Ha! Me too! 
Also, “Not the Mama!”
I’ve always been a big Matt Frewer fan since his Max Headroom days and was surprised recently to recognize him in the accountant pirates segment of The Meaning of Life.
So…a sitcom based on Educating Rita?
I’ll also add Babes a Fox sitcom featuring three plus-size women. A bit of a touchy subject which didn’t last more than one season.
However, Grandpa from The Munsters was in Car 54–just not in that photo.
Pearl was a cheers spin off wasn’t it? I enjoyed even if it made no sense that billy Connolly was McDowell’s brother.
Eerie, Indiana was a very popular show, here at least. Anyone of my age would recall it.
I don’t think it was a *Cheers *spinoff, though Rhea Perlman played a very similar character to the one on *Cheers *(I think–I pretty much hated *Cheers *so I only saw a couple of eps, but in *Pearl *she was a wisecracking sarcastic working-class woman).
I’m nothing if not consistent. . . ly wrong.
You can tell how old that show is because the theme song has Khruschev due not in JFK, but Idewild, the airport name before 1964.
Yes I can still sing the theme song.
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.
So it is! Thanks for the reminder.
Ah, looking it up I see you’re correct. It’s that long since I saw it I think I had just assumed it was a spin-off because Perlman was in it.
My misty entry would be “Busting Loose”, NOT the 1980s prison take-off but the 1977 Adam Arkin series (21 episodes) - IMDB has an entry, but apparently Wiki does not at this time. I remember liking it and thinking it was funny back then (I was 13 or so), but at this late date all I can remember is a running joke about his apartment’s duck-themed wallpaper. Oh well.
In this thread, people have mentioned such series as “The Dinosaurs” and “Real People” and “Car 54, Where Are You?”, which I thought were actually fairly popular in their era, and are still known to some extent today - how can they be considered “lost in the mists”? OTOH, a low-rated replacement series that only aired a few episodes - that I can see being lost in the midst of time. Where would “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” fit in (I recall it lasted a few seasons - the last season when they were always in a diner and he had an arty girl friend rather sucked). Does anyone else remember “Synchronize Swatches” or the (actually kind of useful) “Jerry, Don’t Help!”? OTOH, everyone remembers “Bueller? Bueller?” from the movie (you know it) that it was claimed Parker Lewis ripped off.
I wonder, say 30 years from now, of all those “series” found on the various cable channels like History or Discovery or TLC, how many of them will be “lost in the mist of time” (even if they leave a media footprint on the Web)? Something like “Monster Garage”, which I liked and whiched aired 80 or so episodes - doesn’t seem to get much mention nowadays, even when they are discussing Jesse James in some or other article. And that’s just a series which was somewhat original - how about the numerous knock-off pawn/auction shows, or cop ride-along shows, or home decorating/flipping shows - how many of those will be lost (heck, I don’t even recall the originals in those categories - all right, maybe I remember “Cops”, but the auction ones? Pawn-Stars?
“Just out, gotta love me!”
I would consider a show “lost” if it rarely or never shows up in syndication. Even shows that were fairly popular in their day like the ones you mention don’t come on very often if at all (do they? I haven’t noticed them in my cursory glances through the cable guide or Netflix) so there’s very little opportunity to go back and watch them again.
“Doctor! Doctor” with Matt Frewer. It was insanely funny, but I think it was just a little too smart for the average viewer. The quips and puns came very quickly and sometimes you were laughing so hard at the first one, you missed the next one. I don’t think it made it a full season, so it will never be in syndication.
I would have stricter criteria. If you google a show and get very few or very poor hits and if you can’t find at least a short clip of the show online.
Possibly one of the most heartbreaking segments of a hilarious show.
In the late 1970s, there was a show called Husbands, Wives, and Lovers. Given the subject matter, I am rather surprised that my parents allowed me to watch it. But, as a kid on the verge of puberty, I thought it was hilarious.
Then there a number of short-lived sci-fi shows from the late 1970s: The Invisible Man, The Gemini Man, The Fantastic Journey.
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. Several Filmation shows were released on DVD, but the company that did so seems to have gone bankrupt.
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. has a wikipedia page! I thought I was the only one who ever watched that show!
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.
I just saw in the paper this morning that I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster is coming out on DVD. The end times are upon us.
I remember that one, and I remember enjoying it as well.
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 likeit has a Wiki page. Anyone else remember this one? Looks like it aired on the “SUPERSTATION” WTBS.