# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/523 "2021-07-24T21:27:53Z")
Apparently so. I had drifted out of watching much TV by the time those actors became known, so I was not familiar with either of them until I wiki’ed the Fanelli Boys today. ---
**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 24, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/524 "2021-07-24T23:22:46Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Forgive me if these have been mentioned. I remember two 70’s shows about invisible men. > > Gemini Man > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWLDa5DnpQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWLDa5DnpQ) > > The Invisible Man > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1NGEidXo7s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1NGEidXo7s) I remember both of those! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/525 "2021-07-25T01:52:38Z")
Olivia Wilde, Kirk Acevedo, and others in [The Black Donnellys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Donnellys?wprov=sfti1), about a family of Irish-American Roman Catholics in Hell’s Kitchen and their involvement in petty and organized crime. It ran for about 3 months in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/526 "2021-07-25T17:10:56Z")
In the late 80s or early 90s I saw a made-for-TV movie about a man who I believe was half human, half alien, who set off on a quest to find his human mother. In the one scene I remember somewhat clearly, he arrives at a motel somewhere in the Southwestern U.S. where his mother had once stayed back in the day, and finds the manager fiddling with an aerial TV antenna outside. The guy lends him a hand and does some supernatural alien stuff to the antenna. When he checks on the manager later, he’s watching a TV show from Japan and mentions that he can now watch channels from all over the world. It may have been a pilot, because I seem to recall the movie ends with him getting a clue about his mother’s whereabouts and setting off once again in search of her. ---
**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 25, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/527 "2021-07-25T17:26:29Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > It may have been a pilot, because I seem to recall the movie ends with him getting a clue about his mother’s whereabouts and setting off once again in search of her. Sounds a bit like Starman with Robert Hays. ---
**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 25, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/528 "2021-07-25T17:56:41Z")
How about _Auto Man_. I remember liking it in spite of the cheesy 90’s CGI. They really ought to reboot 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 25, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/529 "2021-07-25T18:21:20Z")
**NITPICK:** _ **Auto Man** _ with Desi Arnaz Jr was on in the '80s. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/530 "2021-07-26T02:14:45Z")
> [@](#): > > How about _Auto Man_ . I remember liking it in spite of the cheesy 90’s CGI. They really ought to reboot it. > [@](#): > > **NITPICK:** _ **Auto Man** _ with Desi Arnaz Jr was on in the '80s. So it was really good CGI for its time! ---
**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 26, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/531 "2021-07-26T18:04:13Z")
I forgot Desi Arnaz Jr. was in it. There was a “What ever happened to Little Ricky?” video on YouTube and I didn’t have a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/532 "2021-07-26T20:57:16Z")
Sorry @furryman. Little Ricky was not Desi Arnaz, Jr. He was actually played by Keith Thibodeaux. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16YtE3qWjFM) ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/533 "2021-07-28T23:51:41Z")
The only person I remember from it, playing a stereotypical street-wise jive-talkin’ black dude, was the fellow who went on to play Isaac the bartender on _Love Boat_. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@bmoak1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak1)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/534 "2021-07-29T13:31:57Z")
Most of these are from my childhood. Live Action: Far Out Space Nuts-Bob Denver and some other guy play bumbling janitors who get launched into space. Tales of The Gold Monkey-Couldn’t have tried any harder to go for the Indiana Jones vibe. The Powers of Matthew Star-A teenaged exiled alien prince with psychic powers tried to hide on Earth. Features a slumming Louis Gossett Jr as the prince’s mentor. Animated: Marine Boy-One of the lesser-known Japanese imports of the 60s/70s. We used to get a UHF station out of Philly that had Space Giants, Marine Boy, Ultraman, and Speed Racer as their after-school block. ---
**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 29, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/535 "2021-07-29T14:08:58Z")
> [@bmoak1](#): > > Most of these are from my childhood. > > Live Action: > Far Out Space Nuts-Bob Denver and some other guy play bumbling janitors who get launched into space. Chuck McCann was the other guy (embarrassingly, I knew that off the top of my head). ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/536 "2021-07-29T14:23:13Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > A show called **State of Grace** ran for 2 seasons 2001-2002, I thought of that one, but thought it wasn’t obscure enough. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/537 "2021-07-29T14:32:38Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Chuck McCann was the other guy Cast solely for his fleeting resemblance to Alan Hale Jr., I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/538 "2021-07-29T14:33:28Z")
“I said ‘lunch’, not ‘launch’!” ---
**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 29, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/539 "2021-07-29T14:46:33Z")
Definitely. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/540 "2021-07-29T15:02:51Z")
[New Zoo Revue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaOm1i0x_cQ). Damn, that Emmy Jo was gorgeous. ---
**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 29, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/541 "2021-07-29T15:19:53Z")
“Every day’s a different show!” I preferred “The Magic Garden” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PFauw9YnkD0/hqdefault.jpg "MAGIC GARDEN") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFauw9YnkD0) ---
**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 29, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/542 "2021-07-29T15:25:07Z")
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