# 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:** 28
**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 29, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/543 "2021-07-29T15:57:04Z")
I had absolutely _no_ memory of that show, until I clicked on the link. Then I thought, “That seems oddly familiar”. Then the frog on the gazebo and the owl and the hippo, and, yep, _very_ clear memories. I _definitely_ watched…that intro. I still can’t tell you _anything_ about the show itself. And age gives a different perspective: I now find the frog, owl, and hippo unspeakably creepy. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/544 "2021-07-29T17:10:33Z")
**Make A Wish** with Tom (Harry’s brother) Chapin. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/545 "2021-07-29T17:14:05Z")
**Chaos** with Tim Blake Nelson as a triple-badass CIA agent. Okay, he was the only good part of the show, and he wasn’t the lead. ---
**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 29, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/546 "2021-07-29T17:23:28Z")
I think this was already in reruns when I caught it, but there was this space show about some guy in a yellow shirt and a guy with elf ears in a blue shirt treking around from star to star. I think there was a green woman in one of the episodes. ---
**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 29, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/547 "2021-07-29T17:30:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > **Chaos** with Tim Blake Nelson as a triple-badass CIA agent. > > Okay, he was the only good part of the show, and he wasn’t the lead. I agree he was the best part, but I didn’t think he was the _only_ good part. But from what I recall, there was a distinct tonal shift from the pilot somewhere along the line, and the episodes also seemed to be aired out of order, which definitely didn’t help. It went from anti-establishment action-comedy to a blander action-adventure show, but it would switch tones and approaches back and forth from episode to episode. Sometimes the CIA Deputy Director of Operations was actively trying to sabotage the C.H.A.O.S. unit and get them disbanded, and they were running ops against _him_. But in other episodes he had a grudging respect for them and _defended_ them in bureaucratic fights. I assume the producers tweaked the premise sometime during the production run, but that the episodes appeared out of order, so it was a tonal mess. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/548 "2021-07-29T17:39:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I think this was already in reruns when I caught it, but there was this space show about some guy in a yellow shirt and a guy with elf ears in a blue shirt treking around from star to star. I think there was a green woman in one of the episodes. Little known fact: William Shatner, star of TJ Hooker, had a major role in that show. Its title will come me… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/549 "2021-07-29T17:46:48Z")
^ “‘Wagon Train’ To The Stars” ---
**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 29, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/550 "2021-07-29T18:01:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I think there was a green woman in one of the episodes. Just one? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/551 "2021-07-29T18:35:14Z")
> [@bmoak1](#): > > Tales of The Gold Monkey-Couldn’t have tried any harder to go for the Indiana Jones vibe. I remember watching that one as a kid, but mostly for the planes. That one stands out to me, because I liked it, and then it was gone. Obviously it was before the age of easy information, as I kid I wasn’t reading Hollywood trade rags (or whatever), and the show wasn’t popular enough to get mainstream reporting on its departure, so it was all just a mystery. There was this show I liked, and then it wasn’t on TV anymore. _Galactica 1980_ was like that too, but I think even as a kid I knew that one was bad, so wasn’t at all surprised when it vanished. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/552 "2021-07-29T19:48:50Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Another one I remembered: Sue Thomas FBEye, about a deaf FBI agent and her gorgeous golden retriever. That one filmed here in Toronto, which once again I found hilarious, because like **Hannibal** , it portrays a Washington D.C. that’s almost always under a foot of snow and is populated by Canadian day players. It was also, I think, on the PAX Network in the states, so there was occasionally some heavy-handed Jesus talk worked in. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/553 "2021-07-29T19:58:35Z")
There was a sitcom that lasted for one season called **It’s Your Move** that starred a pre- **Hogan Family** Jason Bateman. I think I saw maybe two episodes of it, including one where a dead rock band’s performance is faked by the main characters rigging some dressed skeletons up marionette-style. Strangely, my best friend in university had also only seen one or two episodes, and that was one of them. I remember one time either that Grateful Dead video (“Touch of Grey”) or some cheesy horror movie that used the same device (or maybe even **Weekend at Bernie’s** ) came up, and from that point on, “Just like in that episode of **It’s Your Move** starring Jason Bateman!” became one of those inside joke running gags that we found hilarious but nobody else got. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/554 "2021-07-29T20:04:54Z")
I was just thinking of that a few months ago. Psychedelia for the pre-teens. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/555 "2021-07-29T20:22:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I remember the 1992 summer filler sitcom [Grapevine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine_(TV_series)). It was only six episodes and had sort of talking-head interview bits interspersed with the action. Each episode was based around a different couple’s relationship. IIRC each episode ended with one of the characters saying “That’s all I heard”, which had different connotations each time. I remember that one! I thought it was hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/556 "2021-07-29T22:09:08Z")
The Dregs of Humanity. I liked It’s Your Move. ---
**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 30, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/557 "2021-07-30T00:50:02Z")
How about _Mann and Machine_? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/558 "2021-07-30T05:01:35Z")
if i remember hermans head originally was done by a comedy troupe on stage > [@Chronos](#): > > t some time in the 80s, there was a show called “The Wizard”. The main character was a diminutive genius toy inventor, whose young friends ended up using his toys in creative ways on adventures to foil… some sort of evildoers. I remember it very fondly (if vaguely), but I’ve never met anyone else who has heard of it (though it does at least have some mention [online](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_(TV_series))). > > The specific scenes I remember are a ball that’s rolled in between two bars on a prison window, and then unfolds into a little robot that pushes the bars apart, like Samson with the pillars of the temple, and a couple of remote-controlled drone aircraft, one of which has been stolen by the villains and armed, and the other still controlled by the good guys who use it to take down the villains’ one. I remember that show after it was canceled and the guy who was the wizard the actor did an arc on la law and suddenly died …I’m thinking suicide or something like it ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/559 "2021-07-30T05:29:14Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > remember that show after it was canceled and the guy who was the wizard the actor did an arc on la law and suddenly died …I’m thinking suicide or something like it [David Stephen Rappaport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rappaport) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/560 "2021-07-30T06:30:09Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > I was hoping Natalie Morales would go on to better things but no such luck. She is finding a career in directing now. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/561 "2021-07-30T06:34:21Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > > [@bmoak1](#): > > > > Tales of The Gold Monkey-Couldn’t have tried any harder to go for the Indiana Jones vibe. > > I remember watching that one as a kid, but mostly for the planes. Weirdly, Disney borrowed most of the premise of _Gold Monkey_ for their animated Jungle Book character series _TaleSpin_. ---
**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 30, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/562 "2021-07-30T06:42:32Z")
That reminds me of [“You Again?”](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090550/) Jack Klugman is a divorcee of ten years when his free-spirited son moves back in with him. The son was played by John Stamos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=29)