Yes. Loved the music for that show, too. Don’t remember many episodes, though. 
Just looked it up on Wiki. No wonder you loved the music; the theme was done by Lionel Newman, and the episodes were scored by Max Steiner!
I had no idea the show was created by James Michner. Like you, I don’t remember many episodes. I was 8 years old when it aired, and there are only so many scenes of a sailboat in the South Pacific on a black and white TV that are going to hold an 8 year old’s interest, I suppose. Especially if the Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid are on the other channels!
I heard that! I was a little older, late teens, and I have fond memories of many shows’ music from that period. Taken as a timespan of maybe 5-10 years, the late 50’s through mid-60’s were a good time to be a TV freak. So many of those shows were just retreads of the same basic themes that only a very few could be counted as “Golden Years” material. Still, they happened at a time in my life where my memories include them above most other periods’ things. In fact, I can’t think of another 5-10 year span I recall more favorably.
I wonder, based on this observation, how many of us associate “good TV” with our late teens and early 20’s. Just curious.
“Jersey Shore” Oh wait…you said show’s that HAVE disappeared … Not shows you WISH would disappear. My bad.
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The Persuaders - frothy crime fighter combined with sort of spy vs spy feel starring Tony Curtis as an American who clawed his way up from poverty to millions and Rodger Moore as a rich British lordling who work with a judge solving crimes that the law is unable to deal with. Very hip for a TV show. The cars, the scenery, the almost naked women dripping jewels and furs … and a pretty decent soundtrack. Shame it only went for 1 season 
Great theme song – I’d love to see episodes of it.
The first had John Leguizamo (often playing a fairly thick and tongue-tied gangbanger) and was pretty damn funny.
The second is ‘Marsupilami’. Which didn’t start as a Disney property, but rather as a French bande dessine which isn’t really a comic strip, but is not quite a comic book either. If you’re familiar with Tintin or Asterix, you’re in the right ballpark there. Disney bought the rights, cranked out the show, dropped the character…and now we’ve got a live action Marsupilami film in the cinema here, as he is apparently still screamingly popular here in la belle France.
I remember that show. I was just the right age to be crushin’ on the actress that played his teen-age daughter. She was very pretty as I recall.
Salvage 1. Andy Griffith is a junkyard owner who builds a rocket out of scrap metal and goes to the moon!
Tied with Incredible Hulk as my favorite TV shows at age 11.
Someday I’ll buy the DVD of The Starlost, I loved that show as a kid.
They show that on UK television occasionally. The episodes I’ve seen have been pretty awful - Curtis and Moore are let down by some terrible writing, and neither is really trying very hard.
You have to treat it like camp, think Avengers. You watch it for the scenery, cars and decorative people and to giggle at the plot bunnies. Everybody also think that Avengers is pretty awful but they watch it for Diana Rigg…and her black catsuit!
Good one. I loved the very idea that a few smart people could solve big problems with a charming combination of high-tech and low-tech engineering.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-family-tree/
The Family Tree: the above links are all I could find on Google.
I loved this show. It came out around the same time as the widely heralded “Family” (Family (disambiguation) - Wikipedia) with Kristy McNichol, but I thought that The Family Tree was better.
It starred Anne Archer and Frank Converse as divorced parents who get together and attempt to blend their two families. Among the actors who play their children are Melora Hardin and James Spader.
About the same time as *Happy Days * came out, a serious show also came out also set in the 1950’s. It tanked, but I liked it.
But, then again, I liked Quark, so what do I know.
Most families in the early '70’s had ony one TV, so in the evenings we watched whatever our parents watched. Which is why I remember obscure shows like The Corner Bar and The Super. Two summer replacement shows that never caught on despite being halfway decent.
I think It’s a Man’s World should qualify as “lost in the mists.” In 1962, my sister and I were avid TV-series watchers and for a while this was our favorite. Route 66 is another we liked from that era though, I guess, less “lost.”
Seeing Monte Markham on Fringe the other week reminded me of The Second Hundred Years.