# TV Shows lost in the mists of time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324 "2012-04-09T23:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/201 "2012-04-17T09:22:28Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > _Space: Above and Beyond_, a short-lived Fox science fiction series about “Space Marines” trying to fight an alien race which captured a ship with the first passengers trying to colonize another planet. (“In space, no one can hear you scream, unless it is the war cry of the United States Space Marines!”) S:A&B was a great show, apart from all the Marines being pilots AND ground troops AND every other discipline all at once. Did it die due to crap ratings or was this just Fox doing its usual best to destroy its own programs? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/202 "2012-04-17T14:25:51Z")
Anybody remember _Cliffhangers_, from the late '70s? It wasn’t on long, but it was an hour-long show with three completely separate serials. There was an old west/science fiction mashup, a vampire story, and something about an investigative reporter. Mark Lenard (Sarek from Star Trek) played the leader of the aliens in the sci-fi serial. I was reading about it on Wikipedia yesterday, and apparently the main reason it didn’t last was that it was at the time the most expensive show ever produced, due to the three completely separate production units it required. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/203 "2012-04-17T14:34:52Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > And **The Gary Shandling Show.** Perhaps one of the first “meta” sitcoms? > > Not sure how they’d hold up today. The entire run of Gary Shandling is available on Netflix streaming. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/204 "2012-04-17T17:44:06Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > [Full series coming out on DVD this fall.](http://www.avclub.com/articles/get-a-life-the-complete-series-is-finally-coming-t,71726/) I loved that show. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/205 "2012-04-17T22:08:24Z")
_Tales Of The Brass Monkey_, an Indiana Jones-type rip off. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/206 "2012-04-18T01:15:01Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > _Tales Of The Brass Monkey_, an Indiana Jones-type rip off. That’s _Tales of the **Gold** Monkey_, with Stephen Collins and Roddy McDowall. It was great! The Disney animated series _Talespin_ seemed to have been rather heavily inspired by it, as they took the premise and mixed in the Jungle Book characters. Which, when you think about it, is a very odd idea to run with. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/207 "2012-04-18T01:19:59Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > That’s _Tales of the **Gold** Monkey_, with Stephen Collins and Roddy McDowall. It was great! The Disney animated series _Talespin_ seemed to have been rather heavily inspired by it, as they took the premise and mixed in the Jungle Book characters. Which, when you think about it, is a very odd idea to run with. Thanks! I did like it. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/208 "2012-04-19T17:43:50Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > The entire run of Gary Shandling is available on Netflix streaming. Great! Now I have the theme song going thru my head! "This is the theme to Gary’s show. The opening theme to gary’s show… " :smack: ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/209 "2012-04-19T17:59:33Z")
How about _That’s My Mama_? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s\_My\_Mama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_My_Mama). Good lord, we had some bad television back in the 70s! ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/210 "2012-04-26T19:34:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > S:A&B was a great show, apart from all the Marines being pilots AND ground troops AND every other discipline all at once. Did it die due to crap ratings or was this just Fox doing its usual best to destroy its own programs? Sundays at 7. Enough said. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/211 "2012-04-26T21:16:22Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > The entire run of Gary Shandling is available on Netflix streaming. I loved that show when it came out and I’m going to have to see it again now that it’s streaming. How well does it hold up? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/212 "2012-04-26T21:51:38Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I loved that show when it came out and I’m going to have to see it again now that it’s streaming. How well does it hold up? I’ve never seen it. I didn’t have HBO when it aired. I only know about it because Netflix pretty much guarantees that I am going to love it. It rates it 4.9 stars. I’ve never seen it rate anything so high for me. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/213 "2012-04-26T22:41:58Z")
[McKeever & the Colonel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeever_and_the_Colonel) ran one season in 1962 and for some reason I have never forgotten it. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/214 "2012-04-26T23:05:52Z")
Does anyone else remember a reality show from 2001 called [Lost](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(2001_TV_series))? It was kind of like The Amazing Race, but not nearly as successful. The idea was that a bunch of people were dropped off somewhere in the world with no clue where they were and had to make their way to some specific location. I only ever saw a few episodes and all I remember was one player being convinced she was somewhere called “The Czechoslovakian Republic” (according to Wikipedia, she was in Mongolia). Needless to say, the show has long since been eclipsed by [a certain other show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOST) with a very similar title. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/215 "2012-04-27T00:18:40Z")
What about _Tenspeed and Brownshoe_, with Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/216 "2012-04-27T01:49:44Z")
> [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](#): > > Does anyone else remember a reality show from 2001 called [Lost](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(2001_TV_series))? . Yes, and I watched it until the end. They didn’t make them all get “tied” every so often, like the Amazing Race does, so the winners were quite a bit ahead of the next place team. Good show. ---
**Author:** ![Mole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mole)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/217 "2012-04-27T04:51:59Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > What about _Tenspeed and Brownshoe_, with Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen? Yes! Good odd couple pairing, funny dialogue, and I laughed every time Goldblum was compelled to warn his foes about his martial arts training before delivering the blows. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/218 "2012-04-27T12:45:53Z")
_Bridget Loves Bernie_, another show from my childhood that I fondly remember as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324.md?page=10)