# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/21 "2012-04-10T04:21:07Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [It’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_About_Time_(TV_series)) [About](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg) [Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYe6g6vGUac). OMG, I actually have vague memories of that series. I was four when it ran. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/22 "2012-04-10T04:26:27Z")
I have one, does anyone else remember it? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1996 or 1997. I lived in Tucson at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM. I STILL can’t believe they got away with a character called the “Skin Taker” in a childrens show. And the final episode, with all the screaming _shudder._ For the internet uninitiated, look up "Candle Cove creepypasta on Google ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/23 "2012-04-10T04:44:41Z")
Doctor Doctor starring a post Max Headroom Matt Frewer frenetically chewing up the scenery with relentless and relentlessly funny adlibs. Very highly regarded by those who saw the 40 show, two season run, it’s never officially appeared on tape or DVD. ---
**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 10, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/24 "2012-04-10T06:03:48Z")
I suspect any I might list are probably repeated regularly on various US cable channels, but anyhoo: _Boston Common_ [_The Good Life_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_%281994_TV_series%29) (US sitcom with Drew Carey) _Probe_ _Mr Merlin_ _Automan_ ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/25 "2012-04-10T06:35:13Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You want Lost cartoons: > > \*\*Rough and Reddy > > Spunky and Tadpole We’ll let the kids talk about recent shows like “It’s About Time.” I’m just humming the tune to Spunky and Tadpole. It reminds me of Jay Ward’s pre-Rocky show Crusader Rabbit. > [@](#): > > The Mighty Hercules Help, Herc, help! Then there was Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (MST3K did several of their movies), > [@](#): > > The People’s Choice with Cleo the talking dog, and a show of Farmer Gray cartoons (silent) which I was entranced with when I was 4 or 5, probably because I watched them just after the TV came on for the day and right after Modern Farmer, before anyone else was awake. I just read a TV nostalgia book - from 1966! which I had gotten from a neighbor, so I’m up on the really old shows now. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/26 "2012-04-10T07:32:31Z")
Ugh, I’ll have to mention my closet favorite… “They Came From Outer Space”! SOOOOOO funny and retarded. This was the one about the twins who come from another planet who have telekenisis and they feel each other’s pain/pleasure. When one twin makes out with a girl, the other one’s skin starts to smoke. If one is hit, the other twin screams, “OW!” As far as I remember, it was aired Saturday afternoons. Awful time slot. You were more likely to catch it at 3:00 AM on a Sunday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/27 "2012-04-10T12:45:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [It’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_About_Time_(TV_series)) [About](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg) [Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYe6g6vGUac). I can still sing the entire theme song from memory. But can I tell you my phone or social security number? Nope! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/28 "2012-04-10T12:58:56Z")
**CalMeacham** , you want lost cartoons? One of my earliest memories is watching _[Calvin and the Colonel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_the_colonel)_ with my father. I was so young that I don’t remember the show itself, only the theme music, a jazz bass solo which my father could perfectly imitate.\* As the Wikipedia article notes, it was an animated version of _Amos ‘n’ Andy_ with the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, and apparently the last episodes, in 1962, were in color! Though we didn’t get a color TV till 1973. It’s on YouTube and I hear now it wasn’t a bass! It was a B3! OMG I am going to watch these all! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/29 "2012-04-10T13:04:09Z")
Back when there was only the Big Three networks, there were a good many summer replacement shows, virtually all of which became lost as the world moved on. **The Kelly Monteith Show** **The Starland Vocal Band Show** **The Shields and Yarnell Show** are three that I remember clearly. Shields and Yarnell might possibly have gone on to have a regular series, or perhaps I am just remembering the countless guest appearances they made on other shows. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/30 "2012-04-10T13:07:44Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > **CalMeacham** , you want lost cartoons? One of my earliest memories is watching _[Calvin and the Colonel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_the_colonel)_ with my father. I was so young that I don’t remember the show itself, only the theme music, a jazz bass solo which my father could perfectly imitate.\* > > As the Wikipedia article notes, it was an animated version of _Amos ‘n’ Andy_ with the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, and apparently the last episodes, in 1962, were in color! Though we didn’t get a color TV till 1973. > > It’s on YouTube and I hear now it wasn’t a bass! It was a B3! OMG I am going to watch these all! Yeah, i remember Calvi and the Colonel. It was an attempt to, i suspect, get away from the obvious racial underpinning of Amos and Andy. (Interestingly, there had already been an Amos and Andy cartoon series – talk about Lost Cartoons! [amos and andy cartoon - Yahoo Video Search Results](http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=amos+and+andy+cartoon)[Amos 'n' Andy/ Classic TV](http://www.tvparty.com/50amos1.html) ) it wan’t a big hit. It had a Jay Ward-esque look to it without the Jay Ward looniness. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/31 "2012-04-10T13:18:51Z")
How about some late night, watching TV when I should have been asleep fare? The Kenny Everett Show, which I believe was Australian, and a local late night “kiddie show” called The Uncle Floyd Show. On the slightly more serious side, Linda Ellerbee had a very late night news show that I used to sneak watch too. I don’t remember the name of that, though. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/32 "2012-04-10T13:35:33Z")
**Flying Blind** , a 90’s TV series starring Tea Leoni. The basic premise was hottie gal in a relationship with insecure dork. I don’t remember much of the show except Tea was always dressed in the sexiest outfits. The show is obscure enough and predates DVD by just enough that it will never be released in any modern format (although I have seen very professional looking bootlegs on Ebay). Such a shame. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/33 "2012-04-10T13:48:53Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > How about some late night, watching TV when I should have been asleep fare? > The Kenny Everett Show, which I believe was Australian, and a local late night “kiddie show” called The Uncle Floyd Show. On the slightly more serious side, Linda Ellerbee had a very late night news show that I used to sneak watch too. I don’t remember the name of that, though. That was _Overnight_. I loved it. Before that, Ellerbee and lloyd Dobbins had the wonderful _Weekend_, a sort of 60 minutes on acid that alternated with _Satrurday Night Live_ in the 11;30 Saturday night slot back when SNL was brand new. I really miss it. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/34 "2012-04-10T13:54:17Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > How about some late night, watching TV when I should have been asleep fare? > The Kenny Everett Show, which I believe was Australian, and a local late night “kiddie show” called The Uncle Floyd Show. On the slightly more serious side, Linda Ellerbee had a very late night news show that I used to sneak watch too. I don’t remember the name of that, though. So far as I know, all of Kenny Everett’s various TV shows were made in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/35 "2012-04-10T13:55:30Z")
[Real People](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_people#References_in_popular_culture) ---
**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 10, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/36 "2012-04-10T13:56:49Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The Kenny Everett Show, which I believe was Australian No, that was [100% British](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2wWWUvROuI). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/37 "2012-04-10T14:04:34Z")
Ah, thanks for the correction. I dunno. To my 10 year old self Benny Hill was English (and so on at a more reasonable time of day) and Kenny Everett was Australian (down under late at night). I also thought he was far funnier and dirtier than Benny Hill. Perhaps because I was sneak watching late at night. And I loved, loved, _loved_ his space cowboy cartoon segments. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/38 "2012-04-10T14:14:49Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > [Real People](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_people#References_in_popular_culture) I remember a segment from that show featuring the manager from a restaurant called “Country Kitchen.” The funny was that he had been chosen to be in a TV commercial for the place and repeatedly flubbed his lines by calling the restaurant “Country Chicken.” He screwed up so many times that it was almost like today’s “if it goes on long enough it gets funny all over again” gags. They brought him to the set of “Real People” where he managed to deliver his line from the commercial properly on the first try, to wild applause. If anybody can link to a video of that segment, I’d be much obliged. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/39 "2012-04-10T14:15:13Z")
> [@Purd\_Werfect](#): > > Doctor Doctor starring a post Max Headroom Matt Frewer frenetically chewing up the scenery with relentless and relentlessly funny adlibs. Very highly regarded by those who saw the 40 show, two season run, it’s never officially appeared on tape or DVD. I remember this show! To this day, I can’t accept the pronunciation of any character named Dierdre. I always want to call them Deer-dree. Always. At least on _It’s Always Sunny_, they call her Dee or Sweet Dee more often than not, so I’m safe. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/40 "2012-04-10T14:27:38Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > I remember this show! To this day, I can’t accept the pronunciation of any character named Dierdre. I always want to call them Deer-dree. Always. > > At least on _It’s Always Sunny_, they call her Dee or Sweet Dee more often than not, so I’m safe. I’ve never seen or heard of the first show you were mentioning so this might be irrelevant, but on It’s Always Sunny, her name is Deandra. (dee-AN-dra) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324.md?page=3)