OMG, I actually have vague memories of that series. I was four when it ran.
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
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 suspect any I might list are probably repeated regularly on various US cable channels, but anyhoo:
Boston Common
The Good Life (US sitcom with Drew Carey)
Probe
Mr Merlin
Automan
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.
Help, Herc, help!
Then there was Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (MST3K did several of their movies),
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.
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.
I can still sing the entire theme song from memory. But can I tell you my phone or social security number? Nope!
CalMeacham, you want lost cartoons? One of my earliest memories is watching 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!
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.
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 Amos 'n' Andy/ Classic TV ) it wan’t a big hit. It had a Jay Ward-esque look to it without the Jay Ward looniness.
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.
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.
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.
So far as I know, all of Kenny Everett’s various TV shows were made in the UK.
No, that was 100% British.
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.
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.
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)