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!
How about TV101 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. 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!
Well, 2 of the ones I came in to mention have already been listed.
Mr. T & Tina - 5 episodes
The Fantastic Journey - 10 episodes
The San Pedro Beach Bums - 9 episodes (Football, you bet!)
Man From Atlantis - 13 episodes + 4 TV movies
Holmes & 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 - 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!
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?
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.
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.”
Cliffhangers, 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.
I rented Profit from Netflix a couple years ago. It is very 90s but still holds up decently.
And Rod Hull and his Emu!
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.
Then Came Bronson.
The original Johnny Quest.
The New People.
The Time Tunnel.
Man, as kids we thought it was just the best. Heck, just that opening! 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 and a catchy premise.
I’ve looked – nothing on Netflix or Hulu Plus-- but there is parts of an episode on Youtube, with a young Jon Voight as a protestor.
Anyone remember Best of the West?
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:
Yes, I thought it was pretty funny.
Another great show was a spinoff of Alice, called Flo.
“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.
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!
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?
I loved that show. It was one of the first series on Fox.
Gardner McKay, right?