# 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:** 4
**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, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/61 "2021-07-09T03:03:19Z")
Pre-_ **Rockford** _ James Garner with an incredibly young Margot Kidder (who has 50-star US flags in her salloon): > **[Nichols (TV Series 1971–1972) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066690/)** > > Nichols: Created by Frank Pierson. With James Garner, Margot Kidder, Neva Patterson, John Beck. In 1914, Nichols, a soldier, sick of killing, returns to his Arizona hometown, named after his family, and is strong-armed into serving as Sheriff by the... ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/62 "2021-07-09T03:06:30Z")
Toma and Carter Country are two shows that I’ve brought up from time to time, and few people remember them. Toma has an interesting history, Tony Musante said he was only going to do one season, and it turns out he meant it. So they hired Robert Blake to continue it, and then reworked it into Baretta. > **[Toma (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_(TV_series))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Toma is an American crime drama television series that ran on ABC from March 21, 1973 to May 10, 1974. The series stars Tony Musante as a real-life detective Dave Toma, who was a master of disguise and undercover work. Susan Strasberg and Simon Oakland also star in supporting roles as his wife and his boss, respectively. > The series stars Tony Musante and Susan Strasberg and was based on the real-life story and published biography of Newark, New J... ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/63 "2021-07-09T03:23:51Z")
I loved Brooklyn Bridge about a Jewish family in the1950s. > In 1956, 14-year-old Alan Silver’s life revolves around family, the synagogue and the Dodgers. Grandparents Jules and Sophie live in the same brownstone as Alan, his brother Nate, and their parents Phyllis and George. Also Frank’s Place: > Frank Parish is a professor from Boston, who has not seen his father since he was two. 35 years later, he is told that his father died and that he owned a restaurant in New Orleans, which is now legally Frank’s. Frank goes there and was going to go back and sell the restaurant to the employees, but Miss Marie feels that the restaurant is his legacy, so she has a curse placed on him that would take effect when he returns to Boston. Frank (Tim Reid) decides to run the restaurant and as time goes by, he learns about the deliciously rich culture of the Black community in New Orleans and comes to love it. From IMDB trivia- > According to [Tim Reid](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005347/?ref_=tt_trv_trv), [Walter Cronkite](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004847/?ref_=tt_trv_trv), who was a member of the board of directors at CBS, told him that the series was cancelled because of the final episode. In “The King of Wall Street”, a Wall Street tycoon condemns junk bonds. Laurence Tisch, the CEO of CBS, was offended by this episode because he had bought the network with junk bonds. He demanded that the series be cancelled despite the objections of Cronkite and other board members. That was a fabulous show. ---
**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, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/64 "2021-07-09T03:27:57Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Toma and Carter Country are two shows that I’ve brought up from time to time, and few people remember them. I remember **Toma** fondly, but **Carter Country** was just awful – “Handle it! Handle it!” (Didn’t that guy end up on, “Will & Grace”?) ---
**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, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/65 "2021-07-09T03:37:14Z")
speaking of Bearcats! anyone remember the adventurer shows The Barbary Coast with William Shatner? QED with Sam Waterston Probe with Parker Stevenson Search and on the lighter side Pistols and Petticoats The Texas Wheelers ---
**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, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/66 "2021-07-09T03:47:52Z")
I remember all of those except the sixth. I remember this series mainly because Glenn Ford is one of my favorite actors, and I like Henri Mancini’s theme music: > **[Cade's County (TV Series 1971–1972) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066635/)** > > Cade's County: Created by Rick Husky, Anthony Wilson. With Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Taylor Lacher, Victor Campos. The adventures of Sam Cade, sheriff of rural Madrid County. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lnqKBZ91Da8/hqdefault.jpg ""Cade's County" TV Intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnqKBZ91Da8) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/67 "2021-07-09T03:50:34Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The Texas Wheelers Mark Hamill mentioned _The Texas Wheelers_ on his Instagram page today – he was in that show, and he noted that, had the series been picked up for a second season, he wouldn’t have been available to play Luke Skywalker in _Star Wars_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/68 "2021-07-09T03:52:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 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 DVD Show lasted three years because CBS purchased that many episodes, sure that a new Dick Van Dyke/Carl Reiner sitcom would be a smash. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/69 "2021-07-09T03:57:00Z")
I remember _Black Sheep Squadron_ as being the coolest show _EVER!_ Sadly, thanks to Hero and Icon Channel re-runs, I realize I am so sadly wrong. Jeez, they were _BAD!_ ---
**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, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/70 "2021-07-09T03:58:05Z")
> [@Jay\_Z](#): > > > [@terentii](#): > > > > 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 DVD Show lasted three years because CBS purchased that many episodes, sure that a new Dick Van Dyke/Carl Reiner sitcom would be a smash. The only episode I remember watching was the one where Dick went into survival mode and delivered a monologue about all possible uses of a can of peas. ---
**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, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/71 "2021-07-09T04:05:17Z")
The only episode of _that_ series I watched was the one where there was a fly-off between the Marines and the AAF to determine who would go after Yamamoto. Instead of P-38s, the Army jocks had P-51s. The AAF in the Pacific would have killed for those (so to speak) in April 1943. ---
**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, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/72 "2021-07-09T04:11:53Z")
the john laroquote show…the original premise was the character was a blackout drunk who one day decided to get sober lives in a former crackhouse and finagled a job in a dive of a bus depot with other assorted characters who were sort of down and out… The humor was acidic and it was a rather dark show so in the 2nd season they "brightened " it up and didn’t get to finish the second > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > 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). drew carey wrote about that show in his book… he hated the character and asked to be in the show as little as possible which he only did as a favor to mike mc donald who helped him get his showtime specials … ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/73 "2021-07-09T04:20:46Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > 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. Absolutely! I had a big crush on Paul Sand. Anyone else remember **“The Powers That Be”**? It was a sitcom about a Washington politician and his odd family, centered around Senator Powers, played by John Forsythe. A truly great cast, including pre-Frasier David Hyde Pierce, and others who went on to greater fame. My favorite episode was about the senator having been accidentally shot in his ass, and his wife wanting to re-shoot him in a more respectable body part. Sadly, the show lasted only 21 episodes, in the early '90s. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/74 "2021-07-09T04:27:54Z")
**Almost Anything Goes**. A nighttime game show where teams representing various American towns would compete for some sort of prize money that would go to the town they represented (presumably, for civic projects that benefited the town in some way). The competitions were crazy stunts–think Wipeout, MXC, and similar. While some of the AAG competitions were like the ones on those shows, not all the AAG competitions were as difficult and as physical–there were simpler ones, like pie fights, as I recall. Its IMDB entry: > **[Almost Anything Goes (TV Series 1975–1976) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072466/)** > > Almost Anything Goes: With Charlie Jones, Regis Philbin, Sam Riddle, Lynn Shakelford. Weekly multi-week contest where teams of adults participate in a series of wacky events to win prizes. ---
**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, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/75 "2021-07-09T04:27:59Z")
Even in sixth grade it was painful for me to watch _ **Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats** _ because star Ann Sheridan was so obviously dying from lung cancer. ---
**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, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/76 "2021-07-09T05:22:46Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > I don’t think it’s all that obscure - it’s something of a cult classic. I suppose I’d argue that “cult classic” implies at least some degree of obscurity, but you’re probably right. I did a quick search of the SDMB for the show, and it comes up rather frequently–but more often than not in threads about [shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/14) [that](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/3) [only](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-shows/13630/5) [you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-tv-shows/7798/16) [remember](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/109). I’m not sure whose argument that supports 🙂 . ---
**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 9, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/77 "2021-07-09T05:58:15Z")
A show called **State of Grace** ran for 2 seasons 2001-2002, starring 2 future actresses from Arrested Development, Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman, as 13-year-old friends Hannah and Grace, a Jew and a Catholic in the 1960’s. Also starred Dinah Manoff and was narrated by Frances McDormand. I remember an episode where Hannah’s parents, who own a furniture store, have to figure out how to promote the new mystifying bean bag chairs, and they keep pronouncing them “bean BAG chairs”. It was a sweet and funny show, but I’ve forgotten everything except that scene. > **[State of Grace (2001)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276732/mediaviewer/rm1448237312/)** > > Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman in State of Grace (2001) > **[State of Grace (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Grace_(TV_series))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > State of Grace is an American comedy-drama series that ran for two seasons on FOX Family Channel, later ABC Family (now Freeform) during 2001 and 2002. > The show is centered on two 12-year-old girls from very different backgrounds, Hannah and Grace, who are best friends. Hannah is from a middle class Jewish family and lives with her parents, her grandmother, and her uncle. Her parents are the owners of a furniture factory in the fictitious town of... ---
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My obscure contributions are _Space Precinct_. A show about a cop, but he’s in space for some reason. It was syndicated in the 90s, like _Xena_ or _Hercules_, but unlike those I’m not sure anybody else ever watched it. The other is _Fridays_, a knockoff of SNL in the 80s, but, you know, airing on Friday night. The only skit I remember is the men who hum between words. I liked some shows that are remembered by some, they’ve just had almost no cultural impact, and aren’t ever talked about by people who weren’t there to watch them when they aired. Examples of those are _Flying Blind_, _Herman’s Head_, and _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/79 "2021-07-09T06:11:38Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Who here remembers _[Kresky](http://www.kreskytv.com/Premise.html)_ ? I think that was my favorite show ever. I still remember every episode clear as day. And the _BJ & The Bear_ crossover was legendary! > [@Chefguy](#): > > Tenspeed and Brown Shoe I don’t think I ever watched that but I remember the show. I could have sworn that ran for a couple of years. > [@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 That and that Courtney Cox was in it. Like you, I couldn’t tell you what a single episode was about. > [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I don’t think it was a “botched” nose job so much as a good nose job that significantly changed her appearance. Yes, she is actually much better looking after the surgery. The rumors that the surgery ended her career are pretty much a joke. Many actors fail to maintain stardom, which is what I think happened to her. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > I’ll also mention _The Middleman,_ I was disappointed when this was cancelled. I was hoping Natalie Morales would go on to better things but no such luck. ---
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She TV. Women-focused, mostly female cast sketch comedy show. I thought it was hilarious. There were 5 episodes. It was nominated for an Emmy, but seems to have very little online existence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022.md?page=5)