# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/141 "2012-04-11T19:37:02Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood TV show “When Things Were Rotten”. I found only 2 clips online, and one was just the opening credits. It was only released on VHS, but I’m surprised nobody uploaded any more. Loved it! I can …almost… remember the theme song. It seems like “forgotten” was rhymed with “rotten.” It seems like most of these 70s shows were so goofy that they would _only_ appeal to a kid but what do I know? I was positively _weaned_ on “The Partridge Family.” C’mon get happy! ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/142 "2012-04-11T20:35:30Z")
How about [TV101](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_101) featuring a young Matt LeBlanc, among others. About a bunch of kids who take a journalism class in high school and all the deep lessons they learn. I adored this show as a kid, I’m embarrassed to admit. Also, [Misfits of Science](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_of_Science). Totally rad 80s X-Men-ish/Heroes kind of thing, with a young Courtney Cox. I also adored this show, but am not at all embarrassed about it. 80s rule! ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/143 "2012-04-11T21:01:55Z")
Well, 2 of the ones I came in to mention have already been listed. [Mr. T & Tina](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T_and_Tina) - 5 episodes [The Fantastic Journey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Journey) - 10 episodes [The San Pedro Beach Bums](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075575/) - 9 episodes (Football, you bet!) [Man From Atlantis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_from_atlantis) - 13 episodes + 4 TV movies [Holmes & Yo-Yo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_%26_Yo-Yo) - 13 episodes…at 10 years old I was excited to watch it but I didn’t hang on for very long Of course there are a bunch of Saturday morning cartoons that I (barely) remember: Tales of the Wizard of Oz Adventures of Pinnochio Harlem Globetrotters (cartoon) New Adventures of Gilligan (he walked funny) Grape Ape Jabberjaw Speed Buggy [Uncle Crocs Block](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Croc%27s_Block) - Charles Nelson Reilly in a crocodile suit! Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle - I know I used to watch this and was familiar with Billy Van from Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Now that I see the beginning of the show in Gyrates link, I realize that it was filmed here in Toronto! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/144 "2012-04-11T22:20:21Z")
> [@Stelios](#): > > Anyone remember _Profit_? It was a fucking _awesome_ show which ran for about 7 episodes back in the '90s, and was abruptly cancelled halfway through its run with absolutely zero concern for the viewers who’d gotten hooked. According to Wiki, it was cancelled for being “Ahead of its time” in featuring an amoral central character. Really. Well heaven forfend. Of course, _now_ we have Dexter, The Shield, and Breaking Bad. Stupid chickenshit TV executives…really know how to ruin a good thing, don’t they? Yep. When I started watching **Heroes** I yelled “Profit!” as soon as they showed Nathan Patrelli. Didn’t he sleep in a cardboard box in his posh apartment b/c he grew up in one or something? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/145 "2012-04-11T22:53:11Z")
**Search** A group of secret agents go on missions equipped with personal sensors, attached to a necklace or ring backed up by a control room filled with computers and technicians who are monitoring him at all times. **Bearcats** A couple of guys tooling around America having adventures in a Stutz Bear-cat car circa 1916. ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/146 "2012-04-11T23:07:35Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > There was a show called _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_ which ran during the summer of 1970. It’s complicated to explain what it was for someone who isn’t old enough to remember that year. _The Dean Martin Show_ lasted so long and got such good TV ratings that it was allowed to, in effect, control its time slot, even during the summer when it wasn’t on. During the summer there was a replacement show for it which was sometimes called _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers_. The Golddiggers were the dance troupe which would fill in between sketches and acts on the show during most of the year. In the summer they would be the main part of the show. The rest of the show would be comedy sketches and musical acts, like the show during the rest of the year but without Dean Martin. In 1970, just for a change, they decided to film the show in London and call it _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers_ in London. > > There were a number of comedy sketches on the show which had Marty Feldman and Charles Nelson Reilly in them. In other things I’ve seen Marty Feldman doing, he was pretty good, but I don’t think of him as my favorite comedian. I don’t think much of Charles Nelson Reilly at all. He never did anything else half as good as these comedy sketches. There were at least four utterly brilliant comedy sketches on the show. One of them was a version of a famous sketch usually referred to as The Four Yorkshiremen. It was first written for a 1967 British show called _At Last the 1948 Show_. This show starred Feldman and two of the Monty Python people. It was never done on the regular Monty Python show, but they did it in some filmed reunion performances. I’ve never heard anyone discuss _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_ and have never seen it in reruns. It might not exist anymore even on tape. I remember this show! One of the funniest sketches that still sticks in my mind is a long one that had the concept of taxi cabs hitting the streets in the early morning was likened to a squad of military aircraft setting out on a war mission. Marty Feldman was the main charactor, but he also narrated parts of it. The cabs were shown droning out, one after the other, from the garage onto the streets, in formation. When one of the cabs was involved in an accident, it was Feldmans job to tell the widow of the wrecked cab driver the bad news. He knocks on the door, gives the wive the sad news, and she begins to tear up and grabs Feldman and cries on his shoulder. I still remember his narration as he holds and consoles the poor woman, and use it to this day - “I held her roughly … roughly an hour.” ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/147 "2012-04-12T00:24:18Z")
[Cliffhangers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffhangers_(TV_series)), in which they tried to resurrect the old movie serials. It was an hour show, but each episode consisted of 3 different stories for 20 minutes each which would end in some sort of cliffhanger each week. One starred Susan Anton as a journalist, another Michael Nouri as Count Dracula living in modern San Francisco fighting against a decendant of Van Helsing, and the third was set in the Old West and involved a secret underground city full of strange technology. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/148 "2012-04-12T00:30:55Z")
I rented Profit from Netflix a couple years ago. It is very 90s but still holds up decently. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/149 "2012-04-12T01:05:01Z")
> [@cantara](#): > > … > > Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle - I know I used to watch this and was familiar with Billy Van from Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Now that I see the beginning of the show in Gyr:pates link, I realize that it was filmed here in Toronto! And Rod Hull and his Emu! ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/150 "2012-04-12T03:01:35Z")
Okay, here is one from the mists of time: **Jericho** , was a team of WWII spies/saboteurs one American; one British and one French. They landed in advance of D-Day and did all kinds of daring deeds behind German lines in France. Seem to remember them using bolos disguised as belts to kill the Germans silently. **Search** was an alternative title to **Probe** , I think Search was the name of secret organization that they all worked for. I downloaded the pilot episode a couple years ago, hadn’t seen the show in almost 40 years. Better than I expected actually. Always liked the show because one of the cute female characters had the same last name as mine- very rare last name. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/151 "2012-04-12T03:26:27Z")
[Then Came Bronson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Came_Bronson). The original [Johnny Quest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Quest). [The New People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_People). [The Time Tunnel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Tunnel). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/152 "2012-04-12T03:27:23Z")
> [@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. Man, as kids we thought it was just the _best_. [Heck, just that opening!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvof8Hvm3B0) Guy climbs out of a river, with amnesia. All you see at first is a wet hand reaching up for the dock, with a gritty voiceover: \*“Who am I? Why do they want to kill me? Can’t remember anything… 'cept two words… Coronet Blue…” \* And then, [jazzy theme song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGK__dp32n4&feature=related) and a catchy premise. I’ve looked – nothing on Netflix or Hulu Plus-- but there is [parts of an episode on Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDTvI6n96EA), with a young Jon Voight as a protestor. ---
**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 12, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/153 "2012-04-12T04:20:54Z")
Anyone remember [Best of the West](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ycH-IMcGE)? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/154 "2012-04-12T04:44:56Z")
Despite its renowned theme music, I’ve never seen so much as a clip of _Peter Gunn_, and have never heard of anyone else who has either. ETA: > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Anyone remember [Best of the West](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ycH-IMcGE)? Yes, I thought it was pretty funny. Another great show was a spinoff of _Alice_, called _[Flo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHLwdBDebgE)_. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/155 "2012-04-12T12:14:50Z")
“Arnie”. Starring Herschel Bernardi and Sue Ann somebody (who was sadly mismatched, being of course too young and pretty for her bald mustachioed husband). Neither of them glamorous Hollywood types, but straining VERY hard to protray ethnic blue-collar working class. Arnie is promoted from manual labor at his company to wearing a white short sleeved shirt in an office. His boss is a Thurston Howell filthy-rich airhead who eats caviar pastries for breakfast. Bland hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/156 "2012-04-12T12:55:09Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > “Arnie”. Starring Herschel Bernardi and Sue Ann somebody (who was sadly mismatched, being of course too young and pretty for her bald mustachioed husband). I had such a crush on Herschel Bernardi! And the oddly spelled Sue Ane Langdon was one of the hottest, Ann-Margret-like, starlets of the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/157 "2012-04-12T13:04:21Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I had such a crush on Herschel Bernardi! And the oddly spelled Sue Ane Langdon was one of the hottest, Ann-Margret-like, starlets of the 1960s. All the more reason to bring back _Peter Gunn_, which featured Bernardi as Pete’s cop pal, Lt. Jacoby! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/158 "2012-04-12T13:26:37Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > All the more reason to bring back _Peter Gunn_, which featured Bernardi as Pete’s cop pal, Lt. Jacoby! And while we’re at it, to keep the great Mancini music going, we might as well revive _Mr. Lucky_. Does anybody else remember _Adventures in Paradise_? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/159 "2012-04-12T14:41:22Z")
> [@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. 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. I loved that show. It was one of the first series on Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324/160 "2012-04-12T15:23:51Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Does anybody else remember _Adventures in Paradise_? Gardner McKay, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-lost-in-the-mists-of-time/618324.md?page=9)