# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/81 "2012-04-10T19:24:52Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Oh and Huff! The show I mentioned in the other thread. Hank Azaria plays a psychiatrist. Oliver Platt is his best friend. The worst kind of best friend. It was on for two seasons and ended abruptly because I was the only person on Earth who watched it. I tried watching this on DVD a few years ago and couldn’t get into it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/82 "2012-04-10T19:47:13Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _Boston Common_ > _Probe_ I loved both of these, too. > [@Max\_Torque](#): > > I do remember **Probe** , rather vaguely. But I used to love **Boston Common**! Anthony Clark was hilarious, used to do great standup comedy too, and then he went and did that dismal **Yes, Dear** show, bleh. And the girl who played his sister, Hedy Burress, was smokin’ hot. Her getting topless with Angelina Jolie in **Foxfire** was a dream come true. The sister was hot, but I mainly remember _Boston Common_ for introducing cutie Traylor Howard (as the girl Anthony Clark had a huge crush on), who later starred as Natalie in _Monk_. > [@DWMarch](#): > > **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. Ooh, yeah, I liked this show–Tea was really hot. My own contribution: _We Got It Maid_ - an 80s sitcom about two guys living in New York who hire a really hot ditzy blonde woman (Teri Copley–Google her) to be their live-in maid, much to the chagrin of their girlfriends. I admit that I am shallow and mostly remember shows for the hot actresses in them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/83 "2012-04-10T19:55:44Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [Dinosaurs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series)), one of Jim Henson’s last projects (he died before it launched). > > It ran against the early seasons of The Simpsons and given that both followed the usual sitcom template of inept dad, sensible mom and 2.4 children it’s not surprising that it didn’t last too long. But I still occasionally utter the phrase “We’re gonnna need another Timmy” when opportunity presents itself. Dinosaurs is likely the only TV show that ended with the protagonists [awaiting their own global extinction event](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTUA_wdp78). :eek: My contribution to this thread is a hazy memory of a mid-1970’s live-action show that appeared on Saturday mornings featuring a team of scientists/explorers/something who tooled around a post-apocalyptic Earth in their black and white RV, er, exploration vehicle. I never learned what the name of the show was and only caught it a couple of times (it was on at an inopportune TV watching time for me as kids were expected to get the hell out of the house mid Saturday morning.) Any ideas on what this show may be? ---
**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 10, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/84 "2012-04-10T20:01:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > My contribution to this thread is a hazy memory of a mid-1970’s live-action show that appeared on Saturday mornings featuring a team of scientists/explorers/something who tooled around a post-apocalyptic Earth in their black and white RV, er, exploration vehicle. I never learned what the name of the show was and only caught it a couple of times (it was on at an inopportune TV watching time for me as kids were expected to get the hell out of the house mid Saturday morning.) > > Any ideas on what this show may be? [Ark II?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_II) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/85 "2012-04-10T20:05:53Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > [Ark II?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_II) 6 minutes… what kept ya? 😉 Yep, that’s it. Appreciate the heads-up! ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/86 "2012-04-10T20:10:16Z")
How about “Duck Soup” with a young Jim Carrey? I suppose that one’s not lost, I just never heard of it until is was syndicated for a while after Jim got famous. ---
**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 10, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/87 "2012-04-10T20:12:12Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > 6 minutes… what kept ya? 😉 Well, it took me awhile to type “1970s saturday morning rv” into Google and wait for it to respond. 😃 > [@](#): > > Yep, that’s it. Appreciate the heads-up! Glad to help! I’d forgotten about that show. I don’t think I ever saw it but I remember seeing ads for it in comic books. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/88 "2012-04-10T20:26:05Z")
> [@Iggins](#): > > How about “Duck Soup” with a young Jim Carrey? I suppose that one’s not lost, I just never heard of it until is was syndicated for a while after Jim got famous. I think you mean [_The Duck Factory_.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086702/) ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/89 "2012-04-10T21:08:59Z")
> [@WreckingCrew](#): > > Which I recall since it is one of the few shows based in Rhode Island. My own contribution - Stark Raving Mad, with Neil Patrick Harris and Tony Shalhoub. > > [Stark Raving Mad (TV series) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Raving_Mad_%28TV_series%29) And Eddie McClintock, currently of Warehouse 13. This show show have lasted longer, but at least episodes are readily available on You Tube. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/90 "2012-04-10T21:18:53Z")
“Apple Pie”, a 1978 comedy series set in depression era Kansas, starring Rue McClahahan and Dabney Coleman. For that matter, “Apple’s Way”, 1974 family sit-com starring Ronnie Cox. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/91 "2012-04-10T23:08:50Z")
> [@Tapiotar](#): > > Way back in 1967, there was a summer replacement show called _Coronet Blue._ Don’t remember much about it, except that my cousins and I thought the lead actor was cute. Robert Goulet. I knew that without looking it up. He had amnesia, I think. ---
**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, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/92 "2012-04-10T23:20:02Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Robert Goulet. I knew that without looking it up. > > He had amnesia, I think. It was Frank Converse, a hot blond truck-driver type. Maybe you have amnesia, too! Anyone remember _Calucci’s Department_, a sitcom with James Coco and Candy Azzaria? Or the \*yummy \*Monte Markham in _The Second Hundred Years_? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/93 "2012-04-10T23:23:16Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Robert Goulet. I knew that without looking it up. You shoulda looked it up. The lead in _Coronet Blue_ was Frank Converse. Robert Goulet was in a World War II series called [Blue Light](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059971/) about a year earlier. You must be confusing the two Blues. On preview: rats, semi-ninjaed by **Eve**. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/94 "2012-04-10T23:26:04Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > You shoulda looked it up. > > The lead in _Coronet Blue_ was Frank Converse. Robert Goulet was in a World War II series called [Blue Light](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059971/) about a year earlier. You must be confusing the two Blues. > > On preview: rats, semi-ninjaed by **Eve**. D’oh! Dammit!! Nothing worse than being a smarty-pants…and being wrong. ---
**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 10, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/95 "2012-04-10T23:29:08Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Dinosaurs is likely the only TV show that ended with the protagonists [awaiting their own global extinction event](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTUA_wdp78). Yeah, the last episode went very dark indeed. Anyone remember [The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show](http://www.hudsonbrothersdvd.com/)? I used to love that on Saturday mornings. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/96 "2012-04-10T23:30:08Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > It was Frank Converse, a hot blond truck-driver type. [Very funny. 😉](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071012/) ---
**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/97 "2012-04-10T23:43:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Very funny. 😉](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071012/) Well, he \*was \*perfectly cast! The perfect porn-movie truck driver. “Mah rig’s done broke down, ma’am . . .” ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/98 "2012-04-11T00:06:12Z")
The second hundred years. > **[The Second Hundred Years (TV series)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Hundred_Years_(TV_series))** > > The Second Hundred Years is an American sitcom by Screen Gems starring Monte Markham, Arthur O'Connell, and Frank Maxwell, which aired on the ABC television network for one season from September 6, 1967 to September 19, 1968. > In 1900 Luke Carpenter left his wife and infant son to take part in the Alaskan gold rush, but soon after his arrival was buried in a glacial avalanche. His burial was evidently so complete and so rapid that he survived in a state of suspended animation for 67 years. He wa... My mother the car. ---
**Author:** ![SticksAndString](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/99 "2012-04-11T00:21:19Z")
I vaguely remember a “In Living Color” ripoff called “House of Buggin” that was really funny (or at least I thought it was). Also…there was a Disney cartoon (it might have been part of the Disney afternoon block at some point) about an ineffectual cop (maybe he was a security guard? I don’t remember) with a leopard-thing with an excessively long tail for a partner. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/100 "2012-04-11T00:30:13Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > _[Dweebs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dweebs_%28TV_series%29)_, starring Peter Scolari as a Bill-Gates-style scatterbrained millionaire head of a software company, and featured the various programmers and the “normal” woman who was hired to be their receptionist and functioned as their window on the non-nerd world. Loved that show. It only lasted a few episodes, sadly. Scolari was great in it. Loved this show! It also starred Corey Feldman (in one of his sober periods) and Stephen Tobolowsky, seemingly doomed forever to play, well, a dweeb. I still remember a great line, from when Scolari’s character is grousing about how rough he had it in high school: “If I had a million dollars for every wedgie I got… oh, wait…I _do._” 😃 > [@](#): > > _The Paper Chase_, with John Houseman as law professor Kingsfield. Quite popular in its day but I never see it on in reruns anymore. It started on CBS, then went to Showtime where it really hit its stride. I love the episode where Hart and Kingsfield are snowed in Hart’s apartment and have dinner together. It’s just so charming. And then, next morning, Kingsfield looks out over the snow-covered fields and declares: “No school today!” > [@Gagundathar](#): > > Wow! Now that was blast from the past. > “Ultraman’s energy is rapidly depleted in Earth’s atmosphere.” > > Some of my geekier friends still use that phrase when they are tired. That blinking light on his chest … I swear I still hear it sometimes! > [@mbh](#): > > Then there a number of short-lived sci-fi shows from the late 1970s: The Invisible Man, The Gemini Man, The Fantastic Journey. I loved Fantastic Journey. It started out rather weird: a two-hour movie, then the next week a ninety-minute episode, where two-thirds of the original cast get replaced (“they made it back home” supposedly) and a couple episodes later we get Roddy McDowell. Still, good show. Gemini Man was basically The Invisible Man done Six Million Dollar Man-style. In fact, one script from GM was re-done almost verbatim on The Bionic Woman (Sam/Jaime is replaced by a double.) > [@](#): > > Seeing this thread made me search for a lot of Saturday morning shows from my youth. A surprising number of Sid & Marty Krofft shows have been released on DVD. Just saw the first episode of “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters” on Netflix. Oh dear Og. Could I have watched this, even as a kid? > [@Bob Ducca](#): > > There was a sitcom that I used to watch as a kid called “Rocky Road” about a family that owned an ice cream shop on an oceanfront boardwalk somewhere. > > Looks like[it has a Wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Road_(TV_series)). Anyone else remember this one? Looks like it aired on the “SUPERSTATION” WTBS. I remember the oldest sister, or rather the actress who played her, being rather cute. Then she developed massive drug problems and later married Willie Aames of Eight Is Enough, who had his own massive drug problems. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324.md?page=6)