# Shows you really miss **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [September 22, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270 "2020-09-22T23:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/1 "2020-09-22T23:31:54Z")
Add video, trailers, etc. if you wish. Herman’s Head. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CRo-NIKZ7Qk/hqdefault.jpg "Herman's Head 1x01 Pilot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRo-NIKZ7Qk) Northern Exposure. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zpBHskNFV2M/maxresdefault.jpg "Reunited ‘Northern Exposure’ Stars Look Back Fondly At Their Quirky Show | TODAY") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBHskNFV2M) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/2 "2020-09-23T02:12:27Z")
I was just thinking about Herman’s Head the other day. Thanks to the rona times I recently binged all of _3rd Rock From the Sun_ again. In that era of comedy when everything had to be dripping with irony and cynicism it was so refreshing to find a show that was completely unashamed to just be silly and ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/3 "2020-09-23T02:15:13Z")
_ **Pushing Daisies** _, a real breath of fresh air. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/4 "2020-09-23T04:33:07Z")
World Rally. Disappeared from U.S. coverage. Best racing series out there. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/5 "2020-09-23T04:42:25Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **Pushing Daisies** _ , a real breath of fresh air. _Pushing Daisies_, for certain. A brilliant show, cut short by a writer’s strike, then being unable to regain its audience when it finally got back on the air. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/6 "2020-09-23T07:13:31Z")
Obligatory “Firefly” recommendation: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRlHwwVIug) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/7 "2020-09-23T07:30:51Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Thanks to the rona times I recently binged all of _3rd Rock From the Sun_ again. Thanks to Amazon Prime, I watched it all last year. It still “works,” doesn’t it? It’s not as dated as you’d think it would be. I sorely miss _Law & Order: TOS_. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/8 "2020-09-23T08:32:43Z")
Okay, let’s really show our age here. The Red Skelton Hour. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/9 "2020-09-23T08:46:00Z")
Pushing Daisies Hannibal The Exorcist Zoo. It turned into this show that just completely went with the insaneness and it was great Galavant ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/10 "2020-09-23T09:25:22Z")
That HBO sitcom from the 90s. It’s main protagonist was always thinking in terms of old black and white TV shows and movies. The cutaway scenes of him thinking we’re just old clips of classic black and white movies and TV shows. Can’t remember the name of it though. I also second Herman’s head. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/11 "2020-09-23T09:49:03Z")
Would that be **Dream on**? > **[Dream On (TV series)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_On_(TV_series))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Dream On is an American sitcom television series created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane. It follows the family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor played by Brian Benben. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black-and-white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts. It ran for six seasons on HBO between July 8, 1990, and March 27, 1996. > The show centered on Ma... TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/12 "2020-09-23T10:12:59Z")
- _Better Off Ted_ - cut off in its prime - _Rubicon_ - One season that set up a really interesting story in an intriguing style - _Time Team_ - It went a bit off the rails at the end, and everyone is too old to come back and do it justice, but I still miss it - _Community_ - It ended on a high after a bumpy left turn, but I wish it had continued ever on - _19-2_ - A very intense and compelling procedural from Canada - _Broadchurch_ - The third series captured a great dynamic between Tennant and Colman at last, that I wanted to see so much more of ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/13 "2020-09-23T10:43:14Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Okay, let’s really show our age here. > > The Red Skelton Hour. Yes! And Sid Caesar’s _Your Show of Shows._ ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/14 "2020-09-23T10:52:27Z")
Dead Like Me had a great first season. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cjzcf9RFE) And Head of the Class. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Xjb3Py_37nM/maxresdefault.jpg "Open | Head of the Class | Warner Archive") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjb3Py_37nM) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/15 "2020-09-23T12:32:14Z")
That’s it. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/16 "2020-09-23T13:12:23Z")
Anybody remember _ **The Paper Chase** _? Cancelled after only one season, but they went on to film three more for pay TV. Watching them is something I’ve put on my bucket list. > **[The Paper Chase (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paper_Chase_(TV_series))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Paper Chase is a 1978 American drama television series based on the 1971 novel of the same name by John Jay Osborn Jr., and a 1973 film adaptation. It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at an unnamed law school, modeled on Harvard Law School. > James T. Hart is a law student from rural Minnesota who enters the intensely competitive environment of a prestigious law school specifically to study with Professor Charle... The original _ **Perry Mason** _ was on AMI a few years back, with described video for the visually impared. My daughter (16 at the time) and I watched almost every episode together. I’d love to see them again. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/17 "2020-09-23T13:19:37Z")
I watched _ **Dream On** _ when I was living full-time in Moscow (now about 20 years ago). The Russian title was _ **Kak v kino** _ (_ **Like in the Movies** _). It was on late at night, with a Russian voice-over. The first time I turned it on, Benben was engaged in horizontal activities with a naked woman, to the tune of the 1812 Overture. They could get away with such things back then; I don’t know about today. (I haven’t watched Russian TV in years.) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/18 "2020-09-23T13:35:06Z")
This was a terrific show, and I was always surprised that it only lasted a year (disclosure: I had no idea there were three more seasons for pay-TV out there!). When I was still working, I sometimes had to write extremely long, detailed reports, and occasionally I would mutter to myself “don’t turn this into Bell’s outline of property“. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/19 "2020-09-23T13:40:04Z")
**Men Into Space** – I barely have memories of this show, but I do recall it being a “hard” science fiction show about a fictionalized US Space Program. It all took place within the solar system and involved no fantastic concepts (teleportation, FTL travel, aliens) – all just people rocketing into orbit and to the moon and the like. (Kinda like _The Expanse_, in a way.) > **[Men into Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_into_Space)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Men Into Space (a.k.a. Space Challenge in later US syndication) is an American black-and-white science fiction television series, produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., that was first broadcast by CBS from September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960. The series depicts future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The series' star, William Lundigan, played Col. Edward McCauley. > Men Into Space was not set in a... The show has never, to my knowledge, been syndicated, and have only recently been made available on DVD by obscure companies. Even when I tried to find information on it in books devoted to science fiction on TV I could find virtually nothing. It’s only since the internet came around that information on the show became available and even episodes have been posted. Although I can watch re-runs on TV or DVD, I still do miss the original **Dick van Dyke Show** and **The Prisoner** , and would love to see something similar to each. I’d also love to see something like James Burke’s shows. We got a copy of the complete **The Day the Universe Changed** from some friends, and I’ve at long last located (and watched) **Connections** , **Connections2** , and **Connections3** , but I’d love to see more. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270/20 "2020-09-23T13:59:51Z")
I am resigned to the fact that **Taboo** will never have a second season. They got cancelled so I will miss **Rick & Morty** when this upcoming season warps up. For my kids though, I wish there was something like **Mr. Wizard** , **Bill Nye The Science Guy** or it’s gutter twin **Beakman’s World** for this generation. Also **Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago** for the same reason. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270.md?page=2)