# 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:** 19
**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 13, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/362 "2021-07-13T17:20:10Z")
It wasn’t a _bad_ series, it just didn’t catch on. ---
**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 13, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/363 "2021-07-13T17:21:44Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Dinah Cancer was the singer for 45 Grave I first saw her here: [THE BEST OF NEW WAVE THEATRE SPECIAL RHINO 2 DISC SET DVD-R! | DVDRPARTY!](https://dvdrparty.com/product/the-best-of-new-wave-theatre-special-rhino-2-disc-set-dvd-r/) Yet another couple of DVDs I’ll have to fish out… and find time to watch. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/364 "2021-07-13T17:45:46Z")
If you remember **Tales of The Gold Monkey** you might also remember the other **Raiders of the Lost Ark** inspired show that came out that year, [Bring 'Em Back Alive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_'Em_Back_Alive_(TV_series)). ---
**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 13, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/365 "2021-07-13T17:48:04Z")
I don’t remember it, but the protagonist had to be Frank Buck? 🤔 **EDIT:** Yep, I see now I was right! I knew that one because I remember a comic book (probably _ **Donald Duck** _ or _ **Uncle Scrooge** _) in which Louie, Dewey, and Huey were threatened by some animal, and one of them said “I want Frank Buck!” I asked my dad who Frank Buck was, and he said “He was a hunter who always brought 'em back alive!” ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/366 "2021-07-13T17:50:44Z")
You are correct. ---
**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 13, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/367 "2021-07-13T17:58:49Z")
Funny, I always thought that Kimba was at least as popular as Astro Boy, although I wouldn’t be surprised if most people haven’t heard of it nowadays. If you want to talk about obscure cartoons, then how about The Amazing Three produced by the same guy who did Astro Boy and Kimba. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/368 "2021-07-13T18:07:12Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > f you remember **Tales of The Gold Monkey** you might also remember the other **Raiders of the Lost Ark** inspired show that came out that year, [Bring 'Em Back Alive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_'Em_Back_Alive_(TV_series)). I distinctly remember _Tales of the Gold Monkey_, but I have _no_ memory of _Bring 'Em Back Alive_. A 1930s pulp adventure series would have been (and still would be) right up my alley, and I watched way more prime-time TV than is healthy back then. Maybe I thought it was a “safari” show rather than a pulp adventure show? Or it was on opposite another adventure show? ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/369 "2021-07-13T18:15:04Z")
It was up against _Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley_, and _The A-Team_. [1982 TV schedule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383_United_States_network_television_schedule) ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/370 "2021-07-13T18:16:52Z")
Ah, well that explains it, then. In those days, before streaming and DVRs and suchlike, if it was on opposite _The A-Team_, it might as well not have existed, as far as I was concerned. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/371 "2021-07-13T18:44:58Z")
Hey, I found it! Thanks for the tips ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness and Johnny\_L.A! I’ve looked online a couple of times, and it never occurred to me that it was her real (stage) name. The show is the one Johnny\_L.A referred to (New Wave Theatre) and ran from 1982 to 1984, so a few years later than I thought. This video includes the opening sequence and is cued to the part I remember: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z2-SXJPVhPM/hqdefault.jpg "New Wave Theater: I will go shopping I am a robot for capitalism") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-SXJPVhPM) ---
**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 13, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/372 "2021-07-13T19:17:53Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > _Flo_ ? Nope, but it it was a spinoff. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jnl8lJVxlwo/hqdefault.jpg "Enos TV series title sequence and theme song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnl8lJVxlwo) (It was also, I see, another show with the yellow credits text that I had an earlier thread about.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/373 "2021-07-13T19:21:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’d love to get Connections, Connections2, and The Day The Universe Changed on DVD. (I know I can get them, but I have other priorities.) I loved Connections when I first saw it but then later saw it (or perhaps the sequel) and thinking that the “connections” were tenuous at best. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/374 "2021-07-13T19:24:19Z")
Tales of the Gold Monkey caused the sudden death of Mac on Magnum, (because Jeff McCay was a regular on the new show) and the sudden death of TotGM caused the sudden regeneration of “Mac” on Magnum (because Jeff McCay was suddenly unemployed). Both were Bellasario shows. I hated the Dukes, but I loved Enos. I’m not sure why. Buckle up now! ---
**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 13, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/375 "2021-07-13T19:26:12Z")
Here’s a [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyD2g6X7BZY) to New Wave Theater Vol. 1. Among the gems is Su Tissue and Suburban Lawns performing Janitor. Here it is cued to the song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TyD2g6X7BZY/hqdefault.jpg "Best of New Wave Theater Volume 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyD2g6X7BZY) And one of my favourite bits, ‘Sri Maharooni Speaks In’ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TyD2g6X7BZY/hqdefault.jpg "Best of New Wave Theater Volume 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyD2g6X7BZY) Oh, yeah and there’s also the Surf Punks. ETA: \*heh\* Re; Sri Maharooni. ‘You may imagine you are someone you are not, and you may believe it!’ I can think of someone that fits. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/376 "2021-07-13T19:48:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Tales of the Gold Monkey caused the sudden death of Mac on Magnum, (because Jeff McCay was a regular on the new show) and the sudden death of TotGM caused the sudden regeneration of “Mac” on Magnum (because Jeff McCay was suddenly unemployed). Both were Bellasario shows. Memory is a funny thing. I would have _sworn_ that character on _Tales of the Gold Monkey_ was played by Bruce McGill, who played MacGyver’s sidekick in a number of episodes of that show; that the character’s name on ToftGM was “Mac”; and that he was basically the same character on both shows. I obviously conflated a number of elements from all three shows to manufacture that memory. (McGill’s character on _MacGyver_ was a sort of retro-pulp bush pilot, which is probably a major reason why I “remembered” him being on TotgM). ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/377 "2021-07-13T19:51:37Z")
Really liked “Gold Monkey”, but it would be hard to watch now due to the lead’s troubles. ---
**Author:** ![SDWC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SDWC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SDWC)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/378 "2021-07-13T20:00:50Z")
Platypus Man with Richard Jeni, thought it was hilarious but unfortunately most people didn’t, only lasted one season. > **[Platypus Man (TV Series 1995) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112124/)** > > Platypus Man: Created by Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan. With Richard Jeni, Ron Orbach, Denise Miller, David Dundara. Zany sitcom about the host of a cookery show who equates all of life's woes (specifically, his own ineffectual relationships with women)... ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/379 "2021-07-13T20:09:50Z")
Most people remember Gerry Anderson’s _Thunderbirds_ and _Fireball XL5_ (gotta love the opening sequence), but not too many people liked _Supercar_ as much as I did. I wanted a Supercar toy a lot, but never got one. This probably explains much about my current personality. ---
**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 13, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/380 "2021-07-13T20:14:31Z")
I don’t remember Supercar, and I don’t have Fireball XL-5; but I do have Stingray, Thunderbirds, U.F.O., and Space: 1999. Oh, how I wish my wife liked the shows I like! ---
**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 13, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/381 "2021-07-13T20:20:38Z")
Gosh, I think I watched an episode of that - but I was going to guess “Carter Country” > **[Carter Country](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Country)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Carter Country is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 15, 1977 to August 23, 1979. It starred Victor French and Kene Holliday. A young Melanie Griffith appeared in two episodes. > Carter Country is set in the fictional small town of Clinton Corners in Georgia (presumably near the part of the state from which U.S. President Jimmy Carter hailed, thus the title) and features French as police chief Roy Mobey and Holliday as city-bred,... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=20)