# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/41 "2021-07-09T01:12:20Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > I remember enjoying [Best Of The West.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081832/) This was one of two that I was going to mention. The other was one I didn’t remember the name of, just that it featured Drew Carey before _The Drew Carey Show_. Looking on IMDB, I see that it was called [The Good Life](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108790/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39). ---
**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, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/42 "2021-07-09T01:14:07Z")
_ **Dusty’s Trail** _ is definitely available on DVD. Several episodes have been combined into full-length feature film. CHCH shows it a couple of times a year in the 02:00–04:00 slot. That channel has a wide collection of old/obscure movies dating back to the early sound era. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/43 "2021-07-09T01:19:23Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > (I just learned that Benjamin and Prentiss were married in real life…) They still are. In their 80’s, married 60 years. ---
**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, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/44 "2021-07-09T01:21:29Z")
There was another series with that name back in the mid-70s. It starred Larry Hagman, Donna Mills, and David Wayne, all of _ **Dallas** _ fame. A working-class couple became domestic servants for a millionaire to share in his lifestyle. This is in addition the the British series of the same name with Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall, which in the US was known as _ **Good Neighbors** _. ---
**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, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/45 "2021-07-09T01:24:25Z")
Yes, I’m pretty sure I knew it at the time. I had just forgotten it over the intervening years. I’m glad to hear they’re still alive and in love in their 80s. ---
**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, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/46 "2021-07-09T01:44:25Z")
Who remembers this one, then? > **[The Betty White Show (TV Series 1977–1978) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075482/)** > > The Betty White Show: Created by Stan Daniels, David Lloyd, Ed. Weinberger. With Betty White, John Hillerman, Georgia Engel, Alex Henteloff. The exploits of hack TV actress Joyce Whitman, star of the fictitious "Undercover Woman" series. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/47 "2021-07-09T01:49:44Z")
_Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_ is my example. A major variety show from 1965 to 1974 was _The Dean Martin Show_. It wasn’t on during the summer. Instead there were some summer-only substitutes without Dean Martin. One was a show (in 1968 and 1969) called _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers_, where the Golddiggers were a group of women who hosted the show. In 1970, to do something a little different, the summer replacement show was shot in London. Among the people who regularly appeared on the show were Charles Nelson Reilly and Marty Feldman. Reilly and Feldman did some screamingly funny skits. Remember, this was just before Monty Python sketches were shown on American television or movie theaters. To me, this was wildly different from any comedy I’d ever seen before. One of the Reilly and Feldman sketches was an adaptation of the sketch known as “The Four Yorkshiremen” (one of the funniest comedies sketches ever, I think). That sketch was first done on _At Last the 1948 Show_, a British show from 1967 that Feldman was on. No, the sketch was never done on _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_, although some people mistakenly remember that it was. A few people I’ve talked to remember _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_, but not many. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/48 "2021-07-09T01:53:53Z")
[Marblehead Manor](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092397/) was a farcical comedy sitcom on from 87-88 and starred no one famous (except pre-Seinfeld and UHF Michael Richards) about people living in and working at a manor house in New England. The owner, the butler, the cook, etc. I was only 8 when it came out so I loved it because I’m sure the comedy was about my speed. I remember that Jennifer Grey show. It must have been heavily promoted. I think of that show every time I see her name. That Ed McMahon murder mystery show sounds dope! ---
**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, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/49 "2021-07-09T01:56:30Z")
I do. I had a “thing” for the Golddigger wth the long blonde hair and never missed an episode. 🥰 ---
**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 9, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/50 "2021-07-09T02:20:20Z")
_Once a Hero_, about a comic boo hero, Captain Justice, who travels to the real world and learns that things don’t work the way they do in the comics. Clever dialog and a great job of subverting clichés. For instance, Lady Reporter: What’s your name? Captain Justice: Brad . . . Lady reporter: Not Brad Steele, like Captain Justice? Captain Justice (embarrassed that she knows his identity) No, Brad . . . Kent. Like I often point out, the fourth episode (unaired) was about an actor who had gotten typecast playing a TV superhero and was frustrated about it. And who played the actor? Adam West. The show got off to a bad start. They recast the lead at the last moment, which is usually a bad sign. A lot of affiliates never aired it (It was never shown in Boston) and it was on a Saturday night. This was the quick hook era of TV pilots, so it never stood a chance. I don’t think I’ve run across anyone who remembers it. I’ll also mention _The Middleman,_ a sort of superhero/spy spoof about a strait laced adventurer who took one weird threats (e.g., gangster gorillas, vampire flying piranhas, etc.), with his cynical artist assistant. Bizarre, very funny, filled with in-jokes and references to comics and TV. I have the DVD and just rewatched the pilot; it’s fantastic. ---
**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 9, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/51 "2021-07-09T02:22:01Z")
In the late '60s/early '70s, there were a bunch of “summer replacement” shows that I thought were decent entertainment: Jim Stafford, Glen Campbell, Bobby Darin, Kenny Everett (a Brit), Dave Allen (another Brit), Fifth Dimension (?), others. Good way to kill an hour when you were sick of the re-runs. **Bearcats** – Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole drive around in a 1914 Stutz Bearcat as men-for-hire. Started as a TVM called **Powderkeg**. Yer damn right I went out and bought a scale model of that gorgeous car. ---
**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, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/52 "2021-07-09T02:24:32Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > {…} **Bearcats** – Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole drive around in a 1914 Stutz Bearcat as men-for-hire. {…} That show inspired many hours of building Tupperware ‘Snap-Block’ cars for me. ---
**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, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/53 "2021-07-09T02:25:25Z")
I remember the episode with the JN-4 Jenny. I loved the aerial photography! ---
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> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > That show inspired many hours of building Tupperware ‘Snap-Block’ cars for me. Pretty big impact for only 14 episodes and a TVM. > [@terentii](#): > > I remember the episode with the JN-4 Jenny. I loved the aerial photography! Oh, yeah! Thanks for the memory! ---
**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, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/55 "2021-07-09T02:27:39Z")
Fred Silverman hated the show and did whatever he could to sabotage it. ---
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Remember, at that time there were only three TV channels to really choose from. ---
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> [@RealityChuck](#): > > A lot of affiliates never aired it (It was never shown in Boston) and it was on a Saturday night. This was the quick hook era of TV pilots, so it never stood a chance. I don’t think I’ve run across anyone who remembers it. Nah, Forster was especially memorable. ---
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The Random Years (2002) It was a very short-lived show about friends in their early 20s All Souls (2001) One of the scariest shows I’ve ever watched, set in a haunted Boston hospital. The Others (2000) No, not _that_ The Others, this came first. A group of people investigate ghosts. The season ended with several characters in life or death situations. Veritas: The Quest (2003) An adventure show about a man, his teenage son, and two young assistants (Cobie Smulders and Eric Balfour) hunting relics ---
**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, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/59 "2021-07-09T02:48:16Z")
This was on around the same time as _ **Arnie** _. I’m surprised that it lasted three years. > **[The New Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series 1971–1974) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066689/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)** > > The New Dick Van Dyke Show: Created by Carl Reiner. With Dick Van Dyke, Hope Lange, Marty Brill, Fannie Flagg. Dick Van Dyke and Hope Lange play modern married couple Dick and Jenny Preston, who have comic misadventures raising their teenage... ---
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> [@Chefguy](#): > > _Tenspeed and Brown Shoe_ , a buddy cop (actually private detective) show created by Stephen Cannell (Rockford Files). It only last for six months, but I liked it. It starred Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum. I remember that show, as did one of my coworkers. I know that because we as a team often toured around giving talks to the various offices, and my coworker and another guy had a little game where they challenged each other to insert a nonsensical phrase into their speech… and one day one of them gave the other guy the phrase “10 speed and brown shoe”. Completely cracked me up, but the guy got it in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=4)