# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/21 "2021-07-09T00:08:00Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Didn’t Ed also host something called _ **Challenge of the Super Heroes** _ , in which Adam West and Burt Ward reprised their roles of Batman and Robin? I think some supervillains (like Julie Newmar as Catwoman) were on it as well. > > So far as I remember, it was a game show of some kind, but I never watched an episode of it. I remember that one - [Legends of the Superheroes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Superheroes) lasted 2 episodes, was pretty cheesy, had Adam West and Burt Ward reprising Batman and Robin in 1979, and had a laugh track. It was cool to see live action superheroes though and some of the bits were funny to me at the time. ---
**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 9, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/22 "2021-07-09T00:09:31Z")
_ **Captain Nice** _ with William Daniels as the titular character, on NBC. _ **Mr Terrific** _ on CBS. _A scientist, both brave and bold, set out to cure the common cold. He found instead this Power Pill, which he said most surely will turn a man into a lion, like an eagle he’ll be flying…_ ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/23 "2021-07-09T00:10:36Z")
I remember enjoying [Best Of The West.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081832/) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/24 "2021-07-09T00:11:52Z")
The Jackie Thomas Show. Haven’t seen it since it aired on network TV but I remember it as being pretty funny. > **[The Jackie Thomas Show (TV Series 1992–1993) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103450/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_168)** > > The Jackie Thomas Show: Created by Brad Isaacs, Tom Arnold, Roseanne Barr. With Tom Arnold, Dennis Boutsikaris, Alison La Placa, Breckin Meyer. Jackie Thomas, played by Tom Arnold, is a famous standup-comic starring in his own sitcom titled "The... ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/25 "2021-07-09T00:16:20Z")
I’m probably the only one who remembers the Canadian sitcom [Excuse My French](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excuse_My_French_(1974_TV_series)). I saw it when I lived in Montreal in the 70s. Typical mixed lovers sitcom, with an anglophone-francophone couple at the center. What I remember was the totally stereotypical French Canadian family. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/26 "2021-07-09T00:17:06Z")
[Misfits of Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_of_Science)! To be honest, I remember almost nothing about it besides the name and basic idea (I was 7 at the time, and I don’t think it got widely syndicated). And I’m sure it was utterly terrible, though probably no more so than other terrible mid-80s shows in that vaguely sci-fi vein that _are_ fondly remembered, like Airwolf, Knight Rider, and MacGyver. ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/27 "2021-07-09T00:18:16Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > I remember enjoying [Best Of The West.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081832/) My late DH (Kopek on the board) and I Ioved that show, as stupid as it was. After years of waiting, it finally came out on DVD in early 2018 and I got it for him for his 60th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/28 "2021-07-09T00:20:06Z")
Here’s one: [Friends and Lovers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_and_Lovers_(TV_series)?wprov=sfti1), a short-lived MTM sitcom about a classical bass player. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/29 "2021-07-09T00:22:36Z")
There was another series from back in the Friends era that was supposed to be a West Coast version of Friends and I thought it was pretty good but it came and went pretty quickly. > **[It's Like, You Know... (TV Series 1999–2001) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168340/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_19)** > > It's Like, You Know...: Created by Peter Mehlman. With Steven Eckholdt, Chris Eigeman, Evan Handler, A.J. Langer. New York writer Arthur Garment moves to L.A. to write a book about his hatred of the city and its vapid and superficial culture, but the... ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/30 "2021-07-09T00:29:50Z")
The New People. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DLjnUPVabX4/hqdefault.jpg "The New People (1969 ABC Promo)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLjnUPVabX4) Now what recent TV show reminds you of it? ---
**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 9, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/31 "2021-07-09T00:30:37Z")
_ **Funny Face** _, with Sandy Duncan as the titular character. So far as I remember, it was a _ **That Girl** _ clone about a young woman (and aspiring actress?) on her own in the big city. Other shows in the same vein back in the mid-70s were _ **On Our Own** _ and _ **We’ll Get By** _. I remember these only from the titles (_ **TV Guide** _ made fun of them, saying they were “amorphous.”) Everybody thought the latter would be a smash hit because Alan Alda was the showrunner. It wasn’t. ---
**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 9, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/32 "2021-07-09T00:36:51Z")
I vaguely remember that one. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/33 "2021-07-09T00:37:21Z")
i remember that because the main character had a thing with Jennifer grey (who was playing herself) and a side plot was how she was unrecognizable these days due to her real life botched nose job … and wasnt the writer british to begin with? ---
**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 9, 2021, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/34 "2021-07-09T00:48:26Z")
I own the DVDs for Tenspeed and Brownshoe and Quark. I didn’t think they were that obscure. Unlike stuff that’s not nor ever will turn up on DVD, like Run Buddy Run, On The Rocks, CPO Sharkey, Arnie, Police Surgeon, Dusty’s Trail, and the couple very short run NBC Mystery Movies like Cool Million, Snoop Sister, Hec Ramsey. I used to watch a LOT of TV n=back in the 70s. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/35 "2021-07-09T00:53:40Z")
Arnie! I remember having a crush on the actor that played his daughter. I was like, 13 at the time. IMDb says her name was Stephanie Steele. > **[Arnie (TV Series 1970–1972) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065274/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > Arnie: Created by David Swift. With Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon, Roger Bowen, Del Russel. Loading-dock worker Arnie's work and family life is thrown into disorder when he suddenly gets promoted to a high-level management position. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/36 "2021-07-09T00:54:08Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Now what recent TV show reminds you of it? It reminds me that J.J. Abrams has never had an original idea in his life. But I already knew that. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/37 "2021-07-09T01:00:00Z")
I don’t think it was a “botched” nose job so much as a good nose job that significantly changed her appearance. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/38 "2021-07-09T01:04:59Z")
Jennifer Grey, before and after, [![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RJIE2V7ZU2g/Ut8RPHKhVyI/AAAAAAAACo0/5YaKOqzBwAM/s1600/Jennifer-Grey-rhinoplasty.jpg) ](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RJIE2V7ZU2g/Ut8RPHKhVyI/AAAAAAAACo0/5YaKOqzBwAM/s1600/Jennifer-Grey-rhinoplasty.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/39 "2021-07-09T01:08:30Z")
Hmmm…I prefer the after on a purely aesthetic view. ---
**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 9, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/40 "2021-07-09T01:09:34Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > [Misfits of Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_of_Science)! > > To be honest, I remember almost nothing about it besides the name and basic idea (I was 7 at the time, and I don’t think it got widely syndicated). And I’m sure it was utterly terrible, though probably no more so than other terrible mid-80s shows in that vaguely sci-fi vein that _are_ fondly remembered, like Airwolf, Knight Rider, and MacGyver. I don’t think it’s all that obscure - it’s something of a cult classic. I’d actually be a bit surprised if someone who was a sci-fi fan in the 80s didn’t remember it. Even outside of geekdom, I think there’s some awareness of it, if only because it was an early role for Courtney Cox. I have vague memories of Courtney Cox as a teen telekinetic, a tall guy who could shrink to doll size, and Johnny B., the electrokinetic and Chuck Berry fan (my favorite character on the show). As well as the unpowered scientist who acted as team leader. It was one of the earliest, maybe the earliest, live-action super-hero team shows, and was kind of a template for any number of shows that followed. It’s the earliest show I can think of that used the trope of the good-hearted scientist with no special abilities leading a team of powered individuals who were all trying to learn to control their powers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=3)