# 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:** 21
**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 14, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/402 "2021-07-14T21:40:51Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > when I was in school one of my classmates mentioned he saw it and it had some skit about a man and a sheep… and he had questions and the teacher had a fit we were discussing it because well ewww I was watching an episode of “Bizarre” with my family and I forced my mother to explain a joke about the “San Francisco 69ers”. I guess a kid’s got to learn some time… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/403 "2021-07-14T21:48:45Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > t caught a fair amount of flak in its day for having “stereotypes”, but I never thought it went too overboard, and seeing poor blacks being acknowledged in _any_ context in mainstream television was refreshing. How soon we forget: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zIN6Hags9fs/maxresdefault.jpg "Amos & Andy Opening Titles Compilation [Various Dupes] - 1960s") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIN6Hags9fs) > **[Amos 'n' Andy | Television](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy#Television)** > > Hoping to bring the show to television as early as 1946, Gosden and Correll searched for cast members for four years before filming began. CBS hired the duo as producers of the new television show. According to a 1950 newspaper story, Gosden and Correll had initial aspirations to voice the characters Amos, Andy and Kingfish for television while the actors hired for these roles performed and apparently were to lip-sync the story lines. A year later, both spoke about how they realiz Adapted to tele... ---
**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 14, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/404 "2021-07-14T21:51:49Z")
Yes, his “most dangerous stunts” included “Jumping a Canyon on a Rocket-Powered Vehicle,” “Jumping from the CN Tower in Toronto,” and (my favorite) “Insulting Mr T.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wACnY-_snuo/hqdefault.jpg "Super Dave vs Mr T") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wACnY-_snuo) Bob Einstein also appeared occasionally on _ **The Smothers Brothers** _ as “Police Officer Judy,” and on Steve Allen’s syndicated show in the late '60s. He had me in stitches when he came on the latter claiming to have been raised by wolves. On another occasion, he was president of an anti-Polish Joke movement and went through a whole slew of them to demonstrate how offensive they were. Steve found it impossible to keep a straight face. ---
**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 14, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/405 "2021-07-14T21:58:34Z")
I loved _ **Amos ‘n’ Andy** _ as a kid, and I still do. It featured both great writing and performances by brilliant comic actors. Not once did their being black influence my feelings for the show. The characters and antics were no more outlandish than the ones on _ **Gilligan’s Island** _. As for “racial stereotypes,” I found the Norman Lear sitcoms of the '70s to be far more offensive than _ **Amos ‘n’ Andy** _ ever could be. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/406 "2021-07-14T23:06:46Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > and Pete and Gladys (Henry Morgan was Pete) Pete and Gladys was a spinoff of December Bride, about a woman getting married (maybe remarried) late in life. Pete and Gladys lived next door. One or maybe both showed up in December Bride and then got their own series. > [@terentii](#): > > [Nero Wolfe (1981 TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_(1981_TV_series)) Much, much inferior to the later A&E series. Especially because it was clearly shot in LA. Archie always finds a parking space. Archie goes to a marina. Really? In NY? It was also set in the present, another problem. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/407 "2021-07-15T00:33:27Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > They made some new episodes of _Danger Mouse_ from 2015-2019, with Alexander Armstrong doing the voice. They’re a little too polished to have the charm of the original series, but some of the new material is pretty good. > > One of DM’s new villains is a scientist monkey called Isambard King Kong Brunel. Makes me laugh every time. Thanks for that. I haven’t had a chance to look all the way, but it appears to be on Netflix streaming. (It looks too sophisticated for the old one.) I know what I’m doing tonight. And I laughed at the new villain also. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/408 "2021-07-15T11:34:10Z")
I remember back in the 80s, a local TV station considered showing _Amos & Andy_ reruns, and brought in an all-black test audience to consult. They all thought the show was funny, but none wanted to see it aired. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/409 "2021-07-15T12:54:34Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > 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. I not only remember Supercar, I have several episodes on VHS. I keep meaning to transfer them to DVD. I also watched Fireball XL-5 when it was on, but lost interest in the Anderson shows after that.\* \*Fireball XL4 and a version of Robert show up as characters in **The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier** , which shows you how Fireball got its name. (although not how that information got back to HQ) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/410 "2021-07-15T13:01:04Z")
Does anybody else remember **The Hathaways**? > [@](#): > > _ **The Hathaways** _ is a 26-episode [situation comedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_comedy), which aired on [ABC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company) from October 6, 1961, to March 30, 1962, starring [Peggy Cass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cass) and [Jack Weston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weston) as [suburban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban) [Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California) “parents” to a trio of performing [chimpanzees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_chimpanzee). Weston portrayed Walter Hathaway, a flabby [real estate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate) agent. Cass is his zany bride Elinore, “mother” and booking agent to the [Marquis Chimps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_Chimps), named Candy, Charlie, and Enoch. The chimps had earlier appeared on [CBS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS)’s _[The Ed Sullivan Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show)_ , a Jack Benny special in 1959 and several commercials in 1960.[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hathaways#cite_note-1) > > Supporting roles were filled by [character actress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_actor) [Mary Grace Canfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Grace_Canfield) as Mrs. Amanda Allison, a housekeeper; [Barbara Perry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Perry_(actress)) as Elinore’s friend and neighbor, Thelma Brockwood, and [Harvey Lembeck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Lembeck) as Jerry Roper, the theatrical agent of the chimps, Another neighbor, Mrs. Harrison was played by [Belle Montrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Montrose), the mother of comedian [Steve Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Allen). > > The premiere episode is entitled “Love Thy Neighbor”: the Brockwoods decide to purchase the house next door despite reservations about the chimps being their neighbors too. [Joe Flynn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Flynn_(US_actor)), guest-starred as Freddie Winkler in the third episode “Walter Takes a Partner”, which aired on October 20. [Vaughn Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Taylor_(actor)) played a [veterinarian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinarian) Dr. Dorsey in “Candy’s Tonsils” (November 10). [Robert Q. Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Q._Lewis) portrayed Barney Holt in “TV or Not TV” on (November 24). Other episodes were entitled “The Hathaways Sleep Out”, “Grandma’s Lamp”, “TV or Not TV”, “The Practical Joker”, “Help Wanted”, “The Shrewd Trader”, “A Man for Amanda”, and the series finale, “Elinore’s Best Friend”. > > Charlie makes friends with Walter’s dancing teacher. > > Ratings for the [Screen Gems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Gems) series were so low that ABC had largely to self-sponsor the program (although the series was sponsored on alternate weeks, throughout most of the season, by [Ralston-Purina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralston-Purina)). The writers included Tom Adair and James B. Allardice; story consultants were Hugh Wedlock and Howard Snyder, who co-wrote the premiere episode with [Dick Wesson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Wesson_(actor)). Some of the directing was handled by Richard Kinon.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hathaways#cite_note-2) The series followed another short-lived ABC series, _[Straightaway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straightaway_(TV_series))_ starring [John Ashley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashley_(actor)) and [Brian Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kelly_(actor)) as race-car enthusiasts. It preceded the popular [cartoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon) series _[The Flintstones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones)_ . Its principal competition was the [Clint Eastwood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood) [western](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)) series _[Rawhide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhide_(TV_series))_ on CBS. > > Despite the lack of television success, _The Hathaways_ produced a [comic book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book) of the chimpanzees in 1962. I remember that bit about the ABC network doing most of the sponsoring of the show. Even as a little kid, I thought it was weird that they announced “brought to you by ABC”, when no other show on TV seemed to be sponsored by the networks. > **[The Hathaways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hathaways)** > > The Hathaways is a 26-episode situation comedy, which aired on ABC from October 6, 1961, to March 30, 1962, starring Peggy Cass and Jack Weston as suburban Los Angeles "parents" to a trio of performing chimpanzees. Weston portrayed Walter Hathaway, a flabby real estate agent. Cass is his zany bride Elinore, "mother" and booking agent to the Marquis Chimps, named Candy, Charlie, and Enoch. The chimps had earlier appeared on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show, a Jack Benny special in 1959 and several comme... [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNhwglga5ME) ---
**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 15, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/411 "2021-07-15T13:03:36Z")
You can watch _Supercar_ episodes through IMDB TV on Amazon Prime. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/412 "2021-07-15T17:01:37Z")
Back in my youth, I used to watch: - _Rescue 8,_ a police rescue unit. - _The Whirlybirds_ about helicopter pilots - _The Buccaneers._ Pirates. Starring Robert Shaw. - _The Aquanauts_ Basically, _Sea Hunt_ – name changed halfway to _Malibu Run_ after one actor quit after all the underwater stuff caused health problems. - _The Americans_, a Civil War drama about two brothers who fought on different sides. They’d focus on one or the other in each episode, with one or two showing both. Starred Darryl Hickman, brother of Duane. - _Profiles in Courage_. Based on JFK’s history book, dramatizing the stories there, plus others. - _The Space Explorers_. A science-based cartoon about a boy searching for his father throughout the Solar System. Excellent effects, since the footage was confiscated from both Nazi and Soviet SF films. - _The Funny Company_. Cartoon that was an excuse to show educational films. - _Glynis_. Starring Glynis Johns (the mother in _Mary Poppins_) as a mystery writer who solved murders, twenty years before _Murder She Wrote._ - _Pete and Gladys_. One of the earlier spinoffs, from the very successful _December Bride._ Harry Morgan would talk about his never-seen wife Gladys there, so they cast Cara Williams in the part in the series. ---
**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 15, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/413 "2021-07-15T19:21:20Z")
I doubt anyone remembers [Cartoon Alley](https://milwaukeehorrorhosts.com/cartoon.html), a local kid’s show in Milwaukee (well, maybe **pkbites** recalls it). It began in 1961 on WITI TV 6 (famous for their Tower of Light, an illuminated antenna with a huge 6 on it) and had typical characters in it a la the Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo style formats. But most memorable to me were two characters, firstly [**Albert the Alley Cat**](https://www.mpl.org/blog/now/milwaukee-s-menagerie-albert-the-alley-cat), a hand puppet. He was notable in that when Cartoon Alley was cancelled in 1968, Albert continued his career as the network’s weather forecasting puppet (he’d started this sideline in 1965, discussing the day’s “humidery” and other weather “sadistics”) until 1981 when Corporate felt it was just too silly. Albert continued to host a kid’s show called “Albert and Friends” until 1984. Ask any Milwaukeean born between 1930 and 1980 and they probably have some recollection of Albert. Second memorable character was **Mr. Dinkfuzz** , a rather short guy who showed the cartoons on Cartoon Alley. The show’s hostess, Barbara Becker (she sang at Eisenhower’s inaugural ball), would yell “Roll 'em, Dinkfuzz!” and the cartoon would start. I thought that was weird even as a kid. Mr. Dinkfuzz got phased out early in the show’s run. ---
**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 15, 2021, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/415 "2021-07-15T20:45:45Z")
I spent the Christmas holidays of 1962 visiting one of my uncles and his kids with my dad. The one thing I remember watching on TV was _ **Comedy Capers** _ in the afternoon. It was a collection of bits that were really old even then; IIRC, they were all silent with wisecracking voice-over narration. However did WITI get away with a name like “Dinkfuzz”?!? 😲 ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/416 "2021-07-16T04:14:46Z")
Gyrate - In hindsight, I may have overstated the right-wing punching down part a tad. It’s just when I saw “diversity hire” on the boss’ notepad, I immediately thought, “‘Affirmative action means that companies have to keep minority employees no matter how grossly incompetent they are?’ REALLY?? THAT’S WHAT THIS SHOW IS ABOUT??” 😡 Looking back on what I remember about the snippets of the later episodes I was able to catch, however, I still think it took _way_ too long to become watchable. When your main man starts as a clueless do-nothing motormouth abusive cowardly waste of oxygen, you can’t spend three-fourths of the season getting to “barely tolerable”. A stellar supporting cast might have been able to carry the load, but what I saw wasn’t anything close to stellar. Looking back, it strikes me how, if I dig really hard, I might be able to come up with someone who says “Well, _I_ liked it!”, but there’s never been a big outcry over it being cancelled or any kind of push to bring it back. (Contrast that to, say, the movement to bring back Family Guy.) There’s no clearer indication to me that it was never anything special. And on the other end, networks have learned that if you want a show about a useless jerkhole cartoon character, it makes much more sense to make it a straight-up cartoon rather than some overpriced “high concept” hybrid. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/417 "2021-07-16T04:35:42Z")
DKW, what show are you taking about? I thought it must be a reference to a recent post by Gyrate, but I’ve looked back through the thread, and I must just be missing it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/418 "2021-07-16T04:38:43Z")
The Pruits of Southhamption. Terrible show, fabu theme song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/i81zu_oz_t0/hqdefault.jpg "PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON opening credits ABC sitcom with sponsor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81zu_oz_t0) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/419 "2021-07-16T09:10:30Z")
> [@digs](#): > > DKW, what show are you taking about? > > I thought it must be a reference to a recent post by Gyrate, but I’ve looked back through the thread, and I must just be missing it. We’re talking about **Son of Zorn**. ---
**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 16, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/420 "2021-07-16T12:26:16Z")
> **[The Barkleys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barkleys)** > > The Barkleys is an American animated television series that aired in Autumn of 1972 on NBC and was produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. > The cartoon – inspired by the CBS sitcom All in the Family – featured an anthropomorphic dog family consisting of Arnie, a bus driver (voiced by Henry Corden) and his wife Agnes (voiced by Joan Gerber). They had two teenagers, Terry and Roger (voiced by Julie McWhirter and Steve Lewis respectively) and one younger child, Chester (voiced by Gene Andrusco). > T... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4em3fuCItQU/hqdefault.jpg "The Barkleys - INTRO (Serie Tv) (1972 - 1973)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4em3fuCItQU) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/421 "2021-07-16T14:42:39Z")
I hitched a ride on your wavelength. I was remembering an episode this morning where the teenage daughter and her friend took an auto mechanics class just to meet boys. They acted like the engine was an operating table and played doctor and nurse. One of them worked on it and called for “Whatchamacallit” and “Thingamajig” as the other one would repeat the word and pass a random tool. That would so not fly today. ---
**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 16, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/422 "2021-07-16T14:48:25Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > However did WITI get away with a name like “Dinkfuzz”?!? It was a different time. Both _Dink_ and _Fuzz/Fuzzy_ were common nicknames in the early to mid 20th century. think **Fuzzy Thurston** , a beloved Green Bay Packer, and **Dink Templeton** , the Olympic gold medalist. But Mr. Dinkfuzz only lasted a few seasons, and was replaced by someone named Lester. “Roll 'em, Lester” became the new pre-cartoon command. [Lester](http://archive.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/40643792.html) was also an old Milwaukee icon. (Or perhaps my recall is less than perfect and I conflate the two of them, when perhaps I watched Lester on WISN) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=22)