# TV Shows Only You Remember **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 8, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022 "2021-07-08T20:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/182 "2021-07-11T01:45:59Z")
**The Magnificent Montagues**. A pilot that aired one time as a filler in 1964. Me and my brother loved it - it was about a washed-up stage actor who got a gig as a TV kid’s show host called “Uncle Sunshine”, and makes a hit by being obnoxious on the air. Hilarious, to me at least. **Washingtoon**. A USA network series based loosely on a Village Voice comic (_very_ loosely, as in they used the character names but nothing else). You can see an episode on YouTube, but I don’t recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/183 "2021-07-11T01:47:51Z")
Almost posted it, but thought three was enough. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/184 "2021-07-11T02:32:15Z")
_Mr. Merlin_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1ZiUM7jknaw/hqdefault.jpg "MR. MERLIN opening credits CBS sitcom") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZiUM7jknaw) _The Charmings_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IwBkEmOoA1M/maxresdefault.jpg "Classic TV Theme: The Charmings (two versions)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwBkEmOoA1M) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/185 "2021-07-11T16:58:32Z")
> [@Yogeekgirl](#): > > This one! I hardly remember it myself so it’s possible I may not have known how popular it could’ve been. Seeing Things was a very popular show in Canada. Night Heat was pretty popular, too. Certainly they wouldn’t be particularly obscure to Canadians of the appropriate age. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/186 "2021-07-11T17:10:33Z")
I’ve been trying to forget **Lancelot Link, secret chimp** and **Wait 'til your father gets home** for decades. Trying and failing. [My Mother the Car](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3jcDKUBtQ) was also I can’t seem to forget. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/187 "2021-07-11T17:18:07Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > Herman’s Head Great show! Also, E/R (not to be confused with ER) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BL5mmdZFrlI/hqdefault.jpg "George Clooney on the Original E/R Sitcom") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL5mmdZFrlI) > **[E/R](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E/R)** > > E/R is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 16, 1984, to February 27, 1985. > Developed from the play of the same name created and produced by the Organic Theater Company under the direction of Stuart Gordon and conceived by Dr. Ronald Berman, the series was produced by Embassy Television and lasted a single season. Shuko Akune and Bruce A. Young reprised their roles from the original Organic Theater Company production of the play. > Two of the show's stars, George Clooney and Mary M... ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/188 "2021-07-11T17:20:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > For family reasons, I used to hitchhike often from St Paul to Milwaukee and back. I remember falling asleep to this show in the TV lounge at a truck stop outside Madison. I did that several times, and no one ever questioned my presence. (It should have been obvious that I wasn’t a truck driver). It was a good show. Also, my recollection of truck stops across the country is that they don’t give a shit who you are. I’ve criss-crossed the whole country any number of times by motorcycle, and slept in truck stops, gotten warm in truck stops, taken showers in truck stops, zoned out in the TV lounges of trucks stops, all without attracting the slightest bit of attention, despite being dressed mostly in leather and having (then) nearly waist-length hair. Not to mention tattoos (in those pre-hipster days). But that was back in the pre-internet days thirty years ago. Who knows what it’s like now. Also, I understand that the sleepers in long-haul trucks have gotten positively luxurious, and of course the drivers can now stream anything right there in the sleeper. And they’ve got electrical hookups in the truck stops, so the drivers don’t even have to idle the engines all night. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/189 "2021-07-11T17:22:17Z")
There was a game show called “Whew!” That was only on for about a year. I remember it was on the summer after I graduated high school. I would babysit my 8 year old sister while our folks went to work. We watched it every day. But now she doesn’t remember it at all. [Whew - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whew)! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/190 "2021-07-11T17:28:33Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I remember Lancelot Link and When Things Were Rotten…. > > Anybody recall Hot L Baltimore? Lots of star power. I’ve watched episodes of both _Lancelot Link_ and _When Things Were Rotten_ in the past couple of years. The former (which was a Saturday morning kids’ show) is…ummm…really really bad. Not only is it full of stereotypes that didn’t age well, as well as the fact that trained animal acts (it was entirely chimpanzees in costumes) have fallen out of favor, but the pacing is incredibly slow, as the viewer gets to watch chimpanzees slowly walk across rooms, manipulate objects, etc. The latter show holds up a bit better, and it was clearly a predecessor to Brooks’ _Men in Tights_ film, 20 years later. I also remember _Hot L Baltimore_, and that I really liked it at the time, even if I didn’t understand all of it. I was nine or ten years old when it was on TV, and my parents (who were, in retrospect, really liberal) let me watch it, despite the fact that it had a “parental guidance suggested” warning on it (undoubtedly because there were characters who were prostitutes, as well as gay characters). ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/191 "2021-07-11T17:32:58Z")
There was an insane kids show in the 70’s called Gigglesnort Hotel. It came on very early in the morning, like 0530. If I got up a bit too early for school I’d catch an episode. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AEUl127RspM/hqdefault.jpg "Gigglesnort Hotel (Opening)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUl127RspM1) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/192 "2021-07-11T17:33:43Z")
Good to know. I’d like to cross-country hitchhike again, but I’m more leery of potential serial killers than I was 40+ years ago. (Considering that I now look like my avatar, drivers might actually be more leery of me.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/193 "2021-07-11T17:37:26Z")
Lucan [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hi_H1XBnPu0/hqdefault.jpg "Lucan (1977) - OPENING 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi_H1XBnPu0) James At 15 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3ABX2-4RTrY/hqdefault.jpg "James At 15 (1977) - OPENING") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ABX2-4RTrY) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/194 "2021-07-11T17:45:32Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Remember, at that time there were only three TV channels to really choose from. We had 5. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and an independent station that played nothing but syndicated reruns, Gilligans Island and such. In 1979 we were one of the first households in our part of the state to get cable TV. $9 a month (none of those stupid municipal or equipment fees they tack on now) for 32 channels including HBO. Today I pay over $200 for almost 1000 channels and theres not a gawddamned thing on worth watching half the time! ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/195 "2021-07-11T17:50:15Z")
[TENAFLY](https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9K54QK.tgWqYAP7dXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANDMTYxMl8xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1626053520/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.imdb.com%2ftitle%2ftt0069643%2f/RK=2/RS=XYTcsatgWN8ihopFm_cUpfkr9yM-) An intellectual detective with a life. Always enjoyed the show and it’s about all I remember of 70s TV. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/196 "2021-07-11T18:08:27Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > There was an insane kids show in the 70’s called Gigglesnort Hotel. It came on very early in the morning, like 0530. If I got up a bit too early for school I’d catch an episode. I used to watch that show sometimes, too. It was created by Bill Jackson, who had hosted _The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show_, a kids’ puppet and cartoon show on a local Chicago TV station in the late '60s and early '70s. _Gigglesnort Hotel_ was Jackson’s next project – it used a lot of the same puppets as the Dirty Dragon show, and it wound up getting syndicated to other markets. ---
**Author:** ![a6ka97](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@a6ka97](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a6ka97)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/197 "2021-07-11T18:18:54Z")
The Max Headroom TV show. I was working for Coca-Cola at the time and we had to switch out the flavor strips in the vending machines for special Max Headroom Coca-Cols labels. Then 6 months later switch back to the normal strips. How about a show called “Honey, I’m home!” ? From what I remember it was part color, part black and white about a TV sitcom family from the 50s live in the present time. Thought it was a great show but obviously the people who did the ratings didn’t. Maybe lasted part of a season? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/198 "2021-07-11T18:34:12Z")
Re: _Space Precinct_. I had to watch an episode when I found out it was directed by Gerry Anderson (Space !999). It was totally mediocre. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/199 "2021-07-11T18:37:40Z")
> [@a6ka97](#): > > How about a show called “Honey, I’m home!” ? I remember that show. I probably would have been in middle school when it was on. I remember I liked it enough that I taped it so I could watch it after school, probably because it aired at the time time as another show I liked. But my taste in TV shows has changed since I was 12, so who knows if I’d still like it today. How about the _Pac Man_ Saturday morning cartoon? I guess I’m not the only one who remembers it since a friend who’s about the same age I am loved it as a kid. But another friend who’s a little younger thought the idea of a cartoon based on Pac Man was laughable. I think it lasted maybe two seasons, so you probably only remember it if you’re in the very narrow age range to have been watching Saturday morning cartoons in the early 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/200 "2021-07-11T18:38:58Z")
I watched that one. Kind of a precursor to Pleasantville ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/201 "2021-07-11T18:47:17Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > > [@echoreply](#): > > > > Herman’s Head > > Great show! I thought at least the idea of _Herman’s Head_ was great. I know I compared it to the movie _Inside Out_ when it came out. There were relationships of the show with _The Simpsons_. Hank Azaria and Yeardley Smith were on both shows. There were mentions of the other show on both shows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=11)