frye are brother and sister, so I hope they arent romantically linked.
I liked Automan as well, but liked the show airng after it more: Masquerade, where Greg Evigan and Kirstie Alley and some old guy recruit average joes to do spy missions.
Wasn’t there a TV show–or possibly a movie–that had a similar concept to Manimal, except the protagonist was some kind of hybrid creature from the Ocean? I just remember this dramatic nighttime scene in front of roaring surf at the beach, where the guy was struggling with the question of whether to return to the ocean.
Man from Atlantis?
Starred a pretty boy from Dallas IIRC.
I think it was 70’s.