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?
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.
The entire run of Gary Shandling is available on Netflix streaming.
I loved that show.
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.
Thanks! I did like it.
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:
How about That’s My Mama? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_My_Mama. Good lord, we had some bad television back in the 70s!
Sundays at 7. Enough said.
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.
McKeever & the Colonel ran one season in 1962 and for some reason I have never forgotten it.
Does anyone else remember a reality show from 2001 called Lost? 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 with a very similar title.
What about Tenspeed and Brownshoe, with Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen?
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.
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.
Bridget Loves Bernie, another show from my childhood that I fondly remember as well.